Beta testing set to end this (11th) week, according to eSim's technical director.
By his earlier announcements, expect preorder phase immediately after that, while the CDs are getting produced in the factory. preorder gives you a small financial benefit, if I am not mistaken.
I hope to have my copy by the end of this month.
About time - since my system reinstallation three weeks ago I have no running installation of SBP - for the first time in three years.
Plenty of tasty stuff coming, several new 3D cockpit surroundings with the new vehicles, additions to existing cockpits (IVIS-style map displays), AAA-tanks, Australian, Italian and Spanish combat vehicles, a new Leopard-2, time-of-day rendering, armed pickups, plenty of bug-squashing, tuning of existing elements and AI behaviour, adressing infantry, and much more. This will be the most senior upgrade/addon/mod/patch they have released so far, much bigger in content than the swedish tanks-upgrade two years ago.