New Top Spin 4 Balancing Update

[ronaldo9]

I'm seeing the benefits to the new patch - it's made Hard very competitive. I was killing everyone on Hard, so I didn't focus on getting XPs because I wanted to keep it as competitive as I could, then bumped up to Very Hard right around the time of the new patch and was getting murdered. Now, I'm back on Hard and mostly enjoying it, but since I don't really have many XPs and high ratings, I'm struggling in most matches but winning about half of them. It annoys me that the computer can hit angles I cannot, but whatever, it's mostly fun.

One area I have complaints about in the game is the overall career mode. I think starting off with crappy opponents got me into bad habits, then I started playing better ones and had to adjust. Then I was getting successful, and they changed the game up and made it harder. So it hasn't been a real level flow to my career - for good and bad.

Like I said earlier, I wasn't focused on getting too many XPs, so now I'm more or less screwed if I want to improve. Worse, because you have to overcome so many obstacles to be able to play Grand Slams, I ended up missing months at a time b/c I couldn't play them and didn't want to play any more minor tourneys. So, in the last 12 months, my ranking has plummeted from #10 to #36 even though I'm doing okay, I just didn't get any opportunities to win points for 4-5 months of the past 12. So now I'm stuck facing Federer or Nadal second round of every Grand Slam.

I'll get off my soapbox now. I find this game irritating as hell and fantastic all at once. It's giving me a fun, roller coaster career (fittingly, I created Gael Monfils), but I wonder at some point if I'll just snap and trade the game in out of frustration.

[Cras]

I think the game is great, I just can't serve. Or at least, the line judges seem to be on the take, because I swear I am nailing the line, and it looks like the hit right on the line and my opponent flys off the court to try and return it, but no, FAULT!! I finally understand McEnroe.

[oldman]

I need some help guys. I created a serve and volley CAP and reached level 20. Now that I am level 20, the first thing I want to do is create an offensive baseline CAP, how do I do that and have him be level 20? I know that once you have one player reach level 20, you can create another one and have them automatically become level 20, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. I tried creating a new guy, but he is level 0 and I can't see how to make him level 20.

An idea:

1. Does it matter if I create the new CAP within the Career mode or not? For example, from the main menu there is a creation zone, if I want a guy to automatically be level 20 instead of having to take him through the career mode to get there do I have to make him in the creation zone or does it matter?

Thanks for the help if anyone knows the answer!

[lVlAtlZiX]

When u go to CAP there is an option at the end to do a quick cap or something. Then u just go to him and put in ur points from there.

[oldman]

Quote: Originally Posted by lVlAtlZiX

When u go to CAP there is an option at the end to do a quick cap or something. Then u just go to him and put in ur points from there.

For some reason it is giving me no such option. I am not really sure were else to look.

[oldman]

Is the ability to make a quick CAP based on your main being level 20, or is it based on your main being maxed out as far as legend mode status in career mode?

[redbaron005]

This game is very frustrating now. Aces are virtually impossible to serve and I was barely able to get a few per match. Now its a miracle if I get just ONE! But the main problem I have is how HARD seems easy and I can beat every player I play (this is all offline), but just bumping it up to VERY HARD makes it impossible to play! Suddenly my timing is garbage, I hit errors left and right, and the CPU goes from hitting returnable shots in HARD to hitting angles and placements I BARELY have enough time to get to leaving the court wide open for a winner in VERY HARD.

I'm playing with Chang vs Wozniacki and if I focus and play hard, I can hold her to 0-1 points on HARD. On VERY HARD she hits shots that land just over the net, hits slices that land right on my toes and also come at me FAST so i cant get a good shot back, and is just generally a totally different player! How can that be? How can they go from beatable 10 out of 10 times to be beatable 1 out of 10 times with just one step up?! It's bull crap!

I like playing because I can win but I hate the zero challenge. But going up just one level makes it impossible to win so where's the fun now? Gone, that's where!

[zoguloth22]

Quote: Originally Posted by oldman

I need some help guys. I created a serve and volley CAP and reached level 20. Now that I am level 20, the first thing I want to do is create an offensive baseline CAP, how do I do that and have him be level 20? I know that once you have one player reach level 20, you can create another one and have them automatically become level 20, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. I tried creating a new guy, but he is level 0 and I can't see how to make him level 20. An idea: 1. Does it matter if I create the new CAP within the Career mode or not? For example, from the main menu there is a creation zone, if I want a guy to automatically be level 20 instead of having to take him through the career mode to get there do I have to make him in the creation zone or does it matter? Thanks for the help if anyone knows the answer!

Once you have a lvl 20 created player,you need to youse that player in a quick match agianst a cpu player. after you finish that match youl unlock the thing that lets you creat lvl 20 players. when you creat a new player a option will pop up asking if you want the 50k exp. if you select yes when you go to my player you can put points where you want them.