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Engineers Guide: Fast way to find Occupied Escape Pods near Colonia
- Thread starter C64Fan
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I am trying this, there is a distress call near the ring at A1, but whenever I drop in, it is empty, trying another distress call 800 ls away
Did you DSS probe A1? I am betting not
distress cals are empty
yes dss planet, rings the lot, otherwise the distress call wouldnt appear, you lost the bet!
i found empty distress calls, but i found a hidden comms installation in an empty POI, weird!
it has hackable cargo and comms arrays and hatches, but even after data link scanning the hatch breakers dont work, what is going on, is it all bugged
Data link scan the hatch/cargo bay, then use subsystem targeting to target the limpet attachment point, then fire the hatchbreaker. It's a bit fiddly.
(Then run away, because they don't like you doing that at the Comms Installation, and it won't get you any occupied escape pods - the Distress Call has "public" cargo bays and escape hatches, so salvage is legal there)
A manifest scanner utility isn't required, but will let you see what's in the cargo bay before you hack it, which may save you from breaking in for a load of junk.
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yweah got it its a pain , need to find the disabled megaship with escape pods
Just here at it now
Make sure you get the Distress Call, with the cross-and-circle navigation icon, not any Unidentified Signal Source Distress Calls.
If you can't find it, bug report it - it shows up absolutely fine for me.
Make sure you get the Distress Call, with the cross-and-circle navigation icon, not any Unidentified Signal Source Distress Calls.
If you can't find it, bug report it - it shows up absolutely fine for me.
Just to add my thanks for this! Just unlocked this engineer and now at rank 5 with them!
This looks to have been patched. Fu Fdev. Can anyone confirm?
I've been able to see it consistently. I haven't been to Luchtaine since the weekend, but I doubt it's suddenly disappeared now.
Check your navigation panel filters, probe the planet and its rings (I can see it without needing to probe, but others have reported it helps).
If that doesn't work, head to one of the Unauthorised Installations (the two in Kojeara are most convenient) and rob them for escape pods instead (I think it's Cargo Bay 1 that has the escape pods). There'll be a bit of combat required to keep pirates and the installation defences off you, but it's manageable and also a guaranteed source of lots of escape pods.
If you're on PC and at UK-convenient times, send me a friend request and I can try winging you in to the instance if you still can't see it.
EDIT: confirmed 14 March 18:00 - the distress call is still there.
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Just collected lots of pods from not only the escape hatch #3, but also from cargo hatches.
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Huge thanks for this guide.
Strangely, I haven't seen a single ship inside the distress call while I've milked it for escape pods (that was about 10 mins before this post). I had to relog once (too many pods ended up inside the ship) - still no NPCs after relog.
BTW, I could see the distress call right away, without surface scan (I've scanned the whole system with FSS).
Strangely, I haven't seen a single ship inside the distress call while I've milked it for escape pods (that was about 10 mins before this post). I had to relog once (too many pods ended up inside the ship) - still no NPCs after relog.
BTW, I could see the distress call right away, without surface scan (I've scanned the whole system with FSS).
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I've been having issues scanning the wreck to reveal the escape hatch. I target the ship, and activate the data scanner, but nothing happens. Am I doing it wrong?
You can data scan the ship itself from several kilometres away, but the subtargets are only detectable once you've done this fairly close up.