Rise of Flight, that's what i do while CloD is optimized

When I was posting about this after the last beta, people were making fun of me. The game was incredibly dombed down when it comes to looks. Go install the first beta for this patch and try it out. It's amazing how much we lost with this new graphics, yet people sait it looks better because it now has haze.:rolleyes:

The problem is that this newer engine runs worse than before and it can't render none of the things that made te original release beautiful.
Now instead of the nice advanced lighting effects, we got just some cheap HDR.

This game did look stuning. They made it look exactly like the old IL2. This is not what i would call optimising a game. More like destroying it.

Here's a simple comparation between the first beta for this patch and the latest install:

official version:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1538.jpg

older version:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1517.jpg

new, improved version :rolleyes::
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...eenshot550.jpg


Older version:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot2180.jpg


They just turned a masterpiece in total garbage.

Ah BTW, where did that beautiful sunset go? Go ahead fly at dawn or dusk with this last version of the game. Try to recreate this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...926_232456.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nshot42808.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...shot255760.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...shot309449.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...shot314321.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...shot393473.jpg

and you guys qualify these claims despite the fact the new engine is still being reworked and is awaiting a major patch.........

Well its before and after, not to difficult to work out.

We were already told by the developers that the game is going to look the same as now. :-x

You're really think that the older version screenshots looking better? :rolleyes:

I have to say those before and after screenshots are very subjective to ones taste. Technically, maybe the before shots with the water reflections and all are more advanced but I don't like all that "bling glitter", I actually prefer the latest ones with the more greenish matte looking sea (reminds me very much of how the sea looked when going fishing with my dad on the Swedish west coast as a kid, very greenish kind of sea). So technically maybe they've toned it down for performance reasons (?) but artistically I actually prefer the current version. There are two sides to this, technical and artistic IMO.

The oppinion on which screens look better is going to be subjective, but claiming the new ones look like garbage is laughable....clearly the ramblings of yet another of the 'COD broke my heart and I'm going to make sure the world knows how I feel' gang.