Horizons Another bad day.

[Mike Reacher]

I guess surface missions are still "Naahhh. I wont do that again"

Got a tip. Co-ordinates are such and such.
Flew 137 light years. Found the co-ordinates after about 4 or 5 hours. (Ship is real slow trying that)
Co-ords were an angry settlement.
Got a bit shot up and went for a smash repair. When I left there I got a message to say the mission area was on such and such.
Went there and had the POI jumping all over the place. It eventually settled down on a crash site.
Landed. Deployed 4 wheeler. Could not scan stuff. Told to pick up 13 canisters.
Cargo scoop pushed the canisters all over the damn place. Eventually gave up and tried my limpets.
Limpets deployed and blew themselves up at 3 second intervals. I guess that is why they didn't pick up canisters.
Gave up and went home. (Spat the dummy if you like)

While I was in my trusty 4 wheeler and looking for the first POI (Angry settlement) I got a few hits on the scanner so gave it a go.
Had about 7 or 8 rocks that I was supposed to pick up, but the cargo scoop would not play at that time either.

 

[CDR Michael Darkmoor]

Not sure if this is serious... but
Sounds like targeting is the issue.
Gotta target to scan... gotta target to pick up.
Limpets don't work that close to the ground.
and last but not least...
What rocks? If you are referring to the materials you get after you "target and shoot" an outcrop, meteor or other targetable item... gotta target those as well.
if your scoop is down and you have a scoop-able item targeted while in the SRV... it will pick it up when you roll over it.
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Except in one case: Your "material"'s inventory is full.

 

[Mike Reacher]

Thanks!
Lying in bed this morning and thinking. As one does.
The rocks were the materials. They were surrounded by the grey diamond. Tried to target them by pressing T. Nada. Tried rolling over them and same thing.
Inventory was empty.

I am thinking that I should press 1 and look at the targetable list to target the items. Is this correct?

 

[FrogsFriend]

Targeting them from the Contacts list should work, but so should looking at them and pressing T (for target). And yes, you do need to target things to scoop them in the SRV, which allows you to be selective in what you pick up.
Is the SRV cargo scoop definitely deploying? Or at least does the dashboard light come on and the voice confirmation play? Just a thought.

 

[Mike Reacher]

Targeting them from the Contacts list should work, but so should looking at them and pressing T (for target). And yes, you do need to target things to scoop them in the SRV, which allows you to be selective in what you pick up.
Is the SRV cargo scoop definitely deploying? Or at least does the dashboard light come on and the voice confirmation play? Just a thought.

Yes, the little light down on the right is on and the voice says "Cargo scoop deployed"
I remember that as the front of the scarab moved from side to side each of the items became surrounded by the grey box.
But what didn't happen was the 2 white arrow heads never appeared.
I sold all the planetary surface stuff otherwise I'd go and do a specific test.
One of the worries is that near my system, Nambikuara, all the planetary scanning was hopeless. Never found a shootable rock.
And this was only the second time in all play that I got a tip. If it had worked out the payout was going to be 163,000 cr. I can make more than that with one collection mission.

 

[Faded Glory]

Yes, the little light down on the right is on and the voice says "Cargo scoop deployed"
I remember that as the front of the scarab moved from side to side each of the items became surrounded by the grey box.
But what didn't happen was the 2 white arrow heads never appeared.
I sold all the planetary surface stuff otherwise I'd go and do a specific test.
One of the worries is that near my system, Nambikuara, all the planetary scanning was hopeless. Never found a shootable rock.
And this was only the second time in all play that I got a tip. If it had worked out the payout was going to be 163,000 cr. I can make more than that with one collection mission.

It does sound as though your targeting bind isn't set up correctly. SRV controls are separate from the ships controls, so have a check in Options>Controls from the main menu and check out under SRV targeting. See what it is set for, and adjust it as necessary.

With regards not finding shootable rocks on the surface, the SRV scanner is a bit buggy at the moment, but do you know what you are looking for? (Apologies if that sounds condescending, not intended to be.) Rocks containing materials will be a series of lines near the bottom of the scanner, and as you drive towards them, the band of lines will get narrower as you get closer. The bugginess at the moment is that sometimes the signal will suddenly disappear, but if you go slowly enough, the rock itself should show up as a white marker on your sensor.

Don't give up on the SRV just yet, it can be a lot of fun driving around on planets, and there are also planetary salvage and data scan missions which are generally easy to complete and can be lucrative.

 

[Mike Reacher]

The place I had to go to seemed to have rocks with mats n stuff. I saw several. I can't remember the name now.
But in my area I have tried to find stuff and almost nothing shows up.

As far as driving the SRV it cheezes me off a lot, such as beetling along at speed 7. The SRV bounces on a rock and the speed shoots up to, 24 was one speed I noticed, and then it does donuts all over the place.
I use KBM so I feel that makes it a little harder to control. When the rock jiggles the throttle up I'm not even touching anything. Have you noticed this?

On the planet I forgot name of, it seemed that the scanner was doing a good job. I also noticed that many of the shootable rocks were black. Easy to see.

 

[CDR Michael Darkmoor]

2 ways to drive the SRV...
FA on... sets a constant speed to whatever you set your throttle to.
FA off ... the forward and reverse acceleration are toggled to be applied only when you are pressing the buttons.
KBM is not a bad way to control the SRV.. just takes practice. I have the Throttle and boost buttons on the Keyboard and steer using the Yaw on the control stick of my HOTAS. Instead of using the mouse... perhaps setting up two keys (left and right steering) would smooth out your control issues.

Target rocks come in a limited variety... none of which are "black" per se.

This thread is fairly old, but has all the stuff you are asking about. It has not been updated for Horizons 2.2... so the stuff about documenting your finds can be ignored.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=228645&highlight=prospect