need help artifact issue.

[Hazzmat]

can someone tell me why no matter how much i farm i keep getting repeat artifacts? ive farmed like 7 flytraps, 8 springs, 5 ciliates, 9 crowns, 5 dead sponges, and 4 flowerbuds and 2 hypercubes/liquid rocks. 4 thunder berries too. i cant get a single COMMON artifact. i have not gotten 1 wrenched, 1 sparkler, 1 pebble, 1 wrenched, 1 bubble, 1 broken rock.

im trying to find all of them but i cant even get the common artifacts to populate

[Tactrix]

Originally posted by Hazzmat:

can someone tell me why no matter how much i farm i keep getting repeat artifacts? ive farmed like 7 flytraps, 8 springs, 5 ciliates, 9 crowns, 5 dead sponges, and 4 flowerbuds and 2 hypercubes/liquid rocks. 4 thunder berries too. i cant get a single COMMON artifact. i have not gotten 1 wrenched, 1 sparkler, 1 pebble, 1 wrenched, 1 bubble, 1 broken rock.

im trying to find all of them but i cant even get the common artifacts to populate

Have you tried different anomalies? I don't even farm artifacts, I just basically do quests and run around with a meter and when it goes off I get what I can, but I got a bubble already and it was just from one of the random anomalies, so my best guess is that you just have to farm random ones until you get them. I don't think there's a specific way to get specific ones unless they are designed for a main quest/side quests.

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by Tactrix:

Originally posted by Hazzmat:

can someone tell me why no matter how much i farm i keep getting repeat artifacts? ive farmed like 7 flytraps, 8 springs, 5 ciliates, 9 crowns, 5 dead sponges, and 4 flowerbuds and 2 hypercubes/liquid rocks. 4 thunder berries too. i cant get a single COMMON artifact. i have not gotten 1 wrenched, 1 sparkler, 1 pebble, 1 wrenched, 1 bubble, 1 broken rock.

im trying to find all of them but i cant even get the common artifacts to populate

Have you tried different anomalies? I don't even farm artifacts, I just basically do quests and run around with a meter and when it goes off I get what I can, but I got a bubble already and it was just from one of the random anomalies, so my best guess is that you just have to farm random ones until you get them. I don't think there's a specific way to get specific ones unless they are designed for a main quest/side quests.

ngl i have the approximate ones im missing calculated. and i have been bouncing around all anomalies checking off like a to do list. ive been to electro, thermal, acid, gravitational. i even went back to zalyssia hoping lower level artifs would proc.

using this https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone
all "random artifact" markers on this map are locations of farmable anomalous areas. so far ive ripped through swamps, zaton, lesser zone and im now working through garbage.

[Tactrix]

Originally posted by Hazzmat:

Originally posted by Tactrix:

Have you tried different anomalies? I don't even farm artifacts, I just basically do quests and run around with a meter and when it goes off I get what I can, but I got a bubble already and it was just from one of the random anomalies, so my best guess is that you just have to farm random ones until you get them. I don't think there's a specific way to get specific ones unless they are designed for a main quest/side quests.

ngl i have the approximate ones im missing calculated. and i have been bouncing around all anomalies checking off like a to do list. ive been to electro, thermal, acid, gravitational. i even went back to zalyssia hoping lower level artifs would proc.

using this https://mapgenie.io/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone
all "random artifact" markers on this map are locations of farmable anomalous areas. so far ive ripped through swamps, zaton, lesser zone and im now working through garbage.

The bubble one I found was in a crater filled with toxic anomalies, so I hope that helps.

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by Eldin:

They are random. Even at spots that are mentioned to have something else if you save and reload to try again you may get different ones from same spot.

i hope they're "random" because 5 thunderberries before i see a single sparkler sounds insane. one would think that they aren't all random laterally across the board and their spawn rates would coincide with their listed "rarity"

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by Eldin:

They are random. Even at spots that are mentioned to have something else if you save and reload to try again you may get different ones from same spot.

legit not sure what im doing wrong. i tried you method to see if it would reload and change the artifact. was moonlight. reloaded was still moonlight. do i need to save certain ammnt away?

[ImHelping]

Getting the same things repeatedly is less of a problem than "This one anomaly always spawns ♥♥♥♥ clearly under the dirt or a boulder, in the same spot" swapping between multiple detectors just to be sure you physically can't get any closer.

I have also given up on the "try to force the artifact to change" because it will stay the same if I saved 300m away from the anomaly area. And the game looooves to spawn multiple gunman ambushes the moment I get halfway into it to change a 1 minute dive into a longer distraction.

Damn lucky my 3rd acid artifact was the max rad absorber with my otherwise bad luck.

