Issue with certain artifacts unable to spawn?

[SparkPlug]

In one save, after visiting over 500 radio towers I amassed around 20 incense burners but zero cameras. In a new save the same number of towers got me 6 cameras but zero incense burners.

Similarly, in the first save, visiting about 12 rooftops got me 3 Ukranian pots (no plates) but in the second save I must have visited nearer 30 rooftops and and got no new artifacts at all.

This can't be down to RNG. Is some sort of seed affecting what artifacts can spawn? (Or did the previous patch break things?)

Either way, after completing the story (so far), perfecting our airship and hoarding more materials than we can ever use all that is left is treasure hunting... which, with the current levels of success, is pretty soul destroying.

[Sairi (Jen)]

Rng

[Tanyon]

I'm on my third play-through 57 hours total and I've never seen a camera or an incense burner lol. Mind you most of my time I'm spending building my airship and just messing about with no actual goal.

[DeLindsay]

This is why the gaming Industry needs to create something better than RNG. For some, RNGesus smiles nicely upon them, for others (like myself) it's a battle to the death... usually mine.

IMHO the Devs need to increase the spawn chance of the (12) rare Artifacts, even if it means decreasing the spawn chance of other Artifacts like the War Posters, Lamps, Garden Gnomes & other Greenhouse Statues, etc. The balance is severely off.

[Brummzel]

As of yesterday I got all the artifacts exept the Construction Pylon and the Ukrainian Plate. Maby my griping here yesterday helpt me because today I found the Construction Pylon, so now it´s just down to the Ukrainian Plate.

I love this game but the devs really need to adjust the spawning of the artifacts to be more ballanced so you don´t find 20+ Footballs or 20+ Lanterns ect. easily but struggle 6+ hours to find one Ukrainian Pot (like me) Of cause none of the artifacts should be easily found but it should not be that hard allmost making player to give up.



Edit: Today I found the Ukrainian Plate as well - same place as the Ukrainian Pot (High Point).

[Vela Darney]

Wait - there's cameras, incense burners, Ukranian plates, construction pylons. Ukrainian pots ... 'scuse me while I go scour every single radio tower I can find. All I get is the same "Join Project Oxygen" poster over and over again. Oh, and I probably could have an entire army of garden gnomes if i bothered picking up every single one I come across ...

[DeLindsay]

Originally posted by Vela Darney:

Wait - there's cameras, incense burners, Ukranian plates, construction pylons. Ukrainian pots ... 'scuse me while I go scour every single radio tower I can find. All I get is the same "Join Project Oxygen" poster over and over again. Oh, and I probably could have an entire army of garden gnomes if i bothered picking up every single one I come across ...

I wish you luck. There's (12) new Rare Relics that were added in the 1st minor Content Patch. That's on top of the legion of items at the Greenhouses. I've found 3/12 so far in over 100 hours (probably half of that building, so really more like ~50 hours) and there are Players who claim to have visited ~400 Towers and are still missing 1 or 2 of the 12. It's horribly balanced right now and I do hope they rework it.

[Vela Darney]

I saw a really cute pirate ship in a gameplay video - found on one of the Underdust towers. I WANT that thing! *lol* I do have a full set of the "monkey" garden gnomes (hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing), though. And I just realized I'm far from having found all the datapads, either ... That standing lamp I saw in that one video, for example. Didn't even know it existed until five minutes ago. I think it's real cool there's so much stuff in there you can collect. Gives the hunter/gatherers among us something to do until the next patch.

[Tanyon]

Originally posted by Vela Darney:

I saw a really cute pirate ship in a gameplay video - found on one of the Underdust towers. I WANT that thing! *lol* I do have a full set of the "monkey" garden gnomes (hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing), though. And I just realized I'm far from having found all the datapads, either ... That standing lamp I saw in that one video, for example. Didn't even know it existed until five minutes ago. I think it's real cool there's so much stuff in there you can collect. Gives the hunter/gatherers among us something to do until the next patch.

I got the Pirate ship at my first Under-dust tower haha.. never seen a pylon cone, camera, incense burner,

[Brummzel]

Originally posted by Vela Darney:

Wait - there's cameras, incense burners, Ukranian plates, construction pylons. Ukrainian pots ... 'scuse me while I go scour every single radio tower I can find. All I get is the same "Join Project Oxygen" poster over and over again. Oh, and I probably could have an entire army of garden gnomes if i bothered picking up every single one I come across ...

Do you fly in straight lines? If so try fly in circles and find similar locations within the same biome. It seems that every times player leaves one biome and the world respawn, it reset the loot spawning order so player just find the same object/artifact again and again.

E.G. At High Point, when the loot spawn occasionally, you almost always find a Lantern first, then a Ukrainian Pot and then a Ukrainian Plate. The only thing that seems to respawn allmost every time is the old Wall Clock.

[Vela Darney]

Hm, gonna try that. Clear every tower that shows up on my radar screen, then move on.