Hover Scout

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Official render of the Hover Scout

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The Hover Scout is a small, inexpensive vehicle used by the Rock Raiders for long-distance reconnaissance. It is a hovercraft that uses "the latest hover propulsion technology" to carry a single pilot at high speeds over terrain that could not safely or quickly be traversed otherwise. Hover Scouts are commonly used in the Rock Raiders comics and books, but find very little use in the video games.

In the PC game

In the Windows version of LEGO Rock Raiders, the Hover Scout is classified as a small vehicle, and requires only one Energy Crystal for power. A Rock Raider must be trained as a driver to use a Hover Scout. The manual states that a Rock Raider must be trained as a pilot to use it; however, in-game it can only cross land, and only vehicles that either can cross lava or can cross both land and water require the pilot skill.

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The Hover Scout as portrayed in the PC game

The Hover Scout is the fastest vehicle in the game, with a route speed of 3 blocks/second without upgrades, and 5 blocks/second with the engine upgrade. As such, a Hover Scout can be used to help a Rock Raider maneuver very quickly across caverns, particularly areas covered in rubble. Unfortunately, as it is incapable of drilling or carrying, this is the extent of its usefulness; for the same cost, the player could teleport down a Small Digger, which can drill through walls and, while slower than the Hover Scout, still move quicker than a Rock Raider on foot.

Appearances

• In the 7th level, Search 'n' Rescue, an abandoned Hover Scout can be found at the end of a river, on the other side of the rock that the lost Rock Raider is trapped behind.
• The 20th level, Run The Gauntlet, starts off with a single Rock Raider driving a Hover Scout, which the player can use to navigate quickly past the gauntlet of Rock Monsters until a Small Digger is found.

Upgrades

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A fully-upgraded Hover Scout

There are two upgrades available for the Hover Scout:

• Engine: Costs 10 pieces of Ore
  Increases the vehicle's route speed from 3 blocks/sec to 5 blocks/sec.
• Scanner: Costs 5 pieces of Ore
  Installs a radar aboard the vehicle, with a scanning radius of 4 blocks.

Dependency

The Hover Scout costs 1 Energy Crystal and requires the following for teleportation:

• Rock Raider
• Tool Store [UP1]
• Teleport Pad [UP1]
• Power Station [UP1]
• Support Station

In the PlayStation game

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The Hover Scout as portrayed in the PlayStation game

The Hover Scout is used very infrequently in the PlayStation version of LEGO Rock Raiders, appearing in only one level of each regional version. Here, it can be found at the start of levels, where it can be used to quickly navigate through dangerous tunnels. The PAL manual calls it an "easy-to-handle" vehicle that "first-time pilots might find a little tricky to control."