NGL BIATHLON

Hi guys,

Great game! I don't know how difficult it will be but please add the ability to add bots in online races. Currently we are 3 guys playing and it will be way more fun to race against 15 bots, for example.

Keep up the good work!

Hello

Thank you for adding the winner announcement in the upcoming update(25.3) and even if someone wins the wow globe it looks great. I just want to compliment you on the great game design and also suggest some improvements.

1. Athletes

  Recently, I see a lot of promising biathletes in Biathlon who could definitely come into the game, especially in the weaker teams, so that there are more relays as needed (Bulgaria, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Japan, Korea and more)

Women: Valentina Dimitrova, Tamara Steiner, Lea Rothschopp, Lora Hristova, Ema Kapustova, Zuzana Remenova, Kristina Oberthaler, Noora Kaisa Keranen, Lidiia Zhurauskaite, Natalia Sidorowich, Anastassia Tolmacheva, Lena Repinc, Lea Meier, Margie Freed and also Khrystyna Dmytrenko (was excellent in NMNM)

Men: Blagoy Todev, Tomas Mikyska, Vitezslav Hornig, Dominik Unterweger, Markus Oberhauser, Mikulas Karlik, Kristo Siimer, Heikki Laitinen, Vladislav Kireyev, Renars Birkentals, Tomas Kaukenas, Maksim Fomin, Jokubas Mackine, Maksim Makarov, Jan Gunka, Marcin Zawol, George Coltea, Dmitrii Shamaev, Matic Repnik, Victor Brandt, Johan Olav Botn, Danillo Riethmuller, Maxime Germain, Vincent Bonacci, Elia Zeni.

2. Relays

Sometimes it happens to me that I can set up 24 relays like at the World Championships, but unfortunately three random countries throw it out for me, so in the future 30 states so that we can put together more relays, plus when the circuit is short, it happens that Norway finishes maybe five teams around, it would be good to have a circuit at least somewhat realistic, because the leading teams will slowly slow them down, it would also be good to have DNS or LAP when they pass someone, or DSQ when someone uses mistakes in the game to their advantage.

3. New Tracks

I would also definitely appreciate new routes like (Ridnau, Idre, Sjusnoen, Brezno, Arber, Obertiliach for IBU competitions)

4. More Starters

I would appreciate it if there were more competitors on a larger circuit, maybe 60 or more, and to do it like a real start list, so that you would turn the pages of the start list and or at the finish line you would see 10 members of the table up to maybe 60 as it is in TV that you would scroll through the start statistics and other parameters.

5. Weather

Certainly, if it could be as strong as the fog could be, for example 25% or 100%, where even the robots would make a lot of mistakes, because in the fog almost everyone takes it easy, but the wind could also be controlled, for example the wind strength could be set ( In a career it would obviously be a given)

6. Adding more cameras

For example, cameras for starters more than 10, I don't know about you, but I don't know how to put a camera on the starter with number eleven, if anyone knows, please write.

7. Helpers and fans or more decorations

Coaches, I miss the shooter, or more fans along the lines from the flags, or that the fans would scream when the local French in Annecy hits a target, not only when I shoot.

8. It would also be great to know when someone finishes in the Career, more detailed statistics, for example, his maximum in the World Cup was 5th place at the Olympic Games, for example, 2nd place and other super stats for the entire time he was riding in my career. And also so that when I ride the relay, I start with number 10 and work my way up to 2 instead of lying down in the 2 position, it would be good to set it like in Mass Start that I lie down from where I started.

Otherwise, thank you for every other update, you are amazing for making this game for us.



I agree with NorthernTrey, but also feel like stats should be available to be changed in the middle of the season as well, because athletes almost always change during a season.

Can you also make it so that you can have more than 1 relay per stage?

Just saw the Beta 7 update! Super exciting!

Hello, greetings from Estonia! 

It's been a year since I last tried your game, and I have to say that I'm impressed and happy to see that it has improved quite a bit, the atmosphere of the competitions feels much more authentic, the crowd sound effects are better, and also the sounds in the shooting range.

I have always preferred career modes/management games over anything else. So with this, I have to say that the career mode would need some changes for it to be fun to play. I'm still not a fan of 42 athletes per league with 4 divisions, if you could change this to 50 athletes with 30 in mass start, and maybe 35 in pursuit then I think already having IBU WC 50 athletes + IBU B 50 athletes, and Ibu Juniors 50 athletes - 3 divisions with 150 athletes in total would be quite good, without this Europe Cup. I also use fill all the spots so I have full divisions for both men and women. It would be nice if after the season ends there's more information about who retired and who came in as new from youth ranks. Currently it shows the retired athletes and their age but nothing else. I suggest something like this ~ Retired athletes : Benedikt Doll, age 33, division IBU WC, 6th position, Mona Brorsson, age 33, division IBU B, 7th position and then a list of new athletes who were promoted. And perhaps also like history page, where I could see the results of previous seasons too.

