TIEBREAK: Official game of the ATP and WTA News

Hello again Tennis and TIEBREAK fans!

Right from the very start of TIEBREAK Early Access 1 we have received extensive gameplay feedback from you, the TIEBREAK community, on the Big Ant Forum and Steam discussion channels around all aspects of the game. We’ve been able to take onboard many of the ideas discussed and have implemented a number across each update, including this one. As we’ve said before, and no doubt will repeat again, we really appreciate the constant feedback and discussion generated after each update. We’re all ears, please continue to tell us your likes, dislikes, and ideas - we look forward to our collaboration to continuing to produce what we believe will be the biggest and best Tennis game to date!

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Without further ado, welcome to TIEBREAK Early Access 4!

1. 6 Additional Licensed Players
   
2. Adrenaline Skills
   
3. Stamina
   
4. Nitto Finals
   
5. Online Scheduled Tournaments

[h2]Detailed Descriptions:[/h2]

[h3]1 - Additional Players: [/h3]

TIEBREAK Early Access 4 sees the addition of three new ATP and three new WTA players.

• Carlos Alcaraz
  
  
• Grigor Dimitrov
  
  
• Francis Tiafoe
  
  
• Emma Raducanu
  
  
• Karolina Pliskova
  
  
• Madison Keys
  
  

[h3]2 - Adrenaline Skills:[/h3]
TIEBREAK Early Access 4 sees the addition of Adrenaline Skills, a completely new gameplay feature. Adrenaline Skills allow you to modify your strokes and movement during matches. Adrenaline accumulates during matches, Applying power to a shot, winning contested points such as clutch points, long rallies, and breakpoints will all add to the Adrenaline Bar. Used for both offensive or defensive purposes, Adrenaline allows for greater, deeper strategy during points, to help you recover or play that winner at just the right time.

To execute Adrenaline Skills, hold down RB, and press one of the stroke buttons (Y, X, A). The amount of adrenaline required and consumed whenever executing shots is displayed on corresponding icons.

Note: This feature will be expanded to allow further customisation in TIEBREAK Early Access 5.

[h3]3 - Stamina:[/h3]
TIEBREAK Early Access 4 implements a stamina bar to display your fatigue levels throughout a match. Your Stamina will be directly affected by the amount of power applied to your strokes, on-court movement, and lunges.

Stamina can be regained while stationary during points, resting after games and at the end of each set. You will notice that as the Stamina bar is depleted your movement around the court will be impacted.

[h3]4 - Nitto Finals:[/h3]
Experience the end-of-Year ATP Tournament, the Nitto Finals. Take on the current best in the world in round-robin and knockout tournaments to determine who is truly the champion!


[h3]5 - Online Scheduled Tournaments:[/h3]
TIEBREAK Early Access 4 sees the addition of all remaining ATP/WTA 1000 tournaments to online. Fight to the top of the leaderboard for each tournament, add ranking points to your overall season tally and make World Number 1!

Note: Each scheduled tournament will last two days for those who want to take their online gameplay to the next level.

[h3]Closing Remarks:[/h3]

For those who have already taken part in TIEBREAK Early Access, we hope you find that this update reflects the direction you have given. We do still have so much more planned for future updates, and we would love for you to continue with us on this journey, and while a lot has been achieved, we know there is still a road ahead as we focus on animation and gameplay.

Your continued support and feedback ensure we are moving in the right direction and improving the game with each of the updates.

Thank you! We’ll see you on the court!
The Tiebreak Team

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Dear Tennis and Tiebreak fans,

We are honoured to welcome THE BIG 3 to TIEBREAK!

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Dear Tennis and Tiebreak fans,

We are pleased to reveal Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff as the cover stars for TIEBREAK, the official tennis game of the ATP and WTA, heading up an impressive roster of more than 100 professional players – by far the largest roster to ever grace a tennis game.



