Tennis Elbow 4, the long-awaited sequel to Tennis Elbow 2013, will be released in Early Access on Steam on June 4th.
It has been already available from managames.com for almost 2 years now, and the game is already more complete than TE2013, except its Modding support is still limited.
TE4 current main improvements are :
- Improved visuals, including new players, 9 stadiums and 9 more coming
- Reworked physics so everything is more realistic ; as the main example : now if you hit a ball when mispositioned and/or too late, it'll always have a chance to end in the net or go wild
- Redesigned menus
- Dynamic animation so the players always put their racket on the ball (it still needs tuning to look ok in all situations)
- Men Tour starts in 1973 & Women Tour in 1983
- Junior Tour
- Future fictional years are generated in real-time, so each playthrough sees different top players in the future
- Olympiads
The future main area of improvements will be the animations, but it'll have also new content : mainly new stadiums & a single tournament mode.
I hope you'll enjoy all this and if you have any feedback, you're welcome here : https://steamcommunity.com/app/760640/discussions/ ; and there : https://www.managames.com/Forum/ .
ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===
Tennis Elbow Manager 2 version 1.0 !
After a few months in Beta, the game has finally reached the state where it deserves the v1.0 label ! ːsteamhappyː
There's no common big bad bug anymore (although it may still have a few rare ones, so be sure to report them if you meet them), and all base features are there now with the Steam achievements and the completed documentation.
In the incoming months I will still add small user-requested features, and in the years to come I'll try to regularly add bigger features or do some noticeable rehauls from your feedback.
For now, I'll let the game in the Early Access state as it might still need a series of polishing, and to encourage new users to give feedback & feature requests..! :-)
Tennis Elbow Manager 2 released in Early Access
TEM2 is finally playable on Steam, in Early Access for a couple of months.
The main improvements over TEM1 are the new menu design, the Junior Tour and the 3D matches, watchable or playable, with better physics & AI than TE2013..!
Here a couple of games from a CPU vs CPU match on clay :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utt0RNZTPQo&t=104s
And you can check the game more here :
After 8 months in Early version on managames.com, Tennis Elbow Manager 2 Beta is released ! (still on Mana Games' website, it'll come in a while on Steam)
The state of the game is changed to Beta because now all the important new features are implemented in the game. However it still misses some polish and some secondary features that may come later on.
I'll keep fixing the bugs reported during the next few months while I'll be busy porting the game to the Unity engine. The version 1.0 will come shortly after it's done.
The main new features added since the release of the Early version are the 3D matches, with real-time coaching, and the possibility to play yourself the 3D matches both in the World Tour and in the newly added Training Club free mode.
The TEM2 3D matches let you test the new ball, court, strike & player physics of TE4, as it's all implemented in TEM2 !
Players physics may change a bit, but the rest is very close to the final results, except for tuning, of course.
The AI is also greatly improved, but more will be done, especially as only the Pro-10 difficulty has been tuned, and not for the gameplay but for the realism.
So the gameplay of TE4 will be more refined and less raw than what you can find in TEM2, but be careful though : after a couple of hours of play, you may have some trouble to come back to the old TE2013..! ;-)
And if you had missed the previous newsletter, here the main new features since TEM1 :
Men Tour starts in 1973 & Women Tour in 1983
Fictional years are generated in real-time, so each playthrough sees different top players in the future
Junior players, management and training
New menu design
Olympics
Better injury handling (eg: can go on playing with the risk to get more injured)
Training Schedule (can save a training schedule & reapply it)
You can download & play the demo now :
Windows 7/8/10 : https://www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TennisManager_nle47.exe
And it's 20% off till November 28th : https://www.managames.com/buy.php?g=TEM2 .
Tennis Elbow 4 Pre-order
you can now pre-order TE4 from Mana Games with a 20% discount during the Autumn sales if you want to give it the best chances of success : https://www.managames.com/buy.php?g=TE4 . (Windows 7/8/10, macOS 10.11+)
Release schedule (it may change without prior notice) :
Playable Alpha Version : around April 2019
Fully playable Early Version : around June 2019
Online mode : around September 2019
v1.0 & Steam release : around June 2020
You can find more info about TE4 in the forum here : https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-30551.php
A few screenshots of the stadiums (it's work in progress, of course) to give you an idea where we are headed visually with TE4 :
TEM2 in Early Access on ManaGames.com !
Wanna get an early taste of TEM2 ?
Then head to the Mana Games forum to try out the demo :
http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic11-29241.php
Achievements Done !
Hello,
I just added the Achievements into the game, I hope you'll enjoy them ! ːsteamhappyː
