There are several terrain spikes in Patagonia in the reagion around the airport SCPY. This is also the region where the famous loading splash screen was taken (the one with the Cessna) and ironically this spectacular view is now also ruined through a massive terrain spike!!
It seems to be worse the farther North or South you go… Northern Canada, Scotland, Norway etc… horrible… The reason I fly around is to enjoy the sense of realism which is completely and utterly destroyed by these spikes.
None of that stuff was there when I flew there the last few times. I remember the spikes a few months ago of course. This is different though. Both the walls and spikes disappear as soon as you get to about 20 miles distance. But over the sea it’s still rather annoying.
Can confirm for Patagonia bush trip. Flown yesterday, it’s a spike festival. Really immersion breaking, especially if flown in VR. It’s only four official bush trips, I would expect a more careful scenery check, at least in those routes that are “officially suggested”.
A very weird and unrealistic object that does not tally with what is on the maps or satellite photos of the area.
There is a massive rock pinnacle soaring into the sky at S5. 231364 E 142.357759 in Hela Province
in New Guinea. It is halfway between two jungle airstrips… AYTR & AYXS
Rock climbers and thrill seekers will flock to this malaria infested bit of a very inhospitable area to scale the peaks! The pinnacle is often covered in thunder clouds. An alien base perhaps?
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Submitted to Zendesk, but couldn’t get it to accept my submission.
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Flying at 3000 feet from the North west into KORD airport I have seen a few of those scenery spikes where the scenery spikes up higher than the aircraft. Not a lot just 3 or 4 in a 100 or so miles
I used to fly all over Britain – no spikes…then update… now forget Scotland… now the same thing with France… I used to fly all over the south around Nice and in the Alps… no spikes… update… spikes everywhere…
It is, in my opinion, the worst problem because it destroys any sense of realism. I regret buying some airports now in regions I have a hard time flying into because of the spikes. It is killing revenue.
They must be messing with the terrain algorithms or something.
Please NO MORE UPDATES UNTIL YOU FIX THIS SPIKE PROBLEM…!!!
OH my … I wonder if the good folks actually read our comments… The update to the update this evening fixed the spikes. Wow… I’m off to Scotland to see if they are fixed there too.
These spikes seem to be a new addition. I was getting the odd scenery spike but now seem a lot more common and appear closer to the aircraft…in this case attached to the tail.
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