Actually made the decisicion to buy topspin 2k25, cause it was half price………yeah not worth 60 bucks.
Topspin does have little things that if tiebreak does it would be great.
Played a few matches on topspin and had to take time to adjust to their timing mechanic. Getting so used to timing up my shots as early as possible if I did that in topspin I would never have a ‘perfect’ or at least a ‘good’ timing shot……while it didn’t punish me the way I wanted (most shots were just loopy garbage) tiebreak would do well to having a more harsh timing mechanic in play.
I did not notice any animation lock onto the ball with topspin which I would hope tiebreak will address soon, those little bits of teleportation animation into the stroke is off putting and that also exposes an issue where it seems like the player can’t be punished if they are scrambling and off balanced in getting a ball…………in topspin I was able to overrun and mis-position my player and get punished for it…….lost the point but made me think to adjust.
Serving and having an aiming reticle and a getting punished for Mistiming the release is one thing topspin does better I think. Tiebreaks serving has ZERO benefit……which is a shame
Finally Playing topspin made me realised how good the speed of play in tiebreak is………no one likes playing in slow motion……as long as the hand holding to turned off or at least give us the option to, tiebreak will be better for it
One more thing big ant, would be really good for you guys to incorporate some of the mechanics from cricket24 and previous iterations. Confidence is one thing I hope will become a thing in the future, will be a big gameplay change especially if a player has low confidence which should make the player adjust how they play and vice versa.