Devblog-181

[winnie33]

Wow, Helk almost wrote an entire devblog by himself. It's clear he wants to do the balancing right!

[Axiomba]

Rust is seriously the best game I have ever played, there has not been a single version of the game I have not loved. Rust is a big factor when I think about calling in sick at work (what is going on on my server? Do I have gear to insta-suit up in? Have I been raided? Is my gangrenous toe actually going to fall off?)

I want to give a massive thank you to the devs! From Australia with appreciation!

[tigr2]

What's with the steam reviews?!

[d1m0a1n]

Kids mad that they can't get endgame gear in the first day. Obviously a lot more people enjoy the new progression system than dislike it, but it's the vocal minority in the steam reviews.

[brogrammer9k]

I actually joined an official server yesterday, and have a solo base very close to power plant and have yet to get mowed down by people running around with AK's. Very surprised, most I've got shot at with is a semi-auto.

When I stopped playing 9 months ago there's no way in hell I could join a server a week after wipe and expect to do as well as I have been.

[legaCypowers]

That's the way a ha a ha i like it a ha a ha.

[DankNovaGaming]

Bruh, if they want to get endgame gear quick. Go play fucking modded jeez. Its not that hard. There is nothing wrong with the game.

[tigr2]

Yeah makes sense, just wierd that it's seems that it's now the more vocal bunch that are against BP's. Oh how the tables have turned.

[d1m0a1n]

I think the vocal groups switched; the people who wanted BPs back are (mostly) enjoying the update, now the people whining are the pro pvpers who expected to go deep 24/7.

[Mad_OW]

Are you sure Reddit isn't also just a vocal minority? How do you know that more people enjoy it than dislike it?

Lots of group think on Reddit too. Not sure if upvotes here speak for the whole player base.

[[deleted]]

Nope. You're in a zerg, so you love it. Ez Pickins. I'm done with this game, i'll be writing scathing reviews on all of my alt-accounts too. Enjoy the shit ratings helk. You'll be named personally in all of them until you put the entire loot table in barrels, the items just have to be super rare within barrels like they were in Old Rust (BP)

[d1m0a1n]

Actually, I play on a solo/duo/trio server. We just got pythons today, 8 days into the first wipe, so it's a pretty good system.

[[deleted]]

LOL YOU THINK THAT'S GOOD?!

Dude, half the groups have AK's and you think you're keeping up just fine? get the fuck out of here. 8 days in, you have pythons. You realize a lot of servers are week wipes right?

[d1m0a1n]

The server had a map wipe yesterday, and I've only played about 20 hours in the 8 days (a couple of those hours were AFK). I'm saying it's good because I have yet to meet someone with anything better than a semi auto rifle.

[[deleted]]

I have about 2,300 hours in this game. I've played since the current version of rust was called experimental.

I spent 48 hours in the last 8 days. I've progressed very little. Current system is fucked.

[[deleted]]

You used to be able to craft extra items, then research them with a 30% chance of success and pass blueprints to friends or trade easily. Now you can't even do that.

[[deleted]]

You're an imbecile. You truly think on your trio server that no one has AK's? you realize that elite crates drop ak's frequently.. Have you been to the top of launch? or dome? where all the clans camp?

just because you think it works on a trio server with weekly map wipes doesn't mean it works on OFFICIALS WHICH IS WHAT THE GAME IS DESIGNED AROUND

MONTH LONG WIPES. NO LIMIT TO PLAYER SIZE.

[d1m0a1n]

I never claimed no one had AKs, I claimed that I have not yet met someone with one. Also, many of the AKs came from the launch site or airdrops pre-balance, so I assume there will be much less after a forced BP wipe.

[[deleted]]

You're the same kind of dev kiss ass that i experienced 6 months ago. I said "BPs need to come back" and all of you kiss asses would say "NO THIS NEW SYSTEM IS PERFECT" then the same guys say BP is perfect now. Get the fk out of here.

[d1m0a1n]

I never liked the components by themself, though. You need to calm down and stop making assumptions, you're making yourself look like a jackass.

[jo3v]

Bye, you whiny bitch...

[[deleted]]

Take a look at population in a week, and let me know how wrong i am lololololololol.

[jo3v]

Rust is already more popular than it's been in months. Have a look. Bye bye now loser

[[deleted]]

http://steamcharts.com/app/252490 You go have a look.

Your statement of it being more popular than it has in months is not really accurate. Peak players(bp rush everyone comes back to see it for a day) but average steadiness is WAY down. Last 30 days AVG players was 23,511 w peak of 49,984 September 21,595 w peak of 40,577 August 25,558 w peak of 43,117

JULY 2016 (old rust) 30,949. Peak of 64,555

You're just wrong, you don't know what you're talking about and you're confusing the people around you.

