Be sure to check if one of the interested team is going to be in the cwt category next year. I did the same joining arkea for season 3 when I was sure that arkea was going to move up from cnt pro to cwt
My vote is get a couple of World Tour Team in there, but do it as a tutorial video for editing the database so others can do the same when the game fucks them.
Go to WT but make sure it is Quick Step. I can‘t wait for Partick Lefevre writing nasty newspaper comments when this Naesen boy doesn‘t want to pull on the front. 😂
I have played multiple pro cyclist careers for the last 5 years on different editions. The game engine works the same every time whatever your results or stats are. I had a career where I won RVV, Roubaix and the Belgian nationals and Worlds (road) in my 3rd season. Only "big" World tour team interested was Movistar for a classics sprinter. Year1: Offers from continental teams Year2: Offers from the best continental teams and lesser pro continental teams Year3: Offers from the best pro continental teams end lesser world tour teams Year4: Offers from the best World tour teams This means you can ride for teams like Ineos, Visma, Bora, Soudal, ... the 5th season at earliest. At that time some of them have been replaced already by another sponsor with no custom champion kits. (I know you can edit the length of sponsorships in the DB) In my opinion you have 2 options to keep the game real and enjoyable: 1) Change the interested teams. 2) (temporarily) Change your stats if you don't change the interested teams. At the end of season 2 you'll probably have one or more stats at 80 or above. I really like that there's a cycling game like this, but without the modding and the WorldDB community the game wouldn't be half as enjoyable.
Do you know a lot about editing? I'm trying to edit my save file (fast editor), i want to go to a certain team and they were interested but i didn't receive an offer. I tried changing the contract offers but it just doesn't change for me ingame 😢.
Gent Wevelgem was an amazing race! After being treated like that you should definitely change teams and looking at a Top 3 in a World Tour race you should be getting a contract by a World Tour team for sure, so I would like it if you would put e.g. some Belgian or Dutch World Tour teams in the list.
Hey the reason why you constantly get negative days is because your preparation % is very bad. You should put one "race specific preparation" every single week in your training. this way you % will go up and you will have mostly positive days! (also put in some "social life" this will also cranck up your positive days to +5's) also check the map a few km before the finish so you can check if there are corners ;) edit: i don't think you can get +5 days you need to go to settings and change something to get +5's
The reason I got negative days in this specific video is because my rider peaked form in the last video and these races were during a recovery week. And yeah, +3 is the maximum in my playthrough as I don't play with +5 in my settings. It's a choice, I don't like +5 and -5, too unrealistic.
remember you can scout some info off riders in race by clicking the magnifying glass at the top right of their attributes. Makes a big difference if you know MvdP has a +3 or a -3
Go for world tour. pro cyclist mode is my favorite mode but there are some things to consider, e.g. you have to win at least a race pre April 1st for higher ranked teams to be interested in you. as you're in season 2 and started with a pro team, id except you to need at least 5 wins for some world tour teams to be interested in you.
You're not getting WT offers cos you're not winning! Need to look at smaller races and pick off easy wins to up your chances. Took me 3 seasons to get a WT contract. Started at conti moves to a better conti, then pro conti before WT. On 24 wins now, which isn't great but now I have Groenewegen as a leadout man, which works beautifully
Stay at Pro Conti. You didn't get any victories so the system doesn't raise your attractability level. What WT team would sign a sprinter who's never won a sprint
You should cheat the game to get worldtour teams interested in you, because young and talaneted rider who are getting picked up very early so it is very realistic. And I think it's also better to do this so you stay interested in playing PCM for a little bit longer.
06:30 You really need to train better before upgrading your attributes. If Puncheur was on 95 or higher, you would have gotten more than 2 points for your Hill stat. There is really no sense in training two stats at the same time...
@@BenjiNaesenTVyea you need to have at least one “upgrade path” at 100% at all times, to get the full upgrade every time you level up, you won’t reach you potential if you don’t.
Should have attacked at the end, looked like everyone was dead. I always say, this is an arcade game, not a simulation. Play the tactics, not the energy bars.
Be sure to check if one of the interested team is going to be in the cwt category next year. I did the same joining arkea for season 3 when I was sure that arkea was going to move up from cnt pro to cwt
Go to WT, unrealistic if you stay at Flanders another year.
i agree
I say join a world tour team next year
My vote is get a couple of World Tour Team in there, but do it as a tutorial video for editing the database so others can do the same when the game fucks them.
Go to WT but make sure it is Quick Step. I can‘t wait for Partick Lefevre writing nasty newspaper comments when this Naesen boy doesn‘t want to pull on the front. 😂
I have played multiple pro cyclist careers for the last 5 years on different editions.
The game engine works the same every time whatever your results or stats are. I had a career where I won RVV, Roubaix and the Belgian nationals and Worlds (road) in my 3rd season. Only "big" World tour team interested was Movistar for a classics sprinter.
