Tennis Elbow 4 News

Here's an update bringing a long requested feature : the Service Aiming Preview ! As well as an important fix for Xbox helping to lower Mod memory consumption, in addition to several little fixes & changes, as usual. Enjoy ! 🙂

Here's the complete changelog :

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Helpers : added the aiming preview for the service (note : your preview in the World Tour might be changed, you can set it back to your wanted level, go to your Character Sheet)
- Modding : it's not possible to rotate the NPCs and hide the middle line judge (see section 5 here topic60-34047.php )

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Service : lowered the maximum possible spin for the very slow services (under ~100km/h), because the curve was way too pronounced
- Online : raised the number of Talent Stars from 4 to 5

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Replay : the ball impact mark could be slightly misplaced on serve
- AI : in some cases, the CPU could think the ball was going into the net while actually it wasn't, leading to having no strike anim and possibly other issues
- Menus : the player photos could get distorted
- World Tour : disabling the Alternate Acceleration Style wasn't saved
- Modding : textures whose dimensions were not power-of-2 were using double the needed memory (note : it's much better to have power-of-2 sized textures so they can get compressed and use 75% less memory !)

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=== Mana Games ===

[h2]New Features :[/h2]
- Rendering : highly optimized the distant crowd so it takes 5 times less polygons and memory, which should greatly help to lower the number of random game closing on Xbox ; in addition, on consoles, the Near crowd detail is now slightly lower (about 45% less polygons) ; in the US Slam stadium (the 2nd biggest stadium after Shanghai), the total memory use for Near + Distant Crowd is now ~500MB instead of ~1.6GB

[h2]Changes :[/h2]
- Strike : when the player stands 3.5m behind the baseline or further, the acceleration depth is like before the Build 131 (to avoid too curvy accelerations)

[h2]Bug Fixes :[/h2]
- Online : if a CPU player had an AI Strategy, it was making the competitive doubles desync because the Client didn't clear the Strategy

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


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=== 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:


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=== Mana Games ===