r/playrust

2 days ago i decided to buy rust since i was seeking to play a new game in the survival genre.Since then i have played exactly 11.4 hr and i cant get enough.So far i have developed insomnia after finally building a relatively good honeycombed stone base.I cant sleep at night and i am constantly seeking the inevitable dopamine filled process of farming materials,scrap,building and upgrading my base,weapons and tools as well as running monuments and pvping.So far i have been raided 3 times,eco raided a guy once and i am planning on molly raiding my neighbours base.This is not satire and in fact i am actually feeling like i am addicted...Also this game fuels my gambling addiction that had finally been eliminated after i stop opening cases in cs.Most importantly i want know if this is normal and/if there is any way i can suppress this "addiction"?

The new softcore updates have made the game mode near unplayable. I have two major contentions.

1. Gather rate should never have been changed. Combined with a raid window, this is the fastest way to kill the soft core servers. People accumulate too much too fast, and no longer wish to play the server once they’re done. It’s day 4 today and there are already decaying bases, which isn’t normal. Might as well make this a PvE server at this point.

2. I am 100% convinced, even though it is not in the patch notes, that damage was changed. I am no PvP chad by any means, but I’ve been successful on softcore for several wipes now. What stands out to me, is that killing nakeds takes waaay longer with 5.56 than it ever has. It also seems like plate armor and BDU are not as helpful as they were previously. You shouldn’t automatically win a fight as a full metal/bdu ak vs a hazmat with a Thompson but it shouldn’t be a 50/50 fight either. Is anyone else experiencing a difference in PvP from previous softcore wipes?

As an honorable mention, the raid window is fucked and never should have been implemented.

I've recently joined a warbandits server which had a biweekly wipe. As per my understanding I've believed it was every 2 weeks which makes sense for me. However it's a wipe that takes place 2x in a week. Like what's the point of this mode? What can you achieve within 3-4 days.

Any GOOD modded 1.5x - 2x servers? Stevious use to be the best non pay to win but cant find anything as good theses days

Recently got back to game after not playing for 5 years, I'm just wondering if there's something wrong with my computer or fps fluctuating between 80-100 is considered a normal thing?

CPU AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.20 GHz)
GPU RTX 4070 SUPER (12 GB)
64gb ram
resolution 3840x1080

Hi all, I'm considering buying this game on PlayStation 5 but my friend who I play games with doesn't have any interest in it. How many people are there willing to team up with a new player? I don't want a show of hands, I'm just wondering if I drop $50 on it will I be able to find people wanting to play as a team and have fun?

Rust is one of the best games ever made, in my opinion, but I think a huge part of the player base simply can't enjoy it anymore because of work and adult responsibilities.

This includes me and one of my best friends. Back in high school, we could spend entire days playing Rust. It wasn't nonstop grinding either. Half the time we were just sitting in base, watching YouTube, playing browser games, organizing loot, or messing around. The other half was farming, PvPing, building, and raiding. Those slower moments were a big part of what made the game fun.

Now we're both employed. I work as a driver and only get short breaks at home throughout the day. My friend works different shifts, so we rarely get more than a couple of hours to play together.

We could grind all weekend, but once Monday comes, our base is left exposed while we're both at work. If we get raided, we're forced to start over the following weekend, so we usually end up playing games like CS instead.

I've always thought a semi-vanilla server with scheduled offline raid protection would solve this. You could set your work hours, and your base would only be protected during that time. At night it would still be completely vulnerable, just like normal Rust, and I'd be perfectly fine with that. Getting offline raided overnight is part of the game. Getting raided at 2 p.m. because you're stuck at work isn't. It wouldn't remove the risk, it would just make Rust more playable for people with full-time jobs.

Am I the only one in this situation? Rust has never been about playing solo for me. It's about playing with a friend, doing stupid stuff, laughing at random moments, and making memories together....

So basically i can no longer play rust with 16GB of ram without it running out and crashing. Is there any way of lowering RAM usage in rust or do i just have to pay absurd amounts of money on more RAM.

Setup

Intel i5 12400F
Intel Arc A750
2x8GB DDR4 3200MHZ ram
Rust installed on a SATA SSD

Every Softcore player knows that TC griefing is a huge problem in this gamemode. It not only affects singular bases but whole monuments and areas because you only need to place a TC on a foundation and it will not lose its TC radius until 24h or 48h after destruction.
The owner can indefinetely repair it for 200 wood, so its legit impossible to get rid of if the owner really wants it to stay.
Also, the upkeep is so small you can just throw in roughly 350 stone and it will last the whole wipe.

There should be a restriction so TCs will be completely destroyed unless there is a certain amount of building pieces (other than twig) attached to their foundation.

If you would make it 5 pieces including the foundation, people would build them like they do on vanilla.
This could change the building cost from 150 stone to 1.200 and it would drastically increase the upkeep too.

Hello guys I have a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
with an NVIDIA 5070 and 32gb ram. I’m playing on Moosey Rust US Small right now and when I’m running through the jungle I’m getting 120-160 fps… I have my RAM speeds to 6000. Can anyone please help me get more FPS and link me a settings video specific to my specs or give me settings? I feel like I should be getting much more FPS.

So im not against the recent changes to softcore, 2x is always nice for us casuals, however it is now even easier to TC spam thanks to 2x.

Because theres no way to get rid of it if the player is active. There are entire areas of the map walled off, last wipe someone walled off the entire excavator (as they usually do) but also included a couple monmunets in it too.

Can we please, Please, get a fuckin tc limit per player. Even if its just to try for a month, could limit the TCs you can have to 6. Similar to bags they could have an owner and keep the auth limit.

Anyone else agree with this? Or just me. It just seems mad, like if i want a solo compound 6 tcs is enough for me. Duo i can double it and so on. There will still be massive bases with big groups but it just stops the inability to access areas/build bases.

Not bothered either way about raid windows its nice that it may create more online raids but softcore stops you from completely losing your base anyway so offlines arent as horrible.

Monday servers should not exist.

What other options would there be to keep the pop?

I was playing Rustoria eu main this force, and after two days the server was below 400 pop. Thats just insane for a server like Rustoria and the size of the map.

How could they prevent servers from dying this quick?

Why do so many servers misuse the bi-weekly tag?
I know the word can technically mean either every 14 days or twice a week in the official definition. But if you hover over the tag in the launcher’s server browser, it explicitly says every 14 days. Naturally, you’d expect server owners to follow that, right? Apparently not. At this point, it feels like more servers labeled bi-weekly actually wipe twice a week, rather than every 14 days. It creates a lot of unnecessary confusion, especially when a lot of server descriptions doesn’t clarify the wipe schedule.

What’s even the point of playing on a server that wipes every 3 days?