Not in game. General rule is the visor scans for things near and the ship scanner scans for things far. Usually best to find something with the ship scanner. Land, and then explore using the visor scanner. Typically it should be a reasonable walking distance. The ship scanner tends to find things that may be hours away on foot.

OK, thanks for the confirm.

you can't limit it to near or far, but you can somewhat gauge distance by size of the shown icons with closest being bigger and distant ones being smaller. The difference between the two sizes isn't much though so it's not all that helpful

Originally posted by Sentient_Pickle:

you can somewhat gauge distance by size of the shown icons with closest being bigger and distant ones being smaller. The difference between the two sizes isn't much though so it's not all that helpful

Yeah, I've been trying to discern, but there's just not enough variance. It seems I often have 20 little icons on the screen at any point and usually have to stop and hover over most of them to figure out what's near/far. Sometimes I'm almost right on top of stuff and don't realize it or can't find the right icon. I think part of the difference vs 5yrs ago too is there's just so much more "stuff" showing up on the scanner visor. I don't remember it being as big of an issue back then.

Originally posted by swingline:

Originally posted by Sentient_Pickle:

you can somewhat gauge distance by size of the shown icons with closest being bigger and distant ones being smaller. The difference between the two sizes isn't much though so it's not all that helpful

Yeah, I've been trying to discern, but there's just not enough variance. It seems I often have 20 little icons on the screen at any point and usually have to stop and hover over most of them to figure out what's near/far. Sometimes I'm almost right on top of stuff and don't realize it or can't find the right icon. I think part of the difference vs 5yrs ago too is there's just so much more "stuff" showing up on the scanner visor. I don't remember it being as big of an issue back then.

Sounds like you are playing the Expedition. They are always full of player icons. If you are just playing a normal game in a new system...it should be very sparse for icons.

Not expedition. New game. I'll deal with it, not big deal. I've played a lot (over 1100 hours) but just come back to the game after 4 yrs away and there's just a lot more icons and variety of icons. Just a high density of icons in my visor to sift through. Worse on some planets than others. Desolate moons don't have as much, but I feel like most planets would benefit from being able to toggle/reduce the scanner/visor range.