Signals

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Signals are icons shown on the HUD that can guide the player to the source which is usually important story locations. Signals can be enabled and disabled using the PDA's Beacon Manager. Their colors can also be customized, with the choice of color limited to blue, green, orange, red, and yellow.

The Lifepod 5 signal is received as soon as the game starts. The vehicle signals appear at the location of any built vehicle. The Signals that point towards Destroyed Lifepods are obtained from the radio, while others can be retrieved from data terminals on the Aurora and within Alien Bases. Signals that lead to Degasi Seabases can be downloaded from certain abandoned PDAs.

Player Signals

Deployable

	Signal Name	Location	Information
	Beacon	The position of a Beacon.	Displays the location of a Beacon placed by the player. The name can be customized by interacting with the beacon.
	Camera Drone	The position of a Camera Drone.	Displays the location of a Camera Drone

Vehicles

	Signal Name	Location	Information
	Cyclops	The position of the player's Cyclops submarine.	Displays the location of a Cyclops. The name of the ping can be customized by changing the submarine's name.
	Prawn Suit	The position of the player's Prawn Suit.	Displays the location of a Prawn Suit. The name of the ping can be customized by changing the Prawn Suit's name at a Vehicle Upgrade Console.
	Neptune 1	The position of the player's Neptune Escape Rocket.	Displays the location of a Neptune Escape Rocket. The ping's name can be customized by changing the rocket's name in the interface on the Launch Platform, provided the rocket is fully constructed.
	Seamoth	The position of the player's Seamoth.	Displays the location of a Seamoth. The name of the ping can be customized by changing the Seamoth's name at a Vehicle Upgrade Console.

Other

	Signal Name	Location	Information
	Lifepod	Lifepod 5.	Displays the location of Lifepod 5, the lifepod the player starts in.
	Scanner Room	The position of a Scanner Room.	Displays the location of a Scanner Room. The ping is only visible while controlling a Camera Drone, and therefore the color cannot be changed via the beacon manager in the PDA, so the icon uses the default blue color.

Story-based Signals

Abandoned Lifepods

	Signal Name	Co-ordinates (some of these are approximate)	Information
	Lifepod 2 (Blood Kelp Zone)	-489 -500 1328	CTO Yu's Lifepod sunk 500m before she abandoned it. File:Lifepod 2 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 3 (Shallows)	-21 -18 410	Crew reported their seaglide damaged. File:Lifepod 3 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 4 (Crash Zone)	705 -4 161	Crew reported presence of Reaper Leviathans, referred to as "big ol' fish". File:Lifepod 4 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 6 (Grassy Plateau)	362 -109 305	Crew reported radiation present between the lifepod and the rendezvous. File:Lifepod 6 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 7 (Crag Field)	-64 -179 -1048	Crew reported their Fabricator to be non-functional. File:Lifepod 7 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 12 (Bulb Zone)	1117 -268 568	Sunk to the ocean bed. File:Lifepod 12 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 13 (Mushroom Forest)	-919 -177 508	Carrying high priority passenger's remains File:Lifepod 13 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 17 (Grassy Plateau)	-510 -91 -45	Stranded near a cave system and under attack. File:Lifepod 17 Audio.ogg
	Lifepod 19 (Deep Sparse Reef)	-808 -298 -873	Second Officer Keen's last broadcast location. File:Lifepod 19 Audio.ogg

Dry Land

	Signal Name	Co-ordinates	Location
	Aurora Rendezvous Point (Dry Land)	-706 2 -1098	Floating Island
	Sunbeam Landing Site	291 3 1098	Mountain Island (Time-limited)

Degasi

	Signal Name	Co-ordinates	Location
	Proposed Degasi Habitat (250m)	90 -264 -371	Jellyshroom Cave (Note: This one can duplicate, as two PDAs provide this signal)
	Proposed Degasi Habitat (500m)	-647 -508 -948	Deep Grand Reef

Gallery

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  The old Signal icon found in the inventory

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  The current generic Signal icon

Trivia

• All other Signal icons in the game are defaulted to a white shade. This, however, is not the case for the Scanner Room signal icon, which is a shade of blue and cannot be changed.
• Signals, when first implemented, had no icon on the hud. They instead were pulsing white points.
• Signals were originally held in the inventory as items and simply had a placeholder model of a bright white "X" while in the game world. The location indicator was only visible if the Signal item corresponding to it was equipped in one of the two "tech" slots on the Paperdoll UI,