u/NickyGi

New Features :

- Rendering : now the ball and the player's feet leave their traces on the clay court ! You can disable or change the texture resolution with Settings -> Video -> Advanced -> Dynamic Clay. The Modders will have to allow their Clay to be modified, so right now it's working only on the unmodded clay. The ball impacts aren't very accurate, so they may look like they touched the line when they didn't (and vice versa) ; ie: it's only a visual effect, don't yell at the umpire because of it ! 

Changes :

- Gameplay : greatly increased the run acceleration lowering when the player gets low Breath and/or low Energy
- Gameplay : slightly raised the AutoPos trick speed on return of serve
- Gameplay : slightly lowered the strike precision bonus when sliding
- Engine : optimize memory consumption, so the older consoles will have enough memory to use the new Dynamic Clay (at least in its Low Res version)
- Modding : allow disabling the MD5 check when downloading a Mod (in case mod.io server's one is actually incorrect) ; to do so, change this line in your Tennis.ini, under [Menu], from :
ModIgnoreMD5 = 0
to :
ModIgnoreMD5 = 1

Bug Fixes :

- Online : fixed a couple of issues with some rare cases of the ELO calculations
- Gameplay : the net jump could wrongly trigger when being lobbed
- Modding : the auto-reload on Mod change is now much more robust and most bugs should be fixed
- Modding : show tournament draws could get corrupted when playing with a Country Cup different from the base game one

The game is almost 10 years old now, and it would be great if you made all the DLC free for everyone.

I own all the DLC packs, but I rarely get to play the DLC maps because most players don’t have them.
As a result, I’m forced to play the same base maps over and over again, which gets very repetitive.

Please, SHG, consider making the DLC free so everyone can enjoy these maps and bring some more variety back into the game.

XKT v4.4c release notes:

• Audio: Added new hit sounds for Indian Wells 2026
• Audio: Updated grunt sounds for Zverev, Rublev
• Audio: Optimized player grunt files to reduce FPS drops
• Audio: Added opening match announcements for Eva Asderaki-Moore and Mohamed Lahyani
• Audio: Fixed an FPS drop issue on the first score call of a match caused by a missing audio clip
• Audio: Various fixes and improvements to Eva Asderaki-Moore and Mohamed Lahyani
• Training Club: Added a new court favorites system with "My Favorites" and "Add / Remove Favorites" tabs
• Training Club: Updated the appearance of some players with the new haircuts
• Menus: Added a new splash screen
• Menus: Added a new font
• Misc: Various bug fixes and minor improvements

New Features :

- Players : 4 new hair styles for the male player, thanks to matservant ! 
- Modding : you can now remap the Player Styles in the World Tour (eg: if you don't want to play against Volleyers anymore) (HowTo => topic60-38728.php )
- Modding : it's now possible to Mod the base body mesh of the players, but still not the outfits, so this is mostly aimed at changing the head (details will come here : topic60-33540.php )
- Localization : Portuguse-BR translation updated by Antimouse
- Localization : Japanese ranslation proofread by Akihiro

Changes :

- AI : the CPU is now much better at doing passing shots, especially from Pro-10 difficulty and above
- Controls : the Average AutoPos is now a bit slower when pressed before your opponent served, making the services a tad more efficient when using the AutoPos trick ( => https://www.managames.com/tennis/doc/Te ... tml#return )
- World Tour : tuned the Pro & Master skill decays so it'll be possible to reach 85~90% in all skills (instead of ~80%)
- Online : the ball's position at the moment of impact during the serve is now limited to a designated area to prevent obviously unbalanced serves. (ie: the serve animation no longer allows you to hit the ball too far inside the baseline)

Bug Fixes :

- Animation : the player could bend a bit backward when running to a ball that was too far
- Controls : having several strikes using down on a controller was making all of them unusable
- Controls : the net jump could trigger in the wrong direction
- Controls : the AutoPos could lead to the wrong position when smashing a ball
- Controls : it's not possible anymore to prepare your return for a very long time by pressing the strike button before your opponent starts to serve
- World Tour : in Seasons Mode, the yearly new force screen wasn't shown
- Online : an incorrect answer from your router could lead the game to hang
- Online : if a router was answering only on IPv6 and not IPv4, the game couldn't use UPnP to automatically forward the UDP Port in your router
- Modding : the CPU acceleration specific grunt sounds weren't triggered

Το 2004 ήταν ίσως η απόλυτη χρονιά των αουτσάιντερ στο ευρωπαϊκό ποδόσφαιρο. Μέσα σε λίγους μήνες συνέβησαν πράγματα που δύσκολα θα μπορούσαν να επαναληφθούν όλα μαζί.

