Santa Monica Disappeared

[FreshCookies]

Unable to discover it

[Gillsing]

Maybe it only appears when the distress call comes in? I got that while exploring the Rodia crater. Maybe it's on a timer, or maybe it was triggered by the location?

[FreshCookies]

Not on a timer, ive walked over it and the whole map many times. i doont believe ive recieved the distress call

[Gillsing]

So you usually reveal it by discovering it yourself? I had an "Untouched Cache" on the Arizona map that refused to be discovered by a test team I'd made. It would only appear with one of the Outdoorsman perks. I guess you could take one of those perks and then edit your save file to remove it after you've discovered Santa Monica and add a point to "availableTraitPoints" if you absolutely don't want to waste a perk just because the game is buggy. (Assuming that's the cause.)

[FreshCookies]

tried that nope

[FreshCookies]

heeeelp

[Gillsing]

Need more information. Such as... when you've discovered it before, has it been a black X on the map, and then the buildings have appeared from the ground? Because it might be that you need the distress call to put that X on the map, like you need someone to put Darwin on the map before you can enter that location. And maybe the game skipped the distress call for some reason?

Did you do something different this playthrough from what you usually do? How long have you been in LA this time? It seems that seconds spent on the map is the same as seconds spent in map locations, so if all you've done is run around on the map, then enough time might not have passed.

[Gillsing]

While replaying Rodia I got the Santa Monica distress call at roughly the same place as last time, in the crater, close to the well. So maybe distress calls all trigger at certain points in certain locations, under certain circumstances? Santa Monica in the middle of the Rodia crater, and Culver City Brothel when heading to the stairs from the Angel Oracle farms after having activated the 'condemned man' quest? (Because I remember getting the distress call right before the Civility Enforcers wanted to take one of my team as a hostage. If it was just the location I would've gotten the distress call while heading down there, not when heading back.)

On the world map it seems clear that Playa del Rey and Salt Lake Park distress calls come in when my Rangers get close to those locations.