D-Scanner change or bug?! Nothing showing up in a system after scan.

Louis Calvert

Louis Calvert
Coming back from a break, as the title says, not sure if a bug or not. Couldn't find mention of this while searching forums or issue tracker just now.

Has the D-Scanner function changed recently?

I jump into an unvisited/uncharted system -> honk to see what's there.
What used to happen was that all the planets and asteroids would appear as "Unscanned" on HUD/Nav panel/system map with no other data, requiring a flyby/probes, etc.

What happens now is... nothing. D-Scan honk and the star(s) show up, but nothing else, not on the nav panel or the HUD or system map.

If I wasn't running EDMC I'd not know there was anything else there to find. If I visually look out the window I can see the planets parallaxing as little dots against the background (no HUD markers, orbit rings, etc.) and then I can fly manually towards them, when I get close (literally very, very close, within the gravity well slowdown) they pop up on the scanner as normal.

Any thoughts?
 

HRDiagram

HRDiagram
If nothing appears, you are the discoverer of that system: the discovery scanner will only tell you how many bodies are there, but you need to use the FSS to identify them (or fly close enough).
When you sell the exploration data, your name will be attached to it.

As an explorer, jumping into a system, and not seeing anything on my radar, is in fact the most exciting bit 🥳
(Not for the name, but for the discovery of the layout and composition of the system)

Edit:
On the other hand, if you're in the Bubble then yes, that's a bug!
 
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