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Originally Posted by Txema
Skybird,
Please, check the facts prior to giving advise to new players.
I think you are being again totally unfair with Steel Fury.
You say that "SF is pretty much a dead game these days."
Well...
1) A new update (mod) has been released for Steel Fury just some days ago, and the modders are planning to release an additional update probably in December:
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10944.0
2) A new "mission pack" has been also released just some days ago. It contains 40 new missions for Steel Fury.
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10934.0
3) There are a lot of additional user made missions.
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=10102.0
A lot of the new missions developed by the modders are very good.
If you install the main mod (Steel Panzer Mod 1.5 and its updates) and the missions, you will get a very good WWII tank simulator, with a wide variety of tanks and vehicles modeled, and more than 100 new missions (including also several excellent new campaigs !!!)
Von Due: please, give it a chance, I think that you will not be dissaponted !
Skybird: it is a shame to see that when a new player comes to "Tanksim" asking for advice about "Steel Fury" he gets a completely false answer that sounds just as an advertisement for "Steel Beasts". Please, if you know nothing about "Steel Fury", do not answer questions about it. If you want to give advise about "Steel Fury", check at least the developer forums:
http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0
Txema |
Hm. Must be the first boyscout ever in this forum.
BTW, I reviewed the game when it was released. That bad I know it. This is a link to the draft text from Autumn 2008. I see no reason to change any in that.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=144991
You like it, okay, I understood that. But you must face the fact that there are many other people who do not like it. The game already died soon after release, when the publisher closed down, because major issues and bugs, weaknesses in AI, pathfinding and sound, were not repaired. Mission packs and new skins or models do not adress these issues and thus cannot compensate for that, at least in that player's opinion who sits at my end of the line. In Germany, it is virtually impossible to get a copy of SF - since long. So, to say the game is pretty much dead, is okay, I think. It may live a niche life somewhere, with some people. I wish them fun, and that is no sarcasm: jedem Tierchen sein Pläsierchen. But fact is in all major game forums and game sites and sim sites, the title is practically non-existent. Plus Graviteam has done some more tank games since then.
Further, you have to excuse, but I do not plan to ask you for your allowance whether or not I reply in a thread, and when I do: in what fashion. Van Due and me got along very well, and easy.
I think you just take it all way to serious.
Please also consider that none of the things you mentioned in mods you mentioned cures the critical issues that van Due was voicing all by himself. Criticism that I shared back then.