Coldharbour Treasure Map III is really terrible

Dahveed

Okay I know it's WAY too late to complain about something like this, but I really need to vent.

Normally I love these treasure maps, not for the loot but for the challenge. They are generally very well done and fun to find.

But for the love of Talos Coldharbour Treasure Map 3 is just stupidly impossible. Even after cheating on the internet for its EXACT location I struggled to replicate the screenshot of the map. There is absolutely NOTHING distinguishing it from other surroundings and my screen barely even resembled the map when I finally found the exact, bizarre place I had to stand.

SPOILERS:

Anyone who has done this already knows that the location where you find it has some imperial fort ruins and even some dwemer stuff lying around, but none of this is represented in the map. After several HOURS of running around Coldharbour I even specifically ran past the treasure's exact location, saying to myself "no, this can't be it", I never even bothered trying to look there, precisely because there were Imperial ruins lying around the vicinity when there clearly are none in the actual treasure map.

I know the drawings are supposed to be rough, as though someone drew them hastily to remind themselves... from an immersion point of view and from a gameplay point of view I think they are generally brilliant.

But yeah, this one is just totally awful. No landmarks at all which would distinguish its surroundings from any other river in Coldharbour, and furthermore specific, obvious landmarks which are actually in the environment aren't even roughly sketched in.

So yeah that is my completely useless rant that I needed to get off my chest after spending several hours over two play sessions in two days. Maybe there is a 1 in 20,000,000 chance that a dev will see this, correct the inconsistency (I believe this is the best word) and future treasure hunters won't waste several agonizing hours looking for something that is almost impossible to find. (This coming from someone who has about 50 treasure hunts under his belt and who HATES cheating.)

End rant.