Tennis Elbow 4 News

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Modding : can change the number of talent stars when starting a new game with the NbStar entry under [WT_NewGame] in your Tennis.ini

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Gameplay : now when the Short Term form lowers, it'll also make the max energy lower till ~90%, even before reaching the threshold
- Gameplay : it's a bit less penalizing to hit the volley off-centered, so the extra-reach is more useful and let you do more decent shots
- Gameplay : it's not possible to have net balls on the 2nd serve for the human players, as there was a light risk to double fault because of it
- AI : the CPU predicts now better the chance a ball can go too wild, and thus do a bit less stupid faults (especially when his Tactic skill is high)
- AI : the CPU now doesn't use the Short Acceleration anymore if it has too much chance to not be short enough (especially when his Tactic skill is high)
- Talent : the Slice Mastery talent slightly raises the slice precision, so it's more efficient when prepared a bit late
- Control : autopos now makes your player go backward if you try to smash a high ball after it has bounced
- Online : the game now automatically auto-repings the hosts that didn't answer (ie: with red infinite pings)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Animation : fixed a frozen animation when trying to smash a ball too high to be hit
- Animation : fixed a couple of animation issues when the CPU player was late to play a smash
- AI : when running backward, the CPU could hit the ball before the bounce while he had decided to actually hit it after the bounce
- HUD : the indicated stress from playing against a lower-ranked player was much bigger than what it really was
- HUD : the aiming preview was turned a bit too much when aiming to the left or right
- Gameplay : the stress from playing against a lower-ranked player cannot lower anymore when starting the 2nd serve
- Physics : the ball would go more easily wild always on the same side (ie: left or right)
- Replay : starting/stopping a replay during a gesture that moved the racket was leading to the racket being mispositioned
- Replay : viewing a point replay could create desyncs during the match replay (it may still not be fixed at 100%, as it's pretty hard to reproduce that bug :fear: )
- World Tour : on saved game reload, some of the Prizes from Pro tournaments were $0 during the year you had decided to turn pro
- World Tour : during the fictional years, on saved game reload, the low-ranked players in the base who got a fate of future top players were seeing their mental skills reset to their original values, making all the other skills way too high
- World Tour : when starting a Season Mode career, picking more than 1 player was leading to wrong starting age & skills

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Controls : added separated functions to add slice & topspin to the serve

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Controls : another try at fixing the (rare ?) controller issue happening to a few users where the strike buttons aren't registered correctly and the player keeps running or stuff like that :fear:

[h2]Notes :[/h2]
- On my side, I tested my XBox One controller on my other Windows 10 PC, on my old Window 7 PC, with and without Steam and it always seemed to work correctly, so I'm really puzzled about what could be going on...

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Controls : the XBox One controller (and maybe some other controllers ?) triggers can report being active even in the resting pose (depending on some computer mysteries, as it doesn't always happen), which was making the new input system confused and lead to the player moving instead of striking the ball in some situations ; this should now be fixed.

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Controls : gestures were inverted after each change of ends
- Controls : it was not possible to set the same controls for the gesture as for the strikes
- Controls : AltGr key could unwantedly come when setting the keyboard strikes
- World Tour : reloading a game when just played 2 tournaments on the same week was messing up the Activity log