Newcomer / Intro cargo scoop

[pilotincmd2]

I am new to using the srv and when i landed on a planet with minerals i searched for rocks with the scanner. when i find one it is hard to align the turret.

In a video it show moving the turret up,down,left and right. is there a command to activate the turret.
once i was able to get the rock centered and i fired to break up rock. I then deployed cargo scoop and drove over it. The box on the left of scanner didn't appear as shown in video and no matter how many times i drove over rocks i didn't pick them up.

 

[khaos526]

Check your controls in the settings and look under DRIVING, at the very bottom before you see the next heading of DRIVING TARGETING you will find the Toggle SRV Turret. That will be your default key or button to press. You can of course reconfigure it to whatever else, but that will be what your default is to activate the turret mode.

Hope that helps. Also remember to set your SRV turret to a fire group too (at least at one point you needed to manually do this each time, but think that was a bug)...

 

[Dommarraa]

To pick up a fragment, you have to target it before driving over it.

I.never use the turret for shooting, just dont be too close and the gimble should do the aiming once the rock is targeted.

 

[aRJay]

While checking your bindings make sure you set the cargo scoop button to Toggle not Hold, this gives you one less thing to worry about and unlike your ship deploying the scoop doesn't slow you down.

 

[dayrth]

While checking your bindings make sure you set the cargo scoop button to Toggle not Hold, this gives you one less thing to worry about and unlike your ship deploying the scoop doesn't slow you down.

This is true but be aware that if you drive around with the scoop open, your SRV will take more damage when driving over rocks.

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

You may also want to check the dead zone slider under SRV targetting - mine wss much too sensitive to start with and kept flying past what I wanted to aim at. If you are using the turret in the first place of course...

 

[Spaceman Si]

This is true but be aware that if you drive around with the scoop open, your SRV will take more damage when driving over rocks.

I have never noticed that! Mind you, I generally retract the scoop once I am done with a site anyway, just because I am neat and tidy like that

Incidentally, I don't see the scoop when it is deployed and I am using camera views - the ship cargo scoop is beautifully detailed and present, but not the SRV one for some reason. I don't think I have just missed it, but if anyone can point iut where it is to me on an external shot, I'd like to see it

 

[aRJay]

I have never noticed that! Mind you, I generally retract the scoop once I am done with a site anyway, just because I am neat and tidy like that

Incidentally, I don't see the scoop when it is deployed and I am using camera views - the ship cargo scoop is beautifully detailed and present, but not the SRV one for some reason. I don't think I have just missed it, but if anyone can point iut where it is to me on an external shot, I'd like to see it

Never thought to look at my ship with the scoop open, so not sure what to look for but the SRV scoop operates as if it is a field that surrounds the vehicle as you can drive under falling material fragments and scoop them in before they hit the ground.

 

[dayrth]

I have never noticed that! Mind you, I generally retract the scoop once I am done with a site anyway, just because I am neat and tidy like that

Incidentally, I don't see the scoop when it is deployed and I am using camera views - the ship cargo scoop is beautifully detailed and present, but not the SRV one for some reason. I don't think I have just missed it, but if anyone can point iut where it is to me on an external shot, I'd like to see it

I never though about it before, but now you come to mention it, I've not seen it either.

 

[Para Handy]

This is true but be aware that if you drive around with the scoop open, your SRV will take more damage when driving over rocks.

I don't think that is true. I have never noticed any difference in any aspect of enduring driving the buggy SRV with scoop in either state - and if you look in free camera you can't see any difference with scoop deployed or stowed. It just seems to be a magic-handwavium-vacuum-cleaner-teleporter-traction-beam "thingie".

 

[Maenden]

I don't think that is true. I have never noticed any difference in any aspect of enduring driving the buggy SRV with scoop in either state - and if you look in free camera you can't see any difference with scoop deployed or stowed. It just seems to be a magic-handwavium-vacuum-cleaner-teleporter-traction-beam "thingie".

I think the word 'scoop' gives the impression that it's something like the front of a bulldozer.
As the cargo (presumably) gets stored in the box bit behind the driver then it should be between the rear wheels.
I seem to remember seeing picture of upturned Scarabs with what looks like some sort of hatch in that area.
If a bulldozer type scoop descends between the wheels it's going to be difficult to see.


Whether or not its an actual physical metal scoop or a magic-handwavium-vacuum-cleaner-teleporter-traction-beam "thingie" I don't know, but I would guess it's a mini version of what's on the ships.

What sort do ships have?

