Actually, I agree with you in many sense Luke, but I have noticed some things in terms of the environment here in Britain that are different to other countries.
The first is clouds. Clouds in temperate countries like Britain look quite a lot different than ones, say, in a place like Russia or a hot country like Egypt. Of course some may read this and laugh, as it is quite a specific thing to focus on compared to the wider aspect of the sim, but it can make all the difference.
The other thing is colours. Of course the colours of grass and the way fields are like will be different in England than a foreign country. Grass colour is quite an anal thing to focus on, I know, but the grass does look quite green and seeing as though the BoB went on throughout one of britain's hottest summers, then really I feel that the grass should look drier.
obviously to some gamers these things matter, others don't notice them. Let's say SoW was released before we saw all these updates, we/I would never focus on these details unless it came about the sim could be improved in pactches. The one thing about being able to view these pictures over and over every friday is that we end of scrutinizing them. We can't see how the sim operates, and so we can;t realize what it's like in game. Even if the game were paused and one moved the camera slightly, things would look a lot different and we'd be better able to comment.
So really every comment needs to be taken with a pinch of salt. All we can really do is comment on what we see. It's up to Oleg, Luthier and the team to decide whether our comments are beneficial or not.
But yes, I will level with you; it must be annoying to some to see similar comments every week about the same things (terrain, colours etc etc). But until there is a comment by Oleg or Luthier, I know it will continue. WIP is a general term, so we can only presume that it applies to everything. But really our comments are just there to help them tweak the sim. Boblast (I think) posted an excellent colour shot from just after the BoB (from Life magazine) which really shows how the colours could be optimized. I will point out to Oleg, though, that the RAF pilot gear there is post-BoB or either pilot modified
I think we could write and debate all day, and it may be a learning curve for some, but boring for others. Ultimately, we'd all like to see the sim soon just to be able to see what it is really like. A video update just showing the current state of the sim would be a lot of minds at rest
