I feel like the heatmap doesn't even do anything. I find sites where it claims there are none and it feels almost as regular as finding them inside the heatmap.
How do we find Geological Sites now?
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The correct word is "broken" as too many things in Odyssey.
My eyeball tests suggest that when the filters don't change the 'blue zones' the different geo features can (not will) exist in the same locations, more often than not when the planet is just a big flat blue ball in DSS, and the geo features are more or less evenly distrubuted around the entire planet surface.
What i really don't like is how jarring the change is when you drop from orbital cruise if you were in analysis mode. The blue overlay needs to be more translucent and display the landscape features more instead of just being the flat blue.
Also, i'd love it we had a signal scanner like in the srv, but from inside the ship when flying low altitude, maybe have the range determined by sensor grade? Have a reason not to use D class sensors as a mass drop?
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How is your suit run out of power? It’s recharge every time you enter ship or SRV back to 100%
Yeah, that's exactly the case, the 2 geological features present in the planet I spent some time on were evenly mixed... maybe because they were of a similar kind? (geysers and fumaroles).
I wish we had a signal scanner on the ship as well... not to find the geological features as it is really easy when you get the hang of it but to scan for these features compositions... It seems to me that it would make sense to the game lore that a ship would have a "pulse wave prospector"- they could even make it an optional internal if they wish to, I don't mind.
And yeah, the blue area could increase in transparency the closer you get to the surface, it would be a cool effect, but it's something that really doesn't bothers me... there's plenty of time and distance during glide to choose a nice spot to land based on the surface topography.
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I think so.
Guess i need to get the hang of it then, so far all i find is sulfur and carbon. I kinda like the idea of a pulse wave prospector
Its just very jarring and sudden to go from flat blue to sudden terrain (or darkness), so a more translucent overlay where you could see the features before drop would work better, for me anyway.
I'd also like it if within the translucency it kept the long and lat lines like in Horizons.
It was like that at the start. We had to fly over and over and over AND OVER for hours in hope to find something on 1:1 stellar bodies. They changed and added mechanics to avoid this tedious task as only a very few nerds put time on that. With the most useless (I say, I hope, it's just broken) tool they introduced called heatmap it's just going back to the past. You can even turn off the "heatmap" by switching to combat mode and search randomly. You won't spend more time than trying to use it.
This information is so very depressing.
Awesome even in the future we are handicapped by sh*tty software and lazy programmers, how can I not scan for a general location (30-50km radius?) for geo/bio sites, we (dumbarse 21st century humans) can analyse the atmosphere of a planet 20ly's away but my ship can't give a general position for lava vents or methane geysers. Love this game but it feels like it's getting better looking but dumber every update.
Sorry to 're-open' this one again, but I have a question. I've switched from Horizons to Odyssey last week and I love the look of the planets, also the lighting seems to be better. So if i find a planet with geological sites, for what is the number behind the sites standing? The whole planet seems to be covered with geo-sites according to the filter, but what is the number for? In Horizons it showed the amount of sites, but in EDO, for example '2' doesn't represent the number of sites on the whole planet, does it?
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A, ok, got it. It's showing the different kinds of geological sites on a planet.
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A, ok, got it. It's showing the different kinds of geological sites on a planet.
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The number in Odyssey refers to the number of different types now, nothing to do with the number of sites as displayed in Horizons.
For geo it'll usually be either 2 or 3, and if you find one type chances are the others are nearby. Look at the shape of the terrain (bottoms of hills etc) to improve your odds of finding them, but some planets are just harder to find the stuff on than others.
^^^Thank you for your answers o7
Using geo stuff for mat farming in Odyssey is not that efficient any more no. I get virtually all my raw mats from mining & trading up/down (even in Horizons I never farmed crystal shards or similar).