Helios Sentinel Bugged?

[FarStike]

Not sure where to post this so no offense taken if moved :)

 

I bought myself the Helios Sentinel over the weekend. Really concerned with it. It used approximately 200 charges (?) in one of the first maps and appeared to be scanning crates of all things. Also caught it scanning a broken window. Those are things I really wouldnt even think of scanning on my own, let alone understand why on earth it would want to lol.

 

It looks kinda cool though.

 

Is this a bug?

[RobWasHere]

Helios scans everything and some objects have codex entry (storage container, explosive barrel, glass, alarm panels, plants from Cicero event, hives, tumors)

[[DE]Saske]

There is a objets section in the codex, where you have to scan those things for completion.

[FarStike]

Thanks Rob. Wasn't what I was expecting when I bought it. My understanding was it would save the trouble of scanning enemies. So far I'm not counting the containers and windows as enemies :)

 

Even then surely it shouldn't scan the same container repetitively? In a defense mission it kept scanning the same container every time I ran past it. Obsessive compulsive sentinel lol.

Edited September 15, 2014 by FarStike

[RobWasHere]

Like enemies, objects have numbers of scans to complete, often Helios bugs out and scan things even if its full. Hopefully after some patch it prioritise enemies over objects.

[FarStike]

Thx. I can see its going to be frustrating buying 25 charges at a time. For a full day's play will probably need several thousand charges. Ug.

 

Helios might be consigned very soon to the bin of things that shouldn't have been bought.

[matrixEXO]

Helios is, apart from the sub-par usefulness of his scanner mod, mainly for his Glaive-like weapon. Apart from that, collector's item.