Yes, I know that we've said this before, but this time, we might be telling the truth: The last patch for Pro Cycling Manager 2010 has been released. Actually, that's not really true either -- Cyanide hasn't released it, but since it's on Focus' server, we guess that they would have released it, had Cyanide's server not been down.
So, what does it fix? In the previous news article, we said that it fixed some AI stuff related to the sprints. Did we get any wiser with the release? No. The patch itself comes with a note saying: "Minor modifications during sprints."
That doesn't really tell us much, but since you don't have to restart your career to benefit from the fixes, you might as well install it. Links below.
It's been a while since the last statement, but Cyanide has now confirmed that yet another patch, this one being called 1.0.4.2, is going to be released.
The patch won't contain a whole lot of new stuff, and neither will it require you to start a new career. It does fix a few sprinting issues, and although the exact fixes have not been announced, we're guessing that it's fixing the "sudden stop"-bug. Other than that, we have no idea.
Nations DB Add-on for PCM.daily's Expansion Pack released
The World Championships have arrived and to celebrate, we at PCM.daily are releasing a Nations Database add-on for our Expansion Pack. It has all the features of the Expansion Pack (which you must have installed before installing this add-on), but rather than the usual teams, you can race as national teams instead.
There remains 94 teams in total, with 22 in the ProTour Category and the rest being Continental. You can see the full nation list here. The larger nations have multiple teams in the database, with Spain, Italy and France each having two ProTour squads. For these three, the best riders from the respective countries are shared amongst the two ProTour squads, but for all other nations the selection has worked on a basis of the A team for the best riders, then B team for the next best, and so on. Where possible, different variations of national jerseys are used to help differentiating between teams from the same nation - using jerseys that have been made since 2008.
Luckily, there hasn't been too much activity in the Bug Reports thread for PCM.daily's Expansion Pack V2, but that won't stop us for releasing a patch for it, updating the DB to V2.1.
Most of the changes are save-game compatible, meaning that you do not have to restart your career to benefit from the changes. Here's a full list of fixes:
- File names for Tour Down Under 2011 - File names for Tour de France 2013 - Prize money for some classics - Transferts and AUS NC shirt for Footon-Servetto - UKR NC shirt for RadioShack - Transferts for Team Type 1 - Landbouwkrediet's road helmet, less blue, more green - AI Calendar adjusted for American PT teams (not save-game compatible) - Stage/race settings for some stages/races adjusted (not save-game compatible) - Updated US Champions for the 2010 Champions DB (not save-game compatible) - Cody Campbell changed to Canadian nationality (not save-game compatible)
A big feature of PCM.Daily are our race coverage threads, we discuss most major races as they feature live on television, and other races we discuss results. The UCI made the decision to organise the 2010 road cycling world championships in Australia.
This means the races will be middle of the night european time, whilst some channels will be showing it live, Eurosport will not be showing the races live (Only the TT's are on the schedules right now).
We have therefore decided to split the race topic, the current thread (click here) will remain open and will be used for pre-race discussion and live race discussion should you be watching it live. On the other hand those of us watching on Eurosport will have a seperate thread, which will be hidden and remain spoiler free, so those watching on Eurosport will be able to follow the race and discuss it as if it were live.
And you can join in, we are going to create a topic that will only be viewable by those members who want to be in. The rule is obviously, no spoilers, should you spoil it, you will probably be punished. If you want to take part in this thread post a comment below and you'll be added to the group providing you are trustworthy.
