I started this CLOD adventure as a fanboy. I absolutely loved the extremely well done lighting, collors (except the colors of certain field textures), cockpits, water and reflection. The light interacted very well with the environment and created the most natural lighting engine I have seen in any flight sim. Oleg was a proffesional photographer and understand lighting. That's why the game created such nice natural lighting, reflections and colors.
This and the cockpits were the best parts of the sim.
The last patch absolutely murdered all that beauty and turned the game into a very forgetable murky grey mess. This last patch also introduced ctd's for the first time for me.
I'm a detractor now and it's going to take some serious changes in how the game looks to make me love this game again...............
............that or a flyable IAR-80/81 for BOM.