So when you first enter the scrap yard (before you go to the lower area) - there's a ship (or something) whose back end is exposed. Send Rooter in there... and let him... sniff around.
4 years ago(+1)
I did that before. Maybe I don't understand how that "sniffer" UI works, but nothing unusual happens at all. Nothing gets highlighted, characters don't make any unusual moves or say anything, etc.
Sorry - not the actual metal sniffing. I meant that figuratively.
Essentially control Rooter - tell him to go into that "back of jet" thing (as I describe it) on the first screen in the scrap yard (to be clear - not where you get Mule, but the next screen - next to the Carbonite George Lucas).
Once you're "there" - get something - then actually use the metal sniffer to get something else.
That said, move Mule down to the next section before doing this (I found this helps preventing the Eternal Mouse Spin when you use Rooter to get something over there).
4 years ago (+2)
OK, that was ABSOLUTELY unguessable. What I will find up there was quite guessable because Ace mentions something about that earlier if you use "look" action on that spot. But the fact that I need to send Rooter in there... how the hell was I supposed to guess that? That spot is absolutely indistinct, just another spot amongst the piles of trash to the naked eye,
Heh. What's funny is the first play through - I saw that "opening" and it immediately reminded me of the vent (back on Nostradamus) and so the first thing I did was switch to Rooter and click the walk icon there - and in he went. (He also goes in if you use his "nose" icon).
So I didn't even get the chance to think of "Hey, use Rooter's head to try and grab the pipe."
4 years ago(+2)
I took a bit time for me as well to figure that out. I do hope that is because of how poorly the examine responses are working at the moment and not because they actually forgot to write something a bit more helpful there. There are spots I've basically brute forced myself through instead of genuinely figuring how to do stuff because of the lack of responses.