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Boring intro, talking about my channel, I bet you're not here for that anyway. It really starts at 0"49'.
I saw many youtubers making vids about the improvements of the 2020 game but according to me they were way too incomplete, that's why I decided to make mine.
I'm gonna try to make the most complete video I can by adding all the informations that I found.
I went to many websites to collect informations and, honestly I found varied stuff so that's cool.
There's one thing that is clear : This won't be the TDF game with the biggest number of improvements we've seen, but still !
It's not the one with the least either and, frankly, there is things like, you probably heard that, next year, Liège-Bastogne-Liège will be in the game as a playable stage.
You probably heard about... hmm idk after all it's argh, actually, no, the FPS view...
The FPS view, by the way that is a novelty that I announced in a post in my community section
But, there a lot of improvements, innovations that sliped through the net and this what this video is made for.
To make this video, I didn't invent. My sources are the official Discord, a swedish website and the french website "Micromania", links in the description.
So, the key art, 95% of you already knew it but this year, Julian Alaphilippe will be on the key art.
Frankly, it's stylish as f***.
They made a big effort on it so I love this Key Art.
Aaaaaaaaaand, as you will notice, it's a good point for all the marketing stuff for Cyanide and they made a big big effort on that point too.
Well, actually I think that Nacon deals with it, I don't know much about it forgive me.
So, I wrote something about their marketing, if I'm right, that's a Master Stroke.
The game'll be released on June the 6th.
When I learnt that I was like "Damn that's a bit early, usually it's way later, around the 25th."
and you would probably say "Yes but this year, the Tour was supposed to start earlier than the previous years so they decided to release the game earlier too."
Yes, you're right but they could've decided to release the game the 11th or the 18th (it's always on a thursday).
Because in 2019 the game was released the 27th while the Tour started on the 4th or the 6th, the 6th I guess. That's one week and a half earlier.
This year it's 2 or 3 weeks and a half earlier.
they could've decided to release the game the 11th or the 18th (it's always on a thursday).
So, according to me, if they chose the 4th, it's to So wait wait that's my theory it might sound harebrained.
It's to make the seasoned players (the ones buying it as soon as the game is released) telling them about all the bugs
That way, they fix them all before the Tour starts.
People that don't know much about cycling, who are just watching the Tour, they see an add talking about the Tour de France game and they see ALLAPHILIPPE ON THE KEY ART they be like :
Hell, Imma buy this game. Hop, they buy it AND they buy it with no bug because Cyanide fixed them all helped by the seasoned players.
So, that's it for my theory about why is the game released so early this year.
You probably want to tell me that I rup them up the right way... and this is completely true.
But I really think that this is a year not to be failed for Cyanide.
There's a big hype surrounding the french cycling community after the Tour de France 2019 due to Pinot and Alaphilippe's performances.
People will watch the 2019 edition, they will see ads about the game, they will buy it so Cyanide has to make a good game for these new customers.
They have to make a good game I feel like it's now or never. The community will grow.
Concerning the game itself, since 2017, we've been left hungry for more.
So it's going to be a crucial year, a pivotal year for the franchise.
Well, I hope that they won't be lacking. Like I said, they recruited a good Community Manager, his name is Benjamin.
He's really active on the Discord server and on Twitter.
He answers to most of our questions, I really like him.
So they try to make the thing better. Of course I'm rupping them up the right way but I'm pretty happy about how they react in comparaison to last year.
Because last year, let's be honest, it was a real disaster.
I'm rupping them up the right way since the beginning of this video but honestly, in 2019 it was a real catastrophe.
We learnt the 26th that the game would be released the 27th :)
Anyway, it's was nonsense
So that was my little theory on why is the game released so early, I hope I'm right
In any case, I said what I wanted to, let's talk about the improvements of this year.
But I found it important to clarify that and tell my 'theory'.
So, let's start with THE innovation : The 21 stages of the Tour de France 2020.
I don't get why they think that it's a novelty, let's be honest, let's be honest.
Hey, Im' buying the 2020 game, I HOPE that I will be able to play the the 21 new stages you know what I mean ?
Because if I buy the game without the 2020 stages...
Well, it shouldn't be considered as a novelty, anyway...
Anyway, they are here, Thank God. Imagine you buy the game and you can't even play to the 2020 stages lmao
For the Tour de France 2020, all the 22 teams will have the official licenses and jerseys and that's a really good thing.
