1) Fixed an issue with excessive blocking of the driver and loader hatches if commander turret turned to side (in M60A1).
2) Fixed an issue with tactical battles taking place in the absence of an one side.
3) Fixed flickering on a loader hatch (M60A1).
4) Added control of external camera by the mouse while holding the middle button.
5) Added setting to off the acceleration of an external camera.
6) Turn off the interface is made three-point: enabled, enabled if Ctrl is hold, disabled

Excellent news andrey can't wait to try it out

Excellent, thanks!

Thanks for uploading these "unofficial patches".

Renewed Olifant

Any chance making it user playable for us andrey

Yes Puleez,

I live in South Africa, and although I was exempt from National Service (2yrs), a few of my friends served in that war. Although they all came back ok, some of the friends they made, whilst fighting in Angola, .. did not.

Anyhoo, I'm not sure that they would be overly impressed with me, knowing that I was lobbing shells in the general direction of their beloved SADF (beloved then, .. certainly not now).

So, I could/would be labelled an 'almost hero' if I could drive about in a SADF Olifant, and kick Castro's butt all about the Angolan countryside.

I would be ever so appreciative. (Then I would have some war stories to share around the braaivleis (barbeque)).

BTW, that Olifant does great. It would be a real pity if I have put dents and holes in it.

Ta Awfully
Tally Ho

Tom

I know how you feel on that. I want to projectile vomit at the afgan/iraq location games out there. Too soon for that crap but Im overly sensitive on that issue. Playable Olifant.....would be vary nice but Im guessing Graviteam couldnt get good internal referance material. While not the same, I would love a playable t62 for unita. At least there you could have Ratals about with you.

Beta 3 unofficial

http://files.mail.ru/S45RM4

to download click to the red button

Can you provide installation instruction as well? Do I need fresh install? Do I need sequential installation (beta1,2,3)? Should I uninstall previous beta?

Same as previous beta 2



Unpack, select in updater...

All do automatically by updater

Click save & play

Lol, once again I do something and there Andrey. I was a silly bean and tried the Russian beta3. It runs....but lots ??????????

It's patch for English version^

Steel Armor: Blaze of War
Update: January 2012

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1. Install
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1) Unpack patch to c:\temp\sabow_jan_2012
2) Install core update 5.77 -> gte2_core_update_v577.exe (select root game folder)
3) Select (or use update.cmd) patch description in temp folder in core directory
4) Wait...
5) After install click Save & Play button


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2. CHANGE LOG
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--- Update January 2012 beta 3 ---
1) Fixed an issue with excessive blocking of the driver and loader hatches if commander turret turned to side (in M60A1).
2) Fixed an issue with tactical battles taking place in the absence of an one side.
3) Fixed flickering on a loader hatch (M60A1).
4) Added control of external camera by the mouse while holding the middle button.
5) Added setting to off the acceleration of an external camera.
6) Turn off the interface is made three-point: enabled, enabled if Ctrl is hold, disabled.
7) Added crew voices (in Russian).
8) Fixed armor-penetration for KPVT HMG.
9) Added sensitivity adjustment control of the mouse and inversion of the Y-axis in the sight.
10) Added sensitivity adjustment for camera speed and rotation.
12) Improved Oliphant Mk1a tank: added green skin, changed suspension, added a IR-spotlight, whole model is adjusted.

--- Update January 2012 beta 2 ---

1) By default, the allies under the command of AI.
2) If the interface continues to run hot keys.
3) Minor changes associated with transitions between menus.
4) Night sights are available earlier in time.
5) Fix a bug with the fall of the transplant between the crew of the tank.
6) Completely changed the operational phase, and all operations.
7) Changed the editor operations.
8) Fixed bug with disappearing text in the main menu.
9) All changes from tactical wargame.

Hi andrey,
Thanks for the new patch Have not had time to fully explore it but unfortunately I must report the loader hatch still has some flickers (at least for me). BUT they are much, much less compared to before (about 3/4 less then before), so it's a definate improvement.

Thx

You didn't answer, do I need to install beta1 first, than beta2 and than beta3?

Also, where is gte2_core_update_v577.exe file? It's not provided in a link above.

Am I the only person here that having problems installing a simple patch?

Hi Sim,

That had me scratching my head too.

The core update seems to be the same as for the last beta - so it's already installed.

I just used the update option within the game for the new beta files (not forgetting to 'save and play').

Hope that helps.

I'm pretty sure the patch has worked since the middle mouse button now controls the external camera.

Well when I tried to install it, I killed entire game. It would be very nice to receive directions that...direct.

http://files.mail.ru/UJ8TWN Do that first. If you running win7 64 bit there could be issues. But it should say in SABOW screen v5.77 upper right after that is applied....if not try moving (copy paste) directry out of x86 programs. may or may not be an issue....thank you microsoft.

THERE is no beta 1. At least not released in English version. To be safe I would install b2 first. But dont worry about uninstalling it our anything. Then using updater and finding addpack file install b3.

http://graviteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=9929.0 that can help too.

Hi Sim,
Asked andrey about the beta patches. They are cumulative so you don't need to install the beta 2 , the beta 3 patch will give you everything you need from beta 2. If you have beta 2 installed in the Game Updater don't worry beta 3 will overwrite it. Here's what you need to do.
1). Quite any programs you maybe running.
2). Install the game core update gte2_core_update v577eng (this one goes directly into your game root folder)
3). Unzip the mtc80__sabow_patch_beta3 to a temp folder
4). Start the game updater (located in the SABoW GUI). Now the Game Updater UI should come up.
5). Click Start and navigate to the temp file where you saved the mtc80_sabow_patch_beta3 file.
6). Open the CORE file and select the desc.addpack file and open it. The Game Updater should now start installing the files.
7). When finished installing click on the Save and Play button, beta3 should now be installed and will show in the Updater as ver 1.01
8). Exit the updater

You have one more thing to do before you begin playing, you must delete your profile and make a new one ( I really hope they change this last reguirement, love the updates, hate having to start all over again with a new profile). Now if you did everything correctly at the SABoW GUI screen you should see Version 5.77 (1469) Update: Jan 123b in the upper right hand corner.

If you still have problems I would suggest maybe doing a fresh install of SABoW (just in case anything got pooched from the previous installs that didn't work for you) and then add the game core file and the beta 3 file as described above.


P.S. Guys about the install directions. Remember andrey's native laungage isn't English, but I'm sure his English is probably 99% better then our understanding of Russian I know it cane be frustrating at times but he's trying and learning as he goes so lets be supportive