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This is a new one

Messages about some bugs started to appear soon after release of the western version of Steel Fury. We were rather surprised, because most of these bugs were not met in the russian version of the game neither before patches, nor after them.
The first bug is the absence of gunsight reticle in PzKpfw IV F2. It is rather critical, because it is absolutely impossible to aim without reticle, even if you don't care how the sight actually works and you don't make any range corrections. The analysis of the game resources has shown that there are errors in the description of the PzKpfw IV F2 gunsight. Besides, muzzle velocities for some projectiles differ from the russian version. Velocities of HE and HEAT projectiles for PzKpfw IV F2 are among them. It is rather critical too, because muzzle velocity influences trajectory of projectile's flight greatly, as well as range. Mechanism of range corrections for HE and HEAT projectiles of the PzKpfw IV F2 would work completely wrong, even if the gunsight reticle was present in the western version of Steel Fury.
The second bug is the problem with tracks damages. It is absolutely unexpected to us. Crewmen cannot leave the tank for repairing tracks in russian version of the game. There is an "auto Track repair" setting in the russian game options too, but if it is switched on, nobody leaves the tank. Russian version does not have possibility to loose tracks by pressing "T" key (what is it ever done for in western game version, I wonder?). And the driver obeys orders after repairing of tracks.
We have found other things in game resources, which are absent in russian version. They are files of unknown missions which are not present in the game; descriptions of sights which are not used anywhere. It seems that some other bugs can show up in future in western version of the game only.
Graviteam - the Steel Fury developer is not responsible for all these defects and bugs for sure, because russian version of the game is free from these bugs. The reason why Discus Games(localizator) and Lighthouse Interactive(western publisher) have released their own buggy version instead of translating russian version is not absolutely clear to us.
Considering all aforesaid, we have decided to create a patch which will change the unreliable western version of Steel Fury into stable russian version. All text, subtitles and sounds are kept from the western version. The rest is taken from the russian game.

Russian Steel Fury modding community.
-Hemul
-egorOgr
-Tanx