Unable to see anchors with ARC device

[xo_2025]

So I got into a zone where there was those giant circle-like anchors that slowly spawns and slowly disappear. Impossible to see anchors on the ARC device. I was at the last zone of my trip so there was no way out of it! I aimlessly drove, searching for an anchor base, until the alarm screamed, and had to abandon the trip. 45 minutes of gaming lost.

Is there a solution for that or it's just that the game sometimes softlocks itself into this weird zone type with no way to get out of it?

[Merdrach]

Congratulations, you've discovered the 'anchor obfuscation' condition. Build the anchor radar tool for next time.

[Nocturne]

yes there is on actual solution and other workarounds:

if it is your first zone it is not as good, though i doubt this will happen there.

1. You can research a device called: "Anchor Radar". In beginning i thought this is useless but after noticing the same event, i saw its ultimate purpose > finding anchors on locations that have these weird anomaly.

2. You can also collect all anchors on your way to a destination beforehand and dont even need to bother on that particular map. Therefore you will be prepared to exit the map as soon as you enter.

3. Not a good approach but possible. You can simply drive around the map and search. The anchors are somewhere and normally visable.
I had a location with a lot of time until the sphere got activated but no anchor radar. I aleady got enough anchors and was just scavenging for ressources.
So i went through every building in that location and had even 10 or 15 minutes more to search around for whatever i want.
While looting the map i randomly came across the anchors.
So this is not a good advice, if the sphere timer is very low.