I always enjoyed hunting for sculptures, rare containers and hidden caches, and I learned a few things doing so. So, here I'll try to give you guys some tips on how to find Sculptures more easily.
1. Loot build
Depending on the map you decide to hunt sculptures, you must have a combination of Loot Radar / Thief's Wit / Animal Instinct (2 of these will be enough for any map).
Don't use nuke frames. We don't wanna break containers for this strategy, because that's gonna eventually slow us down when it comes to the next steps.
Scanners can help you quickly check groups of containers where you're not sure if there's something else there. They are extremely helpful to check your surroundings when you haven't memorized the loot placement yet.
2. Memorization
Sculptures spawn in the exact same spot as:
a) Cephalon fragments
b) Somachord Tones
c) Rare containers
d) Syndicate medallions
So, if you ever come across any of these, REMEMBER THAT PLACE down to every container near it and any other reference points. In future runs, a sculpture can spawn there.
Spoiler
This video is perfect to portray this.
Did you notice that Cephalon Fragment on top of that box, below the tubing?
So, when that room appeared later, there was a Sculpture on top of that same box, below the tubing.
That sculpture could have easily been missed, but I memorized that spawn location on top of the box, and that was the only reason I bothered looking at that box. Otherwise, I would have just rushed past it.
And that's also why we don't wanna break containers/crates.
Containers also have set spawn locations. If you break them, their loot "jumps" from them a bit to the right, or left, or any other direction, and that's just gonna mess your memorization of the loot placement in the room.
Once you memorize enough rooms, you'll know whether or not there's a sculpture/rare container in a room, and adjacent rooms, by just quickly checking your radar. No need to blow up everything and collect the loot to see what doesn't move.
Memorization takes a while, but it pays off in the long run, as this is gonna increase your passive ENDO gain in your daily casual runs, in almost any mission.
Obviously, you don't have to memorize ALL spawn locations in every single tileset. No one will, right?
Just remember where you found those items above and pay attention to your radar when you running void fissures / sortie / xxxxx farming.
You'd be amazed at how often Sculptures and Rare containers can go unnoticed.
3. Grind
You got yourself a good build and memorized some spawn locations (and hopefully even found some sculptures in the process), now where can you be even more efficient at sculpture hunting, and sculpture hunting alone.
a) Mariana - Earth
Yup, the very second node of this game is probably the best option, which makes this accessible for every one.
The map is very compact in general, the objective is short, and there is a very small variety of rooms for you to run into, without any extensive dead-ends (a corridor that leads into another room that is only connected to dead-ends). In the only big room, double-jumping is enough to show you what's on the top floor.
It was even easier to find sculptures in this node a few months ago, but DE patched it and added a bunch of pollution crates to the map.
You can complete the mission and check every sculpture spawn location on your map in 60 seconds.
Small tip: Dead-end rooms in this map (they have a ledge and water) don't spawn crates. If your radar shows loot in a dead-end room and you didn't kill anyone inside it, there's a sculpture or rare container there. I love it when there's a void fissure in this node.
b) Corpus Hijack missions
The objective may take a while to complete, but once you deploy the cargo, it's just a straight route, without dead-ends.
If you didn't find the sculpture before deploying the cargo, just rush until the end of the route.
No sculpture found = leave
Found a sculpture = rush back to the cargo and complete the mission
c) Phorid invasion
Phorid invasions barely spawn any containers/crates, so it's really easy to spot sculptures there, due to the sheer lack of pollution, even if you didn't memorize anything.
4. Conclusion
Although a bit rare, sculptures are not as once-in-a-blue-moon-when-animals-talk rare as some of the community make it seem, and they are actually farmable outside of arbitrations.
The issue is that players were not encouraged to hunt them, until Nightwave arrived.
With this tips, you can probably find 3 sculptures in 2 hours, with some very bad RNG. My worst was 3 in a hour.
For me, getting into sculpture hunting had three stages so far:
a) Scanner out all the time. b) *Checks radar*
"Wait a second... I don't think that container is usually there. Lemme check it out." c) *Checks radar*
"Cool. There's a sculpture in the next tile, for which I haven't even opened the door yet, but I know what room it is because of the containers placement in it."
Right now, I can't go a week without finding at least 5 sculptures in my casual runs, which involve Sorties, focus farming in Adaro and maybe some Void Fissures and Kuva Siphons (lots of waiting in the latter, good to take a look around). Really just checking radar for anything out of the ordinary.
Hopefully, all of this will help you complete that NW challenge in no time.
Good luck.
Notes:
- Hidden caches (side objective from Sabotage and Extermination) spawn in different places/physical spot than Sculptures/Rare Containers/Fragments. Some times, such places are very close to Sculptures', but they are not really shared.
- Although very rare, you can find two rare containers in the same mission, not sure about Ayatan Sculptures (it was a thing during raids).
- I'm not aware of any mission where there's an increased chance to spawn sculptures, and that's really hard to confirm as well.
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(PSN)Quantaminum
It's that time in Nightwave again.
