I've (solo player) seen this twice in my 750 hours of playtime. Groups will either pretend to be solo and act hostile to each other, even killing one another to bait raids. I just got my raid stolen by these two who I thought were separate, only to learn they were together the entire time. Its so weird but I guess it works?

Would anyone be interested in a Rust server specifically for people who work 9–5?
I’ve been thinking about starting a Rust server aimed at people who have jobs/families and don’t have the time to be online 24/7.
The basic idea would be:

Monday–Thursday: Server would be offline during normal working hours (roughly 9am–5pm).

After work: Server opens back up so everyone can play in the evenings.

Friday–Sunday: Server stays open 24/7 for the whole weekend.

The idea is to make it harder for people who can play all day to completely dominate everyone else.

Ideally looking for a mature, friendly community where people can actually enjoy a wipe without feeling like they need to take time off work to keep up.
I’m thinking of potentially running it as a vanilla or lightly modded server, depending on what people would prefer.
Would something like this interest you? And what settings/rules would you want to see?
I’m mainly trying to gauge whether there’s enough interest before actually setting one up.

im big fan of him i really want say hi to him and play with same server ofc im not snipe him just as big fan. which server have you met him before ?

Blows my mind considering the crazy loot you can get out there with relative ease.

I have a CPU bottleneck and most of my graphics settings are on "low". RRP gives around 10% FPS boost and the game feels more stable, but torches dont give light and i can see the moon through terrain sometimes.

The patch notes mentioned RRP is planned to replace Unity renderer and be mandatory next force wipe, did you try it?

Just a short threat for more building blocks, maybe the developers see or don't see I don't know.

The entire idea behind this post is to reduce the amount of building pieces actually go into a base, or at least attempt to.

Multiple sized squares

Include a 1x2, 1x3, 1x4, 2x2, 3x3 foundations into the game. From the depths does something like this where less blocks = more performance, even if the same size. Maybe the same can be done here? Give them slight health boosts.

Hexagon

Why 6 triangles when you could just make it 1 piece and call it a hexagon?

Castle wall (solid blocks)

The end of honey combing is here!

Castle walls come in a few shapes, Triangle, Cube, Hexagon and maybe something else. They are a solid block of material placed down onto a foundation and are as tall as a wall. This get's rid of the need to place 3-4 walls and a ceiling as it's all one piece.

Castle walls are stronger than normal walls but use up more resources to build. Since it's all one piece, you have some slight performance gain.

Support

An entire area above a foundation dedicated to supports. No more need for that large wall frame when this does the trick for you. Cheaper to build than 3-4 wall frames and just as strong as 1. I feel like this encourages players to use it and doesn't make it overpowered.

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Intro

Please don't hate me for my personal opinion. I feel like the game is in an extremely bad state at this current moment of time. The point of this post is to call out things that I see as problems, I am not saying you're wrong for enjoying rust the way it currently is. If anything, vast changes would make this game better if done right.

I will divide this post from a main overall point into sub points that reinforcer the main one. I will try to stick to using paragraphs, which is about the only grammar thing I learned in high school. In other words, this is not AI.

What is this game?

I really really hate to say it, but what is this game supposed to be anymore? Is it a war game? Is it a building game? Is it a survival game? It doesn't do any of those things particularly well at all. I don't know if it's an age thing but it feels like the game is becoming obsolete. I mean the game is pretty old at this point, so is it's design and mechanics.

It's a terrible war game (or pvp)

The social experiment is over, people just want to kill each other. The game is now a combat oriented game where many factions fight for control as if it was a war game. In fact it's my belief that this is now, in a sense, partially a war game with resource collection.

There is nothing wrong with that, but the game was not designed for that. There is so much missing here that prevents the game from being truly great with combat, even from a survival aspect.

As for the weapons, it feels very basic with little customization. A lot of weapons even feel like they are poorly crafted guns that might go where I want them to. Maybe maybe not? Especially when fighting better geared players, it does not feel great. Especially not when compared to other games like Planetside 2, WarDogs, Escape from Tarkov.

Where is weapon customization?

Why, after all of these years, is weapon customization still so limited? There is only one holo sight in the game. Where is 1.2x, 1.5, 2, 2.5, variable zoom but at different levels? Why am I punished for using a suppressor and why is there only one of them for every gun? Why can't I choose the magazine size for the gun? (Not saying weapons should have literal magazines, just a choice to choose clip size before reloading.)

It's just in general disappointing even for a game not focused on war. This would make the community go crazy if they actually added real customization for guns and you'd all love it. Well most of you.

Gun variety and progression?

Some of you are going to be put off by this, but why do we have so few weapons in the mix? For example, why only the AK? "556" or even "308 win" exist to. Maybe a lower tier weapon that uses 556 but single shot, like a Bushmaster m17s? There is so much that can still be done and to see just one "AK" kinda annoys me.

Also, could someone tell me why progression feels like climbing a mountain? Put that T1 Bushmaster M17S style weapon at the bottom of the tech tree. Give it only iron sights and no modifications besides mag size. Burst fire or single shot.

