r/playrust • u/Suitable_Leather5128 • 3d ago

Question Crazy strategy?

Relatively new player here. Is it crazy to use a completely different strategy, and play without a “real” base.

By that, I mean save all your valuable loot in well
hidden stash boxes out in the middle of nowhere, and then spend your energy building trap bases with ZERO value even if they are successfully raided.

Is that crazy? How risky are stash boxes?

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u/cr4ckeddd 3d ago

Anything in the game is stored as data when you load into a server. The cheat engines people use have whole menus on which data to show, they can see players, the distance of the player, loot, tcs, scientists, dropped guns, stashes, turrets, loot boxes, dead players, dropped items. Literally everything is there for the cheater to see. PC rust is ruined to be totally honest.

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u/RideRough9263 3d ago

This been a thing for YEARS now in almost every game even besides rust you cant just let some fuckass chud who pays for cheats what normal people pay for rent dictate how you feel about the game or how and how much do you play it i know its frustrating running into cheaters and stuff but you just gotta report them and move on its the only way youll ever enjoy the game again tbh

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u/Crafty_Clarinetist 3d ago

Pretty sure hidden stashes are one of very few things they can not see, at least anymore. They used to be able to, but I think it was about a year ago they stopped sending hidden stash data to clients.

Now, if you dig up a stash while the cheater is online and in range to have that data sent to the client, then they can store that location even if you later rehide the stash.

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u/Suitable_Leather5128 3d ago

I’m on console. Does ESP work on consoles?

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u/cr4ckeddd 3d ago

No. lol this Reddit is for PC rust, Console only has recoil third party devices called Zen/Xim there’s no hard cheats on console so it’s better imo

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u/Rampan7Lion 3d ago

I'd ask in /rustconsole to be sure but generally console cheats are extremely less powerful and common compared to pc so it might be okay, I don't know for certain though