Cargo Scoop issue on Anaconda....

[RAM22]

Any one else having issues picking up cargo canisters with an Anaconda?

Been happening since last update(Nov).

Sometimes it works other times it doesn't.

It's active, I have room in my cargo hatch but it just bounces off the cross hairs at 75m. I've powered it on/off, turned it on/off.

I've read threads from the past that point to a bug in some ships. Is it back again?

It's quite annoying!

 

[Terekhov]

It sounds as if you might have had hardpoints deployed and your cargo was bouncing off of something mounted on lower fwd central mounts.On other ships landing gear can also obstruct the cargo scoop..

 

[RAM22]

It sounds as if you might have had hardpoints deployed and your cargo was bouncing off of something mounted on lower fwd central mounts.On other ships landing gear can also obstruct the cargo scoop..

I've had hardpoints stowed and deployed and never had this issue before in over 3 years. Like I said, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Right after I posted this thread, I was able to scoop up two Escape pods after dispatching a wanted ship....right after that I allowed a Mamba to interdict me, dispatched him, he dropped two Escape pods and I couldn't scoop them up??

This all started with the update in November.

Thanks for the reply though!

 

[GraphiteGB]

Seeing as we console players don't get function updates only server compliance updates since March 2022 announced the death of 3.8 galaxy updates... your going to have to get limpet collectors then in 4.0... As the game's now dead on consoles and 3.8 galaxy...
No gameplay bug fixes for 3.8...
This is the console section when we kill a ship they don't drop escape pods... as that was never added to 3.8 only live 4.0 so we won't have issues picking them up as they don't drop in 3.8...

 

[tanner1ie]

I've had hardpoints stowed and deployed and never had this issue before in over 3 years. Like I said, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Right after I posted this thread, I was able to scoop up two Escape pods after dispatching a wanted ship....right after that I allowed a Mamba to interdict me, dispatched him, he dropped two Escape pods and I couldn't scoop them up??

This all started with the update in November.

Thanks for the reply though!

While I don't know what your specific issue is, I generally find the cargo scoop very annoying and tricky to use and always recommend that if you're going to pick up anything in this game, just to use collector limpets and it's, job done and no faffing around with the scoop! .

On collector limpets, if you target a specific item that you want and launch a limpet, the limpet will rocket over at top speed and bring it back to you as quickly as possible, however in making the effort, it'll use all its' energy and expire...

Unless you're in an area surrounded by scoopable things that you don't care about, it's better not to launch limpets in "target" mode - it's generally better to launch them with nothing selected, upon which they launch in "search" mode, slightly lazily picking up everything in range until they run out of energy, however in this mode, they might pick up ten or twenty items, rather than literally only one in the first mode! .

 

[cmdr milesred]

not one thing has changed on the ship I am using.

as I bounty hunt I often pick up the occasional g5 mat
suddenly they are bouncing off the scoop instead of the usual going in.

been doing this a very long time

I then try many other ships
all are having the same problem.
4.x keeps breaking.

like the thruster issue
most of the time my ship has no issues docking
very often is is still easy to dock a ship
then sometimes it is all you can do to get near a landing pad because suddenly the thrusters can't move your ship in the direction you are trying to make it go.
sometimes my ship is just circling my carrier, can't dock.

like fighting a wind that doesn't exist

I can feel the pull or the push often, and its only because thrusters fail, then they don't, then they fail..etc..


another intermittent

you can and you can't shoot relics off the tower......
you can run over a pebble and get 90% damage
you can run over a material and get shot into space
the list is not small

my favorite is cruising up to a station
the blue text pops telling you to press J

you press J
it says it is stopping
it does not
it will not
press j, press 1, turn off thrusters...pressing j and 1 hundreds of times, here....not stopping..only saying it is stopping....
get continual flashing display that you are having fsd trouble and are dropping out of sc

keeps flying, flying
hours of this, every day.
the game is so broken.
interdicted

then finally the ship breaks out of sc

coasts for 15 to 45 seconds while 3 or 4 pirate ships show up and all start shooting me
meanwhile, I still can't control my ship as it is being blasted....


