im deffo gonna spend some time in that Blenheim, what a beauty!!!

Of all the people that have posted, you seem to have the least grip on reality. Calling the issues "a few hiccups" shows that you quite clearly have no comprehension of what is actually happening.

A flight sim is basically a giant collection of effects and graphical representations to enable a 3rd party to experience flight. 90% of those very essential effects are not going to pass a test geared towards strobe sensitivity and epilepsy.

The last 4 months or so that should have been used to go full speed and implement, correct, and optimize features that were advertised as in the game were actually spent ripping them out and replacing them with a lesser placeholder. When it became obvious that the amount of work that was needed to individually fix these issues was not available, this "filter" was added to get past the "test" and hopefully get the game at least released. Now, assuming that 1C and Ubi keep funding, and the developers keep developing, it will take many months of work to replace all the issues in the game so that the filter can be removed.

Lets all be optimistic and say they are able to get the funding to keep running and fixing, when they are done, the filter will be removed, and the game will NOT be the game we have been looking at. All those effects so crucial to flight sims will have been removed..

And remember also, that the game is a mess because of the time they wasted trying to implement it in the first place...so now they need to divide resources between fixing obvious issues with the Sim, and ripping out things that will enable the filter to be removed eventually..

This is in no way a trivial issue..

I'm sure the Dev crew is devasted after the time, effort, and stress they had to deal with to get this close to finally releasing it only to have their plans dashed at the last minute..

Don't be shocked if this doesn't end up like Falcon 4.0 did.. never finished..

First, not everybody knows how the Cliffs of Etretat look like, so photos are there for information purposes. I nver said I wanted the game to look like pictures.

Second :

Come on, look at that Clodo screenshot. Don't you have a problem with the water and its perspective ? The land looks like it is floating 20 meters over the surface, out of range of the water, whoch seems not to be at the same level at all !
IL2 had 10 years ago at least mock up waves that were doing the trick. Overall, IL2 gives a better impression of reality that... that !

As you say, it's important it looks like real. I'm a pilot IRL too, and I tell you, this looks nothing like real life. It looks like a teletubby colored piece of shit !

I already see the critics on Angry Video Game Nerd....

You're doing it again..... put the bag over your mouth and nose....deep breaths.......steady..........:cool:


It WILL be fine. :-)

Well, I won't comment before I have played it :)
But yes, apparently some things went wrong and we are looking at an unfinished game with major issues. But I think that many people are overreacting simply because they have been waiting for 8 years to play this sim. And now it doesn't live up to their expectations. Of course that's a hard blow, but it's no use to get hysterical.
Just keep cool and lets help this game with it's difficult birth. That's what a good community does and what keeps this series alive.
We need people who know what constructive crizicism means. That's how we will move forward.

I am not the sort to gloat or say "I told you so......"

That is not my style, however as predicted there have already been developments :-)

What exactly do you expect a Global Illumination simulation of lighting using radiosity derived shader maps? We aren't there yet eventhough instant radiosity is now possible with CUDA. Heck this HDRI effect on the cockpit surely isnt realistic either but then to get soemthing close to our eyes requires alot more computational reousrces plus 'participating media' computations as well plus the whole computational fluid dynamics to make things feel the way they do. This is a FUN simulation afterall :)

Not positive but aren't the cockpits made of perspex?

OMG! CloD doesn't model every photon! - Or more accurately, it doesn't model every alternative place we might detect a photon depending on which Multiverse we are in, or which of Schrodinger's cats we last tickled under the chin, or...

That's right, it is a simulation of reality, not reality itself. It isn't perfect. Only a fool would expect it to be.

This is my favorite complaint about CoD so far. I'd also like to see every photon modeled.