Had to do a mission today where I had to salvage something from a planet. I've landed on a few now but crucially never had any type of rover vehicle (think Scarabs) to salvage anything let alone a planetary vehicle hangar.
If you have a planetary vehicle hangar and a scarab or better installed in your ship, this is how you basically do these sorts of missions.
You'll need to hyperspace to the system the job is based in, scan the nav beacon to find out what planet you need to land on and then go there. You'll need the horizons expansion to do all this.
When in the planets vicinity, enter into orbital flight mode and descend low enough to the general crash site area.
Find some suitable terrain that you can actually land on. Now comes the fun bit, making sure the Scarab is online, land.
NOTE I'M USING THE XBOX ONE VERSION SO YOU'LL NEED TO WORK OUT WHAT BUTTONS ARE USED TO CONTROL AND OPERATE YOUR SHIP IN OTHER VERSIONS. shout off.
Push left control stick, you should be looking down into your own cockpit and select scarab from the menu.
Controlling this is weird and tends to get stuck on the terrain but you'll use your gun buttons to go forward and backward. LT and RT same principles as flying but with no pitch and yaw.
Cargo scoop is the same as flight B and Up and you'll need to roll over the canister to pick it up.
Scarab can only accommodate 4 tons* so be selective in what you grab, including the target object in my case Hooch. Oh and unlike
I know there is a few more options including a gun turret, but it went smoothly and had no need to open fire on anything.
Anyway back on your ship and you'll need cockpit view to actually board your ship and take off, yeah its a pain and the controls are sketchy but I hope it helps someone out there.
* gotta feeling that this may be tied to ship cargo space, in any case may repeat this and see with an empty hold if I have more space to grab stuff.
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