First Patch - Open Beta

Dear players

A new beta patch for Tour de France 2025 (version 01.04.01.1119) is now available on Steam!

You can now test it in advance via the Open Beta branch.

🔧 How to join the Open Beta:

• Open Steam > Go to your Library

• Right-click on Tour de France 2025 > Click Properties

• Go to the Betas tab and select open-beta from the dropdown

If you encounter any bugs or want to share feedback on our Discord, please add [OPEN BETA] in your message title so we can track it more easily!

🛠️ Patch Notes:

Visuals

• Improvement: More realistic lighting and skies in stages

• Improvement: More realistic transitions between grass and dirt areas

• AdjustedImprovementUpdated podium for fictional races
• AdjustedImprovementReduced ghosting effects of wheels in dark areas

• Addition: Vuelta and Italia jerseys in MyTour influence the sponsors displayed during races

• Fix: Riders flying at the start of an individual time trial

• Update: Canyon frames for Movistar and Alpecin

Gameplay

• Adjustment: Easier to stay in the wheels during the finale of a stage ending in a bunch sprint

• Adjustment: Opponents no longer push the player’s riders in tight corners

• Adjustment: 1 extra second of effect for TurboGel

• Adjustment: 1 additional second before the automatic triggering of TurboGel

• Adjustment: Slight reduction in the number of cases where leaders skip major races

• AdjustedAdjustmentReduced influence of the Hills stat on cobbled climbs

• Fix: Simulating Paris-Roubaix in Pro Team/Leader results in unrealistic winners

• Fix: Riders do not stand on the pedals in time trials

• Fix: Wind protection in sprint trains was incorrectly calculated, causing energy inconsistencies

• Fix: Flèche Wallonne trophies do not unlock under the correct conditions

• Fix: Incorrect display of information panels in menus

• Fix: Pro Leader general classification missions can be completed in classics

• Fix: “Pass a Mountain Grand Prix in the lead” missions can be validated in classics

• Fix: Variant stages do not trigger

AI Behavior

• Fix: A co-leader no longer waits for a dropped co-leader to help

• Fix: A good sprinter who is dropped and has no energy left is no longer waited for

• Fix: In bunch sprints, riders no longer try to follow exhausted riders

• Improvement: AI riders are more likely to collaborate with the player in breakaways, reducing cases where they do nothing

• AdjustedImprovementIncreased energy consumption for riders in the grupetto

Interface

• Addition: Warning message during races when AI wants the player’s team to lead the chase

• Fix: Incorrect race icon in the fitness calendar in Pro Team/Leader

• Fix: Incorrect icons for “TurboGel and Attack” and “Follow Attacks” commands

• Fix: “Take TurboGel and Relieve” command is unavailable even when the rider has TurboGel

• Fix: Incorrect “Follow Attacks” icon after the final feeding zone

• Fix: Commands are grayed out when selecting multiple riders

• Fix: TurboGel effect is lost if used from the radio menu and the menu is then closed

• Fix: Credits continue to scroll over other menus

• Fix: Texts contain development characters

• Fix: Riders switched from "starter" to "substitute" are not sorted correctly

• Fix: Rider names during races are not correctly placed

• Fix: In Pro Team/Leader, the game purchases the rider at the top of the list, not the one selected

Database

• Updated rider stats

• Updated startlist for Critérium du Dauphiné

• Updated Legends

• Corrected national teams for Legends

Club Tour

• Improvement: Automatic reconnection in the lobby when the connection is restored

• Fix: All riders stop just after the finish line

• Fix: “One rider per team” setting has no effect

Miscellaneous

• Improvement: No longer necessary to restart the game for premium pack stages to appear

• Fix: Various crash