How to pick up items on foot

KingDrax

K
Complete noob question, but how do I pick up an object on foot? I am parked at a crash site and there's a wire coil or something to pick up, parked with a blue circle. Can't scoop it with my SRV because it's under the crashed Anaconda, but on foot I can get to it...and how do I pick it up? I currently have no idea about on-foot controls other than the ability to move and look around, and occasionally to recharge my suit from a recharge point. I've looked through the On Foot control options, and there's no 'pick up' or 'collect' setting that I can see.

Please can someone shove me in the right direction?

Cheers :D
 

Frop

Frop
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KingDrax

K
Ah, I see, thanks :) . Also I found I had to be close enough, and loking directly at the thing, in order to get the interaction box to show.

There's something else too: at the crash site, there are several shipping containers just like we have today. There are 'Material: MedKit' targets there, but I can only lock on to them from the SRV; on foot, they don't register at all. No blue circle or interaction box. Any ideas, please?

[Edit]: They are registering now, but they are protected by a number keypad. Guess I'll just have to figure out the way of hacking it...
 
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Frop

Frop
KingDrax said:
[Edit]: They are registering now, but they are protected by a number keypad. Guess I'll just have to figure out the way of hacking it...
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You can cut open the red panel with the cutting tool and then overcharge the socket, or you can use E-breaches to "hack" the keypad (bought at Pioneer Supplies at the concourse in anarchy-controlled stations). I'd recommend trying the tutorial, it doesn't cover nearly enough, but will give you some idea of the basic controls and how some of the tools work.
 
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KingDrax

K
Yeah, thanks Frop, I'll do that. I did the tutorial originally but it's been a while...time for a refresher, I think.

Thanks for all your help today :)
 

Happy Daze

Happy Daze
I realize this is an old thread, but I'm out picking up Crystal Shards. I can get out of the SRV and shoot shards that are hard to hit in the SRV, but I can't interact with them on foot to pick them up. Using the E Interact key just doesn't work. I have to get back in the SRV and drive over it to pick it up.
STOOOOPID! Question is, who's stupid, Frontier for not making these pick-upable or me for not figuring out how to interact and pick them up.
 

Darrack

Darrack
Happy Daze said:
I realize this is an old thread, but I'm out picking up Crystal Shards. I can get out of the SRV and shoot shards that are hard to hit in the SRV, but I can't interact with them on foot to pick them up. Using the E Interact key just doesn't work. I have to get back in the SRV and drive over it to pick it up.
STOOOOPID! Question is, who's stupid, Frontier for not making these pick-upable or me for not figuring out how to interact and pick them up.
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They were never designed to be picked up by foot.

O7
 

redstamp

redstamp
That's a crazy design then - I don't have the space to easily move through the shard forest with the SRV and the shards have tiny hit-boxes that are easily obscured by other objects, on foot is the only real way to collect, but agree with Happy Daze - it just doesn't work...
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
If you crouch and move forward then the mats in front of you get kicked forward. I found this out when trying to move a cargo-rack produced ruthenium which had landed on top of a cargo container. I have not tried it with mats from shards or geo thingies though.
 

varonica

varonica
redstamp said:
That's a crazy design then - I don't have the space to easily move through the shard forest with the SRV and the shards have tiny hit-boxes that are easily obscured by other objects, on foot is the only real way to collect, but agree with Happy Daze - it just doesn't work...
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The shards were put there before on foot movement was possible, also the shard forests aren't that dense in Odyssey, it's easy to drive around them compared to H 3.8, but there are so many it's far quicker just to move on to the next one rather than mucking around with a difficult one, that's what I do.
 
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