Tennis Elbow 4 News

After 4.5 years in Early Access, Tennis Elbow 4 is now officially released on Steam.

The game was already released on consoles in 2024, and reached version 1.0 on all platforms in March 2025, followed by v1.0a in September 2025.

TE4 is leaving Early Access now because I’m no longer working on it full-time.
That said, I’ll continue fixing reported bugs, answering questions, and hopefully adding small improvements from time to time, especially to help Modders bring their own vision into the game.

If you have any questions or feedback, I’m always around on the discussion forums : https://steamcommunity.com/app/760640/discussions/

I hope you’ll enjoy TE4. I’ve put more than 9 years of my life into this project, alongside Tennis Elbow Manager 2 (not counting the additional years spent on TE1/2/3 and TEM1). 🙂

Cya all ! And thanks for your amazing support and feedback over the years : you really helped me make TE4 a better game. 👍

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Finally, here’s one more regular update before the official Steam release.
It includes a few bug fixes and balance tweaks, as well as improvements to make the transition to TEM2 mode smoother for players who want more management depth in their World Tour.

This should be the last update before the game’s official release on Steam, planned for Friday, January 23rd... Assuming I don’t forget 😅

After that, the pace of regular updates may slow down.

I hope you’ll enjoy it, and here’s the full changelog. 🙂

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- World Tour : in TEM2 mode, you can now reconfigure your Coach in the Coach Info screen
- Stats : you can now show the 1st serve & 2nd serve impacts by pressing Right Shift + F9 (it works on consoles if you have a keyboard)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- AI : when playing doubles, boosted the volley efficiency a bit for the Master CPU and some more for the Incredible CPU
- AI : now, in doubles, the CPU will sometimes aim in the hole between his 2 opponents

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Strikes : when prepared very early, the strikes could get deep but not accurate enough, thus ending out
- AI : because of the previous point, the Incredible CPU was doing Safe strikes instead of good shots ; it should be now significantly more efficient, especially at the Incredible-10 level
- AI : in doubles, the CPU partner at the net wasn't switching sides when his partner at the baseline was chasing a ball on its side
- World Tour : your skills were modified when playing Doubles (this should now happen only when activating the TEM2 mode, depending on your Doubles Spirit skill)

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Online : since the last update, the number of online games was always 0

Here's the last regular update before the official Steam release next month (and hopefully it won't need some emergency update 👀), featuring a few tuning & bug fixes, as well as the latest player rankings.

I hope you'll enjoy it, and may you have a merry Christmas, if you celebrate it. 🎅

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- World Tour : rankings updated to end of 2025 (this will not allow to start the game in 2026, though) ; if you have a Mod with its own player base, this will have no effect for your World Tour

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Rendering : changed the ball impact mark from a blurry 2D sprite to a 3D shape so its rendering is very accurate and allows for judging correctly if the ball was in or out (with the Ball camera in Replay mode)
- Strike : shortened a bit the dropshot when done near the net, after the bounce and crossed (ie: mostly for counter drop shots)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : the human player could hit while running back instead of turning to do sidesteps
- [Xbox] Camera : it was not possible to save & load cameras


ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Here's a regular update, polishing the game before its official Steam release in January. The most noticeable change is that the Mods won't auto-update anymore, giving you more control over the process.

I hope you'll enjoy that update, and here's the full changelog, as usual. 🙂

Changes :
- Modding : the Mods aren't automatically updated anymore by just entering the Mod Management menu ; now, you have to click on Collection -> Update Mods, and if a Mod is disabled, it won't be updated ; if you want to update only 1 mod without disabling/re-enabling the other ones, just unsubscribe & resubscribe it
- Audio : increased the stereo spread for the on-court FX

Bug Fixes :
- Animation : the players could look too much at the ball in their back while moving, leading to very strange positions, even possibly jerking
- Animation : the human player could still weirdly rotate in one case (hopefully the last one :fear: )
- Animation : lowered the stumbling when the player runs back diagonally, slowing down and re-accelerating
- Animation : the lag when the crowd is applauding was much bigger than normal when playing with the moving sun (it might be worth trying to turn back on the crowd animation if you had disabled it :yes: )

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===