And also, currently we can edit athletes before you start a career, but can you change so we could make changes also during the season? For example, I would like to be able to edit the names and nations of new athletes(not skills) , just so I could make national teams more balanced. I had 2 new Estonians and 2 new Finns come in after season 1, with both having the same name! :D I added an image too, 2 new Estonians named Sergei Kukk and 2 Finns named Suoma Pekka which is weird :) Having the ability to change names and nations would at least let doubles not happen :) 

Je m'adresse ici à toutes les personnes voulant un peu d'activité sur NGL Biathlon. Avec mon cousin, nous avons créé un serveur dans lequel si assez de personnes se présentent se déroulera un championnat de biathlon sur plusieurs saison !! Nous n'avons pas encore finis de développer toutes les petites règles à propos de cela mais n'importe qui voulant participer au développement de ce serveur est la bienvenue !! (lien d'invitation au serveur discord : https://discord.gg/zrsckfxk et si ça ne fonctionne pas vous pouvez me contacter sur mon discord : valco7550)

Hello ,

The same opinion for my part, the game is really good, but the penalty rounds are not effective enough, a 15 second would be good , thank and congratulation for your game :)

Hi, Please can you make the penalty laps bigger? Irl it takes like 30seconds, but in the game it takes 5 seconds. make it at least 15s, becouse i know the track is smaller then irl. Thanks so much, i would really love to see this in the new update.

First, I want to say I absolutely love this game, and I know it takes time to make updates. I appreciate everything you did to make this game. With that being said, when I am watching a tournament with bots, sometimes when I close the game it goes back to a few races that I already watched. If you could look into that and see if there is a problem there, that would be great.

Another problem I've had that I've seen you have in your videos is sometimes and athlete just flies. This is super annoying and if you could find a way to fix it, that would be great.

Something I find a little annoying is the skis. Sometimes the temperature is perfect, and some of the athletes just zoom by during the downhill sections. I think instead of/in addition to the temperature, there should be pre-race waxing or something and if you get the waxing right, your skis glide very well.

 A suggestion I have is, can you make it so that 60 athletes are in each league and in races like the Sprint and Individuals, while 30 are in the Mass Start, Pursuit, and Relays? 

Another suggestion I have is it would be cool to add a feature where you could make custom tracks. Can you also add bot photo finishes and make it possible for you to spectate bots passed tenth place? Maybe you could click on a name in the start list and you'd be able to spectate that person and see their photo finish.

Next, I think it would add to the game if you had no limit on the boosts of an athlete (Finisher, Second Breath, Steel Nerves) and make it so you can choose how much their speed increases and how much energy they get back. Also, for each format you could choose different amounts. Also, I think the lunges at the end are such a cool thing, but it would be even cooler if the faster you go, the farther you lunge, because not every athlete lunges the same distance.

Fifth, slightly longer penalty loops so it would be more important to shoot clean. (12-15 seconds instead of 7-10 seconds)

Sixth, in real life there are a lot of relay teams even in the men's and women's relay. In the game, I sometimes only have like 6 or 7 teams.

In the next update, could you add a whole bunch of athletes that don't have many good results in the World Cup, but still play an important role for the minor countries in the relay like Tamara Steiner, Natalia Sidorowicz, Valentina Dimitrova, Susan Kuelm, Lea Rothschopf, Benita Peiffer, Emily Dickson and Matic Repnik. More athletes I would like to see that are relatively young but post good results and are constantly on the World Cup are Karoline Erdal, Hannah Auchentaller, Beatrice Traubucchi, Lea Meier, Danilo Riethmueller, and Viktor Brandt.

Next, something along the lines of slip-stream. For example, if you're directly behind an athlete, you lose less energy.

I loved the animations you did for the start of the mass start races for beta 6.1. Another thing to possibly add is for the beginning of the pursuit, relay and mass start races, you could have the cameraman go to the top starters and have the athletes wave.

Lastly, when a biathlete tucks on the downhill, you could add the little foot movements they do so it looks more natural when the athlete changes direction.

Thank you!

Hello, 

First i love your game, its hard for me in medium but i keep going 

I just have one question i buy item in shop and i can't change it in my career i can only change ski 

Bonsoir, je voulais savoir si un mode carrière en ligne ou si l'ajout de bot en ligne était en cours de développement ? ça pourrait vraiment être incroyable on attend ça avec impatience avec mon cousin. Et je voulais également report une mauvaise nationalité : dans le jeux, Campbell Wright est désigné comme Néozélandais mais il a changé de nationalité il est Américain maintenant ! Sinon merci à vous pour le jeu il est masterclass c'est incroyable d'y jouer j'en suis à ma 3 eme carrière avec près de 7 saisons finis en solo !! Merci pour le jeu et bonne continuation !!

