Auto positioning simpler concept

[BrushedBigJJ]

There are two types of movement in top spin 4:
1. Moving your player while the ball is traveling from your side to your opponent's side.(away from you)
2. Moving your player while the ball is traveling from your opponent's side to your side.(toward you)

The players in topspin 4 can be doing one or the other of these two things:
1. "Free movement" which means you can move wherever you want like you can before returning serve.
2. "Locked onto the ball" which means he/she moves directly toward the ball or where you need to be after the ball bounces on your side.

The players movement is fastest after locked on to the ball, much faster.

When your opponent is about to hit the ball you want the player to lock on to the ball as soon as possible. You do this by pointing the dpad/analog directly at the ball when ur opponent is hitting the ball or just before they hit the ball. So you want your player to lock on to the ball on their side of the net. If they are hitting from the left point the dpad/analog up and left. If they are hitting from the right press up and right on dpad analog. Straight up if they are hitting from the middle. After locked on then point where you need to be to hit the ball.

Sequence of controller steps

1. Hold the Dpad/analog to get in the best position(this is free movement),
2. Briefly let go so you aren't pressing any direction, (this ensures free movement turns off)
3. Point in the direction of the ball as your opponent hits the ball (this locks the player to move toward the ball)
4. Point in the direction where you need to be to hit the ball, out of the air, or after the bounce.


These are the difficulties of doing this:
1. You have to pay attention to when your opponent hits the ball,
2. If you hold up too long your player will move into the court,
3. And most difficult you must balance moving back into position so your opponent doesn't have an open court with making sure you point at the ball when your opponent is hitting, it's hard to do both.


Hint: you can point at the ball as right before your opponent hits their serve.

[Agassi_Return]

The problem with autopositioning it only works against noobs cause they play a lot short shots. So your player runs forward and you can build a pressure on your opp.
But against good guys it is a huge disadvantage cause they play wide court shots and if your player steps forward you do not have the best position to hit a good control shot. Which leads to weak control shot and losing control over your opponent.

[Tamthewasp]

TBH it's not auto positioning if you have to press buttons for it to work. I feel you don't fully understand what AUTO means

[Ali-Iqb93]

I think brushedbigjj is ary1g

Haven't read all of this concept yet but I think the movement is certainly better if you don't prepress the buttons.. In simple words footwork is more vulnerable when you're looking to hit a power shot because you prepress and there are more chances of you getting wrongfooted.. On the other hand movement with control shots is easy as you're free to move with simple Button tapping

[BrushedBigJJ]

The problem with autopositioning it only works against noobs cause they play a lot short shots. So your player runs forward and you can build a pressure on your opp.
But against good guys it is a huge disadvantage cause they play wide court shots and if your player steps forward you do not have the best position to hit a good control shot. Which leads to weak control shot and losing control over your opponent.

Everyone who try's this will have the player run up when they don't want the to. It takes practice. Lag affects this try pressing up earlier before the shot until the player stops running into the court. It is still happens to me. I lose 90% of the points when it happens. When someone hits a cross court you have to hit a good shot back whether you use auto positioning or not.

I think brushedbigjj is ary1g

Haven't read all of this concept yet but I think the movement is certainly better if you don't prepress the buttons.. In simple words footwork is more vulnerable when you're looking to hit a power shot because you prepress and there are more chances of you getting wrongfooted.. On the other hand movement with control shots is easy as you're free to move with simple Button tapping

I think that first part is a compliment
If it was an insult...watch yo back

Second part, you are 100% right. That's one of the reasons power shots were weakened. The first part of my other post explains all the reasons. But that wrong footedness goes away when using power shots when the auto position kicks in. It remains to be seen whether power players will equalize with control shot players.

[JohnCurveo]

Brushed, u write too much, i didnt read anything of this.

Can u resume these things in a few words? With this i will be able to beat everyone and be n1?

[Daxter1975]

Can anyone explain me the Auto Positioning System in German please?