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!
I have been playing your game since Alpha 6, the game is great and I look forward to every update. I don't want to criticize your work, you are doing a great job.
1. Online Mode
- I have been playing the online mode with friends for a little over a year now actively, no less it would be better to add more online players, of course just enough to make the game manageable.
- I would also appreciate more online tournaments, which are great, but there could definitely be more.
2. Relays
- I've been actively watching biathlon for about 6 years now and lately in mixed relays I sometimes see men starting and women finishing, of course if it could be done it would be great.
- for individual relays it would be good to make it like in reality that after 2 shots you pass.
3. Race courses
- because one lap takes 1 minute and 30 seconds, and that means that many relays are often passed by and sometimes the first relay is passed by the other relays, it would be good to make the courses longer and make them a little bit more realistic, after passing someone the biathlete would have to stop and should get a DNF or LAP.
- It would be good to put DSQ in the race, racers who broke something for example that they used a mistake and shortened the race, they would finish but they should get DSQ for breaking the rules.
- Also include IBU Cup courses in the courses for example - Obertiliach, Brezno, Idre, Sjuejoen, Ridnaun or Lenzerheide.
4. Other improvements
- extension of the penalty lap
- more competitors in sprint and individual
- 30 states for biathletes, sometimes it happens that I can have 24 male relays but 3 random relays will cancel.
- When there would be more athletes, it would be good to see the results at the start and finish as in reality, in 10 position tables, that I could scroll the tables of results, run times, and other stats.
- Adding a Coach or Team Helper.
- announcing the winners
- crash simulation
- weather settings, that I could set the fog and set how thick it will be if medium or almost nothing will be visible, same for wind that I could set that there will be an awful lot of wind when shooting which will affect the robots and me, of course in career and online tournaments it would be automatically given what the fog will be after the wind preparation.
Thank you very much of course for making this game for all of us, I'm so glad this game exists. Keep on with your fantastic journey to an amazing game.
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 ?
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
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
Hello, in the beta5 update it always happens to me that after I leave an individual and a sprint, the sprint is repeated. You advise me so that this does not happen to me.
I like the game very much, but in the latest versions of Beta 3.1 and Beta 4, it often happens that when I try to turn on the career, I can't get further than the screen where you determine which league you want to start in and how many rounds the world cup will have, etc. And when if I succeed, for example, after the sixth race, then the race keeps repeating itself. Could someone advise me so that this does not happen to me again.
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.
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,....!
I have a very annoying bug on this game and I'va been having his bug for one year now...
When I have to skip a race (for instance after not qualifying for the pursuit), randomly I will have the yes button not advancing. So I will have to click No for the window to disappear and then again Yes to - perhaps - have something happens.
BUT the race is simulated and the points added to every racers each time I click on the YES button, so 21 qualified athletes will get a lot more points and the season standings is broken. (For correction of the Yes button freeze, I can add that the points are added but not the wins or podium in the medal sections)
I don't understand what you are calling a league... so difficult answer
Previously I had only one save. And one career in it.
To avoid th eproblem, I tried to duplicate my save to be able to overcome the problem and I now have 3 saves, with one career in each (at diffrent stages) but the problems still occurs very often and I had to stop playing for the moment.
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
Started playing beta 3.1. Amazingly good. Few comments though:
Having close to 100 athletes (just like in real life) would be great
Skating
Penalty lap of around 20-22 seconds instead of 6-7 like currently. Missing a shot isn't very punishing for those top skaters.
Laps should be longer (setting ?). This will probably make it easier to have more athletes on the course.
The top skaters just fly by the worst skaters. It's a bit exaggerated I think (20% quicker).
Shooting
Range should have space for 30 athletes
It would be nice to specify which target we want to begin with so we avoid wasting time when the shooting screen shows up (setting)
Shooting time in real life is longer (19 standing - 23 prone for the top). They all shoot like Dorothea Wierer on her best day in this game ... even on "individual" where shooting times are usually longer because ... 1 minute penalty is heavy. If I check Elvira Oeberg's shooting at Kontiolahti this year, she took 33 prone and 37 standing (lost 30 seconds to the quickest shooter... and 80 additional seconds for 3 penalty laps).
