The Break Off Shot In WSC Real 09

[LUCIUS VARENUS]

Hi

This is my first post. I play WSC Real 09 on my PC and I'm having a lot of trouble with the break shot in snooker. I know this could easily be answered in some other strategy section but I don't really play snooker live since the local *expletive deleteds!* pool and snooker club charge a ridic price per hour which I can't afford to pay.

Anyway my problem with the break is that far too often I cannot make the cue ball get back to baulk or if it does arrive back to bault it hardly ever gets snugly on the back cushion, or better yet arrives snug behind one of the back three colours as is optimal. The most common thing that happens is that it either doesn't quite arrive in the baulk, coming close to the right hand cushion slightly ahead of the yellow ball or it hits a colour ball on the way back up the table, often leaving a red on for the opponent, and since the long pots that are often unfathomable in live play are so easy for the computer or myself to pot, that is not an acceptable risk I can take.

I have taken the coaching sessions and cleared them all but the application in a real game is quite another matter. I understand you need to hit the back outermost red ball (I'm shooting from the right side) about halfball using a fair amount of right side spin with no draw or follow, but I think problem is with finding the correct cue power. Also I really would like to know the best place from which to make the break shot with the ball in hand?

Can anyone take a screenshot of what the optimal power and english and cueball placement to use is, or instead offer some detailed verbal advice? Also if anyone has a tried and tested way to get the cue ball behind one of the baulk colours that would be amazing, probably not just for me, but for every reader of this thread.

I joined this forum to ask this question only but thinking about it I have a lot of questions regarding positional and safety play which I have a lot of trouble with. So far I can beat the pool tourneys easily but I rarely beat the qualifiers for snooker!

Thanks in advance.

:snooker:

[hanterp]

You better do a different break-off shot against these pro's.
Aim at the outer red to hit with the thinnest of contacts to get it back from the top-cushion, right cushion ending the white against the baulk side cushion in the right corner.

The one you mean is probably the one the real snooker players use. Just play again a thin contact on the rightmost red, using top-spin+ right hand side. The ball then goes back across the table ( just missing the blue ) ending somewhere behind the green.

[..KiD DyNaMiTe..]

You better do a different break-off shot against these pro's.
Aim at the outer red to hit with the thinnest of contacts to get it back from the top-cushion, right cushion ending the white against the baulk side cushion in the right corner.

The one you mean is probably the one the real snooker players use. Just play again a thin contact on the rightmost red, using top-spin+ right hand side. The ball then goes back across the table ( just missing the blue ) ending somewhere behind the green.

You been watching me?

[Billy]

The one you mean is probably the one the real snooker players use. Just play again a thin contact on the rightmost red, using top-spin+ right hand side. The ball then goes back across the table ( just missing the blue ) ending somewhere behind the green.

Well, I don't know how much it's changed, and here I'm talking about the PS2 version, not PC, but in 2005, the way to acheive the professional break-off is to hit the cueball at 5 o'clock, with about 93% power. You need to play the outermost red and fine aim the guides so that you're hitting the bottom cushion about 3 inches from the corner pocket. The cueball will then swing around the angles, back up and below the blue, off the side cushion and finish somewhere behind the baulk colours.

[hanterp]

Well, I don't know how much it's changed, and here I'm talking about the PS2 version, not PC, but in 2005, the way to acheive the professional break-off is to hit the cueball at 5 o'clock, with about 93% power. You need to play the outermost red and fine aim the guides so that you're hitting the bottom cushion about 3 inches from the corner pocket. The cueball will then swing around the angles, back up and below the blue, off the side cushion and finish somewhere behind the baulk colours.

That is not how you do it on real tables.... rediculous!

[DavisFan76]

You don't need to use anywhere near that sort of power on a real table! Maybe even less than 50%! I seriously doubt if anyone that designed this game has played on a real fullsize table, which is why they need to get a player onboard as a consultant, instead of just for (rubbish) commentary!

[snookerfan91]

I break of on the left hand side due to being left handed both on the game and in real life.

Place the cueball just left of the brown and then put left top right hand side and put about 50-60% and it will break off like normal in real life and you will be either tight on the top cushion or hiding behind the yellow, green, or brown.