yup, compare thisyeah, I've been waiting for DU to be finished too. but right now I have to use my girlfriends laptop because my computer needs repairing and I thought this would be a nice chance to finally check out DU.
being able to see the landscape is such a small change but it puts an entirely new perspective to this game and really shows you how vast the gameworld is.
Did they really increase the view distance that much? To me, it doesn't look much different from the original game from a visual standpoint.
to this
or this
see that tree in the first picture? it's maybe 20m away from my character and it's already fading into some non-existant fog. in the second pic you can even see the trees on the other side of the lake.
and when I was walking up a hill there was this small village
I could actually spot that village at the bottom of the hill. not like in the original game, when you walk in the wilderness, suddenly the game freezes for 5 seconds and a town pops up right in front of you.
and the view distance in towns is also better.
two more pics of vanilla Daggerfall, with houses fading into fog: