Hi manu I bought the game about a week ago and I really like it especially with the mods by Sam and others, in particular the animations. I’d say its overall the best tennis on the market right now, its amazing that you alone have made a better tennis game than teams of people on a bigger budget.
I would like to make a few suggestions that I feel would make it even better and wonder what you think. I play with a wired Xbox 360 controller with simulation controls, no preview, fast repositioning and currently playing on Junior Sub 7. I hope what I am about to say makes sense.
What is bad in most tennis games like Top Spin 3,4, Grand slam Tennis, Virtua Tennis for example is that you can not aim your shots and this game has that but I have a slight issue with it. When you aim the shot with preview on you can see that it keeps moving as you’re striking the ball and makes it difficult to aim for the lines. It seems as though when I try and go for the line it goes out. So what I’m saying is I feel as though there is no point in going for the line and all my shots just go a foot or two near it. The ball only seems to hit line when you’re well inside the baseline but not very often behind. The tennis game I played before this one was Top Spin 2, which before Tennis Elbow was the most like tennis because it has an aim mechanic fairly similar to this. I don’t know whether you have played it or not but it works slightly different. When you push the analog stick in one direction the longer you hold it in that direction the further it goes. The aiming also allows hitting shots with depth by pushing up and angled shots cross court by pushing in-between down and right or left. So if you could do something similar then it would also simplify the controls and improve the aiming but I don’t know if people who play with keyboard would hold this back or not but I would be surprised if anyone did. It’s hard to explain but I feel that’s really the only thing about Top Spin 2 that made it good. Top Spin 2 is on Xbox 360 and PC too. I think it’s worth taking a look at the aiming mechanic if you haven’t played it already.
The other thing is when a player does a dropshot, your player moves really slow it seems. I think that your player should sprint for the ball like Murray, Nadal, Djokovic for example. So when you push forward on the analog stick to retrieve it the player sprints but drain more stamina.
Djokovic’s stats for his forehand are almost as good as Federer and Nadal where it should be more in line with Murray’s. Also his smash and serve I think are too high. When I play as Nadal against Djokovic I can rarely hit a winner against him about 2 or 3 a set yet I win 6-0 or 6-1. Yet when I play as Nadal against federer I can hit a more realistic amount of winners but I struggle against him having really close sets. Ive played as federer also and it’s very easy to hit the ball close to the lines and he seems to hit the ball way harder than Nadal. I don’t know whether it’s because of the heavy topspin or not but he is much harder to hit winners with than Djokovic and Murray.
Thanks for reading.