Tropical water

[Alvega 2,124]

Does anyone know a place where we can still have a nice tropical flight with green/light blue water with corals? I used to fly in The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, US Virgin Islands, where I could see that water, but Asobo removed them all with the USA update and the beautiful water is gone, replaced by dark blue water. I'd like to fly over tropical water, is there still any place in the world where they didn't remove it?

Thanks.

Edited December 7, 2020 by Alvega

[Republic3D 1,232]

They actually removed it? Hopefully that was just a bug. 

Sorry I don't know where to go then. 

[CFIJose 5,485]

It's another unforgivable act by ASOBO studios. I'm starting to regret ever getting involved with this sim. All due to their destructive updates.

[duckbilled 310]

I understand that they have to redo all of the tropical water masks by hand. The likelihood that we will have tropical water anytime soon is slim, IMHO. That upsets me. Most don't care.

 

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

1 hour ago, Alvega said:

I'd like to fly over tropical water, is there still any place in the world where they didn't remove it?

Try the Maldives..

[Alvega 2,124]

Just now, Bert Pieke said:

Try the Maldives..

 

I did try the Maldives and it didn't have any water masks before the USA update. As they removed the water masks from the few places that had them with the update I didn't even go there after the update. Probably they didn't add them there, but I will check again. Thanks.

[Bert Pieke 7,585]

9 minutes ago, Alvega said:

Probably they didn't add them there, but I will check again. Thanks

Actually, TFFJ is one of the few places that still looks "tropical"

[Maxis 1,865]

I used to remember the region around croatia and the caribbean having some of the most beautiful water when i used to fly in fs2004 (i now don't remember the name of the addon i used EDIT .. just looked it up.. Hats off to to the guys @ REX) but nonetheless i was hoping i would see even better output from MSFS2020 because their video had even better looking water. I cant express the disappointment flying Over Ocho Rios and Montego Bay and seeing nothing.. nada .. zilch in terms of tropical water.

Just another of the failures of this sim so far.

Edited December 7, 2020 by Maxis

[BijanStudio 896]

26 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Actually, TFFJ is one of the few places that still looks "tropical"

I had seen that before but it's gone now i don't see any tropical water at TFFJ.

[Alvega 2,124]

16 minutes ago, BijanStudio said:

I had seen that before but it's gone now i don't see any tropical water at TFFJ.

 

Same here, only a little bit a couple meters from the coast in certain places now. It was much better before.

[Danno 192]

It unfortunate but I fire up FSX when I’m cruising tropics. I can only hope MSFS can one day make water as nice as they did with land textures.

Bora Bora from FSX (payware scenery though)

[CFIJose 5,485]

Not just that the tropical water is missing, but they damaged the islands with their terrain update. It looks nothing like the videos they posted and over time the sim has gotten worse.

[rob0203 689]

It is because of climate change there is no coral left anymore

[CFIJose 5,485]

At least we still have this:

Edited December 7, 2020 by DJJose

[BijanStudio 896]

This is before the udpate: