SU5 screenshots hurt my eyes so much.
I noticed the more prominent water texture tiling. But it’s those clipped highlights that get me every time. The red areas I added are full white in the original image: 255, 255, 255. Meaning any detail that was there is gone. It’s just a white outline of an aircraft now. Anything white in this game, like aircraft or clouds, gets obliterated by the SU5 lighting and brightness settings.
I tried to “fix” this image in a photo editor. The colors and exposure are totally shot though so you can’t really save it:
You guys have made a believer out of me that they did indeed just strip this game down to make it run on XBox. It’s like they actually hard coded it to run on XBox, optimized for a TV, and then just went ahead pushed that out for the PC build as well. I haven’t lost hope yet. Perhaps the outcry will be loud enough that they’ll split the SU6 update into separate builds for console or PC, or implement additional control over the settings that effectively do the same thing.