Translate c to assembly language. There's two phases to scanning for War Assets:On the system map, you can scan a region of the system by sending out something that could be compared to a 'sonar ping,' and once you've located an item on a planet or moon, you can select that planet or moon and begin the planetary scan.In the first phase, you press a button to scan a region around the Normandy. Any items of interest will be highlighted with a red ring. You can then go and investigate these sites. You can only scan a portion of the system at a time, and scanning too many times in the same system (if is is under Reaper control) will lead to the Reapers chasing you out of it, lest you game over.Some items you will just find in the system map - items like extra fuel from the remains of a wrecked ship, for example.
Others will require you to scan the planet before you can locate the item.If you must scan a planet or moon, you enter the second phase. The second phase is very similar to the way mineral/anomaly scanning worked in Mass Effect 2. You'll be shown a 3-D model of the planet, and you'll have a little radar icon that shows you which direction the item in question is. You'll have to move over the surface of the planet, scanning periodically to keep moving in the correct direction. Once you've located the item (noted with a white dot) you can launch a probe.
The probe will recover the item, and then you can leave orbit.The scanning is quite a bit more straightforward and fast compared to ME2. In that game, you might spend 10 minutes extracting resources from a planet, and use up probes that had to be replenished. In this game, there's usually far fewer items to be found on a planet, and you have infinite probes. It's a lot different this time.You enter a system and use the left trigger(on the 360 at least) to scan.
The scan effects a limited area of the system. EDI will indicate if a scan found anything on the map. If EDI finds something on a planet, it works just like scanning a planet with a detected anomaly in ME2. You can find fuel, war assets and credits this way.If you scan too much and it alerts the reapers. Several of them enter the system and chase you down.
You have to leave the system to escape. They will remain in the system until you complete another mission, and then you can go back and try to scan some more.
Sigrund's CradleSkepsis: Javelin Missile Launchers war asset on Watson, 200 fuelDecoris: 350 fuel, 10,000 credits on Laena Hades GammaAntaeus: 10,000 credits on Trebin, 300 fuelPlutus: Special Ops Team Zeta war asset on NonuelCacus: 400 fuel, 10,000 credits on ChoheFarinata: 200 fuel, Alliance Frigate Agincourt war asset on JuntuamaDis: 10,000 credits on Klensal, 200 fuel The Strike AbyssalXe Cha: 10,000 credits on Zada ban, 150 fuelUrla Rast: Prothean Obelisk on Talis Fia, 300 fuel Minos WastelandFortis: 10,000 credits on Pietas, 200 fuel.
Its pretty boring but it gives me a chance to listen to podcasts im late on. If you dont have it talk to Miranda about Normandy upgrades. She'll tell you about upgrading the cursor speed. If you already have the assassin you can ask him about an upgrade that gives you 60 probes, as oppose to 30.
Last tip if you just tap the left trigger as you move it around a planet it will go much quicker, you just have to watch the little reading bars on the right side of the screen and wait for them to spike. @FishFaceMcGee said: ' @Evilsbane said: ' I don't know maybe Bioware's awesomeness has blinded me but I really don't mind the mini game, hitting a big deposit of Iridium always makes me happy cause I am working towards upgrading my dudes. 'Agreed except for the Iridium part. I have so much goddamn Iridium and none of my upgrades need it. 'See I keep finding Paladium I have so much of that shit its not even funny, but Element Zero and Iridium are the materials that I can never seem to find fast enough. @SeriouslyNow said: ' No Way Man! Planet Scanning is lotsa fun and a really nice diversion, just like all the minigames in Mass Effect 2.
'Except it isn't a mini-game. What is the game? The only challenge is how patient you can be at a completely mindless and repetitive task.
I prefer this over the 'hit stupid looking planet with idiotic terrain with shitty vehicle' thing by an order of magnitude, but it's still pointless. It would be great if it had some sort of variety or if you could upgrade your kit beyond that first 'scanning' upgrade. So that at least you could make it a little less monotonous. Faster, wider scan, something. When you think about it, it doesn't even make sense in the context of the story. The guy who is out to save the galaxy and has the backing of what is apparently the richest collective of people in existence and can get anything he wants by simply asking Cerberus for it. Has to mine for resources throughout the galaxy to get by while balancing the whole 'seek out and destroy the greatest evil ever known' mission?
@Lowbrow said: ' I like the plant scanning, atiny addictive mini game isnt so bad. And besides, I just bought the scanner upgrade, havent seen what it does yet, but I'm guessing the Devs understood that the tedum might be much as there are probably a ton of planets to mine, so Im hoping they make the target reticle bigger. 'The scanning upgrade lets you move the scanner a tiny bit faster.
My main complaint with it (other than it making no sense and having no context in the story) is that there's no 'game' to it. The only 'challenge' is to see if you can move the mouse up and down each sector of the entire planet and pull the trigger when your controller starts to spaz out, before you throw yourself into traffic in real life.
It's like calling breathing a mini-game. I guess they had to come up with something, though, to pad the number of hours they can claim the game is. But hey - at least it's not the fucking 'drive the Mako all over the most ridiculous terrain ever' shit again.
@handlas said: 'it is boring. I scanned like 8 planets back to back.
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The small planets seem to be the 'Rich' ones that you can get a lot of stuff quickly. I was just getting 50,000 Platinum to heal my face. And didn't seem worth it. Does healing your facial scars do anything other than make you prettier? I just bought the quicker scan thing as well so that will make it go a bit faster.
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' That's all I was scanning for too. Don't really car about the rest of the upgrades, I just wanted the scars gone, especially since my dickery was making them worse. @jams said: ' But at least scanning isn't as bad as the 2 hacking mini games (EDIT for the PC version). Those were okay the first couple of times but get annoying after a while. ' What is the difference in the hacking games between the PC and xbox version? I'm playing the xbox one now, and they're honestly not too bad, the weird colored text one isn't the greatest, but it's still manageable.
And the little game of concentration is stupid easy. So I'm not alone in that, okay cool. Yeah just use both sticks to move around while scanning.