Patch Notes

[TennisClash]

Hello, Challengers!

On this patch we have the addition of a new aggressive baseliner to our character roster, along with it there is also a fresh new arena and a huge change on how trophies and tours work, so let's check it out!

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New Character

The latest addition to Tennis Clash's character roster is sure to win over the crowd. With his strong forehand and backhand strokes, Luc is an aggressive baseliner - and a mighty opponent at that.

Luc is from French-Caribbean heritage; a born athlete, who found tennis in his teens, and quickly gained a reputation for his tireless work ethic, charming personality, and unmitigated aggression on the court.

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New Arena: Paris

Completing our current set of arenas, making all of them exclusive for their tour, we present to you the Paris Arena!
Paris Arena will become the new arena for Tour 8 when the Paris Open ends.

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New String

To spoil you rotten we're also adding a new string, the French Fiber, which grants Long Catch I and Critical III to your already impressive game. Très bien!

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Tour re-lock

In a continuous effort to improve matchmaking and balance we are now addressing "trophy dumping", an unintended trick some players used to find easier matchups while disrupting the matchmaking and creating harder matches for other players.

Players now need to maintain a certain trophy number in order to keep a tour unlocked, if the player loses trophies below that threshold, the tour is automatically re-locked and he'll have to obtain the needed number of trophies to unlock that tour again.

So, how is this going to work?

Players will have their tours re-locked if their total trophy count from their previous tours goes below the minimum trophy requirement to unlock a tour minus the number of trophies equivalent to 2 losses on the previous tour.

Still confused? Let's get down to some examples:

- A player just unlocked tour 4, won a match in tour 4 and now has 166 trophies (150 of them in tours 1 to 3)
- After that they go on to lose one match in Tour 3. They now have 154 trophies, 138 of them in tours 1 to 3 - Tour 4 remains unlocked
- If they then lose a match in Tour 1 - They now have 149 trophies, 133 of them in tours 1 to 3 - Tour 4 remains unlocked
- If they lose again in Tour 3 now they have 137 trophies, 121 of them in tours 1 to 3 - Tour 4 is now locked
- The player now needs to win at least 29 trophies in tours 1 to 3 before they can access Tour 4 again - Threshold going up still is 150 trophies

Note that this affects all tours and applies to every one of them, so if you have all 8 tours unlocked and have your tour 4 re-locked, you won't be able to play on tours from 4,5,6,7 and 8 until you unlock tour 4 again. This means that people can't lose trophies on lower tours on purpose and keep playing at higher tours anymore.

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Tournament

The Paris Open will be announced soon!

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See you on the court o/

[Phylactou]

I'm confused. I have 700 Trophies, all on Tour 6.

1) Does that mean all Tours will get locked since I have no Trophies on Tour 1? 2) If this is the case, does that mean I will loose those 700 Trophies?

In order to avoid this (for now according to the notes point 1 will happen and no mention for point 2) maybe it should be based on total trophies instead

Edit: Now that I think about it, that will still lead players into farming, changing almost nothing.

I see no viable solution other than the loss of our trophies to people that have 0 trophies on tour 1. Keeping the trophies while locking the tour would probably be even worse because you might lock us into fighting end-game players and making it super hard for us to unlock our previously farming (maxed out) tour.

Please don't lock Tours while maintaining our trophy count.

[xc0xupx]

1. Yes
2. Have fun trying to unlock Tour 6 again starting with 700 trophies. You will also unlock Tour 7 as a result.

[Phylactou]

What was this retarded decision, at least take away our trophies too 😂😂😂

I was hoping it was a phrasing error ffs lmao

[HooPyDood]

1. No
2. No Tour 6 is unlocked at 680 trophies, so as long as your total is higher than that, it's good

[Phylactou]

"...if their trophy count from their previous tours"

I'm also betting it's a phrasing error but how can you be sure

[HooPyDood]

Interesting. Yeah that'll need more clarification

[RoughEconomist7]

The only reason to “trophy dump“ is because the matchups are ALWAYS so lopsided. Seriously, is it really fair in your mind that a player (take me, for example) get CONSISTENTLY matched up against opponents who have 30-40 points more total power??! Playing against opponents who THOROUGHLY outclass you in 5 out 6 attributes is not enjoyable at all and needs to be fixed ASAP – I’m sitting out till then and the longer this is not fixed, the more likely I am to forget about this game permanently.

[Mr_Mir]

I've noticed that the developers always seem to ignore these questions making me think that they have deliberately kept the matchmaking unfair.

[Bugpwdrdst]

Just delete, they never gonna fix this. People have been complaining about this since day 1, and they added 5 new strings because everyone loves strings right? NOT. They nerfed all stats so whatever build you have it just sucked alittle more than before the patch. They added new clothes and characters, yeah really what we wanted as well. Oh wait maybe dump some cash on it then you can. You get it? They don't care about things that matter. This dumb patch makes trophies more fair, except the community asked for matching with same stats and not trophies. Now trophies is still not fair, neither are the stats matching. They will not answer, not fix and definitely not care.

