Tennis Elbow 4 News

Here's an update to rebalance a bit the attack/defense, as well as fixing some bugs, I hope you'll enjoy it..! 🙂

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Localization : Chinese translation updated, thanks to XK !

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : raised the Short Acceleration speed a bit, especially when it's done at shoulder height
- Gameplay : hitting an acceleration against a raising/falling ball now lowers the precision on extreme cases and a bit less the accel speed (and still reduces the speed as before on normal cases)
- Gameplay : accelerations are a tiny bit longer
- Gameplay : All Rounder & All-court Attacker's normal strike speed bonus now applies only to the forehand and not to the backhand anymore

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- AI : the CPU could miss the ball by a few centimeters when rushing the net
- Gameplay : the service line was seen as 0cm wide for the fault calls, making some balls fault when they should have been in
- World Tour : some saved games could be wrongly flagged as invalid when switching between men & women in the Load menu
- Commentary : serve context was always on the 1st serve, even during the 2nd serve, giving a series of wrong comments
- Launch : since a recent update, the NoMod option was making the game crashes


ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Animation : you can set back the previous running animations for your player in the Training Club by adding these 2 lines in your Tennis.ini (HowTo => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic19-32161.php )

    AnimMoveForward   =   Legacy
    AnimMoveBackward=   Legacy

Note : this doesn't change the tuning of the default back pose (ie: spine bones)

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Animation : dialed back a bit the back base pose of the male player (ie: spine bones)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Controller : it was not possible to bind buttons & axises to a configuration whose index didn't match the controller index
- Stats : the number of services was twice too big (since the SubBuild 2024.5.22)

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