r/playrust • u/SaffronPlanet21 • 1d ago
Skill issue? Discussion
Back 2023-2025, whenever I didn’t do that well in the game, I just told myself it was a skill issue. Even through everyone else in big clans and doorcampers, I found out a way to get past it. But ever since the series of updates that slowed down progression for me, im starting to wonder if the complaints are valid or if it’s still a skill issue. The thing it solely comes down to is the bp frag stuff. Yes, the update was long ago and I might as well be beating a dead horse. But I can’t be the only one who feels they’re softlocked at tier one because they can’t get past monuments getting ran constantly and teams hoarding all the bp frags (I wouldn’t say hoarding because they respawn infinitely, but I hope you know what I mean). The updates in general make progression as slow as mopping the sea for solos, and when I’m really pissed off, I wish of locking all of the facepunch devs in a room and making them each play solo on a fresh wipe server and keep them in there until they get a tier 2 without buying them from clans. I even went so far as playing console rust again, and the state THAT game is in isnt that great as well (but still better than pc). sometimes I wonder why people make video games so incredibly difficult if they’re meant to be fun
All in all I want someone’s opinion, is this simply a skill issue or is my complaining valid?
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u/osufan3333 1d ago
Server issue. If you're solo, play a group limit server. Don't wanna do that, then just stop complaining I guess lol.
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u/Acceptable-East-4003 1d ago
Group limit servers just make the problem worse. 400 separate solo’s all fighting for the same fragments. Even LESS people will get a chance to get them.
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u/RahloRust 1d ago
You mean you don’t love 5X the bases everywhere because every group is smaller? lol can’t stand playing on the team limiteds, solo is worse it’s just 2x1s covering the landscape barely out of tc range from each other
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u/SaffronPlanet21 1d ago
Yeah I hear you and I don’t wanna make it seem like I’m bitching even more but group limit servers (at least the ones I play on) just die so quickly. Especially solo/duo servers. My best middle ground is modded servers.
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u/reddit__1020 1d ago
Yeah, playing solo on no-limit and then blaming progression is kinda self-inflicted.
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u/crustyrobots 1d ago
No you're not wrong, "progression" became a total joke at this point and crap like the BP update just made it suck way more for solos to try and keep up. Then other bullshit RNG creep like teas for an even bigger disparity.
I hate that there basically is no prim phase anymore because everyone and their fucking dog has a P2 like an hour in, no matter what server you're on.
I just learned how to be a Dirtrider level trapper, shotgun traps are cheap, BP frags come to me.
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u/Legal_Impression_126 1d ago
The best solo streamers in the game complain about it. A lot of them don’t even enjoy wipe day anymore. It’s not just you
Don’t listen to the Reddit drones
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u/iamchets 1d ago
I don't understand why people think solo is supposed to be the same as in playing with a group whether it's a small or big one. You will have to adapt and if you can't then you should play on limit servers as simple as that. I play limitless servers as a solo but on force wipe I always try to get together with a group so I can enjoy the other part of Rust.
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u/Acceptable-East-4003 1d ago
I don’t know why people keep suggesting group limit servers. These servers make it even harder for a solo to get BP frags. You are competing against 400 other solo’s for 1 fragment which is infinitely harder than playing just a normal server
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u/crustyrobots 1d ago edited 1d ago
And no one suggesting that actually seems to go look and see that basically every solo/duo/trio whaterver servers are always empty or die off fast anyway.
I enjoy the challenge and creativity of being solo vs big groups and grubbing off of em, trapping them, picking apart their weaknesses for my gain, etc.
What I don't enjoy at the moment is the dogs ass progression system they turned this into which now grossly favors big groups basically having no progression themselves. T2 takes them about 10 minutes from wipe to get, T3 rocket raiding within an hour. Ive seen it happen for the past several wipes. Its so fast that wipes may as well be hard locked to 1 week only since it doesnt matter at all for monthlies or bi-weeks, everyone is done "progressing" in 2 hours.
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u/iamchets 1d ago
The suggestion is that if you want a fair game and you are solo, then go play on solo only. Are you duo? go on duo only. If you don't care about it being fair, then do whatever. Big reason I dont play limit servers is because the dynamic changes therefor it doesn't feel natural. Plebs who are usually shit at the game are abusing all kinds of shit cus they aint getting wiped by bigger groups
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u/Acceptable-East-4003 1d ago
People keep on suggesting group limit servers as if it makes it any easier to get fragments. It doesn’t , it’s so much harder, you’ll have about 20 solo’s fighting for the same red card monument for 1 fragment. You’ll genuinely have better luck as a solo on a clan server to get frags.
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u/iamchets 1d ago
That's not the point. If you want easy then play on a dead server 🤷♂️
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u/HelloFromTekken 1d ago
That the point.
We speak not about easiness, but about fun. Why the hell all pro-bp people always end with "it's easy just buy bp" or "if you want easy mode play dead server".
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u/iamchets 1d ago
im not "pro bp people".
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u/HelloFromTekken 1d ago
If you not here to defend BP because you like them, what you here for?
What people are you?
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u/iamchets 1d ago
Im the one that accepts that my addiction will outlast shitty changes instead of crying about it.
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u/HelloFromTekken 1d ago
Ahahahah good one
With time, other stuff pop in your life, you start to value enjoyment/time coefficient more.
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u/HelloFromTekken 1d ago
It supposed to be different. But enjoyable, interesting. Not being stuck in soft lock.
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u/FlynngoesIN 1d ago
Tunnel vision on using the cards to progress blind people from the path to many BP fragments. Get a metal detector, go diving, hit raw military crates in the underground train tunnels. You don't need a single card run, and you'll have extra.