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That would be one heck of a stove, indeed some kind of electric incinerator. My whole house is 120V 100A service. I have never seen a house with three-phase, only outbuildings with heavy equipment. But in The Long Dark you can easily be electrocuted by wires during the aurora, so there is a lot of power there.

It would be nice to be able to set the game so that it went directly to the game menu at startup and skipped all the title cards. I have played for well over 1000 hours now, probably mostly for an hour or two at a time. So I have had to repeatedly tell the game I want it to start something between 500 and a 1000 times.

The microwaves might be sketchy because the electronics are sensitive to voltage. But ya, the cooktops and hotplates should work during an aurora. Or maybe you would need a fuse to get them working.

Except for the crates in the tail section on top of TWM I have not found anything anywhere in a wooden crate or cardboard box.

Breaking down crates and boxes used to have a chance of dropping items. Am I correct that that was removed and you cannot get loot from breaking these resources down anymore?

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.

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.

I think a problem reported earlier may still be, well, a problem. If your rest or go in a building it still appears to reset wounded animals that should have bled out. I shot a bear clean in the head four or five times with a rifle and once with the warden’s revolver before it finally died. Seems like you just have to stand their and wait until your prey drops or they won’t.

I hear ya. Been stuck twice. Had to revert to old saves.

If there is no fix, this may soon be the prevailing sentiment. I have restarted twice now. Seems like it is becoming a monthly thing, making it impossible to ever make any progress. And of course if I have to restart a new custom game from scratch again in August I will not find out if that effort was in vain until I have put another month into discovering what is missing. An official save-game editor would fix some of the worst consequences of these bugs.

I got stuck on a slope between Andre’s Peak and the West engine in TWM recently. It is not unrealistic. People die from getting their legs trapped. What I can advise, for anyone who is using a computer for anything, is that large external drives are relatively cheap. Set up your computer to make routine automatic backups.

That is why I made the long composite image.

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.

Also you have gotten a measure of lantern fuel oil out of it.

Some players, including myself on my current save, are finding that the Curator’s Rifle has not spawned in any of the known locations in Ash Canyon. Other DLC items have, but not the Curator’s Rifle. I have reported it as have other players. It does not seem to be in any list of known errors. Is anyone aware of Hinterland working on this?

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?

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.

Good idea to back up your savegame.

The land of Curator’s Rifle Did Not Spawn.

Has anyone heard if this is going to require another restart and new savegame? “Ptarmigans will not spawn when playing in Custom Survival. Players utilizing Custom difficulty settings will find that Ptarmigans will not spawn in their games, whether fresh saves or old. This issue has been addressed and is awaiting the next release to be pushed live.”

I started a new game… again on June 18, because there is no way to adjust game settings. I am gradually building up my skills and collecting the items lost again. I am trying to find the Curator’s Rifle in Ash Canyon again. I found it straight away in the last savegame. It really appears to not have spawned in this new playthrough however. I have searched very thoroughly. Feeling like I may have gone mad I have returned again, for a third or fourth time to all the possible spawn locations that have been found so far and took a screen shot of each location just so I can be sure I am not. It is not in any of them. And like some few other players, I think it has not spawned in my game. I have mapped the heck out of Ash Canyon. Please let me know if I should give up cause it is not there.

He was trying to get in!

So, Great Bear is definitely haunted.

Does anyone know the name of the ghost in the penitentiary who follows you around helpfully closing the doors behind you?