Pro Cycling Manager 2006 Digital Distribution Patch description
Pro Cycling Manager 2006 offers you the chance to take part in the most important international races.

Pro Cycling Manager 2006 offers you the chance to take part in the most important international races at the head of a professional cycling team. In this latest version of the game, such well-known teams as T-Mobile complete an already impressive peloton of almost 50 official teams.

Pro Cycling Manager 2006 has, for the first time, secured the prestigious Tour de France licence, meaning that players can now compete for the legendary «Yellow Jersey» as well as the green (points) jersey and polka dot (King of the Mountains) jersey. Winning, or failing to win, such jerseys can make or break a season for a top team.

Cyanide, the game studio behind Pro Cycling Manager 2006, did not content itself with the signature of the most illustrious licences in the cycling world. It has also invested heavily to enhance, even further, player immersion. In the real-time 3D race sequences, decors are more varied and detailed with far richer colouring. Spectators run alongside riders and encourage their favourites and, as riders strain to climb the steep slopes, the crowds open out in front of them. New helicopter and motorcycle cameras have been integrated, enabling real-life, in-race, views and the finishing line gets a full revamp, including its own camera. And once a race/stage is over, replays provide a full résumé of the highlights, from all angles.

In terms of gameplay, Pro Cycling Manager 2006 much vaunted AI has been honed to further improve the actions and reactions of the opposition, especially in stage races. Competitors now adopt new race strategies, depending on how the overall results table is looking. For example, a rider who is way back on the leader board may now launch a solo attack, far from the finishing line, so as to pick up the most points possible towards the mountain jersey.

The management section of the game has also received much attention. This goes beyond reworking the game's interface and controls. For example, the player finds himself obliged to regularly react to events. Beyond the standard contract, training and equipment management, he must now be ready to answer questions from the media with an inevitable impact on the moral of a rider or the team as a whole. His replies can even influence the confidence level of the team's main sponsor. And, finally, just so the manager doesn't get too lax as the seasons roll by, the routes of the major races now vary from year to year.

What's New in This Release:

New
· Possibility to personalise starting list of riders in stage, classic and tour modes (using xml file)
· The patch is delivered with a file enabling the 2006 Tour de France to run with the 176 riders who were present at Strasbourg.
· Update to equipment (1)
Career
· Correction to bug in replies by riders to your offers of contract (1)
· Adjustments to morale when fixing rider status in season 2
· Better revision of budgets when player advances through game with low-level team (enables signature of higher level riders)
· Correction to bug which may prevent direct selection of rider status in season 2
· Possibility to now borrow more money in career mode ( 100 000 to 1 000 000 EUR) over a longer period (6 - 24 months)
· Correction to display of financial amounts
· Adjustments to AI governing race participation
· Correction to a bug on objectives that counted a green jersey success as a mountain jersey success
Multiplayer
· Correction to a ladder bug which could cause a direct return to the Windows desktop when the creator of a game pressed on the "Next" button to choose his stage.
· Correction to bug which prevented a saved game being run with the button "Load (Reset Login)"
Database & Stages
· Update to Brescia Tour & Circuit de l'Ain (1)
· Update to rider attributes (1)
3D Race
· Adjustments to the way an individual time-trial unfolds on a sloped route. The gaps between riders at the finishing post are larger (and therefore more true-to-life).
· Correction to team ranking bug which affected individual time-trials.
· Intermediate times added to individual time-trial (first 60 riders)
· Correction to problem when loading replays.