Pro Cycling Manager by Cyanide Studio - German retail v1.2R patch

Patch 1.2R
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We strongly recommended that you start a new career to take full advantage of
the corrections and improvements introduced by this patch.

(Database and stages)
- Additional 3D stage :
- le clm du critérium de l'international
- GP de cholet
- Klasika urkiola
- GP de rennes
- GP de vitré
- Fayt le Franc
- Paris-camenbert
- Tour du var
- Championnats de suisse
- Championnats de belgique
- Etapes 1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10 Supervolta a Portugal
- Volta ŕ regiăo do Algarve (tour complet - 5 étapes)
- GP PTT Correios de Portugal (tour complet - 3 étapes)
- Circuit de l'Ain (étape 3)
- Österreich Rundfahrt (étapes 1 & 2)
- Correction to Luxembourg Grand Prix time-trial

(Interface)
- Display of 1st three riders in intermediate sprints, mountain sprints and
final sprints. The table is displayed after passage of 3rd rider.
- Individual Time Trial : display of intermediate times for rider in box at
left of screen
- Individual Time Trial : elapsed time displayed in box at left of screen
- Individual Time Trial : % of slope displayed in box at left of screen
- Individual Time Trial : it is possible to change rider's gears even while
checking on another rider
- Corrections to errors in newspaper headlines which announced joint victories
when it was not the case.

(Options)
- The " Return to normal speed for important events", " Activate good/bad
feelings in multiplayer mode" and " Keep position in the pack" options are now
operational
- The impact of the Difficulty levels is now clearer

(Multiplayer)
- You can play ladder with this patch. The classifications of ladder games will
be display in few days.
- Clients can join the game easily on the first launch.
- Correction to bug which prevented, in some instances, player from joining an
existing game
- Correction to an eventual de-synchronisation between server and clients at
the end of a stage in "tour" mode
- Clients receive wind information
- Clients can take part in sprint bonuses

(3D)
- Addition to setup at start of game enabling the removal of "Hardware Mouse"
for players encountering the "invisible cursor" bug
- Correction to bug, which in Individual Time Trials, saw some riders not
leaving according to the normal reverse order in overall rankings
- old world Champions and old national champions have strips on their jersey
(only for players who have the "one texture per cyclist" option - need 1 Go
RAM)

(Career)
- One day races give you the money.
- Objectives now give points, financial rewards and career points for the
manager
- It is now possible to enrol less riders than the required minimum when a team
has less riders than the required minimum
- Invitations to all Cya Top Tour events (instead of just major tours)
- Fitness peaks now allow move to "Excellent" level


Patch 1.1R
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Patch for Pro Cycling Manager, Radsport Manager Pro 2005/2006
We urgently recommend to start a new career, in order to fully allow the patch
to work.

(Menus)
- the calculation of favorites in cobbled hilly races will incorporate the
cobble-ratings as of now
- cobbled stretches are now displayed in the stage profile through a greytone
- the newspaper will no longer be displayed after a simulated race
- on the loading page of stages (in the big tours) 22 instead of 21 teams will
be displayed now
- the chat-option works again. One can also see, who is online in a
multiplayer-race

(Classifications)
- as soon as a team has less than three riders in the race, this counts as an
abandon in the team ranking. This team will no longer displayed in the team
classification.

(Multiplayer)
- error in the upload of game results to the ladder corrected. The rankings
won't commence before next week (the exact date will be announced soon)

(3D)
- the riders will no longer disappear when using the "H" button
- new "dancing"-animation in the mountains added
- no more right click for the classifications
- riders no longer shake when the game is paused during cobblestone passages
- the error, in which riders would crash on the same spot or abandon every
time, has been corrected

(Career)
- error of double national champions in career-mode fixed (this only appeard
with simulated championships)
- gained points during training camps are no longer valid indefinitely
- simulating-settings adjusted (less abandons than before, reduced time gaps
and recuperations drops a bit slower)
- error fixed, through which one couldn't change teams after a season
- the game will now send a message, if it will hire you as a new team manager
- error, which prevented automatic training, fixed
- error, which prevented the player to sign in for races in the second season,
fixed
- error, through which one couldn't see the calendar entries in the second
season, fixed

(Gameplay)
- heart rhythm more under control than in version 1.0
- attacks more controlled than in version 1.0
- the red bar will fill up a bit slower at a high pulse rate
- the "free effort" order is less effective now; the red bar will fill up
faster because of this

(AI)
- error fixed, through which a team would defend the fourth place overall, even
if this defence wasn't up to them at all
- the fight for sprint bonifications in the peloton or in breakaways is more
tougher now

(Database and stages)
- several rider ratings adjusted
- stage races, which had no secondary classifications (Tour of Malaysia, Vuelta
Ciclista a Mallorca etc.), fixed
- new stages added: French championships, 4th stage of "5 Days of Dunkerque",
Haribo Classic, Benidorm - Valencia
- corrected at the end of the first stage in the Supergiro d'Italia: the
finishing stretch is more evened out now, which improves gameplay
- correction at the end of stage 11 in the Vuelta a Espańa: the arrival is now
rated as a mountaintop finish (riders now have a better chance to keep up in
the sprints); evened out finishing stretch.