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Notes on Simulation Bugs
By: baseballlover312 | Average Rating: 4.67 | Game version: PCM11
1. The Attacking Bug.
While in 3d you can't really attack on mountains, it's quite the opposite on sim. If you set your leader to attack on the flat, it is highly unlikely anything will happen. Only on mountains will their be seperation. In fact, mountain attacking is almost necessary for your leader if he does not want to lose minutes on every mountain stage. This bug also goes into other team roles. Free Elements usually don't attack even if you want them to. But when they do, they never stop attacking until they have completely cracked. So if you want a guy to attack, but don't want him losing tons of time, better to set him as duel leader. And one last thing for this tip, never set teammates to attack in sim. They actually try to break about .5% of the time by my estimations, but will completely disregard their role as teammate in helping. So best to just stay away from it.
2. The Double-Up Lead Out Bug
When setting up a sprint, your the only team who seems to work right. You'll (Using 11 teams and stats) have Tyler Farrar sprinting, but there will be Renshaw at the front with Cav. Normal right? Until you realize that none of the leadout men ever drop off, so you'll have results like: 1. Renshaw, 2. Cav, 3. Hondo, 4. Pettacchi, etc. So it's best to not sim sprint stages when you really care about a result. To combat this though, it's best to start your sprint early. Remember, in simulation, there is no slipstream, and becuase of the bug, Cav's energy will not be used. So you have to come from behind to beat Renshaw. That is less hard by going from about 180 m.
3. The Three Profile Bars
The three bars, as well as the "accelerate if leader falls", don't seem to work. Although I can't be sure., so take this last one with a grain of salt. At first I actually thought it was the strenghth of my team. But I had a giant sprint train all set to accelerate as teammates, and nothing happenen. At most one person will do it, or they will literally do it until the bar starts. And when Contador crashed, my team, though the box was checked off, sat on their asses and waited for him to come back. Unlike with the sprint bug, where the bug was the ai, this bug is more about you and your controls on the race, or lack there of.
Thank you for reading, I hiope I can help someone out there, whether they're a noob or just frustrated. Ask questions if you want in the comments down below.Home | Submit a new Tip & Trick
thanks for spending the time to work this stuff out. these bugs and thousands of others are why i will NEVER NEVER NEVER buy another copy of this game again. how can a company release such a buggy game? theyve got no competition in the cycling market so they know they can half ass their games and still make money. i for one, will be stealing my next copy of PCM. i highly encourage you to send these bugs to cyanide so they can see what shit they are producing
I think Cyanide already knows them, they just don't care unfortunately. What you said is very true.
Thanks to CosmicOsmo and BaggieBoys for the feedback and to the 5 star rating. Didn't exactly think that it would be so helpful. But a lot of people simulate at some point, inclding myself.
