Bio signs on planets - accurate?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

I map a planet and it reports back there are n biologicals you can sample present.

After scouiting around, taking off, venturing further, relanding, finding nothing different, taking off again, going into SC, landing on a completely different part of tha planet, trying different terrains etc. etc, etc. the actual bio signals can be anywhere between - depending on how many are suuposed to be there in the first place - n-1, n-2, n-3. Dot, dot, dot.

Very rarely does the bio count from the scan seem to reflect the actual count planetside.

Is this true or am I missing a ton of tricks?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Almost sounds like you're missing the DSS Filters to highlight specific Biological Signals (?)

Once that is set, it's all down to figuring out into which "shade of blue/cyan" and which Terrain type (flat vs. rocky vs. mountains) to aim for.
The DSS "Filter" is not a real heatmap after all, so a blue area but in wrong Terrain might not yield a single Bio.

Some Bios are often harder to find than others, i.e Shrubs (which actually should be called Frutexa as by the Codex), Fungoida or sometimes Cactodia.
Bacteria Patches can sometimes be extremely tough to spot on some Planet Surfaces, as they're often blending in extremely well.
More than once, my Composition Scanner I use to skim over the terrain lighted up despite me not even seeing anything

On top, the entire Render Pipeline is still Alpha.... so don't go faster than 50-70m/sec and don't fly well above 100m Altitude.
The Engine spawns some Bios very late and doesn't properly render them due to aggressive LOD cut-offs when flying too fast or too high.

I made a few sample Sequence snapshots (these seem quite valid for Bios home to flat Terrain, the specific shade of cyan normally results in very quick finds and large populations) :

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Aaaaah! Think you may have nailed it! Thanks!

 

[Challenge]

In the 20th Century we had developed lenses that from orbit could read the name off a pack of cigarettes or ID a shoulder patch. Now we can't even find a plant until we nearly crash into it. I love progress.

It seems to have gotten harder to find geo deposits as well. All my surface collecting has come to a screeching halt.