Steel Beasts Pro PE lining up ... NEW VIDEO
 

As I understand it, Steel Beasts Pro PE is ready, bugfree and stable and has been given green lights by betatesters quite some time ago. Nevertheless the late implementation of the dongle protection software again caused delay, so that the hope of eSim - who said from the beginning it was a meager hope anyway - to deliver the sim before Xmas cannot stand any longer, I personally hope and expect delivery during January.

Nevertheless the modders already have switched to active and start showing around first results, new maps so far. On page 2 of this thread you can get some new impressions of things to come, concerning the landscape. Just look at that awfully good shot of the tank lurking in the high grass, or the real-modelling of realistic locations on the Balkans!

http://www.steelbeasts.com/index.php...r=asc&start=25

Even me slowly runs out of patience, having preordered a month ago.

Again for those of you who have already stopped waiting, the sim seems to be finished, all they fiddle around with now is the only really new piece of software code that comes with the dongle protection and that now is under testing. Final relief is near!

And then they don't believe you are a warmonger... :rotfl:

:rock:

http://dejawolf.com/steelbeasts/2A5.rar

The Bradley and the Leo2A5 (latter of which to be seen in that video) seem to be the tanks with most detailed interiors. The feeling of dynamic physics and cockpit immersion is superb.

If my memory serves me right then, you were planning on writing a review of SB Pro PE? Are you still planning on doing this?

:know: http://people.freenet.de/Skybird/Arbeitsdatei.doc

Estimated impact of the finished work in late January or early February. I'll make it a short one only, less than 20 pages.

Nice video, thanks for linking, my kind of Sim.

can't play the video clip. what player do you use?

It should work with any player (I use BSplayer), maybe you need a newer Windows Media codec:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx

I got a postcard this morning, no email, but a paper-and-ink-thing from the conventional mailman. From eSim and SB developement team. It's an Xmas card, and even a goodlooking one, and in several sentences they wished me a merry xmas and apologized in writing that they were not able to get the thing out before Xmas and that they thanked for the support and trust displayed by preordering.

Now show me a developer out there that cares that much! They are a two-man-show in the main. they have to take care of their professional customers in the military, and run hot about the PE release. But they still find time to do this. I almost got tears in my eyes. Almost :)

:up:

Re: Steel Beasts Pro PE lining up ... NEW VIDEO
 

Sorry that link is several days old and it seems the whole thread it was related to meanwhile got deleted, reason unknown. but I had saved at least one pic:

http://img493.imageshack.us/img493/6194/ss0944154xq.jpg

(replaced the pic with the link, due to it's size)

WOW, looks like a better time for infanterists.

Have you saved the video ?

The video is still available from the link Skybird gave:
http://dejawolf.com/steelbeasts/2A5.rar

Yeah :)

Thanks. That looks like fun. The infantry will appreciate all the new bushes!

Looks like an awesome tank sim. when is it coming out? anyone has some accurate intelligence on that?

Good forum to get you started:
http://www.steelbeasts.com/modules.p...55f0cc271e8b21

Plenty of screenshots from various stages of developement during the last three years:
http://www.steelbeasts.com/modules.p...view_album.php

For ordering and professional description/advertising to the military customers, look here:
http://www.esimgames.com/
'scan the site carefully, not to miss anything. They have a very comprehensive feature list.

Be advised that the price is above average, and that the sim is not designed to be a game, and will not be available via stores. It'S the original military training software and is only available online for 125$ (~ 107 euros). release was planned for christmas, now it probably will be in January. Don't mix up SB Prp PE with SB2, the latter won't be available before 2007, or later.

This looks like a very promising title. I never played the original SB so I have nothing to compare with. still, I really tempted to get the cash together for ordering this sim. Anyone who played the original Sb, how is the feeling? I really like suspension and tension building up and then a nice action phase where I get immersed in the game. Will SB pro Pe deliver something like that?

Cheers porphy

Rest assured, your desires will be dealt with by a 200% :yep:

I know SB1 as well. It was by lightyears the superior tanksim on the market. In fact I do not even know a land-warfare sim or game that came close to it, including the much praised Flashpoint.

The only thing that might drive you away is the immense lethality, and thuis the steep learning curve concenring tactics and formation manouvering. Act stupidly, and you're history. But that's how it should be. It is a training sim for the real soldiers.

Updates are planned every six month or so. This will mean not so much repairing of broken things, but adding new features and stuff and vehicles. Not all playable vehicles will have 3D interiors in the beginning, but it will be done. Also complete day-and-night-cycle is to be added in a later upgrade. Upgrades will be free. They will also include everything the military customers have demanded meanwhile and that has found it's way into their versions of the software (which is very much identical).

Immersion will come in overkill-dosis.

I also have collected info on the maps they are making. Many American Forts and their training sites are converted on a 1:1 basis ;)

And there is nothing to compare with it !

How the feeling is ? You feel like on a battlefield ! Like on an army manouver!

This sim is the best tank sim ever period. It has by fare the best sounds. The sim is worth to the sounds alone. The sound ambiance alone is pure immersion. I hope you have a good audio system. Not to mention the mass battles that are possible there. I prefer battles from battalion upwards. That is always a hell of a battle, it bangs all around. :)

Deamon

great looking sim, I'm looking forward to trying the Lepard! Keep us updated on this please!! :)