basist,
artifacts are spawned in anomaly zones mostly after blowouts, which was discussed on the forum several times
can't say more about it, its simple as is. and nope, they dont have such properties which doesnt fit, or we didnt like. This part in soc was pretty ok, we dont plan to extend it, only fixed some not neded stuff.
LoNer1,
yes, we have custom particles.xr, so you will have a nice time merging it with yours
Omfgkrystus,
we are using only authentic old soc ambient musics + some own, created by Klangsegler especially for LA. Rostok-bar is safe but not forever, only for a while, safe places are changing ...well not always, but they change during the storyline. Belt has 16 boxes, and for example 1 box of machine gun ammo (usually consists of 30 ammo, less in come cases like the vintorez) uses 2 box from the ammo. so you can put 8 box of smg ammo on the belt, then its full, but you also need to use your headlamp sometimes, which also uses 2box, plus if you use detectors, they also use up 1-1 boxes, and so on, so if you use all devices on your belt, you cant drop many ammo on it, only max 1-2 boxes, then you will need to fill the belt again if ammo is out. (because you can only reload wpn, if there is at least 1 box of ammo on the belt)
Stalkers are not flooded with stuff, but you will find item in their pockets...