Engineers unknown fragment for Palin

[foobaron76]

With regard to unkown fragments not dropping from scavengers, the following is true about my commander.

I never saw an unknown artifact.
I never saw an unknown probe.
I killed 4 scavengers at one of the giant alien ship sites.
I have 3 unknown fragments in my inventory.

So where did I get my unknown fragments? I'd assume they dropped from a scavenger, but I didn't really pay attention back then. Is there another way I could have gotten them without realizing?

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Very quick and easy way to collect Unknown Fragments required to unlock Professor Palin. Travel to System: HIP 17403 Moon: A 4 A Coords: -34.98, -141.41. This is one of the Alien crash sites discovered ages ago. Ignore the "Crashed Vessel" POI that appears in the Navigation panel as you approach this moon, it's buggy and points to a blank location miles from the site. Go to the exact coordinates I've given above instead. The site is against the side of the small impact mountain at the centre of the large crater that the coordinates take you to.

At this site there are three Unknown fragments lying on the ground and two Unknown Artefacts too. Shoot the artefacts and they'll disintegrate into an additional Unknown Fragment yielding 5 UFs in total. Collect the UFs in your SRV, they each count as 3 items in your materials inventory, so that's 15 UFs. Now just mode swap from Open to Solo or vice-versa to cause all items to re-spawn. You can very easily collect 30 unknown fragments in less than 10 minutes on the surface and it's guaranteed, no RNG crap! The only thing that can go wrong is if you visit the site in Open shortly after someone else has harvested all the items. In this case simply switch into Solo straight away.

Yes i tried to do that this morning. Which brings up my only gripe about this game. No way to bookmark coordinates on planets. I spent an hour trying to get to that location. But could never drop out of OC anywhere that said location. And since these planets arent small, i couldnt just fly to the known location in a decent amount of playing time. I just gave up. I hope in the next update, we are able to bookmark or plot a point on a planet like as if a port was there.

 

[CMDR Krisstal]

Little extra tip on how to hone in on to coordinates:

On the top middle of your planetary flight hud is a number, which is a compass. there are 4 numbers(bearings) that are useful to fly along, that being:

0 - North

90 - East

180 - South

270 - West

By following the bearing one by one you can navigate your way much easier since you will only increase(or decrease) your x or y coordinate one at a time

 

[Blaze Stark]

Also, i had to relog to make the artefacts visible. So if you found a crashsite, but no blips on the radar, just relog and check again.

 

[LNEWLFE]

All im getting at hip 14479 is non human signatures, with thargoids hovering over destroyed capital ships.

 

[The_Dank_Astero]

HIP 14479, 30.32 , -98.58. HIP 17862 6 C A. Hope it helps

 

[Bob Lighthouse]

Yes i tried to do that this morning. Which brings up my only gripe about this game. No way to bookmark coordinates on planets. I spent an hour trying to get to that location. But could never drop out of OC anywhere that said location. And since these planets arent small, i couldnt just fly to the known location in a decent amount of playing time. I just gave up. I hope in the next update, we are able to bookmark or plot a point on a planet like as if a port was there.

1 Approach with the body to your left, fly slowly.
This puts the coordinates in "space" so there is better contrast, and helps you not enter into orbital flight/glide unintentionally.

2 As soon as the compass/hud appears, put your incline at "0" then check your latitude, the top number.
If it's higher than you need (round to whole numbers), head south, ie 180 on your hud.
If it's lower head north, ie 0.
If you're going slow the turn will take about 5 deg.

3 Now quickly check the bottom number. When you get about 5 deg from your desired latitude, turn to 270 or 90 to adjust the bottom number.
Then simply get to about 10-15 deg of your desired location, and descend.

Once you get this wired, you can split the right angles to make it even quicker.
I keep the the body on my side and use pitch to "steer.'

 

[Deamawa]

Yes i tried to do that this morning. Which brings up my only gripe about this game. No way to bookmark coordinates on planets. I spent an hour trying to get to that location. But could never drop out of OC anywhere that said location. And since these planets arent small, i couldnt just fly to the known location in a decent amount of playing time. I just gave up. I hope in the next update, we are able to bookmark or plot a point on a planet like as if a port was there.

Or you try this: https://www.hotdoy.ca/ed/bearing/

pse read instructions on the bottom first

 

[Gandalf06]

All im getting at hip 14479 is non human signatures, with thargoids hovering over destroyed capital ships.

