Did I miss the wanderer forever?

[Hassink]

So I activated my final probe on Glacio and it was in a bit of a hard to reach place, so I activated it from a distance

Before I realized the Wanderer for my brand new mission was at the probe and I could make it over there, he was already gone again. Did I miss him forever?

[Rodos]

To my understanding, once it was activated, he is pretty much gone forever for the rest of that save file and you had to try again in a new game. However, there is a note in the recent update that the probes could be relocated. There is a possibility that if you can also reactivate that probe that it might work but I cannot say for certain because the notes only mention relocation and neglect to mention reactivation. All you can do is try once more and see. Good luck!

[Hassink]

I also found a different topic that suggested this was not a lost cause.

I can now confirm the following:

1. You can print another probe scanner and it will point at the probe(s) again. So no need for a beacon or searching half the planet.
2. Despite no outline for the probe scanner appearing on the probe, you can still place it and it will activate again.
3. The wanderer appears again and you can interact with him (without a camera!) to take a picture and all your missions and achievements and cosmetics will pop. And all is right with the world again.

I did try all this on the same Glacio probe again, the one I had acctivated last. Don't know if it would work with others, though I assume it would.

[Boltar]

So I activated my last probe 3 times more, and there simply is no wanderer. I've read elsewhere that one has to interact with the rift - I cant, there is no indicator to press the F button. No wanderer, no interaction, no achievement, nothing.

Any ideas?

[Capitaine Orphy]

i have the same issue, activate all the prob got the mission check for that, but i have never see the wanderer pop out, someone have an idea ?

[Rodos]

How long did you stand around the probe to wait? It takes quite some time (maybe a few minutes at least) for the message to fully play out so if you wander away too soon you'll miss the moment at the end where the wanderer finally reveals himself. It also may depend on the height difference between you and the probe since i think the scene played out slightly higher up than where I thought it would be and i nearly missed it just by having my camera angle too low. I could really be remembering the last part wrong though because it's been years since I did the wanderer missions again.

[television]

I didn't get that mission once, but fortunately got it eventually. I was then on desolo. I don't know if that has got sth to do with it, but on desolo there is an ancient space vehicle that offers you to shoot a photo, what I did before. idk....

[Rodos]

OH! There IS an ancient space vehicle on Desolo that isn't tied to the Wanderer mission that asks you to take a photo with it. Apollo 11 was put in as a historical monument to celebrate the 50th year anniversary of the Lunar Landing. After the photo, if you stick around It also plays (played? Not sure if it still does) the real historical transmissions between the lander and NASA control during the course of the landing (it's quite long too if you listen all the way to the end).