draconus

Looks like normal ground textures, not intended to represent shadows.

They usually release it without warning.

As you can see - not yet, no news.

My vote for fixing the lighting and removing overlays. Kneeboard place is on the knee, not overlay screen.

Show me.

Yeah and I base it on over 1 year of good experience.

No, 2.9.16.10973.1 is the current DCS version and was minor update mostly for the campaigns. Marianas WW2 map will come soon as separate module (optional free terrain) for download after one of the future DCS updates.

Yes, all you'll get are images, hopefully with coords. You can do what you want with it. Perhaps a trigger in the mission can react to the right image taken but you can't expect module to generate a new mission for you.

Why so sure? It still works and will work.

From OP:

No, it is going to be another free aircraft.

I was amazed to see very bright electrical lines, glinting in the sun IRL. Granted, it was not the case as in the OP. Also note they are exclusively 1 pixel thick in DCS and always black if not bugged otherwise. Not very realistic - the lines can either be very visible or almost invisible in some cases IRL.

Why would no one ask for it before? Or did they?

Afair RuAF jets don't feature any mechanism to prevent it. They rely on the pilot's sanity.

Can I download it somewhere so I can build my own hatred for it?