If you die on foot or in an SRV, you lose all exobiology data not yet redeemed, even those from other planets. Boarding your ship does not "bank" the exobio data onto your ship; it stays with your on foot commander/SRV.
Lost SRV - lost Data?
- Thread starter AvelCo
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As far as I remember, it is enough to die as a human character to lose all biodata.
this is insane. I just visited the restroom for a bit longer than expected and lost ALL hard grinded exobiology discoveries and samples I was collecting for several weeks.
I have sent the ticket and if no help, I am not gonna touch this game ever again. The aftertaste is just gonna be too bitter.
It's ironic you lose that data but you don't lose notoriety or any warrants against you, ergo you are not dead.
All that hard work right down the toilet.
quite literally, commander.
Brilliant
Evidently, happens. But seriously, yes. You have indeed lost ALL your on-foot data. But on the plus-side, FDEV are really helpful when you put in a ticket so they might be able to help. They offered to restore all my lost on-foot data when it happened to me, but as I'd also subsequently crashed my ship on a high grav landing too, I felt it was only fair I lost it all. They were very friendly and helpful though, so fingers crossed Commander.
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I know it's been a while, but aren't there a whole bunch of Fleet Carriers hanging out in most systems with Guardian sites? Do none of them offer services that could replace a lost SRV?
Well, if you choose to go on a weeks-long journey without ever docking anywhere, that's kind of the risk you are taking.
Thanks for your compassionate remark. I'm sure the player, who was looking forward to reaping the reward for a job well done appreciates it.
This is the way
I am pretty sure they will refund everything to you. But they will do it only this one time.. after that, cf above
Logging out is a bit harsh of a rule for a game where most of the time you spend not touching the controllers. It will also reset your recent progress.
Would you log out to pour a cup of tea, grab a snack, or urinate, etc.?
Also the mechanics is broken. They should have enabled the explicit transfer of the discovery data and samples from suit to SRV and to ship. Carrying the data on you just makes no sense, and the fact that you are completely unaware of its location makes it even worse.
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No but I do set up a drink in a sports bottle and snacks that can be dealt with one handed before I start the session.
Maybe, it depends on the activity and location in the game.
I leave mine behind all the time, it doesn't do anything. I've done it with exobiology and pretty sure I didn't lose anything. If I can collect it on foot and it's in my suit, I should be able to keep it there. I don't lose materials if my SRV explodes (or my ship for that matter), so this data should be the same. If they are keeping consistent with discovery data, only the person dying wipes it. I think even that is a holdover for gameplay reasons, since we now are always rescued by some magical rangers.
Example would be if your ship was destroyed while you are on foot, but you have a lot of discovery data. Then you call an Apex shuttle and get dropped off at a station where you purchase another ship. Not even sure how legit that sequence is, but it seems you'd no lose anything other than the rebuy for the ship you lost. Then again if your main ship explodes it's at least possible (for gameplay reasons) that you go to a rebuy screen meaning basically you died. I haven't done that yet.
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I have ditched an SRV moments before destruction every now and then. You don’t lose anything if you’re not inside it and then return to a ship.
(It is a little dumb you don’t get the option to ditch it when it begins to “blow up” because scavengers with some peashooter guns are more dangerous than the - presumed - equivalent of an AFV, but, I’ll avoid ranting about that here… anyway, the game assuming you’re too stupid to bail out of a vehicle that is going to blow is just really annoying, whereas I can handwave the ship destruction away with ‘You got into the escape pod before it turned into a firestorm around you’… well, unless it’s a Sidewinder because that tin can breaks apart in .00005 seconds.)
what progress gets reset?
sure, i would assume that you dont log off or take brakes during certain scenarios like during a ground or space CZ - sure the progress would be lost if you log off and you can easily die if you take a break during a CZ.
I've been there, lost the ship in a settlement, took an apex, at the station i did "rebuy" my ship - didnt lost anything.
Death was simple in Horizons back then: you die, you lose everything (unsold exploration data including visited system maps data, bounties, bonds, PP vouchers, intel - everything)
In Odyssey, things are a bit more nuanced.
IF you die on-ship - you lose everything, except for combat bonds, those are stuck with you like forever... for the time being at least
IF you die on-foot - you lose exobiology and bounties - you dont lose exploration data if your ship is not exploded yet (like the ship is in the orbit or parked in a station)
IF you die in the SRV and get teleported to the ship - if you dont get a rebuy screen that will detail what you lost in the process, then you didnt lose anything (bit inconsistent imo)
My understanding is that exobiology data is stored on your person (unlike Cartographics data which is stored on the ship). So if YOU die you lose it. That includes being inside the SRV when it explodes (SRV is not telepresence). This seems internally consistent to me (even if it's a slightly idiotic and rather harsh tech/lore decision that exobio data isn't backed up to your ship's internal databanks every time you re-board the ship).