Ineos finally decided to give the license to Cyanide while, the last year they didn't accept so we only had these awful jerseys "Team Sea"
So, we have all the licenses and jerseys and I think that we have all the real names except one team, Deceuninck, so that's great.
We also have Continental Pro teams that participate to the Tour de France and we have the 19 World Tour because Israel and Cofidis sticked their noses.
And we have Arkéa, Vital-Concept and Total participating
I took a census of 4 Continental Teams that don't participate : Circuis-Wanty, Nippo Delko, Bingoal-Wallonie and Alpecin-Fenix.
IIRC, they was 5 teams not participating last years or maybe I missed one
In any case it doesn't matter that much
It was really important to say : We have all the licenses this year and that's another proof of the efforts made by Cyanide.
I feel like Cyanide focuses a lot on the new costumers who will buy the game during the Tour/
They must think about them like "if these guys buy the game and don't find Team Ineos he will be like 'What the f*ck is that game I just bought'"
Now, all the teams and licenses are in the game except the names for Deceuninck and, anyway, the new customers doesn't know the names of the riders.
However, he knows the jerseys. So if he sees a Team Sea he will feel like the game is trash.
Now, all the jerseys are in the game, that's something really good for the game, the new customers and even us the seasoned players.
Given that we are talking about the equipments, they add a little thing, the Lazer equipments for Jumbo-Visma and Sunweb.
Personalized helmets, it's not really important I wanted to inform you about it.
Sh*t, I'm dumb, I forgot to mention that the game was going to be released on PC for the forst time this year.
It's quite interesting because a lot of persons only play PCM and I know that they will buy the game to test it so that's a great thing for the marketing.
People who only have a computer can't play TDF and finally they'll be able to.
I keep saying it but I really feel like this is their year. I think that they won't disappoint us and I hope that they won't disappoint us. It would be disappointing to be disappointed.
We have finished for all the basic stuff, so, as I posted in my community tab we will have 88 stages.
And amongst these stages, we will have the Tour de France 2020 ones [laugh] Thank God but especially that one, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a third monument.
After Paris-Roubaix in 2018, The Ronde in 2019, La Doyenne joins us in 2020.
I already smell some of you all saying "So will we have Milan-San Remo in 2021 ?"
No, NO KEVIN, there will not obviously be Milan-San Remo in 2021.
Because these races are located in the Francophone countries (De Ronde is in the flamish part but still, Belgium is a french-speaking country too).
And I don't think that Cyanide would like to venture on races with licenses they don't even owe. In Italia so there's nothing about France.
I think that.. I think that it will be the last Monument.
We may have Bretagne Classic or Paris-Tours in the future (I forgot to mention Flèche Wallonne)
But no more Monuments, LBL will be the last before a long long time.
I don't think that they will add MSR in 2021 but anyway.
Let's keep on that innovation which is LBL and I'm really happy about it
The only thing that disappoints me a bit is that they will do the 2019 route, which is the one with the finish in Liège after a descent.
And that's a shame because I'd rather see the finish in Ans with the Côte d'Ans but that's a detail.
A BIG BIG BIG BIG BOMBSHELL that Cyanide spilt...
The improvement of the A.I.
Yep, The A.I. has been improved no one wanted that and no one expected that either. Every year, they tell us that the A.I is improved but do we relly see it in the gameplay...
Of course, it's the same as the 21 stages of the Tour de France 2020, I don't consider that a innovation you know.
This is logic, you make a new game, the A.I. is improved, it shouldn't be mentionned.
Well, it will be improved.
It makes me laugh the fact that they say it every year
It will be more agressive and more enterprising, careful, it changes everything because, because...
This is exactly what they say every year and do we really feel it in game, well.
I said that I was starting with the biggest improvements but let's start with the smallest ones
Improvement of the Online Mode.
This is a mode that... I'm going to be really honest : If they removed it, it wouldn't have hurt me.
In any case, they improve it, I hope it will be playable and functional because last year it was a catastrophe, they really didn't care about it. They improved it when nobody was still playing online.
I hope it will be a real improvement, something interesting. I hope that we will play against real players and not robots.
Once more, for the minor innovations, a reworking of the interface.
More details about the environment and I don't talk about the meteo.
More details about the opponents, the route, the slopes of every pass of the day.
"I THINK THAT I DIDN'T CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND THAT INFORMATION SO TREAT IT CAUTIOUSLY"
Actually, I say that this is a minor innovation but... it is something that will make it easier for us.
