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[anrox335]

Is the error rate of acceleration shots going to be increased? I feel I can hit them in certain situations where it should be tough to do so and there should be higher errors both sideways and long/netballs.

[manutoo]

Hello,

change your controls to Elite if you want fewer accelerations.

[anrox335]

I am already at elite controls. The acceleration errors need to be increased, especially in the case of service returns and clay courts. In the case of serve returns, it seems like a guessing game on where to move, wherein I can use the acceleration shot to get the winner on the first serves. In the case of the second serve, I can use acceleration shots, like 75 per cent of the time, just by standing at the default position(the CPU serves a little wider serves at other times). I am at master difficulty with level 5 for your reference. In the case of clay courts, acceleration shots seem easier to hit as I have more reaction time, and I feel there should be more outs. I suggest a slider for setting error percentages for different shots.

[Azoak]

I often see this kind of suggestion in the forums, and I suspect that this is probably a issue of the amount of impact that Consistency has. Additionally, Focus also has a strong impact on this issue.

At the moment, the amount of work that a forehand and backhand Consistency plays seems a bit large (especially for players who are familiar with the basic controls of TE4). In other words, it is too easy to deal with fast, low and high balls as a matter of course like Djokovic. So it seems that not a few players would like to make tennis more difficult by increasing the handicap for such tough balls.

I'm trying to address this issue in my experimental mod, and have set the base value of Consistency to "27 below compared to power". This setting may be too extreme, but I recognize that it is too easy to hit a good enough shot when power and consistency are at or near the same value.

Having said that, I don't think TE4 is only played by tennis fans who play it for hundreds of hours or more. Considering that there are also a lot of casual video gamers out there, making it too difficult to control might not be a good idea.

If it were possible to change it optionally in Tennis.ini, that would be lovely...

[manutoo]

anrox335,
during the rallies, are the accelerations too easy as well ?
If not, then making them harder on return of service might make them too hard during the rallies, and if yes, then you may be better off raising the difficulty level.

Would make the CPU varying the service more help ? (ie: mix more the topspin, kick & slice serves on clay)

Also, it made me realize that the precision cap for the acceleration is the same in Simulation & Elite controls, and it could make sense to make it less good with the Elite controls...

Azoak,
Consistency is to counter the Ball Difficulty. The Elite controls raise the difficulty, but maybe not enough.

You can tune them now, though : viewtopic.php?p=287228#p287228 .

[Azoak]

You can tune them now, though : (link) .

Hello Manu,
I didn't know this until now. I will try it, thank you!

[anrox335]

I would say it's a little easier to hit winners in rallies using the acceleration shot than I imagined. I believe moderately increasing the error rate all over and making CPU do varying services with a lesser number of second serves at the center would be ideal.