Just my thoghts on the latest Screens update +examples offuture hopes for SoW

[Mysticpuma]

The problem we have here, is that the reason we are all here is becuse Oleg created a great sim so many years ago.

What i want primarily from a sim is immersion. So, along with enemy AI that doesn't just spin into the ground and can see through clouds, I want advance damage modeling both visibly and also through the flight model so I know my aircraft is in trouble. I'd have 6-DoF but lastly the graphics need to make me believe I am in a virtual cockpit.

The comparison between Call of Duty and Modern Warfare is very representative of my expectations, and if I'm out of order, this is MHO.
So, visually I want the aircraft to have lots of detail, all of it with HDR lighting,an improved visual damage model so that if an aircraft loses part of a wing it has torn edge rather than a straight edge. I'd like to see wings explode off an aircraft if the ammo store is hit, but I'd also like to see wings not fall of an aircraft, but fold and stay attached, then flap as the aircraft hurtles down.

This is just subtle but immersive graphics that add to the realism of the situation you are in.

There are so many things that would be awesome to see, and maybe they are already there, but small changes like 54 v54 in QMB + the option to have close formation or Bader's 'Big Wing'!

I really want to see glass and metal have radiosity and caustics as-well as my vision too.

If I look into the cockpit my pupil will enlarge to let my light in. When I look back out again, I'd expect a slight over-brightness in my vision (caustics) to slightly bleach out the environment until my eyes adjust. This is what occurs in project Gotham Racing 3 and onwards when you come out of a tunnel. It's a subtle but immersive effect.

Graphically I was hoping by now that there may be at-least some footage of an aircaft in a real environment, after-all, how are we expected to show our friends and potential customers of the future what they are missing out on, when we have the latest update of a Tiger Moth against a tired backdrop and without any Anti-Aliasing.

Just a little disappointed and don't forget, SoW had to be at a certain stage of readiness before patch 4.09 complete was released.

Just a little disappointed....so Oleg, please show us some video at this advanced stage in production.

Cheers, MP.