TopSpin 2K25 Review - A Winning Return for the Series

[Steve_OS]

It's been 13 long years and two generations of consoles since Top Spin 4 was released...

Written By: Kevin Scott

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[icvu42]

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Nice review. I am tempted to get this game, but one thing that was mentioned is most tournaments start in the quarterfinal round. Is that just early on as you are developing, or do major tournaments (US Open) do the same? That would kind of stink if you are always in the quarterfinals of all the majors.

Rick

[Maxflier]

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The majors are still locked for me, but there did seem to be more rounds for those from what I saw.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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I'm in May, Year 1, and and see that the higher level events of that month (the ATP Masters 1000 events) have 4 rounds.

I looked at the months with majors, and see that the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open have 5 rounds.

[PhillyPhanatic14]

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Really excellent game. We've needed a game like this for a long time. Hopefully it performs well enough to get a sequel in a year or two and they'll rework the career calendar to allow for more tournaments per month and get rid of the dumb fatigue stuff.

[MiracleMet718]

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Really excellent game. We've needed a game like this for a long time. Hopefully it performs well enough to get a sequel in a year or two and they'll rework the career calendar to allow for more tournaments per month and get rid of the dumb fatigue stuff.

I personally like the fatigue aspect, I just wish they would change how it works and explain the Home and Trainer part better since that significantly helps keep stamina up. It’s a good way to make it somewhat realistic since you won’t play every tournament, but it’s just too overpowered.

If they tweak that, add some more real players and expand the tournaments to more rounds, I’d be happy.

[MrArlingtonBeach]

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If they tweak that, add some more real players and expand the tournaments to more rounds, I’d be happy.

Looks like the last patch added files that show that Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev are on the way at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Udayu-dVo

[bo_jax2000]

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Has anyone else had an issue with losing control of your player while serving? Seems to go into an automatic serve animation.

[bcruise]

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Has anyone else had an issue with losing control of your player while serving? Seems to go into an automatic serve animation.

Yeah, I have. Found out it was drift on my DualSense - just a bit that would push my analog sticks to extreme directions for just a split second. Unfortunately, when it happens on the right stick it can be enough to trigger an advanced serve.

I had it in both sticks, which was also causing my player to walk along the service line before a serve without me touching the left stick. Found out by starting up The Show and just messing around with the pitching cursor on in practice mode. I hadn't really noticed it prior to playing Topspin.

Fortunately, I have a spare controller which isn't doing it (yet). I don't really know much about fixing drift - or if you can. Best I can suggest is if it happens on the first serve and you fault (which will very likely happen if it's like what I had), pause and move the stick around a bit just to try to re-center it. Given the way tennis is scored, that first fault isn't going to hurt you too much if it only happens every so often - it's the double that you really don't want to have happening very often.

[MiracleMet718]

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Yeah, I have. Found out it was drift on my DualSense - just a bit that would push my analog sticks to extreme directions for just a split second. Unfortunately, when it happens on the right stick it can be enough to trigger an advanced serve.

I had it in both sticks, which was also causing my player to walk along the service line before a serve without me touching the left stick. Found out by starting up The Show and just messing around with the pitching cursor on in practice mode. I hadn't really noticed it prior to playing Topspin.

Fortunately, I have a spare controller which isn't doing it (yet). I don't really know much about fixing drift - or if you can. Best I can suggest is if it happens on the first serve and you fault (which will very likely happen if it's like what I had), pause and move the stick around a bit just to try to re-center it. Given the way tennis is scored, that first fault isn't going to hurt you too much if it only happens every so often - it's the double that you really don't want to have happening very often.

I notice that this happens on XBox too if you hold a button or the stick well before the serve takes place. The LS you can fix by holding it before the next serve, but I wasn’t able to fix the button push one and had to quit.

I only ran into it because I pressed A twice by accident after a point to get to the next screen/point and it just started automatically serving non-stop.

[Freakywwe]

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I notice that this happens on XBox too if you hold a button or the stick well before the serve takes place. The LS you can fix by holding it before the next serve, but I wasn’t able to fix the button push one and had to quit.

I only ran into it because I pressed A twice by accident after a point to get to the next screen/point and it just started automatically serving non-stop.

Yeah this has been happening to me too. I have some slight stick drift, but even pausing and resetting that doesn’t fix it. The only thing that’s worked has been pausing and turning my controller on and off

[bo_jax2000]

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After reading on the TopSpin Reddit, it’s a widespread issue with “forced faults”. They are working on a patch.

[bcruise]

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After reading on the TopSpin Reddit, it’s a widespread issue with “forced faults”. They are working on a patch.

Interesting. I can say for sure that drift is present for me because of the service line walk thing (and from seeing the feedback in The Show's pitching cursor). Can't say for 100% certain that it's the right drift triggering an advanced serve, but it seemed to be the logical conclusion. It's not buttons for me because I've let entire scenes play out pre-serve and it still triggered as soon as it went back to gameplay.

Wonder how they're going to fix it.

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[bo_jax2000]

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Interesting. I can say for sure that drift is present for me because of the service line walk thing (and from seeing the feedback in The Show's pitching cursor). Can't say for 100% certain that it's the right drift triggering an advanced serve, but it seemed to be the logical conclusion. It's not buttons for me because I've let entire scenes play out pre-serve and it still triggered as soon as it went back to gameplay.

Wonder how they're going to fix it.

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I didn’t have any problems until after the latest patch they released. I’m assuming something in that patch caused the fault issue. Stick drift can be the cause for some of us, but everyone shouldn’t be having the issue. I guess one thing they could do is revert back to a previous patch.

For Series X users, there is a recalibration option in the settings menu to offset stick drift. I don’t see any option on PS5