Nadal´s rejection

[PerfectAce]

Just wondering why just a few people use Nadal in tournaments here. Just had a practice match yesterday using him and realized that he can be a beast in good hands. Maybe I´ll give him a try in US Open, kind of tribute for his real absence in Flushing Meadows...

[Marco_Theo_81]

Ciao Roberto

yep, same for me, really wondering.

Elias tryed to explain it to me, but did not really understand. Something about the very high topspin..

[Elias]

Yep.

Nadal is a good char, but because of the very high Top spin stat, his shots lacked some punch, that's probably why. He was still a good char as his spin allows for some nice crosses and can cause trouble to the opponent, but for some reason Nadal is not a really easy char to use properly, at least i feel so, i'm doing more positionning errors with him than with Ferrer for example, so i think Nadal needs a very good control and consistent positionning to get all the benefits he can provide.

In 1.08 he'll have a 85 top spin stat instead of 90, you can test him out with this stat, it's noticeably better. It's pretty difficult to balance properly because you can't give him a lot of punch and at the same time making him the greatest defender of the game with top speed and stamina, he would be a monster then. So we'll give him a bit more punch reducing the top spin stat, but we'll also reduce the top stamina's among the roster (ferrer/nadal 's 97/98 to 92/93 for now, maybe 91/92 in the future, we'll see how it goes)

[manutoo]

A note about this topic : Nadal's current 2H-BH anim contains some left/right movement that makes particularly hard to correctly center a ball while moving... I'd recommend to use another one (and why not the official clean one..? )

[Elias]

A note about this topic : Nadal's current 2H-BH anim contains some left/right movement that makes particularly hard to correctly center a ball while moving... I'd recommend to use another one (and why not the official clean one..? )

Yep, this one in 1.07 was pretty bad i think several people noticed it when trying him

Lucian fixed it though and released a better version wich feels pretty good playing with this time imo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJcPyztN8Tk&feature=plcp , so i integrated this one in our next version.

You ment the previous one right ManuToo ?

why not the default one though if any issue.

[manutoo]

Elias,
I meant 2H-BH #2 ; it's created after Nadal's, although from a warm-up strike ; but at least, it's smooth & easy to use ; the heavy slow down during the preparation in the current ITST one (v1.07) makes also hard to aim left/right, coz that messes up the visual clue from the animation timing.

New version by Lucian seems better, though, but should check in-game to be sure !