[addman]

Poorly implemented and/or non-existent basic flight combat game functions/features. As Feathered said, visual fidelity/performance is not in proportion with recommended hardware to run it. The game is poorly optimized and stuff has been taken out (which we will see again in the retail patch....?). Claims have been made that the game has been optimized and graphics engine re-written, that means that we should be able to play the game in all of it's original glory with better performance than before, OPTIMIZING MEANS IMPROVING GAME PERFORMANCE/STABILITY NOT REMOVING VISUAL FIDELITY, THAT'S CALLED "NERFING".

As I've said before though, I reserve further judgment until the retail patch is released. I'm not expecting any miracles though, after all that's what luthier and his "new" team has taught us, never expect anything, even when they announce something themselves.