Who would have thought that we in mid-February would have the first screenshots of Pro Cycling Manager 2009? I didn't, so I was quite shocked when reading Aroda's (who, by the way, is a Spanish Cyanide employee) forum thread with a link to a French article with the first two screenshots of PCM09.
The screenshots are published at a French website, Clubic, which has also posted a few more details about PCM 09. There'll be 180 races and 65 teams, and they've also managed to get the official license for the Vuelta a Espana.
The AI has been improved, and graphically, the game has got another notch up, especially when it comes to 'side-effects' such as water, vegetation and animations. More importantly, the 1 unrevealed track event is revealed: Omnium will be in PCM09. The article also states that there'll be several different velodromes available.
Announcing The PCM.Daily Community Jersey Competition!
Announcing The PCM.Daily Community Jersey Competition!
On behalf of the PCM.Daily staff, im pleased to announce that we will hold a competition to find the jersey(s) that will represent PCM.daily in all the PCM-communities until the next time we decide its a good idea to hold a competition. Did we mention that everyone is invited?
There are four categories, each with its own winner and own polls: Freestyle, The Main Event, Comical Relief and Track. This means people who are better at making jerseys pretty much from their free imagination can compete at almost level terms with silly jerseymakers and people who like to make their jerseys from a set of limitations. The Track category just encourages people to make racing stripes.
To add to the competition: Its anonymous: The jerseys must contain no traces that indicates its your work nor are you allowed to tell anyone its your jersey. This is because people sadly occasionally forget about the quality of the jersey and rather look at who made the jersey.
The grand prize is... nothing really except the small amount of fame that comes with this. But the winning jerseys will effectively represent us in event where we will be competing against other communities (think the small track war we had against PCM-Benelux).
Anyway, head over here and read the full rulebook, realize that there is a deadline, and then discuss with your fellow "Daily'ans".
Update, 10/02 11:22: Someone pointed out that the rider skins had been messed up - and unfortunately, he was right. It's not a huge bug, but to get the optimal playing experience, please (re)download the updater.
As promised, we've now released an update to PCM.daily's 2009 DB, upgrading it to version 2.1. It includes several bug fixes, meaning no more 2nd stage of TdU crashes (fixed by replacing the 09 TdU with the 08 TdU), no weird messages (we hope?), national teams have been fixed, the Giro hill/mountain columns have been corrected - along with a bunch of other minor bug fixes.
We've also added a little to the V2. It includes three new 2009 shirts (Adria Mobil, Amore e Vita and Palmeiras Resort), updates to already existing 2009 shirts, new champion shirts for some teams and file name changes to national team shirts ending with swe (it has to be swd).
Hopefully, this will solve the main problems that people have been experiencing after the release of the V2.
As mentioned, we're now working on a fix for the 09 DB V2 which will fix what's been mentioned in the Bug Reports thread. But since I don't experience the TdU bug I need someone who does to test the fix for me. If anyone's interested, feel free to send me a PM.
I just got home from a nice weekend vacation on a Danish isle, so now that I'm back I'd like to say a few words about the release of the PCM.daily 2009 DB V2.
First of all, I'd like to say sorry to all the people who got the standard message: "You didn't install it correctly" when experiencing the TdU bug. It just seemed hard to believe at first since none of our testers experienced the problem after having installed it as we had told them to. It was a problem that we was aware of, but we also thought that we had overcome it. Obviously, we were wrong, and we're sorry about that. I'd like to point, however, that we did whatever possible to make sure that the DB was good to go when released. 4 betas were released and tested before the final product became available to the public. We corrected what was mentioned by the beta testers.
The Giro problem (wrong mountain/hill settings) is basically and solely my fault. I simply forgot to update those two columns (since CLE-ditor doesn't do that for you), meaning that those two rather important factors still have its standard 08 settings. That's a stupid thing to forget, but what's done is done (or rather: what's not done is not done ;)).
As mentioned in the previous news, we're now fixing the bugs mentioned in the Bug Reports thread. We expect it to be released tomorrow.
