droll on pics

Simple, because the limitations were not only to the graphics engine, but mostly because of the technical limitations. Remember, this engine is 10 years old!

On the other hand, I have yet to see pictures of the final SoW-Engine to make the judgements you just did, as so far we only saw BoB-Objects in a modified IL2-engine. Same is for flight- and damage-model. Maybe you can share the pictures you are refering to?

hi res. videos (HD) here: http://wwiaircombat.com/index.php

I think one of the coolest parts is at 2 Minutes in the gameplay video, when you can see the tail-structure of the enemy plane breaking in the turn and it's only held together by the covering, slapping around while the plane tumbles down.

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u...om/awesome.jpg

Have not looked at the h-res video but I doubt that will make the terrain come to life.
At the size of game (125000 sqkm) they are punting realistically to expect much more would be asking too much I think.
It is just something I would have hoped a modern sim would have done better.
Again this is not a blast at the game.
As I have stated I will buy the game, I love the era.

What do you expect? It shows the mostly flat muddy terrain that made this frontline what it was in WW2. The only thing that strikes me about the terrain are the still rather straight roads, but it was already stated that these won't be in the final.

You should definitely check out the high-res-movies. It shows how much effort was payed to little details, like reflections, ground-texturing, atmospheric effects and ground-modeling.

Just remember, this is not CoD4 with a 300mx300m Map for 12 players. Most of the detail, you'll only realize, when you actually play the game (like FM, the already shown gesture-communications, realistic engine-modeling, etc)

It's the Alpha version remember. :rolleyes:

I hate it when people defend something for no reason.
I have not said the fm, graphics of the planes etc were bad or commented on the tiny attention to detail either all i have said is the terrain is flat.
I understand the scale of things and how hard it is. But when I scream in low in IL2 I can see the same detail as this (screenshots).
I am not implying it is a bad sim, it just does not live up to my expectations of a new generation flight sim that is all.
Yes Il2 is ten years old and nothing I have seen so-far (I will watch the HDV tonight) makes me think that this sim is not ten years old as well.
Again not a bad thing really, it is at least as good as Il2 if not better ,but it lacks the wow factor.
But maybe with full motion blur and sound the otherwise bland terrain in the screenshots may spring to life.

What I do like is the very effective use of trackir.

Anyway my opinion has never really counted for much on any forum so please relax.

on a positive not it is a new flight sim and that can never be a bad thing :grin: :rolleyes:

rise of flight looks great. gotta love competition.

Your expectations maybe wrong, or just too high.
And, as already said, remember it's still Alpha, so there can be room for improvements.