so you admit that the problem is that you cant distinguish the signals when everyone else has given you examples of how to do so.
That is not frontier's fault, thats yours
Make the SRV scanner actually useful.
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That is not frontier's fault, thats yours
By your reasoning: If a film doesn't have subtitles, it's not the directors fault that some people are deaf.
If a housing estate has steps everywhere and doesn't have ramps, it's not the architects fault that some people living there may require wheelchair access.
Worse still: If a car is built without brakes, it's not the manufacturers fault that people crash.
Stop making excuses for the developers who should be taking into account that some people may have difficulty with things like this and provide a useful alternative. There are a LOT of people for whom these kinds of patterns are just meaningless chatter and the SRV's radar is nothing but an ornamental object in the cockpit. Not everybody uses the forums either. People like myself have to resort to visual scanning of the surface to find these things, personally, I drive in turret view almost exclusively since the radar is useless to me, no matter how many times I have tried to figure out what it's reporting.
Also, quite a number of times, I have had some sort of signal and you head toward it and it vanishes, you do a full 360 to find it again, then you try backtracking quite a bit but it simply doesn't come back. I play solo so it wasn't anyone else grabbing it before I got there.
being deaf and being arrogant are not the same.
dont use deaf people as an excuse for your refusal to learn the mechanics
YOU are not visually impared, the game has given you the tools as well as the community has given you examples. Do not use a disability as an excuse as you are cearly not disabled.
Stop being arrogant and LEARN
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It should pick up anything that is useful to the player. I.E. resource, settlement, biological, geological, event, and other nodes. It could give off a set of patterns and sounds that are unique to each one and help the player find these things.
As it is, it goes off when there is nothing, and won't when it is literally staring at something.
It never goes off when there's nothing, there is always something, the fact aren't willing to chase the something down isn't the scanners fault.
As far posts comparing the situation to disabled ramps, that's a ludicrous comparison. If we are going to compare things it's more like a person complaining that they aren't allowed to drive a car, but actually refusing to learn how to drive a car in the first place.
You are complaining that you can't understand anything on the scanner, but you are actually refusing to learn how to read the scanner, see how that works?
So first, I have had it not go off when looking directly at impact sites, crash sites, and human structures. I'm not going to make this up cuz I am not going to waste my time. I like driving around in the SRV and if there is a blip that comes up I follow it and lately there has been nothing at then end of that blip. Even after circling an area and at times the signal will just stop and there will be nothing. I circle around, I go to high ground, and I check the targeting panel. There is nothing. I have been using an SRV since Horizons came out, I am pretty sure I know what I am doing. I took the time to learn. I have thousands of hours in elite.
I am complaining because it worked before the update. It has glitched out since Odyssey's release and every update since has made it glitch out in weird ways. If it is a bug, fine. I reported it and I even added to a few bug reports that support my own findings. FD should fix it. As far as resources go, I have only found T1 mats from Geological nodes that used to give several mats and had a better chance to drop high tier materials. Now they pop and it is literally 1 tier 1 mat.
I am all for expanding the SRV and its uses.
OK you are going to have to put together some video evidence or at least screenshots - because basically what you're spouting is contrary to my experience. The wavescanner issues of disappearing returns and phantom meteorites were cleared up a long, long time ago.
No, no I don't. You can take my word for it cuz I am not going to waste my time, or you can just leave it as anecdotal and move one. You can go to the bug reporting site and check it our if you like. I don't have to do anything or prove anything to anyone but FD when it comes to bugs and game issues.
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I use only the radar screen for the white dots when they appear, that tells me there is something nearby. The scanner tells me NOTHING AT ALL because I don't recognise the pattern differences, you can show all the diagrams you want, it's still meaningless chatter to me.
Ok, I really didn't want to do this, I hate having to admit to having it. But it seems that many people don't understand that not everyone sees the world exactly as they do.
Visual apperceptive agnosia. (Look it up.)
In extreme cases, it can mean the inability to recognise even common objects like a cup, some people have problems with words or even numbers. However, there are varying degrees of it and a mild form can prevent people recognising patterns that others can see quite clearly. I have a very mild form that prevents me seeing things like the patterns on the scanner or an oscilliscope and other things like stereograms, to me, it's just random noise. Luckily I don't have a problems with words or numbers and for the most part, it doesn't affect my daily life although, I failed with electronics because I couldn't read an oscilliscope screen.
Most games have a proper radar with a dot or a symbol that indicates that something is there. That, I can see, but this scanner that shows shapes that may or may not fit together, I have no idea what I am looking at.
Imagine a radio station that is drowned out by so much hash that you can just about make out that there are voices, but not enough to hear exactly what is being said.
Ok, I really didn't want to do this, I hate having to admit to having it. But it seems that many people don't understand that not everyone sees the world exactly as they do.
Visual apperceptive agnosia. (Look it up.)
In extreme cases, it can mean the inability to recognise even common objects like a cup, some people have problems with words or even numbers. However, there are varying degrees of it and a mild form can prevent people recognising patterns that others can see quite clearly. I have a very mild form that prevents me seeing things like the patterns on the scanner or an oscilliscope and other things like stereograms, to me, it's just random noise. Luckily I don't have a problems with words or numbers and for the most part, it doesn't affect my daily life although, I failed with electronics because I couldn't read an oscilliscope screen.
Most games have a proper radar with a dot or a symbol that indicates that something is there. That, I can see, but this scanner that shows shapes that may or may not fit together, I have no idea what I am looking at.
Imagine a radio station that is drowned out by so much hash that you can just about make out that there are voices, but not enough to hear exactly what is being said.
Yes, that's what I am doing now. However, the planets with geo signals are all way off the grid and take a while to get to. None within the bubble at all.
The white dots on the radar screen allow me to get the mats and I can trade for the ones I want, I just wish it wasn't so far to those planets.
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