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Build 123 ; SubBuild 2023.12.14:

New Features :
- Localization : Italian translation updated, thanks to pupattolino75 !

Changes :
- Acceleration Trait : Slow Ball Big Speed's limits are tuned so it's more advantageous on slow surfaces, and almost not penalizing on fast surfaces
- Play Style : the new description of the All-Court Attacker is (ie: he got a speed bonus for his normal & topspin strikes) =>

• 1 extra acceleration
• bigger jumps at the net
• big speed bonus for shoulder height acceleration
• up to +3km/h on normal & topspin strikes, whatever the power is

- Play Style : the new description of the Rounder is (ie: he got a speed bonus for his normal & topspin strikes, as well a topspin bonus for his topspin strike) =>

• 1 extra acceleration
• bigger jumps at the net
• big speed bonus for shoulder height acceleration
• up to +2km/h on normal & topspin strikes, whatever the power is
• little topspin bonus on the topspin strike

- Play Style : slightly raise the jump bonus of the All-Rounder

Bug Fixes :
- Tutorial : doing some tutorial lessons could still block the next launched match
- Menu : if no default font was defined, then the font padding for custom fonts was the one from the previous menu's default font (this was an issue for some Mods, not the base game as the default font was always defined for the base menus)
- Ini : WT_NewGame & WT_NewGameTEM usages from Tennis.ini were inverted, preventing to easily edit the starting skill points in the World Tour
- Modding : having different Country Cup rounds for different years still could lead to some issues

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Build 124 ; SubBuild 2024.1.6:

New Features :
- Analytics : switched to Unity Gaming Service Analytics ; you still can disable it in Settings -> Misc Options
- Modding : the .zip mod files in the temp folder are now deleted on game launch & exit

Changes :
- Physics : slightly raised the sliding occurrence, on all surfaces, both with and without the Slider talent

Bug Fixes :
- AI : in doubles, in a few specific situations, the CPU could let his partner hit a ball while he should have played it

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SubBuild 2024.1.10:

Bug Fixes :
- Menu : since the previous update, there have been a bunch of little glitches in the menus as well as the impossibility of training when the TEM2 Mode was turned on
- MacOS : tried a fix for the black screen occurring on old macs (ie: the ones not supporting the Metal rendering)
- World Tour : loading a saved game where you had reached the end of your career was crashing

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SubBuild 2024.1.18:

Changes :
- Menu : when entering a new menu using the keyboard or the controller, the cursor is moved to the currently selected item

Bug Fixes :
- World Tour : when playing with women, the current match couldn't be reloaded and the difficulty setting was always reset on game launch
- Menu : likely fixed the bug making all the Match Stats 0, which should also fix a couple of rare glitches in other menus

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Build 125 ; SubBuild 2024.2.3:

New Features :
- Animation : you can now disable the Crowd animation in Settings -> Video -> Advanced ; on less powerful PCs, it makes the game stutters a bit each time the crowd starts to applause

Changes :
- AI : now the CPU will volley much less frequently in the direction of his opponent standing near a lane line, except on difficult volleys
- Modding : now the game doesn't pause anymore while in the Mod Management menu and getting out of focus, which should prevent failing download because you had swapped to another application while waiting for it to complete

Bug Fixes :
- AI : fixed a few situations in doubles where the CPU was not playing correctly according to his CPU partner
- Animation : when being lobbed, the player animation could constantly switch between the smash and another strike
- Menu : the button to launch the TE4-Launcher when a new update was available wasn't working anymore (so if you read this, you likely have to manually launch TE4-Launcher to get this new update)
- Modding : Modded sounds were not playing more or less randomly
- Modding : since the previous update, having both the face and eyebrow configuration was making the face customization disappear in some situations

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Build 126 ; SubBuild 2024.2.18:

Bug Fixes :
- Strike : since the previous build, your player could sometimes stick to the FH instead of switching to the BH (and vice versa), when moving left/right before hitting the ball
- Modding : having too many outfit parts was crashing the game
- Online : if you activated TEM2 within TE4, then your online account was change ; this is now restored to your original TE4 account

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Version 0.91 - Build 127 ; SubBuild 2024.3.9:

New Features :
- Online : pressing the Menu button now shows a pop-up menu that will let you send Quick chat sentences or block the chat ; the current choice is activated when releasing the Menu button
- Online : if you cannot host, activate Training Club -> Network -> Assign Temporary IPv6 (only available if your network supports IPv6 and has a Temporary one) ; note : opponents whose network doesn't support IPv6 won't be able to join you (if it works for you, please report it !)

Changes :
- Physics : in the big stadiums, the invisible walls around the courts are now better positioned so the players & the balls will be blocked near the actual walls
- AI : your player & the CPU, when standing near or after the baseline, know much better when the ball will end long, and thus won't play it, except when it's very close to being in

Bug Fixes :
- World Tour : when the TEM2 mode was activated, your player skills were going down extremely fast once he was starting to be a bit old

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Version 0.92 - Build 128 ; SubBuild 2024.4.10:

New Features :
- Animation : you can now damper or turn off the Dynamic Animation system, which alters the strike animations (more info => topic15-35348.php )

Changes :
- Strikes : the slice was too fast when having low consistency
- Strikes : slightly increased the loss of precision when returning a slice
- Strikes : lowered the maximum possible topspin when having a very low power (to avoid weird moonballs for Junior players)
- Strikes : slightly raised the racket sweet spot size while moving, so it's now a bit easier to strike the ball on the run

Bug Fixes :
- World Tour : in fictional years, the ranks were getting all messed up when some real players had manual rankings, leading to unknown players being way too strong
- AI : when doing a safe strike, the CPU could advance too much into the court
- Strikes : the drop shot speed could be too slow when done very crossed, leading to a too-high trajectory
- Online : when doing a rematch, the stadium for the client was reset to his own settings, instead of the host's stadium
- Online : The NAT punch-through when having different private & public ports was not working (it can happen when you share your router with a lot of people ; eg: at university)