Pro Cycling Manager 26 · published
Dear managers,
The Patch 7 for PCM 26 is now available in Open Beta on Steam!
You can report bugs or share suggestions on the game Discord server:
Career
Planner: Experienced players can now modify their planning before confirming the calendar, offering greater flexibility.
Fitness: Adjusted and improved the calculation of target fitness periods in the Planner.
This year, we redesigned the planning system to better integrate its different elements, improve automation, make AI teams' planning decisions more relevant, and make the system easier for new players to get to grips with.
However, in some areas, we went too far with automation, without taking sufficient account of the habits and expectations of our most experienced players, some of whom have hundreds or even thousands of hours of playtime.
Your feedback has helped us better understand these limitations, and the Patch 7 is a first step towards addressing them, giving you more freedom to organise your riders' programmes.
The current system provides a solid foundation for further development. We have a clear vision of what we want it to become in the long term, and several ideas in mind for continuing to develop it in that direction.
Patch 7 changes when you can manage your riders' programmes and sponsor objectives, bringing these options forward to give you more flexibility.
Before
After (PCM 26 - Patch 7 - 1.11.x)
Rider planning
❌ You could only modify your riders’ programmes once the team calendar had been locked.
✅From 2 January, you can modify your riders’ programmes while adding or removing races from the team calendar.
Sponsor objectives
❌ Sponsor race objectives could only be modified on 4 January, after the team calendar had been closed.
✅Sponsor race objectives can now be modified between 2 and 4 January, allowing you to adjust them to match your riders’ programmes.
Before
After (PCM 26 - Patch 7 - 1.11.x)
Fitness validation
Until 2 January
Unchanged
Season programme calculated and editable
5 January
2 January
Rider programmes calculated and editable
5 January
2 January
Cya World Tour calendar
Request deadline: 2 January; responses: 3 January
Unchanged
Other races in the calendar
Deadline for the entire year: 3 January
Deadlines for other races in the calendar:
January to March: 3 January
April and May: 15 March
June and July: 15 May
August to October: 15 July
Please note: if you choose to delete the automatically generated elements and plan your riders’ programmes manually, you will be responsible for the entire planning process. The assistant will not override your choices and thus not complete the planning.
In the future, we would like to offer you a semi-manual approach: you could plan some of your riders or races yourself, then let the assistant fill in the rest.
However, this would require significant changes to the planning system, as well as additional interface features to give you enough freedom and control. Unfortunately, this will not be possible within the scope of the PCM 26 patches, but we are keeping this possibility in mind for the future.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support. Your feedback plays an important role in helping us improve PCM 26!