Hiya
I seem to have trouble with protecting my leader. I've been playing PCM for years now (Not PCM16 tho, so maybe they changed something last year, i dont know!).
I click on teammate, rightclick on leader and the "protection shield" does indeed come up, but it doesnt really seem to help at all, if I protect or not when going uphiil. The energy bar goes down EQUALLY fast on both riders - but whats the point then? From my experience in the past games, your teammate would burn it a lot faster and simply just protect until it's not possible to keep up with the pace anymore. Any ideas what may be wrong?
And yea, both riders are beasts in mountains (Same stats allover more or less!)
for me it seems to work as intended. Its not magic like in PCM 14-15, but it helps a little bit. For example when i protect Primoz Roglic in the mountains with Jurgen van den Broeck, Roglic is able to stay with the favourites much longer when vdBs work is done. I dont compare Roglic to VdB, but to the other riders who seem to have burned more energy going uphill than my protected rider, even though my protected rider has slightly inferior stats.
another thing that i noticed is that prtected riders seem way less prone to crash. For the sake of realism i play with crashes at 1.3x normal rate. halfway the year now, and ive had a protected rider crash only 2 times so far.
