Tennis Elbow 4 News

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Training Club : importing a player from the World Tour base was setting his Short Term Form to 30% ; now it'll be 100%
- Modding : transparent textures were opaque (eg: the TextOnGround sample Mod from here https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-34047.php )
- Modding : the NetSkin wasn't working anymore since the v0.65

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Training Club : can easily import players from the World Tour Base from Training Club -> Character Sheet
- Training Club : can save an unlimited amount of players
- Match : you can now define the number of games in the last set, as well as the number of points of the last set tie break (if any)
- Modding : add any 3D models to the Stadiums, and edit existing Ads (HowTo => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-34047.php )
- Modding : can set the Time & Speed text positions for the 2D Court (HowTo => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-34056.php )
- Modding : can change the NPC textures (HowTo => https://www.managames.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=282854#p282854 )

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Strike : the slice was lowering too much the difficulty of very difficult balls
- Strike : cannot hit a too strong slice anymore when taking the ball very early after the bounce
- Strike : it's now much harder to return a serve (or a smash) very early after the bounce
- Animation : tuned the service #14 so the arms don't go in the body anymore (except for fat players)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : when doing a slide or a stretch, the player could still jump at the net
- Strike : the lob could lead to some crazy balls when hit on a too difficult ball
- AI : the CPU was never doing the Sorry gesture and was doing too many Cheering fist & Raging pump gestures
- Menus : sometimes the menus can totally fail and display "0" everywhere ; it may be fixed now, but I'm not 100% sure :fear:
- Controller (only on the Steam version) : when unplugging & replugging your controller (or when playing with Steam Input on) the game could think a controller wasn't plugged in anymore, which was leading to an incorrect "no controller connected" label in the Settings -> Controls panel

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Menu : now the surfaces & stadiums are sorted depending on their translated name if you don't play with the English language

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- HUD : the text could get all corrupted on or after the Beach House stadium
- World Tour : since the previous update, the game couldn't load the saved match anymore on launch, forcing you to restart at 0/0
- Stadium : when lowering the Detail Level on the Side Court stadium, some of the NPCs weren't removed

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)