Kill warrant scanners and how they work

[doughnut001]

Hey all.

I'm trying to work out how kill warrant scanners work and I seem to be doing something wrong.

I've bought and installed the scanner, assigned it to my secondary fire, made sure it's powered and given it a priority one in the power distribution.

It doesn't seem to be working though. have they become passive now?

I've seen youtube videos and the scanner is clearly visible on the HUD beside the centre ring like your weapons are and the bar fills up red as you complete a scan.

I don't have that though. It doesn't appear on my HUD and pressing secondary fire doesn't appear to do anything.

 

[Vander Mey jr.]

If you assigned the scanner to secondary fire and deployed hardpoints and selected the correct fire group, you should see "K-Warrant" to the left of your hud.

If you locked on a target and have it more or less centered in your HUD and are in range of the scanner (i.e. the "K-Warrant" mentioned above not reading "out of range") and keep secondary fire pressed, you should see an animation of your reticule depicting two lines, the arc between them slowly closing over the time it takes to complete the scan. (That animation was changed with the 1.0 release.)

Once the lines meet, the scan is complete. If the target moves outside your HUD, keep secondary fire pressed. The scan "degrades" slowly; if you get the target back into the center it will resume, without having to start over. (This, too, was changed with 1.0.)

Check all those "if's". K-Warrant scanner work, it's more likely you don't check all those boxes. ;-) Also, the K-Warrant scanner might be over budget on power, damaged, or disabled in the "modules" tab by accident. Check that as well!

 

[Derath]

its a hardpoint like a scanner gun really, so make sure you've deployed hardpoints then cycle your weapons to wherever you've set it - default is n for next weapon selection. After that it should just be hold fire while keeping the target in range and relatively central thats it.

Edit: Guy above me gave a much better answer read his!

 

[natte hond]

I think you haven't found how to scroll trough your weapon load out yet.
look into the option screen to find the keys assigned to it.
you might want to change them depending on your joystick or what ever your using.

 

[streki]

what does it do (when it is working) exactly ?

If you find a wanted NPC that's worth say 5k, will K-scanning him make him more valuable ?

 

[AlterEgo1973]

what does it do (when it is working) exactly ?

If you find a wanted NPC that's worth say 5k, will K-scanning him make him more valuable ?

without a k-scanner you will only see the bounty in that system's "overlord" (aka Federation, Alliance or Empire), but with it you'll also see the total sum of all the bounties on their head regardless of system alliance. (hope that makes sense to you?) You'll still have to travel to a nearby alliance to collect the bounties (Federation for Federation bounty, Alliance for their bounty award, and Empire for ... you guessed it: Empire bounty)

Happy hunting commander!

 

[streki]

without a k-scanner you will only see the bounty in that system's "overlord" (aka Federation, Alliance or Empire), but with it you'll also see the total sum of all the bounties on their head regardless of system alliance. (hope that makes sense to you?) You'll still have to travel to a nearby alliance to collect the bounties (Federation for Federation bounty, Alliance for their bounty award, and Empire for ... you guessed it: Empire bounty)

Happy hunting commander!

Ah - I see. Thank you

I hope there's no time limit on collecting bounties...i've picked them up from many systems, but haven't had the time to go collect them all. I hope they don't expire.

 

[LeetNoob]

what does it do (when it is working) exactly ?

If you find a wanted NPC that's worth say 5k, will K-scanning him make him more valuable ?

Without it you can only see if a target is wanted in the current system, and not see for how much so if a target is wanted in Empire space but you are in Alliance they will show up clean, but if you use the KWS you will see if he has a bounty on his head elsewhere and how much. Targets can and sometimes have bounty’s in more than one faction.
It’s particularly useful in anarchy systems where everyone shows up as clean.
A warning though, if they are not wanted in the current system you are in, even if the KWS shows they have a bounty elsewhere, attacking them will be a crime, unless you are in an anarchy system.
Basically you can make a lot more money bounty hunting with it and it allows you to bounty hunt in anarchy systems where you don’t have to worry about hitting someone innocent and getting yourself in trouble.

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Ah - I see. Thank you

I hope there's no time limit on collecting bounties...i've picked them up from many systems, but haven't had the time to go collect them all. I hope they don't expire.

There is no time limit but if you die before you collect the bounty you lose it.

 

[streki]

Another sort of related question:

I've recently become friendly with the Empire, so last night I came across a wanted NPC who was green to me, although he's affiliated with an Empire faction that i've not heard of.

Can I safely kill him without damaging my Empire rep?

 

[LeetNoob]

Another sort of related question:

I've recently become friendly with the Empire, so last night I came across a wanted NPC who was green to me, although he's affiliated with an Empire faction that i've not heard of.

Can I safely kill him without damaging my Empire rep?

Yes, it won't affect your rep with the Empire but it will affect your rep with that faction.

 

[streki]

Yes, it won't affect your rep with the Empire but it will affect your rep with that faction.

nice one.

 

[Dimensions]

Ah - I see. Thank you

I hope there's no time limit on collecting bounties...i've picked them up from many systems, but haven't had the time to go collect them all. I hope they don't expire.

Don't do what I did and wait until you have a 1.3mil with the Empire, before some npc Eagle flew straight at me and destroyed my Cobra. In total I lost 1.6 mil in bounties for all three galactic powers, because I was waiting until the Empire bounty was big enough (1.5mil) to make the long trip worth it. However with a good FSD (and remembering to set the trade route planner to "Fastest route") it was only 7 jumps away.

 

[Mephane]

Yes, it won't affect your rep with the Empire but it will affect your rep with that faction.

I don't think it affects that subfaction any more, at least not since 1.04. I have been killing anything wanted since then regardless of faction, basically, and never saw any subfaction or independent faction lose reputation.

 

[Belsameth]

Indeed, they seem tom have fixed that together with the annoying cop aggro.

 

[LeetNoob]

I don't think it affects that subfaction any more, at least not since 1.04. I have been killing anything wanted since then regardless of faction, basically, and never saw any subfaction or independent faction lose reputation.

Ok, good to know.

 

[doughnut001]

I think you haven't found how to scroll trough your weapon load out yet.
look into the option screen to find the keys assigned to it.
you might want to change them depending on your joystick or what ever your using.

Thanks for your answers everyone.

It turned out to be the above. I'd set the KW scanner in a different loadout. I've changed that now and it's working perfectly.