How to Follow Distortions on The Scanner in Starfield

Starfield is a space role-playing game by the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

You can create any character and go on a journey to answer humanity’s greatest mystery.

Customize your character’s appearance, decide their background, and select their traits.

Join Constellation, the last group of space explorers finding artifacts throughout the galaxy.

Explore more than one thousand planets, navigate cities, and traverse wild landcapes.

You can also pilot and command the ship of your dreams, personalize the look of it, and more.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to follow distortions on the scanner in Starfield.

To follow distortions on the scanner in Starfield, you need to equip the scanner and look 360 degrees around you.

When the circle starts flickering/distorting/glitching, follow it by going straight.

Here’s how to do this:

Equip the scanner (“F” on PC or “LB” on Xbox), walk away from your ship, and look 360 degrees around you.
When the circle starts flickering/distorting/glitching, follow it by going straight.

Tip #1: Make sure to land in the scanner anomaly section instead of the section next to it.

Tip #2: Walk away from your ship, look all around you until the circle on your screen flickers and follow it.