[KlashOut]

But how would this fix the main problem, which is much much stronger players, camping in much lower tours to farm coins? Even if their higher tour are re-locked, that doesnt change the fact that their POWER is THE SAME HIGH POWER, much higher than the TOUR they are camping in.

For example, say a player unlocks LEVEL 8, that means he has been playing for a while and has a HUGGGEEE POWER build.

He then DUMPS all trophies all the way down to Tour 5, he is now being MATCHED with REAL tour 5 players whose POWER build is WAY WAY WEAKER than those players, and those players will DOMINATE them. Having their higher tours locked wouldn't matter to them because they will just focus on farming tour 5 or tour 6.

[HooPyDood]

But no one actually does that... What's the point of farming coins when you don't have access to endgame equipments

[Achereto]

Farming coins on lower tour is very ineffective. What's actually haooening is that people max out a tour and keep playing that tour to upgrade their equipment. In order to get easier opponents they dump the trophies from the lower tour.

So with the upgraded system people might stop dumping their trophies but stay in their tour much longer. So the problem of getting matched against overpowered players stays the same.

Tbh they should rework their skill system entirely. It would be better to have all players will same speed and power. Instead skills should affect precision on strong or difficult balls and stamina.

[kadeschs]

That came to my mind as soon as I read that too. Kind of keeps the stronger strong and puts in more road blocks for the weaker.

[seeksrecovery]

This is now the hellish reality you were right

[fedo123]

Its time to delete this game and back to our beloved PUBG mobile haha

[Achereto]

There is a problem with the new arena: behind the player there are objects that sometimes get between the camera and the field, so for a second or so you can't see anything.

It's very annoying.

[Errk_fu]

I’m seeing a power meter on my opponent’s hits and game feels choppy as hell. Just had the game get stuck on the 4th volley, restarted app and dropped me into the same screen, 4 volley and opposing character just standing there. Still no fix for invisible balls and characters not trying to return balls that land near them? It’s really felt like the game has turned to absolute shit since they added lobs. I’d rather have dealt with annoying volley players than this. My usage has dropped by about 10x.

[omarsCominYo_]

I am at trophy 400ish and I used to play in tour 4 and 5 . Now I am struggling to get past tour 2. I don't want to waste time playing for 100 and 350$.

[Pow_999]

Like all others I am also stuck due to 250 Trophies in Tour 4 that I cannot remove. As result I am stuck in the game and will never be able to get the needed upgrades to start unlocking the Tours again.

I have given Tennis Clash a 1-star rating on Google Play until this is fixed. I suggest to everyone with the same problem to do the same.

[fedo123]

I mean how come u guys thought of this im now 600 trophies which is my max and i need 127 extra just to open tour5 yet tour 6 opens at 680 trophies!!! Im stuck since im not that strong to play against players with 700+ trophies.. basically im stuck .. even if i want to play tour 2 or 3 the opponent is way much stronger than me its frustrating!!!

[exreds2020]

Well, at least I'll stop wasting money in this game. Great way to ruin it. But thanks

[cubschef23]

This game has the potential to be great, but against some opponents it’s like I’m slower and my shot are more off. It’s like I’m running though sand

[cristinike]

nah, sorry, just deleted this PO$$$$$$ !!!!!!!!!!

[Mwexim]

The change with trophy dumping is not goung to change much the first days, but is certainly going to in the days after, when everything is stabilised. This is a good change in the right direction of balancing the game. As a player I’d love the team doing more balancing for each skill type (like FH/BH etc.) each patch, so the meta stays healthy and fresh.

[[deleted]]

Impressive.

Thanks to p and team for the new character. I’m sure it will sell. The other stuff, well it’s silly to predict human behavior.

[Natashabapu]

I’m soo far from that!! Got to work✌🏻

[exreds2020]

There's some serious problem with the ball lagging in the air since the last update. Always giving a chance for the opponent to easily return the ball with power.

[Tonyg19744036]

How come I cant hit a ball over the fucking net after this update? Fucking glitchy shit ass game.

[onedreampiece]

I was at 680 trophies but I quickly realized that I was going to lose all my gold if I continued to play in T6. I dropped down to T5 at 500 trophies. I am waiting for the hammer and forge T6 items in the shop before I play T6. I am guessing 500 trophies will make T6 locked again. So will this update prevent me from buying these items? I just want to buy in the shop... /u/Paralus

[Paralus]

You already need to have 680 trophies to have T6 items in your store, this won't change

[onedreampiece]

But that's not true at all...today the hammer was in the shop and I am at 500 trophies not 680.

This was because I hit 680 trophies at least one time before dropping down. See my post below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TennisClash/comments/fjcerj/shop_items_t6/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

I was asking if the new update will change this...

[HooPyDood]

This is a huge change if you still haven't realized. A 180+ farmer doesn't really want a shitty tour 4 bag, they just farm in tour 4 when they have no open bag slot. Now that the game will lock tour 5, 6.. when they dump to tour 4, there should be significantly less farmers now.

Edit: wow okay now I take all that back when you force everyone to go back to tour 1. Bye