Pool really needs work!

[Krondelo]

I appreciate that pool was even added, but in its current state and as a good pool player its just way too frustrating. The most basic improvement it needs are:

1. A way to fine tune your aiming and slow down the angle it turns at.
2. A more consistent way to power your shot. Doesn't seem to matter how soft I move the mouse, 80% of the time I hit the ball way too hard.
3. Better camera options. A few far shots I can't see the ball I'm aiming for.

and, not as necessary but an option to add spin would be nice. I understand these are difficult to simulate, but the first 2 suggestions should be easy.

[Wired Jake]

Hey can you drop me your DXDIAG and I will fill in the feedback form for you? I love pool in video games, glad they added it to Arcade Paradise.

[Krondelo]

Originally posted by Wired Jake:

Hey can you drop me your DXDIAG and I will fill in the feedback form for you? I love pool in video games, glad they added it to Arcade Paradise.

Sure! I won't drop it till tomorrow but I will get it posted.

[DAVE]

I agree with all the OP suggests and can add that I have just as much trouble striking the cue ball with any finesse even when using a controller. Sometimes my shots will be slower and more reasonable, but most of the time the cue prefers to go as hard as possible.

[Jesse Dylan]

The pool is a disaster currently. The camera gets stuck in the chandelier. The AI is horrendously bad, which is a good thing, because the controls are pretty difficult to use, and you'd have a frustrating time winning otherwise. And you have to swing the camera all over to line up your shot, since it doesn't even default to pointing anywhere near where you want to go (seems to do the opposite), so you will be using the controls a lot. Then you flick the right stick into your carefully lined-up shot, and it whiffs, goes the wrong way, or puts the cue ball in the pocket.

It's cool they included it, but it is not good in its current state. Just beating the goals is pretty tiresome. Pretty early-access feeling. I thought maybe it was just bad on PS, but I see from the above that least OP's issues are present in both.

Really enjoying the game overall and hope it sells well, or would like to hope that, but I'd hesitate to recommend it in it's current state (pre-patch--console doesn't have the patch yet). Already hoping for a much more polished sequel. Maybe next we can run a game store out of a pizza place (semi-serious)

[woovie]

Going to bump this because these controls are, IMO, unusable.

[Tapasvi]

+1
I found it almost impossible to made a shot at desired force with a stick.
It should be made as moving slider after you press the hit button. Something simillar to the slider of the gum picking "mini-game".

[Hanzo]

Bump. I was so looking forward to adding pool to my arcade but the controls and consistency is truly awful. Will this ever be addressed?

[EQOAnostalgia]

I couldn't play pool, darts, air hockey, basically the bar room style games were all junk. Most of the other cabinets i enjoyed though. Those need serious work in the VR release so let's hope they did it, and let's hope they port it to PC and not keep it exclusive to ♥♥♥♥♥♥ meta.

[Ugobananas (Jana)]

Pool is still unplayable

[Bo1ks]

Still unplayable, devs seen don't adjust the sensitivity right, it's more like for controller, not keyboard, any little tap of the a or d can make the angle twist like hell.

[[Lotus]Tengarnos]

Sorry for the direct way of wording but pool is the biggest crap ever designed. Even pay to win bs version on smartphones are better made than this bullcrap. Even on easy its barely possible to win 3 games for the archivements and aims for machines putting a heavy toll on fun. These kind of games were made better in the 8 bit era. To ♥♥♥♥ this up is somehow an archivement but none you can be proud of. Give us a way to slow down the "aiming" thats not hard its one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ key. And that after two years of people complaining nothing is done is bad. And if you are at it fix darts to. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ wobbeling is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if it doesnt hit the dot anyway. Either do woobeling but make the dart always hit the dot or let us place the dot without it and keep the inaccurate hitting. But both is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Jesse Dylan]

They still haven’t fixed this? It’s been years.

[V92]

Pool and air hockey on mouse/keyboard are unfortunately some of the lowest parts of the entire game. Tapping A+D to try to line up a shot is painful because it swings wildly. Trying to shoot the actual shot is a crapshoot because it'll either go feather touch or POWER DRIVE clean off the table. Half the time I don't even get that far, because tapping A+D makes it power drive into the next room.