Tennis Elbow 4 News

Here's the last regular update before the official Steam release next month (and hopefully it won't need some emergency update 👀), featuring a few tuning & bug fixes, as well as the latest player rankings.

I hope you'll enjoy it, and may you have a merry Christmas, if you celebrate it. 🎅

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- World Tour : rankings updated to end of 2025 (this will not allow to start the game in 2026, though) ; if you have a Mod with its own player base, this will have no effect for your World Tour

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Rendering : changed the ball impact mark from a blurry 2D sprite to a 3D shape so its rendering is very accurate and allows for judging correctly if the ball was in or out (with the Ball camera in Replay mode)
- Strike : shortened a bit the dropshot when done near the net, after the bounce and crossed (ie: mostly for counter drop shots)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : the human player could hit while running back instead of turning to do sidesteps
- [Xbox] Camera : it was not possible to save & load cameras


ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

Here's a regular update, polishing the game before its official Steam release in January. The most noticeable change is that the Mods won't auto-update anymore, giving you more control over the process.

I hope you'll enjoy that update, and here's the full changelog, as usual. 🙂

Changes :
- Modding : the Mods aren't automatically updated anymore by just entering the Mod Management menu ; now, you have to click on Collection -> Update Mods, and if a Mod is disabled, it won't be updated ; if you want to update only 1 mod without disabling/re-enabling the other ones, just unsubscribe & resubscribe it
- Audio : increased the stereo spread for the on-court FX

Bug Fixes :
- Animation : the players could look too much at the ball in their back while moving, leading to very strange positions, even possibly jerking
- Animation : the human player could still weirdly rotate in one case (hopefully the last one :fear: )
- Animation : lowered the stumbling when the player runs back diagonally, slowing down and re-accelerating
- Animation : the lag when the crowd is applauding was much bigger than normal when playing with the moving sun (it might be worth trying to turn back on the crowd animation if you had disabled it :yes: )

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Doubles : since the previous update, the ball could go through your player when you were volleying
- Stadiums : the Key Biscayne stadium was corrupted in the previous update (I hate computers ! 😓 )

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : the net jump was sometimes not triggered despite being needed
- Animation : fixed a couple of cases where the player wasn't rotating in the correct direction
- World Tour : the CPU could save his energy even during 1-set match, leading to unexpected defeats

[h2]Note :[/h2]
I'm not sure what happened, but Steam says it's for Nov 24th, but actually, it's already released... 😖 😅

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : the jump at the net could be done in the wrong direction when trying to reach a very crossed ball
- World Tour : going to the Load or Save screen with Modded Tour bases could lead to corrupted draws, leading in turn to corrupted rankings
- Animation : the player could still weirdly rotate sometimes (and I'm still not sure I caught all cases... :fear: )
- Modding : lowered the corruption chance from entering and exiting the Mod Management menu before the Mod updates are applied