How to find my ships location on map

[Fire1529]

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[Khoren]

In the career preset waypoints and ship/ player locations are disabled. In a custom game you can enable that of course.

[ithaca]

I can't find people in the water in missions with both of those enabled, nevermind disabled. How the hell are you meant to play this game?

[Magitek]

Presumably like a real coast guard does, using search patterns, binoculars etc. Navigation can be done using the map, compass, landmarks and bearings (wouldn't rely too much on those stars haha). You can also use radar and beacon emissions to narrow locations down.

Sadly we don't seem to have any kind of dispatch or civilians we can talk to over radio, to provide us with any information yet. Hopefully we get a little more detail on what we can expect during a mission.

[Mirage]

Simple solution is just the GPS, hook that up to a display and will show you the coordinates which you can cross reference with the map, combined with using a compass for direction you should be able to tell where you are.

[XLjedi]

I actually find this to be an interesting setting for a hardcore career mode. Given that it forces you to create a useful navigation system on your craft as opposed to just relying on the big "M" map. I've played other naval simulation games where they have the same "difficulty settings" for careers which do not show your position on the maps.

It also gives some insight as to why fog-o-war is lifted from the hardcore career mode. Revealing the map would provide a clue as to your location. So for me, I have come around to appreciate that decision and would use that setting on a hardcore career myself. Although initially, it did not occur to me why they would reveal the map like they did or how that was more "difficult".

I think they will tweak the career settings here in a future update or two so we can cater the careers to our liking. In the meantime, particularly as a new player, there's no point in bothering with career. ...just play custom and turn on the features you want.

I think a good direction for the devs to take would be to follow the pattern used in other games where there are maybe some preset checkboxes for "Beginner", "Normal", "Hard" with appropriate checkbox presets that you are able to deviate from at your own choosing for a "Custom" career setting. Presets like this are also helpful in pointing out to users which of the choices makes the game "harder". It is not readily apparent for instance that revealing the entire map without fog-o-war is more difficult, particularly if it's tied to revealing player location on the big map.

[AgarthanTerrorist]

so, i cant take vehicles to the workbench exept from creative. but what i can do is get a heavy lifter (skkycrane) turn on the crashed vessels emirgicy beacon and go get it using my skycrane. using the new radio soruce finder thing it gets easy/.

[Fire1529]

Originally posted by Mirage:

Simple solution is just the GPS, hook that up to a display and will show you the coordinates which you can cross reference with the map, combined with using a compass for direction you should be able to tell where you are.

the map dosent show any cords