How do you reveal the map?

[PyroMancer]

I got a map but huge areas at still black. I went around collecting HD the other night and noticed it seemed like a lot of high up places remained black(unexplored) on the map. While annoying it wasn't too bad as most of the area shows up.

Then last Night I went exploring in the other direction to collect more HDs and when I checked the map NONE of what I had explored was showing up. I was standing in the middle of a giant black area on the map. I was fairly deep into the area but it remaining completely black.

[ADMNtek]

you can build radar towers. also, areas only are counted as explored when you actually have seen it so if you haven't been on top of a ridge it won't show as explored. however, I had the same issues as you earlier went exploring before work but everything was black. but I just fired the game back up and it works again so maybe restart the game.

[Scoob454]

Yeah, it seems a lot of people have been having this issue since update 5. I just had the same problem the other night. Went out for my first hard drive search and the map wasn't updating.
It seems restarting the game does fix it. I didn't realize this until I was quite far away from my main factory, so there's still a lot of covered area (that should've been uncovered) on my map. I still haven't noticed what causes it to stop updating.

If you want to, I'm pretty sure you can use SCIM to reveal the map. I haven't bothered yet, because I caught it fairly early and I'd like to uncover everything legitimately.

[Klab]

same here

[scrooge34]

same here with win10, update 4 did not have this effect

[DrNewcenstein]

Are you surrounded by high elevations? Could be since those are blacked out, it's not showing the ground level.

[PyroMancer]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

Are you surrounded by high elevations? Could be since those are blacked out, it's not showing the ground level.

It is sometimes high elevations but other times it's not. And even with high elevations I'm standing on top of the mountain/cliff at highest point so it's not a ground level unable to see up high issue.

Heck I often use hypertube cannons to flyby areas and yet still don't have them revealed despite flying over and landing in them.

[Vectorspace]

I had this when I went from update 4 to update 5 experimental - the map reset and removed all of my explored areas, and walking around wouyld no longer reveal map in most cases

So I build radar towers to re-reveal