Titan Expedition problems

[Bacon Overlord®]

Trying to do the "children of the giant" where you have to land on 5 moons and trying to look at the moons from a distance just shows player clutter (even with multiplayer turned off).

Is there some fantastic way I don't know about to actually flag or mark a planet from the discoveries tab so you can SEE THE DAMN THING? I keep flying back and forth for the last hour between the same 4 moons.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Go into discovery listing at it will show the details for any planets you have already landed on. The one that just shows the planet and won't provide detail is the one you want. Make a note of the name.

I do wish the discovery listing showed the relative location of each planet. Maybe it does and I have just never paid attention.

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Go into discovery listing at it will show the details for any planets you have already landed on. The one that just shows the planet and won't provide detail is the one you want. Make a note of the name.

I do wish the discovery listing showed the relative location of each planet. Maybe it does and I have just never paid attention.

Not if the systems already been discovered by HG. You can see details on all of the planets from the first second.

[Darth Cervantes]

I couldn't find that moon for a while (the one closest to the gas giant), eventually i just saw the message that another player landed on on that planet and I followed their icon to find it

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by Ozwald:

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Go into discovery listing at it will show the details for any planets you have already landed on. The one that just shows the planet and won't provide detail is the one you want. Make a note of the name.

I do wish the discovery listing showed the relative location of each planet. Maybe it does and I have just never paid attention.

Not if the systems already been discovered by HG. You can see details on all of the planets from the first second.

For whatever reason that worked for me. The detail I meant was the animals discovered and stuff like that. It is a secondary screen available when you have actually set foot on a planet.

[Ozwald]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

Originally posted by Ozwald:

Not if the systems already been discovered by HG. You can see details on all of the planets from the first second.

For whatever reason that worked for me. The detail I meant was the animals discovered and stuff like that. It is a secondary screen available when you have actually set foot on a planet.

Ahh yes, that makes more sense.

[Geldric™]

Originally posted by Ozwald:

Not if the systems already been discovered by HG. You can see details on all of the planets from the first second.

Yes, you can see the "details" of each moon, HOWEVER, you cannot click on each moon and see how many fauna there are UNTIL you actually land on it. <- at least that's how it worked for me... but then again I'm a filthy "cheater"

Given that, it was pretty easy to determine which moon I needed to "land" on (visit)

[iay]

I had problems with this as well. I think navigation in gas giant systems could use a few tweaks.

For example, pointing the ship at a moon to see what the name is (so that you don't have to visit it again) didn't work for me if the moon was visually small or visually close to the gas giant. Which given the moons are all small, was all of the time. I found I had to pulse across the systems multiple times just to find that I'd visited one already. And pointing the ship at a moon and pulsing always seems to raise the nose of the ship so you're not going to see the name when it's available, which seems unnecessarily cruel.

Another thing that is really unhelpful is that moons show on your scanner as if they should be visible when in fact they aren't, because they are behind the gas giant. Maybe it's because the giant's atmosphere is hiding them, not the solid part? But given that you can't see anything on the scanner while you're pulsing, it makes it really hard to know when you should stop and take another look.

I got there in the end, but as I say I think maybe some tweaks would make this less of a frustrating exercise, not just in this expedition but in general.

[Xaxxus]

I have had a ton of issues with this milestone.

I've been to every planet, but they arent all counting when i land on them. So im stuck at 4/5.

I even tried a different system with a gas giant. Same issue.

Is there some trick to triggering each moon?

[Unlucky]

Originally posted by Xaxxus:

I have had a ton of issues with this milestone.

I've been to every planet, but they arent all counting when i land on them. So im stuck at 4/5.

I even tried a different system with a gas giant. Same issue.

Is there some trick to triggering each moon?

Are you absolutely sure that you landed on all of them? You can open up the animal/plant details on every moon, just as Mr. Bufferlow described earlier?

I landed on two different moons more than once, and one of them 3 times before I finally found the 5th moon. It is very easy to mix up these moons and just miss one. Especially since the gas giants are so large and the moons 'hide' behind the planet, so you have to go around the entire thing to see them all.

Edit: The BASES everyone put on the planets sure didn't help either... They blocked me from checking the planet's name until I got very close. So that issue just made it so much easier to confuse them all.
AND I also noticed there was also a bug where when you're on a planet/moon, it says the name of a different moon/planet, rather than the one you're currently on. THAT made things even MORE confusing.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Originally posted by Xaxxus:

... been to every planet, but they arent all counting when i land on them. So im stuck at 4/5.

