Scanner room listings
Jarin
Los Angeles Join Date: 2013-12-16 Member: 190184Members
Los Angeles Join Date: 2013-12-16 Member: 190184Members
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In fact I think I'll post in Bug Reporting, I can't find a bug anywhere on Trello for it.
.... er, I mean....
The Scanner Room's UI has been updated recently.
.... to one that's a little prettier, and that has the *start* of a scrollbar, but that doesn't actually let you scroll to search for certain things.
I'm not sure if this is something that's a bug, a WIP, or an error. However, the new UI is a sign of.... something. I don't know *exactly* what yet, but *something*.
Hey! It's not the Scanner Room's fault you built your base in the VOID and are now surprised there's nothing for it to find there.
Unless you are complaining because the Scanner Room doesn't have a list to search for:
"Deadly creatures about to eat me"
But is that really a bug or a feature request?
Well, it *does* have a search for 'Reaper Leviathan'.
And FWIW, my above is also an outdated statement. Apparently they fixed the issue, as when I checked the scanner rooms, they seem to be working fine now (scroll seems to check for all options in their range). So hooray for useful scanner rooms now! At least, I *hope* they are useful now. Barring bugs and/or exclusions.
No way! You made that up!
Didn't you?
As long as the Reaper is within range, I.E. active and spawned, the machine will track it.
The 'active and spawned' part is the tricky part. It wasn't present until I moved my camera into range in order to 'spawn' it.
Now we just need icons for all the scanner options. But that's just polish.
I'd say give it an experimental build or three, then submit that as a bug.
Edit: I need to test how overlapping scanner rooms work for the purposes of watching multiple resources on your HUD. Some bases might actually get more than one if that works.
This is awesome and I love everything about it.
I'll have to try it in different areas. Weird. :P
You can't fool me! Your Photoshop skills are legendary.
I should be so lucky! I could make a mint!
The items that it is allowing me to search for are different. There isn't even a second page of them; I can only search for seven different things. Not including the Lithium which I had been searching for when I turned it off (to look for sandstone). Or the reaper leviathan. Or, for that matter, sandstone.
So it looks as if the scanners still have bugs. Either that, or they have bugs that were reintroduced with the newest build.
EDIT: OK. After activating the camera and going into the reaper's territory to 'spawn' it, the scanner room now can actually find it. So at least that is the same as the above. However, the sandstone and lithium is still missing.
SECOND EDIT: OK. So apparently after taking the camera out and exploring the area a bit, *then* the scanner was able to pick some things up. So apparently your cameras may now be more important than before if that's the case: they're the ones indicating what is around to scan. Not sure if that's meant to be deliberate or not!
Time to rebuild my thermal relay on a platform overtop of those smokers, instead of having to try and cram them into rocks that they don't want to sit properly on.
Also, the delay you mention... do you have a scanner speed upgrade in there?
Both existed before they were updated. Both worked the same way; I apparently had to have a camera in range of the things I wanted to scan. The area immediately around my base is picked clean of uraninite, so I'm assuming that's why the option to search doesn't appear until I move the camera 50 or so yards down.
Which delay? I think you misunderstood what I was saying.
Best. Change. Ever. This week has been amazing.
You can even put the first relay on the platform right behind them, and it links off elsewhere just fine.
Yeah, I'm seeing it on my test base now (with uraninite, even). Pushing out the cameras does seem to help it detect resources.
It looks like it resets any time you unload the area. Or at least on save/reload.
Vaguely annoying, but like you said, it's a reason to use the cameras now, so hardly game-breaking. Side-note, as a nice touch, you can flip through all camera drones on a base from one scanner room. Thought I'd have to go to my second room to control its attached drones.
Quite frankly, cameras didn't have much use before this, so as annoying as it is, I'm kind of in favor of it. It gives the drones an actual purpose now rather than just for fun observation (not that observation was bad; I kinda liked getting an up close and personal look of the local wildlife.)
is this the one off the left side of the GUN, as if you were looking towards the gun from the end nearest the void?
Yeah. There's a cluster of three vents just a little ways down that passage, and I think the temp increase from them is stacking. I still only get 60~ degrees or so planting practically on top of lava down deep.