I’ve been playing the past few days and yes, the devs did make the details of contacts zoomed in shaper, but it’s just not working overall compared to the enhanced contacts we had before.
Yes I can still hunt, and fight, and get kills, and even have some decent dogfights here and there, but the experience of playing Simulator is very different, very lonely in a bigger and emptier sky, and the level of frustration is much increased.
I play on a 4k monitor, and the contacts seem to be smaller and harder to notice as resolution goes up making contacts non-intuitively harder to locate on a larger 4k monitor compared to a smaller lower res screen.
I’ve had three different occasions over the last 2 days of trying to intercept the enemy recon plane. In each case I was IN ITS SECTOR, moving in parallel, along its flight path for 2-3 sectors, and could never locate it. This means it was probably no more than 5 miles away, somewhat near my altitude (been playing long enough I know their expected altitudes) yet I could never find them. This has NEVER occurred in the previous years of playing Sim.
While I can get bounces, and enjoy occasional one on one dogfights, it is very easy to just lose a contact and never find it again; meanwhile trying to keep SA up in a group of several contacts is just impossible on a 4k screen. Snapping a quick glance back over my shoulder to clear my 6, often means my primary contact up front is gone in the 1/4 second it takes to take a look… never to be seen again.
Worse, is that after playing 1-2 EC rounds my eyes hurt, and were noticeably sore, from constant sweeping of the screen to try to find barely noticable pixels that might, maybe, be a contact - also something that I never experienced before the Leviathan update.
I LOVE Warthunder, and Simulator, and especially the Sim community - each of you all are so awesome to fly with and against, but honestly I can’t put time into a game that is me causing negative physical side effects.
I really, really hope Gaijin fixes this, and fast. I’m just sad about the whole state of things.