Too dumb to read the heatmap?

[Martin Shepard]

Hey there!

I'm new to Odyssey and used the DSS to check where biological signals are on a planet. Everything is just light blue and everytime I land in one of those light blue areas, there is exactly nothing.

What am I doing wrong? It's so frustrating.

 

[Codger]

There is no heat map, it's just blue, or not blue.

There's a post around here somewhere from FDEV that it was too confusing to have a heat map, so they just made it all blue.

You can change the filter if there are more than one signal found, by pressing Q or E (on PC).

In order to find stuff on the surface, you fly into anywhere that is blue, and get right down there low and slow and look. Very low. And very slow.

Biologicals tend to be spread out all over the place, but certain types will prefer certain parts of the terrain. This comes with experience (or just wandering).

The SRV can be handy because if you enable the Composition Scanner, it will light up when it passes over something that can be scanned.

You can also right click with your hand scanner and it will put out a pulse that sort of lights up things that can be scanned. It doesn't have much range, though.

Here's one I found the other day. It was high in a mountainous area. I had to scour the area to find it.

 

[Codger]

Oh, and if it's a Bacteria type, those cover most of the planet a lot of the time, so the entire planet looks blue. You can find them anywhere on the planet, but they are flat and hard to spot. I think those are the hardest to locate.

 

[Codger]

Oh, here's the link to the FDEV reply about it.

Issue Tracker

issues.frontierstore.net

 

[Andro]

Oh, here's the link to the FDEV reply about it.

Issue Tracker

issues.frontierstore.net

Interesting, never saw that. It's a bit weird because there are still some greenish and light blue areas mixed in. The blue does definitely get darker in some places, but maybe that's from the features underneath. Oh well.

 

[Codger]

Interesting, never saw that. It's a bit weird because there are still some greenish and light blue areas mixed in. The blue does definitely get darker in some places, but maybe that's from the features underneath. Oh well.

Yes, it's just the terrain showing thru.

 

[Anticon]

In my experience, there are often darker-blue patches show up on planets (not always) - and those are the better areas for inspection. They need not bear any relation to terrain, sometimes crossing canyons to link up a series of ridges, and sometimes just defining an otherwise indistinguishable patch of flat ground.

 

[STRONTIUM DOG]

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trust frontier to forget life usually requires an abundance of liquid water yet the only stuff I have seen is the condense droplets in my helmet so far...………………
I never saw a sea and it certainly didn't see me

 

[Codger]

In my experience, there are often darker-blue patches show up on planets (not always) - and those are the better areas for inspection. They need not bear any relation to terrain, sometimes crossing canyons to link up a series of ridges, and sometimes just defining an otherwise indistinguishable patch of flat ground.

So what? You think FDEV is lying?

 

[Martin Shepard]

Hm, okay, I have seen screenshots where there are large fields of trees etc. I can't find any of that. When I find something it's just three plants in row or less. I don't know how people are finding those large fields. Is it just luck?

 

[Factabulous]

Hm, okay, I have seen screenshots where there are large fields of trees etc. I can't find any of that. When I find something it's just three plants in row or less. I don't know how people are finding those large fields. Is it just luck?

Sounds like you need to get out more. At least you're now finding stuff

everytime I land in one of those light blue areas, there is exactly nothing.

 

[Codger]

Yep, just luck. Sometimes you find just one plant, sometimes a field of them.