Mana Games

[KINGBARBOZA]

Hey Manu,

Since the last update, many backhand animations are causing desyncs when sliding.

It happens almost every time during sliding acceleration backhands, and can happen in other sliding backhand situations as well (slice, normal etc)

Can this please be fixed/reverted? For online, especially on clay where rallies are over 8-10avg this is causing many desyncs per set.

Cheers

[Dani21]

Yes and unfortunately some backhands which had no desyncs before now desync even in normal play as well. For example Dimitrov bh animation number 22 out of the 68 ohbh animations now desyncs on almost all the shots especially when hitting down the line in online play. Considering the sliding issue as well, since the new update something’s definitely changed with the animations leading to the desyncs.

[Nicky Gi.]

What do you guys mean by desync?

[KINGBARBOZA]

What do you guys mean by desync?

When it restarts mid point and says "desynchronization"

[Dani21]

Later Edit:
The dimitrov bh seemed to be working fine online now. The only desyncs are still the sliding ones mentioned by Barboza above.

[Nicky Gi.]

Does this happen only with this animation?

[Xnate]

I had many desync in the first game with fakefederer yesterday when I switched to federer forehand v9. Switched back to my old one (alcaraz) and no longer had issues.

[manutoo]

I checked the log, and apparently, lately, there are still ~95% of online games that end with 0 or 1 desync, so there's no sign of major breaking.

Is there desync if you play without any Mod ?

If not, then it means there's something wrong with some of the Modded anims.

[Dani21]

I agree that there may be something wrong with the modded anims. However, they only started acting up after the update. Especially when higher intensity sets are played where players run left and right, if you reach a ball very late on the backhand and the animation happens then it is instant desync for every 2 handed backhand i played against. That is very frustrating to face especially since it usually happens when the opponent is under pressure. Since this is an issue since the update, whether only the modded animations are affected or not it would be great if a solution is found since at the moment it leads to very frustrating outcomes.

[KINGBARBOZA]

Yes there is clearly an issue with modded running backhand animations and desyncs since the latest update.

[KINGBARBOZA]

I believe the sillytone/nard anims desync more than others.

Sillytone backhand anims all seem to have some sort of weird movement step which may be contributing to the issue?

[manutoo]

Dani21,
to pinpoint the issue, I should know if it comes from only some specific Modded anims, all Modded anims, or also the official ones.

The next time you get such a kind of desync, could you and your opponent send me a Bug Report ?

KINGBARBOZA,
movement steps within the anims shouldn't lead to desync.
Right now, I suspect a weird exportation frame rate (eg: 29.5 fps) or something like that. The length of the animation influences the gameplay, but how it actually looks doesn't.

[gifu]

I haven’t been able to send a bug report yet... but I experience desync close to 10 times in a single match.
It always happens when two-handed backhand slide animation bug occurs and turns into one-handed animation.

[manutoo]

Everybody,
thanks to gifu's description, I found the issue : it happens when switching from the sliding sliced backhand to the sliding regular backhand (which is currently all the time, coz of another bug ) ; in such a case, the anim default to the 1-handed backhand, even if your player is 2-handed ; as the 1-handed animation isn't loaded, the state may not be the same on both PCs and thus it desyncs.
Playing with 1-handed backhand should avoid the desyncs. And if both users switch to 1-hand backhand and back to 2-hand backhand for their 1st & 2nd player (in Training Club -> Character Sheet), it might prevent the desyncs as well.

I'll update the game as soon as the exhibition tournament is done (ie: when I know if we switch to 83% skill average for the Fair & Realistic modes).

There's no need to send me Bug Reports about this issue anymore.

[gifu]

thank you very much manu! )