the hotfix update is just the game with some analytics and dev tools disabled to possibly boost performance. 8 out of 10 times it has no effect so its just another 100gb wasted.
if you increase your pierc in scan mode to 100% after getting a unknown signature and aim at it and scan again it will let you know if its a prospector rock or not without having to fly up to it, if there are multiple rocks that pop up its prospector rocks, if its just one signature pops up untill you get up to it its for the ROC.
Yea, I experienced the same thing yesterday which is why I ended up here. i was looking fopr a video that would show me what i was doing wrong! haha. Thanks for the vid.
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(using google translate) Congrats on telling the truth about surface mining. All the other videomakers cut out the searching part, which is the most time consuming. You start out all excited, dying to inaugurate your new equipment, and you scan the ground for HOURS and find nothing. It's boring. I'm going through this and I can't take it anymore. And the funny thing is that when I found my first rocks to mine, I used too much energy, the rock exploded and then I lost the ROC and the ship, which was nearby. My god, what a freaking amazing game.
Use the tractor beam gun to lift Roc up high inclines that it can't make on it's own power. Also you can pick up gem's faster with the hand held mining gun if your Roc brakes down. 😁😁✌
I believe you need to increase the scanning PIERC (it shouldn't make much of a difference but it helped me), and possibly cycle your ship to properly scan rocks that don't initially work. I have also had issues with rental ships in general. Could be a mix of all types of Star Citizen "Features". lol. But, the game is MUCH more playable now than it ever has been in my opinion.
I 100% agree, the games probably in the best state it's ever been in no doubt. I just wished they'd show some love to some of the other game loops once in a while. That being said, it's Star Citizen so, no explanation needed 😂
Don't know, whats wrong. Flew around 2 hours on Aberdeen and Arial without finding one Roc mining patch... all the small signatures were single Prospector / Mole rocks. Seems like something for the issue council.
As a beginner who try to be miner, I got to say this is very frustrating... Hand mine not that bad just a little slow even with heavy set. But Roc mining right now? If you don't have ship to carry it around, it just sad. Meaning less struggle for hours not even able to leave mining facility far. Roc is so slow and lack of power to climb any small hill. These hour trying Roc just waste so many time that I should just go hand mining which is more effective. If you can have nomad/cutlass or bigger ship to carry Roc, you are at a state you don't need it cause you already make money by other methods.
You might want to give this a crack again at some point. You consistently make over 200k an hour roc mining in 3.23.1. To finding gems quickly just fly low and pulse scan normally and frequently going max SCM speed (not in scan mode). When a radar first appears at 4.5k or closer those will be gems. You also need to be looking either with eyes (not necessarily ship direction) for the gem signature to first appear after a scan/pulse. Only get out for hadanite which is pink in color and sell at just the local HDMS / mining outpost on the moon you are on.
@@warglesnargle Maybe too fast but its your call, nav would work. You need to look left, right and straight and seeing signatures pop up only inside 4.5k if you are going too fast they'll zoom by and easier to miss. You won't have to look more then a couple minutes, gems and even hadanite are everywhere.
Not to be mean or anything, but I just experienced this exact same thing yesterday, so I laughed a lot at your misery. I'm happy someone else experienced this torture as well, lol. Good video. More people need to see your video so they all know how broken it is right now.
Right? You used to have actual fear of launching yourself into a boulder and blowing up. Now there's the fear that you can't even get to your rocks...crazy.
When you get that selling or buying error or it won’t let you buy the full amount or sell the full amount, just bring it in to where it’s just less than the full amount, and it will accept it.
Interesting, I'll give that a try. It's funny too because looking back on SC Trade Tools it now says Aberdeen's also the best planet for Roc mining lmao
I started playing star citizen this past week. Was told i could go roc mining since i bought the cutlass black package. I thought i was doing it wrong because of the boulders that kept spawning. Not only that, the roc keeps glitching in my cutlass and i can't drive it out and I'm stuck in the ship.
Oof... yeah not to sound like that guy but, "Welcome to Star Citizen, enjoy your stay." Lmao all jokes aside, that sucks... It's a weird game where certain things are broken literally every other patch though so patience is unfortunately key.
I had this problem as well. I think it’s the mining arm… when you power down it sits all cocked yo in the air and it fetches in the ceiling when you try to drive out. If you go into mining mode and then exit, the arm will idle at kind of a “low ready” state and you can drive off the ship easy! Hope this helps.
Yeah ROC mining has changed alot, mainly whatever they did after 3.18 to the ground vehicles destroyed the ROC, no power, no steering control, very noisy and loud, plus scanning got ruined for finding gems, blows apart if you overcharge the rock, etc, I am an old ROC miner and used to make good money, but since they changed the ROC it sucks so bad now, and believe me I have made tons of tickets complaining but to no avail, help me out everyone by complaining to CIG, make a ticket or join someone else's ticket, they need to fix this, its been way to long now and we ROC miners have had it
I used to fly ins straight line and the viable rocks would only pop at about 4000 K or less. Anything that pops is over that is a boulder. Problem I find now is that it only seems to scan In front of you not off to the side like it used too as well. Not sure how to fix that ?
