"New Cockpit color and all colors in the new patch is so much more BETTER... "

Never been negativ here, but I really wonder what some of you guys look at !??
As a graphics designer, I have my monitor set to defaults. Cockpit graphics look exactly if someone has its gamma settings way to dark and therefore did overcorrect the gradation. A common mistake with beginners, as I often see at school.
And the colrrs on the terrain look like uncorrected sattelite-images pre 1995. Abosolute horrible and unnecessairy changes here. Went back to the previous patch, wich is much more balanced overall IMHO. Hope it will turn out thr good way, cause I really like the sim
Cheers, Marcello

+1, well said.

Lactating are we? Thanks but I don't like fat chicks...............

This iceberg is melting faster than Al Gores' predictions....

Oh, you know what is hidden in the program-code?

Tell us more.

But then, i bet it was a guess, not even educated :D

I couldn't care less what's hidden in the program code, I'd just finally love to play the game I paid 66.99€ for than more half a year ago.

6+ months after release and the devs STILL haven't managed to implement basic features like working FSAA, radio commands, non-ludicrous AI and correct FMS.

If I sound a tad bitter, then so be it. I've followed the Il2 series since the days of Bluebyte's involvement, but even my patience is running out eventually.

Is that the only line you have? It's getting old, you know.:rolleyes:


The reflections are not less noticeable, they are pretty much gone.
You are the only one around here that finds the latest beta better when it comes to looks.

Here are two very similar screens taken in the curent official version, first beta and the latest beta:

Official version:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot2180.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1517.jpg

first beta:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1275.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1015.jpg

and the last beta:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...eenshot550.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...enshot1538.jpg

As you can see in the last beta the reflections are gone, the water looks flat and has the color of a stormy sea. Remember, part of the water color in the distance is given by the color of the sky that's reflected in the water. The blue sky reflected in the water should make the water look blue. Just simple fact.

The game lost a huge amount of beauty in the last beta. It lost the beautiful lightng, sea color and the beauty of the cockpits. This were some of the few strong points this game had.
If the final version looks anything like this last beta, this game is going to slowly die.

Oh that just BS.
The strength of a simulator isn't in its reflections, its in performance.
If a game has really good visuals, but runs like poo, it won't make it. Sounds like CoD 1.2, yes?
But if it has rich content with a myriad of planes with accurate modeling in all aspects, lots of maps and easy to use fmb/qmb then it will live a long life.

I mean look at IL2. It looked like crap initially (neon green 109's anyone?) But it had much more going for it, and then the mod community was able to build on that and make it into an icon of combat flight sims.
Making these dooms day predictions because of the colors is just silly! Hell it might be that your monitor is simply out of adjustment. What will kill the game is a lack of content and a structure so unreliable that many can't play the game without having crashes, and botched FM's. Not to mention an obvious bias in the game to try to get the player to fly red lol.

I agree with you, but the problem with this game is that those things you say "make a flight sim", are badly lacking. The two things nobody complained and everyone loved from the start, were the cockpits and lighting engine. Now those are both messed up, and the things you say make a flight sim are not exactly there yet.
So what is there to keep people coming for more?