I got the feeling that there is something wrong at Frontier Game Elite Odyssey. This morning I looked for Tubus and Ossus on a planet. Although the Biomarker is green I go down and find almost nothing. I flew over the terrain 45 Minutes in abt. 160 Meters and was not leaving the sector. I need 4 different green sectors for the Tubus to collect all 3 scans. The Ossus I haven't found although I searched another 45 Minutes of course it was daylight and the colour of the terrain was sand. When I started this afternoon the ARX was not added to my account, I am Elite 5 in Exobioligy and I think I know my job. I think recently the game is shaky in many ways.
Something wrong in the state of Universe?
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I'm nowhere near elite inExo, so have no idea what I am doing, naturally...
... but I have just found and scanned this Osseous...
Exactly where the scanner said it should be...
... but I have just found and scanned this Osseous...
Exactly where the scanner said it should be...
Congrats Pal
It's important to know that the marked area on a planet is where the thing CAN be, but it doesn't guarantee that it IS.
For instance, bacterium needs a bit of flat space to appear, so if there's an uneven part of the planet that's marked as it being possible to spawn there, it still won't spawn.
If you haven't found something after five-ish minutes, break off from the planet and do another drive somewhere else entirely. Your Exobio is in another hemisphere. If you still can't find it after three or so dives into marked areas, it wasn't meant to be. Leave the planet, go find biology elsewhere.
I'd suggest your second dive to aim for a crater if your first one wasn't. That's where I've had most luck finding plats that didn't spawn anywhere else despite being in the marked area.
For instance, bacterium needs a bit of flat space to appear, so if there's an uneven part of the planet that's marked as it being possible to spawn there, it still won't spawn.
If you haven't found something after five-ish minutes, break off from the planet and do another drive somewhere else entirely. Your Exobio is in another hemisphere. If you still can't find it after three or so dives into marked areas, it wasn't meant to be. Leave the planet, go find biology elsewhere.
I'd suggest your second dive to aim for a crater if your first one wasn't. That's where I've had most luck finding plats that didn't spawn anywhere else despite being in the marked area.
I know that but it was an eight Biosign planet and I will collect them all. But this was never happend in the past 3 yrs. that it was green and there was nothing.
I have periodically experienced this all along in exo bio, and as someone who knows your job, you don't need me to tell you it can be a crap shoot and that some species on some planets can be essentially broken, but yes, the game is also goofy since the latest update. Light flickering is worse. Lags are worse. Lags are showing up in places they didn't show up before (for example, I keep prematurely detonating displacement missiles during sub-surface mining because the dust cloud animation and "Activating Drill" messages frequently just don't come up until I decide I missed and let off the mouse button). Ascendancy sent ripples through the whole game, and past experience doesn't suggest it will ever be addressed.
Some planets are just bad apples. Sure the map says there are 5 biological signals, but you can barely land anywhere or find anything. Then rarely there are those golden apples that feel like they came very close to being some kind of weird steaming earth-like worlds. When alien plants are nowhere to be seen and game gives you crashes, it's time to change system.
I've noticed that flyovers often miss the smaller flora. Like, Tussock and Bacteria are a pain to see from the ship, even if you're flying low enough to be hazardous. On the other hand, stuff like the osseus and electricae stand out.
That was for me the first time. Ossus and Tubus are usually good to see when flyover
Usually Osseus are abundant enough to be quite easy to locate... but some planets, they just refuse to spawn in any significant numbers at all. I've mostly (but not exclusively) noticed it with the Osseus Fractus sub-type that seems to like the thin CO2 atmospheres but then the rocky terrain/outcrops on which they grow (I think the codex says as much for the species overall) are relatively small and/or infrequent compared to the rest of the terrain, on top of potential locations often being overtaken by other plants already. Stratum and Tubus being two particular culprits.
The worst case of completing a sample of Osseus on a planet where it was difficult to find had a distance of about 17 kilometers between samples one and two, with about 8-9 between two and three. May have been there were more closer but I might not have been looking in the right spot, and I probably should not have been so stubborn to look for those things there as they don't provide that much of a payout or satisfaction when you do find them. It's more like relief that the painful part is over and you can move on to another planet conscience-free.
... but this is also the person that, when faced with moons containing Electricae, mushrooms (fonticulua, which might not actually be fungus) and bacterium 2k ls from a white dwarf, where it was so dim that the game actually took a red dwarf 45k ls away as the light source... still hunted the germs on the surfaces of each moon except the one that only had the bacterium.
Osseus = rock, so look for rocky outcrops, if you cruise across the sand you won't see them. Also, try around 100m not 160m, that's a bit high.
I normally fly a lot lower than that...
Occasionally a large rock jumps out on me...
Is the reverse true? Can something appear outside its marked area?
I was searching for conchas on [Prua Phoe NM-V d2-17 3 f] - I could literally only find a pixel of blue, and even then it was only from a certain angle because it turned out to be the bottom of a ravine. Luckily it's on the dark side. Dropped in, could only find one concha patch. I was in a DBX with no SRV. I scanned one, but there were no others to be found.
I've just been back* in a Mandalay which had the space for a vehicle bay, so I took a drive to see if there were more. Again, just the one same patch in the same ravine, but there was just enough distance between each corner to be able to get the three scans.
It's taught me to always take an SRV, and to see if there's any truth that the artemis suit can be engineered with night vision, because it was pitch black down there.
* (I'm autistic, and my flavour of the condition doesn't cope well with unfinished business.)
Oh yes for little stuff like tussock you've got no chance at 100m, sometimes I don't even see them until I step out of the ship and then, like magic, there they are., But Osseus, Cactoida, Tubus and other larger bios 100m is fine, much higher than that though and you risk flying over them before they pop out of the landscape.
I've not got into on-foot engineering yet. Might have to get my FC back to its home system then think about whether I'm missing out.
no issues here
I have found gobbledygook Flammesis by hitting it with the ships landing gear while trying to skim over a ridge before now.
On another occaision I eventually managed to land near something visually easy to spot and disembarked onto the top of Flammesis, I was in the middle of a patch of it which I hadn’t seen which explained why landing had been unexpectedly tricky.
On another occaision I eventually managed to land near something visually easy to spot and disembarked onto the top of Flammesis, I was in the middle of a patch of it which I hadn’t seen which explained why landing had been unexpectedly tricky.