My take on CoD - UBI and 1C dropped the ball on this one

[Devastat]

I don't want to sound overly negative, but here is my initial feelings on this game:

I am so glad now I bought this game on yuplay.com today, because I have now cancelled my preorder on Steam and I saved 35 euros of money.
My computer is i7 920 2.7ghz, 12gb ram, ati radeon hd5850.

First of all to get realistic here, I think this "add a line to conf.ini to remove epilepsy filter" is just a placebo and rumor - i do not see ANY difference on the performance, and I have really looked into this thing. We don't know how much this filter is affecting the performance, it is possible that the real performance problems are elsewhere.

The game runs well when you are flying alone over the canal with other planes in the distance. No problems in fps there. However, when you approach a plane, the FPS will drop down to something that reminds me of a slideshow. Also flying over cities is very uncomfortable, game starts stuttering alot, sometimes it runs okayish, sometimes the fps gets really down. Overall the FPS varies constantly and a lot.
I have tried various different graphics settings, but it is strange that it doesn't seem to make such a big difference. From mid-to low settings the result is quite the same. Good fps when no activity around. When a plane comes near it goes down to hell.Lots of visual bugs in the game, I don't know about the actual gameplay as in current state it is so unplayable that I cant get into it.

Another reality here. I am quite disappointed into the graphics to be honest. It looks outdated to me (well I just started to play crysis 2, which runs perfect on my machine on 100% gfx settings, so maybe I am bias here.) Now, it doesn't look ugly, the water and clouds look good to me, but the cities, the ground there is something about it that reminds me of older simulation games.

If you ask my opinion about this game? It might be a good game in 6 months after various updates. There has been A LOT of detail been put into game obviously. However the sad thing is that it is quite hard to see yet where has 6 years of development put into. And looking into the game world in these days, it is quite dangerous to release a game SUCH half-baked. Seriously guys, this is a pre-beta version of a game. UBI should not have been releasing this now. This is THE "Silent Hunter 5" of flight sims. It is gonna be crushed in reviews and I don't know how many people, except fans, are going to buy this game after?

So I have a feeling that UBI and 1C has dropped the ball on this one. 1C would have needed another year of development time. But for the flightsim fans, there will be alot to enjoy, but it will take time for sure to get the ball rolling.