What's new in Nova Golf 1.150
Nov 9, 2015
- Added a new course available with in-app purchase (Nova Golf)
- Fixed wind arrow direction
- Fixed pin location on Spyglass Ridge hole 4 (Nova Golf)
- Compatible with Mac OS 10.11+ (Mac)
New in Nova Golf 1.140 (Aug 3, 2015)
- Added a new course available with in-app purchase
- Less resource usage and memory crashes
- Fixed rankings on Pinball Shuffle open
- Improved lag when saving game
- Fixed pin location on Spyglass Ridge hole 1
New in Nova Golf 1.132 (Jan 26, 2015)
- Fixed bug where Mac App Store wouldn't let certain computers download the game
- Requires Mac OS 10.8+
- Fixed possible delay in between holes in Yosemite
New in Nova Golf 1.130 (Oct 29, 2014)
- Fixed crash with in-app purchase with iCloud backup enabled
- Compatible with Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite
- Higher default resolution - 1440x900 instead of 1024x768
New in Nova Golf 1.120 (Jul 10, 2014)
- Less memory usage
- Fixed issue switching between tournaments and the range
- Fixed wind blowing things away that shouldn't be blown
- Green Under Regulation stat only counts par 5 holes
- Fixed future achievement stats
- Fixed driving range textures
- User interface tweaks
- Various other fixes
New in Nova Golf 1.110 (Mar 20, 2014)
- Fixed Barnyard Blaster tournament from being disabled
- Stability enhancements
- Fixed edge of terrain for large lakes and oceans
- Particles effected by wind
- Fixed terrain double drawing in certain locations
- Fixed course boarder from floating
- Correct fog height for holes without water
- Less fog volume
- Fixed random holes scoring and Game Center best rounds
- Reduced memory usage, more stability for older devices
New in Nova Golf 1.100 (Feb 3, 2014)
- Volumetric fog appears on certain holes
- Smooth transitions between views
- Driving range mode
- Random holes mode
- New cloud textures
- Match play multiplayer mode
- New course selection screen
- Increased resource size/quality
- Fixed iCloud backup overwriting newly purchased items
- Improved water reflection resolution
- Improved pin placement on certain holes
- Merged Mac and iOS Game Center
New in Nova Golf 1.08 (Jun 25, 2013)
- New course available for in-app purchase - Bethpage Black
- Four new balls available in the pro shop for credits or in-app purchase
- Fixed Nova Desert hole 10 pin d on lower terrain quality settings
- Improved distance control on partial-power shots
- Different player skins for multiplayer games
- Better display of vertical distance to hole
- Higher resolution textures
- Water has current and wind surface flow
- Fixed a potential crash changing profiles
- Computer players shoot more realistic scores based on tournament round difficulty and tees
- Reduced memory use for less crashing on older devices
New in Nova Golf 1.07 (May 7, 2013)
- Added non-fixed width fonts to certain areas
- Extended blue and green tees to be 1.5 and 3% longer respectively
- Fixed several bad font characters
- Notification system for Nuclear Nova Software announcements
- Optimized project code - Faster and less buggy
New in Nova Golf 1.06 (Mar 14, 2013)
- iCloud syncing - Backup profiles and more
- Hole overview for each hole shown on scorecard
- NNNotificationCenter added to inform users of new games
- Fixed pin not always being removed on all par 3 putts
- Less memory use on older devices, helps prevent unexpected crashing
- Fixed tee-time order on rounds 2-4 of tournaments
- Render all multiplayer balls on hole overview
- Cancel button to Unplayable Lie button
- New 3D model format, smaller size and faster loading
- Draw/Fade/Loft/Punch configured with scroll wheel
- Added frog ambient noise
- Ball slamming off cup noise
- Bigger spin/squirt effect from unlevel lies
- Double eagle color on scorecard
- Tighter ball particle trails
- Faster loading on older devices
- Remove all scores of 0 on best rounds list
New in Nova Golf 1.051 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Fixed crash on hole 12 of Maple Bluff
New in Nova Golf 1.05 (Nov 22, 2012)
- New course, Maple Bluff, available for in-app purchase
- New career tournament event on Maple Bluff
- Fixed discontinuous terrain transitions artifacts
- Extra mulligans available for game credit and in-app purchase
New in Nova Golf 1.04 (Sep 18, 2012)
- Same computer multiplayer mode, play with three friends all at once
- Ball leaves roll/splash marks in the sand
- Flag colors based on green placement. Red close, white middle, blue far
- Scorecard screen shows current hole progress instead of zero
- Resuming game loads correct profile model
- Resuming game no longer recalculates the wind speed/direction
- Fixed a bug where the next hole would't eventually load after sinking a shot
- Fixed bug where replaying a shot after resuming could lock game
- Fixed a bug where the career profile name has extra characters
- Fixed ties on career scoreboard sorting
- Fixed Game Center score re-submission after failing on first attempt
- Improved pin locations on several holes
New in Nova Golf 1.03 (Aug 8, 2012)
- Fixed a bug where 25% of the time the flag/hole didn't show on Nova Links hole 2
New in Nova Golf 1.02 (Jul 18, 2012)
- Female Golfer Option
- Half power shot option inside 50 yards
- Fixed rendering issues on some video cards
- Fixed putter distance control issues, especially around the fringe and with low terrain quality settings
- Increased quality of Low/Medium terrain settings
- Fixed unfair greens/pins on Nova Links hole 2-3
- Improved power bars
- Larger gameplay text
- Total score on scorecard always adds up correctly
- Wind effects the ball 40% more
- More draw/fade with irons/wedges
- Removed blades of grass from the green
- Pin shows up on minimap
- Ball path preview now ends up the same size as the white landing zone
- Ball preview gets more opaque as accuracy stat is leveled up
- Fixed a bug where mulligans could improperly be used as the ball is sinking in water
- Removed Very Low terrain option
New in Nova Golf 1.01 (Jun 1, 2012)
- Added online game manual
- Click swings the club like space bar
- Performance optimizations
- Fixed several bugs that could cause crashing
- Fixed unfair greens/pins on Nova Desert
- Low career stats and low equipment quality are less harmful
- Loading progress screen while app launches
- Higher quality rendering on all terrain settings
- New confirmation windows
- Putter allowed on fringe more often
- Reduced file size
- Less memory usages
- Ball doesn't collide with bunker rakes
- Faster course switching in pre-game menu
- Message for too many or too few clubs in pre-game menu
- Minimum window size of 800x600