[n0mad23]

I've had the opposite experience. Didn't find my first "good" artifact (the Compass) until after 40 hours, and continue to find more weak than medium ones. Now 70 hours in I've found 3 more Maximum ones. What's really surprising is just how many new weak ones I continue to find. There's a lot of artifacts. Just found my first Chocolate Bar today in Zanton.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by n0mad23:

I've had the opposite experience. Didn't find my first "good" artifact (the Compass) until after 40 hours, and continue to find more weak than medium ones. Now 70 hours in I've found 3 more Maximum ones. What's really surprising is just how many new weak ones I continue to find. There's a lot of artifacts. Just found my first Chocolate Bar today in Zanton.

It can also be skewed even more by the type of anomaly you are in. acid has the smallest list at like, 13 or something. Probably to try and raise the odds of you getting at least SOME kind of rad absorber. While thermals have almost 30 different kinds, in spite of having the least impressive buffs or buff combos.

And thermals are the only one I remove my armor for on the last 5 meters for the actual collection (way too many gunman ambushes to pull off my gear all the time) because lava spouts loooooove having ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cross coverage where the anomaly shows up. "come on artifact... you exist. grab it. grab it it. GRAB IT MOTHER ♥♥♥♥♥♥" *four different lava spouts no-clip through terrain to seek you on the way out* (bleed resist does not seem to help much)

The real draw once you have rad absorbers are gravity for phsycial protection, the best possible carry capacity, and it still has some endurance buffs. Electro is basically for cash or praying for the best endurance booster.

Still. RNG is always ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. crossing several regions and getting nothing but common or "glitched out of bounds" or "still nothing here after two emission storms" is eye rolling, not challenging.

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Originally posted by n0mad23:

I've had the opposite experience. Didn't find my first "good" artifact (the Compass) until after 40 hours, and continue to find more weak than medium ones. Now 70 hours in I've found 3 more Maximum ones. What's really surprising is just how many new weak ones I continue to find. There's a lot of artifacts. Just found my first Chocolate Bar today in Zanton.

It can also be skewed even more by the type of anomaly you are in. acid has the smallest list at like, 13 or something. Probably to try and raise the odds of you getting at least SOME kind of rad absorber. While thermals have almost 30 different kinds, in spite of having the least impressive buffs or buff combos.

And thermals are the only one I remove my armor for on the last 5 meters for the actual collection (way too many gunman ambushes to pull off my gear all the time) because lava spouts loooooove having ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cross coverage where the anomaly shows up. "come on artifact... you exist. grab it. grab it it. GRAB IT MOTHER ♥♥♥♥♥♥" *four different lava spouts no-clip through terrain to seek you on the way out* (bleed resist does not seem to help much)

The real draw once you have rad absorbers are gravity for phsycial protection, the best possible carry capacity, and it still has some endurance buffs. Electro is basically for cash or praying for the best endurance booster.

Still. RNG is always ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. crossing several regions and getting nothing but common or "glitched out of bounds" or "still nothing here after two emission storms" is eye rolling, not challenging.

yeah i just found my 6th got damn thunderberry in garbage... im looking for a crest and a sparkler

[ГосподинOfYourAnus]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Originally posted by n0mad23:

Still. RNG is always ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. crossing several regions and getting nothing but common or "glitched out of bounds" or "still nothing here after two emission storms" is eye rolling, not challenging.

Looks like spawn not bound to emissions tho
Only to some in game timer.
Couse I found in same anomaly formation few artifact one after another, just passing time by sleeping

[ImHelping]

My luck is good/bad at the same time. I already have max rad absorber. I want a big carry capacity instead of medium carry.

I just got an urchin, the medium rad resist "from acid anomalies" right in the item description.... from the gravity + glass anomaly at daredevil.

I'll never say no to a good rad absorber even if I don't need one anymore (Feels better than a weak bleed or weak fire resist artifact). But come ooooon.

Reloading point electric meanwhile, constantly blueballs me with the same "can't get below 3-5 with hilka. bear is a complete green circle" by the big boulder and scrap spot with it never spawning.

[Lucathegreat]

Could you find a solution?
I'm also not finding any common artifact anymore, I assume it has to do with the progress, as I'm in the endgame.... Maybe barkeepers sell them sometimes?

[Hazzmat]

Originally posted by Lucathegreat:

Could you find a solution?
I'm also not finding any common artifact anymore, I assume it has to do with the progress, as I'm in the endgame.... Maybe barkeepers sell them sometimes?

no havent found a solution yet. im taking a break anyway because i tried to play on Vet diff after a STLK difficulty playthrough and im not experiencing any emissions so... its kinda pointless until the next update comes out because as it stands the increased difficulty means nothing without the environmental existential threat. im not sure what the issue is. i tried everything in settings and nothing fixes the no sleep in zalissya and no emissions problem ive been having since my last playthrough starting in pripyat. my whole playthrough in pripyat was weather locked with no change and it was really disappointing putting it mildly. the #1 environmental reasons i like this solo FPS horror/survival game is because of the unique emission mechanic that differentiates itself from other survival/horror fps game

edit: lmao they just released an update. so well see how it goes. in college so school comes first but ill check it out Friday tbd