Publisher Nacon and developer Cyanide Studio have just revealed the new Tour de France 2022 game mode called the Race of the Moment, which is a competitive mode for virtual cyclists from around to world to test out their skills.
This comes ahead of the game’s launch next week on 9th June, where it will be available on the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Watch the new trailer of the competitive game mode below:
Every week, players can seek competition with a new challenge. The challenges will vary, where a rider can take control of a specific team, try to reach a certain goal, and aim to score the most points they can get in a mountain stage, all to get to the top of the rankings.
Each player’s weekly performance will then be shown on the online leaderboard, which means there will be a new winner each week. You will be awarded bonus points according to your ranking, where these points will then be counted towards the monthly and yearly ranking, award badges to indicate the best result.
The difficulty in the competitive game mode will be the same for all participants. It will also not be possible to save right in the middle of the stage to bring in replacements. Therefore, you will have to plan out the best strategy for the situation in order to beat other competitors.
Tour de France 2022 Key Features:
- New game mode: Tour de France 2022 introduces the all-new Race of the Moment mode, in which players can compare their results online with others in ranked weekly challenges.
- The new official course of the 2022 Tour de France: like previous years, players can race around France, this year starting from Denmark. All 21 official new stages are in the game, including the time trial in Copenhagen to start, then Lille Métropole – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut and its cobbled sections, the iconic Hautacam climb in the 18th stage, and the final flat stage on the famous Avenue des Champs-Elysées in Paris.
- More varied racing situations: the game’s artificial intelligence now offers a wider range of behaviours, which are better tailored to races and events. Players will experience early breakaways more often and enjoy better collaboration in breakaways.
- New classic inspired by a famous Italian race: the Primavera Classic.
- New playable teams: Eolo-Kometa Cycling Team, Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and Uno-X Pro Cycling Team join the game for the first time.
- Race incidents: players now have the option to enable or disable falls and illnesses as well as set the frequency when enabled. The consequences vary depending on the severity of the incident.
- Race preparation: this new system randomly selects five cyclists to be well prepared and five others who could potentially underperform. This encourages players to keep a close eye on their competitors as well as their own team.
- More immersive cobbled sections: when racing on these difficult sections, the user interface shudders, just like cyclists experience in real life. Players have never experienced the Arenberg trench like this before.
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