Tennis Elbow 4 News

Here the v0.64 of Tennis Elbow 4 !

The main addition of this new version is 3 new stadiums, bringing the total to 20.

If the game sales allow it, I may produce 2 more stadiums for the Future tournaments in the future, but for now, the stadiums are done. However, I might add night sessions at some point, if there's no technical issue with that.

So this update is done almost for the 1-year anniversary of the Early Access release on Steam. 1 year ago, I was kinda hoping to have the v1.0 or near it by now, but I was a bit too optimistic on one side, and on another one life decided otherwise (see the mini-blog if you'd like the details of all my little & bigger problems : https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-31541.php ːsteammockingː ).

Anyway, I hope the v1.0 is done or nearly done in 1 year. Since the beginning of the year, my work rhythm has been better, despite many annoyances on my path (but smaller than last year), and then I'll start to try to port the game to consoles.

Meanwhile, I wish you to enjoy tennis & TE4, and cu soon for more incoming updates. ːsteamhappyː

And here is the full changelog.

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Stadium : 3 new stadiums => Side Court, Beach House & TET500 ; all the stadiums are done for now (although maybe in a distant future, I'll add 2 stadiums, for the Indoor & Outdoor Future tournaments)
- World Tour : a tournament can now have several stadiums, so you'll play on the Side court during big events when you're lowly ranked or during qualies (this will also allow Modders to define several 2D courts for the same tournament)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : the player's head was going up/down too slowly, leading to super weird head positioning during the strike :sweat:
- Animation : since a couple of builds, the CPU couldn't change anymore his strike animation if wanted, leading to possibly big desyncs on ball hit
- AI : the CPU could not be able to hit the ball when doing a Backhand smash despite his racket touching it
- Online : it seems that managames.com gets some server timeout error, which can lead to losing ELO, so now in such a case, the game will retry a couple of times to contact the server
- Training Club : fixed a crash when going to play in the Training Club right after having won a tournament in the World Tour
- World Tour : fixed a crash when saving a player to the Training Club

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Here the v0.61 of Tennis Elbow 4 !

The main addition of this new version is 4 new stadiums, bringing the total to 17 and missing now only 3 more to be integrated into the game.

I hope you'll like them, enjoy ! ːsteamhappyː

And here the full changelog.

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Stadium : 4 new stadiums => Indian Wells, Key Biscayne, Montreal & Shanghai ! 3 left to go..! :bounce:
- Menu : added a Back button in the Match Presentation screen

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : the Auto-Pos will now make you advance a bit more if the ball is really too low

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : when you were standing after the 2nd ball bounce, the Auto-Pos could get wrong and make you miss the ball
- Gameplay : the stretching anim could trigger when there was still a chance to chase down the ball
- Rendering : since the previous update, there was no shadow anymore when playing with the 2D Background enabled
- Online : tried a few other things to prevent the weird ELO losses :fear:
- Online : the stretching & sliding anims were getting corrupted when playing with a High Delay (above ~150ms)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- World Tour : I had forgotten to assign the new Rome stadium to the Rome tournament... ːsteamfacepalmː
- Online : it might have been possible to lose ELO when getting disconnected on match start, and maybe when your opponent was joining & leaving right away your game lobby
- Camera : closing the game while watching a Replay with the Ball Following mode was letting the camera in that state forever (or till you manually changed it back in Settings -> Camera ːsteammockingː )

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Stadium : here come 3 new stadiums => Rome, Madrid & Monte-Carlo ! :dance:
- Menu : added a Back button in the Match Presentation screen
- Modding : you can now add this to your Stadium.ini to disable the court lines when displaying the associated 2D court :
[Code][Data]
LinesColorFor2D = 0
[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Animation : when running to the net, the reach is lowered, so the player doesn't stretch too much in weird ways

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : when the ball was far from him, the player was making a weird hip movement in the opposite direction at the end of his strike
- Animation : fixed another case where the CPU animation could get out of sync :sweat:
- Player : the player CRC was changing depending on the opponent
- Input : the game will now automatically disable XInput if you have more than 4 controllers plugged in (as 4 is the XInput limit, which could prevent seeing all your controllers in-game)
- World Tour : the mental skills were not correctly updated during the training when your player control was on CPU
- World Tour : there were not enough Junior players to fill the draw at the end of the year (as all Junior players had reached their tournament limit per year)
- World Tour : the game could crash when starting a new career with an existing player
- Modding : modded net textures were too bright

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- World Tour : the game could crash when loading a saved game
- Camera : the Custom camera (in the Tennis.ini) wasn't working anymore
- Modding : the Stadium icons were getting all brown in the Stadium selection screen when scrolling the list up/down
- Modding : the additional Surface icons were not loaded
- Modding : sound selection wasn't working correctly when playing with the 2D Background on