100% agree, the slice shot is not good at all. Maybe devs needs to fully rebuild it.
I will give a new personnal review here, hope devs can see it.
(I’m french, sorry if there is some mistakes, I’m doing my best ahah).
To be honest, Top Spin gameplay is better, that’s obvious. At least for now. More natural, more balanced. But I’m enjoying the game.
I’m feeling more long-term potential for Tie Break. Potentially, more depthness. Updates are good, and this is better everytime.
+++ : Signature shot. On this point, really, that’s excellent. A lot of custom animations, and variety. Ruud, Swiatek, Medvedev, etc etc… Well well done. And, if we are talking once again about Top Spin, there is not match. Top Spin is so disappointing about that. And I’m sure we will see more to come from you (in creator player, we can see some custom animation like Federer & Nadal…).
++ : Venues. That’s great, and we don’t have everything for now. You are talking about all ATP 250/500/1000, I’m looking forward about it, especially for career mode.
: Ball physic. Good, except slice and drop shot, like I said just before…
: Global gameplay. Timing, variety, power shot, … So much potential. That’s just okay for now…
: … Because we need some major improvment. Slice, already said. Ball physic, animation, trajectory… Everything is weak.
// Player movement is better than day one of early access. But I’m sure something better is possible. More natural. For example, when player is sliding, that’s not natural. Looks like it’s a bad mechanic of the game, or something too much… Like I said, this is not natural. And it’s so annoying because custom shot animation is so great.
// IA volley, that’s pretty broken, some stupid shot by the IA.
// Sometimes, game can be something like crazy, everything starts to be so fast, especially at the net.
// The net… There is too much net (or let, take what you want ahah). This is better than day one, because day one, what a nightmare lmao. At least 1 net by game. That’s annoying.
// You already said that you are working on the serve, so I will not talk about that, because I’m waiting for the new mechanic.
: Player attitude. I know that you took some assets from AO1/AO2/TWT. But we can see a huge difference between great custom animation and player reaction. Custom animation is new, and it’s a very good work. But player reaction, at 99%, it’s build from AO1/AO2/TWT, and well… That’s not good. This is not natural, not realistic. Top Spin is good for that, for example. After every point, player is walking, or looking at the sky, with no emotion, no natural feeling… I know there is up button and down button choice, but maybe you can add some automatic reaction (and after let the choice to player, but I’m not really sure if it’s used a lot by community…), because for now, this is very strange to see (for example, I lost a match again Murray, and at the end of the match, Murray was waiting, just like that, no joy, no happiness, and same for my player, just… waiting…).
Neutral : Adrenalin thing. Looks like cards from TWT but come on… We don’t need that on an official WTA/ATP game. Maybe you can add some funny game mode with that adrenalin thing, but not during classic game. At least, give us the choice to not have it.
Come on Big Ant, you can do something great! Right now, I’m playing Top Spin and Tie Break. And like I said, in long term, your game could be so much better. Huge potentia
