What is the worse thing in this sim series in your opinion..

[zapatista]

the single worst thing is ..

the Poor rendering on all distant objects, which makes these distant objects nearly impossible to see when they are looked at them with ground/field/forrest textures in the background! for ex the main issue is that a small LoD model for a tank at 1000 meters blends in way to much with the textures of the terrain he is placed in.

the same problem with keeping track of a plane you are chasing at 700 or 1500 meters away from you, when it is seen against a terrain texture background (against open sky is not a problem). the plane object blends in way to much and is nearly impossible to see.

the problem is created by the fact that we are trying to recreate a distant 3D object, seen against a textured background which represents a field/forest/road surface. right now the gfx engine blends all those textures together, and represents them on a 2D pc monitor, the result is a very unrealistic viewing distance. when you look at that same object against an open sky, or with clouds in the background, then you CAN see them correctly, because you have a small black object (tank, plane, truck etc) which is shown against a uniform colour of blue or white sky.

this has nothing to do with "camouflage paint" making them harder to see, just look at historical film footage from ww2 to see at what altitude and distance a pilot could see objects like tanks, trucks, or other aircraft. also you can read the historical accounts of pilots, or ask the last surviving pilots from what distances they would spot and track objects. lastly, just ask any VFR pilot how easy it is to spot moving trucks and cars on a road at 1500 meters below him, or see individual stationary aircraft at an airfield from the same distance, or see a single tractor stationary in an open field, and you will find they are all easy to spot. this is completely impossible in il2 currently, so you can not SIMULATE the experience of a real ww2 pilot.