Tennis Elbow 4
SubBuild 2025.6.18
Build 140 ; SubBuild 2025.6.17
New Features :
[p]- Modding : now all the textures used for the menus and the HUD are loaded and cached dynamically, allowing for a saving of almost 300MB of RAM with the latest XKT & Stef's Scoreboards Mods ; I did as well a couple of other memory optimizations so the total saving is around 300MB, which should be hopefully enough to avoid many crashes on PlayStation and Xbox One and One S (Xbox One X and Series have more memory, so they should be mostly alright).[/p]
Changes :
[p]- Strike : tuned the Shoulder Height Acceleration so it's much less penalized when done in the Danger Zone, and even getting an accuracy bonus ; the effect is quite strong for the Acceleration and medium for the Short Acceleration ; this should allow you to attack high topspin balls on clay if you position your player well- Strike : lowered a bit the Short Acceleration, so its aiming zone width is closer to the Acceleration's one when standing a bit after the baseline
- Strike : tuned a bit the physical imprecision so the topspin strikes have a tiny bit more chances to end long or in the net when prepared late, and the slices a bit more chances to end short when prepared late
- Strike : the drop shot is now easier to do on very falling balls, and a bit harder on raising balls
- Strike : the service strike speed now varies according to a Gaussian curve (before the extreme variations were too frequent)
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Bug Fixes :
[p]- Animation : the player could be doing strange things when lobbed on his backhand side- Strike : when running forward, the net jump could sometimes not trigger, especially if the ball was on the backhand side
- Strike : in the doubles, the Human player was sometimes prevented from jumping to the ball at the net if he's partner wanted to play it
- Strike : the player could play a ball ending quite long if he was standing just a bit inside the baseline
- \[PlayStation] Online : the Friend invite button was missing sometimes when hosting a game\\[/p]
ManuTOO
== Mana Games ==[TAG-40]
== Mana Games ==[TAG-40]
SubBuild 2025.4.26
Bug Fixes :
- Online : playing a match while hosting a game and waiting for an opponent could lead to desync
- Commentary : fixed a few commentaries triggering at the wrong time
- Modding : fixed a couple of issues (including a crash on Windows) when reloading Mods
Build 139 ; SubBuild 2025.4.11
New Features :
- Modding : the game will now reload the Mods after their installation/removal, activation/deactivation, and optionally when changing the Profile ; it may still have some issue, so I still didn't remove the message recommending to restart the game to apply the modifications
Changes :
- Helpers : slightly raised the Aiming Zone size by adding a white zone around it, so very few balls will end outside of it
- AI : the CPU positions himself better against short strikes & short accels, and repositions himself a bit more dynamically when he's too much out of position ; this should improve his defense a bit but noticeably
- AI : the CPU player will now often make 1 or 2 steps before stopping to chase a too-far ball
- AI : the CPU player was always chasing too-far balls ending near the net when he was standing around the baseline
- Strike : now doing an Acceleration, Short Acceleration or Attack Lob when our player is doing the special stretch animation will lead to a systemic fault (this is not related to the usual strike animation reaching for the ball)
Bug Fixes :
- Animation : running in diagonal backward was leading to the running back animation instead of turning and running forward
ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===
Build 138 ; SubBuild 2025.3.15
New Features :
- Controls : it's now possible to navigate the menus with the D-Pad or the Right stick ; you can configure it in Settings -> Controls -> Players 1 -> Controller 1 -> Menu
Changes :
- Strikes : lowered a bit the Defense & Attack lob speed when standing far from the baseline
- Replay : the replay menu is now usable with the new menu navigation controls ; to advance/rewind by 1 frame, use "Menu - Previous Tab" & "Menu - Next Tab" instead of "Menu - Lower" & "Menu - Action"
Bug Fixes :
- Strikes : in some cases, the human player could switch several times between his forehand & backhand
- AI : while standing near the baseline, the CPU could miss the ball if it were too high (eg: against a lob)
- Controls : if several users were using the same controller, their different configs were applied at the same time to control the menus
SubBuild 2025.3.5
Bug Fixes :
- World Tour : the "new" player bases were actually the old ones with the added rankings ; now, it's the correct ones, allowing to start your career in 2024 & 2025
- Animation : the experimental movement animations were disabled for CPU vs CPU match (and likely when watching a match replay as well)
- Modding : since last update, Auto Player Photo wasn't working anymore
Version 1.0 !
after nearly 6 years of development, we finally reached the version 1.0 of Tennis Elbow 4 ! หsteamhappyห
It's still not the end of the road and I'll still improve the game, but once I'm done with the new movement animations (either it's a success or a failure :fear: ), I won't work full time on TE4 anymore.
And here's the full changelog for the version 1.0 - Build 137 ; SubBuild 2025.3.4:
New Features :
- Animation : experimental new movement animations ! I used the animation set bundled with the Motion Matching plug-in I bought, which direly misses sidesteps and small footwork ; you can activate it in Settings -> 3D Match (Give your impressions => https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic7-36310.php ) ; note : this system requires some extra memory and will lead to crash on consoles if you have Mods installed (especially when playing doubles)
- Settings : added a Tennis.ini editor ; click on the little white icon on the bottom right of Settings -> Misc Options to access it
- World Tour : rankings updated to 2024, and new players added if you start a new career (if you have a Mod for the World Tour, you won't see these additions)
- Localization : Japanese translation, thanks to Tam ! (please report any typo)
Changes :
- Strike : halved the loss of power when getting tired, which should shorten rallies by making it easier to hit winners when both players are tired
- Strike : boosted the short strike speed by up to 4km/h, to help doing passing shots with it (it was too curvy and slow before, allowing too many easy volleys)
- Service : raised the Aiming Zone on Service Preview so the ball should almost never land outside of it
- AI : lowered the jump at the net of the CPU for the Club-10 and Junior-10 so their rally & net performances are more balanced (this will have some diminished effect till Pro-9)
- Physics : now, hitting the ball with the frame of the racket will make the normal & long strikes end too long instead of in the net
Bug Fixes :
- Animation : the player could bend too harshly in some situations (usually when sliding)
- Animation : animation loading was randomly failing, leading to a crash (and online desyncs) ; tried a fix, but I'm not 100% sure it'll work in all cases (it's a Unity bug :fear: )
- 3D Match : after having played for a while (ie: more than 30 minutes), the hair, hat, and possibly the eyes were moved over the head
- Physics : some topspin balls had a too low chance to end in the net
- Commentary : fixed a few lines played in the wrong situation
- World Tour & Camera : (consoles only) since the last update, it was not possible to export your player to the Training Club nor save a Camera in Settings -> Camera
- World Tour : the Experience points were capped at 200 when starting a 3D match
- Modding : modifying the RankPerYear in the Player bases wasn't seen right away in your saved career
SubBuild 2024.11.9
Changes :
- Online : the current Mod name is replaced by a concatenation of all active Mods' names, allowing to avoid desync if one of the Mod doesn't match
Bug Fixes :
- Animation : the player could glitch when missing a ball, especially when it was bouncing twice in front of him
SubBuild 2024.10.28
Bug Fixes :
- Online : the game could desync on the 1st point when having played a match before
- Online : the game could desync forever when having a match saved in the Training Club and hosting a game
Build 136 ; SubBuild 2024.10.25
Bug Fixes :
- AI : the Incredible CPU was doing way too many wide faults on the serve (and the Master a bit too many)
- World Tour : the White outfit (for the UK slam) wasn't always activated correctly
- Modding : the 2D net had a black outline when the screen resolution was higher than 1440p