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Newcomer / Intro Unexplored?
- Thread starter Vandemar
- Start date
Assuming you have a discovery scanner in one of your internal compartments, here's a quick howto for it:
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Bind the scanner to Secondary fire: Go to the right hand UI and tab across to Fire Groups. Scroll down to the Discovery Scanner and use Space to change the setting from nothing through 1 (primary fire) to 2 (secondary fire). Leave it on 2 and, for ease of use, in the first fire group unless you have a combat loadout that includes Chaff/Heat Sinks/Missiles etc..
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Somewhere on your keyboard or stick you will have a key/button assigned to Secondary Fire. Unlike weapons, you can use the Discovery Scanner in Super Cruise. When you enter a new system that is Unexplored, change to the fire group that includes the scanner and trigger it by holding down the key/button. You will see a blue bar as it charges and then you will get a foghorn sound and a splash notice about detection in your HUD. This is the scanner operating. Its range depends on the type (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) with the basic scanner picking up everything within about 600 Ls.
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In the left hand UI you will now see a list of Unknown system bodies. To scan these for more information select one and point the ship towards it. If you are close enough the scanner will automatically start to scan, indicated by a swirling icon in the target information box at the bottom left of the HUD display. This scan will take about 15-20 seconds and then information about the system body will appear. Note that the range at which the scanner triggers appears to be related to the size of the system body, so stars can be scanned from a distance but you need to be much closer to planets and moons (usually 5-100 Ls).
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All the information you collect can be sold at Universal Cartographics in stations and outposts but there is a restriction: you need to travel 20 Ly from the system you scanned to sell the data, so it's money for the future rather than insta-cash. Note also that like bounties and other rewards you lose your scan data if your ship is destroyed.
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Hope this is of help. Fly safe
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Bind the scanner to Secondary fire: Go to the right hand UI and tab across to Fire Groups. Scroll down to the Discovery Scanner and use Space to change the setting from nothing through 1 (primary fire) to 2 (secondary fire). Leave it on 2 and, for ease of use, in the first fire group unless you have a combat loadout that includes Chaff/Heat Sinks/Missiles etc..
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Somewhere on your keyboard or stick you will have a key/button assigned to Secondary Fire. Unlike weapons, you can use the Discovery Scanner in Super Cruise. When you enter a new system that is Unexplored, change to the fire group that includes the scanner and trigger it by holding down the key/button. You will see a blue bar as it charges and then you will get a foghorn sound and a splash notice about detection in your HUD. This is the scanner operating. Its range depends on the type (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) with the basic scanner picking up everything within about 600 Ls.
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In the left hand UI you will now see a list of Unknown system bodies. To scan these for more information select one and point the ship towards it. If you are close enough the scanner will automatically start to scan, indicated by a swirling icon in the target information box at the bottom left of the HUD display. This scan will take about 15-20 seconds and then information about the system body will appear. Note that the range at which the scanner triggers appears to be related to the size of the system body, so stars can be scanned from a distance but you need to be much closer to planets and moons (usually 5-100 Ls).
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All the information you collect can be sold at Universal Cartographics in stations and outposts but there is a restriction: you need to travel 20 Ly from the system you scanned to sell the data, so it's money for the future rather than insta-cash. Note also that like bounties and other rewards you lose your scan data if your ship is destroyed.
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Hope this is of help. Fly safe