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Disambig Tek Rifle is referred to as "TEK Rifle" in ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile

Tek Rifle
Tek Rifle
Shoots explosive plasma bolts, with an infrared zoomable scope. Equipping requires learning this Tekgram.
Type
Ammo used
Explosive damage
150
Rate of fire
4 RPS
Magazine size
50
Reload time
4 / 9 seconds
DPS
579.4 / 600
Weight
10.0
Stack size
1
Durability
80
Single use
No
Unlocked upon defeating
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Added in
Spawn Command
cheat gfi TekRifle 1 0 0
or
cheat giveitem "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_TekRifle.PrimalItem_TekRifle'" 1 0 0
Unlock Tekgram
cheat unlockengram "Blueprint'/Game/PrimalEarth/CoreBlueprints/Weapons/PrimalItem_TekRifle.PrimalItem_TekRifle'"
Crafted in
Required stations
ARK: Survival Evolved Mobile Ingredients (Mobile)
Resources breakdown [Expand]
450 × Metal Ingot Metal Ingot
900 × Metal Metal
120 × Crystal Crystal
Total Base Ingredients

The Tek Rifle is a highly advanced ranged weapon.

Usage[]

The Tek Rifle fires explosive energy blasts at a quick rate of fire. While firing, it consumes Element Element, each piece supplies the rifle with 50 shots.

It does not need to be reloaded at any time, but when the rifle is fired for too long without a break, it will overheat and has to cool down before it can be used again, it takes 41 continuous shots to overheat the weapon.

The Tek Rifle has a built-in scope lens that increases the sight range when activated, similar to the Scope Attachment Scope Attachment for lower-tier guns. The Tek Rifle scope also has a night vision function, allowing the scope to be used effectively at night. To zoom in while aiming, use the scroll wheel.

Tekgram[]

The Tekgram is obtained by defeating the Megapithecus (Beta) Megapithecus (Beta), the Manticore (Beta) Manticore (Beta), the Ice Titan Ice Titan, the Dinopithecus King (Beta) or the Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) Crystal Wyvern Queen (Beta) or Rockwell (Beta) or Rockwell Prime (Beta). Defeating the higher difficulty versions will also give the player the engram.

Damage[]

List of explosive damage versus various materials as of Patch 257:

Weapon/Structure Thatch Wood Stone Metal Tek
C4 Charge C4 Charge * 11813 * 3544 788
Grenade Grenade 788 788 1838 237 53
Improvised Explosive Device Improvised Explosive Device (pair) * 7875 ** ** **
Rocket Propelled Grenade Rocket Propelled Grenade * 7350 * 2205 596
Tek Rifle Tek Rifle 1260 536 294 29 185
Tek Grenade Tek Grenade 2625 1115 612 59 385
Cannon Cannon * * 3446 355 40

* The damage is greater than the health-points of structures of that material
** IEDs are currently just about impossible to place on stone, metal, or Tek structures.

Notes[]

  • The projectiles for this weapon have longer travel times than other rifles.
  • The projectiles do area damage and will hit friendlies if friendly fire is turned on.
  • There are heat indicators on the weapon in 3rd person and zoom mode that will allow you to regulate your weapon as to not overheat.
  • While this weapon's base stats are better than most other ranged weapons, it is only possible to obtain higher Quality Tek Rifles (Ramshackle, Apprentice, etc...) in Extinction from Orbital Supply Drop (Extinction) Orbital Supply Drop, killing Extinction Titans, or on Genesis via challenges.
  • The projectiles for this weapon do not have bullet drop, but will detonate once a max range is reached.
  • Although the rifle does damage to Stone and Metal structures alike, it cannot damage Auto Turret Auto Turrets. This is likely for game balance reasons since it has a higher range and its projectiles can't be shot down.
  • The Tek Rifle is the only ranged weapon (besides the Rocket Launcher Rocket Launcher) able to do explosive damage.
  • The Tek Rifle like all Tek technologies cannot be used inside most Boss Arenas.
  • The Tek Rifle has no magazine but does overheat. It has 50 shots per element.
  • The Tek Rifle loses 1 durability every 20 shots and an additional 2 durability when a projectile or its splash damage hits a mineable resource such as small trees.
  • A 296.6% Tek Rifle deals 711 damage per bolt to creatures with no armor. With 40 bolts, the tek rifle can do 28,440 damage if the target has no armor.

The Tek Rifle is also quite capable at destroying resource nodes such as obsidian, crystal, metal, rock, trees, Beaver dams etc. Exercise caution when firing.

Lore[]

  • According to Santiago in Genesis: Part 2, the popular Tek rifle back in the events of the Element War was dubbed "AR-234: Titanhammer".
  • In Extinction, Diana adds an addendum about how the URE version of the Tek rifle is dubbed "A.P.R (Assault Pulse Rifle) 75 Stingrey".
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