1.10 BUG Cannot scan abandoned ship in order to claim - Method here

[Darkfighter89]

Basically the guy bails out of the ship and I go "Woohoo free mercury sentinel". Start the related tutorial which seems to give zero craps about my progress and tells me the mission is finished even though the scanner in my suit refuses to work. I start the Spacesuit scanner and it press F on the abandoned ship and select "scan" in order to find the signal but the green pulse minigame doesn't even start.
I'm playing the 1.10 build.

[tetja]

You likely need Marines to takeover such a big Ship.

[Darkfighter89]

You likely need Marines to takeover such a big Ship.

For a mercury sentinel? Unlikely.

[Legionnaire]

Have you tried using your repair laser directly where you had to scan the Signal? I did that on a ship, and the what appeared to be damaged wiring disappeared and the ship became mine.

Legionnaire

[SystemsEternal]

im having the same problem, no signal showing up on an ownerless ship. tried repair laser all over it.

It looks like it spawned without the signal part cause going back to a earlier save before I had noticed it doesnt fix the problem

[Klopa]

I'm having the same problem, the signal you have to decrypt just isn't anywhere on the unclaimed ship. Happened two times so far, once on a Demeter Freighter and once on a Cerberus - that last one was even part of a faction mission, which I can't finish because I can't dock the Cerberus. And yeah, I tried marines on that one too, they just fly around it and don't find the entry either. Both ships are mission ships, so on the first one I thought that might be the problem - but hey, if the mission is "capture the ship"..
It did work on most smaller fighters though. So might be a problem with bigger ships. Or with the scanner - the Quest on the Cerberus is actually telling me to "find the spacesuit dock", then when I come close to that "turn on spacesuit scanner", which is obviously turned on, and then just stays in that loop.
The faction quests seem to be a little buggy anyways, there was another quest where I had to "repair data leaks" - when I hit them with my repair beam, I failed the quest, saying I destroyed them instead of repairing. Guess those quests still need some work..
I have to say though, both of the ships I flew around for like half an hour and didn't even go mad or anything. I was space walking after all - the game is just that awesomly immersive! In the end I just loaded a save and did sth else - although I probably wont get around the Cerberus for too long.

[Barec_Gesh]

same problem here, no look boarding a m class freighter. no signal showing on the ship

[Allabreve]

I managed it to claim a ship with scanning and being able to board it from the suit...

I had to fire a emp bomb. After the shield got down the Signal magically appeared.
(I'll try to find another one and shoot the shields down with my guns to see if the result is the same.)

@Devs: Is claiming abandoned ships meant to work this way? (get shields down -> get signal?)


Edit: I claimed a Cerberus

[Maahes]

You need to claim M class ships with a Marine as they don't have a signal.
Have a marine on board your ship, target the empty ship, press F and chose claim.
The marine will fly over in a boarding pod and become the pilot of the ship. You can then order the ship to dock at a station and then dock there yourself to swap the marine back onto your ship and replace with a random pilot if you chose.

[Darkfighter89]

You need to claim M class ships with a Marine as they don't have a signal.
Have a marine on board your ship, target the empty ship, press F and chose claim.
The marine will fly over in a boarding pod and become the pilot of the ship. You can then order the ship to dock at a station and then dock there yourself to swap the marine back onto your ship and replace with a random pilot if you chose.

I'm not sure to what extent this is confirmed. In the end I had to give up on claiming that ship because I didn't have a marine to try the pod method on it. I did plenty of ship capping in XR but the only ships you ever had to use marines on were capitals. Even in X3 you could just float up to an abandoned M hauler and just claim it which is why I immediately assumed this was a bug.
Other people claim damaged wiring is the cause which is interesting but they can be hard to spot.

[iroker]

You need to claim M class ships with a Marine as they don't have a signal.
Have a marine on board your ship, target the empty ship, press F and chose claim.
The marine will fly over in a boarding pod and become the pilot of the ship. You can then order the ship to dock at a station and then dock there yourself to swap the marine back onto your ship and replace with a random pilot if you chose.

I'm not sure to what extent this is confirmed. In the end I had to give up on claiming that ship because I didn't have a marine to try the pod method on it. I did plenty of ship capping in XR but the only ships you ever had to use marines on were capitals. Even in X3 you could just float up to an abandoned M hauler and just claim it which is why I immediately assumed this was a bug.
Other people claim damaged wiring is the cause which is interesting but they can be hard to spot.

Confirmed, just claimed an abandoned Vulture Vanguard surrounded by mines which i had to destroy first (not a mission object), Marine was circling the vessel for about 1-2 minutes and then claimed it.

[LameFox]

They circle due to bad pathfinding, if you fly away they will become OOS and get in. Not a great sign for more challenging captures though.

[Phoynix]

Well borading is buggered too..
Boarded a ship... and it still had hostile NPC on it, it refused to do anything I said and kept changing direction/velocity.
It was kinda funny and sad all in one.

[Klopa]

They circle due to bad pathfinding, if you fly away they will become OOS and get in. Not a great sign for more challenging captures though.

Thanks guys, getting OOS, or rather docking on the nearest station did the trick for me. At least with the trader, so far. The ship just magically became green..

[toepick]

Hmm, idk.. been trying to capture an abandoned 'Manorina (Mineral) Sentinel' for a few hours now.

Have gone through a few marines and tried going away several times, even docking in other systems and still not working.

[spacecoyote99]

I reported this bug here: viewtopic.php?f=180&t=402932&p=4759524#p4759524

The mission guidance specifically tells you to scan for the "leak". Using marines may be a workaround, but then the mission is worded incorrect. I would think marines should only be needed for cap ships, but not sure.

[gobbibomb]

Need marine, I found free cerberus, biiitch

[spacecoyote99]

I reported this bug here: viewtopic.php?f=180&t=402932&p=4759524#p4759524

The mission guidance specifically tells you to scan for the "leak". Using marines may be a workaround, but then the mission is worded incorrect. I would think marines should only be needed for cap ships, but not sure.

FWIW, I did end up getting the ship, and another M ship, both using marines. I launched the marines from about 1km away, and neither time did they have trouble pathing to the ship, they pretty much beelined for their target and went right in. Although the marines did somehow strip the weapons from the ships (not sure if that also happens when you personally claim a ship.)

[ajeffco]

Ran into the same. My marines however would not cap the ship. I saw in another thread that someone posted they left the sector and re-entered and it was capped, which worked for me.

[Tyrant597]

You don't need marines to claim M/L ships.

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You can claim abandoned ships without marines by using a suit EMP bomb in EVA. You will need a suit bomb launcher, bought at the npc on stations. Toss the emp on the ship, right click, blow it up. Ship shields will drop, and you will get a static thing to whack with your repair tool.