Random Bone Charms?

[Artrysa]

As far as I can remember I always found the same bone charms in the same spots. Even now, right at a new playthrough after changing my mind on goin high chaos I get the exact same bone charms in the first mission as last time. But when I looked up the location of the strong arms charm I found people saying that they spawn randomly from a spawn table. Is this true or is it just superstition? Like I said, as far as I can remember they've always been the same. And just an hour ago I proved that at least the charms in the first mission are the same. Can someone clear this up?

[Lord Of Dorkness]

How are you replaying?

Because the charms get randomized on entering maps, but stay fixed once loaded into memory for that save.

(One exception, the one stuck in a vise. Useful if you're fishing for a particular charm early game.)

So depending on if you started a fresh save, reloaded old ones, or used the missions select, there's some variance.

Or just plain luck of the draw, of course. There's a decent number of charms, but not THAT many.

[Cujo]

They are completely RNG, chosen when you first spawn the bone charms (i.e the beginning of the mission in most cases.) In the second game, If you don't have a power unlocked, you can't find a bone charm for that power, but otherwise you can find any bone charm, at any time.

The only guaranteed bonecharms are the DLC ones you get after your first meeting with the Outsider when you recieve blink and then wake up. If you have the DLC, there will be bonecharms there, and always the same ones. The ones in actual missions are completely random.

The vice bone charm in the backyard of the first High Overseer mission is a good example of the RNG at work. If you quicksave and reload before opening the vice to release the bone charm, it will be a different one every time you open the vice, because you're spawning a random bone charm. You can use this to roll for Strong Arms until you get it for the vital speed increase on a Ghost Playthrough.

[Artrysa]

Alright, I didn't know that. And I started with a completely New Game. I guess maybe it has a set number or "presets" for charms? Might have ended up with the same one by chance. Thanks for the help guys.