Artefacts

[Sapbruv™®]

Weren't artefacts supposed to respawn after emissions?

[Dust]

They have a big chance, but it's not, "There will ALWAYS be an artifact after an emission."
So if you don't find any, wait past another emission and try again.

[Sapbruv™®]

Ok, its just strange that ftr like 5 emissions the oakpine anomaly is clear.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Sapbruv™®:

Ok, its just strange that ftr like 5 emissions the oakpine anomaly is clear.

Don't search it more than once, the oakpine anomaly SUCKS. Try somewhere like Yanov's Quarry swamp.

[Potato Pancakes]

The oakpine has the one artifact that's just used for a mission, and one other. That other one, from what I can tell, doesn't like to reset.

[Revolucas]

There is a bug in the vanilla game that can make anomalies stop spawning artefacts.

[Dust]

Originally posted by Revolucas:

There is a bug in the vanilla game that can make anomalies stop spawning artefacts.

Really? I NEVER got that in my 30 hours of gameplay.
Must either be rare, or B.S.

[Revolucas]

It's not bs. The artifact counter on anomalies can end up negative and break artifact spawning.

OK, I think I've been able to pinpoint location of where everything goes to hell. Apparently, it's the artifact picking, afterall. Somehow an artifact gets assigned to an anomaly zone even though it's not truly "assigned" (it's not in all necessary tables) and then when you pick up that artifact, assigned anomaly zone "thinks" that it doesn't have any artifacts at all.

Then obviously 0 - 1 = -1, and that is saved (into saved game) as 255, which is then loaded as 255, which is obviously higher than max. artifacts defined (usually 1-2 per anomaly zone) and then no artifacts are spawned.


Fix: Now the question is, how to fix it. A true fix would be if I knew what causes such artifact to assign itself "partly" (most likely after some it is spawned) to an anomaly zone.

As it seems that there's currently nobody interested in a fix, which "unfreezes" anomaly zones in affected saved games, I propose simple check for spawned_count when an artifact is picked up, so it won't go below 0.

AND

I never experienced lack of spawns in either Zaton or Pripyat. Only in Jupiter, only after placing the scanners, only the fields with scanners in them.

Well, that's what you want to believe. You notice it only on those anomalies, because you can check them in PDA!

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3540/jupiterbuggedanomalies.jpg
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6008/pripyatokanomalies.jpg
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9633/zatonbuggedanomalies.jpg

^^ As you can see from screenshots, only 4 anomalies (out of 12) are working. In Jupiter 7 out of 11 and in Pripyat all.

from: http://www.gsc-game.com/main.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr3&thm_page=32&thm_id=3829&page=8&sort=ASC&sec_id=18#79163


This bug is actually fixed in some mods, like Pripyat Reborn.

[kaay]

Originally posted by Dusty926:

Originally posted by Revolucas:

There is a bug in the vanilla game that can make anomalies stop spawning artefacts.

Really? I NEVER got that in my 30 hours of gameplay.
Must either be rare, or B.S.

Its not bs at all, and its not rare because it happened to me on every vanilla and mod i played.
The good thing is that it tends to happen late in the game when you dont really care because at that point you should already have all the artifacts you need.
30 hrs...giggle

[Dust]

Originally posted by kaay:

Originally posted by Dusty926:

Really? I NEVER got that in my 30 hours of gameplay.
Must either be rare, or B.S.

Its not bs at all, and its not rare because it happened to me on every vanilla and mod i played.
The good thing is that it tends to happen late in the game when you dont really care because at that point you should already have all the artifacts you need.
30 hrs...giggle

I got a save that was practically at the final mission and I never got this glitch.

So whatever you guys have, I don't.

Also, way to respect playing time.