AiZaK wrote:
Hello, I saw in the V2 that you are going to fix the .HC for Tour of Britain and GP du canton d'Argovie.

The RideLondon-Surrey Classic is 1.HC too!! Add it please!

Thanks boys!!

Tafiolmo wrote:
On the screen that you've posted the riders by 'Hill Stat' as an example. I've noticed that the major changes that you've made in this update are on secondary stats like Endurance and Resistance. I've noticed that a few riders like Valverde, Rodriguez and Kwiatkowski have gone down in endurance but have gone up in resistance, any reason for this?

Surely Kwiatkowski for example shouldn't have his endurance going down and all these riders have a history of riding well in 200 a 300km races.

Resistance is also the only stat that I'm not completely sure on what it does, what exactly is its effect in the game? I was always under the impression that it was a rider's ability to maintain a high-tempo when riding on effort, if that is the case why is Contador less than some of the other big GC men, as he's one of the best when it comes to riding for long periods solo in mountain stages?

matt17br wrote:

Yes, you're right, the major changes were made on the secondary stats in order to make the gameplay more realistic.

What popped up to our mind in the last months was the need of a major difference between those 2 kinds of riders: Ardennes Punchers & Stage Races/Minor Classics Punchers.

For example, Valverde and Purito are CLEARLY Ardennes Punchers, because the only way they can win that kind of race is by attacking on the toughest hills, the exact opposite of a rider like Gerrans that rarely attacks and waits for the end of those, so that he can win them in a tight sprint.

Therefore we (well, Alakagom mainly) changed the endurance and resistance backup stats, along with minor fighter stats adjustments.

Indeed now Gerrans has got a fighter stats of 72, in order to avoid him to attack on the tough slopes of the Mur de Huy, while Gilbert and Valverde will be the first serious contenders who will attack on the Cauberg.

The only way to avoid Contador winning the Fleche Wallone was lowering his Resistance stat. If you look closer, you'll easily notice that the guys that never take part in the Ardennes Classic all have got less than 76 in that stat (Contador, Pozzovivo and Quintana all have 75).

Yes, the resistance stat mainly affects the yellow bar and in a minor part the green one.
Other than affecting "a rider's ability to maintain a high-tempo when riding on effort", it also affects the moment of the race where the rider will run out of energy.

Lastly, the endurance's gone down for several riders to avoid better Gerrans attacking on the Mur de Huy, indeed if he'll try to attack, his pace won't be enough to gain enough seconds, and it is so low because in Cyanide official database the matrix of this stats is always a bit lower than the others (and we still think that they know what they're doing though all the popular rumors) and because we didn't want to create too large differences between a rider and the other.

I hope that this explanation has been fairly comprehensive to take away all your doubts

matt17br wrote:
Yup that's it, endurance regulates the percentage of successfull attacks, so if Gerrans even tries to attack he won't succeed (but he wont even try because of his ftr stat)

The Endurance therefore has gone down for Contador, Pozzovivo etc. exactly to make them have a less probability of getting a good resilt in the ardennes classic.

dark_x2012 wrote:
Will the v2 be out before New year

matt17br wrote:
The matrix hasnt changed much for the riders like Cancellara, gonna check the difference tomorrow if I remind of it, but it hasnt probably even changed, as our main purpose was optimizing hill stat matrix

Tafiolmo wrote:


It's 77 as that is his res stat in the post-vuelta DB and the one I'm playing with.