So: Neon and Paradiso excepted, has anyone seen any oceans or rivers in the game as yet?
Someone on Reddit recently posted a pic with their character standing at the side of a river, and the general suggestion was that anyone who hadn’t seen a river hadn’t looked carefully enough.
Accordingly, I went looking. I found a temperate planet with oceans visible from orbit (“YOU CAN’T LAND HERE”), set down on what looked like it should have been beach, and then headed north towards where the ocean should have been.
I eventually ended up standing on a mountain in what ought to have been the sea, looking across a dry valley towards another mountain, not a drop of liquid in sight!
So either I’m reading the maps wrong (entirely possible btw) or the planet generation is on the fritz in my game (can’t rule it out) or the Reddit post was spoofed.
So: has anyone found any oceans or rivers? I’ll post screenshots and maps when I get back to my gaming box tonight.
I don’t recall the biome saying “coast”. Maybe I was unintentionally a couple of hundred miles inland or something.
I shall try again.
It can be pretty finicky, but it’s definitely possible.
It helps to zoom in when clicking potential landing zones.
I did a (boring) 100% planetary survey and one of the fauna I needed to scan were fish in the water close to the shore. I spent wayyy too much time running around looking for water until I realized there was always some within a couple hundred metres of the ship landing site (I assume it’s generated that way for that biome type).
When you’re landing on a Whatever (Coast), keep your eyes open to see what direction the water is when you come in. Otherwise it can be hard to see it from the ground if it’s a foggy world.
If you look at the ground map when you land on a “coast” biome, you can see where all the elevation dots go flat. That will help direct you to the ocean if you can’t see it over the hills/fog.