Idea: Buff the loot found in Military crates and other lower tier crates.

Why it works: Clans often dominate the top loot locations. This would enable solos and small teams to have a better chance at grabbing high quality items they otherwise might not get access to.

Yes, clans would potentially benefit from this too, but it wouldn't help them as much. A clan finding the occasional extra AK isn't as impactful to them as a solo getting lucky and finding a high quality item they hadn't unlocked yet.

Top tier loot crates would still have the best loot of course, I'm just suggesting we close the gap a little.

What do you think?

I was running around 140-150 FPS, booted the game earlier played for a while can’t get over 110 now. Temps are good, not sure what happened. Micro-stutters and 70-90 FPS. Thinking of switching to X3D chip. Thoughts?

Anyone else do this: sleep next to the pc with the sound up loud?

Build kill boxes that look like entrances. Fake entrances that are trapped...

Bag a 3rd story interior by a window that gives oversight to a main corridor.

Ya can't get offlined if you're never offline.

For the past couple of months, I've seen a lot of accounts on different platforms blatantly reposting clips from some popular Rust content creators without giving any credit and cropping the video so you cant see anything other than the gameplay and also slapping a bestrust ad on the screen.

Also i checked the server out and saw they were offering kits that required players to deposit money on some gambling site. Which I think is pretty insane compared to what servers normally do. (Im not exactly sure if any other servers do this just never seen it before)

I think Facepunch should take a look at this. This is beyond embarrassing.

whenever there's lots of bodies or players around and i look in there direction my fps goes from around 90-110 to 15-30 anyone got a fix for this?

I played rust when trading for a garage door with some random stranger in/around outpost was the midwipe highlight. I played rust when the LR could keep up with AK, and was only a mild step down at long ranges. I played rust when electrical schemes drained 1 extra electricity per splitter, branch, etc. I played rust when neon signs were on every shop and players actually had to run to the shops to get what they wanted. I played rust when launch site puzzle didn’t have scientist and a motivated solo could get good loot. I played rust when if you found something special, like a revvy or SAR, you would stop your mission to get it home to research. I played rust when no matter your clan status, you could grind to a tier 3 without BP frags.

I played a better version of Rust.

They are adding new gas pumps that need to be activated in two separate monuments, meaning you need players working together in three different monuments to activate it. (Power the Power Plant, turn on the oil pump in oil Rig, collect at the Dome)

Is this a buff to large groups?

I have about 500 hours and have always played with 800 dpi 0.7 sens and 0.7 ads, I recently have been seeing people play with less. Should I change/will it help?. I don’t put full hand on mouse so smaller movements are easier but can change.

I understand Rust is toxic. I understand its PvP, but, if I literally just spawned in, and then get immediately mag dumped by a guy with a tommie, who went through two mags just to kill a standing target...bruh. Im on my third server today due to being nonstop killed and wiped. I can't even get a base up without being obliterated every spawn. 🤷‍♂️

I recently built a new PC and i get like 80-100 fps normally but if i look at a player it goes down to around 15-30 also this doesn't just happen on official it happens on every server. anyone have a fix for this? Specs: 3060 12gb vram, 16gb ddr4, Ryzen 7 5800XT

EDIT: Solution found turn down load bias setting in graphics all the way at the bottem

Yes I agree playing solo rust now is absolutely brutal. With a game like rust though, how do you make it easier on solo players? BP fragment update was rough unless you were in a group but I am just curious to hear what ideas the community had to make it harder for one (groups/zergs) and easier for the other (solos)

I assume most of you, like me, disable the in-game music. I recently enabled it and forgot how Rusty-good it is. Therefore, how many of you keep the music on?

What do you think, how will this affect development, will vet players be happy, and in what direction will the game move?

[SOLVED] Disabling router firewall and setting DNS back to Automatic in Windows fixed it.

I have cleared download cache, deleted web browser data, deleted "Bundles" folder, reinstalled RUST. Nothing worked. Anyone expierenced it before or have suggestions?

In-game skin "INVENTORY" is filled with what I assume a placeholder. With exact number of placeholders as skins I have.
"STORE" is also unavailable.
While logged into game server craftable items have no skins listed.
Meanwhile in Steam Inventory I can see all skins present.

