Mapping

[tonyacook]

I’ve only been playing this game about 50 hours but I’m taking my time, enjoying it and figuring things out. One thing I’ve noticed is it seems to take some of the good parts from the more popular survival games that I’ve played, such as the long dark, green hell, and stranded deep. Specifically, mapping from the long dark. However, I do have an issue with this.

When you’re standing on a flat beach with nothing around you but a few trees, some rocks, and the ocean behind you, you should be able to map at least what’s in your line of sight. I know you’re “supposed” to go in the cartographer trees to map, but why do you have to stand directly underneath a coconut palm in order for it to show up on the map?! I know it’s there, I can see it from my screen but it won’t mark it on the map! This makes the game very unrealistic and annoying.

For someone like me who plays survival games because I enjoy the collecting, crafting, and unlocking everything, it is almost impossible for me to reveal the entire map by walking around the beach mapping because it claims I can only see 4 feet. But when I’m 100 foot up a tree I can see 100 miles away, that’s just unrealistic. I enjoy the mapping, but it needs to not just depend on the altitude!

If the mapping was more realistic, this would easily be up there as one of my favorite survival games.

[CrazyMom]

Higher elevation lets you map more area, either by using the mapping tree or climbing up a hill area or high stone shelves and later on you will unlock something to set up on a beach or anywhere else relatively flat.
Later on there still is another mapping possibility, offshore.

[CrazyMom]

I did not mention details, for in your opening statement you mentioned you like to figure things out.

[tonyacook]

Originally posted by CrazyMom:

Higher elevation lets you map more area, either by using the mapping tree or climbing up a hill area or high stone shelves and later on you will unlock something to set up on a beach or anywhere else relatively flat.
Later on there still is another mapping possibility, offshore.

Yea I figured out the trees work best and I understand the logic by mapping from high elevations but I still believe if I can see a fishing spot and a palm tree on my screen it should show up on my map without needing to be 2 steps from it.

Same logic applies with the mountains (although this one I can deal with lol). When I’m standing on this area on the front side of a mountain, it claims that I can map 365 range. Realistically I can’t see that far, but it’s allowing me to map stuff on the complete opposite back side of the mountain from where I’m standing. If I’m standing on top, then yea, that makes sense I could see the other side, but if I’m not then it doesn't.

I just feel like a more realistic mapping system would greatly benefit this game.

I also have a minor issue with the windchill taking forever to go back down. Especially if you’re in a cave with no wind, near a fire, and in a warm sleeping bag!

I’m not trying to complain, I love the game so far, I just wasn’t sure if the devs of this game take players thoughts into consideration so I wanted to put them out there!

[CrazyMom]

Best to add your thoughts and ideas to the pinned forum "Share your ideas", higher chance to be read by the developers :)
I do understand your comments in regards to mapping, a lot of things are not very realistic, it is a game. But a good one lol, and the wind chill is difficult to get rid off if you just started out. Make hibiscus medicine!!!! Build a small house as soon as possible, the cave is not very good other than collecting lots of scorpions.