Tennnis Elbow 4, the long-awaited sequel to Tennis Elbow 2013, is now 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 over TE2013 are :
- Improved visuals, including new players, 9 stadiums and 9 more coming
- Reworked physics so everything is more realistic ; as a 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
https://store.steampowered.com/app/760640/Tennis_Elbow_4/
The future main area of improvements will be the animations, but it'll have also new content : mainly new stadiums & a single tournament mode.
It should also soon have a new input configuration system, much easier for controllers, with presets already done for XBox & PS4/5 controllers. (right no
You'll find the roadmap and more info here : https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-33253.php .
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/ .
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