Each time you gain trophies in a match (1 trophy will do), you get a pack to unlock. Higher quality packs give you more, but also take longer to unlock. Which pack you earn is random.
Full Answer
What is Golf Blitz?
Golf Blitz is a new game from Noodlecake Studios, Inc., makers of the famed Super Stickman Golf ® series. Super Stickman Golf 3 may be my favorite all-time mobile game. My brother and I would (and mostly still do) play race matches against each other every day at lunchtime.
Climbing the Ladder
The main play mode for this game is to enter your golfer into a “sit-and-go” style match. Your golfer’s abilities and self worth are all measured using a zero-sum system of “trophies”.
Skills
The main progression of this game is to upgrade your golfer’s “skills”, or stats. Every time you level up (either by unlocking cosmetic outfits or hats, or upgrading your powerups), you get to add one skill point to one of four categories. The four categories are as follows:
The Good Parts
I want to say that I did have quite a bit of fun playing this game. The powerups are awesome (grenade ball is my favorite), and the level design is superb. There are so many close matches, so many times where I would blast an opponent off, or I would get blasted off, and I find myself laughing and enjoying myself, even when I lost.
The Biggest Mistake
Remember the accuracy skill? This is the source of all the problems with this game. I’m going to analyze this for the next few sections, because I don’t think many people realize just how bad this aspect of the game is, and it deserves a good pondering and thumping.
Pipe Dream
I’m going to throw this out there, even though I fully expect it to be ignored by the developers. But there is one sure-fire way to fix the accuracy problem. That would be to replace accuracy with something else. I have always suggested a better spec would be shot preview distance.
Reasonable Improvements
What about some tweaks? I can think of a few that might help. First, the shot selection within the preview is supposedly a uniform distribution. Put simply, you have an equal chance of shooting the minimum shot as you do the very center. Noodlecake could change this to a more centered distribution.
1. Battle for first place!
Have fun as much as you can, but sooner than later your opponents will start realizing that this is a PVP game. Take advantage of this and start playing dirty first! The best time to do this is in the last stretch, when seconds count before someone beats you to the hole.
3. That being said, use them wisely
Sometimes hitting that first shot will be crucial to winning the current stage. But take the 3-second countdown to look around the map a little and plan your first hit wisely. Maybe waiting at the beginning for a power shot will take less time than taking two or more shots to get the ball where you want it to go.
4. Get a feel for the physics engine
To nobody’s surprise, the game employs a physics engine. This can be considered as one of the most important Golf Blitz tips and tricks. Too many times have I seen a player shoot straight for the hole just to watch their ball bounce over it. Even a carefully aimed sniper shot will not always land where you want it.
5. Open the card packs as often as possible
The game has a sort of a loot box mechanic, but it’s very lenient to free players. We get some premium currency by playing and opening card packs, so we can skip at least some of the wait timers. But if you can, open them for free as often as possible. Some take two hours, while others take even 12 hours to open.
6. Get more card packs!
Some card packs do not require time or premium currency to open. The following open immediately after you get them: Star Packs (get stars by finishing stages first), Free Packs (given, you need to wait 2 hours before it appears again), and Level Up Packs (you get these for free when you level up).
7. Upgrade and unlock stuff!
In the mentioned card packs, you’ll get a bunch of awesome stuff from the free currency to powerup cards, accessory cards, and character cards. The first kind enables you to level up your powerups (obviously, this is awesome).
8. Figure out your playstyle
Once you get the hang of the gameplay, you’ll be able to figure out what areas you lack in and where you could do with a boost. There are 4 base stats in the game: Speed, Power, Accuracy, and Cooldown. Speed is how fast your ball goes after you hit it. Power is how far you can hit it. Accuracy is how narrow the hit angle is.