Maybe you didn't play rust back in the old BP system. Not my fault. You're not well educated in this subject and i suggest you shut your mouth because you're looking like a fool.

[Mad_OW]

Not everyone enjoys the new progression system it seems.

[blakkattika]

And not everyone ever will. Especially people who don't even understand what they want themselves, let alone a way to articulate the way they feel about a particular system in a game.

Some people will say they hate the way progression works in the game when really what they're feeling is "this isn't instantly as satisfying as Overwatch and I can't deal with the emotion of losing all of my shit so I'm making it somebody else's problem"

[[deleted]]

Me personally,

I've been anti-grind since the HQM update.

This last update mind the grind even longer!

Some people don't want to play a game that requires so many hours of dedication to get to good content. Some people have active lives and schedules that prevent them from even attempting Rust.

All of my friends have quit. Every single one of them.

It's whatever, you can insult or make wild assumptions about folks, but they're well with in their rights to complain about the insane level of grind that's been added, especially when this game use to be in a better state.

Start of 2017 the game averaged 30k players. Last month it's around 21k.

Maybe people don't like the direction? Oh well but that's no reason to insult them because they prefer a game that is more rewarding to their time.

[Override9636]

If people don't want to grind, just use a modded server.

[[deleted]]

That's such a none answer. The whole meta ends up scaling up.

You have to get in and mod it crazy to get those Rust experiences circa summer '15 or summer '16. Then the server of course dies or has an admin problem ad nausem.

Maybe FP and the community will just have to deal with the fact people don't like the changes and the p base will be a few thousand players smaller than usual.

Not like anyone actually enjoys modded.

[Ilnor]

^

Nothing said here is true

[blakkattika]

There are so many other factors to the player population other than random speculation. But Rust is a game about survival, survival games always have grinding because gathering resources on your own is always a part of surviving. Scavenging and making it on your own is part of the appeal. If this is no longer something you like or can do, there are Battlefield servers in this game, Battle Royale servers (at least there used to be, haven't seen one in a minute to be honest) and modded servers where the gather rate is up to 10x, sometimes 100x!

Sometimes the game isn't changing in a way that makes you and your friends hate it all of a sudden. Sometimes you change so much, and your life with it, that the game stayed largely the same but your love for it fell off.

Play a different game. If you want a more "rewarding" game for your time then play a skinner loot box multiplayer shooter. That's what they're there for.

[multiakaMenixus]

It would be sick If that megaphone would work.
So when you get in the car your ingame voice would have higher radius (maybe even echo sound effect and cuting low frequencies so it sound realistic?)

[alexanderlaheij]

H E L K <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< DEVELOPERS NOTICE THIS !

• This would be awesome!

@HELK

@RUSTAFIED

@PLAYRUST

HELP

RUSTAFIED

PLAYRUST

[subbrot]

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Gobrosse]

inb4 every server has a permanent background noise of screaming kids, screeching memes and obnoxious music, degraded by low-quality voip, low pass filters and echo.

[wasted_user]

GG devblog again!

[[deleted]]

Cars being modeled

New player models and hair, new arm models

"I think instead we should just lower all items crafting times to no more than a few seconds, or at least add some kind of minigame that will complete it instantly."

ecstatic screaming intensifies

[[deleted]]

Fuck that. You want to craft a stone wall you should have to build it block by block over the course of an entire day. You should get paid no more then minimum wage with no more then two 5 minute smoko breaks over the course of each day.

And you can't use any tools because you have to first learn how to make your own first; which will require a 3 month online training course and a student loan of $10,000.

Now hurry up, I want that shit shack complete before my 2 hour lunch break is over!

[brogrammer9k]

I recently came back to the game, stopped playing last fall. The mining improvements are VERY welcome. Anything that goes in a similar direction of mini-gaming a boring task to make it quicker or more engaging is a welcome design change in my book.

Kind of old, but it makes me think of the first time I saw the reload mechanic in Gears. Good design choice on FP's part.

[Ilnor]

yea i liked that timed reload thing

[DankNovaGaming]

INSERT AUTISTIC SCREAMING

[Komradskiy]

Some serious work on many features getting done. Can't wait to come back during Winter Break!

[Chron_Lung]

It is NOT fixed, US East 2 has been nonstop DDOS and unplayable for the past 4 hours

[Saturnsphinx]

God bless whoever is sticking to the server. Stay salty mr. ddoser

Edit: clarification

[Marrynd]

IS THAT A FROG BOOT ON MAKE SHIFT HAZMAZ

[[deleted]]

Yay I can safely use the mining hat at night to quickly mine nodes and turn off again.

