I agree that needle shadows are not going to be noticeable in real life. The instruments are not flat though, check out this video of the Su-26 where the panel is rotated. You can see reflection in the glass, and the depth of the gauges.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJHz3TnehmY

Someone asked about refraction in the water already. I wonder, will it be possible at some time in the game engine to have refraction of the gun-sight and armored glass?

The water and the boat's look GREAT!...I'm a commercial fisherman, so for a minute I felt like I was back at work.:)

Water and boats look great!

The barge could be a little sharper, but not bad.

Very beautiful. It's amazing what one can do. Ok I think I exagerated, with "one" I mean a whole team.

This might allready have been asked bevor, I'm wondering if the fog is implemented in the game. Since in England there is a lot of fog. But then again why, one doesen't want to fly in the fog. But still....

New PC time Soon
 

At last, a reason to go multi-core.
I work as an engineer using 3D CAD. Sadly Solidworks does not really take advantage of multi core CPUs (except for a few functions). My latest work PC is only dual core, I spend a lot of time watching the CPUs maxed out at only 50%.
If AMD and Intel had any sense they would be pumping money into projects like this.

jeez, what is the average computer according to you guys :P. 90% of the players will have to buy a new one I think... inlcuding me :(.
If you can hold up the release untill 2015, I will have the money for a computer :)

LOL! The good news is you'll never need to heat the computer room again, perhaps the whole floor.........

Well I've got an Intel i7 but I'm not at all convinced my rig will be enough! The game looks like it'll be stunning!

I'm wondering about modelling ship crew members because if you strafe those guys there's bound to be a gory mess unless they just disappear, which would be a bit unrealistic. I do seem to recall Oleg mentioning that flocks of gulls would not produce blood splatter when hit, so it would stand to reason that people wouldn't be treated any differently.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing "blood n' guts" depicted as long as it was done in a realistic way...
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