How many scanners do I need?

[Gobin Splat]

How many scanners do I need to buy to be able to scan I think I've gotten setup correctly I've tried pressing left trigger right trigger setting it in the right mode but nothing I seem to do makes it scan anything I don't know whether your pointed towards planet don't matter what I do pulling any triggers just starts off the canons and then it says I'm in the wrong mode

 

[Firebeard]

It's a bit of a strange system that seems to have taken legacy components and retrofit them into what's here now.

Looking at your loadout I would...

Have KWS and weapons on one fire group

Manifest scanner and weapons on a second

Data link and disco on a third

Disco and data (I think) need to be in analysis mode
All others need combat mode


I think...

 

[Lightspeed]

 

[Speedcuffs]

Pick one scanner.
Play about with it.
If you're struggling to get one to work, don't overcomplicate by equipping them all.
Stick with one, ask questions, figure it out, move on to next.

 

[Lightspeed]

Pick one scanner.
Play about with it.
If you're struggling to get one to work, don't overcomplicate by equipping them all.
Stick with one, ask questions, figure it out, move on to next.

 

[Factabulous]

You're missing a Xeno Scanner and a Detailed Surface Scanner. Buy more scanners.

Edit: And a Pulse Wave Scanner.

 

[znôrt]

what do you want to scan?

sorry, op, it's ... complicated.
i would explain but it's too boring and embarrassing, besides i've never used the composition scanner myself, so check out those videos.

 

[Speedcuffs]

You're missing a Xeno Scanner and a Detailed Surface Scanner. Buy more scanners.

Edit: And a Pulse Wave Scanner.

A scanner darkly?

 

[Factabulous]

A scanner darkly?

I knew I'd missed one

 

[Arry]

I have them all set to one key, but only the one seems to work.

I gave up, trying to figure that stuff out; weeks ago.

 

[Gobin Splat]

Unidentified objects

what do you want to scan?

sorry, op, it's ... complicated.
i would explain but it's too boring and embarrassing, besides i've never used the composition scanner myself, so check out those videos.

 

[Crank Larson]

You don't need anything other than the scanner already built into the ship to scan unidentified objects. The other scanners generally scan what they state (kill warrants, frame-shift wakes, etc.).

 

[Riverside]

All of them. You need all the scanners, all mapped to a single fire button

 

[znôrt]

Unidentified objects

you have to know what kind of unidentified object it is to use the right identifying scanner.

so, how does it look like?

 

[Speedcuffs]

you have to know what kind of unidentified object it is to use the right identifying scanner.

so, how does it look like?

I don't...

 

[znôrt]

You don't need anything other than the scanner already built into the ship to scan unidentified objects. The other scanners generally scan what they state (kill warrants, frame-shift wakes, etc.).

you seem to be well versed in arcane scanology. what is the composition scanner for?

i get it, to scan composition of ... what?

 

[Speedcuffs]

you seem to be well versed in arcane scanology. what is the composition scanner for?

i get it, to scan composition of ... what?

Many things.
I keep forgetting to use it.

 

[Crank Larson]

you seem to be well versed in arcane scanology. what is the composition scanner for?

i get it, to scan composition of ... what?

There's a reason I only gave two examples.

The composition scanner scans compositions, obviously. Generic compositions. Any composition'll do.

 

[Rick6549]

you seem to be well versed in arcane scanology. what is the composition scanner for?

i get it, to scan composition of ... what?

Notable stellar phenomena and the like.

 

[Codger]

I have only used the composition scanner on planet surfaces to scan biological and geological points of interest. That marks them as discovered and puts them in the codex. I don't know if it has other uses.