Newsletter n°17 – February 20th 2009

• Match : point by point score progression in addition of the game by game progression
• Wildcard : can get a wildcard when entering a full tournament in your home country (it's automatic, it depends if other players already got wildcard or not)
• Wildcard : CPU players can get wildcard for Challengers, Futures & qualifying draws
• New court : the NewLine synthetic replaces the Classic Synthethic at the Australian Open
• Stats : best serve speed, average 1st & 2nd serve speeds
• Records : Tournament past champions screen
• Year 2024 added, so you can start the game in 2009

• Rankings : updated to end of year 2008
• Difficulty : the game is sensibly harder after 2010, both for men & women (ie: the #1 and some other top 20 players are stronger)
• Stats : volley stats for women, and aces tuned
• Draws : Seeds are randomly swapped in the draws (except #1 & #2)
• Players : some players with incorrect birth date have been fixed

• Autosave : now, in windowed mode, if you exit the game by clicking on the top-right cross, where you are in a menu without the "Exit" button, then the game won't be saved anymore, instead of saving a corrupted state (so you'll lose all progress made since the last automatically saved game)
• Match Preview : the Head To Head button is now working
• Localization : players, team members & coach are now correctly located in the country where the Davis Cup encounter takes place

/!\ Note : due to important additions, your previously saved games aren't compatible with this new version. Therefore, you should finish your current game before installing this new version.

 

Download links:

	www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TennisManager.exe (~12MB - Windows XP/2000/98/Vista)
	www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TEM-Mac.zip (~15MB - Mac OSX 10.3.9+)

 

Tennis Elbow 2009 1.0a for Windows :

Thanks to the numerous comments, critics & suggestions from many Tennis Elbow users, the game already got a lot of improvements in the past 3 months and is now updated to the version 1.0a, free for everybody who already bought it, as usually.

New Features :

• 4 Gestures : raging fist, racket throwing, applauding & apology ; gestures are context sensitive; ie: you can do the raging fist only when winning a point, not losing it ; all gestures can be activated at the end of the point by pressing B1+B2+down or B1+B2+up
• World Tour : Tournament past champions screen
• Wildcard : tournament directors of the following week can propose you a wildcard when you reach the semifinals or better of your current tournament
• Wildcard : can get a wildcard when entering a full tournament in your home country (it's automatic, it depends if other players already got wildcard or not)
• Wildcard : CPU players can get wildcard for Challengers, Futures & qualifying draws
• Gameplay : the ball sometimes touches the net during the serve
• World Tour : added a warning when selecting a tournament occurring in more than 30 weeks
• World Tour : now, if you don't play in December, you get a little bonus of experience points

• World Tour : some players tuned
• Gameplay : the more the ball is low under the waist, the less top spin one can put in it (both for human & CPU players)
• Gameplay : low volley & medium volleys are noticeably more effective
• Gameplay : failed drop shots can't fly super fast away anymore
• AI : the CPU player rushes the net a lot better when doing a serve-and-volley
• Online : Autolag calculation slightly tuned to take more in account the variation of ping, so it should be a bit higher when the ping is instable

• World Tour : now, in windowed mode, if you exit the game by clicking on the top-right cross, when you are in a menu without the "Exit" button, then the game won't be saved anymore, instead of saving a corrupted state (so you'll lose all progress made since the last automatically saved game)
• Settings : the Autopos & Preview settings aren't overwritten anymore after an Oline match

And even more improvements since the initial release of the version 1.0, all are listed in the forum.

/!\ Note for Mac OSX users : TE2009 is currently not available for Mac OSX. The port will start very shortly, and should hopefully be done by mid-March. If the port is successful, everybody who will have bought TE2006 Mac since the initial Windows release of TE2009 will get TE2009 Mac for free. More news about this in the forum in the incoming weeks.

 

Download links:

www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TE2009.exe (v1.0a - ~20MB - Windows XP/2000/98/Vista)

 

Tennis Elbow + TeManager Packs :

For the ones who still haven't purchased either Tennis Elbow nor TeManager, here the packs of TE + TEM with a 20% discount on TeManager :

• Windows :
  • pack of TE2009 + TeManager [USD 44.95]
  • pack of TE2009 + TeManager [EUR 34.00]
• Mac OSX :
  • pack of TE2006 + TeManager [USD 44.95]
  • pack of TE2006 + TeManager [EUR 34.00]