Talk:Scanner Room/@comment-23.118.134.89-20160701022042

Just a heads up, as of the Power Nap update, the scanner room will bug the sound, causing things to sound far away, if you are able to hear them at all.

The issue with this is obvious. You can't hear crash fish until they explode. Stalkers roar in fury at your trespass but you don't hear them. Reaper leviathans are dead silent and come out of *nowhere*. Hearing is a huge part of survival in this game and the scanner room bug impairs it drastically.

Currently, the only fix to this bug is to deconstruct your scanner room, which will cause you to lose any upgrades (once you place them they do not come out) which is annoying.

I will buld the scanner room in a biome I want to explore (like the mountains biome when I'm collecting magnetite and uraninite but don't want to be gobbled up by a reaper or harrassed by biters) and use the HUD to locate items, and sometimes use the cameras (like in the Koosh zone to find the sea crowns or the mountains biome to find the opening to the wreck or hunting for crabsnake eggs) then when I'm done, I deconstruct the whole thing and put it in it's own locker (usually marked "tears").

An interesting thing I learned though. If you have multiple scanner rooms in multiple biomes, you can access the cameras for all of them from any scanner room. I cycled between the jelly mushroom caves, kelp, koosh, and mountain biomes with no issue. It's great for checking out areas.

I am hoping the next major update fixes the sound bug. I can play with impaired sound, but it makes it a lot more difficult to avoid hostile creatures.