Like you said before - different lightning (look at the sky). But can you show that (with screenshots) bushes (i hope it's right word - english is not my native language as you see
) still have a shadows and there is no downgrade in that?:
No you dont get my point. I agree that in that picture you post here 1.00 looks to have better shadows. (although its not as bad as you show, I have pictures that dont show such difference and Wah_Gwaan's pictures show less difference than that)
But why is it the other way around in the pictures I posted? You dont see how much better foliage is in the Kaer Morhen pictures? The textures even? And just for the record it is the same time and day pretty much as well.
But like I said, and you repeat correctly, clouds can make a big difference in lighting.
So we have a case where 1.00 has better shadows in one spot (white orchard) from 1.04 and then we have another case (Kaer Morhen) were 1.04 has better textures, better shadows, and more foliage than 1.00 .
Why dont people admit the upgrade in that case?
My point is this: The game is tweaked with each patch like I said. That means under certain circumstances it could look better in 1.00 and in other circumstances it will look better in 1.04 . We have lots of proof for that. Even that White orchard picture, the textures are improved on the treeline in the distance in 1.04.
The game is tweaked. In some cases it looks worse than 1.00 in others it looks better. All that crap about AF droping to 0 and non existent AA and worse textures are just downgrade rage talks.