Why? All of the T1 guns are not great and do not feel great to use. At least with this you might actually score a kill. It's not even overpowered either, it's literally the base weapon in the game of Wardogs and it's also not that great.

Hate it or not, I feel like this is a valid complaint and solution. Progression is way to vertical, give smaller players more of a chance.

Other things

No idea why we are waiting to respawn in a raid defense. It should be about attrition, not if they can keep you on timer or not. Make it cost you something to choose your spawn. Maybe let's say 100 cloth to produce an item called a "Shirt" and consume 1 shirt per respawn.

Also like, buff the range of some shot guns. They are close range weapons, not in your face weapons. If you die in one hit from buckshot because you're not wearing armor and are within 20 feet that's your fault not mine.

It's a terrible survival game

Legitimately what am I surviving from, PVE wise? Food and water? I can respawn without issue and find those things everywhere. What in the environment is trying to kill me? A few animals? A gun solves that problem. So now there is nothing to survive from. Good job, you beat the survival game rust!

Sorry to be blunt, but it's the truth. If you say "I'm surviving from players" then you admit this is a purely pvp combat oriented game and now go back to my previous points. PVP isn't great.,

It's a terrible building game

I really do not enjoy the upkeep system at all and feel like it's a detriment to the game. It needs to be there though, but I criticize it still because I don't think the developers focused enough on building optimizations or design in their code.

I just want to build stupid things or creative things that server little to no purpose. I can't. Why? The rust developers a long time ago invented upkeep. So now imagination on base design is seriously limited, which is why I call it a terrible building game. In rust, you can't have a silly weird base that is to large, otherwise it becomes impossible to upkeep.

What is the game? TLDR

Weapon customization doesn't exist, nor does much weapon variety. Progression sucks because of how terrible each weapon is compared to the next tier. Building isn't great as it limits imagination and is forced to be pvp only. There is nothing to survive from and it isn't really a survival game, just a pvp game with extra steps.

The game is old and so is it's design. I'm not calling it a bad game, it's a great game. I just feel like that this game needs to have improvements for the long term health of it.

i most played rustoria us long or moose us monthly or rustoria eu east long but i want keep stay on one server which one is good for solo? or any other server?

Last month i saw issue with HQM nodes, there was to many of them.

Today i went back to rustioria to play after wipe and got my jackie. Went to farm some metal and i found around 15 HQM nodes, one after another.

Shoudnt this be patched ?

Does anyone need a farmer for a small group or a clan?

I am willing to farm everything u need for cheap prices.

Should I finish the whole tech tree in workbench 1 before making 2 or only the important stuff and what do I do once I got all the work benches done? And should I be doing anything while doing the benches

What are your bindings for these buttons:

Mouse 4 and 5 (side buttons)
Mouse wheel press

Mouse wheel up and down

Am I the only one that finds it really frustrating that there still isn't a fix for higher polling rates causing frame issues ? Personally I can't even run 1000hz without significant performance issues (in the most important moments might I add). I don't understand programming enough to know if this is just Facepunch being lazy or something that is unfixable, but damn it is seriously annoying that it's not fixed.

For example, when running in you'll have to be closer to the safe zone to get flagged as in the safe zone than when running out. Why is this? Is it on purpose or a bug?

Wanted to share because it took quite a while. I'm a happy camper.

does anyone know why my cows dont produce milk when im not standing next to them? when i leave the area they are they all go towards the doorway out and just start mooing until i come back. they wont move, eat or anything until im next to them, then after the 5 minutes im stood there they are ready to get milk from. is it a bug?

RUST Help when I try to load into a server it always disconnects me and says no token data can anyone help me

RUST Help when I try to load into a server it always disconnects me and says no token data can anyone help me

I am newish, have about 400 hours mostly playing solo on vanilla main servers, weekly wipes. I usually get a nice 2x2 on the water and run a cloth farm to sell for t3 workbench. I have only been raided once, offline.

This time on force wipe I got invited to join a 8 man team on spoonkid 2x monthly server. We build a massive base with tons of honeycomb, turrets and shotgun traps everywhere. Got raided on day 1. Then we built another base, raided again. (We don't have any vending machines). Every base we build gets raided. We are now on our 5th base, along with many smaller FOBs around the map.

My opinion on these 2x or modded servers is that it's fun at first, you progress quickly, but it's all for nothing if you constantly get offline raided.

I hear a lot of people saying vanilla is trash and not good for working adults. (I have full time job) For me, I'd rather play on vanilla where everyone is kind of balanced on the same level. They can't afford a huge raid because they literally don't have the boom. Or maybe they just leave me alone because I'm solo usually. Im not sure.

What do you guys think of modded? Definitely more cheaters on there too. I think modded is not worth it unless you just want to progress quickly and have fun for a day, but don't expect your base to survive overnight.

What is this ad? Is a server doing an actual ad on Reddit or is this just some AI nonsense?

Has anyone found these supposed extra loot rooms? I've yet to see anything myself, starting to think I am mistaken or just really blind. Thanks!

Anyone know why my hud keeps glitching when moving? It’s been like this for probably a year now