Impossible to compete in shooting time on hard difficulty
somehow there is an auto targeting mechanism in place which messes how you can move to the next target correctly
after some time, the rifle starts moving like madness and after that good luck hitting the target (I guess the auto-targeting with me trying to compensate makes it bug somehow)
seems like everything was divided by 3-4 (lap length, penalty loop, shooting time variation between athletes) ... but still I can't divide myself by 3-4 that easily.
Having some whether forecast to better choose skis would be great. Currently you choose some skis and hope that the weather doesn't change to cancel the bonus.
Season:
It's very rare to not have a pursuit after a sprint. Yet in my current season it's so often.
Mass-start is always last, but I have multiple occurrences of "sprint, mass start, individual"
Rules for the mass start include the best "not qualified" for the week, not simply the 30 (21 in this game) first of the standings.
That's all I can think of now. The game mechanics are great and hope all the best for this game.
Agree with most of the above, although I have been able to win a season playing as Amanda Lightfoot on hard difficulty (created myself with fairly realisitic ratings based on the worst female athlete in the game) with the current shooting times, some of the athletes in game are terrible shots so there speed is academic if I'm accurate, however, agree shooting times should be slower in Individual and the shooting slightly improved because of this. I also agree the auto aiming and stickiness feels like a pain, if the rifle just moved naturally without any auto targeting my shooting would possibly be worse, but much quicker as it does seem to wobble like crazy at times. That said, I shoot 80% on hard, and I don't want it much easier than that...
I also don't mind the weather forecast thing... be a bit boring if there wasn't some jeopardy in choosing skis as it could become a bit of a cheat code or OP. However, AI on certain skis should suffer in some places as the guys on Fischer skis did earlier in the season (Cannot remember which meeting all the Fischer athletes struggled including JT Boe).
To add a few of my own suggestions:
A fatigue meter dependent on stamina on weekends where there are multiple relay races (so the bigger teams have more chance of being tired or using other athletes and smaller teams are more realistically penalized... look at the Norwegian relay team in Poljuka, or the fact Lapshin and Usov raced in everything).
A consistency rating that affects all skiing ratings say +/- 5% and shooting ratings +/- 10% . This could be higher for say inconsistent shooters like Vitozzi and Ponsilouma .
More athletes from minor nations like Mongolia, Greenland etc. so every team can at least field say a two person M & F relay (currently I make loads of new athletes for this purpose but it gets dull doing it with every new beta). And countries that have 3 athletes (Like Belgium and Japan) just add a fourth athlete and 1 like Moldova and Romania add 1 extra athlete. I have a formula using real biathlon. com but it's time consuming.
Still love this game, and have been playing for a while
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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
Hello
I have been playing your game since Alpha 6, the game is great and I look forward to every update. I don't want to criticize your work, you are doing a great job.
1. Online Mode
- I have been playing the online mode with friends for a little over a year now actively, no less it would be better to add more online players, of course just enough to make the game manageable.
- I would also appreciate more online tournaments, which are great, but there could definitely be more.
2. Relays
- I've been actively watching biathlon for about 6 years now and lately in mixed relays I sometimes see men starting and women finishing, of course if it could be done it would be great.
- for individual relays it would be good to make it like in reality that after 2 shots you pass.
3. Race courses
- because one lap takes 1 minute and 30 seconds, and that means that many relays are often passed by and sometimes the first relay is passed by the other relays, it would be good to make the courses longer and make them a little bit more realistic, after passing someone the biathlete would have to stop and should get a DNF or LAP.
- It would be good to put DSQ in the race, racers who broke something for example that they used a mistake and shortened the race, they would finish but they should get DSQ for breaking the rules.
- Also include IBU Cup courses in the courses for example - Obertiliach, Brezno, Idre, Sjuejoen, Ridnaun or Lenzerheide.
4. Other improvements
- extension of the penalty lap
- more competitors in sprint and individual
- 30 states for biathletes, sometimes it happens that I can have 24 male relays but 3 random relays will cancel.
- When there would be more athletes, it would be good to see the results at the start and finish as in reality, in 10 position tables, that I could scroll the tables of results, run times, and other stats.
- Adding a Coach or Team Helper.
