Easy to satisfy all: There are Video options where these hungry for more performance just should dump down their graphics and allow us to play with nice optics.

those old cockpits were drop dead gorgeous :(

Not only the cockpits, the whole aircrafts is missing the reflections.

Were any of the cockpits you looked at from the same planes as in the game...just checking :grin:

Really though I think most of you are to pedantic, how does a cockpit that is still beautiful even if it's not quite as nice as the original, turn a sim into a game, ridiculous, its still just a representation on a computer monitor, the sim aspects are still there, to me it appears they are trying to get a balance, if you look at the polls you find always about 50% liking and disliking whatever colour changes they make, makes it difficult for them as often these type of things are in the eye of the beholder.

Id rather they move on from the colour pallet stuff and start fixing the other issues, like radio, radar etc

I've seen the original cockpits and forgot how nice they were. Wish I had not seen them again until they were back in game :( Can you people stop showing what we don't have................

Oh, but that was "Battle of Britain, Storm of War", and this now is "Crap over Dover". Two totally different simulations obviously.

BoB, SoW had stunning graphic engine and very good simulation engine, CloD does have graphic engine in theory, and simulation engine borrowed from IL2. You see, totally different simulations :P

Hmmm. Seeing those screens, those graphics indeed were quite a lot better then what we have now. I, too, got the feeling that a lot of stuff simply got swtiched of over the course of patching and optimisation. Which in many ways is a pity.

Then again we have to deal with the fact that lots of folks playing this sim currently do not have absolute top end of the line equipment and to be frank, you can optimize as much as you can, some features are and will stay very performance hungry and I am not sure how many of those feature are so integral to the engine that making options to switch them on or off will work.

I actually can live with the sime as it is now, relativly smooth but still dead gorgous compared to anything out there currently in regards to graphics when it comes to simulations. The new IL2 series is here to stay for a long time and I suppose it will work like the old IL2, with progress and over time more and more features will be turned on. We just glimpsed into the future when CoD was initially released.

So, see it from the positive side, good times ahead =)

+1

i remember when first Crysis was out a couple years ago
did everybody could play it......no
neither do i...
they didn't cut stuff just because some people didn't have a good machine to play it
they leave it as it was..
i suppose they wan't to optimised the game first before add things like that..

correct me if im wrong, but those cockpit shown in the vid, have never seen the light of day in the actual game.
so far i only flew with the bfs and the only gauge which shows reflections is the compass.all the other gauges dont seem to be covered with glass at all.the pits in the vid are gorgeous...but what we had in game wasnt that convincing, and in my view, with the latest beta patch the pits got worse.