Members Ssnake Posted October 14, 2021 Members Share Posted October 14, 2021 In the next few hours the new installer files should become available, the gods of the internet permitting. Here are the release notes; it's largely about fixing a few annoying bugs, but there's now also a number of munitions to be used against infantry targets, be it from helicopters or RPGs, which might bring an interesting dynamic to some infantry-heavy scenarios. SBProPE_4-267_RN.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Thanks very much! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormin Norman Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Awesome! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Sean Posted October 15, 2021 Administrators Share Posted October 15, 2021 The new downloads are now posted to the downloads page! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DK-DDAM Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 thx sean 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibsonm Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Sean said: The new downloads are now posted to the downloads page! Got it - Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishHussar Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Justbe carefull to make a copy of your scenario folder before using the update file. It maybe that I made a mistake but the new install overwrote my scenario file. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakdesign Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, IrishHussar said: Justbe carefull to make a copy of your scenario folder before using the update file. It maybe that I made a mistake but the new install overwrote my scenario file. Can't confirm. Everything kept over deinstallation of 4.265 and rinstallation of 4.267 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jartsev Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 1 hour ago, IrishHussar said: Justbe carefull to make a copy of your scenario folder before using the update file. It maybe that I made a mistake but the new install overwrote my scenario file. Remark here: saving a back-up copy of \ProgramData\eSim Games\Steel Beasts\scenarios only makes sense, if several different versions of Steel Beasts are installed on the same computer at the same time. User-created scenarios should be saved to \My Documents\eSim Games\Steel Beasts\My Scenarios, which is never overwritten during SB updates. Same applies in case, if you are editing stock scenario delivered with SB- save it not to 'Scenarios' but to 'My scenarios'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerDog Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 I uninstalled 4.265 completely. Then I installed 4.267 and it's now up and running fine for me, including scenario creation and testing. Went smoothly following the PDF documentation instructions. Thanks to eSims for the update and bug fixes. 👍 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastien Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Thanks for the update eSim guys Installation of 4.267 is working well, no issue reported 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nike-Ajax Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Deleted everything by way of windows. Installed everything by way of the loader. Zero problems and zero defects: well done Esim 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MO MO Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Do you want to uninstall the old version? I installed it directly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Sean Posted October 18, 2021 Administrators Share Posted October 18, 2021 There are ways to juggle multiple versions and make it work. I wouldn't recommend it for the average user, though. Most folks should uninstall the old version and install the new one. The bundle installer will handle running the uninstaller. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koen Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 With the bundle installer it seems that the Map Packages are downloaded again. That's 14 GB. 1. Correct ? 2. Should I do this ? Asking as I have this Map Package already - but the Release Notes mention there is a new base map: "Bergen-Soltau-Munster", that I don't see under C:\ProgramData\eSim Games\Steel Beasts\maps\packages Thx ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted November 1, 2021 Author Members Share Posted November 1, 2021 If you have the old map packages and if you haven't removed them, there's no need to download and install them again. The Bergen-Soltau-Munster map package was rolled into the Steel Beasts installer to precisely avoid you having to re-download 14 GByte of otherwise completely redundant data. Not, that 14 GByte is much in the age of 4K TV streaming, or by today's game standards (e.g. The Outer Worlds consumes 75 GByte, to name an example...) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Sean Posted November 1, 2021 Administrators Share Posted November 1, 2021 The bundle installer will not download or attempt to reinstall the maps package if it is already found to be installed, since nothing has changed in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 LMFAO...So I see there are easter eggs in the release notes? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted November 12, 2021 Author Members Share Posted November 12, 2021 Just trying to sprinkle the most boring kind of document with a tiny dose of occasional humor... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 Say...I seem to be missing one thing, and that's a bunch of maps. I thought I did do the legacy map installer, did I screw something up somehow? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted November 12, 2021 Author Members Share Posted November 12, 2021 The legacy maps installer doesn't add any map that any version since 4.1 would use. It CAN make your own life easier if you have custom maps that you want to convert yourself into the new map package format; otherwise it's completely superfluous. If you think that you're missing maps, it's hard for me to respond adequately. The folder for the map packages in total should be approximately 14 GByte in size, possibly more if you downloaded custom maps since 2019. If it's significantly less, then maybe you should run the map packages installer again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 6 minutes ago, Ssnake said: The legacy maps installer doesn't add any map that any version since 4.1 would use. It CAN make your own life easier if you have custom maps that you want to convert yourself into the new map package format; otherwise it's completely superfluous. If you think that you're missing maps, it's hard for me to respond adequately. The folder for the map packages in total should be approximately 14 GByte in size, possibly more if you downloaded custom maps since 2019. If it's significantly less, then maybe you should run the map packages installer again. Uh oh. My map packages folder is less than 1GB. Okay back to the installer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maj.Hans Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 (edited) Nope. That did not help. I see the box to download 14gb of maps packages, but it doesn't want to do it, says I have it all locally. I get about six maps out of that? ETA: Going to try downloading the separate maps installer. I seem to recall that in my prior install I had a huge list of maps including updates of older maps into the more recent format? Edited November 12, 2021 by Maj.Hans 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumituisku Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 My friend had a problem that installer didn't want to install maps. No matter what he did. Only small portion maps were installed. It turned out that problem was that he didn't have enough hard drive space on his main drive. We thought it wouldn't be problem because he would install those on other drive but it was. Because I suppose those needed to be downloaded first.. and as download wasn't able to fit on main drive to be installed on other drive. Perhaps your case is something similar? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ssnake Posted November 12, 2021 Author Members Share Posted November 12, 2021 The first thing to check is if the path given in the Steel Beasts Main Menu ... Options ... File Paths is pointing to the right location. If not, copy its content into where the bulk of the other (seemingly missing) map packages are; on the first run I would skip the option to overwrite already existing files (if you are prompted for it, maybe you won't). Then (and only then) change the file path to the real location. Restart Steel Beasts, and the maps will be all there. Then, if you later find no problem with the six map packages from the old location, you can safely delete the old folder and its subdirectories. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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