Cig are getting totally dumb destroying good parts of their proper game. Now you can't see if they are gems or ores just approaching them. And more, they make gems very rare to find.
For those who may not know, there is a hotfix update for 3.23.1 (100gb+ 😳)
the hotfix update is just the game with some analytics and dev tools disabled to possibly boost performance. 8 out of 10 times it has no effect so its just another 100gb wasted.
if you increase your pierc in scan mode to 100% after getting a unknown signature and aim at it and scan again it will let you know if its a prospector rock or not without having to fly up to it, if there are multiple rocks that pop up its prospector rocks, if its just one signature pops up untill you get up to it its for the ROC.
Interesting, I'll give that a try!
It's viable. What isn't, is the broken ass inventory when you go to sell.
Yea, I experienced the same thing yesterday which is why I ended up here. i was looking fopr a video that would show me what i was doing wrong! haha. Thanks for the vid.
Thanks for watching!!! And yeah, it is what it is I guess lmao. All we can do is hope they fix it in the next update.
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(using google translate) Congrats on telling the truth about surface mining. All the other videomakers cut out the searching part, which is the most time consuming. You start out all excited, dying to inaugurate your new equipment, and you scan the ground for HOURS and find nothing. It's boring. I'm going through this and I can't take it anymore. And the funny thing is that when I found my first rocks to mine, I used too much energy, the rock exploded and then I lost the ROC and the ship, which was nearby. My god, what a freaking amazing game.
Use the tractor beam gun to lift Roc up high inclines that it can't make on it's own power. Also you can pick up gem's faster with the hand held mining gun if your Roc brakes down. 😁😁✌
Same thing happening to me. I enjoy Roc mining when it works.
I believe you need to increase the scanning PIERC (it shouldn't make much of a difference but it helped me), and possibly cycle your ship to properly scan rocks that don't initially work. I have also had issues with rental ships in general. Could be a mix of all types of Star Citizen "Features". lol. But, the game is MUCH more playable now than it ever has been in my opinion.
I 100% agree, the games probably in the best state it's ever been in no doubt. I just wished they'd show some love to some of the other game loops once in a while. That being said, it's Star Citizen so, no explanation needed 😂
This is wild, same issue, prospector rock after prospector rock. Nothing that can be mined with the Roc.
It's kinda crazy isn't it? lmao
You can't mine prospector rock with the ROC. It only mines gems.
Hey man, great vid. Loved the editing!
Thanks!!! I appreciate you watching!
Don't know, whats wrong. Flew around 2 hours on Aberdeen and Arial without finding one Roc mining patch... all the small signatures were single Prospector / Mole rocks. Seems like something for the issue council.
I had a similar experience with the roc. I did some fps mining in the old Kudrow ore mine. That was pretty good. Found some good loot too.
Very nice! Honestly, fps mining's pretty underrated imo
Shot the rocks then scan. Works for me.
Wait, seriously?!?
Not showing diamand symbol for roc gems. Look for closely packed group's.
Pings under 6000
As a beginner who try to be miner, I got to say this is very frustrating... Hand mine not that bad just a little slow even with heavy set. But Roc mining right now? If you don't have ship to carry it around, it just sad. Meaning less struggle for hours not even able to leave mining facility far. Roc is so slow and lack of power to climb any small hill. These hour trying Roc just waste so many time that I should just go hand mining which is more effective. If you can have nomad/cutlass or bigger ship to carry Roc, you are at a state you don't need it cause you already make money by other methods.
You might want to give this a crack again at some point. You consistently make over 200k an hour roc mining in 3.23.1. To finding gems quickly just fly low and pulse scan normally and frequently going max SCM speed (not in scan mode). When a radar first appears at 4.5k or closer those will be gems. You also need to be looking either with eyes (not necessarily ship direction) for the gem signature to first appear after a scan/pulse. Only get out for hadanite which is pink in color and sell at just the local HDMS / mining outpost on the moon you are on.
Fair enough, I'll try it again off cam. I'm just curious though, why SCM mode and not NAV? Theoretically you'd cover more ground in NAV mode right???
@@warglesnargle Maybe too fast but its your call, nav would work. You need to look left, right and straight and seeing signatures pop up only inside 4.5k if you are going too fast they'll zoom by and easier to miss. You won't have to look more then a couple minutes, gems and even hadanite are everywhere.
Not to be mean or anything, but I just experienced this exact same thing yesterday, so I laughed a lot at your misery. I'm happy someone else experienced this torture as well, lol. Good video. More people need to see your video so they all know how broken it is right now.
