Confused about starting new game and lack of artifacts

[KewlCrayon 0]

The lack of artifacts IS because of the NPC's. They've been picking them up as they go along. They're made to loot anything of value as they travel, so chances are there wont be many artifacts lying in populated areas, only in areas unreachable by the NPC's or areas NPC's never go near. This is why when you kill groups of people you will find a bunch of artifacts and weapons and all different kinds of loot on their corpses.

 

The best places to look are areas off the main path, areas populated by mutants and areas that are full of anomalies.

 

Trade with traveling NPC's and you will find that they have lots of artifacts because of the distance they travel.

 

You can also set the stashes to rare finds only, this will give lots of nice artifacts when you find a stash.

 

I actually love it this way, it gives you something to spend your money on and actually makes it difficult to find artifacts unlike vanilla which has them littered all over the world.

[KewlCrayon 0]

Mazryonh,

 

Yeah rare stashes is very very few stashes that will contain rare items, not the rarest of the rare but pretty damn good, I got that FT 200 while I was still in cordon, but never found ammo for it until I was in the dark forest.

 

I couldnt figure out the flamethrower quest, I got it as a reward from a Freedom guy, I found a bunch of Fuel Canisters around the world but I never picked em up cause they weighed so much.

 

Oh and where can I find Prototype armor? I can only get mine at Chernobyl NPP, and I can still run in it??