Motion blur is the new lens flare. :P

The cockpit detail is awesome and so are the aircraft models!

But honestly I don't like the terrain, it' doesn't fell like Britain at all! It looks more like a Pacific scenario than Britain and I think the reason for that is that the colors are way too bright. All terrain colors need to be darker (or else it will look more like a Pacific island than Britain).
I also didn't like the Cliffs of Dover (look into the screenshots at 1C forum). The ones from SoW are greyish and opposed to the terrain the SoW Cliffs are darker than the real ones which are in fact whiteish, afterall they are known as the WHITE Cliffs of Dover.
Humm, let's see: The SoW terrain is brighter than the real one and the Cliffs are darker than the real one. I hope that Oleg and his team fix this!

Didn't Oleg say the shots of the terrain and colors all WIP? If so, what's with all the hand wringing and consternation?

The airplane pics looks outstanding (although I shudder to think what kind of machine will be required to run it at that level of detail) but:

1. WTF is that mountain? It looks like the thing from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

2. Why did the Russian forum get most of the cool in-flight shots and we get pics of the flight line at Dogpatch International?

Just kidding...looking forward to this muchly (and holding off on my pc upgrade).

He did say the map was a small multiplayer test map, nothing to do with Britain.

Motion blur and bloom. Since the technology now supports it, developers have added both in extreme amounts that detracts from realism. Hopefully Oleg doesn't subscribe to either of the latest techo-crap offerings.

Hi All,

It's Monday and as promised Oleg is answering questions:

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10702&page=17

As usual some interesting stuff.

RedToo.

The problem isn't actually motionblur and bloom in itself, the problem is most devs choose to implement'em using low-level technologies, which leads to very poorly implemented ones that don't feel realistic and feel overdone.

Object-based motionblur like in Crysis on maxed settings is great IMO, and HDR too can be great since it can actually be used to mimic the human eye in having it realistically adjust your sight to strong lightsources etc.

Anyway, it's looking great, I have to say though, I laughed when I saw how Oleg got mad when someone said he thought IL-2 BoP has better looking terrain, linked a screenshot of it, and Oleg said something along the lines of "We do not want Storm of War to look like a cartoon", personally I don't think BoP looks like a cartoon!

Anyway, I can't wait for more info, but personally I'm a bit bored with WW2 flight sims, I can't wait for a good Korean war flight sim to come again!