The iL2screen shots are clearly from the New development work for BoM and as stated work in progress.No where in the old iL2 series would you find grass ,ground ,tree and shadow textures as shown in the first screenshot
Reading the Feb17th & Feb 24th updates its clearly indicated that a great deal of work is being done on other bugs and suggestions.ie FM as well as game performance.
It may be that the Performance Beta will be released first for testing to make sure that the game flow is fluid without crashes prior to the additional rectifications & fixes being added.I know nothing of how the code is done but it definately seems to be a sensible move as repairing any bugs in the new performance engine may effect the other work that the team have already done.
I hope the XFire & Sli problems will also have been resolved in the Beta patch too.Quite looking foreward to its release