- announcing the winners
- crash simulation
- weather settings, that I could set the fog and set how thick it will be if medium or almost nothing will be visible, same for wind that I could set that there will be an awful lot of wind when shooting which will affect the robots and me, of course in career and online tournaments it would be automatically given what the fog will be after the wind preparation.
Thank you very much of course for making this game for all of us, I'm so glad this game exists. Keep on with your fantastic journey to an amazing game.
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
Hello, in the beta5 update it always happens to me that after I leave an individual and a sprint, the sprint is repeated. You advise me so that this does not happen to me.
Could you write about your problem to nordicgameslab@yandex.ru . We will try to help
Hello, i have the same probleme.
Have you found an answer?
Could you write about your problem to nordicgameslab@yandex.ru . We will try to help
what problem
Yes, I use it
I like the game very much, but in the latest versions of Beta 3.1 and Beta 4, it often happens that when I try to turn on the career, I can't get further than the screen where you determine which league you want to start in and how many rounds the world cup will have, etc. And when if I succeed, for example, after the sixth race, then the race keeps repeating itself. Could someone advise me so that this does not happen to me again.
Hello! May be you are using to play with 1 league in career?
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! :)
Hey if you need some help, i can support you. I'm very capable in sound design and engineering and maybe in creating skins. Great project! :)
Hello! You can contact us email: nordicgameslab@yandex.ru
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.
I have a very annoying bug on this game and I'va been having his bug for one year now...
When I have to skip a race (for instance after not qualifying for the pursuit), randomly I will have the yes button not advancing. So I will have to click No for the window to disappear and then again Yes to - perhaps - have something happens.
BUT the race is simulated and the points added to every racers each time I click on the YES button, so 21 qualified athletes will get a lot more points and the season standings is broken. (For correction of the Yes button freeze, I can add that the points are added but not the wins or podium in the medal sections)
Regards
Hello! Do you play with one league in your career?
I don't understand what you are calling a league... so difficult answer
Previously I had only one save. And one career in it.
To avoid th eproblem, I tried to duplicate my save to be able to overcome the problem and I now have 3 saves, with one career in each (at diffrent stages) but the problems still occurs very often and I had to stop playing for the moment.
thanks for support.
Got what the league is !
I'm racing in Men World Cup only. I have the simulate results of all the other leagues.
Don't remmeber is the Full 4 Leagues was set to Yes or No (think of No !)
Could you write about your problem to nordicgameslab@yandex.ru . We will try to help
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.
Started playing beta 3.1. Amazingly good. Few comments though:
That's all I can think of now. The game mechanics are great and hope all the best for this game.
Agree with most of the above, although I have been able to win a season playing as Amanda Lightfoot on hard difficulty (created myself with fairly realisitic ratings based on the worst female athlete in the game) with the current shooting times, some of the athletes in game are terrible shots so there speed is academic if I'm accurate, however, agree shooting times should be slower in Individual and the shooting slightly improved because of this. I also agree the auto aiming and stickiness feels like a pain, if the rifle just moved naturally without any auto targeting my shooting would possibly be worse, but much quicker as it does seem to wobble like crazy at times. That said, I shoot 80% on hard, and I don't want it much easier than that...
I also don't mind the weather forecast thing... be a bit boring if there wasn't some jeopardy in choosing skis as it could become a bit of a cheat code or OP. However, AI on certain skis should suffer in some places as the guys on Fischer skis did earlier in the season (Cannot remember which meeting all the Fischer athletes struggled including JT Boe).
To add a few of my own suggestions:
A fatigue meter dependent on stamina on weekends where there are multiple relay races (so the bigger teams have more chance of being tired or using other athletes and smaller teams are more realistically penalized... look at the Norwegian relay team in Poljuka, or the fact Lapshin and Usov raced in everything).
A consistency rating that affects all skiing ratings say +/- 5% and shooting ratings +/- 10% . This could be higher for say inconsistent shooters like Vitozzi and Ponsilouma .
More athletes from minor nations like Mongolia, Greenland etc. so every team can at least field say a two person M & F relay (currently I make loads of new athletes for this purpose but it gets dull doing it with every new beta). And countries that have 3 athletes (Like Belgium and Japan) just add a fourth athlete and 1 like Moldova and Romania add 1 extra athlete. I have a formula using real biathlon. com but it's time consuming.
Still love this game, and have been playing for a while