by nickkyrgiosfan » 01 Apr 2024, 05:19
Hello manutoo, I talked with you a few days ago on the comment section of the youtube video "Top Spin 4 vs [censored] vs Tennis Elbow 4" , I am the user JetMC254. Youtube kept deleting my comments, but I was posting a link to "Infosys analysis: Best performers at AO 2021". I tried posting the link here but it wouldn't let me.
In it, you can see that for the Aus open 2021, the fastest average forehand speed was Basilashvili, with 132 km/h. The 10th fastest was Pella, with 126 km/h. Therefore we know that in the Aus Open 2021, an average forehand speed of 126 km/h was faster than for 90% of all the 128 players at the Aus Open. So, an average forehand speed of 126 km/h is very, very fast.
In TE4, I feel that even with around 75% forehand power, I feel like my average forehand speed is more than 126 km/h. The normal shots are like 115-125 km/h, but, since it is too easy to do accelerations (even with modifying the controls to make them harder than Elite, like you said in amother post), I do way more accelerations than normal shots, and the accelerations at 75% forehand power go from 140 to 160 km/h, which is really high. In real life getting a 150 km/h groundshot happens only a few times in a match and when it happens it's almost always a finishing shot in a point, close to the net, for example, the third shot in a point, after a strong serve and a very weak return. In TE4 I feel like I get 150+ km/h way too often, even while playing on Incredible difficulty and controls harder than Elite. I even tried artificially decreasing the forehand and backhand power on Training club to a really small value but I still get 150 km/h too frequently.
I think the acceleration shot speed needs to be significantly reduced (and the normal shot speed a bit reduced), or at least the specific penalty for accelerations should be dramatically increased, so that for example I can only perform a really fast acceleration if the opponent does a safe strike and I am well positioned and spend like 3 seconds waiting. This is what I tried to emulate by modifying the controls, but it doesn't work the way I would like because it also affects the normal shots, I wanted to only make accelerations more difficult and imprecise. (Is there a way to do this? ).
My overall point is, the game right now feels too fast paced, it feels like watching a match at 2x speed. There shouldn't be 150+ km/h shots in every other rally, this should happen only a few times per set.