Rust

[spaps]

Discuss Rust in this thread.

For those of you that don't know what Rust is, Rust is a game made by Facepunch Studios (the devs that made Garry's Mod) about survival. It plays like a combination of Minecraft and DayZ, letting you build towns by crafting building materials, hunting animals with various weaponry, and beat disconnected players lying on the floor to death, making them lose everything in their inventory and destroy everything they've created when they reconnect.

Upon it's Steam release, the game made more money that Garry's Mod ever did in only a few months, and it's still in Alpha.

 

[TastyWoodenBadge]

Gay.

 

[brooklynbailiff]

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[exball]

You sure have an interesting taste in games Spaps.

 

[Fcret]

I'm surprised a game about bullying black people and female-presenting men doesn't have a larger thread on KF.

 

[thejackal]

I'm surprised a game about bullying black people and female-presenting men doesn't have a larger thread on KF.

Not being able to change your character is sorta subversive and hilarious for the triggering at the same time. Ironically being a small black woman in the game is a pretty big advantage, it's super helpful at night and your hit boxes are smaller.

This is arguably the best game I've every played. I have an embarrassing amount of hours since legacy. It just keep getting better and better. Whenever I get sick of it I take a few months off and come back and there is so much new stuff and the meta has changed enough to where it feels fresh. I would honestly say that it's a contender for the best game ever made, there is just an incredible amount of shit you can do and it's all tinged with crazy human interactions that you just don't get in any other game. The shit they are doing now with drones and the vehicles and the electric (and logic) system is what a game like Cyberpunk or even GTA series or Skyrim could only dream about implementing. Rust is so far ahead of any other game in its systems and it just seems to keep outdoing itself.

There are problems, for sure, the learning curve is probably the biggest. And the inability to really "play" the game unless you're in a team (or on a small group server). But I would say, yea, it's fucking awesome.

 

[BlackDragoons]

Not being able to change your character is sorta subversive and hilarious for the triggering at the same time. Ironically being a small black woman in the game is a pretty big advantage, it's super helpful at night and your hit boxes are smaller.

This is arguably the best game I've every played. I have an embarrassing amount of hours since legacy. It just keep getting better and better. Whenever I get sick of it I take a few months off and come back and there is so much new stuff and the meta has changed enough to where it feels fresh. I would honestly say that it's a contender for the best game ever made, there is just an incredible amount of shit you can do and it's all tinged with crazy human interactions that you just don't get in any other game. The shit they are doing now with drones and the vehicles and the electric (and logic) system is what a game like Cyberpunk or even GTA series or Skyrim could only dream about implementing. Rust is so far ahead of any other game in its systems and it just seems to keep outdoing itself.

There are problems, for sure, the learning curve is probably the biggest. And the inability to really "play" the game unless you're in a team (or on a small group server). But I would say, yea, it's fucking awesome.

I need to update my computer. Was a heavy player back before the new changes to the game but because of the changes its not really optimized all that well and requires a shit ton of memory.

 

[SkitzoTard]

Not being able to change your character is sorta subversive and hilarious for the triggering at the same time. Ironically being a small black woman in the game is a pretty big advantage, it's super helpful at night and your hit boxes are smaller.

This is arguably the best game I've every played. I have an embarrassing amount of hours since legacy. It just keep getting better and better. Whenever I get sick of it I take a few months off and come back and there is so much new stuff and the meta has changed enough to where it feels fresh. I would honestly say that it's a contender for the best game ever made, there is just an incredible amount of shit you can do and it's all tinged with crazy human interactions that you just don't get in any other game. The shit they are doing now with drones and the vehicles and the electric (and logic) system is what a game like Cyberpunk or even GTA series or Skyrim could only dream about implementing. Rust is so far ahead of any other game in its systems and it just seems to keep outdoing itself.

There are problems, for sure, the learning curve is probably the biggest. And the inability to really "play" the game unless you're in a team (or on a small group server). But I would say, yea, it's fucking awesome.

Agreed. The constant work of the developers introducing new mechanics nearly every single month keeps the game fresh and interesting. They've added so much at this point that I'm pretty sure nearly anyone could find something entertaining to do. I've also met plenty of cool people playing this game, if you aren't toxic and aggressive 24/7 like the majority of players then you can randomly run into some pretty chill dudes.

Also agreed that the learning curve is a big issue but I think it incentivizes meeting people and playing in groups with experienced players, it's the best way to learn. If that isn't something you want to do then you might need to watch a lot of YT vids to get that info.

I've got a pretty gross number of hours in rust. I've slowed down playing as much in the last year or 2 but I still come back to it periodically.

To the guy right above me, it's definitely always had optimization issues like you said. I know I've seen some performance improvements in recent patch notes. If I had to guess I'd say your bottleneck might be RAM, I'd recommend checking that as your potential first step toward improving but it sounds like you might already be aware. I had a shit computer that ran at 20-30 fps the first few years I played, it's been a lot more fun at 70+ fps with my current computer.

 

[Fcret]

I've recently stumbled back into playing this. The electric furnaces and industrial automation are unironically a massive buff for solos since you can now just automate all the crafting instead of needing like 20 dudes back at base to get shit in order.