Invisible artifacts are annoying

[Ja]

It's not fun bumbling around, getting shocked and burned to death searching for an invisible artifact. At least let me see what i"m trying to get. It's annoying and it doesn't need to be this hard.

[Wilihey]

you should go back to playing gamma

[Zukabazuka]

There are better detectors in the game.

[Rusty Kuntz]

you're supposed to dodge the anomalies

[Mancubus]

Artifact side quests are not visible in the map ..why ?

[Wade]

I agree with OP. And don't forget that those shocks, flames and everything else while you search for artifacts ruin your armour. And then even when you find an artifact you sell it for like 5000 coupons, while just repairs usually cost twice that.

[JE55BUNN1]

Originally posted by Ja:

It's not fun bumbling around, getting shocked and burned to death searching for an invisible artifact. At least let me see what i"m trying to get. It's annoying and it doesn't need to be this hard.

Use your detector, throw a few bolts.

Back in our day, it was harder. You have the game on Steam, we had to insert a CD into our computers to play one of the older titles, in the snow. Sometimes a big bird would swoop down and carry on of us unfortunates away towards the sun.

Harden up.

Edit: And stop bumbling around in an anomaly. Probe it with bolts, use your eyes, map a path, maybe come in from another angle.

[Dapper Raptor]

Originally posted by Ja:

It's not fun bumbling around, getting shocked and burned to death searching for an invisible artifact. At least let me see what i"m trying to get. It's annoying and it doesn't need to be this hard.

It is definitely annoying some of the times especially with the echo detector... I'd recommend leaving artefact farming until you can upgrade your detector - even one level up (the bear detector) is so much easier

[PanicOregon281]

Originally posted by Ja:

It's not fun bumbling around, getting shocked and burned to death searching for an invisible artifact. At least let me see what i"m trying to get. It's annoying and it doesn't need to be this hard.

I agree, tho I'd be nice if the detector still made it easier to spot ontop of it not being invincible.
That way there's no reason to just remove detectors.

[Fragenstein]

Totally agree. Absolutely frustrating walking out of one whirlwind and straight into another repeatedly while fighting monsters especially

[FarmForReal]

you are literally complaining about the core mechanics of the game... like the Stalcraft players complaining about PvP. Theres a detector that shows you EXACTLY where they are... not to mention you can hear them very easily.

[Lisu]

The whole point of artifact finding is the actual challenge.
Besides, if artifacts were so easy to find, do you think they would still be worth thousands of coupons each?

[Richard]

Progress the game, get veles detector :3
it will make artifact hunting a breeze

[PanicOregon281]

Originally posted by Lisu:

The whole point of artifact finding is the actual challenge.
Besides, if artifacts were so easy to find, do you think they would still be worth thousands of coupons each?

there's the rarity, the constant effect, the entire fact they're smuggled out of the zone.
The fact they're invisible doesn't really make them more difficult. It just makes is so you're wasting time trying to just get the stupid thing to appear till you get a detector that just tells you where it is. which is literally the next tier from the echo.

the difficulty is in actually navigating through the anomalies to it.

[Altair1243]

Yeah, the Echo detector has always been, and will always remain, a retarded detector. It only just functions and, IIRC, in most other STALKER games you get a new detector really quickly for that exact reason. The developers went really masochistic with some design elements in this game.

[󠀡󠀡]

Invisible? What do you mean? It's supposed to be that way, they appear when you get close to them.

However, if you mean that the detector is constantly beeping and you just constantly hear an "appearing artifact" sound, then that means the artifact is bugged underground, it happened to me a couple of times next to the military base where an ecologist asks you to move his companion body to an anomaly or something. (it's full of green anomalies)

I don't know if they fixed underground bug artifacts, it can happen anywhere anyway.