Laser cutter can't be scanned?

[God]

So here i was, minding my own business over at the lifepod 17 wreck, and I see a few laser cutter fragments, so I think, "Hey, I don't want to add to the body count, so I guess I should scan this." but alas, when i whipped out my trusty scanner, nothing happened when I tried to scan it. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a glitch with no solution but to deal with it?

[creep_]

Scanner is buggy as hell. If you do need the fragments get to the neighbouring Grassy Plateau wreckage. They're tiny little pieces. I myself searched for hours for them. BOMM, 6 fragments. Don't get me started on that modification station...

[KoolSkeleton82]

Maybe its out of battery power? there should be a little power meter above your hotbar whilst holding the scanner. YES every friggin tool in this game needs BATTERIES..

[nuLoon]

It's a bug. I've encountered a lot of laser cutter fragments and occasionally a battery charger that can't be scanned.

[creep_]

You probably have the fragments to build a scanner room already. It can search for LC fragments specifically.

[or0b0ur0s]

There have always been unscannable fragment models lying around (even in some cases before they were applied to the fragment in question, which is why they were unscannable at that time). But they seem a LOT more common now for some reason. This has generated a number of "middle finger" moments where it feels like the game is deliberately messing with you and laughing in your face.

One of my Ghost Update games had a few Moonpool and Power Cell Charger fragments, but they were ALL unscannable. Every single one. I had another where there were exactly 3 laser cutter fragments in one wreck only. None anywhere else on the map (and it was an obscure mini-wreck to boot). If those had been unscannable (or behind the sealed door like at least one person found and reported), it would have been Game Over or time to cheat them in with the console.

So it wouldn't surprise me if you get shafted out of a laser cutter because the fragments glitch and aren't scannable. Fragments seem to have taken a rather large step backwards this update, unfortunately. They need work.

[Nyello]

Sounds like a bug. Make your in-game reports and in the meantime people can use console commands to get the items they can't scan. It isn't cheating to use the commands in a situation like this.