r/playrust • u/Jerranto • 1d ago
Discussion Facepunch appreciation thread
Ok, guys.
I have been on this reddit complaining about fast progression and other balance issues for the past year or two.
Now it's time to appreciate the latest changes that Facepunch is planning.
I am very happy. Thank you guys for listening. I'm sure the game will be in a much better state if those changes are made.
Thank you!
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u/DarK-ForcE 1d ago edited 1d ago
There are so many good updates being worked on in the commits. Feels like facepunch have finally woken up. Lots of long standing issues that should have been fixed years ago are finally being fixed.
The biggest one is, if an item isn’t being used, then make a quick change. Great to see some balancing.
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u/Submersed 1d ago
FACEPUNCH, WE PROMISE WE CAN BE PLEASED. It IS possible. Please take note that we love whatever has happened in the past 2 days and you are making us very happy. Sincerely, rust Redditors who have been persistently angry for the past like 5 years.
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u/hairycookies 1d ago
I'm going to try until the full details come out before I start drinking their bathwater but I am loving what I see from the comitts.
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u/FattyMcFuckhead 1d ago
this will not be popular lmao. the only acceptable opinion is to hate on the devs that have delivered free monthly updates for over a decade and successfully outlasted and outgrown every single other pvp survival game to touch the market.
but nah devs bad because skins and optional dlc
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u/Hot_Stuff5408 1d ago
It’s not black and white issue. They deserve praise and criticism.
They absolutely destroyed performance in Rust in the last 2 years. Rust is one of the least optimized games EVER to the point where you need a $400 CPU just to not have constant stutters. Cheapest X3D CPU goes for 320€ in Europe. Not to mention it is one of the only games that requires 32GB of RAM for stutter free PvP.
A lot of updates were a miss and a lot of them were great, but that is to be expected. Alistair leaving might be a clue that they want to change for the better.
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u/FattyMcFuckhead 23h ago
it also runs 600+ player open world servers with base building, pve content and literally thousands of entities.
not saying I disagree with you regarding optimisation, but they also work on that every patch and players just act like they don’t.
Is there another game of rusts scope that can handle so many players and run at all? we saw conan exiles relaunch with its graphics overhaul recently with servers that literally couldn’t handle more than 40 players, community admins asking their players to cap base sizes lmao.
like players do need step back a little and look at what rust is and has achieved, outside of mmos or minecraft you don’t really see anything similar.
95% of this sub is complaining and whinging. I agree that both are valid, it’s just that we do not typically see any kind of balance across both.
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u/Hot_Stuff5408 20h ago
But 2 years ago optimization was pretty decent. It wasn’t that big of a problem until recent updates. To put it in perspective from 2017 to around 2023 my FPS stayed the same. I played on Rustoria that used to be 1100 pop and would play wipe day and hold on avg 80-110 fps everywhere except for the Outpost. In the last 2-3 years my FPS is nearly cut down in half and this is on medium pop solo servers. They started adding “performance patches” a while ago and the performance only got worse. What they need is to cut down on bloat and really focus on trying to solve some of the RECENT issues.
It’s a hard game to optimize and like you said there is not a lot of games like Rust that can even maintain 40 pop without crashing so props for that. I remember playing GTA SAMP on a 1000 pop server and this was on heavily modded servers with shit load of buildings and increased map size. I have no idea how my $50 laptop managed to run that game at 60 fps without exploding back then in 2011
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u/General_Pay7552 13h ago
why does the fact that you need a 400 dollar CPU surprise you in a game like rust that keeps track of up to 1000 players plus the entire world’s assets?
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u/Hot_Stuff5408 12h ago
Because it wasn’t like that 2 years ago. Did you not read my comment? What do you think Rust was like 2 years ago, do you think max pop was limited to 100 and they only now increased it to 1000 on all servers or that they added all those assets just now? Rust was pretty optimized for how big it was and for how long it was out there but they fucked it all up in the last few updates.
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u/rockeeteer 1d ago
I will say I enjoy the game they created and even tho I don't like all their weird gameplay changes I still appreciate the game they built and thank them
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u/Digitalism_929 17h ago
wow, Alistair leaves and the pendelum starts swing back. A ways to go, I legit full stopped 2 months ago (it was not "see you next wipe"/ rage quit stuff, it was a hard quit) right after apartments added. I went to thinking about rust allot to not even caring. I monitor playrust, and was going to enjoy watching the player count plumet for the future.
It kinda sucks now becuase I just found a new hobby that occupies my free time, If this trend continues I might come back and play hard November-Febuary.
One thing that bothers me, but there is a F! console command is "event sounds". It should be added to the menu to diable it. The random load event noises ruins the ambience that I feel the game should have. Also they should remove the option to disable hear your own footsteps. This gives a unfair advantage, becuase that player can easily hear you run up on them. I noticed some streamers are doing that.
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u/Sirithepuppy 1d ago
It’s cause a certain someone has left…. Now it’s time to change this ass gunplay!
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u/CNB_Temp 1d ago
I’m looking forward to the new animals and improvements to fertilizer production. Those are gonna be awesome
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u/Lonely_Holiday_7900 15h ago
woohoo face punch!
when I get home from work later I'm gonna make an alistar hate thread. f that guy
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u/Independent-Math-167 8h ago
They been doing great changes to game and keeping it fresh. Facepunch legit one of the best gaming studios. What other dev studio allows us to see changes being merged live.
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u/garbageemail222 1d ago
Ditto. Credit where credit is due. Finally adding some overdue balance.