Friday 2009-12-25 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Golden_Eagle_FM]

Nice shots, but still I wonder when we will be able to have all this.
I have stopped now with IL2 since many months after nearly 7 years of use.
Visual quality, sound and graphics seem really something of the past.
Playing with games like Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (CODMW2) for sure has spoilt me, and having seen demos of Metro 2030. BoB will be against a terrible competition in terms of visual quality, effects, sound, and also physical behaviour of the environment.
Quality design of objects and planes is fine, but the visual quality of the environment, animations of characters will also be important. Pilots must be modelled like the soldiers in CODMW2, with facial expressions.
On the ground same for the soldiers. There must be an animated background of people in the airports or on the ships. Over the many years that IL2 has strived with many little improvements here and there, but now the visual gap is starting to become wider and wider.
Will BoB use DirectX11 features, the power of the latest generations of GPU's, multicore 64bit machines etc. etc.
All my hopes are yes. But the development takes so long and seems to have concentrated too much on the object details (at least from what is shown to us) that I am afraid when it comes out the visual engine may look already something of the past and there will be no time for animating properly the world around.