In addition to cover stars Novak Djokovic and Coco Gauff, the full player roster includes leading professionals Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, Alexander Zverev, Casper Ruud, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev, Hubert Hurkacz, Grigor Dimitrov, Alex de Minaur, Holger Rune, Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, Felix Auger Aliassime, Andy Murray, Matteo Berrettini, Kei Nishikori, Nick Kyrgios, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula, Maria Sakkari, Qinwen Zheng, Jelena Ostapenko, Naomi Osaka, Daria Kasatkina, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Elina Svitolina, Caroline Garcia, Victoria Azarenka, Leylah Fernandez, Mirra Andreeva, Paula Badosa, Caroline Wozniacki, Emma Raducanu – plus many more!


To celebrate the TIEBREAK partnership with Novak Djokovic, current and historical holder of the ATP World No. 1 spot for a record 421 weeks, we are pleased to announce the Novak Djokovic Slam Challenge. This unique and challenging game mode offers the opportunity to replicate key moments and highlights from the greatest matches of Novak Djokovic's career on the ATP Tour, as chosen by Novak himself!


Spotlighting as the cover star for the Hologic WTA Tour, World No. 3 and defending champion of the US Open, Coco Gauff, was captured recently stating “I grew up playing video games with my brothers, and I’m really honoured to now be sharing the cover with Novak. I can’t wait to play TIEBREAK and beat my brothers again!”

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Dear Tennis and Tiebreak fans, happy Easter!

We again thank everyone that has participated in our Tiebreak Early Access, we are thrilled with how the game is shaping up and this is in no small part due to the great feedback we have received from you. Please keep it coming!

For those new to the process, the Tiebreak designers have been engaging with community members and taking player feedback on board daily. Each piece of feedback being invaluable to the development team in refining elements of the game and ensuring Tiebreak is a game that excites every Tennis fan. Over the coming months you will see us continue to iterate on gameplay, fluidity of animations, physics, player likenesses, and some new additions to the game that we haven’t shown off just yet. We’re so excited to tell you about what’s to come!

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This brings us to today, where we’d like to announce what you’ll get to see in Tiebreak's next phase of Early Access, which we call Early Access 3 (EA3).

• 8 Additional Licensed Players
  
• Venue Creator (Crowd to be added later)
  
• Online Tournaments
  
• Overall Gameplay & Physics Improvements

[h2]Additional Players:[/h2]
Tiebreak Early Access 3 adds four new ATP & four new WTA players.

● Karen Khachanov
● Borna Coric
● Yoshihito Nishioka
● Felix Auger-Aliassime
● Anett Kontaveit
● Daria Kasatkina
● Daria Saville
● Iga Swiatek


[h2]Venue Creator:[/h2]
You can now create your own customised venues with the addition of the Venue Creator, and also share them with others online!

Design, style, and craft your own Tennis Venue with the Venue Creator. You choose the location, surrounding scenery, stadiums, court logos, and more using the Venue Creator tools – you can now design your dream venue, or recreate beloved all-time favorites.


The Venue Creator allows you to mix and match your venue layout. Design centre court, show courts, outer courts and place up to seven of them around your venue. With a variety of stadiums, grandstands, buildings, and environmental features, you are set to make your mark on the tour.


[h2]Online Tournaments:[/h2]
Dreamed of playing on the centre court and taking the top spot? Now it is your chance to dominate with the addition of Online Tournaments.


Online Tournaments are a new Tiebreak feature added to EA3, allowing you to participate across a whole season of fully licensed ATP/WTA online events and earn ATP & WTA ranking points in PvP matches.


Just like on tour, you must perform consistently across the season to climb the ATP/WTA online leaderboards or defend your spot.

