Another Rifle Variant idea... how original.

[JackTrysGames]

Prototype Rifle (or Scientist's Rifle if you're sticking to the name gimmick)

 

A high-tech prototype rifle- the only one of its kind, taken from its home laboratory for testing. Designed to hit long range targets at high speed, with the aid of every piece of tech the scientists could find.

A mere husk of its former self... until the Aurora hits, of course.

 

(Without Aurora)
-33% Range
-Increased bleedout time (Longer time to kill)
-Slow bolt cycle
-No iron sights
-HEAVY
-Very fragile

 

(With Aurora)
+133% range (Twice that of the Curator's Rifle)
+Halved bleedout for anything hit (Can level a charge, and possibly knock the bear over)
+Functional red dot
+Average bolt cycle speed, unlike its non-Aurora self
-Still very heavy and very fragile

 

It's a hybrid railgun and traditional rifle. Without the tech, it's barely even a rifle, as the bolt locks up and becomes harder to cycle. But during the Aurora, those fancy bits whirr back to life, and God help anything you point the Prototype Rifle at when you're under those neon lights in the sky.