Map doesn't update.

[Lakursa]

When I'm exploring in a vehicle the map doesn't update. I have to get out and then it reveals only that location around me. So I would have to stop very often if I want the map to be updated.
Anyone know fix for this?

[Fenix]

yeah annoying, no
here's what I do
you need the parachute and Hypertubes, and optionally a click/hold key/mouse app
I make a cannon and shoot myself straight up, open the chute and glide in one direction.
with the click/hold button app set to W, I turn it on and go do something as I glide openning the map.
You could just shoot yourself in a direction, which is faster , but you might end up with gaps.

Or you can upload your save to the SCIM, and hit reveal map, and not bother with any of that.

[Kage Goomba]

Update how? Fog clearing or?

[Fenix]

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Update how? Fog clearing or?

Yeah the map fog of war won't remove in the explorer, also you have to be high in the air for it to update the whole area

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Originally posted by Kage Goomba:

Update how? Fog clearing or?

Yeah the map fog of war won't remove in the explorer, also you have to be high in the air for it to update the whole area

Did for mine...weird.

Course I was driving on a tall constructed bridge (was building as I drove) so maybe not such a great example.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Lakursa:

When I'm exploring in a vehicle the map doesn't update. I have to get out and then it reveals only that location around me. So I would have to stop very often if I want the map to be updated.

Wow, interesting. 1500 hours and didn't notice that.

That is clearly a bug and needs to get addressed.
Report it here: https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/


and optionally here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/526870/discussions/0/3084376689318796832/

[Doc✪Hollywood]

In my current games I do what Fenix said: Going to SCIM and hit "reveal map". But for a first playthrough that would be a massive spoiler

[Lakursa]

Guess I have to wait for radar then, too bad it's a common bug then.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Originally posted by Lakursa:

Guess I have to wait for radar then, too bad it's a common bug then.

Radar is bullcrap.

Long before I got to radar (and didn't use it except for one time) I discovered all of the map with Power Tower Ziplining (you reach every mountain top in a few seconds) and Paraglider (Paraglider for the time before you have Ziplining and Power Towers unlocked):
With Paraglider just build a "stairway to heaven" (stairs unlock in the Awesome Shop when you buy CATWALKS) and from there you can paraglide across all the map.

The good thing: You can open your map during paragliding and orient yourself, placing map markers, etc.

To head back to your base you have either to use your Explorer or - pro tip - activate no death crate = keep everything after deathwhich spawns you directly back to the HUB after death.

[Kage Goomba]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

Originally posted by Lakursa:

Guess I have to wait for radar then, too bad it's a common bug then.

Radar is bullcrap.

Long before I got to radar (and didn't use it except for one time) I discovered all of the map with Power Tower Ziplining (you reach every mountain top in a few seconds) and Paraglider (Paraglider for the time before you have Ziplining and Power Towers unlocked):
With Paraglider just build a "stairway to heaven" (stairs unlock in the Awesome Shop when you buy CATWALKS) and from there you can paraglide across all the map.

The good thing: You can open your map during paragliding and orient yourself, placing map markers, etc.

To head back to your base you have either to use your Explorer or - pro tip - activate no death crate = keep everything after deathwhich spawns you directly back to the HUB after death.

Filters are your friend.
It's not perfect but persistence wins out.

Radar towers do the job just fine at that point.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

Radar towers are a fist in the face!

They override all carefully and accuratley crafted markers.

They override them with ugly, only half as meaningfull icons. Hours and hours of work get wiped out.

Built it one time, erased and never built again.


Shame on CSS for this loveless, careless piece of development!

[Wolfie_]

Originally posted by Lakursa:

... too bad it's a common bug then.

Hmmm, or maybe not a bug just need an alternative way to think about it...

Consider you're a pioneer on a newly discovered planet (apparently we have interstellar travel but not mastered the planetary surface scanner, go figure :D ), so you're cartographically drawing a map of your surroundings as you explore. Well, you'd not be able to draw while driving (keep both hands on the steering wheel bub), so that would explain why no map reveal while driving.

[Doc✪Hollywood]

interesting enough you can "draw" a map while ziplining and paragliding

let's just admit it's something on the long list they have to fix in 1.1, given that they are aware of, which I doubt if it's not reported on questions.satisfactorygame.com

[Wolfie_]

Originally posted by Gordon✪Gekko:

interesting enough you can "draw" a map while ziplining and paragliding

Clearly we're talented pioneers, we can draw one handed (while holding a zipline) :P

Drones will also reveal a strip of map along their flight path which kinda ruins my theory too, but meh, don't let the details get in the way of a good story.