Can the map be rotated?

[Charlemagne]

Frequently when you come back to a map it is rotated (for example the entry first time was on the West, next time you come it's on the South). I imagine they do it for a sense of variety, however sometimes I would like for an objective to be where I remember it instead of having to explore the whole map again.

[Elgareth]

Umm, no. The Maps are randomized. When you load into a new instance of the map, it's a new layout. That's why the entrances and exits are at different places.

[LastTourniquet]

Zones are procedurally generated each time you load into a zone for the first time. If you have previously loaded into a zone and then that zone gets de-loaded, the next time you enter that zone it has to generate again. There will be certain features in each zone that should help you navigate (for example their may be a fork in the path with the "correct" way being flanked by two abnormally large trees) which you can learn to identify over time.

Its part of the game and it likely won't be going away. If your running the same zone over and over again just try and keep an eye out for certain formations that keep popping up. Maybe there is a weirdly shaped rock or a certain floor pattern, or a set of sconces, or a pile of dead bodies, or a burning tree, ect, ect, ect.

[Charlemagne]

Oh well if that's the way it is that's the way it is.

[Hephaestus]

Originally posted by LastTourniquet:

Zones are procedurally generated each time you load into a zone for the first time. If you have previously loaded into a zone and then that zone gets de-loaded, the next time you enter that zone it has to generate again. There will be certain features in each zone that should help you navigate (for example their may be a fork in the path with the "correct" way being flanked by two abnormally large trees) which you can learn to identify over time.

Its part of the game and it likely won't be going away. If your running the same zone over and over again just try and keep an eye out for certain formations that keep popping up. Maybe there is a weirdly shaped rock or a certain floor pattern, or a set of sconces, or a pile of dead bodies, or a burning tree, ect, ect, ect.

Is this why when I come back to a new area my map progress has been reset? sometimes all the fog of war resets and the way-points I collected disapear and I have to get them again.

I didn't know things randomly changed, I just got the game (only 3 hours in) and I fought that one ice witch in the hut, and then i came back after dying and her hut was in a new position (different camera angle) and the map was reset. It confused me