GamePatchNote Digest
Tennis World Tour Patch Notes — October 29, 2018
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
Features
Added Online modes:
- Quickmatch 1 vs 1
- Season mode: ranked matches 1 vs 1 with global leaderboards (split into 6 leagues) using ELO rankings.
- Play with friends: create your own private 1 vs 1 game and invite an online friend.
Career
- Increasing XP gains for winning tournaments in Career mode.
AI
- Improved and diversified AI “move to net” strategies.
Data protection
- Added a dedicated option for changing private data protection settings without having to erase other game save data.
Bug fixes
- Fixed the bug affecting the coach and agent menu, that sometimes prevent from scrolling properly.
- Fixed the rebound indicator which did not appear on a few venues.
- Fixed a case where the player (or AI) would stop running to a drop shot even though there was enough time to catch it.
- Fixed a case where the player (or AI) would miss a ball that even though there existed a (complex) way to run and hit that shot.
- Fixed a case where the player (or AI) would not run to the best spot to hit the ball, running instead at a quite opposite direction.
- Fixed a case where the player (or AI) would start running automatically to a corner of the court when returning a serve.
- Fixed a crash when exiting an Exhibition match with Agassi or McEnroe.
- Fixed the manual Inside out button that did not work.
- Fixed set, match and tournament duration displayed in the interfaces.
- Most frequently encountered crashes fixed.
- Fixed a crash occurring when playing with a friend and with 2 custom characters.
- Fixed a crash occurring when switching rapidly through custom characters in « Play with friends » mode.
- Fixed the XP gained in online matches which was not correctly retained.
- Fixed the description of unlocking requirements for skills that are linked to a particular event: the unlock condition was displaying the wrong events.
- Fixed the display of spaces inside first names and last names.
- Fixed the missing display of drop shot and sprint buttons in the Tennis School lessons.
- Fixed a bug that would affect lobs by applying the same charge as the previous shot instead of taking into account the new charge.
- Fixed Dubai’s court limits which were slightly off, causing balls to be called out when they were, in fact, touching the lines.
- Changed a text in the Volley training to better describe the way to use the “Volley preference” button.
- Fixed a graphical glitch in the Skill menu on locked skill slots.
- Stamina gauges have been hidden at the end of the match during cutscenes.
- Fixed a bug that was allowing players to move during the fade out screen after a fault on the first serve, thus sticking the game in an undefined state.
- Fixed the displayed match duration when forfeiting in a tournament and when pausing the game.
- Fixed First serve and Unforced errors stats displayed.
- Crowd no longer applauds during serves.
- Fixed the keyboard input displayed in the Tennis school for drop shots (user must be holding « Space » and not « Ctrl »).
Gameplay
- Reduced the gap between the racket and the ball.
- Improved consistency between hit animations and the ball speed.
- The preparation of serve can now be interrupted after 2sec.
- Added a crowd reaction when players hit trick shots (shots between the legs, etc.)
Graphics
- Crowd models have been improved graphically.
- Added more venue-specific outfits for staff members around the court.
- Toned down the green of grass surfaces, making the ball more visible.
- Increased the shadow of the ball in London’s stadium.
- Added FX on clay courts on the ball’s rebound.
Audio
- Reduced the frequency of some audio commentaries.
- “Fault” spoken by the line judges instead of the umpire.