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Is extreme too easy?
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 20-04-2018 18:36
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I got PCM17 rather late, only in October.. recently I've been doing a career with Sunweb and i find myself winning at least half of all important races I have (127 victories in 2nd season) in Extreme difficulty.
I think I've seen a glimpse once on how to "hack" the game into having a harder dificulty but have no idea where to even begin with. Is that really possible, or is extreme just too easy?
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| LuckyLukas |
Posted on 20-04-2018 22:42
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Extreme difficulty is quite moderate this year because of the weak AI.
You can edit the difficulty with an editor. I use Lachis. You have to extract Steam\SteamApps\common\Pro Cycling Manager 2017\Database an chose Local
In the editor you can select STA_race_difficulty. In the second column gene_f_refcaraccoef you can change the difficulty coefficient. Extreme is on 1,05. I prefer playing on 1,1 but you can experiment what difficulty coefficient is best for you. |
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 20-04-2018 23:04
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Thanks I'll get right on it!
Btw if extreme is 1,05 I assume hard is 1 right? and medium and easy follow the same pattern..
And also, if I'm using a different DB, should I extract from the local DB anyway?
Edited by Yellow Jersey on 20-04-2018 23:11
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| LuckyLukas |
Posted on 20-04-2018 23:23
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No the coefficient is a multiplier. If Valverde has 82 hill and your difficulty coefficient is 1,05 his hill stat is 82x1,05=86,1.
This compensates the disadvantage of the AI comparing to a human player. The better you play the game the higher you have to set the coefficient to have a challenging game. |
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 20-04-2018 23:27
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Yes I've already made the changes, it was much easier than I tought.
Cheers 
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| Ripley |
Posted on 21-04-2018 07:40
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Probably there are a few AI weaknesses that no coefficent can fix. My recommendation is always to start with a really weak team in the CT (not your ICL team ) and work your way up. So you'll have a few seasons before becoming so dominant. And there's always automatic mode if you want to win less and be frustrated often. |
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 21-04-2018 10:53
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Yeah I don't think I've ever completed 3 seasons with any team in PCM, but I've dony many many that I completed 2 seasons, including CT and PCT teams. But what I'm looking for is really enhancing the AI's performance for it to be stronger in whatever race I make, it's good to have it more challenging and realistic
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| Ripley |
Posted on 21-04-2018 11:54
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Good luck with that! |
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| ruben |
Posted on 26-04-2018 18:42
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PCM Daily DB is pretty good with the new extreme difficulty levels. |
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 26-04-2018 19:24
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ruben wrote:
PCM Daily DB is pretty good with the new extreme difficulty levels.
I found it very unchallenging for me.. But I quickly edited and found the difficulty that feels the most realistic for me
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| sobrano |
Posted on 27-04-2018 06:17
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what are the AI lacks? where ai is fair? |
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| Yellow Jersey |
Posted on 27-04-2018 18:56
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thats subjective of course, from what I've hard extreme seems to be easier in PCM17 due to weaker AI.. if you feel (that extreme) is easy, I'll give the advice that has been given to me, use lachi's editor, and set the dificulty of extreme from 1,05 to 1,15, instructions are in LuckyLucas' post.
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| fragnot |
Posted on 28-04-2018 21:21
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Ive only tried some races against Froome on mountain stages, so i dont have much to compare with. But even on normal/hard im struggling.
Would you guys mind giving me some pointers on mountain stages? |
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| jakobbe |
Posted on 01-05-2018 15:25
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I also find extreme to easy. For example, all the cobble races before Vlaandern and Roubaix is to easy to win with riders with 75-78 at cobble, in Milano-Sanremo you just need to attack at the of poggio to win it every time, and with Movistar 20 of riders had won a GC stages after 2 seasons. |
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| Patb095 |
Posted on 02-08-2018 00:14
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Do you guys “pause »?
I don’t pause... i feel it is cheating. You have to plan more and make difficult choice and focus on one goal at the time.
This make the game more realistic and uncontrolled sometimes... just as real life.
This is making the Sprint pretty difficult.
Si do you pause ?
Pat B
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