Steel Beasts Pro 2.6x upgrade
 

http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/...t=15605&page=8

Wowh, some goodies in there, and they have not even revealed all that the upgrade will include:

Highlights so far:

- crewable T-72M1 (not me personally, but I know that many have waited for this to happen since 5 years)

- Centurion tank

- Shilka Flak tank

- 3D infantry (visual improvement, functional improvement to follow next year)

- additional bridging options, additional bridge segments for bridge layers

- new maps, one an improvement over the map known from the Brave Rifles video series

I think some more goodies wil follow.

Planned release sometime near the end of this year - hopefully. :)

- GTK Boxers spotted! Probably crewable, since the RWS is operationable by the player, too.

- infantry confirmed to be available in British, German and American uniforms so far. However, they are moddable. I assume it will not be long before we have Russians as well. And Fins, inevitably. :DL

P.S. I just learned something new: GTK="Gepanzertes Transport Kraftfahrzeug" :)

- Fuchs/Fox, and confirmed crewable (at least two versions, A6 and A7)

- apparently a crewable CV-9030FI with 3D interior

The did sound-recordings on the firing range:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaLr7...&feature=feedu

wow, looks like its time for ole sledgehammer to take the dive into modern tanking.:yeah:

- Planning files now can be saved again. This feature, much in demand, was temporarily - nevertheless: for long time - deactivated due to a complex bug.

Also saves as many different plans as desired per mission. And that is new, if I recall it correctly.

This is all great news!

- Kiwi LAV-III confirmed
- 24 tutorials for CV90/35-DK confirmed

- Truck-mounted infantry

Teaser with all the new stuff in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=7M6Ni3g849Q

- improved sound-suite, many new weapons sounds, missiles

- Challenger II made playable (gunners and commander's sights and control, but no 3D interior - situation like in the Leo2A4 right now)

- several player-controllable ATs.

- several new bridge models, some of them destructable: should allow for some nice mission scenarios and dramatic races for the only escape route...

The new bridge layer functions allow to span rivers of greater width, several bridges can be combined for one long one, like in reality. The function before was buggy and for the most allowed bridge layers to be used only in river areas that had passable fords anyway.

- motorbikes (no joke)
- new civilian traffic vehicles: trucks, ambulances

I cannot believe it: did I write that? "Motorbikes"...? But it's real:

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/9724/059ry.jpg

Das glaubt mir ja sonst kein Mensch...

Beware the ghostriders in the sky:

- the Tiger helicopter now shoots Hellfires from up to 8 km distance (before it was limited to the usual viewing ranges in SBP of I think 4.5 km maximum).

Not too sure about this upgrade make no mistake good news for a lot of people, but I am just wondering what the performance penalty is going to be. The 2.5 version runs smooth as silk on my olde 3.2 dual processor with agp graphics. Still happy with the purchase at the offer price.

Until 9 months ago I was playing SBP, current version, on a single CPU P-IV, 3GHz. Smoothly.

If anything, the infantry maybe will make a change. But I do not expect anything frame-killing.

- 2S1 Gvozdika, a Russian self-propelled howitzer (although currently a bit limited with HE to be used in direct-fire mode only - functionality will be more improved in a year, but you now can put arty pieces into your missions which have some teeth to defend themselves)

- universal transport confirmed: trucks AND helicopters can pick up troops.

- infantry onboard PCs can be dismounted in the editor, equipped with the weaponry you want them to have, and then be mounted again. Transports can now pick up any infantry, not just units attached to them in the editor.

How could I have missed this one...? :hmmm: :yeah:Finally:

- 3D-interior for the Leo-2A4. Took them over ten years! :lol:

See in this video ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjnS560BKqQ

By the looks and sounds of it there is new (bombastic) gun sounds, and new environmental sounds - the wind blowing chillingly cold over the icy tundra, also new (German) dubs. Plus some sort of earth-mover vehicle that I do not know.

- M1A1 with new 3D interior

Nice vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpgcp3aJeUM

- M-109 self-propelled howitzer

- AT-3d, AT-4, TOW-2, TOW-2A, TOW-2B, Javelin, Milan, RBS56 BILL all now crewable and can be fired and guided by the player. Both vehicles and infantry (the TOW was fireable from vehicles since longer)

- mouse wheel functionality added for zooming on the map; click, hold and drag map, chnage values etc.