Pro Cycling Manager 2023 news & patch notes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/5aa3c6fb7b1899932ec33f1795a86a9b181658ee.png Cyclist friends and bike fans, A short update is available for PCM! On behalf of the entire PCM team, we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy holidays! 🎄

Changelog:

• Race (Team-Time-Trial): Fix a possible classification difference between provisional race rankings and latest results page. It is now the 4th rider on the team who determines the team’s time for TTT rankings.
• Pro Cyclist: Fixed the bug which did not reset the Pro Cyclist points at the start of the new year. In order to maintain balance, the points awarded according to Pro Cyclist’s level have been revised slightly downwards.

Available now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/a8f8950b32d0bbca565dca2ea6206d0f8aed220a.jpg Dear cycling fans, The Steam Awards are coming up, and we need your help! Let's show the gaming world the unstoppable power of the Cycling community: let's nominate Pro Cycling Manager 2023 at the Steam Awards 2023. To do so, click on the box above this article to nominate us in the "Best Game You Suck At" category. Together, we ride towards triumph! The Pro Cycling Manager Team.

Available now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/5aa3c6fb7b1899932ec33f1795a86a9b181658ee.png Cyclist friends and bike fans, A new update is available for PCM, after a week in Beta!

Changelog:

• Pro Cyclist: Fix "SuperLeader" skill's bug which did not offer the bonus for the teammate.
• AI/Race: Fix the bug where early breakaway won nearly everytime on small continental races with slighty hill relief.
• Race (Individual Time-Trial): Fix energy “exploit” during Mountain Time-Trials (same fix as on patch 3 but for ITT's).
• Race (Team-Time-Trial): Improve AI: fix riders which were often dropped and most teams exploded because of too big differences between bad and good time trialists.
• Career: Improve rider's decline: now decline happens a bit earlier than before and few riders may have a very early or very late decline.
• Career: Improve balancing for the young riders who stops their career early: no more juniors 2) Riders with low potential will tend to end their career but in a less systematic way and more dependent on their age (a low potential at 20 years old will be less likely to retire than a 25 years old rider for example).
• Career: Fix victory's counter in the rankings'page which was not reset at the start of the new year.
• Career: Fix victory's total in rider's page (Career tab), the number was sometimes not coherent.
• DB: Optimize career's sizes/palmares.
• Multiplayer : Fix Time-Trial bug (both ITT’s and TTT’s) which caused the cyclists of a missing player to race on a slow pace.

Available now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/5aa3c6fb7b1899932ec33f1795a86a9b181658ee.png Cyclist friends and bike fans, A new update is available for PCM in Open Beta! If you're interested to try this update before it goes live on the public servers, here is how to join the Open Beta:

• Open Steam > Library
• Right-click on Pro Cycling Manager 2023 > Properties
• Select Beta and select "open-beta" in the beta participation dropdown

Changelog:

• Pro Cyclist: Fix "SuperLeader" skill's bug which did not offer the bonus for the teammate.
• AI/Race: Fix the bug where early breakaway won nearly everytime on small continental races with slighty hill relief.
• Race (Individual Time-Trial): Fix energy “exploit” during Mountain Time-Trials (same fix as on patch 3 but for ITT's).
• Race (Team-Time-Trial): Improve AI: fix riders which were often dropped and most teams exploded because of too big differences between bad and good time trialists.
• Career: Improve rider's decline: now decline happens a bit earlier than before and few riders may have a very early or very late decline.
• Career: Improve balancing for the young riders who stops their career early: no more juniors 2) Riders with low potential will tend to end their career but in a less systematic way and more dependent on their age (a low potential at 20 years old will be less likely to retire than a 25 years old rider for example).
• Career: Fix victory's counter in the rankings'page which was not reset at the start of the new year.
• Career: Fix victory's total in rider's page (Career tab), the number was sometimes not coherent.
• DB: Optimize career's sizes/palmares.

Available now on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

Cyclist friends and bike fans, A new update is available for PCM today!