Salut, est-il possible pour les prochaines mises à jour de modifier le nombre de participants aux épreuves, ce qui serait plus proche de la réalité

- 60 concurrents pour les sprints, individuels [100 en réalité]

- 40 concurrents pour les poursuites [60 dans la réalité]

- 30 concurrents pour les mass starts [30 en réalité].

Comme ça il y aura plus de concurrence dans les épreuves et plus de points attribués. 

Sinon tu fait du très bon travail a chaque fois. 

Merci pour tout.

Hello,

I would like to report a bug:

Used Version: NGL Biathlon Beta-6.1.

I do also sim racing and I have a lot of USB controllers (steering wheel, pedals, Gear stick, etc).

I think, these controllers mess up with the NGL Biathlon controls.

My Player is constantly turning in circles and the game becomes unplayable.

When I unplug all of my sim racing USB devices, the controls are back to normal.

This game is really fun but it feels a little lacking at times, I agree with the points Adam Rys but to me it's not a deal breaker, it would be nice if there were some kind of wind physics and you can correct to optic depending on the wind. And have some sort of pre shooting before a race to configure the optic. Might be hard to implement something like that now, but hopefully in the future!

Je ne peux pas télécharger car quand je télécharge cela me met en mode vidéo quand je doit ouvrir le téléchargemen

Bonjour, 

Je suis un joueur expérimenté de votre jeu.

Il me semble qu'il existe quelques beugs sur votre jeu.

Premièrement lors d'une accélération avec la touche espace, il m'est impossible de faire autre chose à part tourner sur la droite. Je ne peux tourner sur la gauche ou accéder au temps des adversaires.

Secondement, il y a une latence parfois très importante pour se mettre en position pour descendre, d'avantage encore si la touche espace est utilisée.

Ces deux problème complique de nombreuses courses et donnent un temps de ski médiocre. Jouant au jeu régulièrement depuis  ans, je n'avais jamais eu ces beug sur les précédentes versions. Suis-je le seul ?

Pourquoi ne pas ajouter un système de forme et de fatigue à la pro cycling manager afin de cibler des périodes dans la saison et permettre une plus grande disparité dans les résultats ?

Merci pour votre travail en tout cas

HELP REQUEST:

Hello, I have downloaded the beta 6 version and I have encountered quite a major problem with it. I've noticed it has changed format of storing saves in AppData/LocalLow/…/mysave . Now there is a folder for each save containing multiple .ngldata files instead of one file per save. Which sadly means that it is incompattible with older versions. I have my save from beta 4 where I have loads of custom athletes (which took forever to make) and now I cannot transfer them to the new version. What can I do? PLEASE HELP

i need biathlon 3.1

pls the biathlon beta 6 and features all sportsmans in one carer and sprint and induvidual .2feature 60 sportsmans qualific mass start in pursuit 3.biggest penalti laps

Yes, I use it

This game is actually such a great game. It is really worth playing with all the possibilities it proposes. I have so much fun playing it.

Suggestion:

- a system of shape in which athletes aren't in the same shape from one stage to another, or even from one course to another. This system could be random but also based on results: athletes making a good race could have a good shape on the next race, etc...

- On track, the feature that would be interested is a system in which you can use a bind to follow the athlete just before you, so that you can choose to try and stay with an athlete stronger than you to increase your chance to rivalize against him. What could be therefore intersting to add to this feature is the endurance bar that empties more or less depending on the difference of level between the two athletes following each other. I really think this feature would be very realistic and enjoyable to play.

- Penalty laps are a bit too short, I think making them longer should be interesting. The point is not necessarily to make twenty-second long penalty lap as in real life, but at least make them 15 seconds instead of 7.

Other than that, this game is the best biathlon game ever created and the amount of fun in it is just insane! I hope it is gonna be improved again and again to make it perfect! :)

Bonjour, je joue à NGL Biathlon depuis 1 mois, étant fan de biathlon il y a deux points de développements qui pourraient entrer dans le jeu en fonction de la difficulté de développement.

1er point, l'ajout d'une ou deux épreuves en relais.

- Le relais mixte; [avec 2 Femmes et 2 Hommes] les femmes passent en premières, les homme en seconds, ils ont 2 tires chacun [1 couché  et 1 debout], ils ont chacun 3 balles de pioches et autant de tours de pénalité s'ils manques les 3 balles de pioches.

parcoure de 2 tours de 6 kms pour les 4 biathlètes 

- Le relais mixte simple: avec 1 homme et 1 femme, les hommes commencent l`épreuve avec 1 tir couché et 1 tir debout, le relais ce fait à la sortie du pat de tir. ils font 2 tours de 6 kms.

