Artifacts

[Stutter]

So I have a feeling I'm just a STALKER idiot, but if all artifacts causing radiation when put in your suit, why would anyone use them? Is it really worth it to get slightly more stamina to have your screen all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up looking all the time?

[Prussian Wolf]

Originally posted by Stutter:

So I have a feeling I'm just a STALKER idiot, but if all artifacts causing radiation when put in your suit, why would anyone use them? Is it really worth it to get slightly more stamina to have your screen all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up looking all the time?

So some artifacts, including the one they tell you to get in the beginning, lower radiation. You have to use both, that's how it worked in the OG games, I suppose you could also drink vodka and stuff, but... yeah.

[Stutter]

Thanks man, appreciate it!

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by Prussian Wolf:

Originally posted by Stutter:

So I have a feeling I'm just a STALKER idiot, but if all artifacts causing radiation when put in your suit, why would anyone use them? Is it really worth it to get slightly more stamina to have your screen all ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up looking all the time?

So some artifacts, including the one they tell you to get in the beginning, lower radiation. You have to use both, that's how it worked in the OG games, I suppose you could also drink vodka and stuff, but... yeah.

Is it the whirlwind one? Cause it's the only quest in regards to an artifact I've got and there isn't even a marker.

[TwinChops]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by Prussian Wolf:

So some artifacts, including the one they tell you to get in the beginning, lower radiation. You have to use both, that's how it worked in the OG games, I suppose you could also drink vodka and stuff, but... yeah.

Is it the whirlwind one? Cause it's the only quest in regards to an artifact I've got and there isn't even a marker.

Its the one from the very begining, from the tutorial if you will.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Is it the whirlwind one? Cause it's the only quest in regards to an artifact I've got and there isn't even a marker.

Its the one from the very begining, from the tutorial if you will.

Never got one. I only got the fiery one. Then, after the "tutorial", i got knocked out in the cutscene and had an empty inventory.

[Prussian Wolf]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by TwinChops:

Its the one from the very begining, from the tutorial if you will.

Never got one. I only got the fiery one. Then, after the "tutorial", i got knocked out in the cutscene and had an empty inventory.

Oh, well in the same area where you fight the bloodsucker I got a "slug", I believe? - from chemical anomalies, and it had rad reduction. The game prompted me to get it. Funnily enough I then didn't get the fire one.

[TwinChops]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by TwinChops:

Its the one from the very begining, from the tutorial if you will.

Never got one. I only got the fiery one. Then, after the "tutorial", i got knocked out in the cutscene and had an empty inventory.

Huh? You wanna tell me you had a different tutorial?! Like right outside of the Science bunker you have to get a slug (or something called like that).

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Never got one. I only got the fiery one. Then, after the "tutorial", i got knocked out in the cutscene and had an empty inventory.

Huh? You wanna tell me you had a different tutorial?! Like right outside of the Science bunker you have to get a slug (or something called like that).

I don't remember the exact way it went down, but after the science bunker there is a cutscene where you get ambushed and they tell the guy to finish you off, but he just shoots the air and knocks you out. Afterwards I woke up with an empty inventory.

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by TwinChops:

Huh? You wanna tell me you had a different tutorial?! Like right outside of the Science bunker you have to get a slug (or something called like that).

I don't remember the exact way it went down, but after the science bunker there is a cutscene where you get ambushed and they tell the guy to finish you off, but he just shoots the air and knocks you out. Afterwards I woke up with an empty inventory.

There is a ton of stuff in between the bunker and the knockout.
Right after the bunker, immediately outside the door, you have to hunt your first artefact, and then fight a Bloodsucker. You equip that artefact to reduce radiation exposure, then you go plant 3 scanners before getting knocked out and losing your loot.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

I don't remember the exact way it went down, but after the science bunker there is a cutscene where you get ambushed and they tell the guy to finish you off, but he just shoots the air and knocks you out. Afterwards I woke up with an empty inventory.

There is a ton of stuff in between the bunker and the knockout.
Right after the bunker, immediately outside the door, you have to hunt your first artefact, and then fight a Bloodsucker. You equip that artefact to reduce radiation exposure, then you go plant 3 scanners before getting knocked out and losing your loot.

Well, the artifact disappeared along with the rest of the equipment then, idk what to tell you, I didn't sell or throw it away.

[Menel]

Not all artifacts do, just the cheap starting noobie ones. There is an artifact at a gravity anomaly right outside of Zalissya with a "weird ball"? Something like that, reduces bullet damage, no negative radiation or other neg effects.

[Prussian Wolf]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

There is a ton of stuff in between the bunker and the knockout.
Right after the bunker, immediately outside the door, you have to hunt your first artefact, and then fight a Bloodsucker. You equip that artefact to reduce radiation exposure, then you go plant 3 scanners before getting knocked out and losing your loot.

Well, the artifact disappeared along with the rest of the equipment then, idk what to tell you, I didn't sell or throw it away.

Well yes... we know it disappeared, but it's not the only one. That's the point. You also lose guns, but that doesn't mean you have to play the rest of the game without them. :\

- You find artifacts that reduce rads, you find ones that give stats, you wear both. And of course if it doesn't give rads in the first place you can just wear it...

[LykosNychi]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

There is a ton of stuff in between the bunker and the knockout.
Right after the bunker, immediately outside the door, you have to hunt your first artefact, and then fight a Bloodsucker. You equip that artefact to reduce radiation exposure, then you go plant 3 scanners before getting knocked out and losing your loot.

Well, the artifact disappeared along with the rest of the equipment then, idk what to tell you, I didn't sell or throw it away.

You tried to say you never got one. The point is you did. They exist. And you also tried to say Whirlwind is the first quest related to an artefact you had. It wasn't.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by Prussian Wolf:

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Well, the artifact disappeared along with the rest of the equipment then, idk what to tell you, I didn't sell or throw it away.

Well yes... we know it disappeared, but it's not the only one. That's the point. You also lose guns, but that doesn't mean you have to play the rest of the game without them. :\

- You find artifacts that reduce rads, you find ones that give stats, you wear both. And of course if it doesn't give rads in the first place you can just wear it...

No, yeah, I assumed it was like before, but I have no clue where to find the anti-rad one right now, which means all artifacts are borderline useless since you start accumulating rads.

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

You tried to say you never got one. The point is you did. They exist. And you also tried to say Whirlwind is the first quest related to an artefact you had. It wasn't.

Well... obviously they exist, they did in Stalker 1

[Suisight]

Originally posted by Hex: Onii-Chan:

Originally posted by Prussian Wolf:

Well yes... we know it disappeared, but it's not the only one. That's the point. You also lose guns, but that doesn't mean you have to play the rest of the game without them. :\

- You find artifacts that reduce rads, you find ones that give stats, you wear both. And of course if it doesn't give rads in the first place you can just wear it...

No, yeah, I assumed it was like before, but I have no clue where to find the anti-rad one right now, which means all artifacts are borderline useless since you start accumulating rads.

Originally posted by LykosNychi:

You tried to say you never got one. The point is you did. They exist. And you also tried to say Whirlwind is the first quest related to an artefact you had. It wasn't.

Well... obviously they exist, they did in Stalker 1

Quite funny to follow your conversation. But the main point here seems to be that the said rad-reducing artifact is not available at the moment and not to be found "just like this" *snaps fingers*. Knowing there IS one and knowing you once HAD one (and inevitably lost it), does not help.

However, there is also at least one suit that helps in this regard (also quite early). But I agree that it is inconvenient design to find artifacts that can't be used effectively in the beginning.