Tactical Jacket
Slot: Outer torso clothing
Harvest: 2 × [Cloth]; 20 minutes
Repair: 2 × [Cloth]; 180 minutes; 30% condition
The Tactical Jacket is a unique Clothing item, found only during the end of the Last Horizon Tale, in a hidden room in Bunker Omega in Forsaken Airfield. It originally belonged to The Foreman.
Tactical Jacket is an Outer torso item in The Long Dark. It adds 2°C warmth and 4°C windproofing. Waterproofing is 50%. It weighs 2 kg.
Within the Outer torso slot its 2°C warmth ranks #11 of 19 entries here — mid-pack for that layer.
At 1°C per kg its warmth-to-weight ratio ranks #87 of 100 clothing items with both values recorded — a poor return for the weight.
Its 15% protection is a small edge in a predator struggle, though mobility and warmth matter more in most runs.
Note the 4% mobility penalty — it slows you slightly, so a lighter inner layer can be the better trade when you are carrying a heavy load.
Crafting notes: it repairs with 2 × Cloth; 180 minutes; 30% condition and harvests into 2 × Cloth; 20 minutes.
Verdict: Overall Tactical Jacket is a 2°C Outer torso piece, best reserved for cold-weather loadouts where the mobility hit is affordable.
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