It took a while, but Focus has now decided to open up for the official website of PCM11. The link is as always cycling-manager.com.
The website doesn't bring much new, but it's mentioned that it will be possible to pre-order the download version of the game on the 15th of June - so mark you calenders, friends.
Speaking of the download version, PCM.daily is working on making a deal similar to last year where you can buy the game and support PCM.daily at the same time. Unfortunately, it's not possible to get a price reduction for the PCM.daily members (or anyone else, for that matter - the price is fixed, we've been told), but we may be able to come up with some other interesting initiatives.
Update: Just to be clear: You do not have to be German to do German riders. Anyone is capable of doing this, but it may be easier for Germans to do Germans. If you're interested in helping out with other countries than your own, please say so.
With every new edition of PCM, there's a few database changes that reflect the changes in the game. Last year, we saw the new prologue stat being added to the game, and this year, PCM11 comes with regions and rider popularity.
So -- knowing this, and knowing that there there are ~3.000 riders in the PCM.daily DB, it's easy to predict that we're going to need some help on this area, just like we did last year where the members helped out with doing the prologue stats for the riders.
Basically, we are looking for people who are interested in finding out where the riders come from. People from Spain will probably find it easier to identify Spanish riders' "regionality" than I do, just like the Germans know their riders better. So, it's quite simple, and no editing knowledge or anything similar is required. It should also be noted that more than 1.000 riders have already been done.
If you have the time to do e.g. the German riders, the Spanish riders etc. asap and know how to do some research, PM me with the country you're interested in doing, and I'll get back to you almost immediately.
With (probably...) less than one month to the release of PCM11 (for PC), Focus has released the first trailer of the game.
As always, the focus is on the racing part of the game, so the most surprising thing is actually the fact that they changed the music (which is still horrible, really). You also see a short clip of a rider covered in mud.
Other than that, no surprises - but the game does look quite amazing.
The World Championship in Pro Cycling Manager 2010 ended with a new Road Race World Champion: BubbaDJ (Italy).
In the final, which consisted of three stages (one hilly, one time trial, one mountain), Bubba managed to 9 other players, taking 1st ahead of Daniano (Germany) and Andy_Schleck_Frank (France).
The World Championship was in general dominated by the Benelux countries, especially Belgium. Of the team events, Belgium won four out of six events: the 200 meter time trial, keirin, scratch and omnium - and missed out on the Points Race which was won by Germany and the elimination which was won by France.
In the individual track championship, Job1915 (Netherlands) took the 200 m time trial, Stinos94 (Belgium) won the scratch event, Bobja1915 (Netherlands) managed to win both the Elimination and Omnium while Michiel910715 (Belgium) and Jurgendeheld (Belgium) won the two last events, Points Race and Keirin.
Needless to say, Belgium won the Medals Ranking ahead of Netherlands and France.
Since the first details of PCM11 were revealed in a very, very short Q&A back in January, we've pretty much been left guessing. A few features were revealed by the official screenshots, thanks to our observant members, and Focus has now decided to reveal all the main changes between PCM10 and PCM11.
Graphics-wise, as we've seen on the screenshots, a lot has been changed in the rider model. You can now see the "individual psysique of each rider" (or at least you have the possibility of "enabling" this). Some new 3D-equipment has been made, and - again, as we've seen - it's coloured in the teams' colours. There's also plenty of stuff for the stage makers, including new terrains and landscape elements.
Speaking of stages -- PCM10 came with way too few stages, but PCM11 increases the number with 65 %.
Team sponsors can now change (e.g. Saxo Bank withdraws its sponsorship, is replaced by a new sponsor), and for this feature, there's also added some interaction between the manager and the sponsor. For example, the sponsor can have regional or national priorities that you have to pay attention to.
Lastly, it seems that Cyanide has decided to get rid of its GameCenter client. Instead, you connect through the game - like in CyM2, if anyone remembers that.
