in theory, one of the benefits of object oriented code is re-usability. not sure how much of old IL-2 they were able to carry forward into CLoD. they also farmed out the trees to SpeedTree and there was a post from Liz Lemon about "borrowing" some code. so, it wasn't all on them.
then, you think what happened to hardware and software over the last seven years? dual core, multi-thread, dx10/11...etc. its all constantly changing. so the developers have to learn this on the fly because the customer wants to use his expensive hardware to the fullest. lol, maybe in few years 580 card goes for $50. anyway, it might be good idea for 1C to just keep fine tuning this code on the down low. eventually (hopefully) there will be better times.
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