The game has finally become really good, it’s nice to see how hard you are working to improve the game patch after patch, but obviously the game can be better, by far.
After playing hours on this game on the last patch, i noticed some important issues/bug you need to fix !
Sorry for my english.
I tried double, things has been fixed to be playable, but you can’t aim Doubles’ tramline !
For this reason, rallies are so long… please fix it !
AI moving when you change the type of service kills immersion, and makes service variation useless, you really need to improve AI on that, please !
Lobs are impossible to succeed when you are in the court (middle), the ball will (almost?) always be outside the court, it has to be fixed.
Loops have the same problem, and i don’t know why, sometimes the ball will still be outside the court if you hit behind the baseline… why?
We need to make service/return more high risk high reward. Too easy to succeed 1st serve, even easier to return… does it depend of time reaction? Maybe sliders can be good to adapt to players struggling or not on this part of the game, or maybe the changes has to be deeper.
I hope devs will read my post so you can fix these issues and improve the game.
Hello Big Ant, I’m a former avid player of AO1 and AO2. Here are the things, in my opinion, that you should improve in the gameplay. First off, the graphics are great, well done ! But in terms of gameplay, there are still things to improve.
Sliced shots crash into the ground way too much. From the baseline, it’s almost impossible to return a short sliced shot, even when running fast. And many players exploit this flaw…
It seems impossible to return a perfect serve hit into the corner, even when well-positioned and moving back. It always ends in an ace, which shouldn’t happen with every perfect serve…
The ‘special shots’ (with RB) often feel pretty useless and complicate the gameplay. And I think this unfortunately has the negative effect of driving away some players…
The aiming target for shots has disappeared in Tiebreak. I find that a shame because this concept really added fun to AO1 and AO2.
That said, it must be acknowledged that the gameplay has improved in some aspects compared to AO2: faster and more realistic shots, great flat shots (which were zero in the previous games).
So, in my opinion, you’ve improved some things but also made some things worse, so my assessment of the gameplay evolution is mixed, with both positives and negatives.
Yes you are right “special shots” aren’t as bad, especially for flat shots, I use them too… but special lifts are overdone, not realistic as special slices…
Also in the module of characters’ creation, a bad point is that we can’t adjust their age, they all look like teenagers ! (contrarily to AO2)
And also there’s a huge bug in the online mode when choosing for the service. If we decide to serve, it’s the opponent who ends up serving, and vice versa… It’s unacceptable that the developers still haven’t fixed this bug !!
But no, my point wasn’t about that. I talked about before playing when the referee draws lot. If we win the draw and for exemple decide to serve first then this is the opponent who will serve first (there is an inversion). Or perhaps this inversion appears only in the french version (i’m french) ?? Don’t you have this problem too ?
Also, regarding the Hawk-Eye, i don’t arrive to trigger it… I press RT+LT but it never triggers… Do you have this problem too ??
Hi Big Ant! I love your game, and it’s my favorite tennis game of all time. I noticed Siniakova plays left-handed in the current patch, but she’s actually right-handed. Also, Andreeva’s pink kit seems to be missing in the new update.
Hello! Allow me to help. I don’t know about the serve bug, but I can help you on the Hawk-Eye. You must set your match/tournament/career mode setting to switch the Challenge option from Electronic to Human. If that does not work, I think it’s a bug. I hope this helps.
Bonjour ! Je peux vous aider. Je ne sais pas pour le bug du service, mais je peux vous aider avec le Hawk-Eye. Vous devez configurer votre mode match/tournoi/carrière pour passer de l’option Défi électronique à l’option Défi humain. Si cela ne fonctionne pas, je pense qu’il s’agit d’un bug. J’espère que cela vous aidera.
(contrarily to AO2)
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so can we configurate this also in online mode ? Not sure… ?