Personally, I think half the fun of operating an SRV is using its thrusters to skip over the larger rocks to avoid spinning out.
Anyone notice rocks are gone from ice planets?
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Personally, I think half the fun of operating an SRV is using its thrusters to skip over the larger rocks to avoid spinning out.
Well it's a good thing I don't like racing game and very much enjoy driving the SRV.
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Yay! I asked FD to nerf rocks ages ago because they kept blowing up my SRV.
Thanks FD!
Thanks FD!
I agree with Jukelo. Well ... maybe not "more tedious" but certainly "less interesting".
"Less interesting" being subjective, is something I can agree with and understand.
I thought it was just the ice moon I visited.
When heated by sunlight, rocks will melt their way through ice. To a point though, eventually enough will accumulate in a layer that they cannot go further and they may ablate back out as a lag surface. So either they ended up being an unintended (?) victim of the surface upgrades, or they will come back in a slightly smarter fashion than before.
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When heated by sunlight, rocks will melt their way through ice. To a point though, eventually enough will accumulate in a layer that they cannot go further and they may ablate back out as a lag surface. So either they ended up being an unintended (?) victim of the surface upgrades, or they will come back in a slightly smarter fashion than before.
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Antartica would be a great analog for a rocky ice world I reckon, as you get very rocky areas like Dry Valleys, and very icy areas like the high ice caps with no rocks at all. As I indicated above, you can actually find meteorite fragments on the surface of the ice as they are about the only larger rock particles able to make it to the ice surface (literally falling out of the sky). Heating up quickly in sunlight, rocks tend to melt their way into the ice and disappear pretty fast to at least a few decimetres depth.
I'm glad to see the majority of rocks gone from ice worlds. But there should be some to find, if only rarely. Around impact craters and volcanic vents, as well as abraded out in lag layers.
SThis is some twisted logic.
Update 3.3 was originally supposed to revamp ice planets, improving them in all aspects including a brand new scatter rock system. The ice planet and scatter rock revamp got cancelled, but it does look like something with the rocks on ice planets got broken in the process.
Or it's possible that this is intended by Frontier?
A response by Frontier would be great on this, at least to clarify whether this is a bug or intentional.
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Totally agree. I can see how it might be deliberate (from a science point of view) but I'd love an acknowledgement one way or the other 'cos I'd hate to think it was just an inadvertent consequence of something else.
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Maybe not broken per se, but yeah maybe just at a point where after the delay of the new system the build couldn't be reverted to the original rock system, so they had to leave it as is for a while.
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It might have been deliberate for a different reason. We know they were planning big things for ice planets and scatter rocks but they cancelled it late in the game. It’s reasonable to assume they did a lot of work on it though, because we saw in game screenshots of the improvements (which looked fantastic no less). Maybe they’ve turned ice scatter rocks off because the old code is so far gone and changed that it wasn’t possible/easy to put it back the way it was for the 3.3 release?
It's also safe to assume, given the work they did, that we’ll be seeing the ice planet improvements in the near future, so even though they are missing now I’m pretty sure they’ll be coming back. If not the old rocks then at least the new ones.
Hope it takes less time than "beige" problem
As others have said hope we get some feedback from FDevs if its intented or bug. Like i said ice planets feel empty without rocks.
