Tennis Elbow 4 News

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : the player could start to slide while volleying, leading to a wrong animation
- Animation : sliding wasn't triggering in some cases
- AI : when hitting on a end of the run, the predicted position for the CPU could be slightly wrong, leading to slightly out-of-sync animation (this is not a fix for the out-of-sync anim when the CPU arrives late on the ball ; this one will be fixed in a future update :fear: )
- Players : the outfit code wasn't applied correctly, making the World Tour players fully random

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Sound : new umpire voices, 1 from the UK, 1 from the US and 1 in German (thanks to Paulie, Bob Madden & Patrick Geyer !), and the base umpire voices have been redone as well
- Modding : new way to Mod the Grunt, all the court sounds, and the Umpire announcements => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-33725.php

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- World Tour : the women now serve about 4km/h faster when they have 50% in their Service Power skill
- World Tour : the players get tired faster if you have chosen to play with fewer sets than in real life (eg: a 1-set match instead of a best-of-3-set match)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : the player could jerk left/right before hitting the ball with the Fast Autopositionning (and possibly some other situation)
- World Tour : crash fixed when starting a new game with more than 1 player
- World Tour : Junior ranking was changing on reload during the 1st year of your career
- World Tour : loading an old saved game with a player chosen fro the base (instead of a created one) could make the game crash

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Online : the sliding start was making the player display all corrupted
- Online : the racket could get permanently misoriented after a slide
- Gameplay : the sliding could make the player start a sliding forehand when he should be doing a normal backhand, and vice versa
- World Tour : loading an old saved game could crash

After a big stall of nearly 2 months because I got badly sick and then was left very tired, here the 1st important update in a while, with a long-awaited new feature : the sliding..! ːsteamhappyː

It'll likely be tuned and evolve a bit with future updates, but the basics are all there, and it looks quite nice to see the players finally sliding.

And here is the changelog for this new version :

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Gameplay : now the players can slide, on all surfaces but more often on clay & grass ; this provides a bit of extra reach ; the sliding is automatic if you have enough speed and stand at the correct distance and if the ball isn't too high, but if you don't press a strike button at the correct time, the sliding will start a tiny bit late and your player will be a tiny too much on the ball ; when you slide, you put less spin in the ball on the normal & slice strike
- Strike : added a 2nd double-handed forehand, very loosely inspired from Gambill ːsteammockingː
- Hall of Fame : updated all the real records to the end of 2021

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Surface : tuned a bit the color of the grass, clay & blue-green cement courts (only in the 3D courts for now, not the 2D Backgrounds)
- Animation : fixed the off-hand on the 1st double-handed forehand
- World Tour : now, in Pro difficulty and above, you'll get a bit more experience points overall, and your skills will drop a bit less fast
- World Tour : raised a bit the resting rate of your player when his ranking get very good

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Menu : the selection with a controller could get blocked in the "Exit current match" screen
- Gameplay : the service line was seen as bigger than it was by the line judges
- Gameplay : fixed a crash that could happen when pressing the acceleration buttons right before starting to serve
- Helpers : "[Network] HideOppHelper" wasn't working correctly (it's in your Tennis.ini)
- Recording : launching a recorded match without having loaded a World Tour saved game 1st was making the game crash
- World Tour : your player was sleeping (and thus wasn't resting) if you had played too much during the same day (ie: playing singles + doubles)
- World Tour : player's potentials when starting a new career with an existing player were all wrong (since the previous update)
- World Tour : most women had a one-handed backhand instead of a 2 handed one
- World Tour : the yearly stats of a Junior ending #1 that year were hidden
- World Tour : the game could crash on a new week, after adding a player in the player base & then loading a saved game ; this bug could also do some funky stuff on the past rankings of the players (visible when seeing H2H or stuff like that)
- World Tour : the OutfitTE4 codes in the player base weren't loaded correctly

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Player : the male player had his feet inside the ground since yesterday's update ːsteamfacepalmː