PSA - Crashed ship type appears in HUD as you approach it.
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imgur.comPosted Sep 8, 2016, 4:25 AM UTC
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imgur.comTHAT EXPLAINS IT!
A couple of times, I looked down at my cockpit instruments and thought, "Well that's weird...that's not my ship at all...must be glitching!"
Now I realize that it was actually showing me the ship I was heading towards at the time (because I spend 90% of my in-game time ship-grinding).
Thanks for clearing that up!
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Yeah it does it in space too.
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Has anyone else discovered multiple crashed ships via transmission tower only to show up at the distress beacon and there was no ship? This keeps happening to me over and over... like almost 50% of the time. I don't get it.
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I've had this happen a couple times.... I also saw one "happen" in real time. As I approached the crash... I watched the ship get "pushed" away from the crash location and end up about 50 yards away behind a hill. I was able to find it after watching that happen. I've also had some floating about 20 yards in the air or burried about 10 yards into the ground so consider looking around more.
I've also been sent to the same crash site I've already taken a ship from.... The only way I knew was I had taken all the loot from the boxes.
Just some thoughts.
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I've also been sent to the same crash site I've already taken a ship from
Interesting... haven't had that happen yet, but given the other odd bugs in the game I am kinda afraid of it, so I always make sure to activate the distress beacon before leaving (even if there was no ship there.)
Seriously though, talk about an annoying bug! I was ship-hunting for like 5 hours yesterday and only found one that was above my own in slot-count. Every other ship was one slot less, or non-existant. Hello Games REALLY seems to want to make it hard for us to upgrade our ships at the moment :(
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About the only advice I have is to uninstall the latest update and find a gek transmission tower and then spam it.
Since I'm still ship hunting I haven't installed the latest update that fixes that.... But I'm also on GOG with manual updates, not sure your options
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I'm not sure what you mean... is there a difference between a Gek transmission tower and a Korvax one? I have only been to one Gek system so far, but all the planets were so hostile that I didn't spend much time there.
I was using the GOG manual updates system also, but I switched over to their Galaxy client in hopes that it would allow me to connect to "Online Services" ...so far it's been disconnected 99.9% of the time anyways, and no word yet from Hello Games support. I guess sharing your discoveries with other players is a Playstation exclusive?
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Are you staying in the same system? Try moving on and see if it happens in another.
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Yeah I may end up doing that soon... just wish I could find the last damn species on this planet before I do! Where is it hiding??
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Will it appear in HUD if you have not activated a transmission tower? For example, just flying overhead at random? Away from game at the moment. Nice find either way.
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I randomly found a crashed ship today and no it doesnt show you anything unfortunately (I mean the UI icon for crashed ships).
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Ho-ly shit.
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Nice find my friend. Cannot believe I hadn't noticed.
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Wow this would have saved me hours literally yesterday. I spent 2 days looking for a ship to finally give up an buy it for 43 million units but i had to give up 2 slots as it was only 46 an not 48 like my current but man its a cool ship.
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And its nearly always that exact ship too!!! Spend 3 hours grinding for a new ship lats night.. that one came up 95% of the time. Never did find the one i was after :(
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I'm having the same problem, found a ship in the Space Station and on the planetside Trade Post, and I've been grinding away for HOURS trying to find one crashed on the planet with no luck so far.
So very annoying when you have to do the Transmission Tower dance, to be sent to the same towers and crash sites (confirmed via discovery date/time at the towers, and the interactable pods next to the ships which have been activated and used) over and over again. Fly to a new part of the planet, and I just get sent back to previously-used towers. Not sure what the heck is going on here.
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Having used the Gek glitch... There's definitely a limited number of crashes per planet or moon... Maybe you already visited them all and were being sent back around again?
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I've used that glitch before too, and I haven't been to more than 20 crash sites so far on this (quite large) planet. Pretty sure the supply isn't exhausted yet.
But, perhaps I'm wrong. Wouldn't be the first time, nor will it be the last!
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Would you mind elaborating on this Gek glitch? What exactly does it do? If its a way to get ships quicker, I'm all for it :p
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Hasn't it always done that...?
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Iwanniwakk best ship name ever lol
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In case anyone hadnt figured it out yet the ships do appear on the screen if u have not been to a tower an jus happen to come across one randomly when flying. I jus found one an as i flew over head an landed the ship was displayed on screen. I didnt notice jus how far away it will pick it up from tho. I will have to check now as this is a good indicator if u are near a crashed ship as they are often really hard to see if u dont have a marker.
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Gotta start watching that ship info screen more closely.
Still so much to learn, even with 165 hours in the game... Amazing!
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I swear all the crashed ships I find look like space garbage trucks.
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I'm pretty sure that screen shows any "man made" object that your cross hair is pointing at. It identifies landed ships, skimming the terrain ships, and ships in space you point at too. I think it also identifies buildings you're pointing at, but I think they have to have been "beacon-ized" already or something.
Also, it's harder to point your nose at anything without the low flight mod.
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A HUD is a heads-up display that shows the information in front of you. In this case, on the cockpit.
So in this case, the information is NOT on the ship's HUD. It's just on one of the ship's screens.
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thats neat. unfortunately even if i dont like it id have to touch base and discover it or else a transmission may lead me back to it.
I tend to get sent to the same ship repeatedly even if I discover it. The only thing that for now seems to work is to activate the ship "reward" module, that while ball satellite thing behind the ship, and follow through it. Since I've started doing this in every crash site, haven't been sent to the same one more than once.
Interacting with the ship pod would make it discovered. I was aware that transmissions would send you to discovered places, crashed ships is new to me. Just going to have to hang tight.
Can't you just shoot it until it blows up, or does the transmission still lead you back to it?
I actually claimed and took a crashed ship, then when I was looking for more crashes to salvage to repair the one I took, I had two different transmission towers "discover" the empty crash site I had taken my ship from.
I had this same problem and decided to just go to a different planet. I had towers from the other side of that planet sending me to the same empty spot.
Oh jeez that would be annoying. I've taken a break from the game hopefully in their next update they fix that.
Once, a transmission tower brought me to my original start point.
you should still loot the ship, boy.
Haven't come across any ships with +3 tech so its not worth it. +2 gives me what nickel? Or if anybody has a guide as to what tech broken down gives what element that would be most appreciated. (I have no googled this, simply replying)
i break down ships just so i can get stackable vortex cubes
i've gotten only one cube from ship tech. can't remember which type of tech it was though.
Plus you can gut it for sweet, sweet resources.