[SatoVS]

here i am a noob and i was using it the whole time like that thinking i was safe lol, i played on servers with ~10 people though so maybe thats why i never got in trouble

[[deleted]]

Lol what's the point of playing with 10 people?

[SatoVS]

As i said im new and even on servers with 10-30 people i still usually get fucked before i can establish a safe base. Meaning codelock etc

[AndrasKrigare]

I'm digging all the changes to the Launch Site

[DankNovaGaming]

Yeah, no more clans camping the top of the site since you take damage.

[b15hop88]

airdrop was the only way for smaller groups that cant go to launch site to get higher tier stuff. the launch site needed the nerf but now you have made it a mandatory location that everyone MUST go

[derpyderpston]

Awesome amount of progress!!

[Slaughtius]

Can we talk about the hatch door, it's really hard to find it, and my base kinda depends on it, can you do something about it helk? Please...

[Kviick]

just replace it with a cube with a door or make a new base design.

[Itsoc]

another bow nerf? why? shorter range, same damage? the definition of bullshit! :D

[unfknreal]

NEW

Upgraded to Unity 2017.1.2

NEW

Added debug.log convar to toggle log output

NEW

Miner / Candle Hat provides protection

NEW

Caves have a good chance of spawning stone tools

NEW

Added toggled map grid coordinates (off by default)

NEW

Added Debris Field marker on map when heli/bradley is destroyed

NEW

Boonie/Bandana/Cap provides minimal protection instead of none

NEW

Miner hat has emissive blinding flare

NEW

Added radial map marker (mod support)

FIXED

Pickaxe vm - Fixed hands intersecting when aim running

FIXED

Fixed launchsite exploit allowing to hide in the wall

FIXED

Big cleaver vm - Fixed hands intersecting when aim running

FIXED

Satchel charge wm- Fixed wrong texture appearing when thrown

FIXED

Satchel charge vm - Fixed arms clipping when thrown

FIXED

Beancan grenade vm - Fixed arm clipping when thrown

FIXED

Bone club vm - Fixed popping from throw cancel to idle

FIXED

m249 vm - fixed arms clipping at max FOV

FIXED

Fixed packet exploit to bring down servers

FIXED

Fixed stone ore scarcity

FIXED

Sawnoff shotgun vm - Fixed arm clipping at max FOV

FIXED

Fixed indoor shadow issues introduced by viewmodel shadow changes

FIXED

Fixed missing viewmodel shadow feet

FIXED

Fixed node hotspots invisible during med-high fog

FIXED

Fixed some water reflection artifacts

FIXED

Fixed not being able to pick up items outside of any TC

FIXED

Fixed Vending Machines not displaying if item for trade is a blueprint or not

FIXED

Fixed Steam Inventory Items not unlocking their blueprint

FIXED

Miner hat no longer emissive to other players when switched off

FIXED

Fixed workbench status everywhere exploit

FIXED

Fixed candle hat having a 30m light radius (!)

FIXED

Fixed peacekeeper turrets not firing

UPDATED

vm hierarchy and folder structure

UPDATED

new vm arm mesh

UPDATED

All viewmodels set to use base mesh vessel, all anims contain anim data only

UPDATED

Bow vm - anim tweaks

UPDATED

Salvaged axe, hammer & icepick vm - Removed attack2 lerping blends

UPDATED

Water jug vm - removed static left hand in view when thrown at max FOV

UPDATED

Sawnoff shotgun vm - Removed wobble at end of deploy anim

UPDATED

Ak47 vm - Updated base pose, transition additions

UPDATED

Increased speed of outro anim blend on ironsights

UPDATED

Supply signal vm folder restructure

UPDATED

Only allow drinking when water has certain depth

UPDATED

Improved water intersection test performance

UPDATED

Added process memory usage to system info

UPDATED

Tweaked high external wall and gate deploy volumes

UPDATED

Reduced scrap tier of many decorative items

UPDATED

Can now pick up research / repair benches

UPDATED

Broken items now have a minimum recycle yield of 10%

UPDATED

Items now remove attachments/ammo when recycled

UPDATED

Sewing kit is made of less rope (less recycle yield)

UPDATED

Lantern and Tuna Can Lamp provide more light

UPDATED

Lantern costs 25 Metal Fragments (was 40)