🇬**🇷Ελλάδα: Η Εθνική του Ότο Ρεχάγκελ πήγε στο Euro 2004 ως τεράστιο αουτσάιντερ και έφυγε Πρωταθλήτρια Ευρώπη**ς, αποκλείοντας μεταξύ άλλων Γαλλία και Τσεχία και νικώντας την οικοδέσποινα Πορτογαλία στον τελικό.

🇵**🇹Πόρτ**ο: Η ομάδα του Ζοσέ Μουρίνιο διέψευσε όλα τα προγνωστικά και κατέκτησε το** Champions Leagu**e, νικώντας τη Μονακό με 3-0 στον τελικό.

🇩**🇪Βέρντερ Βρέμης: Άφησε πίσω την πανίσχυρη Μπάγερν και κατέκτησε την Bundeslig**a, ολοκληρώνοντας μάλιστα τη σεζόν με νταμπλ.

🇪**🇸Βαλένθια: Σε μια εποχή με πανίσχυρες Ρεάλ Μαδρίτης και Μπαρτσελόνα, η ομάδα του Ράφα Μπενίτεθ κατέκτησε τη La Lig**a, αλλά και το Κύπελλο UEFA.

🇬**🇷Παναθηναϊκό**ς: Και φυσικά, το μεγαλύτερο ποδοσφαιρικό θαύμα από όλα. Ο Παναθηναϊκός κατάφερε να πάρει πρωτάθλημα βάζοντας τέλος στα 7 συνεχόμενα του Ολυμπιακού. Σαν να μην έφτανε αυτό, πήρε και το Κύπελλο, ολοκληρώνοντας το νταμπλ. Αν αυτό δεν είναι θαύμα, τότε τι είναι;

Ελλάδα, Πόρτο, Βέρντερ, Βαλένθια, Παναθηναϊκός. Πέντε τεράστιες εκπλήξεις μέσα στην ίδια χρονιά. Το 2004 ήταν πραγματικά η χρονιά των ποδοσφαιρικών θαυμάτων.

Has anyone figured out which HEX color values to use in Black Ops 7 for You, Friendly, Enemy, Team, and Contested to match the exact HUD colors from Black Ops 2?

I’ve searched everywhere online but haven’t been able to find anything. I did come across a post from someone who recreated the classic Modern Warfare 2 (2009) HUD colors in Modern Warfare III, but I haven’t found anything similar for Black Ops 2.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I have the Season Pass, but unfortunately, most people still playing the game nowadays don’t. Because of that, I rarely ever get the chance to play any of the DLC maps.

It’s such a shame because this is genuinely one of my favorite CoD games of all time, and some of the DLC maps are fantastic.

I do have one wish, though. After 10 years, would it really be unreasonable for SHG to make all of the DLC packs free for everyone? I know it’s a lot to ask, but I honestly think removing the DLC paywall could bring more players back, improve matchmaking, and potentially even generate more sales for Activision.

Just a wishful thought.

I can’t believe how much they have ruined the game with Season 5. The menus on PS5 are so laggy, texture issues all over the game, from operators, to weapons, to maps. My game froze 3 times during a match today for around 10-15 seconds each time. They ruined matchmaking, they introduced new audio bugs.

Is this typical of Call of Duty now? They intentionally ruin their games around Season 5 so people will go and buy the next one? I am sure instead of fixing these bugs with Season 5 Reloaded, they are gonna introduce even more.

I am so sad because up to Season 4, Black Ops 7 was my favourite CoD game of the last decade. I was praising it all throughout the year.

Since the launch of the PS4 in 2013, there hasn’t really been another classic Call of Duty game besides WWII.

All CoD games released since then have featured mechanics such as exosuits, jetpacks, wall running, wall jumping, sliding, specialists, or more recently, omnimovement.

WWII is the only Call of Duty from the PS4 and PS5 era that truly sticks to the classic formula, with traditional movement and no sliding, jetpacks, specialists, or other advanced movement mechanics.

So, for someone who loved the classic Black Ops and Black Ops II games and wants something similar to play with a native PS4 version, WWII is the closest you can get to that old-school Call of Duty experience.

The game is enhanced for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X and runs at a locked 2640×2160 on PS5 and native 4K on Series X

This was one of my favourite CoD games. I played it a lot up until around 2020-2021, and I recently decided to revisit it. It’s still every bit as good as I remember.

The graphics have held up incredibly well, and the game still looks beautiful. The gunplay feels great, the movement is smooth, and it has that classic CoD feel, similar to Black Ops 2, which everyone seems to love nowadays.

The maps are beautiful, fun to play, and well-balanced. I absolutely love this game!

After many patches over the years, is the game worth it now? It goes for 11.99€, any advice will be welcome.

Do you agree? The ending of this movie is so damn good. From the moment Batman takes the bomb to save Gotham all the way to the scene where he reveals himself to Alfred, every part of that sequence is so damn good.