baseballlover312 wrote:
Laptop eh? Portable I guess. But does it have a real mouse? No.

Get a desktop. It's the right way. Don't do drugs too.

547984 wrote:


First, stop "eh-ing" like a Canadian.

547984 wrote:


First, stop "eh-ing" like a Canadian.

547984 wrote:


First, stop "eh-ing" like a Canadian.

Mouse- attach one wirelessly or wired. Works same way as desktop.

Desktop- No. There's a reason they have desktop replacements and not laptop replacements. How much you wanna bet that most people won't use desktops in 5 years? Computers only have gotten smaller not larger.

baseballlover312 wrote:


Woah, I was just kidding there. But you've just taken it for some reason so now I will.

People like you are idiotic fools. How is a computer getter smaller a good thing? Because people say it is? And I'm sure you can upgrade your laptop to be just as good as a gaming computer. I'm not even sure where you're going eith your arguement, so please make yourself clear ebfore I screw in the lightbulb.

547984 wrote:


Come on,let's not get personal. And how does upgrading my laptop have anything to do with this debate. Too many things are integrated nowadays, though yeah I can upgrade, I'll give you that, are you apparently trying to say that i'm complaining about my laptop, thus I should get a desktop? Make yourself clear first

"How is a computer getter smaller a good thing? Because people say it is?"

So you want to have this huge box weighing 50 lbs at your house. And plus, what do you mean people say it is...tell me an advantage of a bigger machine.

When developing a video game, we develop a world with proper rules. More or less abstract, those rules allow the player to play and interact with this virtual world. As part of a sport simulation, we must apply the existing rules to get close to the reality. Rules that govern cycling are not numerous and not very complicated. We can even sum up this sport to one rule: the first who reach the end of the course is the winner.

Nonetheless, this sport is quite difficult to understand because there is a lot of fine details that can be discovered only if you play this sport or if you take close interest in it. All these fine details come from the amount of parameters to take into account during the race to adopt and adapt your strategy.

For example, rules of collaboration in a breakaway depend on its composition, the profile, time gaps, remaining kilometers, different standings, levels of energy, etc… . In a nutshell, depending on these factors, a “right� action during a stage can be a “wrong� one in next stage. If one day you have to take relays, the next day, it might not be a good behavior.

So, what can we do to make the understanding of a TdF novice easier? We follow 4 main lines:

-a reworking of the menus and the tutorial to give more advice

-a new challenging objectives system to guide players to feasible objectives depending on their skills

-more information during the race to help making decisions

-a local multiplayer mode to facilitate exchanges between novices and experts

In this post, I will detail the first point. Others will have specific entries.

Completely reworking the menus allowed us to highlight important information to help novices to make their choices. Before, identity of leaders, favorites of a stages or importance of a stage were not correctly pointed out. So, it was necessary to have a minimum cycling knowledge to analyse squads and stages. Now, a beginner gets important information that should have been deduced from cycling knowledge.

New Team and Stage screens:





We also moved some options. For example, team composition screen has not to be seen by default. Indeed, suggesting to modify the squad can be confusing if you don’t know very well cycling. Making this screen optionnal did not prevent us to improve the way you can compose your team.

New compose squad screen:



In the same way, tutorial gives a lot more information than before. There is not only the controls but also advice on the way to react in some race situations or on the way to manage your effort during a stage.

Tutorial screen:

CrueTrue wrote:
Ian: It's received. Much appreciated.

547984: I don't know, to be honest.

baia:


MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

OS: Windows XP SP3/Windows VISTA SP2/Windows 7/Windows 8

Processor: AMD/Intel dual-core 2.2 GHZ

RAM Memory: 2048 MB

3D Graphics Card: 256 MB 100% DirectX 9 and Shaders 3.0 compatible NVidia GEFORCE 7900/ATI RADEON X1600/Intel HD 2000

DVD-ROM: 2X Drive

Hard disk space: 11 GB

Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 compatible

Simon_ wrote:
Does anyone know if the max racing days of 60 (before declining) has been altered after the fitness/race fitness has been changed?