finally gives me control
then I log off
because I can't fight 1 ship let alone 3 or 4 when I have a 15 second delay from any keypress to its response.

and all I am trying to do is dock at my carrier.
took 3 hours to do that yesterday.

then I spent much time in 3.8
just wondering why it works and 4.x does not.

just being amazed at the response to key presses, that it actually is instant, my computer isn't broken.
Odyssey is.

never experienced anything like this in any game.

really wish 3.8 was still alive.

this mess is not game play.
this is a self destructing game on a straight down path. full speed.

 

[RAM22]

really wish 3.8 was still alive.

You don't have the Legacy Horizons 3.8 on your Launcher??

I have both that and Legacy Elite Dangerous 3.8!

OHHHHhh, you're on PS, I guess you don't!

 

[cmdr milesred]

I am on pc

yes I have 3.8
it is a paperweight, it is over, it is finished, it is history.
it is the only functional game but it is no longer live and never will ever be updated or added onto again, it is a dead parked finished game

as nice as it is, it is no longer a thing to play if you want updates, latest story line, etc...


there is no connection of any kind between 3.8 and 4.xx
and only 4.xx is live and ..etc
so 4.x is pure garbage, it imo is more broken than functional
it is a black screen waiting to be viewed.
it is more of a wait, wait, wait program, then some crappy graphic usually followed by more wait, wait or colored snakes reported.
if I had not played Horizons since 2014, I would not believe that people would actually buy Odyssey after seeing it in action.

nothing in elite or elite dangerous beyond, horizons, would make anyone think it could get turned into a paperweight on purpose. or at all.
to watch it play is like watching a bad animation that has no purpose.


it is why there will never be an elite after 2022. only a fool would ever pay frontier again. the company that is best at destroying its own game.

I cannot think of anything in 4.x that is enjoyable or even functional.
since u14 it has just been falling apart and no effort being made to fix anything.
it is un-playable as it is unless you are a sucker for punishment and enjoy serious game flaws affecting your every action.



and 3.8 is dead
so, no, not interested in this either.

mostly playing UT again
it is a dead game too, but always functional.
I will continue to play freelancer instead of any version of ed..
both cases, the servers are mine, so I control what works and what goes in both games.


the game I was last playing before I bought ED in 2014

the epitomy of bait and switch in a video game.

 

[RAM22]

Ok, and yeah, I know it's not live.

It's a shame what they did to Horizons!

Luckily in the past, I've only payed for the Original Elite for the C64 years ago, then ED w/Horizons on sale for 30 bucks.

No way I'd give another cent to Frontier after all these shenanigans.

This whole thing with Odyssey, then dropping console support, then melding Ody with Horizons.......................smells like fish to me!

 

[cmdr milesred]

I have no issue with costs
I spent a lot on paint, etc
it was all good

this last bit wasn't a concern till u14 and turning the actual game into legacy version, aka paperweight

that they dropped consoles for the reason of dev issues, and then leave us with some of the absolute worst design choice that were made FOR CONSOLE USE.
or imo for phone use....
those menus forced me to make my own external menus because I can't play the game without sortable menus for shipyard and outfitting.
I have hundreds of ships.

then, somehow in all this, the removal of 3.8 seems to have broken od further, as in it feels like the ONLY reason it was EVER playable was because it was connected and actually dependent on Horizons 3.8

and to me, it feels like it is a single POC server, trying to connect to other servers on the opposite side of the planet to get the ok or the data for absolutely every key you press.
this is not game play.

this is the insides of a sick puppy after every organ gets removed. a hollow shell waiting for instructions from a dead game.

due to the lack of any type of fix it feels like frontier is at a loss as in what to do, or don't care any more.


I wish the game could be played from command line because the GUI went from great to wth is this