TENNIS WORLD TOUR (2018)

[Cro Morgan]

Not exactly hot off the press (posted in December) but worth a read if you haven't read it already...

PlayStation Blog

All sounds promising, especially the PAM (TS1) mention.

[Cro Morgan]

--> LINK <--

[Eddi]

Do we start a new competition with World Tour Tennis on ITST?

[isaldor]

We're gonna wait for the game to release then we'll see from there.

[Fez]

Watched the latest vids. Whats the deal with both AO tennis and WTT, the long long rallies? Seems like ball is so slow and everyball is reached. Movement physics just seem awful to me.

Tennis elbow, I fear, will remain the superior game in this way for a long time. Yes, TE has long long rallies, but only when both players have mastered the game. These 2 games bring the long rallies right away, some footage showing monfils in sudden unrealistic bursts of speed to reach a ball. Grotesque.

[Cro Morgan]

It's far too early to pass judgment, and don't forget, this game is being made by essentially the TS4 team, so I doubt very much that the final game play will be as it appears in the early vids.

That's what I pray for every night anyway.

[Hillman]

TWT is now announced on steam. also confirms existence of skill
cards.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/69203 ... orld_Tour/


edit:
also i found a 'legendary' edition being available, offering Agassi and McEnroe as playable character as well as 5 exclusive skill cards. which makes it almost certain that their will be in game purchases available and the online mode being a p2w mode

[Cro Morgan]

Not that anyone at the ITST cares all that much about career mode, but it is a new TWT video.

Beggars can't be choosers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIATbsnQtM

[Hillman]

i will have the opportunity to play the game tomorrow. i also might speak to a dev. i will let you know my impression after that.

also if you pass me your questions until tonight i might get them answered for you from the dev as well...

[Cro Morgan]

i will have the opportunity to play the game tomorrow. i also might speak to a dev. i will let you know my impression after that.

also if you pass me your questions until tonight i might get them answered for you from the dev as well...

How so? Are you in the gaming business? Some event near your home?

Just curious.

[Cro Morgan]

Odd that the cover image is of an unshaven Federer. How many times have you seen Federer playing with scruff? Not many.

Federer must have approved the image, so maybe he's going for a new look - something for the ladies (probably tiring of Mirka and the four brats).

[Cro Morgan]

TWT website now online...

https://tennisworldtourgame.com/

[djarvik]

Ready we must.

[djarvik]

i will have the opportunity to play the game tomorrow. i also might speak to a dev. i will let you know my impression after that.

also if you pass me your questions until tonight i might get them answered for you from the dev as well...

Did you have the opportunity to play? Can you offer some feedback? Risk shots?

Also, if you have a way to communicate with a developer - let me know. We would like to establish some sort of contact with them for marketing and game support. I am sure they will be open for this.

Thanks!!

[Hillman]

Some event near your home?

this. there was a promo tournament with TWT during the BMW Open in Munich. i signed up by mail writing that i won some tournament from a big german eSport site some years ago and got an invitation. it was a tournament with 32 entries. i won both of my 2 matches and qualified for the final rounds which will take place this Friday. it is pretty cool because the ATP tournament is taking place in the same site and we had atp players like monfils and zverev walking by several times and will as well get to see them play on friday.

i'm not sure about the gameplay yet. at first if felt pretty smooth but than it got rather frustrating because too often the player didn't react the way i wanted him to do. this could either be on me having not figured out the controls right yet or it could just be that the game doesn't have enough animations.

there is 5 shots in total (flat shot, topspin, slice, lob, drop shot) and a sprint button. there doesn't seem to be any trigger to activate some kind of 'risk' shot. it's just about how much power you give to the shots. the longer you press a button the more powerful your shot gets. but if you give too much power the chance of the shot being too long or going into the net gets higher as well.
so it was pretty much between balancing the power right. if you played to weak your opponent will get in a better field position.but if you play to strong you will risk an unforced error. sometimes the full court was open but i did just slightly overpower my shot so the winner went far behind the baseline. so next time i played it weaker resulting in my opponent reaching the ball...
slice seems to be super weak at the moment and serving was ultra strong (1-2 aces per game). but we played a beta version of the game so they might balance that in the full version.

so far it sounds pretty promising but as i said before in too many times my player produced an error or didn't place the ball well even though i did the exact same thing like 3 times before. seems like there is something more in the game that determines whether your shot becomes good or not. all in all moving towards the ball seems to be pretty important. this is was the guy from big ben told me as well. but i didn't figure out how to do it right yet. especially as the players is moving automatically to the shot once you selected a shot bottom.


i will try to introduce ITST to the guy from big ben on friday as well. maybe they are interested in any kind of cooperation.



EDIT:

i can share some more information that i have from little 'tips' during the loading screen:

- shots will become weaker and less accurate if you hit them from 'no man's land'.
- there will be new balls after every 6 or 7 games (don't remember) which will effect the serve for one game.
- your shot will be less accurate if you have to sprint towards the ball or hit it while moving.