Classic case of misery loves company I guess lmao. And glad you enjoyed!!!
that is pretty much my experience trying roc mining
Seriously though, what did they do to the ROC? It used to be able to zoom around just fine
Right? You used to have actual fear of launching yourself into a boulder and blowing up. Now there's the fear that you can't even get to your rocks...crazy.
That's all the ground vehicles now. It's not exclusive to the ROC
Went to Aberdeen and I was able to successfully mine on flat ground. 150k in 2 hours
You know what drives really well though? The ROC DS. It's honestly really hard to not think they did that on purpose.
@@chrishoppner150 That's exactly what I was thinking...but I play solo so that's a hassle
Last night I found a decent amount on Wala. I also had no issue scanning the rocks. I wonder if it was your server, or maybe the area on Daymar...
Hmmmm, noted... and who even knows at this point right? 😂
When you get that selling or buying error or it won’t let you buy the full amount or sell the full amount, just bring it in to where it’s just less than the full amount, and it will accept it.
Wait, so use the slider or manually type in a quantity just less than the full amount? 🤔
@@warglesnargleI usually remove one manually because the slider is not so precise
Got to Aberdeen instead and start at Norgard. I often find hadenite on the first set of gems i locate.
Interesting, I'll give that a try. It's funny too because looking back on SC Trade Tools it now says Aberdeen's also the best planet for Roc mining lmao
It's worth it 220k in 50mins and my very 1st time doing it so didn't have a clue what I was doing
I started playing star citizen this past week. Was told i could go roc mining since i bought the cutlass black package. I thought i was doing it wrong because of the boulders that kept spawning. Not only that, the roc keeps glitching in my cutlass and i can't drive it out and I'm stuck in the ship.
Oof... yeah not to sound like that guy but, "Welcome to Star Citizen, enjoy your stay." Lmao all jokes aside, that sucks... It's a weird game where certain things are broken literally every other patch though so patience is unfortunately key.
I had this problem as well. I think it’s the mining arm… when you power down it sits all cocked yo in the air and it fetches in the ceiling when you try to drive out. If you go into mining mode and then exit, the arm will idle at kind of a “low ready” state and you can drive off the ship easy! Hope this helps.
Yeah ROC mining has changed alot, mainly whatever they did after 3.18 to the ground vehicles destroyed the ROC, no power, no steering control, very noisy and loud, plus scanning got ruined for finding gems, blows apart if you overcharge the rock, etc, I am an old ROC miner and used to make good money, but since they changed the ROC it sucks so bad now, and believe me I have made tons of tickets complaining but to no avail, help me out everyone by complaining to CIG, make a ticket or join someone else's ticket, they need to fix this, its been way to long now and we ROC miners have had it
Found like five signals on a whole tank of the cutlass black
they will fix it in next patches with sell problem, the new scanning can be hard at start but u need to figure it out then u can scan any rock ;)
Dolovine and Hadanite u can sell :)
Here's to hoping they fix it lol. Apparently the selling problem is due to duping exploits and a flooded market for basically everything right now
I used to fly ins straight line and the viable rocks would only pop at about 4000 K or less. Anything that pops is over that is a boulder. Problem I find now is that it only seems to scan In front of you not off to the side like it used too as well. Not sure how to fix that ?
I know it used to be "," and "." to change scan angle but I'm not sure if they changed it. It's also possible that your keybinds got reset as well.
I had the same thing happen to me. The other missions are bugged too. Back to red dead redemption for me til the next patch.
Can't say I blame ya lol
Until it's fixed, I would avoid mining Aphorite. There is a bug with selling in bulk, so the max quantity you can sell at a time is 3 units.
Interesting lol. I wonder why it's randomly 3? 🤔
Cig are getting totally dumb destroying good parts of their proper game.
Now you can't see if they are gems or ores just approaching them. And more, they make gems very rare to find.
100% agree
back after long time, i rented a roc and spent 4 hours so far and not even one gem :/
Wow it really do be broken. And it's been broken like this since at least summer last year. I'm sure they'll fix it soon lol
Wow, I didn't know it's been like this for that long. I'm also not surprised though lmaooo
I tried Roc mining on 2 occasions and on booth I could not change the power of the mining laser.
You're probably already familiar with this but you tried using alt+scroll wheel I assume?
@@warglesnargle No. Is that a thing?
@@nuklear22 Yeah, you can probably remap it but they changed the laser intensity controls to L alt + scroll wheel.
@@warglesnargle Exasperated sigh 😮💨. I did not know that. Thanks for telling me that.
@@nuklear22 Absolutely!
Feel your pain. ROC mining has been ruined for a long time.
The sad reality 😔
This game is making me mentally tough
ya i just found this out today...they totally nurfed the mining. The game is just a money pit they dont plan on finishing
Yep, I had similar experience yesterday. Very disappointing.
Truly
Yeah, i cant scan too. 😂
Huge with a capital Y 🤣