[h2]Overall Gameplay:[/h2]
● Enhanced Player Fluidity
- You can exert more kinetic motion

● Fine-tuned Net Scramble
- Improvements to RT/LT approach to net

● Adjusted Difficulty of Serve Returns
- You must accurately judge the direction of serve (chance of receiving ace increased)

● Adjustment to Stroke Power Meter UI
- The stroke power meter now turns red & shakes when a shot is overpowered

[h2]Closing Remarks:[/h2]

This successfully completes the Early Access feature set outlined in the roadmap for February/March. As we now excitedly take a look towards the next phase of Tiebreak Early Access, we want to assure you, that our goals for community feedback remain unchanged. We are hoping that you will continue to play a key role in EA4 and provide us with feedback on what you’d like to see in the future.

The Tiebreak Team

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Dear Tennis and Tiebreak fans,

We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that has participated in the first phase of Tiebreak Early Access. Our key goal when the Early Access began was to ensure that the community was given an opportunity to play a key role in shaping the final version of the game.

The feedback and support from the community has been extraordinary, we love it! We are on the right track, and you are playing a crucial part in ensuring that we deliver the most authentic tennis experience we have released to date. While we have been improving the gameplay, and delivering updates along the way, we have also been working on elements not yet implemented. Today we would like to announce what is coming in this new update of Tiebreak that we call Early Access 2 (EA2).

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• 8 Additional Licensed Players
  
• Online Custom Matches
  
• Academy (Player Creator, Logo Creator & Community)
  
• Overall Gameplay and Physics Improvements

Tiebreak Early Access 2 adds four new ATP & four new WTA players.

• Caroline Garcia
  
• Coco Gauff
  
• Beatriz Haddad Maia
  
• Benoît Paire
  
• Casper Ruud
  
• Ben Shelton
  
• Amanda Anisimova
  
• Stan Wawrinka

Players can now create custom online matches.
Choose your Point system, Sets per match, games per set, tie break length, venue, and more. With an array of gameplay options available, you can design matches to suit your preferred play style.

Prefer to pick up and play with quick matches?
Try the Fast 4-point system with one set per match.

Enjoy the challenge of battling it out in the final set?
Make tie breaks 10 points or decide the final set by winning two games. Online Custom Matches allow you to take charge of your Tiebreak experience.



[h3]Player Creator:[/h3]
Tell your own story. Customize your player's identity, appearance, clothing & equipment, play style, physical attributes & skills to create your very own player.


Tiebreak’s Player Creator offers an extensive list of features that allows you to customise your appearance, from your body shape and facial structure, all the way through to freckle & mole placement.

Choose how you play with Play Styles. You can decide what kind of player you want to be. Choose your dominant hand, style of backhand, Service, and Receiving style. Customise your net aggression and choose which surface and game style you are best suited to.


Balance your strengths and weaknesses with Attributes and Skills. Want to be dominant with an aggressive forehand volley? Want opponents to fear your quick reactions and baseline speed? You can take full advantage of the Attributes and Skills sliders to create a fleshed-out and intricate playstyle that suits every preferred style of gameplay.

[h3]Logo Creator:[/h3]
Use a variety of in game tools to design and generate your own custom logo. Logo Creator allows you to import SVG images and use a breadth of design tools to create an endless amount of logos that can be applied to player clothing and equipment.

[h3]Academy: [/h3]
Download and Share custom-created players through the academy. EA2 will see the Academy added to the game, allowing you to upload and share players you have created with the community. The Academy will also allow you to download players created and uploaded by other members of the community into your own roster.



▶ Improved player movement
● Sprinting and strafing feels more grounded and weighted
● Transitioning between animation is much smoother.
● Tuned acceleration and deceleration of movement.
● Hold LT and RT + Joystick Forward will make the player scramble to the net

▶ Improved Ball Physics
● Serves speed feels more realistic.

▶ Superseded Serve Type UI

▶ Improved ToolTips

▶ Pressing ‘B’ to skip Cutscene, which subsequently rectifies user’s accidentally doing a fault from a serve.

▶ New Camera functionality- camera will slightly zoom out to improve court view when the ball goes off screen (player’s peripheral vision). This will help users when they are receiving wider shots.

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