Wait - is this why none of the planets I've mapped (at least yet) have any POI features? Do... do I need to use the composition scanner in addition to the detailed surface scanner to map/find points of interest on the surface of a planet? Or have I just been unlucky so far? Hrm...
Yeah - you have to get to within a hundred meters of the Nav point and have your Crepuscular Scanner assigned to something and be in uh watchamacallit non-combat mode. Oh and don’t assign it to the same fire button as the probe launch DSS thing, because the nav point that you need to scan is super flakey.
You kinda move back and forth across a few meters and if it’s right it will go bright blue and you can scan. And if you’ve got it bound to the same (eg secondary Fire for me) as the DSS probe then as it flicks in and out of the blue “locked” thing it will give you DSS errors about being to close.
And then after you do get a scan it’s in your Codex.
And you get a little codex data bonus.
I just redid my whole Barnacle tour for the third time.
First I took a rebuy while fumbling with the new control layout. So no explo data sale.
Then I went back and did another lap and quickly cashed in to get my single “First Mapped” tag.
Then I had to go back again to get the Codex entries.
Everyone is telling me “It’s all so easy” - and I just think they’re missing half the stuff.
And then my out of game comms feed from AEDC headquarters is full of similar craziness around the new BGS mechanics. You should hear how weird the way that CZs actually work (as opposed to what was said or what was intended). I haven’t gone near any pew pew until I get this explo sorted.
3.3 is a strange and quirky beast indeed.
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