Tour de France : Questions/Answers

[Patatrasse]

Three questions:

1) Is there any plans of releasing an updated database with more up-to-date rider ratings at some point?

2) It would be an amazing feature to be able to select the opponents teams, as well as your own, ahead of the tour. A tour sans Kittel, Boonen, Aru etc would add realism to an already impressive game. Any possibility of a feature like this, or perhaps an updated "official startlist" at some point?

3) Lastly, the TTT is somewhat troublesome in regards of not having the possibility to tell certain riders in your team to "take it easy to the finish" when they start to tire. Instead they create gaps, as the other riders won't pass them until gaps have been created. Any tips on how to successfully ride the TTT?

1)Yes
2)Yes, through the update
3)The key during TTT is to use good riders at the right moment (climbers on climbs can be better than some trime trials specialist). Don't attack unless you have a lot of energy in the last kilometers. Best TT riders can ake longer relays

Wait is there coming a 'tour update" or can I decide
wich riders are in the tour? The second option its in my vieuw more exiting. And when is the update?

Hello, guys!

New year, new TDF game. I really like this one. More details, more stages, funny new challenges.

My first feeling is that the pro difficulty is a little bit harder than last 2 years AI level. I feel this maybe because the new recovery system. It makes hard to attack on the first mountain stage of some consecutive mountain stages. After an early attack, you will struggle for days. I think, the night rest should be more effective (more%) to a more tired cyclist. For example If you are 60%, you will be 90% next day, but if you were in a breakaway and you have 20%, you should recover around 40% with this rider instead of 30, and return with 60% not 50. But is is just an idea.

Froome's cob stat is not this wrong in real life. He didn't lose time. Actually, he is the best rider, but in the game, stage 4 makes him out of combat.

I really like challenge mode. It was a real fun to get the fearless achievement. Oh, and my favourite descent was the last one. The 11.

I saw these stars on the main screen. 5 under quick tour, 5 under pro team, and 5 under the challenge mode. These 15 stars needed for 100% completion? What are the numbers for this? (I mean: Pro team mode stars are for "budget" How much money should I make? Reaching all tour mode stars require professional or champion difficulty? I can't really imagine some of the gold challenges in champion.)

Thanks for the game. It's really fun.

[Patatrasse]

Wait is there coming a 'tour update" or can I decide
wich riders are in the tour? The second option its in my vieuw more exiting. And when is the update?

You will be able to choose the database you want to play with:
-the "unofficial" one -> the database that has been released with the game
-the "official" one -> the database that will be released with the patch (with official roster team and caracteristics update)

We don't have a precise release date yet except that we plan to release it during august.

[Patatrasse]

I saw these stars on the main screen. 5 under quick tour, 5 under pro team, and 5 under the challenge mode. These 15 stars needed for 100% completion? What are the numbers for this? (I mean: Pro team mode stars are for "budget" How much money should I make? Reaching all tour mode stars require professional or champion difficulty? I can't really imagine some of the gold challenges in champion.)

For Tour de France mode, to reach 5 stars, you have, at least, to complete all objectives on Pro difficulty + all Bronze on Champion difficulty.

For Pro Team, you have to reach a €10 000 000 budget (including the value of your team)

I saw these stars on the main screen. 5 under quick tour, 5 under pro team, and 5 under the challenge mode. These 15 stars needed for 100% completion? What are the numbers for this? (I mean: Pro team mode stars are for "budget" How much money should I make? Reaching all tour mode stars require professional or champion difficulty? I can't really imagine some of the gold challenges in champion.)

For Tour de France mode, to reach 5 stars, you have, at least, to complete all objectives on Pro difficulty + all Bronze on Champion difficulty.

For Pro Team, you have to reach a €10 000 000 budget (including the value of your team)

Thank you!

How many season are there to reach the 10 000 000?

Few tips for TDF 2016:

-Withdraws and injuries
-Yellow numbers and red number
-ITT as in TDF 2012 (running order based on the actual overall and if you are too fast you can find the other players during the race)
-Supporters on the mountain stages as in TDF 2012 (following the player with flags)

In the update, can we tranfer riders to other teams?
Because porte goes to bmc and landa maybe to movistar ??

Hi Patatrasse. There are many aspects of the game which are much improved on the 2014 game. In particular the race day condition, the pro team mode with its varied stages in the TDF, and the difficulty settings. I am also glad to hear there will be an update.

There are a few issues I've discovered with the game and I'd like to know if they are going to be fixed.

Orders given in the team comm are often changed by the AI, and sometimes it is impossible to give orders. Quite often you have to give the “stay in group” order before another can be given. This is very frustrating and the worst aspect of the game. It happens when at the top of climbs, attacking from the peleton, and at other random times. For players that do not wish to manage their team via the team comm a check box could be added in the options to enable or disable auto management of team orders. Sprinters when put in “carte blanche” in the team comm do not contest intermediate sprints. Due to the short scale it is not possible to switch to the teams sprinter after contesting the sprint in a breakaway unless the breakaway has about more that 5-6mins advantage. The “follow attacks” team order also fails to get them to compete.

The automatic changing of gears when entering and exiting the team comm when following a rider in auto mode, and exiting the pause mode. Is this a bug or was it intended? In the options would it not be possible to have a check box to enable or disable auto manage gears?

Player controlled riders cannot turn as tightly as AI riders in the bends. This is not a problem when the option to follow another rider is available, but when attacking and during the lead up to a sprint this is not possible and many places can be lost as a result.

King of the mountain points are not double for a summit finish in the game (they were in the 2014 game and also are in the TDF). Also, whilst the profiles of the stages appear true to this years’ tour, the categorisation of the climbs are wrong in some instances.

In pro tour mode bonus seconds are not recognised for the rider objective “gain time on the favorites…” Was this intended or is it a bug?

In the pro tour mode only the profile of the current stage can be viewed before a stage is launched despite the ability to scroll up and down the list of stages. The list shows the type of stage (flat, hill, mountain) but this is not enough information on the upcoming stages for planning strategy. In the pro tour mode the only place to view all of the stage profiles is before transfers, they can never be viewed again.

Thanks for the opportunity to comment on the game with a forum, I hope these issues are recognised and resolved.

Hello

There are different routes and races in the Pro Tour mode. It seems all of them are excluded from the Versus mode? Or am i missing something? It would be great variety having different routes (possibly mixing them to create a custom tour) available for Versus mode as well.

Thanks