Rover?

[Colmaniac]

How do you spawn the rover? Bought 1 at the ship services, couldnt find it anywhere, and bought a 2nd. Ive checked ship setup and cant find a hanger module for it. Am I missing somthing?

[majority of voters]

Once you've bought it, just land somewhere, it will spawn just outside your ship.

When you lift off again the ships 'little drone helpers' fold it up nicely and pop it in a handy box somewhere only they know of until you need it again.

[tolate 04]

When you land on planet it should appear right outside the entrance to your ship

[Colmaniac]

Nothing there, landed plenty of times at different places and random places

[tkwoods]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Nothing there, landed plenty of times at different places and random places

Have you exited the game and came back in?

[Colmaniac]

Yes several times, had a bit of a google, some other players are having the same problem. But no mention of a fix or workaround, someone mentioned shooting the technician in the head wait for them to heal and you can then buy one and works, but tried that, nothing spawns in.

[sarcastic_godot]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

How do you spawn the rover? Bought 1 at the ship services, couldnt find it anywhere, and bought a 2nd. Ive checked ship setup and cant find a hanger module for it. Am I missing somthing?

Steam Backup disabled? OneDrive disabled? Game files up to date? Also, as you somehow managed to buy two ... did you get the Creations Deimog or a different one? Also, any Mods???

[Corinze]

Are you sure you bought it? It does cost 20K in credits. You will also have a separate line showing your owned vehicles when talking with the Tech.

[kdodds]

Most important unasked question, are you using any mods?

[utahcowboy]

Sometimes mods can interfere. Do you have any mods installed? When the rover was first released I had troubles with it running with the Starfield Community Patch. That has since been fixed, but is was an issue that I had.

[jonnin]

normally, there is no way to buy two of them. Its a got it or not one time buy.
there is no module for it but the game text indicates that there is. This is probably an oversight to a direction the devs started in and changed their minds, or a miscommunication or mistranslation or the like when the text was generated. I thought it would be cool to have the thing in your landing bay etc, but its just magically placed -- sometimes oddly, like large ships can send it flying off a ways when it throws it out at your base landing pad and there isn't anyplace for it to go.

if it won't let you buy it, and you can change its color, you own one and it should just appear where it belongs without any fuss when you exit the ship. So test that... see if you can paint it or buy it again, and see if you can figure out what is going on. If it seems like you own one... something is very wrong if it never shows up, even after exit and restart.

[Pheex]

I had this problem as well when I first played Garfield again this week after not touching the game since a week after launch.

What I had to do to keep the rover 'attached' to my character was to NOT fast travel away after buying it, but first going into my ship manually, then lifting off manually into space before my first fast travel.

After that, it started spawning everywhere like normal.

Could be a fluke, could be related

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by kdodds:

Most important unasked question, are you using any mods?

I have some mods, nothing major, just more immersion, better UI and better payout missions with better boss loot chests. I dont use creative mods as im not paying for them when you can get mods for free.

[Colmaniac]

Originally posted by Pheex:

I had this problem as well when I first played Garfield again this week after not touching the game since a week after launch.

What I had to do to keep the rover 'attached' to my character was to NOT fast travel away after buying it, but first going into my ship manually, then lifting off manually into space before my first fast travel.

After that, it started spawning everywhere like normal.

Could be a fluke, could be related

How do you `attach` it to your character?

[kdodds]

Originally posted by Colmaniac:

Originally posted by kdodds:

Most important unasked question, are you using any mods?

I have some mods, nothing major, just more immersion, better UI and better payout missions with better boss loot chests. I dont use creative mods as im not paying for them when you can get mods for free.

I would start a new game without mods then. If it works, then you just have to figure out which mod is bad. If it still doesn't work, clean install.

[Colmaniac]

Thanks, got a message and found a work around fix that works.
1, save game.
2,disable all mods.
3,load game, buy rover, manually fly to planet and with luck rover is there, save game.
3, apply all mods and load game.
rover should still be there.