Our latest coverage of Rust.
Multiplayer survival game Rust has received one of its biggest combat updates since it first launched into Early Access almost nine years ago. The combat update makes major adjustments to guns work in the game, particularly when it comes to recoil. The original pattern-based recoil system has now been replaced with a gradient-based aim drift for automatic weapons. “The longer [...]
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Unleash your inner mad scientist in Rust this Halloween season as you work to piece together your very own Frankenstein’s monster in the survival sandbox MMO’s new Frankenstein Monster mode. Here’s how: Collect the required body parts (i.e. legs, torso, and head) by killing mummies and scarecrows wandering around the map during the event, bring your gruesome collection back to [...]
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Facepunch Studios has just added a whole host of underwater content in Rust in this month’s Going Deep update. The update features a new underwater biome that comes complete with procedural-generated dungeons, submarines, torpedoes, spear guns, and sharks. “The new underwater labs are fully procedural dungeons that reside on the ocean floor. They will come in a variety of shapes [...]
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Facepunch Studios has confirmed that they’ve suffered a catastrophic loss of Rust player data due to a fire that ripped through the OVH Datacenter in Strasbourg, France early yesterday morning. According to the studio, 25 EU servers were lost during the blaze along with all the data they contain. Thankfully, no one was hurt during the incident. “We’re expecting a [...]
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Rust, Facepunch Studio’s hardcore survival MMO, will be coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this spring from developer Double Eleven, a UK-based studio working independently from the original PC developer. The console version will feature the same unforgiving survival and PvP mechanics that the PC game is known for. Up to 100 players will fight for survival in a [...]
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Rust, Facepunch Studio’s multiplayer survival game, is infamous for its extremely challenging gameplay and full loot PvP mechanics that more often than not results in you being constantly murdered and losing your gear. Well, the developers have heard your pleas for mercy and have decided to add “softcore” servers for players who can’t quite cut it in the game’s hardcore [...]
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Rust, Facepunch Studios’ survival sandbox game, has seen a sudden surge of players and has hit its all-time peak concurrency since the game launched into Early Access back in 2013. SteamDB shows that the game peaked at just over 134k players on January 4th and is continuing to show high player numbers as of this writing. The sudden influx of [...]
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Garry Newman, the developer behind the popular survival game Rust, announced earlier today that Rust has seen 329,970 units or $4.4 million worth of copies refunded back to players. Added sales stats to our backend today. These are Rust's real Steam Refund figures. pic.twitter.com/IhjUsJUN9N — Garry Newman (@garrynewman) June 28, 2017 Despite still being in Early Access since its first [...]
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Facepunch Studios founder Garry Newman, creator of one of my favorite survival games Rust, took to Reddit to lay down some hard-earned wisdom to the community: if you don't like playing Rust, stop playing it. He's addressing the culture of complaint. Rust updates, the community loves it, then they hate it—until the next update releases. My worry is that this [...]
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Brutal Survival Sandbox Simulator, Rust, has recently patched the game as described in Devblog 70. The new patch features a fix for the Windows Magnifier hipfire exploit, which allowed rifle users to snipe people without iron-sighting from extreme distances. In addition they've added several new clothing for your post-apocalyptic fashionistas out there. On a more practical note, the game has [...]
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