Weather/Terrain effects. Surely this is the minimum we expect for CloD or the Sequel

[Chivas]

Originally Posted by Mysticpuma

Looking at the examples I posted....that's a real pity as it's something they could at-least aim for

SOW actually aimed for much more, they were striving for photo-realistic terrain, but it killed frames enough they had to subscribe to Speedtree, and many other frame saving effects. That said this shouldn't always be the case. The game engine was designed to be able to subtract and add features as the computers and sim optimizations improved. One of the first things we will probably see is more advanced water, and maybe someday even the river banks they talked about years ago. At any rate between the mod community and the developers there should be a constant stream of feature updates, if they can ever get the game engine running properly.