Water
Water
So: Neon and Paradiso excepted, has anyone seen any oceans or rivers in the game as yet?
Someone on Reddit recently posted a pic with their character standing at the side of a river, and the general suggestion was that anyone who hadn't seen a river hadn't looked carefully enough.
Accordingly, I went looking. I found a temperate planet with oceans visible from orbit ("YOU CAN'T LAND HERE"), set down on what looked like it should have been beach, and then headed north towards where the ocean should have been.
I eventually ended up standing on a mountain in what ought to have been the sea, looking across a dry valley towards another mountain, not a drop of liquid in sight!
So either I'm reading the maps wrong (entirely possible btw) or the planet generation is on the fritz in my game (can't rule it out) or the Reddit post was spoofed.
So: has anyone found any oceans or rivers? I'll post screenshots and maps when I get back to my gaming box tonight.
If you select the coast of a landmass to land there the prompt should say something like "Savanna (Coast)," and there will be a beach and a large ocean a few hundred meters from the landing site
I don't recall the biome saying "coast". Maybe I was unintentionally a couple of hundred miles inland or something.
I shall try again.
It helps to zoom in when clicking potential landing zones.
I did a (boring) 100% planetary survey and one of the fauna I needed to scan were fish in the water close to the shore. I spent wayyy too much time running around looking for water until I realized there was always some within a couple hundred metres of the ship landing site (I assume it's generated that way for that biome type).
When you're landing on a Whatever (Coast), keep your eyes open to see what direction the water is when you come in. Otherwise it can be hard to see it from the ground if it's a foggy world.
It can be pretty finicky, but it's definitely possible.
I've been to 3 or 4 that had oceans. As others said try to land on a tile that says coast. Once you land if you can't see the water you can try to use the local map to head towards the flat part.
I've also read that there are rivers, IIRC look for swamp biomes.
I'll try again. I need a cool site for an Armillary anyway. Time to go scouting.
I don't have screenshots, but if I remember correctly, two of the fauna on Gagarin in Alpha Centauri were fish when I surveyed the planet. I ran along a coast for quite a while to get all the scans.
Good enough for me. More research needed on my part, clearly.
Turns out I need an outpost site to build an Armillary. I always fancied a beachfront property.
I've seen planets with oceans I cannot land on, but even landing on what appears to be a shore line, there is no water in sight and I can walk out to where there should be water and it's just barren wasteland. The resource map is also wonky as fuck. Like land in a huge patch of Iron, but then it ends up being Chlorine or some shit. Makes the map utterly worthless. Though perhaps that requires deeper skill levels.
Found some last night. I made sure the biome said "shore" from orbit and even then I had to walk a bit, but I found the ocean.
Then I nearly got eaten alive by bacteria when I went paddling. I'll build my beach house somewhere else, I think :)
I landed just beside the you can't land here zone on what looked like an ocean, could see the ocean where I landed.
Fair 'nuff. Seems as though I landed further away than I thought I did.