PATCH NOTES 4:

• Freshness/recovery system improvements during stage races: freshness decreases more slowly now.
• Freshness/recovery system improvements during stage races: green energy gauge get less reduction for a given freshness.
• Remove a duplicate effect of fatigue during stage races in one-off mode.
• Race Gameplay/Physio: remove an effect that caused riders to have gradual decrease in watts during their second half of their green bar.
• Clean news on “month turn” if you have more than 5000 news to avoid a possible but rare block of the game with some mods.
• Fix a 3d-race crash.
• Modders request feature: if you have a U23 team with no real main team (link = team 119/free agents), the country set for transfer policy will be the U23 team.
• Fix a bug in the AI U23 draft: Sponsor's regions were not taken in account.
• AI U23 draft: Small tuning to give a bit more importance for sponsor's regions.

WHAT'S COMING NEXT:

• Improve AI on short and easy hilly classics: early breakaways win too often
• Team Time Trials: improvements and fix problems with teams often splitting in different groups after several kilometers.

Available now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

Cyclist friends and bike fans, A new update is available for PCM. Race

• Soften physical attributes effects (Stamina, Resistance): they act a little later on the green energy bar.
• Adjust Recovery & Freshness for stage races: a bit more green energy for a given freshness, and a bit less difference between riders for recovery between two stages.
• Fix energy “exploit” during long climbs (alternation Effort cursor 95/30% to empty then fill the red energy). A low effort means now a smaller power and thus cancel exploit’s effect.

Pro Cyclist

• Objectives: races during targets give a bonus to “race-day condition”
• Objectives: fix the bug which displayed objectives for Pro Cyclist (footer and Riders page)
• Improve progression of Stamina and Resistance attributes. To make the most of these settings, you have to start a new game (on an existing game, the improvements are present but less marked).

Career

• Fixed the bug “I can't choose a trainer for U23 runners”: the component has been removed (intented behavior). There is no penalty of riders’progression from U23 teams.
• Fixed the win count bug for towers in the Archives page.
• Fixed the bug when the player had no U23 team, the other U23 teams did poor recruitment (sometimes only 3-5 riders)

Multiplayer

• Fixed a bug displaying the race name in the calendar (variable instead of the race’s name).

Various

• Addition of the “Medium Mountain” attribute in the “Start list” page
• Fixed display of sponsor objectives icon instead of rider’s objectives icon in the Calendar page.
• Update Jerseys / Database

Hotfix

• Fixed a bug that prevented proper recruitment of U23 teams when the player did not have a U23 team of his own.

Cyclist friends and bike fans, A new update is available for PCM. You can read the most important points below, or read the full changelog.

Most important points

👉Important sprint train improvements: teams organize themselves better according to their resources. 👉Fixed too easy sprints in mountain finish with AIs starting too late without properly using their energy. 👉Fixed issues with disconnection/game crashes when the server was unstable. 👉Fixed the crash in multiplayer games that happened within the rankings page during a race. 👉Fixed the shift that appears from season 2 Pro Cyclist between calendar and rider’s fitness. 👉Added functionality to create typical training weeks for Pro Cyclist blocks.

Full changelog

Race

• Important sprint train improvements: teams organize themselves better according to their resources.
• Fixed too easy sprints in mountain finish with AIs starting too late without properly using their energy.
• Sprinters start sprints a little earlier and with a little more variation.
• Fixed a bug that caused riders wanting to catch up to a leader to not apply high enough power on a climb.
• Fixed racing map interface bug in 2560x1440 resolution.
• Fixed the bug of custom comments from riders never being played.
• Team time-trial: The display of times in the team rankings was not correct and did not correspond to the sum of the individual times.

Multiplayer

• Fixed issues with disconnection/game crashes when the server was unstable.
• Fixed the crash in multiplayer games that happened within the rankings page during a race.
• Added player names (with specific color) into rankings.
• Fixed bugs that prevented the ladder from being functional.

Pro Cyclist

• Fixed the shift that appears from season 2 Pro Cyclist between calendar and rider’s fitness.
• Added functionality to create typical training weeks for Pro Cyclist blocks.
• Fixed wins in the Achievements tile.

Career

• AI Roster improvements for leaders to participate more in the Dauphiné and Tour d'Helvétie in June.
• AI Roster improvements for sprinters to participate much more often in the UAE Trophy in February.
• Fixed a bug that caused sprinters to often participate in Medium Mountain Classics (Gran Premio San Sebastian, GP di Lombardia). Fix only valid on new games AND if the mods also fix the problem on their side.
• Increase in maximum budgets for teams (1.2 M€ / month => 1.5 M€ / month).
• Various fixes for visual issues or component overruns.

