Hello fellow PCM players! I have, since the start of my PCM playing days (which was PCM 2) been playing on 'Normal' difficulty. Not because I thought the other ones were too hard, just because I never thought about changing it. And now I'm wondering. If I change the difficulty to hard, or even extreme, does the race get more unpredictable (it seems to have gotten a bit predictable for me), and/or does the game get more realistic?
Thanks in advance!
PS: Mini question! In PCM when you look at the different groups in the race (peloton, e1, e2, etc), some of the riders have colors. There's the obvious yellow jersey, white jersey etc, but sometimes a rider is in the color orange. What exactly does this mean?
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I don't know but I think it gets even more predictable as all the riders of the other teams get better (stat*something) so the better riders get more better than the weaker ones, I am not sure though
Yellow: yellow jersey, green: green jersey, red: polka jersey, white: white jersey, orange: favourite for the stage, blue: rider of your team
When you choose "Hard" , riders get 2,5+ in all stats. That was in last (or in PCM11) version,not sure about this , but i think it's still like that.
I had same problem,played PCM09 and PCM10 on Normal , and it was pretty normal () for me, since it was great fight in GC etc,etc. After that, in PCM12 i started to being a bit stronger and to win any race i enter with bigger squad,changed to Hard and i struggled first month or something,but really it became interesting now. As you say , it's more "unpredictable" and everything. Now , i am thinking to turn on "Extreme" , since mountain AI is much better (easier for me) and it was my only big problem in PCM12 version.
Good luck anyway,enjoy the game whatever difficulty you choose!
admirschleck wrote:
When you choose "Hard" , riders get 2,5+ in all stats. That was in last (or in PCM11) version,not sure about this , but i think it's still like that.
I had same problem,played PCM09 and PCM10 on Normal , and it was pretty normal () for me, since it was great fight in GC etc,etc. After that, in PCM12 i started to being a bit stronger and to win any race i enter with bigger squad,changed to Hard and i struggled first month or something,but really it became interesting now. As you say , it's more "unpredictable" and everything. Now , i am thinking to turn on "Extreme" , since mountain AI is much better (easier for me) and it was my only big problem in PCM12 version.
Good luck anyway,enjoy the game whatever difficulty you choose!
Ohh, they get a 2,5 boost? That boost is 'hidden' right? Like, a 82 rider will play like a 84,5 but it still says in his stats, that its 82, right?.
I just cranked it up to Hard today, and started a new career
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admirschleck wrote:
When you choose "Hard" , riders get 2,5+ in all stats. That was in last (or in PCM11) version,not sure about this , but i think it's still like that.
It's actually a % bonus (+2,5% stat bonus for AI riders in hard, +5% in Extreme)
admirschleck wrote:
When you choose "Hard" , riders get 2,5+ in all stats. That was in last (or in PCM11) version,not sure about this , but i think it's still like that.
It's actually a % bonus (+2,5% stat bonus for AI riders in hard, +5% in Extreme)
The gameplay doesn't change.
Okay, the 2,5% seems better. So, its only a stat increase, and not a intelligence increase?
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
) for me, since it was great fight in GC etc,etc. After that, in PCM12 i started to being a bit stronger and to win any race i enter with bigger squad,changed to Hard and i struggled first month or something,but really it became interesting now. As you say , it's more "unpredictable" and everything. Now , i am thinking to turn on "Extreme" , since mountain AI is much better (easier for me) and it was my only big problem in PCM12 version.
Thank you! The blue one I figured out on my own, but thanks anyway!
