DSS heatmap
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Might help if you post a screenshot? Is there any life reported?
I too am finding the DSS heatmaps confusing. What are these scans (below) supposed to be showing me? How do I know if 'life' is reported. Are the blue/green areas supposed to be showing 'life' signs? I have found NO life so far on any of the bodies that seem to be showing these 'Bio signs' (despite extensive searching)??
[Also if Frontier reads this, we STILL need a way to NOT show the scan, either a 'Null' filter or even the ability to turn the thing off in the module section.]
PS. I have found planets/moons where the DSS scan shows no blue areas or anything (just plain surface) which in the Alpha I took to mean there was NO lifeforms present (and seemed to be borne out in practice)?
[Also if Frontier reads this, we STILL need a way to NOT show the scan, either a 'Null' filter or even the ability to turn the thing off in the module section.]
PS. I have found planets/moons where the DSS scan shows no blue areas or anything (just plain surface) which in the Alpha I took to mean there was NO lifeforms present (and seemed to be borne out in practice)?
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If you are in the DSS and you flip between the signal types you should see slight changes. I'm guessing but in the one you show it should be the blue areas. The biologicals cover very large areas.
I reported it to the issue tracker since I thouht it was supposed to be a heatmap. But got the answer that they ditched it.
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Greetings Cmdr, This is working as expected - the blue areas highlight locations where organic life is supported on this planet. There is no longer a "heat map" as this was causing some confusion. Hope this helps! QA-Jack o7Confusion all round then!!!!
I liked the heatmap. At least the few times it actually worked.
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It's possible that's correct. Often the 'hotspots' correspond with surface type or depressions etc, so you might find all the geologicals in (say) rough terrain or find flora in flat, low-lying areas.
It is pretty vague though. For flora visiting the marked area usually quickly leads to finding it, but for geologicals it takes more searching once you get there, in my experience at least.
It is a bit random trying to find the geo sites - but I have been stumbling across a few ... and noticing another small issue . All materials are the same at a given geo site . If you find a site and the first object is iron - then so is everything else it seems and it seems to persist .
Uh I saw a thread about DSS aNd heat maps earlier and this thread is showing them so I now know what they look like My question how are you getting them? I took my cobra to a random planet after reading the earlier thread to try to figure it out. Just got the regular blue. I had 20 results said the box in the top right. BUT apparently the heat mqps are what I’m missin, didnt find any related key in the options
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Tell me the secret?
Lucky you?! Seems they have turned the whole concept of looking for a needle in a haystack into an actual game. Given my luck I guess I won't be finding too many Flora life forms!I found a planet with large areas of blue earlier this evening, so went down to investigate - and found these:
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They weren't really that bad to find. I just scanned a few planets in a system and found one that had blue patches and reported 2 biological signals, so went down to have a look.
Yeah, I agree on the geos, takes a bit of work.
I hadn't noticed about the materials being the same at a given site; that could be a great feature if you're looking for a specific material and happen across a source of it (instead of rambling around multiple planets etc.)
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One of these is an ugly blocky pixellated mess, the other is screenshot from Elite II
No that's not a blue water world - it's actually an Ice planet with a pixellated ugly 'heatmap' on top of it - just to ruin your view of the planet as you fly down to land - you can't see any geological features now - it might look really nice with some lovely new planet tec, but FDev decided we'd rather see a blocky lo-res mess instead.
- yes I know I can switch to Combat Mode - to get rid it, but really ?
One of these is an ugly blocky pixellated mess, the other is screenshot from Elite II
No that's not a blue water world - it's actually an Ice planet with a pixellated ugly 'heatmap' on top of it - just to ruin your view of the planet as you fly down to land - you can't see any geological features now - it might look really nice with some lovely new planet tec, but FDev decided we'd rather see a blocky lo-res mess instead.
- yes I know I can switch to Combat Mode - to get rid it, but really ?
Ummm if you don't care about seeing the not-heatmap, then switch out of Analysis Mode. Mapped planets always did this, even in horizons with the blue-grey grid laid over them until you were near the surface.