Not Possible to Find Last Animal/Fauna for Records

[Wilson [MG]]

I've got over 20 hours in this game now, so I know all the tricks, I've fully completed multiple planets (wiped my progress once).

I've circumnavigated this entire planet multiple times over about an 8 hour period just searching for this final entry. I've done day/night on land, while watching the sky, all the way down underground for miles, I even went into underwater cave networks for a few miles (no animals seem to spawn at all that far down, FYI). I've even tried leaving the planet, going to the station, other planets, and then coming back several times. This planet had 11 total fauna records and I've found 10 of them. I've even accumulated 6 full pages of flora.

I'm at the point where I need to warp to the next system but my OCD won't let me leave this damn planet until I complete this entry! Halp!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=743779132

[Martin]

I've found that incomplete records are usually down to small flying things, when you look at them you can see the red orbs indicating they're a lifeform to be scanned, but I just can't get them to scan. Could also be a fish.. but as yet I've never seen a fish or anything living in the water on any planet.

[Wilson [MG]]

Did you read my comment? I know all the tricks with scanning, and I've been searching for just this final entry for an entire day.

There were two aquatic species on this planet, and one flying one. For the flying ones, just shoot them down then scan the dead body.

The missing one here is not a flying species or an aquatic one. It is simply bugged and will not spawn this last one.

[Martin]

Will try that thanks. Noticed also that you can get critters in caves and sometimes only in specific caves, found a critter that was the size of an elephant in some really narrow caves, only occurred there.

[Wilson [MG]]

I've spent about 2-3 hours in the caves alone today, I even went in cave networks under the sea... It's not in there.

[iMatrix7]

Same thing here.
Two species left, and I'm not albe to understand what I'm missing. Stuck. :/

[Casper]

Ive had that happen, sat still for about 20 mins while eating and animals started spawning near me, got him then.

[Arvalion]

Got the same problem... one is still missing after several hours and i'm still unable to find it.
I wanna move on, but my mind is telling me "FIND THIS DAMN CRITTER!"

[Wilson [MG]]

I've even started doing some experiments. I once found a rare spawn by standing near a Heridium deposit, so I've tried just sitting near different resources... Still no damn luck.

To add to my aggravation, there's a small, carnivorous Turd Moose species which spawns by the dozens and like to ram/bite. I've stopped even bothering trying to kill all the buggers because it just eats up isotopes I need for trying to find this damn missing link... but they make sitting still waiting for spawns quite tedious.

I've also even tried gaming the game mechanics. I've noticed things outside tend to despawn/respawn if you go inside a building like an outpost with a trade terminal. That may be way more specific than the engine requires, but I've managed to clear the landing pad of ships this way quite effectively if I need to call my own, so I'm fairly certain it is a thing. So I've been running in and out of buildings trying to reboot the fauna nearby. Still nothing.

[Arvalion]

No bug for me, found it finally in a deep cave. But now i got a real bug - everthing is at 100%, but i cant upload it.

[Wilson [MG]]

Originally posted by Arvalion:

No bug for me, found it finally in a deep cave. But now i got a real bug - everthing is at 100%, but i cant upload it.

Did you hit the bar that says 100%? That bar is actually the button too.

[Arvalion]

I know, already discovered 2 planets to 100%, but thanks. ;)

[Wilson [MG]]

Originally posted by Arvalion:

I know, already discovered 2 planets to 100%, but thanks. ;)

Was worth a shot. Maybe try restarting the game?

[Arvalion]

Done. Still broken.

[Wilson [MG]]

Holy carp! It's not bugged! I just now got a red blip on my scanner! However, I must have pissed off RNJesus because I'm underground and it's somewhere where I can't get to...

[Wilson [MG]]

Finally! In the end, it spawned above ground, near a beach, while I was underground. I was frantic to get to the blip before I lost it. Fortunately, it appears that it is the planet's apex predator, so there's nothing else that would have eaten it. I had to kill it immediately after scanning it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=744195396