Mana Games

[Andynator7]

Hi Manu,

Congratulations on the 1.0 release and all the amazing progress on the game recently. The recent update led me to play the TEM2 mode in TE4. I thought of some minor suggestions after playing around with the custom strategies in the live 3d matches quite a bit.

The first thing is that it seems like it would be helpful to be able to have a strategy carry over from the end of one match to the next, or to be able to select a new default strategy before entering a match or tournament. Right now, I might have a strategy for my player on grass, for example, and I have to select it at the beginning of every single grass match i play in the same tournament or season. Because of this, I suffer the strategy change penalty and produce more errors at the beginning of every single match, which is unrealistic if I am playing with the exact same strategy across a number of back-to back matches in a tournament.

The second thing has to do with the option to favor hitting to the opponent's backhand or forehand in the "rally" section of the strategy menu. When playing with a character who comes into the net a lot, even a slight preference for hitting to the backhand seems to lead to the player hitting ridiculous volleys right to the opponent if he or she happens to be standing on the backhand side of the court, allowing them to easily pass the player when volleying to the open court would have produced an easy winner. Would it be possible to make the slider for the preference of attacking one side over the other only apply to rally balls and not volleys?

Thanks again for all your work on this amazing game.

[manutoo]

Hello,

1) Hum, this makes some sense, although it's not that unrealistic that if a strategy is so different from what the player naturally does, then there's a phase of adaptation at the start of each match, to tune it against his current opponent.
If not, then all strategy changes should likely be free at the start of each match, provided the player had the opportunity to practice sets before that match.
Anyway, right now, I'm super burn and I won't get into that. I note it down for a possible future update, though.

2) The FH/BH Aiming is already only applied to baseline strikes. The player will regularly badly aim their volleys, especially when they're not skilled volleyers.