Fully socket 3 sculptures.
I always enjoyed hunting for sculptures, rare containers and hidden caches, and I learned a few things doing so. So, here I'll try to give you guys some tips on how to find Sculptures more easily.
1. Loot build
Depending on the map you decide to hunt sculptures, you must have a combination of Loot Radar / Thief's Wit / Animal Instinct (2 of these will be enough for any map).
Don't use nuke frames. We don't wanna break containers for this strategy, because that's gonna eventually slow us down when it comes to the next steps.
Scanners can help you quickly check groups of containers where you're not sure if there's something else there. They are extremely helpful to check your surroundings when you haven't memorized the loot placement yet.
2. Memorization
Sculptures spawn in the exact same spot as:
a) Cephalon fragments
b) Somachord Tones
c) Rare containers
d) Syndicate medallions
So, if you ever come across any of these, REMEMBER THAT PLACE down to every container near it and any other reference points. In future runs, a sculpture can spawn there.
This video is perfect to portray this.
Did you notice that Cephalon Fragment on top of that box, below the tubing?
So, when that room appeared later, there was a Sculpture on top of that same box, below the tubing.
That sculpture could have easily been missed, but I memorized that spawn location on top of the box, and that was the only reason I bothered looking at that box. Otherwise, I would have just rushed past it.
And that's also why we don't wanna break containers/crates.
Containers also have set spawn locations. If you break them, their loot "jumps" from them a bit to the right, or left, or any other direction, and that's just gonna mess your memorization of the loot placement in the room.
Once you memorize enough rooms, you'll know whether or not there's a sculpture/rare container in a room, and adjacent rooms, by just quickly checking your radar. No need to blow up everything and collect the loot to see what doesn't move.
Memorization takes a while, but it pays off in the long run, as this is gonna increase your passive ENDO gain in your daily casual runs, in almost any mission.
Obviously, you don't have to memorize ALL spawn locations in every single tileset. No one will, right?
Just remember where you found those items above and pay attention to your radar when you running void fissures / sortie / xxxxx farming.
You'd be amazed at how often Sculptures and Rare containers can go unnoticed.
3. Grind
You got yourself a good build and memorized some spawn locations (and hopefully even found some sculptures in the process), now where can you be even more efficient at sculpture hunting, and sculpture hunting alone.
a) Mariana - Earth
Yup, the very second node of this game is probably the best option, which makes this accessible for every one.
The map is very compact in general, the objective is short, and there is a very small variety of rooms for you to run into, without any extensive dead-ends (a corridor that leads into another room that is only connected to dead-ends). In the only big room, double-jumping is enough to show you what's on the top floor.
It was even easier to find sculptures in this node a few months ago, but DE patched it and added a bunch of
pollutioncrates to the map.You can complete the mission and check every sculpture spawn location on your map in 60 seconds.
Small tip: Dead-end rooms in this map (they have a ledge and water) don't spawn crates. If your radar shows loot in a dead-end room and you didn't kill anyone inside it, there's a sculpture or rare container there. I love it when there's a void fissure in this node.
b) Corpus Hijack missions
The objective may take a while to complete, but once you deploy the cargo, it's just a straight route, without dead-ends.
If you didn't find the sculpture before deploying the cargo, just rush until the end of the route.
No sculpture found = leave
Found a sculpture = rush back to the cargo and complete the mission
c) Phorid invasion
Phorid invasions barely spawn any containers/crates, so it's really easy to spot sculptures there, due to the sheer lack of pollution, even if you didn't memorize anything.
4. Conclusion
Although a bit rare, sculptures are not as once-in-a-blue-moon-when-animals-talk rare as some of the community make it seem, and they are actually farmable outside of arbitrations.
The issue is that players were not encouraged to hunt them, until Nightwave arrived.
With this tips, you can probably find 3 sculptures in 2 hours, with some very bad RNG. My worst was 3 in a hour.
For me, getting into sculpture hunting had three stages so far:
a) Scanner out all the time.
b) *Checks radar*
"Wait a second... I don't think that container is usually there. Lemme check it out."
c) *Checks radar*
"Cool. There's a sculpture in the next tile, for which I haven't even opened the door yet, but I know what room it is because of the containers placement in it."
Right now, I can't go a week without finding at least 5 sculptures in my casual runs, which involve Sorties, focus farming in Adaro and maybe some Void Fissures and Kuva Siphons (lots of waiting in the latter, good to take a look around). Really just checking radar for anything out of the ordinary.
Hopefully, all of this will help you complete that NW challenge in no time.
Good luck.
Notes:
- Hidden caches (side objective from Sabotage and Extermination) spawn in different places/physical spot than Sculptures/Rare Containers/Fragments. Some times, such places are very close to Sculptures', but they are not really shared.
Edited by (PS4)Quantaminum- Although very rare, you can find two rare containers in the same mission, not sure about Ayatan Sculptures (it was a thing during raids).
- I'm not aware of any mission where there's an increased chance to spawn sculptures, and that's really hard to confirm as well.
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