Les femmes prennent le relais, elles font aussi 2 tours et 2 tirs, 1 couché et 1 debout, elles font le relais et les hommes refont 2 tirs et 2 tours, les femmes reprennent le relais pour refaire 2 tirs et 2 tours. 

toujours avec les 3 balles de pioches pour chaque tir pour tous les participant.

2eme point: serait l`ajout de la météo pour le tir avec le vent pour ajouter de la difficulté au tir.

En tous cas tu fait du très bon et beau travail sur ce jeu, c'est très agréable à jouer, continue comme ça.

Bravo.

Greetings! First my respect for the work you all put in this game. This game is definitely better than the old Biathlon games of 2005-10. And they were made by Studios. I know it's for free but it was worth 30 bucks for me! I hope you don't loose the motivation for the product because i think the fanbase is growing.

The only things i hope for future updates are longer laps (5-7min.) to make it more tactical with the stamina and a little bit of tuning at the shooting, maybe simulating the breathing frequency, holding calmer with a button between the shots,....! 

But again! Awesome work.

a little new idea. When you are in career and racing for a country without enough athletes for the relay, it would be cool if you can race the relay in the world cup instead of your race in your league. That often happens in real too. 

e.g Belgium what i race for. Zero relays un world cup bc not enough athletes.

or is there is limit of teams of 12? 

so like i said in my other comment, Higher limit options everywhere

edit: i see in world cup. Too many racers from one country. Maybe a 6 men maximum bc germany and norway fills like everything XD

for the fact this is a free fun game, its very great and i see no other biathlon games on the market who can challenge this. 

But for me as nordic ski fan 2 things are annoying me

1. The weird league system  with 4 international leagues. In reality there are 2 leagues + 1 junior league for youth athletes.

1.1 Rivals and their carries option isnt avaiable??

2. 90 percent of the 2500 courses i know since little childhood. and its so sad, that there is nothing original. 

WOuld be very nice to have a realistic mode with original racing courses and original times and obviously an original penatly course. i know, that many people want it faster, but for them the tracks which are here are very good. 

Beside of this 2 points this is one of the 3 best games i ever played. ( the best sports game i ever played bc i just like ski sports and there is no good game besides of that)

edit: the problem with rival and their careers is a problem, bc when you start with 63 stats you will need 10 years to have the stats for the 1st league. And then they are all retiring

Greetings 

Garry G.

Hi!

I have hug problems downloading the game. I do unzip the downloaded file, however I can´t find the file that launches the game. Could you maybe make a clearer download guide or help me in some other way? 

I really like how this game looks!

Hello

First of all, I want to say that this game, even with its current state is quite amazing, biathlon in general is an amazing sport!

I agree on some points with previous posts, so here are some suggestions.

-Penalty lap does need to be longer, between 15-20sec, its way too short and gives a good chance to win even if you miss a lot of shots. It would also be nice if the heart rate affects the shooting, because i can easily abuse the range area sprinting with max while others slow down to prepare for shooting, and i can still shoot accurately, which in reality would be extremely difficult. The events are a bit too short too, 5-8min races are simply too short,  if i play a game of nba/fifa/football manager etc the duration of one match could go from anywhere between 20-40minutes, this would help to make the penalty lap more realistic and also would give room to add more athletes.

-42 athletes per division is way too low! It makes team races super boring and it takes out one of the best features of biathlon, which is that there are so many countries that can compete for top spots! There should be 2 divisions, around 100 athletes in each. I played the game for 10 seasons, I did not face any bugs which is nice, but after 10 seasons the variety of nations gets even less exciting. New athletes appeared only from handful of countries, almost all new youth athletes were from Norway/Sweden/France/Russia/Germany, i also had few athletes from Ukraine/Belarus/Finland/Switzerland and Italy BUT i think 0 from other countries :/ 

Team/Mixed relay competitions are extremely fun, but not when you have only 5-8 teams.. There should be a limit on athletes per country, racing against 16 norwegians is not that fun (no disrespect, i love Sturla and Tiril and Bö brothers too!)

-Make weather and ski choice matter more. Currently it doesnt really matter which skis i select, no matter the weather, they all behave and feel the same, but bad skis in reality can make an athlete lose a lot of time uphill/downhill situations. Same with the wind and snowfall - these should make the shooting trickier but they had 0 effect.

-Shooting speed also needs to be reviewed, it feels like most of them use automatic guns to shoot, they are so fast)

Thanks :)

Hello, I'd like updates:     

- Penalty lap around 20 seconds instead of 6-7

- 100 athletes per league instead of 42

-  pursuits reached by top 60. 1st ranking point given at place 40 in sprint
    and pursuit                                                                                                                          
             

 - mass start only possible for top 30 of ranking
- english commentary for the happiness of a race                                                        -  - - update all new athletes 

it would be absolutely nice if you create the game about Cross-country skiing, with sprints,distances and Two styles of skiing: classic and free ( which is here in biathlon)