Cursed expedition : - block with scanner quest :(

[Erandyl]

Hi, I have nearly finished the expedition, but on phase 5, you have a quest which must be completed with scanner supercharge with special battery in order to find special ruins. I have the special batteries (not the normal ones, but the other kind you get sometimes when beating pirates), and the scanner ... but I have not the possibility in the scanner menu to supercharge it. I don't understand, the possibility existed in the previous expedition.

Has anybody met the problem, or am I alone ?

[Happy Monkey]

Buy ancient ruins maps from the cartographer on a station.

[Spocks Toupee]

?

I just used the scanner normally without those supercharge batteries.

What you want to find is an Observatory.

[cattivision]

Or an ancient plaque and select the learn more about history rather than a word.

[Happy Monkey]

The "Learn about history" gives you the "dig up a chest" location. Does that work? I heard in a thread somewhere that they didn't work, and you need the above-ground ruins, so I didn't try the digging myself.

[Spocks Toupee]

Originally posted by Happy Monkey:

The "Learn about history" gives you the "dig up a chest" location. Does that work? I heard in a thread somewhere that they didn't work, and you need the above-ground ruins, so I didn't try the digging myself.

Digging up the 3 keys and opening the chest worked in my expedition.

[Happy Monkey]

Good to know

[RustyNail]

NMS often offers multiple paths to a solution.

I didn't bother with the stand alone signal scanner at all. Instead, built the roamer exocraft & upgraded it with the signal boosters, used the signal boosters to locate the ancient ruins,

[Buck Wilder]

your not alone, I was frustrated about this and also had to purchase the alien maps in order to limp my way through this part of the expedition.

[Erandyl]

hi found a bypass :
1. buy technology for the "vagabond" at the anomaly
2. buy the 3 scanner technology for the vagabond
3. build the vagabond and install the 3 levels of scanner
4. scan for ancient ruins (the item before the last one in the scanner menu)

[Bedelguese]

Originally posted by Erandyl:

Hi, I have nearly finished the expedition, but on phase 5, you have a quest which must be completed with scanner supercharge with special battery in order to find special ruins. I have the special batteries (not the normal ones, but the other kind you get sometimes when beating pirates), and the scanner ... but I have not the possibility in the scanner menu to supercharge it. I don't understand, the possibility existed in the previous expedition.

Has anybody met the problem, or am I alone ?

In my case ruins with treasure did not work, what I needed were alien ruins. The ones that offer to teach you a word from one of the languages. You can buy those maps on any space station, just make sure you grab the correct map as one takes you to obelisks and alien ruins while the other map type takes you to the ruins that have keys and treasure chests which don't count.