I even tried a different system with a gas giant. Same issue.

Is there some trick to triggering each moon?

I did this in the expedition start system. Absolutely loved the scale and size of the Gas Giant.
My starter hauler ship had poor control (I must a better ship) and turning was tough. I made a landing on one moon twice not realising I had been on it before. Perhaps you also landed on the same moon twice? The giant dwarfs the moons it was so cool. Amazing what Hello Games are doing with this game!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426984317
I then looked at the orrery view of the moons to compare sizes. Found one and then hopped from one to the next. Inside the cockpit the radar really helps show the moons and planets as orange circles. If a panet or moon is behind another there will be two distinguishable circles (different sizes) close to one another. The vertical lines show if your ship is above or below the target you are trying to reach. Once the radar is understood it can be relatively easy to find things when they're not immediately in view from the ship. The radar is very useful too fighting pirate ships and identifying them.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426986162
Camera Tip:
It can be helpful to put the camera view toggle on a hotkey or controller button. Then it is a simple click from 1st person (in cockpit view) to switch to 3rd person while piloting. A better class ship used for tighter turns (brake and turn) is far easier and more precise to control. So perhaps complete this milestone maybe later in the expedition with a better ship.

FINDING MOONS SPOILER FOLLOWS:

Another way to find the moons and is perhaps a spoiler to some is to find a player base on a moon. Using a working teleport search the list of bases and see if a player has helpfully named a moon base or numbered their bases. Then all you need to do is teleport direct to the moons visiting each from the teleporter. Player bases may have a teleport built to use otherwise visiting moons may be a task to do later in the expedition when you get the ability to build your own base. Or use a teleport from a working space station.

[wahl35]

Originally posted by Johnny in the Clouds:

Originally posted by Xaxxus:

... been to every planet, but they arent all counting when i land on them. So im stuck at 4/5.

I even tried a different system with a gas giant. Same issue.

Is there some trick to triggering each moon?

I did this in the expedition start system. Absolutely loved the scale and size of the Gas Giant.
My starter hauler ship had poor control (I must a better ship) and turning was tough. I made a landing on one moon twice not realising I had been on it before. Perhaps you also landed on the same moon twice? The giant dwarfs the moons it was so cool. Amazing what Hello Games are doing with this game!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3426984317

I then looked at the orrery view of the moons to compare sizes. Found one and then hopped from one to the next. Inside the cockpit the radar really helps show the moons and planets as orange circles. If a panet or moon is behind another there will be two distinguishable circles (different sizes) close to one another. The vertical lines show if your ship is above or below the target you are trying to reach. Once the radar is understood it can be relatively easy to find things when they're not immediately in view from the ship. The radar is very useful too fighting pirate ships and identifying them.

The last few expedition's starter ships have been getting on my nerves, in terms of flying them. It feels like I'm flying an old fashioned clawfoot bathtub. I will occasionaly just look for another ship and switch but instead I brought one of my main save ships into the expedition because of this..

Since the update came out, I have been cruising lots of systems with giants. I just pulse out into nowhere-ville until I can get a better look at the system. I also fly around to the other side of the planer to take a look to see what's hidden from my initial view . I have never used the cockpit radar. I'm going to try that on my next flight. I'm sure that I'll feel pretty foolish for playing this long and not having used it before.

[Prescient Stones]

Using colored Save Beacons to mark the moons, I was able to take my time and finish several milestones before leaving 1st system. The beacons made it easy. 1st Person Ship cam got me pointed in the right direction always. The slowness of the starter ship has the benefit of allowing you to look at your (zoomed in) radar as you drift.

https://youtu.be/_Px6ZYh6gSg

[Geldric™]

As always PS - great info

[zimnel]

I'm having this issue as well, with the particularity that I have been in the 5 moons with registered discoveries in each of them and the counter is still on 4/5.

Edito: I landed on the giant and the moment I set my foot on it it registered the 5/5.
This giant was a full magma planet and it hurted my eyes so much the first time I tried to land, that I decided to visit the moons first. It seems that visiting the 5 moons is not enough for the 5/5 counter, you need to visit the giant as well.

[Geldric™]

@zimnel - interesting, thanks for the info.

I suspect most players will try to complete this milestone from the starting system, which of course you spawn on the gas giant so only the 5 moons are left.