How to get a decent scanner upgrade?

[Lapino]

I know this is a good way to make money (about 10hrs in now, gathered around 500K). But it seems every station I visit, the max I get is a 15% scanner upgrade type C. Where can I get the type S upgrades?

[ten76]

I found A and S upgrades for scanners on many stations. Maybe they are more common in wealthy systems?

[ꌗꉣ꒒ꂦ꓄]

Dig up buried tech, earn nanites. Turn in milestones to Nada, earn more nanites. Complete missions, earn even more nanites.

Eventually, go to a station, find multitool upgrades and get the grade S and A versions.

With those alone you boost your analysis visor settings so that you're getting 250k units and up for almost every creature you scan. (the upgrades give you a total of like +10000% to Flora and Fauna scan values, respectively) as well as increasing you scanner's range by like 40% and the cooldown by about 15ish%.

I'd screenie it but I just started over due to the fecking big ball save corruption that apparently finally just got fixed in this morning's patch. :/

[Lapino]

Yeah well, I jumped to about 5 systems now, and still get the same upgrades in every space station. Got a LOT of nanites after about 12 hours of gameplay but no decent upgrades. The list of offered upgrades is exactly the same in every single station. Bug?

[Xilo The Odd]

there are multiple pages to the module upgrade list. unlike the blueprint list.

[Seferoth]

Originally posted by Lapino:

Yeah well, I jumped to about 5 systems now, and still get the same upgrades in every space station. Got a LOT of nanites after about 12 hours of gameplay but no decent upgrades. The list of offered upgrades is exactly the same in every single station. Bug?

Yes, it's a bug.

[Astasia]

I've noticed the upgrades tend to be the same in multiple systems, but they also refresh and have a new stock every once in a while. I got a S class scanner upgrade in my starting system after checking back a few times.

[Comrade Pickles]

Traded in my old tool and within 5-7 systems I had three S class scanner upgrades, maybe you're just really unlucky? Have you tried purchasing a cheaper module to see if inventory will replace at next station?

[GamingCthulhu]

So make sure you are looking in the second option on the tech vendors and not the first. Additionally grabbing the Economy Scanner and building it can help as S class upgrades are more often found in wealthy systems.

When buying general tech in the first section you will need to purchase something for new stuff to show up. You will want everything in the first category of the vendors anyways but you can prioritize some what in the main modules.

[Lapino]

Went to the first Atlas and there I found the S-scanner type. Not amazing (about 20K for flora) but still way better than before. Love the game but the constant juggling with inventory is getting really old :/

[Kaybe]

Yeah, the blueprints I find in stations all seem to be the same or close to the same. And mostly weapon upgrades. I really wish I could some scanner ones, but nothing so far.

[GECO]

can someone explain me something? why an Scanner module A its more expensive than a C? and a S more expensive than an A? Wouldn't be logical that the C module is in between the value of the A and S ? And can you stack modules? or you can just put one?

[4evernomad]

Originally posted by Lapino:

Went to the first Atlas and there I found the S-scanner type. Not amazing (about 20K for flora) but still way better than before. Love the game but the constant juggling with inventory is getting really old :/

You can now stack the same upgrade types, so you can have three S class scanner upgrades and they all boost each other, you end up with 100ks for a plant.

Originally posted by GEC:

can someone explain me something? why an Scanner module A its more expensive than a C? and a S more expensive than an A? Wouldn't be logical that the C module is in between the value of the A and S ? And can you stack modules? or you can just put one?

It's c, b, a, and s in quality, and yes as above, stacking works with all upgrades.

[ZaydinTTV]

Shoot for S-grade scanner upgrades. They cost like 400-500 nanintes a piece but they can give huge bonuses to the value of your scans. I get like 55k units for flora and more than that for fauna.

Just check the multi-tool vendor at every station you visit for the upgrade modules.

[exraflad]

Make sure you check all the pages of upgrades (a/d on pc), I missed this to start with and could only see C grade upgrades

[GrandTickler]

back in NEXT i considered the scanner to be borderline-cheating but since they still didnt change it i guess it was intended to get 250-500k for a single animal scan lol, so yeah you'll get 3 S-rank scanner modules pretty quick when jumping from space station to space station