Artifacts unreachable. Is there a fix?

[deciBelle]

I've been through the lesser zone and made my way to the slag heap and outside of the prologue slug artifact, I've not been able to spawn a single artifact in reachable places.
My approach: Whip out my detector, approach the suspected location of the artifact, toss bolts while i'm closing in until it spawns. I see a white flash, and the artifact happens to spawn underground, inside rocks, inside walls or any other places that I cannot interact with.

I've tried changing graphic settings, restarting, reloading, you name it.
Nothing I've tried on my end seems to affect anything. Tossing bolts, shooting at geometry, throwing grenades in hopes of ragdolling the artifact or throwing a bunch of weapons on the ground to slide into rocks and push it out that way.

The brothers body anomaly field had an artifact that must have spawned inside a rock. Saw the white flash, looked around, found nothing but a boulder in my way.
The Pol Depot electrical anomaly field spawned an artifact but it was inside the silo and unreachable.
The Old Mill artifact (after completing the quest that guarantees a different spawn) is either trying to spawn inside the ceiling or not at all.
The flame anomaly field at the detention center seems to try and spawn an artifact inside the pipes/wall while I'm doing a fiery dance atop the grates with no way to reach it.

I've played nearly 20 hours in this game and have not acquired a single artifact for my own use. The game plays well for me otherwise, but playing Stalker with zero artifacts just isn't all that interesting to me.

[AZ4RIA5]

The artifact to the bottom right of the noontide base on wild island has the same issue for me. I dont remember seeing a white flash but my bear detector says im right on top of it, while standing on a rock, and no artifact. My guess was it was in the rock.

[geraghty91]

Having same issue as AZ4RIA5. It's definitely stuck in the rock i think. circled the place for maybe 5 minutes, hear it spawn in(become visible) when on the rock and it sounds like its directly under/in the rock.

[deciBelle]

I was at the maze earlier and the artifact didn't spawn in a reachable place either. That's 6 out of 6 for me now.

[RedGuy Johnson]

In the same exact spot in wild island and I thought I was going crazy for a second
glad to hear its not just me. Annoying as hell but I guess I'll just have to leave it

[Bifty]

You can use a mod called UETools that lets you enable god mode, fly and noclip.

I used this to verify and yes, artifacts can indeed spawn inside walls and out of bounds....

[7.62x39 PS]

Originally posted by AZ4RIA5:

The artifact to the bottom right of the noontide base on wild island has the same issue for me. I dont remember seeing a white flash but my bear detector says im right on top of it, while standing on a rock, and no artifact. My guess was it was in the rock.

sadly the same thing is happening for me

[Syliss]

can confirm they are spawning inside terrain / out of bounds areas, used tools to give myself noclip to enter terrain and found them that way.