Here's some more info from Oleg's old ready room.
For those that have never read it, its long but a worthwhile read that gives you some insight into the plans and difficulties in achieving what has been done with CoD.
Here's one of my favourite quotes from one of Olegs responses to questions.
"For us is a great task how to make a lot of details and at the same time to render a lot of aircraft in air simultaniosly.... So all things will be optimized for this...
Say it is possible to make even greater details of damage, aircraft itself , etc... but probably in case of hundreds aircraft in action around you you will
need the PC that will be existed only say ten years after release
Hope you all understand what the tasks we have and what the technical problems are on our board...
The is no problem to make increadible amount of polygons in aircraft (or ground units), but then will follow problem of PC power, when in air isn't just one aircraft.... When the water is trasparent, when the clouds looks like real and moving, etc...
BoB will be again a "fight of compromises" in technologies and will offer the best compromises that wioll be usable for many years ahead, like it was with Il-2"
From Q64>
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=6909