Artifact Spawn Rebalance: Improved [1.5.2] addon - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

!!! THIS IS NOT MY ADDON; I DID NOT WRITE THE CODE; JUST SEVERELY CHANGED ITS CONFIGURATION TO MAKE IT "BETTER"; ALL CREDITS GO TO KRONQ !!!

Original addon: Moddb.com

Read description of original addon to understand what it does!

Vanilla anomaly artifact spawns are totally random, you can get the same artifacts in the CNPP Power Plant as you can get in Cordon, which is stupid obviously. Even the ingame tips lie to you, saying "All the best spots for artifacting are past the Red Forest."

KronQ's addon fixes this, making artifact quality in anomalous fields dependant on how dangerous the location is, how desolate is, and how farth north it is. Well, fixes it partially. I would still sometimes end up finding something like a Sun (junk artifact) in Red Forest, which is ridiculous considering how risky the location is. Dangerous locations also didnt seem as rewarding as i wanted them to be as they still had a high chance of spawning mid tier artifacts.

Now addon is more severe / extreme, and difference will be felt immediately. You cant find mid tier / 12msv artifacts in Red Forest anymore, for example, or atleast only very rarely. Dangerous locations are now even more rewarding than before, easy locations being even less rewarding than in the original addon.

Early game if you start South you will struggle more now, but you can risk your life to get fast cash and a fast headstart into your run if you use Guides to go north!

Configuration was also balanced around Perk Based Artifacts addon, but will work just fine vanilla.

Original addon contained a bunch of Junk artifacts in mid tier pools because it was heavily balanced around Perk Based artifacts addon, making risky locations give lackluster rewards if you didnt use PBA addon. Now its more friendly to users without Perk Based Artifacts. Almost all junk artifacts are now in junk / low pools.

There are now 5 spawn tiers instead of 3:

Junk (Only Perkifacts / Junk artifacts, especially the least useful and least valuable ones.)

Low (7msv artifacts and some junk artifacts.)

Mid (12msv artifacts, and very rarely a Perkifact / Junkifact that i considered worth it. Something like Seraphim which can save your life in Ironman, or Knot.)

High (23msv artifacts, with exception of Empty because its just that good, and Knot.)

Knot can only be found in mid-high thermal anomalies, this is because addon is balanced around Perk Based Artifacts. If you dont use PBA you can move Junkifacts like Knot / Seraphim to af_class_thermo_junk / af_class_chem_junk in the config. Knots file name is af_fire_loop

If demand appears for it i might later provide two versions, one balanced for users without PBA and one for users with PBA. But right now its made for PBA in mind.

High+ (Same as high, except with a good chance of spawning Death Lamp. Since death lamp is much rarer now, you can gladly install addons that make it more expensive and worthy, there are many out there :p

Locations and their spawn tiers have also been changed from the original addon, this map will give you a good look to see what can be found where: Imgur.com

Installation is simple, just use MO2.

Should function with GAMMA but no guarantees. It will probably screw up GAMMAs own home-grown artifact balancing systems.

New game is not required, but if installed mid-playthrough youll have to wait for an emission for the new spawn logic to apply obviously.

Intended to be played on mostly vanilla anomaly artifacts with Perk Based Artifacts, if you mix it with addons that change artifacts stats it might screw up the balance.