Given that we're talking about the gameplay, let's talk about one of the biggest improvements : the FPS View.
I show you images about it.
the FPS view, that's really cool.
Will it be too hard at the beginning... yes but I think that little by little it will be even funnier, cooler too.
Sprints, falls
In any case, I don't consider that innovation as "minor" far from it.
It's something that can revolutionise the gameplay, honestly. It can litteraly change everything, more immersion.
That's a cool innovation, I don't remember a lot of people asking for that but we'll surely take it. I personnaly don't refuse.
Given that we were talking about the interface and that we start ton interfere in the gameplay stuff, I was wondering : When they talk about the Interface when we launch a game or the interface while we are playing ?
Because that one received a lot of modifications too.
So the profiles has been changed as you can see. Here's an example with the la Planche de Belles Filles time trial. This is what a profile in TDF 20 looks like.
It's not..... I prefered the ones in TDF 19 well we'll see.
It's only a time trial, maybe that on a normal stage there are more precisions, I don't know.
Let's talk about the time-trials then, who have clearly been improved this year.
Maybe you found them boring before.
And now, there will be way more management on the time-trails because now you will have to... there will be more management, well.
Im' going to read a text the community manager gave us on the Discord server.
""Your rider is now able to recover during the time-trials"" Yes because before, maybe you never noticed it but we weren't able to recover.
We were able to lose energy but not to gain some. From now on, we will be able to recover in time-trials, like in a normal stage.
Now there will be management surrounding the bike
The bike must be used at best to make a good time trial. YOU are the one that decides when you use the aerodynamic position.
Because before, the aerodynamic or time trial position was set off during the entire time trial.
with the hands on the handlebars.
From now on, you have to get this position when you think that you must do it. When you think that it's better to go back on a normal position, you go back on
For example in turns or technical zones
""This position, where the rider uses the extension located on the handlebars, allows to reduce the resistance against air and then to ride faster without spending more energy. Be Careful, this position can't be conserved permanently."
You can't keep it during the whole time trial, I think that the game will tell you when you have to stop it or something like that.
Given that ""It's really hard to turn because you must be even more attentive to your trajectory. Likewise, if the rider doesn't run fast enough, this position will be useless and you will lose more time than you could think and you will have to go even faster out the saddle."
If you're on a portion where you'd rather not go too fast, it's preferable to keep on a basic position rather than a time trial position.
""Take a time trial position gives the possibility to regulate your effort accurately thanks to the speed regulator"" The speed regulator that will now be available on time trials.
It's here since 2016, and it's finally on time trials.
I think that they didn't give this possibility before because You would just have to activate it and then it's over you just have to care about trajectory.
Now that there is a real management, they can let us use this so anyway we have to be attentive.
That's a good point to improve the time trials because, according to me, they needed to be reworked, they were a bit monotonous, not funny to play.
Now it will be way cooler, more interesting.
A speed regulator that will allow you to get efforts similar to attacks without lauching an attack out the saddle though.
You will be able to as fast as if you were attacking but not out the saddle. That's what I understand. It will allow you to relay even harder so yes.
We'll go as fast as if we were attacking but without attacking. Well I ain't saying anything I let you make yourself an opinion.
We're done with the gameplays and the time trials the only bad thing is that we will be able to control only 1 rider so we can't play with either your rouleur and your leader.
Well, the improvements are quite good so, let's not ask for too much.
WAIT WAIT WAIT. It's not over yet for the gameplay because 'The motivation in races. At each race, the motivation and the mental health of your riders will be linked to the key events like a stage win.
Here I say that I don't invent it but go down to the comment section, I might have made a mistake :(.
Anyway, a rider at his top will be able to surpass himself during tension phases like when the peloton goes faster or during the final sprint...
Like, he will get a +2 to his stats during 5 minutes and he will surpass himself.
Blablabla that's a good thing...
In conclusion let's go to the Pro Team and the Pro Leader but only Pro Team because nothing has been announced about the Pro Leader.
Anyway, the Pro Team has improvements and I'm gonna list them.
So, I'm not going to subtitle this because, as I said in the comments, this is for the Career mode on PCM and not the Pro Team mode. x(
This is over thanks for watching I hope it was complete enough and sorry for the last minutes where I was talking about PCM and not TDF X(
I'll be back on June the 6th because Cyanide would've warned me if I was supposed to receive the game earlier X)
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