Beware of Stalkers stealing your Scanner Room Cameras lol

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Story time:

I built a scanner room in the shallows to toy around with it and see what I could find with it. I have it scan for wrecks and take a camera drone out to scout out what the scanner found, to see if I'd already been there (spoilers, I had). As I'm piloting the drone back to the scanner room to dock it in its little cubby, a Stalker snatched it and took it for a ride for about a minute.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278659851

So I have a good laugh, the Stalker finally lets go of the camera and I start heading back to the Scanner Room again. As I get close, I see the ping icon for the other camera is on the move. Wut... A Stalker had snatched it off the side of the Scanner Room and swam away with it lol.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278659897

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278659924

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278659897

So again, I have a good laugh at that. I return the camera I had been piloting to its cubby and switch over the other one, the one that a Stalker was swimming away with. After a few seconds I have control of it but the Stalker still has it so I have to wait for it to let go. A few seconds later it lets go and I start taking that camera back to its cubby. As I get close I see a Stalker diving onto the Scanner Room again... It stole the camera I had previously docked back into its cubby.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1278659957

I finally managed to get both cameras back in their cubbies and deconstruct the Scanner Room until I figure out what to do about the Stalkers stealing my cameras lol.

[AmazingChocobo]

I have the same problem. Its the reason why I have everything except the scanner room

[RblDiver]

To be fair, I ignore the cameras anyway. Once you craft the hud accessory, you have no need of 'em.

[Nyello]

I just keep my cams in a locker until I want to use them.

[OnlyZuul]

Yep Stalkers have been doing this for quite a while now. I don't use the scanner room cameras so I just let them have at it lol.

EDIT: fixed a typo

[アゼム]

I kind of want to do this but just leave the cameras alone and log their movements.

[Emmagination]

That's a neat touch :D

[gerald2]

they are attracted by metal stuff :) they usually dont pick cameras wchich are not moved its best to just not use cameras when u have stalkers near base ,and use scanner rom just for pinging resourcess wrecks and such

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

I just kill the stalkers. They do respawn, but its slow and manageable. Once you are done with the cameras, just place in a locker... or floating storage.. or one of those carry all bags.

[Bort]

It is (or was at least, it's been a while since I last played with the Scanner Room) quite easy to make new cameras. I just let the Stalkers keep them.

It would be nice to know, though, if the cameras will produce teeth from the Stalkers.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Bort:

It is (or was at least, it's been a while since I last played with the Scanner Room) quite easy to make new cameras. I just let the Stalkers keep them.

It would be nice to know, though, if the cameras will produce teeth from the Stalkers.

iirc they do, I think it happened in front of me actually... but there may have been some debris there as well.. it was very hectic as there were 5 or more stalkers in one spot having a party.

[Teratus]

I'm not too bothered by stalkers stealing them.. but it does annoy me when I ignore it and then find out my camera's don't work anymore..
I'm pretty sure that's a bug though since nothing I do can make them work again.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Originally posted by Teratus:

I'm not too bothered by stalkers stealing them.. but it does annoy me when I ignore it and then find out my camera's don't work anymore..
I'm pretty sure that's a bug though since nothing I do can make them work again.

I noticed with my cameras that the farther they were from my scanner room, the longer it took for to establish a connection. How long did you give them to establish connection? Idk if they have a maximum range, makes sense that they would, but if they have a max range it could be that the stalkers carried the camera beyond their range so the scanner room can't even connect to them.

[xXBulletJusticeXx]

Originally posted by Teratus:

I'm not too bothered by stalkers stealing them.. but it does annoy me when I ignore it and then find out my camera's don't work anymore..
I'm pretty sure that's a bug though since nothing I do can make them work again.

you can repair them with reparir tool, then pick it up and place it back into the slot on the side of the scanner room.

[Teratus]

I repaired and placed the camera's back onto the scanner room but they never worked again.. just a black screen each time.

[RDG]

I remember leaving the cameras alone only to come back and see like 4 stalkers by it just throwing it around non stop LOL