Some things HAVE to get reduced for a better overall performance, so that all the people without high-end machines can turn everything to high! :D :D :D !!!

This would make no sense at all. I hope this was sarcastic. Eliminating the option for high end computers to run high end graphics just so low end computer users can run on "high".? It would just be low settings with a new name. We would be reversing progress. We might as well all sell our computers and go back to super mario world for the nes... i really hpe the devs get it together man. It seems with the exception of the sounds and landscape, everything is heading down the tubes.

While we're on the subject of missing effects, is it just me or is cockpit glass still not showing properly? While the last beta patch it had a weird sheen to it regardless of the lighting, now its almost non-existent until the light hits it.

I haven't played the current retail version for a while but I swore the glass looked fine then.