cant find my small mech suit..

[187]

i made one..popped in nearby and now it's vanished...any idea how i can find them?

[Bjørn]

The mech vanished? That sounds like a bug. It should be where ever you left it.

If you forgot where you left it, I don't really know how to find it. I thought I had lost mine too (small mech) after I used one to attack a hive. Later when I looked for it I couldn't find it until I realized I was looking at the wrong hive.

Maybe there should have been some kind of UI-option or something to find / cycle through mechs.

[Sir Crashalot]

Pawns have a tendency to pass out and fall out of the mech if overtired, when they wake up they will just walk off.

If you know where you have been with the mech, try drawing boxes around the general areas it could be and see if it shows up in the list, it could be hidden by trees.

[Alex]

I lost one mech as well, used it to clear a nest then gave it the command to return to base. Since nests are in the ass end of the map the pilot had a long road, to and back from. She passed out due to sleep deprivation, took a little faint-nap then just walked home. Couldn't find the mech due to it being hidden by a million trees, good luck finding it. Gave up eventually.

Also I noticed survivors moving mechs without being given a command move.

[76561199056944839]

Originally posted by 187:

i made one..popped in nearby and now it's vanished...any idea how i can find them?

If it vanished without at trace then it's likely this was caused by a bug. Unless you lost sight of it behind some trees or something, in which case it should still be somewhere.

[Grumpette (on hiatus)]

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

Originally posted by 187:

i made one..popped in nearby and now it's vanished...any idea how i can find them?

If it vanished without at trace then it's likely this was caused by a bug. Unless you lost sight of it behind some trees or something, in which case it should still be somewhere.

How does one know if

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

it vanished without a trace

or was just left somewhere by a survivor and location attempts have failed? I built one yesterday and Yokko jumped in it twice of her own accord and went to wander off hunting in it and I had to manually drag her back as her desire to hunt at that time did not fit in with the rest of the camp's plans. Now it seems to be missing, I cannot locate it after much searching of the map (especially under trees).

Is there literally no way to be able to locate items like this on the map using a search or similar? I mean

Originally posted by JensErik_Frontier:

Unless you lost sight of it behind some trees or something, in which case it should still be somewhere.

The million dollar question is...Where? How do we locate it? Please don't say scour the map highlighting objects, I've done that 6 times already.

If I cannot locate it soon, I think I might meltdown and go on an eating binge.

[Flin Fredstone]

I never had that happen but i guess with a survivor walking back to camp it can't be THAT far out. It's not like you have to search the entire map. You can focus on nearby forests and expand that circle ever so slightly.

[Grumpette (on hiatus)]

NVM I located it finally lol. Sorry Flin your reply is still "awaiting analysis..."

Question still stands though...how do we know if something like a Mech suit has legit just disappeared off the map? Surely there can be some ability to locate items added at some point?

[Flin Fredstone]

How did you find it ? What process did you use ?

[Grumpette (on hiatus)]

Originally posted by Flin Fredstone:

How did you find it ? What process did you use ?

Highlight a section on the map and look in the list then move on as I had been doing. I don't know of any other way?

[Flin Fredstone]

How do we locate it? Please don't say scour the map highlighting objects, I've done that 6 times already.

I thought you would have used some other method this time then. Hence i asked.

[Grumpette (on hiatus)]

Nope, that's kinda the point isn't it (if I'm not mistaken)?

Some kind of search mechanic would also help to locate "missing" tamed animals etc.

Or just change the mechanic where the survivors ditch the mech when they sleep? Or even have a pop up that alerts you that someone jumped in a mech and left the base in it so that you can keep an eye on them? Kinda like the "fleeing" warnings from aggressive encounters as a kind of heads up.

[Flin Fredstone]

Or perhaps add a signal light on top of the mech once build. Not just turned on when in use but turned on all the time.
Would that make it more visible ?

[Grumpette (on hiatus)]

That'd work too!

[Seelander]

maybe the mech ghosted him :-)

[Flin Fredstone]

Originally posted by tommy_b_schmidt:

maybe the mech ghosted him :-)

Or he was just hiding behind a tree because he had a leak.