Steel Beasts: Content Wish List

[Apocalypse 31]

 

https://www.steelbeasts.com/topic/14648-hand-crank-turrets/

[Bond_Villian]

Martian Fighting Machines (Tripods) and horse drawn artillery

 

[Arch]

8 hours ago, Legodude9 said:

I bring a new feature requests to the Wishlist!

-Unsighted Cupola traverse bindings. (T-72 style cupola buttoned up, M113 Cupola buttoned and unbuttoned are the best examples)
-Also BMP-1 with the pain's that come with the AT-3 Sagger/Malyutka.
-T-55AM, AM1 is non ATGM in GDR/DDR (I don't know how the Soviets marked/numbered their versions) service AM2 has the Bastion ATGM for the gun barrel, a really cool upgrade to the vehicle in my opinion, a cool modernisation just like the T-62M (Soviet designation, unsure if there were others).

Edit: BTR-90 would be cool too, always loved the look and probable ease of manufacture over the BTR-80A

T-62M had the BDD armor, V-55U instead of V-55, improved FCS (and NVG?) and gun barrel ATGMs.

T-62M-1 was the above, but a V-46-5M engine.

T-62M1 was T-62M but with no additional armor and no gun barrel ATGMs.

T-62MK was a command variant with no gun barrel ATGM and the usual command tank things, so radios, probably less stowage etc.

T-62MV is T-62M but with Kontakt-1 instead of BDD.

T-62M Obr. 2022 was an upgrade for the Syrian army but now in service in Ukraine with BDD turret armor, Kontakt-1 hull armor, slats on the turret and sometimes cope cages and 1PN-96МТ-02 thermal imager, allegedly a new production but really is a soviet tech with about 2km range or so.

 

Not 100% sure if it's all correct, so don't take it as gospel. I too would like the T-62M.

[Froggy]

12 years later, I still miss an icon editor to draw units on the map 

[Ssnake]

There's "the" radio voice, and a separate one for each crew member. Also, only radio voices come with a squelch sound. It is pretty clear, IMO.

[Parachuteprone]

Wish the ability to click on a unit to see it's ammo state could be moved to the personal edition.

It's pretty important to know when deciding whether a unit should retreat.

Actually jumping to the unit takes you out of the loop a bit.

 

[mpow66m]

On 8/23/2023 at 8:42 AM, Froggy said:

12 years later, I still miss an icon editor to draw units on the map 

Forgot all about that

[Kev2go]

On 8/17/2023 at 8:54 PM, Arch said:

T-62M had the BDD armor, V-55U instead of V-55, improved FCS (and NVG?) and gun barrel ATGMs.

T-62M-1 was the above, but a V-46-5M engine.

T-62M1 was T-62M but with no additional armor and no gun barrel ATGMs.

T-62MK was a command variant with no gun barrel ATGM and the usual command tank things, so radios, probably less stowage etc.

T-62MV is T-62M but with Kontakt-1 instead of BDD.

T-62M Obr. 2022 was an upgrade for the Syrian army but now in service in Ukraine with BDD turret armor, Kontakt-1 hull armor, slats on the turret and sometimes cope cages and 1PN-96МТ-02 thermal imager, allegedly a new production but really is a soviet tech with about 2km range or so.

 

Not 100% sure if it's all correct, so don't take it as gospel. I too would like the T-62M.

 

 

would also be nice to just see the existing crewable T62 get a full interior.

[iamfritz]

On 8/27/2023 at 12:09 AM, Ssnake said:

There's "the" radio voice, and a separate one for each crew member. Also, only radio voices come with a squelch sound. It is pretty clear, IMO.

*Goes back and plays

*Notices radio squelch

*Hangs head in embarrassment, nigh shame

[Ssnake]

Eh, everybody has that one moment, once in a while.

[Grenny]

...again: SOME WAY TO SHOOT THE RIFLE TEAM AT WEAPONS as this is som frustrating to manouvre the team into a near perfect shot positions, and then nothing happens except that the infantry refuses to fire and the tank picking them off.

 

tanks move to easy in forests because of that here

 

[Hedgehog]

Sure it has been asked before:

A headless server version of SB.

With minimal graphic interface.

That could be run with basic graphical interface, with remote user management through another SB instance.

 

Under current setup the host has to play the scenario in the 3d world.

Which is less than ideal when the host is engaged in direct close combat, in wooded terrain, as well as running a large scenario, with a battalion sized elements on both sides.

 

 

[Lumituisku]

2 minutes stare off.. without firing NLAW, no matter what I pressed and did.   

+ Fire at will

+ Shoot this target      and nothing.   

[Gibsonm]

11 minutes ago, Hedgehog said:

Under current setup the host has to play the scenario in the 3d world.

Which is less than ideal when the host is engaged in direct close combat, in wooded terrain, as well as running a large scenario, with a battalion sized elements on both sides.

 

No they don't.

 

If the person hosting chooses to fight in the 3D world that's up to them, they don't have to.

 

You can easily host and stay in the map view, or host on a second machine and just access it when you need to.

 

[Hedgehog]

1 minute ago, Gibsonm said:

host on a second machine and just access it when you need to

which is when a headless client would be useful.

[Gibsonm]

13 minutes ago, Hedgehog said:

which is when a headless client would be useful.

 

Well in that case you can already do it.

 

Just buy a second machine or run it on a remote server that you can access via a KVM or other remote access software (e.g. TeamViewer).

 

You don't need a dedicated executable.

 

I can easily run it as a Player and Host on the same machine in the same instance of the software.

 

Also given that Lumi apparently had issues "stopping the server" (what I heard over TS) then perhaps those performance issues influence his first person view attempt to engage vehicles (i.e. the display depicted a vehicle, but as far as the software was concerned it was no longer there, just hadn't refreshed the screen).

 

Edited September 10 by Gibsonm

[ingrahammark7]

16 hours ago, Hedgehog said:

Sure it has been asked before:

A headless server version of SB.

With minimal graphic interface.

That could be run with basic graphical interface, with remote user management through another SB instance.

 

Under current setup the host has to play the scenario in the 3d world.

Which is less than ideal when the host is engaged in direct close combat, in wooded terrain, as well as running a large scenario, with a battalion sized elements on both sides.

 

 

I have an AWS account which anyone interested can use for spare compute. 

[iamfritz]

Here's something that would make infantry ops easier: When I group infantry together as an Infantry Task Force, they fall together under one icon with some little "provisional unit" designator. So from then on  when I want them to move I dont have to nervously click around other units to give them movement orders... just click the provisional squad/task force icon and issue them orders together. The sergeant can relay the orders to the rest of the squad.

Also, How about the units dismounting M-2s or M-113s (etc.) are just two teams shown by icon? Or just a squad icon? If I want them dispersed a certain way (micro-managed) I can divide group and tell machine gunner go this way and Javelin gunner go that way.