Other/Various

• Fixed a possible crash when a player loads or creates a game.
• Small corrections on various stages (Vuelta, Switzerland, Catalonia).
• Update New Music.

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Hello everyone, We just pushed the first fixes for Pro Cycling Manager 2023: * Fix a possible crash during race's loading * Fix Crash in the calendar page when you added or removed a race and your U23 team was registered * Fix the bug of the train of sprint with your sprinter who gets drop when the pilot launch his sprint * Improve Top GC leaders choice of goals (more chances to target Tour de France) * Improve Young riders progressions (<23 years old) * Fix the bug of the DB'size * Fix: Selecting "Climber" as second axis does not give the proper bonus in the training specialisations * Add missing locs for 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 (was 🇬🇧 before)

Start at the very bottom or in charge of a World Tour team! Choose from 80 professional teams based on your preferred style and strategies. Contend with the attacks of the best peloton riders in over 260 races and 700 stages of the cycling calendar. From the very first race of the season to the last, your opponents are always over your shoulder. RACES: 260 races and 700 stages have been recreated in Pro Cycling Manager 2023, including the biggest international races: the Tour de France, La Vuelta, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Tour de Romandie and many more. TEAMS: 80 teams are represented with over 800 professional riders (Jumbo-Visma, Ineos-Grenadiers, UAE Team Emirates, Trek-Segafredo…). Available now on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063610/Pro_Cycling_Manager_2023/

Hello everyone and welcome to our first devblog for Pro Cycling Manager 2023! This year we have redesigned the season rankings with several goals in mind: return to a unified system, improve realism and make the page more user friendly.

Unified system

For many years, PCM has had a system with multiple rankings: division rankings, Superprestige rankings… Not all races awarded points to all rankings, and it wasn't always easy to find your way around because of quite complicated rules. In PCM23, there is now a single world ranking: all riders and all teams can be found in the same system, regardless of the race level at which they compete. At the same time, the race categories have been updated with a scale that corresponds to what happens in real life.

Improving realism

Redesigning the ranking system raised a question about it. Should it be cumulative (points reset to zero every season) or rolling (points earned from a race are only replaced by points from the next edition of the same race)? We chose the rolling system for individual and national rankings to align with what happens in real life. As for team rankings, they start at zero each season, which also mirrors real life. Therefore, the game starts with pre-established rankings and more specifically with a certain Slovenian at the top as of 1 January 2023 who has already won the Tour de France twice. The exact points have been allocated to be as close to the real rankings as possible despite some races not being in the game calendar and not being able to be exactly the same. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/8166f8975a2b6164caa8c218a4557ae0989f7616.png The rankings will be updated periodically (each week) and the points are only added (and subtracted for the previous edition) after the update following the end of the race. For example, you won't find the points of a rider who won the first stage of the Tour de France on the evening of the stage or even the following week. The interface shows a detailed breakdown of a rider's points.

New page

To highlight the rankings, the page has been completely redesigned. The three rankings (individual, team, national) are now visible on the same one page. A search filter has been added so you can easily find a rider, and you also have the option to directly view the cyclists of his team. Finally, a little two-tone marker has been added to help you easily identify who belongs to which team. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43768758/d2b888a0188dd5cbe78c4dbdfebbdf60819df549.png Pro Cycling Manager 2023 will be available on 8 June 2023. Follow us on: Twitter : https://twitter.com/PCyclingManager Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFranceVideoGames/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pcyclingmanager/ Discord : https://discord.gg/9kxcCUy

Pro Cycling Manager is back, more immersive than ever! With Pro Cycling Manager 2023, become the master of a professional cycling team and make crucial decisions to lead your team to victory. Choose from 80 teams and prepare to face the attacks of the best riders in the peloton in over 260 races and 700 stages of the cycling calendar. Watch the trailer now to get a taste of what's to come and get ready for some unforgettable cycling moments! Pro Cycling Manager 2023 will be available on PC on 8 June 2023. Follow us on: Twitter : https://twitter.com/PCyclingManager Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TourDeFranceVideoGames/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/pcyclingmanager/ Discord : https://discord.gg/9kxcCUy