No Common Artifacts?

[Sister Mortis]

Im searching for all the artifacts for the achievement and im down to 11 left and 9 of them are common. Im doing the quick save/quick load to farm the anomalies but im tripping over more Rare and Legendary than commons. Im already pretty far into the game, Pripyat. Does that affect the spawn of commons?

[HiggsLP]

I would suggest u to start new game, more fun than save scumming and higher chance to get diff loot.

[Nite69]

Yes it does op, You have to search for the artifacts as you progress the storyline, cause the further you get in the story the better the artifacts are, if you are late in the story it will make earlier ones more difficult to get

i havn't bothered trying that achievement yet cause thier is currently a bug where they sometimes spawn under the map

[Sister Mortis]

Thank you both. That checks out and it's really unfortunate because all I need now are 6.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Sister Mortis:

Thank you both. That checks out and it's really unfortunate because all I need now are 6.

well the game is worth 2 playthroughs, side with ward or side with stalker so ya can try getting the commons when ya do the other side on a new run

steam already has your rare and legends triggered so once ya pick up the commons the achievement should activate

[sunflower]

I was doing this achievement on save just before final mission (I had 2 common artifacts left). After 1 hour of save scumming trying to get the last artifact I started doing statistics. I got numbers like this in 1 hour:
- 8% chance of spawning 12k artifact
- 50% chance of spawning 20k artifact
- 24% chance of spawning 36k artifact
- 18% chance of spawning 70k artifact

[Mikebeez]

Originally posted by Nite69:

Yes it does op, You have to search for the artifacts as you progress the storyline, cause the further you get in the story the better the artifacts are, if you are late in the story it will make earlier ones more difficult to get

i havn't bothered trying that achievement yet cause thier is currently a bug where they sometimes spawn under the map

Man THANK YOU. I thought I was going crazy a few times when I know I saw the artifact to pick up and it just poofed away. Drove me insane thinking I was going blind.

[Serpiko82]

Originally posted by Mikebeez:

Man THANK YOU. I thought I was going crazy a few times when I know I saw the artifact to pick up and it just poofed away. Drove me insane thinking I was going blind.

Nope bro, bugged "underground" artifacts can't be picked up at all.

If you pick up an artifact and it goes poof, that means you're in the middle of a psi-anomaly field. Either swallow some psi-block, or run the hell away ASAP.

Also, artifacts sometimes like to jump around from one anomaly to another. That may be the reason why now you see one, now it's gone.

[Serpiko82]

On topic, YES, common artifacts are way rarer than they should, and legendary (70k) artifacts are more common than rare ones (36k).

IMO, currently there's too many artifacts, with several being basically duplicates, and most being just not worth anything but selling.

Artifacts could use a rework, possibly making them stronger but with strong side effects and more diverse than just radiations. So that you can try out multiple possible builds where they compensate each others' downsides.

[Mr_Purple]

There are four tiers of non-altered items artifacts - common, uncommon, rare and legendary. Legendaries have fixed spawn chance so we are not gonna talk about them. Before SIRCAA the most common type you'll be finding is... well... common. However, after SIRCAA arc, the tier shifts a level - common becomes as rare as legendary and 85% of what you'll be finding is going to be uncommons and rares. I made 97(!) rerolls of electric anomaly to finally get a Sparkler that I've been missing for the achievement. 11 out of those rerolls gave me a Thunderberry.
One the things that I strongly dislike about Stalker 2 - stuff is bloody tiered.

[sunflower]

Originally posted by k33th:

Originally posted by sunflower:

I was doing this achievement on save just before final mission (I had 2 common artifacts left). After 1 hour of save scumming trying to get the last artifact I started doing statistics. I got numbers like this in 1 hour:
- 8% chance of spawning 12k artifact
- 50% chance of spawning 20k artifact
- 24% chance of spawning 36k artifact
- 18% chance of spawning 70k artifact

In my experience (and I consider myself as pro MLG stalker 2 gaymer because i have more than 30 hours of playtime) 36k artifacts spawn muuuuch less often than others. In my current playthrough (and situation was similar in previous playthroughs) I had ~10+ 70k artifacts before getting first 36k one.
Something is really wrong
But maybe rare artifact spawn rate increases after player finishes SIIRCA

I had problems getting one of 36k artifact at 50-60% story progress. My tests are valid for endgame. My guess is the game gradually increases chances of higher level artifacts as you progress through story.

[Sister Mortis]

Thank you all for your input. Its much appreciated
Good hunting, Stalkers!

[Lucathegreat]

Originally posted by Mr_Purple:

There are four tiers of non-altered items artifacts - common, uncommon, rare and legendary. Legendaries have fixed spawn chance so we are not gonna talk about them. Before SIRCAA the most common type you'll be finding is... well... common. However, after SIRCAA arc, the tier shifts a level - common becomes as rare as legendary and 85% of what you'll be finding is going to be uncommons and rares. I made 97(!) rerolls of electric anomaly to finally get a Sparkler that I've been missing for the achievement. 11 out of those rerolls gave me a Thunderberry.
One the things that I strongly dislike about Stalker 2 - stuff is bloody tiered.

I'm at the endgame and I still miss a couple common artifacts, can you confirm they CAN all spawn at this point too? I only find uncommon or above, the vendor in Rostok sometimes has 4-5 possible common artifacts to sell, but not all of them, and I couldn't find anyone else selling them.