Tennis Elbow 4 News

Here's an important quality-of-life update for users with several controllers, as well as an attempt to provide better running animations ; please answer this poll to let me know if you think they are an improvement or not => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-35484.php .


[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Controls : now the Configuration selection is separated from the Controller selection ; this allows you to easily share the same configuration between several controllers, or reassign the Controller without changing the Configuration in case the Controller index has changed (in case you have more than 1 controller)
- Controls : on PC, when possible, the game automatically reassigns on launch your last selected controller if its index changed (because you have plugged in or out another controller)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Animation : changed the forward & backward running animations
- Animation : changed the base pose of the male player, as his back was a bit bent ; this slightly changes the back orientation on all animations (the male player should hopefully look a bit less stiff)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Modding : it was still possible for the Mods installation to get stuck more or less forever ; it should now be ok in all cases (as long as you have enough space left on your drive, of course ːsteammockingː )
- Controller : controller auto-selection didn't work when having more than 1 player in the World Tour
- Menu : with the onscreen keyboard, it was not possible to clear a text field (eg: the Rankings filtering)
- Match replay : all replays could desync, and the World Tour ones were always desync'ing when recorded with the match introduction enabled

[h2]Notes :[/h2]
- No gameplay change, I'm waiting for the end of the online Slam tournaments :fear:


ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Here's another regular update, bringing some gameplay tuning and the usual fixes. I hope you'll enjoy it. :-)

And if you have missed it, the game is finally released on Xbox since a couple of weeks : https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/tennis-elbow-4/9nfwhqkgc6p0 .

Now, I'm going to move to the Playstation port, hoping for a release around October.

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Camera : added a slider to make the camera movements slower in 3rd person mode when the ball passes your player (ie: it's mostly for the doubles)
- Modding : added an "Available space" indicator to know if you still have enough space to install additional Mods (especially useful on Xbox, where you have only 1GB for the Mods and the match recordings)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Players : Male hairs were too bright
- Strike : slightly lowered the loss of precision when returning a slice with a 2H-BH or 1H-BH
- Strike : strongly lowered the tiring handicap on heavy topspin strikes, and even more for the Defender style
- Physics : slightly changed the ball size so it gets a tiny bit more air drag, more on par with current balls on the real World Tour (but it's only like 1/60th of a second longer for the ball to travel from one player to his opponent ːsteammockingː )
- Physics : the players with high running speed need now a bit more time to stop their run
- Gameplay : the Bulldog has now a little bonus to more easily hit the ball on the run

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Strike : preparing a strike for a long time was canceling the handicap to do an acceleration on a raising/falling ball, making the topspin balls less effective than wanted
- AI : the CPU could walk a bit away from the ball and miss it when rushing the net
- Tutorial : doing a net on the 1st serve was crashing the game
- Desync : the online matches and match replays could sometimes desync on the service (I'm not sure it's fixed in 100% of the cases, though :fear: )

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Recordings : replaying a match played with the TEM2 Mode was desync'ing non-stop if the TEM2 Mode was deactivated (and vice versa)
- Menus : fixed a couple of tooltip issues when using the controller
- Controls : "Menu - Open Menu" could wrongly trigger
- Commentaries : no commentary was played for the Masters Semifinals

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- World Tour : people who got stuck from watching the final's Match presentation screen and closing the game before the fix of the previous SubBuild were then getting stuck for good with the previous SubBuild (they could load the automatically Weekly saved game, though)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Controls : the default control scheme for the controllers was not really not optimal ; it is now changed to the 1 button-per-strike template that fits better the Xbox & Playstation controllers

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Localization : fixed a few glitches & typos in French, Italian, German & Spanish translations
- World Tour : looking at the match presentation screen for a final and then closing the game was making the game hang after have played the next match on the next game launch