Follow Distortions On The Scanner is bugged?

[ChiefTape]

So I'm on the quest into the unknown and it's saying Follow Distortions On The Scanner but when I land on the marker and look around I get no distortion. I've looked up guides on YouTube and nothings worked I've spent like three hours trying to make it work but nothing. If anyone knows how to help I'd appreciate it.

[rockmedic109]

I just had this problem. I don't know if I know what happened or if I got lucky. I went to a different planet, came back and picked the place to land. The mouse moved while I was picking the place to land and a new landing place became visible with the quest marker on it.

It looked like there were two landing places close together and only one of them was the proper one for the quest.

[Lackadaisy]

The distortions show when you open the scanner and the white ring that pops up starts to "glitch". There isn't much other indicator and will usually appear when facing the correct corner of the map.

[issicus]

if you just look around you can usually see the temple.

[Rigby12]

Mine doesnt even say that. My quest line just says "Go to ..." I've went to Procyon 3 several times and nothing changes. I've even explored the entire planet and scanned everything

[Cutlass Jack]

The distortion is on the white ring on your scanner. Not on what you're looking at with it. It will look increasingly more staticy when you're headed in the right direction.

[NewRaven]

The disortions work, however usually you find a few anomalies on a landing spot and, probably because of the distance, not all of them show you the disortion even if you are looking in the right direction with your scanner in hand. Just try another anomaly or... just look for the biggest "building" in the area, which is usually your target.

[DadShortz]

I have the same issue. No distortions. There is an icon for scanner anomaly with a blue quest icon over it but no temple. Its been 2 planets so far. One leads to an abandoned space colony and the other to an abandoned factory.

[andersonm]

Originally posted by Tangerine:

The distortions show when you open the scanner and the white ring that pops up starts to "glitch". There isn't much other indicator and will usually appear when facing the correct corner of the map.

Wow, thanks, that solved it for me. I though it was bugged as I was looking for "sites" with the scanner. Have put it off the entire game waiting for a fix

Do NOT look for "sites" as you usually do with the scanner. Even though a few may show up when you land..

Do something completely different from every scanning situation so far: Turn around very slowly with your scanner up. When you face the right direction, you should see small glitches on the white circle. Walk there.

[Sedmeister]

Also, the distortions grow stronger the closer you get to the source. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but yeah, you've basically got to triangulate without a triangle. A complicated game of hot/cold.

[lagrangewei]

there is a bug where temple may not spawn in the map and therefore generate no return signature since it isn't there. I have only seen it once, it is super rare.

[TheNorthSerb]

I ran into the same problem and got it FIXED. And it is pain I know. I did the whole Vanguard side quest and was 22 hours in and after realizing what happened I needed to backtrack to like 9 hours.
Solution: You need to go back to a save before you started the mission. So before you went to the EYE and talked to Vladimir that will fix it.
Explanation: For us with the bug the game did not load the temple so that is why we can't see the distortions. If we reload the mission it gives us a new planet/destination with the temple, it is random. If you are very unlucky you can run into two bugged destinations in a row then you need to go back to the save before the mission again.
An update can not fix this bug for players that already encountered the problem but it can fix it for new playthroughs.