Some artifacts not spawning

[Kensei]

So I have nearly 500 hours in my game, I've literally done everything except the last mission and scoured every inch and every room on the map, and I have been exclusively artifact farming for probably 70 hours now. I have done many rounds of the entire map and have collected hundreds in this time, and yet there are 9 artifacts that will not spawn anywhere. I'm bored out of my mind with this game and just wanted the achievement lol.

The ones that will not spawn are: Sparkler, Chocolate Bar, Meat Chunk, Mica, Slime, Bubble, Glare, Fireball, Devil's Mushroom.

I had a few Chocolate Bars and Sparklers, and maybe a Meat Chunk early in the game but sold them in desperate need of credits, but all the other ones have not spawned once the entire game. Why is this game so whacked out in so many ways? Is starting a new game the only way to make them spawn?

[Othobrithol]

It's a horrible RNG slog, but can be done.

No matter how you get them, or if you sell them, all that matters for the achievement is that it triggers that little UI notification than you found a new artifact type.

Most of those are weak commons. The game, in an effort to actually be nice to the player, spawns higher tier artifacts more in the late game. This makes it harder to complete.

The game also tracks achievements by save slot (which makes no sense to me). What you can do, however, is load an earlier save in the same slot and collect the remainder that way.

Devil's Mushroom can be found on a scanner.

What kills the joy for me is that this is one of several achievements whose rarity is skewed by cheaters that just use the console to give themselves all the artifacts in one go.

Good luck.

[Kensei]

Yeah spawning things in is lame to me, why even play the game? I actually found every single thing myself by methodically clearing every inch zone by zone so I knew where I had already searched. I only missed 1 damn upgrade, in a backpack in an electro anomaly, I walked right through there but missed the bag, oh well lol. Maybe I've missed a scanner somewhere too, hmm.

I thought I would need all artifacts at one time, I didn't know I just needed to have had them at one point. That takes out 2-3 of them at least. I figured the lower tier ones weren't spawning anymore because I had progressed too far, thought I'd keep trying, but they just won't drop anymore. I've probably picked up over 50 hypercubes by now, plus many other legendary ones.

I have a save from about 20 hours in so I might load that, good idea thanks! I should have thought of that haha.