Dear managers,
After some days in open beta, patch for Pro Cycling Manager 26 (version 1.7.10) is now available on Steam!
You can report bugs or share suggestions on the game Discord server: https://discord.gg/bKz7CU2gWu
What’s next?
In addition to this 3rd update, we are working on several major areas:
Planning: We believe the new system brings a lot in terms of interest, accessibility and modernity, particularly for players discovering the game. Evolving the game systems is part of what we want for PCM, and the foundations provided by this new system will also allow us to take things further with future improvements. However, your feedback also shows that we have gone too far with automating the whole planning system. We are therefore working on bringing back this freedom, without losing the benefits of the new system.
Race-day Condition: A new game setting will allow you to adjust the impact of race-day condition on attributes. In particular, it will be possible to reduce its effects, so that the bonuses and penalties applied to attributes are more moderate. We are also working on making the base-value rolls slightly more favourable overall, so that positive values are a little more common. Finally, a cap will be added for riders affected by injuries or illness, to prevent large positive values from occurring in these situations.
Detailed Simulation: Your team's races will now be played in detailed simulation by default, regardless of the option setting.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support! 💬🚴
Full Changelog
Race
AI improvement: fewer long breakaways and major changes in the overall standings towards the end of a stage race. Teams defend their position in the standings more effectively, and the leader's team allows slightly less of a gap, leading to situations that can be more tense and balanced.
Fixed a display bug in the race interface where, at 100% Fitness, the beginning of the green bar could overlap with the Fitness value.
Fixed an audio bug where rain sounds could play when it was not raining.
Fixed a bug where, after changing the importance of a race in the calendar, the filter on the right-hand side of the Season Programme page did not immediately take the change into account.
Fixed a bug where the calendar position was lost after opening a race page from the Planning page and then going back.
Added search filters to the Season Programmes page.
Visual improvements to the « Riders » tab of the Planning page.
Added special characteristics in various places: rider tooltip, search page and race registration page.
Fixed a display bug on the U23 team page where, after changing the Training Axis, text could overlap within the tables, making the page almost unreadable.
Fixed a display bug where an incorrect icon could sometimes be displayed on the national team page during the World Championships race.
Fixed a bug where calendar points and teammate requests were not immediately updated after acquiring the « Charisma » skill.
Fixed the colour used for changes to the « Fatigue » attribute: it is now green when Fatigue decreases and red when it increases.
Database update: rider ratings.
