Lifepod Beacon Messages (and Beacon Manager)

[AtLastBossCarryMe]

So after visiting a lifepod site , is the beacon entry in your beacon manager supposed to stay there or be removed?

For example , early on in the game I got a couple lifepod messages, saw their beacon locations and visited them. After arriving there and getting all the loot, the entry in my beacon manager would go away (and so I figured that meant I had 100% completed that lifepod site search and this was an intended game mechanic).

Since then, I received more lifepod becaon signals and I have 4-5 lifepod beacon entries in my beacon manager where I've visited the site(s) multiple times, took all the loot, see nothing else of value in the area - but the entry remains in my beacon manager tab.

Is this simply an inconsistency in the developers on keeping/removing entries in your beacon manager tab - or is each entry there until you 'complete' something in the lifepod area (loot, switch,etc)?

[Cougarific]

You're supposed to turn them off yourself for the most part. As you say, inconsistencies.

[AtLastBossCarryMe]

I assume you mean turn them off in your beacon manager tab in your pda...but that's not what I'm asking - it's that some of the entries (especially early on) were automatically removed from your beacon manager tab in your pda after visiting the site and now later on - they seem to stay there.

[bongerman85]

i think its when u grab a certain pda at each pod that it deactivates them

[AtLastBossCarryMe]

^ I don't think so....grabbed all the PDAs at each site I could see. Or if it is based on picking up PDAs then it's bugged since I took them.

[Cougarific]

Some disappear, some don't. Inconsistencies. For the ones that don't, once you're sure you've seen and done everything there is to those locations, turn them off yourself.

[Banshee]

Some pods work great as markers though if you'd rather not build a dozen beacons. I usually turn off some but leave others on.

[OnlyZuul]

You can toggle all the beacons on/off. Just toggle the ones you don't want to see off, easy.

[greenknight]

some of the markers don't disappear, I guess because they are intended to act as a waypoint close to entrances into deeper areas, etc.

The rest is removed to curb unnecessary clutter.

[BapH(((O)))mEt]

Yeah this is somewhat annoying. I feel like I keep getting radio messages with new coordinates that aren't showing up in the beacon manager because I have old beacons that won't go away.