Data Leak/Blueprint

[kspn]

How do you 'capture' a Data Leak, I have found one which should give me a Pier but I cannot work out how to 'Capture' it.

[sandalle]

In Scan Mode (I've only done it in my ship, but you could probably do it via EVA as well), get really close (as in as close to 0 (zero) meters as possible) while keeping the visible Data Leak in your crosshairs. In your Event Monitor at the bottom left, you'll see a message similar to "Starting Decryption...". It'll tell you if it fails/stops. Then just get the Data Leak back in your crosshairs and close to you. You'll eventually (within 30 seconds I'd say) decrypt it and get the reward (blueprints, secret mission, discount, and maybe other stuff I don't know about yet).

[kspn]

Hmm, I did that (in EVA) and got nothing. Lets try again.

[fcth]

Hmm, I did that (in EVA) and got nothing. Lets try again.

I've always done it in the ship, but you do have to be close (and in the purple short-range scan mode). Look for the message at the bottom left, it will tell you when you are on it, and when you accidentally move off. Don't worry about hitting the station, as long as you are flying slowly it won't hurt you.

For the leak fixing missions, you need to EVA and hit them with the repair laser (which can be tricky if they clip through the station). Blueprints are expensive enough that just using the leak missions to help you find leaks might be a better deal anyway (scanning the leaks fails the mission).

[kspn]

Finally got it to work (form the ship) aaaaand ended up with a plot mission.

Oh well, at least I can get it to work now, sitting my ship crosshairs on top of the data leak worked.

[DeadZone]

FYI, the signals on some things require EVA scanning - can do scan mode on EVA if you didn't know

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Data Vaults are one of those things, and also some wrecks have them as well I've found