It's a strange thing that happens on this map sometimes when there are towns on it. The map is the channel map from AAA (if I'm allowed to mention that here!).
Actually, the first post on the screenshot thread shows this map better than my crappy effort!

If SoW BoB comes out with all those filters enabled (excessive contrast, darkened image edges etc), I'll be turning them off.

IMO IL2 looks much more real than BoP (from the sceenshots that I've seen of BoP) - and I'd rather fly a sim that looks more real, rather than a cartoon any day.

That pic of the Ju-88 in IL-2 was rubbish (too blurred) and I didn't see anything wrong with the one with the spit.

World Clock times
 

Here is the link to the World Clock - you can look at your own time and compare with Moscow time.

The update is usually put up after 3PM Moscow time.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

I do like the WOP BOB terrain, but it won't be hard for the SOW team to easily surpass WOP, because their BOB terrain is missing so much its almost useless.

WoP was a real wake up call for me when I thought great looking graphics would most likely translate to a great flight sim experience.

What a continuous bag of disappointments that was for me personally.

I am sim-less at the moment waiting for this release

Cheers, CS. :)

Well, they weren't supposed to be marvellous screenshots, just a comparison of landscape graphics:grin:
You can see there's a big difference in ground detail in the spit shot compared to the BoP spit screenshot. Although the glare mists it out a bit.