Year1: Offers from continental teams
Year2: Offers from the best continental teams and lesser pro continental teams
Year3: Offers from the best pro continental teams end lesser world tour teams
Year4: Offers from the best World tour teams
This means you can ride for teams like Ineos, Visma, Bora, Soudal, ... the 5th season at earliest. At that time some of them have been replaced already by another sponsor with no custom champion kits. (I know you can edit the length of sponsorships in the DB)
In my opinion you have 2 options to keep the game real and enjoyable:
1) Change the interested teams.
2) (temporarily) Change your stats if you don't change the interested teams. At the end of season 2 you'll probably have one or more stats at 80 or above.
I really like that there's a cycling game like this, but without the modding and the WorldDB community the game wouldn't be half as enjoyable.
Do you know a lot about editing? I'm trying to edit my save file (fast editor), i want to go to a certain team and they were interested but i didn't receive an offer. I tried changing the contract offers but it just doesn't change for me ingame 😢.
@@MrJrn89 If you have a save file from before the opening of the window you can set the team interest to 100.
Gent Wevelgem was an amazing race! After being treated like that you should definitely change teams and looking at a Top 3 in a World Tour race you should be getting a contract by a World Tour team for sure, so I would like it if you would put e.g. some Belgian or Dutch World Tour teams in the list.
Hey the reason why you constantly get negative days is because your preparation % is very bad. You should put one "race specific preparation" every single week in your training. this way you % will go up and you will have mostly positive days! (also put in some "social life" this will also cranck up your positive days to +5's)
also check the map a few km before the finish so you can check if there are corners ;)
edit: i don't think you can get +5 days you need to go to settings and change something to get +5's
The reason I got negative days in this specific video is because my rider peaked form in the last video and these races were during a recovery week. And yeah, +3 is the maximum in my playthrough as I don't play with +5 in my settings. It's a choice, I don't like +5 and -5, too unrealistic.
yeah just add som world tour teams maybe do like a random roulette to not really "choose" with realistic teams like quickstep or things like that
love you comments about the game mechanics ... but we both know nothing will ever change!
remember you can scout some info off riders in race by clicking the magnifying glass at the top right of their attributes. Makes a big difference if you know MvdP has a +3 or a -3
Yeah, I should use it more. I've used it a few times off-camera but I use it too little.
Endure the pain. You are playing PCM and pain is part of the package.
No cheat, that's what other players have to do.
Team „don’t cheat the save “ (but pro team Burgos or any other team)
Go for world tour. pro cyclist mode is my favorite mode but there are some things to consider, e.g. you have to win at least a race pre April 1st for higher ranked teams to be interested in you. as you're in season 2 and started with a pro team, id except you to need at least 5 wins for some world tour teams to be interested in you.
You're not getting WT offers cos you're not winning! Need to look at smaller races and pick off easy wins to up your chances. Took me 3 seasons to get a WT contract. Started at conti moves to a better conti, then pro conti before WT. On 24 wins now, which isn't great but now I have Groenewegen as a leadout man, which works beautifully
Don't cheat the save imo, just have to cop it
benji crashout series was not on my bingo card lmao
Well you havent won a single race this year… 😅
Change Team, but dont edit.
Stay at Pro Conti. You didn't get any victories so the system doesn't raise your attractability level. What WT team would sign a sprinter who's never won a sprint
Every WT team would sign a guy podiuming GW and Brugge-De Panne. Literally every single one.
3:09 look at the map de
Spent the episode moaning about your results and then complain when the WT teams aren’t queuing up to sign you! 😂
Mogelijks gaat één van deze ploegen mede door je renner naar WT niveau in het volgende seizoen?
Loads of f's this episode...I'd say go for WT.
You should cheat the game to get worldtour teams interested in you, because young and talaneted rider who are getting picked up very early so it is very realistic. And I think it's also better to do this so you stay interested in playing PCM for a little bit longer.
06:30 You really need to train better before upgrading your attributes. If Puncheur was on 95 or higher, you would have gotten more than 2 points for your Hill stat. There is really no sense in training two stats at the same time...
I didn't train 2 stats at the same time while training puncheur so it wouldn't have changed anything, but good to know I shouldn't in the future.
@@BenjiNaesenTVyea you need to have at least one “upgrade path” at 100% at all times, to get the full upgrade every time you level up, you won’t reach you potential if you don’t.
Go to a world tour team, but maybe not the best one and one with limited help in the cobbled classics
You only get WT offers from level 13 or something
Should have attacked at the end, looked like everyone was dead. I always say, this is an arcade game, not a simulation. Play the tactics, not the energy bars.
Definitely change the save file
Go to WT
Win some races! Ha
You're supposed to sprint at 1km to go in this game not sprint with 3 riders in the last km.
Go to WT, Flanders is not it
Your reputation is low so WT teams are not interested
Use the editor. This game are so pathetic with all the bullshit it gives.
cheat it its a bad game it shouldnt do this