I am starting to get really tired of this game and it's constant ongoing issues and bugs. The severe annoyance today.. do Bark Mounds just... like... not spawn... ever? Visited at least two planets today that DSS says are supposed to be covered in Bark Mounds, spent I don't want to admit how long flying over the planet, and nothing. It would be nice if things just worked the way they were supposed to. It's things like this that really make this game not that entertaining to spend time on.
Bark Mounds just... don't exist?
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They're just very sparse. Thankfully since they're an old biological entry, they show up on the SRV's wave scanner.
Would be nice if the distribution map was a bit more precise.
Ugh this for sure. Or at least was colour coded if things have more/less chance of spawning. If Bark Mounds are just rare, then they are the only thing I've run across that are. Everything else the DSS flags for areas easily spawn in those areas, which makes me think that they are not intended to be that sparse (I personally cannot attest to them ever spawning on planets they are supposed to). Looking at the report tickets, it does not look like I am the only person for whom they are spawning 0% on planets they are supposed to. Really just makes me tired of this game that I can't trust it. The other 'entertaining' bug I was running in to a lot was settlement assault missions where the target NPCs were spawning under the ground and dissappearing, so completing the missions were impossible. I honestly think my patience with this game is just starting to run out.
They do indeed exist, I have spent many hours confirming that they do exist, but they are the hardest bio to find and sometimes appear in groups, well, as few as a single mound, for instance here's a group of 2, and that's often as many as you can find together. it's best to stuck to bodies with a high contrast between the natural Bark Mound colour and the ground, that makes them easier to find;
Barkmounds are definitely the most difficult type of Bio to find. They're spread very thinly on the surface.
I've had the most luck on the surface (i.e. not down in the cracks) around small patches of crevasses, like the areas circled below...
I've had the most luck on the surface (i.e. not down in the cracks) around small patches of crevasses, like the areas circled below...
There is an open and unresolved bug related to missing bark mounds in Odyssey in the issue tracker here: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/40108
The ticket is over 18 Months old, has been voted on many times and has (unsurprisingly) been completely ignored in terms of a fix.
I came across the ticket after spending many hours on different planets looking for Bark Mounds when they would pop-up as a bio signature and not find any so I done some digging around to see why I couldn't find them only to find its a known issue with Odyssey....
If they are not going to fix a bug or if its not going to be fixed soon (for whatever technical or resources related reason) they should at the very least remove the said item/mission etc. from spawning and remove it from the Codex if listed to stop wasting peoples time trying to find something that doesn't exist or doesn't work anymore.
Just leaving issues like this shows a complete lack of respect for the player community since without either fixing bugs promptly or taking actions to stop broken game features spawning then we are left to waste time and effort attempting to find something or do something that clearly will result in failure and then even more time trying to find out why.....
The ticket is over 18 Months old, has been voted on many times and has (unsurprisingly) been completely ignored in terms of a fix.
I came across the ticket after spending many hours on different planets looking for Bark Mounds when they would pop-up as a bio signature and not find any so I done some digging around to see why I couldn't find them only to find its a known issue with Odyssey....
If they are not going to fix a bug or if its not going to be fixed soon (for whatever technical or resources related reason) they should at the very least remove the said item/mission etc. from spawning and remove it from the Codex if listed to stop wasting peoples time trying to find something that doesn't exist or doesn't work anymore.
Just leaving issues like this shows a complete lack of respect for the player community since without either fixing bugs promptly or taking actions to stop broken game features spawning then we are left to waste time and effort attempting to find something or do something that clearly will result in failure and then even more time trying to find out why.....
I have already posted images of Odyssey with bark mounds, every planet I have seriously looked on for bark mounds has them, yes they are hard to find and you could spend many hours or even days looking, but they are there. It's been ignored in terms of a fix because, well, it's simply not broken.
That bug report isn't even about missing bark mounds in general, but about how the change in placement from Beyond to Odyssey has meant that specific bark mounds are no longer present at specific planetary coordinates (for example, tourist beacons which mention the nearby bark mounds).
The bug is that the tourist beacons were never updated to the new terrain generation so no longer make sense - and that's wider than bark mounds, ones which mention volcanism or big mountains or the colour of the ground are equally likely to be wrong now. Frontier really need to re-do the "surface tourist beacon" competition for the new landscapes and replace all the old beacons.
The bug is that the tourist beacons were never updated to the new terrain generation so no longer make sense - and that's wider than bark mounds, ones which mention volcanism or big mountains or the colour of the ground are equally likely to be wrong now. Frontier really need to re-do the "surface tourist beacon" competition for the new landscapes and replace all the old beacons.
Ah ok, so not a bug report that the bark mounds are missing after all. Well we all know the tourist beacons are wrong, the OP should have been here the first time the unmarked volcano POI's were randomly moved...twice....by old updates to the game...that was fun, but we got past it and look where we are now, in the same goddam place!
I'll add that all the ones I've found have been in Odyssey and in the last month or so. The first planet took two of us a couple of hours, so difficult but not impossible. The later ones we're a little quicker once we worked out the more likely places to look.
Firstly I applaud your tenacity in finding them, I have like I said spent many hours looking for them on many planets only to come up blank and it would seem have many other players hence the number of up votes on the open ticket and the OP posting here.
If there is no issue and everything is "working as normal" why has Frontier not closed the ticket with an explanation for their very low spawn rate? - Either way its shoddy work not to clarify the situation as a bug or working as intended, or in need of a tweak.
Clearly if they are present on all planets that say they are then the spawn rate needs at best a tweak, I believe there was a previous issue where there were too many of them spawning now its a case of too few (if at all) - You are the first and only person I know of to have actually of found any every other place I've looked about the issue nobody's found them or linked to the open ticket.
Three if you count my friend I was exploring withOk that makes two
Most of the bio types are fairly widespread and easy to find, but it doesn't seem wrong to have one or two that are rare and difficult. The first time was mostly luck and persistence, searching every different combination of terrain-type and altitude we could find on the planet. But by the third and fourth planets it was so satisfying to find them much faster by homing in on the right type of terrain.
Found them on a few planets to confirm they were actually on planets that said they had them, I stopped looking after that because it's not worth the time, as stated looking in the right areas can often cut the time searching by a lot, but with the nature of the spread of them just flying randomly across planets is very likely going to result in you just flying between them all. They are there, the number of players who can't find them has no bearing on that, and the open ticket as was stated earlier wasn't simply a ticket stating they aren't there, it was specific request regarding a tourist beacon;
I mean some of the reproduction comments even reference crystal shards and that's obviously wrong;
I agree that maybe Bark Mounds are harder to find than they should be, but if they are indeed there and FDEV would know, then there's no resolution needed for the problem of "missing Bark Mounds" because it's a problem that doesn't exist, but the primary complaint is about the tourist beacon, and that's probably why there's been no movement on that complaint. Players referencing specific locations in Horizon and complaining Bark Mounds aren't there in Odyssey? Yes that's expected behaviour!
We know they aren't in the same locations, a lot of other references like this that don't contribute anything meaningful because that's expected behaviour in Odyssey, bio won't be in the same locations as it was found in Horizons.
That's not what that bug is about.
The bug is valid but they could potentially increase bark mound density to "there's so many of them in every blue region you can't land your ship" without fixing it, if it happened that some of the tourist beacons mentioned weren't in the blue region at all.
4 if you count me...Three if you count my friend I was exploring with
Common refrain from some... Defame the developer because...
A few screenshots to show the sort of terrain where I've had pretty consistent luck finding Bark Mounds. Maybe it will help someone...