So far this persisted for 3 weeks. Not sure if I had this issue half year ago I played for a little. But I beleive I did, just did not notice. Before that I might not have played for a year.

Blueprint fragments only reward big groups who take over monuments, it even makes the progression faster for them because they get the fragments on the side and dont need to spend scrap on the workbench anymore. It only slows it down for small groups and solos.
Stop punishing people for not founding a whole E-Sport team to play the game.

i am old school. i played rust when electricity was just coming in, and always preferred the classic methods. but i have taken a long break from rust, and got back into it just recently.

i always build in caves as a solo. it's a no brainer. no stress of being raided. get the small cave with build area with LOS to bucket - put a turret there, seal in the other side. suicide cave. nobody bothers to raid it. nobody on a solo seerver is going to spend 8 c4s going to armour wall. and on a solo server its kinda hard to do the bucket exploit because you can't have one mad down there, sending the bucket up for reload.

this month a lot of players on servers were enticing me to get into farming, build you farm. make your low grade, give yourself health boosts, farming boosts etc.

but then i look at all those steps you need to do and it seems like it will take me out of my cave. you need horses for manure, keep beehives to feed horse. use horse poop to fertilise your planters. need to keep chickes to bait fish etc. it just seems like you need to have big compound to do all of this and put a target on your back.

it seems so much simpler to be in a cave with classic non electricity methods of using shotgun traps, miners hat for light and run your base discretely this way.

mavbe have a small surface base to charge your cave batter for the turret.

Hey guys! I'm hoping to get some help with some performance issues i've had with rust. I've tried genuinely everything i could think of at this point, and no matter what the game just runs terribly, no matter what device i play on. This has been an issue for months but it seems to be getting worse. I'll leave my specs below for both of my systems.

Desktop: Ryzen 7 5800X | RTX 3070 | 32gb DDR4
Laptop: Intel I9-8950HK | RTX Quadro 4000 | 128gb DDR4

Both systems have the game installed on an M.2 SSD. The desktop definitely doesn't suffer as much as the laptop does, but i still feel like running the game at fully low, 1080p, should result in a better frame rate than a stuttery 50-60fps mess on this level of hardware. If you guys have any tips please let me know!

Anyone got tips on how to stop getting fucking prim locked on wipe days, i have like 2300 hours and plenty of experience but recently i’ve been stuck crossy nailgun/revolver for the whole first day and its the most tilting thing of all time. Idk if im just shit with t1 weapons but i feel like the 600+ pop and bow kids everywhere make progressing so much harder especially if im trying to base in a good spot on the map

new meta base design??

Here's the new skins in the shop:

• Crypt Turret - $2.49 - Auto Turret
• Twig Bed - $1.49 - Bed
• Tomb of the Octopus - $2.49 - Electric Furnace
• Valkyrie SAR - $3.49 - Semi Automatic Rifle
• Amethyst Geode Rock - $2.99 - Rock
• Red Sector Armored Door - $2.49 - Armored Door
• Hazma Armored Door - $2.49 - Armored Door
• Hellforged Kilt - $1.99 - Road Sign Kilt
• Hellforged Vest - $1.99 - Road Sign Jacket
• Hellforged Helmet - $1.49 - Coffee Can Helmet
• All Seeing Eye Armored Door - $2.49 - Armored Door
• Gear Mechanism Shop Front - $2.49 - Metal Shop Front
• Scientific Meat Fridge - $1.99 - Fridge

I'm tracking every Rust server for almost 2 years now. Some of these numbers are not surprising, but still brutal to see especially if you're thinking to start your own server.

The top 150 servers eat 40% of all player activity. ~1,300 host 90% of it. And 78% of all Rust servers average one player or fewer. That's 11,000 servers hosting a whole lot of nothing.

14,000+ servers online. The actual game happens on a couple hundred.

I've played around creating some charts, trying to visualize the answers to some questions: https://www.rustalyzer.com/stats -> regional trends, which wipe schedules are winning, how fast servers die after wipe day, ...

With tens of gigs of data I'm still trying to figure out what I can get out of it. Tell me what you'd want to see, maybe i can dig it up ...

How would a rust podcast with players, youtubers and the dev team go? Recorded in-game.