 

[pilotincmd2]

found it, thanks

 

[pilotincmd2]

when i was on a planet and located a rock that was on my radar and fired at rock and it exploded. i then deployed my cargo scoop and drove over it. Am i suppose to get a response that i gathered the cargo? Also when i return to ship how do i transport the cargo to my ship.

 

[dayrth]

when i was on a planet and located a rock that was on my radar and fired at rock and it exploded. i then deployed my cargo scoop and drove over it. Am i suppose to get a response that i gathered the cargo? Also when i return to ship how do i transport the cargo to my ship.

When the rock explodes several small bits will fly out of it. You must target one of these and then drive over it with scoop deployed to pick it up. Then target the next bit and drive over that.
They are materials so they just go in to your material storage. No need to transfer them to your ship.

 

[Rob_the_Sparky]

I think the word 'scoop' gives the impression that it's something like the front of a bulldozer.
As the cargo (presumably) gets stored in the box bit behind the driver then it should be between the rear wheels.
I seem to remember seeing picture of upturned Scarabs with what looks like some sort of hatch in that area.
If a bulldozer type scoop descends between the wheels it's going to be difficult to see.


Whether or not its an actual physical metal scoop or a magic-handwavium-vacuum-cleaner-teleporter-traction-beam "thingie" I don't know, but I would guess it's a mini version of what's on the ships.

What sort do ships have?

The ships have a flap that opens underneath, which is why you have to manually scoop them carefully. In the SRV you have to target the item to scoop and then touch it. You can scoop in mid air, reversing, when stuff falls on you. It would appear to scoop on contact, which is a "bit" of a bodge compared to the well implemented method the ships use.

 

[Maenden]

The ships have a flap that opens underneath, which is why you have to manually scoop them carefully. In the SRV you have to target the item to scoop and then touch it. You can scoop in mid air, reversing, when stuff falls on you. It would appear to scoop on contact, which is a "bit" of a bodge compared to the well implemented method the ships use.

I suppose it could be an electromagnet.
Open hatch, turn on magnet, cannister rises through hatch as it passes underneath.

There's also the action of getting the cargo from the SRV into the cargo bay of the ship, which doesn't seem to need any mechanical process.

Perhaps they should stop calling it a 'scoop' on the SRV.

 

[Para Handy]

when i was on a planet and located a rock that was on my radar and fired at rock and it exploded. i then deployed my cargo scoop and drove over it. Am i suppose to get a response that i gathered the cargo? Also when i return to ship how do i transport the cargo to my ship.

1. To scoop-up anything, in SRV or in ship, you must target the thing you want to be scooped.

2. Raw materials that you scoop-up in your SRV do not need to be transferred - they live in magic TARDIS-pockets in your Remloc suit and follow you around from ship to ship and from explosion to re-spawn hangar. You can also scoop-up (salvage) cannisters from the surface in your SRV - these have to be transferred to your ship's hold either manually by going through the "board-ship" menu option "Transfer Cargo" or they are transferred automatically when you actually do Board Ship.

 

[Para Handy]

I suppose it could be an electromagnet.
Open hatch, turn on magnet, cannister rises through hatch as it passes underneath.

There's also the action of getting the cargo from the SRV into the cargo bay of the ship, which doesn't seem to need any mechanical process.

Perhaps they should stop calling it a 'scoop' on the SRV.

I think if they called it "magic item collector" then people might get upset.

The thing is that you can collect stuff in mid-air, so "underneath" is not actually relevant. Basically an object will be collected if it enters an invisible spatial "box" that is centred on your SRV. Ahead, behind, above, below or to the side, all directions are subject to the mystical force of the SRV "scoop" demon.

 

[Rob_the_Sparky]

I suppose it could be an electromagnet.
Open hatch, turn on magnet, cannister rises through hatch as it passes underneath.

There's also the action of getting the cargo from the SRV into the cargo bay of the ship, which doesn't seem to need any mechanical process.

Perhaps they should stop calling it a 'scoop' on the SRV.

When first implemented you had to return to the ship to transfer cargo from SRV to ship, you couldn't do by just driving under the ship and access a menu but there were so many complaints about having to dock the SRV to get 2 tonnes of cargo to the ship that they later implemented the transfer cargo menu. A great change from a gameplay point of view but as you say not so great from a lore point of view.

 

[Spaceman Si]

I've always been a bit puzzled as to why the SRV can carry 2 tonnes of cargo, but it absolutely has to transfer it to the ship before docking... I had hoped that having an SRV would give you an effectively free 2 tonnes of cargo capacity, because if it is carrying it, surely it can continue to carry it whilst aboard ship?

Not a deeply problematical thing, just faintly irritating / not understandable