Just an update on Curator’s Rifle not spawning.

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In my current custom save game I have found several DLC items. I have Vaughn’s Rifle, the Hunter’s Revolver, the Warden’s Revolver and the Spelunker's Lantern.

I had found the Curator’s Rifle in my previous save game, but I had to abandon that game because TLD doesn’t include the basic functionality to either check or change your game settings and I had to do that, so I had to start over.

But in this savegame the Curator’s Rifle does not appear to have spawned. I have scoured every inch of Ash Canyon. I started to feel like I might be going mad, so on the fourth search of each of the known spawn locations I took screenshots just to prove to myself that the rifle was indeed not there. Since the latest “small updates” (v2.20–v2.22) I have made my way back up to Ash Canyon and searched again for a fifth time. And this time I took screen shots again, just as evidence for my future self. The Curator’s Rifle, unless there is a super-sneaky rare spawn just to troll players, does not appear to have spawned. And this bug does not appear to have been fixed in the last five updates.

Some day I would really like to walk across the bridge out of Broken Railroad into the new content. So I am unwilling to start another new savegame and put that glorious moment off, again. At this point, while I wish I could just spawn the Curator’s Rifle, I think I am just going to give up. I liked it very much, but I cannot just keep running around in circles in Ash Canyon forever hoping the thing will magically stop not being there. I really love TLD. I wish it were not being quite so frustrating lately.

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I have not seen this missing Curator’s Rifle on any known bugs lists. Apparently people have been having it for months. I went back and scoured Ash Canyon because someone had said it was fixed in a recent patch along with ptarmigans. Does anyone know if Hinterland are looking into it? Is there a fix coming?

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I'm having this trouble too.  Going to submit a ticket AGAIN, with F8 pics to support my claim this time.  This is the THIRD sandbox I've started with this problem, the last two of which IN A ROW.

EDIT:  Oh, so you can't upload more than 5 files to Hinterland support to support your claim of an issue with their own game?  *SMH, then walks away for a while* x.x

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56 minutes ago, TwoFatCatz said:

@dahemac Have you filed a support ticket. If you haven’t, file one and upload the screenshots to help push your case that it isn’t there. 

Have filed a ticket. Was told by someone on the forums that it was fixed in the last patch. Went all over Ash Canyon again (fifth time) checking. Nope. Wish the problem was acknowledged in the known issues.

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I can attest to this bug on Xbox Series X as well.  I deleted the game from the console, deleted save files everywhere (unknowingly resetting all my Feats and Challenges to zero completion) and reinstalled the game. Two subsequent games started are still missing the Curator's Rifle.

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On 8/10/2023 at 10:50 AM, GoingRoadKing said:

It's okay. Uncontrollable sobbing is just now occasional weeping. 

From the admin in another post about other variants they are specifically working on the curators issue, don’t lose hope, in the meantime it’s not ideal but you can attempt to start new runs and rush to hunt for it took me 4 tries but I did get it in a run after patch 2 before 3 haven’t tried since 3 though 

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1 hour ago, Enigmaecho said:

… you can attempt to start new runs and rush to hunt for it…

There is no reason to think that whatever is wrong that is causing any one particular item to not spawn is not causing any other item to not spawn. Because of various bugs and problems, I have not managed to get a savegame to the point where I have left Broken Railroad to investigate the new maps that theoretically were out NINE months ago. I am not all that keen on playing a save for another month and discovering something else is likewise bugged and I have to start over AGAIN.

When they decided to kill old saves they should have prioritized a savegame converter. And rather than get players so frustrated that they stop playing the game, they should develop and official savegame editor.

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11 minutes ago, dahemac said:

There is no reason to think that whatever is wrong that is causing any one particular item to not spawn is not causing any other item to not spawn. Because of various bugs and problems, I have not managed to get a savegame to the point where I have left Broken Railroad to investigate the new maps that theoretically were out NINE months ago. I am not all that keen on playing a save for another month and discovering something else is likewise bugged and I have to start over AGAIN.

When they decided to kill old saves they should have prioritized a savegame converter. And rather than get players so frustrated that they stop playing the game, they should develop and official savegame editor.

They have made many successful strides in rectifying the existing issues generated from each update and there is no reason to think they will not solve the variant issue. I am not unsympathetic to your frustrations if you read I took me 4 restarts of clearing all the variant spawns to check before stating signal im well aware that what items don’t spawn varies each run the run I got all the variants none of visor mementos spawned and two of my recipes, and in the recent hotfix both were solved im missing two new variants and I can’t start a new run easily because I’m trying to get all the collectibles and I’m missing 1 buffer and that’s it so I’m sure they’ll get it sorted before or just after update 4 just gotta take the hit for the time being and either deal without what you’re missing or start a new run. If you are a pc player there are mods to access the console commands if it’s that dire that you have to have something 

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I really do hope they get it fixed. And yes Hinterland has built an amazing game and done an amazing job. I am not suggesting that it is easy or they are slacking. But if they don’t fix it so the Curator’s Rifle spawns in my current save, then I am just going to pretend that it doesn’t exist and pray nothing else that is game breaking is missing. I am already getting confused about whether I did a thing in this run or a previous aborted run.

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47 minutes ago, Willy Pete said:

It's not spawning in my current Stalker game, neither is the miner's flashlight. Had this issue with some of the recipes until recently as well but that's been remedied.

I cannot fully confirm yet (having not scoured every inch of Ash Canyon for the Curator's rifle specifically), but I believe my current run is having this issue.  The Ranger's Stew recipe has not been found in Foreman's Retreat despite 3 thorough searches of the cabin; and, so far, I have no sign of any rifle in the zone, despite it being indicated online that a regular Lee Enfield should be "guaranteed" at either entrance to the gold mine (https://www.thegamer.com/the-long-dark-all-hunting-rifle-spawn-point-locations-guaranteed/#ash-canyon and I have searched the gold mine thoroughly twice.

Please also note that The Long Dark Official Wiki page, which comes up first on my search, regarding the "Hunting Rifle" is way out date as it lists only possible locations in Mystery Lake, Coastal Highway, Pleasant Valley, Desolation Point, and Mountain Town, with no mention of any of the newer maps and no mention of any of the specialized rifles available - https://thelongdark-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Hunting_Rifle.

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Despite Hinterland claiming to have fixed it, it is still not spawning on my custom gunloper run.
My custom settings are interloper or harder on any metric, but with guns enabled. I created it just after the introduction of the paid content to evade problems & bugs. I have searched AC multiple times now specifically for the curator's rifle aswell as after the changelogs claiming it had been fixed - to no avail - its not there. All five spawn points empty:

(North of Runaway Bridge;  High Meadow;  West of Wolf's Jaw Overlook;  Wolf's Jaw Overlook;  East of the Mining camp on top of Long Falls)

Oddly aswell, all Cattails seem to have respawned once - aswell as some items of any kind all around the map. Also fresh processed food at day ~300. I had preemptively saved my settings code: 88nM-fz8P-Pz9n-zaXW-guIA

Edit: I have just tried to find the curator's rifle with the settings from my code above and indeed I did NOT find the rifle on any of the five spawn locations. 3rd of December 23

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On 12/2/2023 at 7:42 PM, SiRro said:

I have just tried to find the curator's rifle with the settings from my code above and indeed I did NOT find the rifle on any of the five spawn locations. 3rd of December 23

This makes me sad. Why will they not release their official save-game editor so we can fix these things ourselves instead of bothering Hinterland?

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