Stratos Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Hello all.A question for Ssnake. Will se wee a paywsre upgrade during summer 2016? And If yes, when will we see the list of included features?Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grenny Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 When it's ready?;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dejawolf Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 the plan is a 2016 payware upgrade. whether we actually will be able to meet the deadline is uncertain yet. but so far it seems like we might make it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Search can be your friend.I can "confirm" that a new version MAY be available by May 2016, but it MIGHT just as well take us a bit longer. (I'm not trying to mock you, it's just that we have certain development goals for the next release, and in the past we usually decided to delay a release to allow us to complete the work rather than delivering an unfinished version. It's a creative process, not a highly deterministic assembly process.)link 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted December 5, 2015 Members Share Posted December 5, 2015 Will we see a payware upgrade during summer 2016? And If yes, when will we see the list of included features? We definitely WANT to have a new version ready by June 2016. The feature set is still a bit unclear however (we intend to nail it down early in the 1st quarter, and then to start with the internal beta test). The full feature disclosure will usually begin six to eight weeks prior to the anticipated release date. I have however already announced a few things on prior occasions, particularly the new terrain engine. We've been working on that almost since the release day of SB Pro 3.002. It will allow us to do new things in the future, not all of which we can implement initially, but it's an essential project for a number of future core features. What I can say is that it'll allow us to bring leveled roads to mountain slopes, and generally smoothed roads. It'll allow us to create hairpin curves on very steep slopes which is actually something that not many real-time simulations do at all, or do well, so we're actually quite proud of that (even though the practical application in Steel Beasts maps may be rare). One consequence of this new terrain is that it will absolutely require 64 bit, so we can no longer support X86 mode. Another is that height maps will require substantially more disk space. I will post more on that in a separate thread some time in the new year. Expect new playable vehicles. Which ones will remain undisclosed, of course, until shortly before the release date. But you'll love 'em. Also, we'll include the particle system that we had hoped to have in SB Pro PE 3.0, but we seriously underestimated the amount of work that had to be invested, both into the particle system itself as well as into the artwork, or the shader effects. But I've seen some amazing eye candy in early development previews (at least "amazing" to me, a dinosaur who started home computing in the mid 1980s). The days of eternal sunshine in Steel Beasts are definitely coming to an end. Bad weather may never have been so good. We've invested a substantial amount into the infantry field, above all, the user interface, so that small scale infantry scenarios will become much more practical to play. Another hopefully welcome feature of practical value will be "force templates", allowing you to configure the equipment of each mech infantry team so you can have, say, multiple variations of infantry platoons for the same nation but different tables of organization and equipment across decades of doctrinal changes. You'll be able to save company and even battalion force templates, which you can then share with the community so you can create your scenarios much faster without having to put together everything from scratch, every time. There's so much more, but for now this will have to do. We will post more information in the coming months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingtiger Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 We've invested a substantial amount into the infantry field, above all, the user interface, so that small scale infantry scenarios will become much more practical to play.Another hopefully welcome feature of practical value will be "force templates", allowing you to configure the equipment of each mech infantry team so you can have, say, multiple variations of infantry platoons for the same nation but different tables of organization and equipment across decades of doctrinal changes. You'll be able to save company and even battalion force templates, which you can then share with the community so you can create your scenarios much faster without having to put together everything from scratch, every time. I love Esimgames looking forward to more dismount combat, will make the mech infantry scenarios even more dynamic and playable /KT 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratos Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 (edited) Thanks a lot for the info guys! Thats what I wanted to hear, looking forward to June 2016. BTW, loved this...Expect new playable vehicles. Which ones will remain undisclosed, of course, until shortly before the release date. But you'll love 'em. Edited December 6, 2015 by Stratos 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpow66m Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 SOUNDS AWESOME!!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt DeFault Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 [Everything Ssnake said]:luxhello: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssidiver Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Another hopefully welcome feature of practical value will be "force templates", allowing you to configure the equipment of each mech infantry team so you can have, say, multiple variations of infantry platoons for the same nation but different tables of organization and equipment across decades of doctrinal changes. You'll be able to save company and even battalion force templates, which you can then share with the community so you can create your scenarios much faster without having to put together everything from scratch, every time.Wonderful!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Super !:-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehog Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Hurry up and release it already!!(Damn minions and their "Timescales") 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Invader ZIM Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 So awesome, all of it, here's my credit card. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haferja Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Some screens or a bit of a changelog would be so nice (before christmas ;-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 It might be nice but over promising and under delivering is not how these guys do business.They tend to show you what you are getting just before you get it as its known, works, etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacbat Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Ask Santa. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer_Leader Posted December 11, 2015 Share Posted December 11, 2015 Very nice indeed! I'll drink to that :drink: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Lion Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 I, as many others, look forward to the next major release. Thank you for keeping us posted on what you have planned. May they all come to fruition! As always, thank you for your great work! Cheers! :drink: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapper_511 Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 What I can say is that it'll allow us to bring leveled roads to mountain slopes, and generally smoothed roads.I'm looking forward to this, not only from an aesthetic point-of-view (no more road marches with a "shoulda-had-a-V8" lean, and perhaps no more stair-like roadside walls) but I think this will eliminate the problem when a road and bridge are constructed on a slope (perpendicularly) and the slanting road meets the bridge that has a raised (albeit level) edge where vehicles are prone to crash into it and sustain damage and perhaps also get confused.I know SB is tank sim first and foremost, so I'm especially grateful for any improvements to the editor and 3D environment.As always, I'm looking forward to another major version, and very hopeful for a few more NATO and WP vehicles (new or other versions of existing models). Fingers crossed! :bigsmile: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stratos Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 I hope for 3d crew for the M113 and the Humvees. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TankGirl90 Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Can't wait 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azure Lion Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Can't wait Need personal cryo-sleep tubes for just such moments. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapper_511 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Will this anticipated upgrade be version 4.xx? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted December 17, 2015 Members Share Posted December 17, 2015 Maybe. Maybe 3.5. Why would this matter to you?It's just a number. I don't believe in version number inflation just for the sake of a cheap marketing effect. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrapper_511 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 IIRC, when the first 3.xx came out it included many new vehicles. So going by that assumption I am associating a version 4.xx with a similar inclusion of new vehicles. That's a mere association the anxious little kid (and victim of American marketing) in me could not help make. I may be able to come to the same association by comparing free updates versus paid ones, but with the long history of versions I do not have the mental capacity to discern exactly what was included when. Researching version histories may still not reveal a pattern, in which case, my anxiety and curiosity got the best of me. :c:At any rate, I look forward to future revelations about the next version. :bigsmile: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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