I'm having a similar issue since the maintenace on 8/25/21

Chunks of distant terrain are out right missing, I have tried toggling multiple settings, restarting the game, changing characters, restarting my pc, none of it works.

Cron Castle looks like it's floating in mid air, so does delphe, I can see trees floating on land that isn't there, just a gaping hole in the ground. It's everywhere.

Literal hole in the mountainside:Distant shore missing detail

they probably did this to fix siege/node war.

just let player enable the options to graphics, these devs really enjoy shoving shit down players' throat just because they are too dumb to realize giving players the options would benefit everybody

Don't see how that's supposed to fix nodewar, as it doesn't seem to be happening to everyone. Needless to say, I'm done with this game until they fix it. I put up with the garbage optimization and poor performance because at least it all looked pretty, but this looks like dog crap, and I'm done putting up with crap.

Sadly you're not the first to have said this (or followed through). The bug has been around now for 4 months or so. Pearl Abyss has been extremely tardy on this - they really should have fixed this problem long before now. A AAA company that had a game with such a pervasive and persistent visual bug would have likely had it amended within a week.

Black Desert Online simply is not a visually pleasing game anymore. It was 2000 days ago, but it's failed to keep up (or in this instance) fallen behind due faults entirely of their own making. It's really disheartening to see.

Edit: Yes, it seems this visual bug is perpetuating itself and growing, indeed what you are experiencing is a new addition on top of the visual distance bugs that have already been in place for a while. Along with trees and other LOD objects not rendering (which has been happening for quite some time) it seems the terrain itself is not in places now, as well as structures/trees/objects much closer to to your player-character.

Hahaha! How do you screw up so hard? xD

Well done PA. Not only that you refused to address the tree & objects LOD issue since 28th of April, you managed to make it even far worse with missing chunks of distant landscape and very far away landscape in some regions being gone altogether.
You just can't make this sh*t up anymore.
How? Just how do you f*ck up so bad? (>ლ)

(ಠ_ಠ)

At this pace, they'll delete the game during maintenance sometime around Christmas. :^)

P.S.: I think I found some of our missing distant trees btw - 3rd screenshot in this post. Hole in the ground. Looks like the trees are there but below surface since their z-axis value is wrong. Maybe not. Could be a misplaced layer of far away landscape on top of not yet loaded high-res landscape.

I was levelling a new alt and saw the mountains area near catfish have a large section missing in the middle section. The top and bottom were there and a blank space was in the middle. I have a pretty decent pc with a 2080 nvidea graphics card and 16 gb ram.

Reminder how BDO looked before the LODpocalypse.

(Remastered Mode)

Remember what they took from us. :^)

Sight distance is so short now other people ship are almost on top of you before you see them to turn out of the way this looks so bad with hole though the mountains now can not see towns in a distance anymore it all just sucks and it got this bad at last Maint. on 8 /25

If BDO in principle works the same way like e.g. Oblivion or Skyrim it is most likely a problem with distant LOD creation. Those missing and/or misplaced islands, mountains etc. are the low-res far away versions which usually replace high-res objects when you move to further away cells in the gameworld. Just like a tree-object is replaced with a low-res picture of that tree put as a texture on a flat mesh. Both issues at least fall into the same category.