Artifact Radiation and Mitigation Doesn't Make Sense

[Stormtruper]

Looking to see if anyone's been noticing the same issues I have with how artifacts work.

In short, I've quickly found that Lead Container upgrades are an absolute waste of $K. If anyone wants to test on other armors to narrow down, please do, but the following testing was on a 1001-SP.

All three lead containers can't even fully mitigate a single Weak artifact's worth of radiation. It costs about 60k $K for all 3. Not at all cheap. Even with all three, the rad climb is high enough that having to micro-manage it is just annoying. It's not an issue of difficulty, it's just stupid. I don't want to have to worry about artifacts all the time, because there's enough of that in this game already. You HAVE to find mitigation artifacts to get to that point, which shelves artifact's effectiveness for a potentially long, long time since you can't upgrade your armor to truly counter their downsides.

On a related "is this a bug??" note, Maximum Radiation artifacts take 5 "stacks" instead of 4 to fully mitigate (a "stack" being one step in the range of weak [1], medium [2], and strong [3] mitigation artifacts. Maximum is the final and fourth stack, so you'd think it would need 4 stacks to counter). I haven't found a maximum mitigator to see if it works on a 1:1 but I've definitely confirmed that it is requiring a Medium and three Weaks to mitigate a Maximum. Armor contributes absolutely nothing. Yay for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ away 60k.

[Derek]

I had a common artifact with weak radiation that I was able to use with a lead container completely mitigating it's radiation. It seemed to work, before I upgraded armor. Now I have once again upgraded my new armor with lead containers and it's seems completely bugged. Tho upgraded, I can't seem to use any artifact without radiation, it's pretty clunky right now for sure. Guess I'm out 10k creds :(

[Pillagius]

OK, I've tested it with PSZ-V5 Guardian of Freedom and Tourist Suit - both have Lead Container upgrade.
When you upgrade the suit with Lead Container - upgraded artifact slots gets a green highlight at the bottom.

I don't have "Strong" or "Maximum" radiation artifacts yet (haven't really gone hunting for them at all...) but I do have "Medium" radiation ones and the upgraded suit container was able to completely mitigate it, when I put the artifact into correct slot without help of any anti-radiation artifacts.

Looking around for info about the issue - apparently some armors are bugged and their Lead Container upgrades are missing that effect, like the SSP-100 "Discovery": the upgrade description is missing "Artifact radiation protection" line where the upgrade effects should be shown like "Physical damage protection 20%" or "Stamina Regeneration 5%", whatnot.

[Smetanol]

Originally posted by Pillagius:

OK, I've tested it with PSZ-V5 Guardian of Freedom and Tourist Suit - both have Lead Container upgrade.
When you upgrade the suit with Lead Container - upgraded artifact slots gets a green highlight at the bottom.

I don't have "Strong" or "Maximum" radiation artifacts yet (haven't really gone hunting for them at all...) but I do have "Medium" radiation ones and the upgraded suit container was able to completely mitigate it, when I put the artifact into correct slot without help of any anti-radiation artifacts.

Looking around for info about the issue - apparently some armors are bugged and their Lead Container upgrades are missing that effect, like the SSP-100 "Discovery": the upgrade description is missing "Artifact radiation protection" line where the upgrade effects should be shown like "Physical damage protection 20%" or "Stamina Regeneration 5%", whatnot.

I put a compass (max rad) in a green container on Seva Duty suit and it gives 0 radiation

[Smetanol]

I start thinking that finding the suit with maximum green containers is the way to go... putting in max rad legendary artifacts into it and becoming akin to a pseudogiant with gun is the win strategy.
(well... suit that actually works)

[Stara]

Don't you need other radiation omitting artifacts?

[Mike]

Originally posted by Stara:

Don't you need other radiation omitting artifacts?

early game you can use other artifacts to cancel out radiation effects, and when you find the suit you want you can upgrade then to have containers that negate an artifacts radiation all together.

[Johnson]

Date 27/11/24
I have thunder berry with maximum endurance and radiation. I also run a crown with weak physical and endurance boost with radiation medium.
I also have in my third slot bubble, radiation protection medium.
The thunder berry is in a lead container. No radiation at all! Win!
PS this is my first suit I have had with a lead lined contrainer. PSZ-5D universal protection found at a stash in a shipping container above the snork cave on the map Zaton.

[Bronte]

What difficulty are you playing on?

All containers i've upgraded have blocked all radiation, even when I've put max radiation arty's in them.
If it's not a difficulty thing then idk

I've somehow stumbled across 4 Liquid Rocks at this stage so radiation isn't my biggest problem anymore

[Codester]

I have 4 HIGH radiation artifacts equipped and the lead upgrade negates it to 0.