cannot scan prawn suit claw arm

[giorgiobusoni]

I got nearly all blueprints, and I was wondering for a while how it is possible that I never encountered even a single piece of the prawn suit claw arm, while I had completed all other arms. So I checked the wiki and found out that there should be fragments in the wreck 4, in the underwater islands. So I went here and I could see many fragments on the ground, but the scanner did not allow me to scan them! So my conclusion is that I might have already found other fragments as well, just I did not recognise hem and did not scan them as the scanenr did not react like it was a scannable item. What I wonder is: why?

[Dirak2012]

Claw arm? There is no such thing.
You have the drill, propulsion, torpedo and grappling arm.

[Wet Socks]

I think the "claw arm" you are thinking of might be the default arm. Which you would only need to get the base prawn suit fragments for. It's the arms that the prawn suit has if you don't equip any special ones.

[Rose Brigade]

I think I know what he's talking about. I don't know which wreck it is, but it's a big 2 part wreck with confusing vents. There are Prawn Arms in the wreck in various rooms that aren't scannable. I'm not sure if it's intentional or just a known bug. I think it's in the north-western part of the Red Grassy areas.

[giorgiobusoni]

Originally posted by local dumbass:

I think the "claw arm" you are thinking of might be the default arm. Which you would only need to get the base prawn suit fragments for. It's the arms that the prawn suit has if you don't equip any special ones.

You mean that there is blueprint of it, and you don't need to craft it?

[Rose Brigade]

Originally posted by giorgiobusoni:

Originally posted by local dumbass:

I think the "claw arm" you are thinking of might be the default arm. Which you would only need to get the base prawn suit fragments for. It's the arms that the prawn suit has if you don't equip any special ones.

You mean that there is blueprint of it, and you don't need to craft it?

You don't need to craft the "arm" no. It's part of the default Prawn suit, but finding "Claw Arms" and scanning them do unlock the Prawn. They just add small percentages of the progress because it's intended for you to find the full prawn suit in the Aurora.
Just sometimes the Claw Arms seems to be bugged.

[dreamrider]

There are some claw arms scattered around at a couple of hunks of wreck, and maybe in the PRAWN Bay.

(Trying to not get too game history complicated here.)
They used to be scannable, to add minor percentages to the PRAWN Suit blueprint.
It never worked right. They never really helped you get the PRAWN.
As of SN 2.0, those bits were changed to the item category of "decorations". They aren't scannable, and they don't add toward the P Suit blueprint.
The default PRAWN Suit has 2 claw arms when built. It always has. And they don't detach. The specialty arms attach onto the default claw arms, if you want to view it that way.

Ignis explained all this in several posts in the months leading up to SN 2.0

I haven't messed with claw arm fragments in 2.0 yet. You might be able to pick one up like some other "decorations", i.e. the Gray Hat, the Model Car. Not sure.

[Rose Brigade]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

There are some claw arms scattered around at a couple of hunks of wreck, and maybe in the PRAWN Bay.

(Trying to not get too game history complicated here.)
They used to be scannable, to add minor percentages to the PRAWN Suit blueprint.
It never worked right. They never really helped you get the PRAWN.
As of SN 2.0, those bits were changed to the item category of "decorations". They aren't scannable, and they don't add toward the P Suit blueprint.
The default PRAWN Suit has 2 claw arms when built. It always has. And they don't detach. The specialty arms attach onto the default claw arms, if you want to view it that way.

Ignis explained all this in several posts in the months leading up to SN 2.0

I haven't messed with claw arm fragments in 2.0 yet. You might be able to pick one up like some other "decorations", i.e. the Gray Hat, the Model Car. Not sure.

Explains why I can't scan it, but as for picking them up I couldn't. I'm guessing they are just random clutter decorations for some of the wrecks then.

[admiral1018]

The claw arms used to be scannable and would add to the blueprint for the entire Prawn suit. This was changed in 2.0. They are no longer scannable, and the Prawn suit blueprint is now shown as x/4 parts instead of x/20.