hallucinating artifacts?

[Bags]

i was running in the wild island area and i my scanner picked up a signal, i chased it and some spooky psi ♥♥♥♥ started happening and i was getting attacked by bandits that disappear. any way i picked up two crown artefacts and ran as far as i could as some psi spooky ♥♥♥♥ was chasing me for a while. at the end i go the a nearby base and opened my bag to see i dont have the crown artefacts in the bag. were the crown artefacts a hallucination? the detector scanned it from 98m away

[Sagrit]

I have seen some disappearing artefacts as well. I mean not like "bug"but with special visual effect. Artefact appears in anomaly, you can see it, and it's name, but when you try to grab, it will fade away and appears in different visible place. An yes, there was high psi field in that area, and illusion enemies appeared as well. Unfortunately can't remember the exact place, but I believe it was somewhere on Wild Island, or maybe Zaton

[lockwoodx]

Originally posted by Sagrit:

I have seen some disappearing artefacts as well. I mean not like "bug"but with special visual effect. Artefact appears in anomaly, you can see it, and it's name, but when you try to grab, it will fade away and appears in different visible place.

In the older stalker games artifacts would bounce around between anomalies if they were packed close together.

[Beyond.Celsus]

Psi damage

Take the pills that negate psi damage when it starts happening

[Bags]

Originally posted by LockwoodX:

Originally posted by Sagrit:

I have seen some disappearing artefacts as well. I mean not like "bug"but with special visual effect. Artefact appears in anomaly, you can see it, and it's name, but when you try to grab, it will fade away and appears in different visible place.

In the older stalker games artifacts would bounce around between anomalies if they were packed close together.

the animation of picking them up played for both of them

[sunflower]

Originally posted by Sagrit:

it was somewhere on Wild Island, or maybe Zaton

this fake anomaly exists on Wild Island

when you pick up fake artifact it vanishes in your hand.

[Bags]

Originally posted by Beyond.Celsus:

Psi damage

Take the pills that negate psi damage when it starts happening

didnt have them

[DomEReapeR]

There are a couple of these around the game, you have to fight off the hallucinations and keep grabbing them, follow them around and keep grabbing them, eventually you'll get the real one.

[Beyond.Celsus]

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by Beyond.Celsus:

Psi damage

Take the pills that negate psi damage when it starts happening

didnt have them

An unprepared Stalker is a dead Stalker

[Zy Soua]

Originally posted by Bags:

i was running in the wild island area and i my scanner picked up a signal, i chased it and some spooky psi ♥♥♥♥ started happening and i was getting attacked by bandits that disappear. any way i picked up two crown artefacts and ran as far as i could as some psi spooky ♥♥♥♥ was chasing me for a while. at the end i go the a nearby base and opened my bag to see i dont have the crown artefacts in the bag. were the crown artefacts a hallucination? the detector scanned it from 98m away

There is an entire island filled with "phantom artifacts" near Duga. Something emitting heavy psi there on that island and creates artifact phantoms and also raises psi levels

[Hecker]

It's making me lose my mind there's literally nothing about these phantom artifacts in the internet other than this conversation

[Scallop]

Originally posted by DomEReapeR:

There are a couple of these around the game, you have to fight off the hallucinations and keep grabbing them, follow them around and keep grabbing them, eventually you'll get the real one.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is real I tought it was a fake area that lure newbie stalkers to kill them and feed on them, something like that. But it acctually has a artifact if you insist, thank you

[Rhophius]

Originally posted by Bags:

i was running in the wild island area and i my scanner picked up a signal, i chased it and some spooky psi ♥♥♥♥ started happening and i was getting attacked by bandits that disappear. any way i picked up two crown artefacts and ran as far as i could as some psi spooky ♥♥♥♥ was chasing me for a while. at the end i go the a nearby base and opened my bag to see i dont have the crown artefacts in the bag. were the crown artefacts a hallucination? the detector scanned it from 98m away

Keep collecting them and you will get the correct one eventually, its a giest thats causing it, its part of the area your in, like a poster said before, get some PSY resist and pop the meds that give you +10 to it as well and then go around and collect as many as you can, theres a load on the roof as well. also try to find the Veles detector.