Clarification
The screenshots were made in a proprietary tool, the object viewer, which uses the same graphics kernel, as the game itself. But it doesn't contain any scenery, AI, physics, etc. The "ground" on the screenshots is just a flat surface with several toglable texture variants: grass, some generic countryside, shader water, or empty space.
This tool is used by 1C modelers to check the model in the game render to find and fix any possible visual bugs or inconsistencies.
Often it is also used for a promo screenshots, you find in updates.
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