Newcomer / Intro Inaccessible Mats on Foot

[KingDrax]

Is it normal for mats to show up on the SRV scanner, and then when you go out to pick them up, they're not there? Making them inaccessible?

 

[aRJay]

I don’t think you can collect mats while on foot.

In fact when you get those cages of things you cut open at crash sites you have to get in your SRV to scoop the contents when they escape from the cage.

ETA: I forgot about settlement loot, but then it is not something I use in game.

 

[jojon]

On-foot materials (...which, yes, show up on the SRV HUD, but not when actually on foot -- annoying) that spawn at locations on the ground, indeed sometimes end up below ground or embedded inside static objects, depending on terrain.

(EDIT: I am sure you have also noted that now and again for exampe a cut-open-able compartment on say an SRV end up offset in space from said SRV, inside of it, or floating in the air in the vicinity of its designated place.)

 

[SlickPBW]

Yeah, sometimes ody mats, and even npc’s, fall into the ground or get stuck in walls. The npc issue has largely been addressed, but rarely it still exists.

 

[metatheurgist]

I've seen a few buried mats on POI but never in settlements.

 

[King Drax I]

On-foot materials (...which, yes, show up on the SRV HUD, but not when actually on foot -- annoying) that spawn at locations on the ground, indeed sometimes end up below ground or embedded inside static objects, depending on terrain.

(EDIT: I am sure you have also noted that now and again for exampe a cut-open-able compartment on say an SRV end up offset in space from said SRV, inside of it, or floating in the air in the vicinity of its designated place.)

That's exactly what I'm talking about. Not just me, then; phew, that's a relief