I live in Newfoundland and here the coastlines now showing the ocean creeping up the side of the land. Looks Really bad and happened right after world update 2.
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I’m also seeing this. Here are some examples, from two different parts of the world:
Western edge of the island of Molokai, Hawaii:
Approaching Hachijojima, Japan (RJTH):
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it looks a lot like you are playing in offline mode.
This is not linked with offline mode. I have the same symptoms as reported here. A little later I will raise a zendesk report with photos, as it is specific to coastlines post USA update. A good example is Olbia Costa Smeralda airport. Take off towards the sea and look at the islands. Another example is Trondheim Vaernes where the same symptom manifests on the left hand coastline (again taking off towards the sea)
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I am using offline mode, I will try the other way round and see.
Thanks for the input.
Seeing this in Iceland as well … neat IFJ
was not doing this prior to latest update.
This area still has “Floating Lights”
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Offline or online makes no difference.
Its almost like they tried to make the coastline most accurate to display cliffs and such but in doing so the water now seems to be dragged up the cliff also.
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Same here. I used to enjoy flying around Molokai as well till now this (really beginning to get frustrating how much gets worsened after each update:
Yes. West coast Canada is the same. Also some terrain changes to mesh have impacted some third party airports.
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Same situation in Mellbourne, Australia. I find oceans
Best to report this coastline issue via Zendesk as a bug.
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Thanks for mentioning this! I assumed that Asobo had downgraded the scenery with one of the updates to improve performance. To my knowledge, I haven’t touched the data settings, but when I double-checked it just now, “Bing Data World Graphics” was TURNED OFF! I just turned it back on. Man, I’ve been missing seeing scenery this beautiful.
That being said, I can confirm that the coastline issue still exists with Bing Data and photogrammetry enabled. Here’s a screenshot of Lake Oroville (near KOVE) in northern California. The same pattern of water wrapping up onto the shore is visible:
Often if your internet connection is lost (be it the fault of Bing, Asobo’s servers, or just a hiccup in your connection), it will disable your online data services. It typically pops up a message that it’s doing it, but I’ve had it happen a few times where the message box pops up only for a split second. If I’d looked away at that moment, I would have missed it.
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OK, thank goodness it’s not just me. I thought I was going crazy. Here’s my two contributions, from the Alaska bush trip. 1 shows the issue; it often happens at a distance. 2 shows me close to coasts which look fine once I’m close enough.
Can confirm I am in online mode, rolling cache is off, all other settings unchanged.
Going to file a zendesk report as this is a real immersion killer.
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Do y’all also get lines where the rivers meet the oceans and sometimes where different rivers meet.
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Hi all,
I have created a thread in the bugs and issues forum for those who are seeing this to vote - please vote here:
The world is a big place and some stuff isn’t going to be perfect. Raise a support ticket with location details and they’ll get to it at some point. And vote per the thread above too, although I don’t know whether this is a case of being able to fix with a global change or if it will need scenery fixed for each location separately
Yes, understand.
I’m trying to determine if this was an issue before the latest patch though. I dont recall seeing it before, so maybe its a quick rollback fix in the next update…
I’ve seen a lot of similar things - water hills in lakes, rivers flowing uphill through steep valleys etc. I think a lot of it is down to the granularity of the data they have, although this coastlines thing does seem more prevalent. It could be as a result of the newer, more accurate US data not quite working at the edges. I try to raise zendesks for all the glitches.
I saw a water hill in the lake above the Hoover Dam yesterday.
Refl; The coastlines are now screwed up
You are obviously free to post whatever you want, if within the guidelines of the CoC, but telling a developer that they have “screwed up” might not be the best way to win them over, and get their co-operation to fix something, as DRAMATIC as it may sound .
A HONEY “The Coastlines now have major Elevation issues” might catch you more flies than the Vinegar “Screwed up” version …
But I guess you could have used an even worse wording 
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