Tennis Elbow 2011 Mods

[DRII]

Ok thanks djarvik...

what about the serve? do you just hold the button down through the entire motion? Does the timing depend on when you move the joystick or dpad to aim the serve?

it seems like my serve speed varies wildly and I hold the button down the same amount of time for each serve...

[djarvik]

OK, here is how serve works:

Holding "down" will ad a kick to it, holding "down" "up" will add slice.


Start holding the shot button and keep holding through the whole animation, until after the serve is made. You can keep holding "up" or "down" all the time to add the desired spin. The sooner you start holding it the more spin the serve will have. You hold "up" or "down" also all the way through the serve. Or you can choose a rather flat serve without adding spins.

Now for placement. You need to slightly press and hold for a split second the desired direction - "left" or "right". You should do that after the toss, timing varies with each player, but sometime after the toss there is a sweat spot.

Example, for a kick serve: Hold shot button and then press down, wait till the player toss, press and release direction (left-right). Keep holding shot+down until the serve is complete.

[DRII]

Originally Posted by djarvik

OK, here is how serve works:

Holding "down" will ad a kick to it, holding "down" "up" will add slice.


Start holding the shot button and keep holding through the whole animation, until after the serve is made. You can keep holding "up" or "down" all the time to add the desired spin. The sooner you start holding it the more spin the serve will have. You hold "up" or "down" also all the way through the serve. Or you can choose a rather flat serve without adding spins.

Now for placement. You need to slightly press and hold for a split second the desired direction - "left" or "right". You should do that after the toss, timing varies with each player, but sometime after the toss there is a sweat spot.

Example, for a kick serve: Hold shot button and then press down, wait till the player toss, press and release direction (left-right). Keep holding shot+down until the serve is complete.

Played my first match and got spanked!

Whats the return of serve secret technique?

[Hood_Man]

Ive been looking at their forum, check out the scoreline of this match

http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-8080.php

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by Hood_Man

Ive been looking at their forum, check out the scoreline of this match

http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-8080.php

HOLY JESUS!! these people have a lot of patience

[Hood_Man]

Originally Posted by RF20Lennon

HOLY JESUS!! these people have a lot of patience

I've just seen the second page, one guy played it for 5 hours 42 minutes! I'd love to know how long these would be if they turned on the simulated match time option! Isner/Mahut times no doubt

[EDIT]

14 hours 41 minutes apparently. Federer and Murray would be on life support if they did that in real life.

[RF20Lennon]

Originally Posted by Hood_Man

I've just seen the second page, one guy played it for 5 hours 42 minutes! I'd love to know how long these would be if they turned on the simulated match time option! Isner/Mahut times no doubt

WOW!!! These people have a lot of free time!!!

[djarvik]

Originally Posted by DRII

Played my first match and got spanked!

Whats the return of serve secret technique?

Its the hardest thing to learn, I am for from being good at it. The most common technique is to press any shot button when your opponent tosses the ball. Hold that button until the opponent makes contact on the serve, then release and move to the ball. What that does is trigger the Auto-positioning system within the game, it will make your player take half a step to the right direction. Then you release the button and move him the rest of the way.

Positioning is VERY important. You need to know if your opponent is lefty or righty, to anticipate the spin (slice) and compensate with a small step to that side.

Another thing is that because of Serving being so sensitive, it leads to a lot of people having "favorite" serves, or rather spots they can hit better then other spots. After a few games you will see exactly what serves your opponent is adapt to hitting best. You can then cover a bit more for these.

It seems out of this world hard, and that is why we reduced Serving stats in ITST mod. They are really low and may even have to be lower.

[Hood_Man]

I suck at this game

I'm playing on Junior difficulty and my win loss record is something like 2 wins and 7 losses. Those two wins were quite dominant and I'm getting better, but I had to stop the other day after I managed to fight through to a tiebreak, come back from a mini break down 3 times, and then got beaten with an ace.

It was to frustrating to continue after that.

I don't even want to imagine what the harder difficulties are like!

[paulorenzo]

i've never bought the game, but i've been playing the demos since the 2004 iteration. i'm playing TE2013 demo, and the animations look alot better than last year's. with TE2012, they only provided the most stiff looking, club player stroke animations for your player, while the opponent hit reverse forehands regularly.

[paulorenzo]

truer to life player animations than the Top Spin and Grand Slam series on consoles, thats for sure. infinitely more enjoyable than Grand Slam Tennis 2. the animators/ developers must play and follow tennis.

to think how great a game they would make if they had EA or 2K backing them financially.

[djarvik]

Thought I'd drop a line and update

We have come a long way with our own patch at ITST. We have now nearly all animations for our 36 Pro players and tons of courts. We have balanced the game-play greatly, between the court physics and players stats, it feel really good now. We have also made an Installer for the patch, so for less computer-savvy out there, it is now as easy as clicking "next" a few times.

Anyway, if you are into this type of Gaming, this is likely the best SIM out there at the moment.

[HughJars]

Do you need a quick computer to play this game? Could it run on your regular everyday laptop?

[djarvik]

Originally Posted by HughJars

Do you need a quick computer to play this game? Could it run on your regular everyday laptop?

Absolutely. The game runs just fine on older computers or laptops. Demo is free, so you can download and check it out. But keep in mind, without the patch it will look rather blunt.

[HughJars]

Just got the game and it seems really good so far. I downloaded the patch on ITST and all the courts are on their, however I can't seem to access the pros when in the warm up or training match modes. Any suggestions at all? Thanks for your help.

[djarvik]

Make sure you load the ITST Profile as described here:

http://www.intertopspintour.net/foru...=16709#p228349

Look for "4. Launch the game...."

Once the profile is loaded all the players should be available in the warm up. Let me know if this works/doesn't.

[HughJars]

Thanks for the tips! All is working well now.

However, the career mode is broken, which is something I really want to use. Ive read up about Sam's patch, but the links to download them are just advertisment riddled websites with no obvious place to download the .rar file.

http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic29-6125.php


Do you possibly know of a site where I can download it instead of trying to sort through all the spam?

Thanks

[djarvik]

I just tried to download it - what a mess! Can't figure out what to do there. Maybe post in his thread and ask for his help. Not sure why he uploaded it there.

[HughJars]

Wicked, just came across how to turn 2D courts on - they look awesome!

Great game to play. My only gripe is that serves are too ineffective against the AI. Holding serve is way too hard. And vice versa, breaking serve against the AI is too easy.

[djarvik]

Originally Posted by HughJars

Wicked, just came across how to turn 2D courts on - they look awesome!

Great game to play. My only gripe is that serves are too ineffective against the AI. Holding serve is way too hard. And vice versa, breaking serve against the AI is too easy.

That's why I prefer online play. It is way funner to play against a real person. So many factors at play that AI simply does not simulate well.