At the moment our absolute focus is on the high resolution terrain, and related bugfixing.
The current version merges a number of development branches, one of which involves infantry code "refactoring" (writing new with an attempt at simplification for better maintainability). Refactoring, while absolutely necessary to retain sanity, always has a chance to introduce new bugs (and apparently it did, so they need to get worked out).

Rlease it... ive never never never never seen a game internally tested right... the community has always been the ones that , for some reason, are smarter about finding bugs and design issues over any team of devs!

I'm not going to send out an unusable, bug-ridden piece of software for which we will get blasted by everybody.
I'm going to seend out a normally bug-infested software where we will receive some complaints, of course, which we can then still fix. Steel Beasts as you know it has about 2,500...3,000 known bugs. Most of them you never notice, or you avoid them by instinct, or to which long-time users develop a blind eye. Either way, what the beta test team can and does find and report are the blindingly obvious, high profile bugs that either destroy core elements of the gameplay or have a high annoyance factor. These must go before we can push this puppy out of the door.

I know.. I was kinda half kidding,.... give options for alpha-beta testing... where we have non-disclosure and a private forum.