Just playing my self in offline mode, I/m always looking at different situations and layouts for the best ball traps and force fields to hide object balls or the 8 ball behind. Nothing more satisfying than pulling a rack winning safety that I ive played in the game in real life, and vice versa. The spin to english ratio is a little over the top and varies from stick to stick, but to me, thats good because I can see what kind of effect varying tip placement has on the direction and curve of the cue ball, and translate that to real life and it keeps me shooting mainly center and on a vertical axis (mainly using top to follow and below center to stun, rarely drawing because of the heavy cue ball) with usually no more than a quarter to half tip of english. Ive been telling people for months that even though it sounds hokie, the game helps SOME with pattern play, and A LOT with learning to visualize angles and lines, because like /u/quote_engine said, a lot of stuff is unrealistic, but the lines and angles on the bulkier cut shots are super realistic, and it helps me visualize the track lines when leaning down for a shot in real life, especially on table length bank shots.
