Tennis Elbow 4 w/mods (v0.90): Just Passing By • Federer vs Nadal (Australian Open • Night Session)
20Created by and for tennis fans, Tennis Elbow 4 is the sequel of TE2013, and offers a tennis simulation with an easy and intuitive learning curve, but with exceptional gameplay depth.
― INFO ―――
Developer: Mana Games
Release date: June 4, 2021
Genre: Simulation, Sports
Platforms: Microsoft Windows
MacOS
Linux
― DIFFICULTY ―――
Level: Incredible
Sublevel: 5/10
― LINKS ―――
Steam page • https://store.steampowered.com/app/760640/Tennis_Elbow_4/
XK-Team mod • https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-33852.php
Scoreboards by Stef • https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic60-34577.php
― HASHTAGS ―――
#TennisElbow4
#Federer
#Nadal
― NEW IN THIS RELEASE ―――
New Features:
- Controls: new screen right before playing to easily select the controller for each player.
- Menus: in case of a crash during the World Tour process, a menu is shown to tell you to load your previously saved game (instead of being stuck on the waiting screen).
- Menus: in case of a non-stop crash of the menu system, a menu is shown to let you exit the game and possibly restart without Mod or with resetting all your settings.
- Menus: added a tip next to the Back button to show what controller button is linked to it.
- Settings: can reset all the settings on game launch with the command line "-resetsettings" (without the quotes) ; this includes your current Training Club players, but not your saved World Tour games.
Changes:
- Physics: the players (both CPU & Human) now take a bit more margin over the net when they have a low Topspin skill, to avoid doing too many net faults.
- AI: the Incredible CPU was still too cautious, leading to too many slices ; now he should do noticeably fewer, especially when his Topspin and/or his Precision are low.
- AI: in doubles, now the CPU positions itself correctly after a cross-hit from the baseline.
Bug Fixes:
- AI: the CPU could stop running too early when running toward or away from the net, making him miss easy balls ; this fix should greatly improve in some cases the serve & volley of the CPU, and its net rush.
- AI: in doubles, the CPU on the baseline wasn't playing the crossed balls ending on his partner's side most of the time.
- AI: in doubles, the CPU could try to catch a ball that was actually for his partner.
- Modding: wrongly configured Mods could make the game unable to initialize correctly.
― GAMEPLAY ―――
Tennis Elbow is a series of tennis video games developed by France-based firm Mana Games. Its first version was released in 1996 and as of May 2015 it is currently on its 2013 version, available for Windows, Mac & Linux platforms.
The game is simulation oriented, and is often seen as being the one offering the most realistic tennis experience in term of rallies and tennis sensations.
The most noticeable particularity of its gameplay is that the users have to hold down the strike button till their player actually strikes the ball, unlike most other tennis games that require the users to release the strike button earlier.
After more than 2 years spent in Steam Greenlight, the 2013 version finally got released on Steam on March 13, 2015.
The game is regularly updated and as of July 2018 has seen 10 major updates for the 2013 edition.
The next edition will be called Tennis Elbow 4.