Version 0.23 - Build 39 SubBuild 2020.7.2:
New Features :
- 3D Player : the female player is now fully configurable, except for her face that may receive a few additional options in the future
- Surface : the grass gets damaged as long as the current tournament advances (like in TE2013)
- Tour bases : Players & their rankings updated to end of 2019
- Tour bases : added 1 week of grass between the French Slam & the UK Slam
- Junior Tour : added the Grade D tournament level, which should make it much easier to win a few matches during the 1st Junior year and maybe win a couple of tournaments in the 2nd year (if it's not the case, please report it !)
- Legacy Base Support : the game can now load saved games using previous versions of the official Tour bases, so you should never lose your saved game again when updating
- Players : fictional players now will mostly get fictional names instead of recycled names from the player base
- Tournament : 2 new victory cups
- Tournament Registration : low ranked CPU players didn't register correctly for tournaments, which was making it very hard for the new good players to emerge, so the system got a complete rehaul
- Qualies : now winning a match in qualies always gives ranking points, so low ranked players who never make it out of qualies still get a somewhat meaningful ranking
- Animation : the players won't swing in the air anymore when the ball ends in the lower part of the net
- Physics : ball bounce on sliced ball tuned, so it shouldn't be overpowered anymore
- Players : Forehand, Backhand & Service Powers of top players in a very good year will get a bit less up, so it's their other skills that go up more (eg: so the serve doesn't become super fast during such year)
- World Tour : allow top players to have a bit more easily their skill above 90% (which in turn allow having more skills under 90%)
- Serves : the 1st service speed has been lowered by 5km/h on average, so it's more on par with real-life averages, and it should give a more realistic number of aces for top servers
- Serves : topspin & kick serves now do less net clip ; instead, they get sometimes shorter but still pass the net
- Player style : the Counter now rushes the net a bit less often
- Controls : controllers' analog stick now allows you to accelerate your player run in any direction
- Modding : the player's StartRank is now used to determine his strength when he's a Junior, so he'll try to reach his StartRank when he gets to 18 years old (note: if the 1st RankPerYear is better than 100, then the player is becoming a Pro on his starting year)
- Modding : added the TE2009 Net, so TE2013 Mods using it & changing its texture will work with TEM2 ; you have to specify its use in GameSys.ini , though, by adding this line, under [Game] :
DefaultNet = Net2009
Changes :
- Tour bases : many low ranked players had some years off and thus on some years a few qualies draws could miss a few players
- Tournament : fixed a crash when loading a saved game containing a draw with bye vs bye matches (ie: when there were not enough players)
- Physics : completely reworked the spin after the bounce, as the fix for the sliced bounce lead to having too much topspin on flat serve, making the ball bounce too low ; these new changes also make the topspin strike a bit more effective, as it now bounces a bit higher & deeper, which is welcome
- Strikes : the acceleration and the shoulder acceleration speed bonus both require to have been perfectly positioned for at least 0.25s & 0.5s respectively to achieve their fastest speed
Bug Fixes :
- Sound : the skid sounds weren't played
- Statistics : doubles historic for CPU players could be wrong, leading to wrong reports
- Rendering : the vertical ball shadow could disappear
- Animation : the player animation while bouncing the ball could be jerking
- Replay : the rackets were mispositioned in step by step mode
- Country Cup : the surfaces weren't saved correctly once the encounters were over, leading to issue in the Head To Head & other screens
- Strikes : the drop shop could end too easily in the net
- Animation : the player could wrongly choose to do a forehand or backhand volley when the ball was crossed a lot and he was far from it
- World Tour : top singles players could too easily play in low ranked doubles tournaments