- Update v1.4.11.555
- Career
- Improved planning: limited the number of Grand Tours that can be assigned to team-mates in their race schedule. Depending on their age and position in the hierarchy, this limit now ranges from 0 to 2.
- Improved planning: reduced the chances of young riders receiving a second Grand Tour in their race schedule.
- Improved planning: changed the scheduling algorithm to reduce cases where lower-ranked riders do not receive some of the races from their Season Programme in their race schedule. This can still occur naturally when a Season Programme is heavily used, as the number of available slots for a given race is limited.
- Bug fix: when using the Groups or Season Programmes filters, assigning a Season Programme to a rider could also apply it to riders hidden by the filter, overwriting their selection.
- Bug fix: in the Hierarchy and Groups tabs, cancelling the confirmation pop-up would still save the change.
- Fixed a possible crash that could occur on January 5th of Season 2.
- Pro Cyclist
- Bug fix: starting a game with a real Pro Cyclist whose database entry forced retirement would remove the rider and block progression in Season 2.
- Update v1.4.2.535:
- Race
- Major improvements to AI riders' energy management. These changes impact the entire game and increase the challenge provided by the AI. The AI now analyzes the course more accurately and better identifies the sections where it should increase its effort and those where it is better to recover. Leader-versus-leader behavior has also been improved, along with domestiques' effort management.
- Improvements to hilly cobbled races (Flemish Classics). The AI previously applied strategies better suited to flat classics without fully taking the climbs into account.
- Fixed an issue where the leader of a smaller team could sometimes join the early breakaway during less important stages at the beginning of a stage race.
- Individual Time Trial: fixed an issue where riders would not pedal on the start ramp.
- Fixed an issue that prevented riders from moving backward within a group while descending, even with reduced effort.
- Fixed a possible crash when using the sprint train feature during a race.
- Pro Cyclist
- Teammate Requests: fixed an issue preventing teammate requests from being properly taken into account.
- Added Peak Form for Pro Cyclist. It now activates during "A" Targets when your form is at least 90%.
- Added the ability to activate the Willpower skill during any stage of a stage race, instead of only the first one.
- Fixed an issue where the 20% secondary axis training bonus was sometimes applied to the wrong attribute.
- Career
- Planning: fixed an issue where the recalculation button did not take all changes into account, including hierarchy and group orientation changes.
- Peak Form: reduced its effect on daily form to +1 (instead of +2).
- UI
- Reworked the Detailed Simulation / Instant Results button.
- Career: fixed an issue where a rider's race schedule was not always displayed correctly.
- Race: fixed an issue where "points of interest" informations could sometimes be cut off.
- Team Time Trial: added an icon indicating which timing rule is used (time taken on the 1st or 4th rider).
- Engine / 3D
- Fixed water surfaces not being rendered when using the "Low" and "Very Low" graphics settings.
- Various optimizations.
- Modding
- Fixed an issue that could trigger a "Fail to validate textures" error message when uploading a mod.
- Database
- Added rider photos (U23 and Continental teams).
- Numerous rider stats updates.