CoD screenshots (merged)

[JG52Krupi]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

I think apart from the water the new ones are fine.

What really got horrid when I compare your shots is the water. It looked so much better in the release version. I do not understand why it was changed.

To make them realistic, apart from the reflections the original sea in that pic looks more like mercury.

Mh. The upper picture of the daylight picture is how I remember it was when I bought my retail version. The lower one does not look like what I remember. The upper one looks better definitely.

I do not remember to have seen the sea in the lower one but it is a while that I did not run CloD waiting for the final patch.

[Fliegenpilz]

Actually, I think the water is WAY better in the newer picture (top one). When flying, you don't see much reflections on the water, especially not over oceans (and definately not over the Ärmelkanal, been over it quite a few times now)

Only thing which you actually do see over water is the "glittering" of the sun - which is captured fairly good in CoD, in my opinion. I do agree though, that the waves could be a bit smaller...

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

To make them realistic, apart from the reflections the original sea in that pic looks more like mercury.

Actually that's not the release version. The release version had much better calibrated colors (les blue) and slightly less reflections. It was just perfect. I think they lost their bearing with the colors very early on. One of the first patches made everything too red, then they added too much violet and in the last patch they just made everything in shades of grey and called it a day.

Here is how a sunset looked in the original:



Then they turned it into this (more red and more reflections):



Then into this: (aded more violet/blue):



And then into this (very faded colors and no reflections):

[JG52Krupi]

Are you sure those pics are using the same time or that MG haven't played with the dusk and dawn times.

I agree we need reflections back, but I am sure I can still get a simillar screenshot to the beaufighter one.

[Jaws2002]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

Are you sure those pics are using the same time or that MG haven't played with the dusk and dawn times.

The first four shots i posted are at the exact same time. I do agree that they changed things quite a bit. In the latest versions is a lot darker right before sun rise than in the older patches.
I remember flying that early morning mission in ATAG, with the ships. The sun rises around ten minutes after sun rise and you can't see nothing on the field. First try i went straight into the tower. of course you couldn't see the gauges as half the lighting in the plane doesn't work. In the real world you have no problem seing the road ten minutes before sun rise, on a clear day.

I agree we need reflections back, but I am sure I can still get a simillar screenshot to the beaufighter one.

You can't get that much orange at sunrise in the curent version. Also the transition between colors and transition between sea and sky in the distance was very smooth in the older versions. I change between versions quite often and the difference is very obvious.

Now try to replicate this shots :

[Ailantd]

Originally Posted by Jaws2002

Actually that's not the release version. The release version had much better calibrated colors (les blue) and slightly less reflections. It was just perfect. I think they lost their bearing with the colors very early on. One of the first patches made everything too red, then they added too much violet and in the last patch they just made everything in shades of grey and called it a day.

This is just speculation but I think they lost their bearing with the colors the very same moment Oleg went away. He was the photographic eye behind the colors and general look. I hope they can return the Olegs way to depict scenes. It was plain beautiful and credible. Realistic opposed to filmic.

[larry69]

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