Was stuck at the start..

[DrexGodar]

I go over the glowing sludge, scanner is going nuts but there is nothing to pickup.

I watched a video and users are holding the scanner, how do you hold the scanner, I'm thinking ?! Anyway, I end up pressing random buttons and eventually figure out that it's number 7..

Not a good first impression.

HDR looks awful in this game btw. Considering the performance, the visuals in general are kinda crap.

[Nats]

Ha lol - yes - exactly my problem thank you for showing me I am not the only one who cannot figure this stupid game out at all. Ive played loads of games and this has to be the stupidest game Ive ever played, because you just cannot figure anything out without going to social media and asking. What a load of crap lol. Thank god I didnt buy it.

I hate puzzles and incomprehensible gameplay - I just do not have time for that rubbish stuff. Not my sort of game at all.

[Zebedee]

Way I do it is to hold 'Tab' to bring up the radial menu. Then hit 'Q' and the detector will be equipped in your left hand.

[Chessr]

i have found 2 places where the scanner just go crazy and have a constant sound but no artifact popped up. Tried so many times. hmm

[Nats]

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Way I do it is to hold 'Tab' to bring up the radial menu. Then hit 'Q' and the detector will be equipped in your left hand.

Ok cheers I might give the game one last try. But if it throws any more annoying incomprehensible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at me its getting uninstalled.

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by Nats:

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Way I do it is to hold 'Tab' to bring up the radial menu. Then hit 'Q' and the detector will be equipped in your left hand.

Ok cheers I might give the game one last try. But if it throws any more annoying incomprehensible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at me its getting uninstalled.

It's not a game which will walk you through reading the key assignments on a radial menu screen, no.

[bbfloyd]

1st: Beeping means you're near an anomaly that is likely to hurt you. It does not mean that there is an artifact near. Most anomalies are empty.
2nd: The blinking light on your detector indicates an artifact is near, Better detectors will presumably find better artifacts and/or from farther away. You MUST have your detector out to find a typical artifact.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by Chessr:

i have found 2 places where the scanner just go crazy and have a constant sound but no artifact popped up. Tried so many times. hmm

first scanner is just proxy based, i believe in the prologue the artifact spawns on the goop behind the barrel (just get a little closer to it, dont worry about hp to much with the acid anomalies, they are like bleeding, you can dance the Macarena in it before you die).
if in doubt, F5+F8 are king (quicksave+quickload respectively)

[krepss]

As a Stalker fan and a person from Russia, I will say that it doesn't even make sense for me to pirate it. Not optimized and a lot of frease. And I'm stuck on this problem too.

[DrexGodar]

Visuals look a lot better during the day... still not amazing though.

General experience has bad so far, guy tells me to throw blot into anomaly and run through. But I got stuck on something and died. There was nothing there.

Second tempt takes me past a group of men shooting, then they turn on me and I'm dead again.

Are you meant to kill them,. doing so we unlock a mission from the guy in the shack but with no equipment are you expected to fight them with the knife? lol

I'll push on but this feels like the devs haven't thought this through very well.

[krepss]

Yes, in principle, this is a base for a stalker. Past games were in terrible condition at the exit and were later fixed with patches

[DrexGodar]

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Way I do it is to hold 'Tab' to bring up the radial menu. Then hit 'Q' and the detector will be equipped in your left hand.

Oh, an item wheel. So it's a console game. lol

[Neener]

Originally posted by DrexGodar:

Originally posted by Zebedee:

Way I do it is to hold 'Tab' to bring up the radial menu. Then hit 'Q' and the detector will be equipped in your left hand.

Oh, an item wheel. So it's a console game. lol

Why would you not want an item wheel what does this even mean bro 😂

[Darmspoeling]

https://www.gamepressure.com/newsroom/fix-the-first-artifact-bug-slug-in-stalker-2-there-and-back-again/zb7596

I had the same issue, I restarted my game and it appeared instantly.