Hi
This is what I’m getting as well, not one anomaly
Any updates?
Regards
G

 

[cmdr milesred]

Hi
This is what I’m getting as well, not one anomaly
Any updates?
Regards
G

somebody should really merge all these unknown fragments threads...theres quite a few..
now known in space and on planets as Thargoid Sensors, treat the same as UA's, hit them or shoot them so they break into Thargoid sensor fragments...Engineer still calls them unknown fragments...
anyway...seem to be less common in any of the usual USS's but easily found at most crashed thargoid ships, not the Thargoid sites but the crashed sites..

The one I go to is Hip 17403 A4A -34.995842 -141.397980

There is always at least 2 UA's and a handful of fragments there, relog to get more..

 

[Nova Hett]

somebody should really merge all these unknown fragments threads...theres quite a few..
now known in space and on planets as Thargoid Sensors, treat the same as UA's, hit them or shoot them so they break into Thargoid sensor fragments...Engineer still calls them unknown fragments...
anyway...seem to be less common in any of the usual USS's but easily found at most crashed thargoid ships, not the Thargoid sites but the crashed sites..

The one I go to is Hip 17403 -34.995842 -141.397980

There is always at least 2 UA's and a handful of fragments there, relog to get more..

i was there last night and picked up 27 fragments without relogging.

i had 25 million in exploration data, and i was jumping around with my shields off in my I Courier to keep cool while scooping, and went to land at that site only to notice I hadn't tuned my shields on when i was a hovering a meter above the surface. whew, good thing it's a low g rock.

 

[Killer_Cobra68]

Its Simple...

Go To: HIP 17403 A4A -34.981, -141.413 Other sites may work as well ( NOT the SCOUT Crash Site! ).

There are three Unknown Probes laying on the ground amongst the wreckage of a Thargoid Interceptor.

Shoot the Probes & collect the fragments in your SRV, Re-Log, rinse, repeat. You can easily have your frags in
under 30-45min.

Killer_Cobra68 Out.

 

[Steph]

Thanks for this! before I had finished exploring HIP 14479 I had 18; next few was but a work of minutes!

Many Thanks Harly!

Is this still working? I'm been camped in HIP 14479 for the past twnety minutes or so but no "Unidentified Signal Sources" (of any kind) just yet. I'll wait near HIP 14479 7 for another half hour so, maybe one will appear.

 

[Steph]

Its Simple...

Go To: HIP 17403 A4A -34.981, -141.413

Ah, alas not so simple ;-) It took me quite a while to reach the site - then somehow got my SRV stuck in such a way that no controls (including the "jets") would move it - oops! I saw something collectable there but wasn;t able to reach it before I was jammed into the hull.

So I've moved onto trying to collect them space

 

[TorTorden_VR]

These things have been renamed in game but probably not at the engineer screen.

Unknown probes are now called Thargoid sensors, and I think the fragments have been similarly named.

 

[Factabulous]

These things have been renamed in game but probably not at the engineer screen.

Unknown probes are now called Thargoid sensors, and I think the fragments have been similarly named.

Close, but not quite right:

Changes of Names

Unknown Artefects / Unknown Probes (and probably others) have been renamed - UA are now Thargoid Sensors (TS), UP are now TP (Thargoid Probe)

So Thargoid Sensors break down into Unknown Fragments, Probes just ... break

 

[Flapdrol1337]

Ah, alas not so simple ;-) It took me quite a while to reach the site - then somehow got my SRV stuck in such a way that no controls (including the "jets") would move it - oops! I saw something collectable there but wasn;t able to reach it before I was jammed into the hull.

So I've moved onto trying to collect them space

Went there a couple of days ago. collected all I needed in 10 minutes or so.

 

[oddball1952]

when u do find the crash site take a few pics from space and it will help u find it again the next time your there at the planet ok fly safe

 

[Steph]

I might have to try the surface location again - I've received two "Unidentified Signal Source" entries so far while in orbit around HIP 14479 7 (Water World) but neither were the one I wanted. Maybe I'll give it another half hour or so of orbiting, I might get lucky, who knows?

 

[Steph]

The surface location was indeed the place to go - just a case of driving more carefully and going around crashed vessels rather than over them