Curator's Rifle

DLC-Exclusive content.

This content requires the Tales from the Far Territory addon to be installed before it can be seen or used in regular gameplay.

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</infobox> Curator's Rifle is a unique variant of the Hunting Rifle in The Long Dark, added by the Tales from the Far Territory expansion.

Overview

The Curator's Rifle in addition to looking fancy, offers an increased range of 33.3% over the standard Hunting Rifle [Around 66 meters]. Unlike the other variants this bonus comes with no downside, making it a direct upgrade to the standard Hunting Rifle.

The small range increase makes this variant superior at sniping distant Bears or Moose, leaving more time for you to react to a potential charge, though the rifle's tendency to sway and scarcity of rifle ammunition makes this bonus risky to use.

Successful hits on live animals provide experience to the Rifle Firearm skill.

Rifle Range

The range increase is applied to a ray-trace fired from the center of the screen when a shot is fired, normally the standard Hunting Rifle ray-trace range is about 50 meters long, but the Curators Rifle's is just over 66 meters long. Past this range the weapon will be unable to damage any Wildlife. These are the base ranges when at Rifle Skill Level 1, at level 5 a 40% bonus is applied to these ranges which combined with the Curator's Rifle's 33.3% gives the rifle a potential maximum range of just over 86 meters or a 73.3% additional range over the base 50.

Locations

The Curator's Rifle will spawn a single time per world in various states of repair in a set of randomly selected Ash Canyon locations such as:

At High Meadow next to a corpse at the vista location.
At the Gold Mine next to a corpse at the top of the waterfall.
Next to a corpse on the ledge along the Gold Mine path near Wolf's Jaw Overlook.
Next to a corpse by the tree at Wolf's Jaw Overlook near the rose hip climb.
In the cave with the bed at the top of the Runaway Bridge plateau across the fallen tree.

Difference from Hunting Rifle

Range is 33.3% farther than the Hunting Rifle

Trivia

The rifle's furniture appears to be made out of now old and faded purpleheart wood and has a golden action with deer engravings on the sides, its premium construction materials give it a striking beauty.
A small detail is that the 5-round stripper-clips used to load the gun are also made of the distinctive gold plating that matches the gold engravings on the rifle.
The rifles small upside and lack of downside makes it unique compared to the other variants which usually have a downside to compensate for a large bonus.
The Curator's Rifle's model originally appeared as a second hunting rifle in Episode 2: Luminance Fugue that could be found during the quest You Fix My Rifle?. This rifle model was later removed from the Wintermute story mode following the Redux update.

Gallery

The open bolt of the curators rifle.
Curators Rifle Ground Model
The Hunting Lodge Rifle shares the same engravings, without the Purplewood and with silver metal.
Curators Rifle Iron Sights
Sometimes the rifle can be found here along the path to the gold mine near the polaroid box and cliff ledge past the rock overhang.

Update history

{{#switch:update|update=UPDATE|hotfix=HOTFIX|hidden=HIDDEN}} 5 December 2022{{#if:The Long Dark/Changelog#2.03| (Update)|}}:
- Added to game.

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