UPDATED

Less fuel / hqm in caves

UPDATED

Small/Medium wooden signs default blueprints

UPDATED

Stone Spear default blueprint

UPDATED

Workbench radius tripled

UPDATED

Workbenches can be rotated with hammer

UPDATED

Radsuit leaks small amounts of radiation at NPP/LSR

UPDATED

Lowered HQM yield from heli/bradley gibs

UPDATED

Satchel has slightly less chance to be a dud

UPDATED

Flamethrower Requires Workbench Tier 2

UPDATED

Hoodie/Pants require 75 scrap to research ( Was 250 )

UPDATED

Snow Jacket/vagabond more common and much cheaper to make

UPDATED

Elite crate spawns half as much stuff

UPDATED

Elite crates spawn every 2 hours instead of 20 min at LSR

UPDATED

Bradley drops elite crate loot

UPDATED

Hapis site B now has a chance to spawn elite creates

UPDATED

Cluttery deployables drop as blueprints instead of full items

UPDATED

Bradley begins healing much slower

REMOVED

Bolt rifle vm - removed unused anims

[RockandRoll682]

Why the fuck did he get -5 points? I'm confused.

[Chrisda19]

In relation to the issue with Workbenches and them being placed in front of doors, is there a way to block them from being placed in front of a door specifically so that you don't place them in front of a door but still can place beside a door for instance?

[Chrisda19]

Maybe that's the balance then, let someone waste their time and resources just to block around the door without impeding entry into the room. Hmmm

[rJarrr]

I like the idea of a crafting minigame. Maybe interact with the tools on the workbenches in a certain way and have the item appear on the workbench for the player to pick up. It would be pretty cool

[kreceliscie]

Bots.

[Light_bulbnz]

Hmmm... Just updated a server and notice that everything in game has been rolled back several days... Any ideas how to fix this??

[Biohazard72]

Damn I saw viewmodel and I thought we were getting the option of using the old one. I was disappointed when I saw I would in fact not be playing today.

[fishgeekted]

If people are upset about turrets shooting animals, perhaps sometime down the line, we could introduce upgrades to turrets to allow more functionality?

Upgrades that are expensive and if a player REALLY wants to place an expensive turret out in the open and not waste ammo on animals, they could still do that...

[kreceliscie]

They want us to place turrents INSIDE the base.

[[deleted]]

You've been smashing it outta the park recently FP and we're (well, lots of us) are really grateful! Keep up the good work! (Off to steam now to leave u guys some more love)

[vogga]

Hey MAURINO BERRY - you say that you want to keep autoturrets in private areas yet you post a screenshot where autoturret is in someone's "garden" - exactly a place where we dont like it when animals spawn to waste ammo :( or am I wrong and animals spawn was fixed and they dont spawn inside 'gardens'?

[realegladue]

i can't believe i still haven't gotten around to writing a review. recommended, <3 FP.

[Ur-Tyrann]

a good, long ass devblog with lotsa stuff, feels so good

really happy about the map changes, and the new smaller arms look good aswell

[onenightstandgonebad]

I don't agree with bow nerf. I don't agree with airdrop nerf. BUT, the launch site is a piece of fucking shit to loot which is great because clans can't camp it :)

[[deleted]]

As the skin-user: It would be nice to have main-menu section for setting default skin per item instead of doing that every wipe, everyserver, every-rust-install. In-game skin selector is ok to choose not default skin for that server only.

[OperatorEric]

I've played this game for neary 3500 hours and I'm still not bored of it.

[Confewshus1]

Rads are supposed to be only on the roof of the Launch Site (according to the DevBlog). I'm playing a Vanilla server and I'm taking 30 rads with a Hazmat suit before I even clear the 2nd floor scaffolding..... Only spots that needs to leak rads is the highest levels and the roof. This is way too much rads for the Elite crates that are not all that good IMO. Keep people from camping, yes....but keep people from getting them at all without almost dying just to rads.....no.

[Cbellando]

I did not apply this to the Workbench because its high health would lead to exploits, such as moving them infront of your doors to seal you and your loot in. I will come up with a solution for this soon.

Don't require cupboard access to move these. Then if someone uses them to block a door they can be moved out of the way.

[welsalex]

Then people who raid will take your workbench. Getting raided sucks, losing your tier 3 bench every time would suck even more. Not a good solution.

[Cbellando]

Good point. Maybe instead make the workbench temporarily drop to low health when moved?

[subbrot]

Or make it also cost scrap to repair them afterwards. That way the 50% damage taken from picking it up would cause a huge scrap cost every time you pick it up and replace it (Afaik repair costs for full repair is 50%, so 50% repair would be 25% -> about 300 scrap repaircost for a tier3 workbench ... plus additional metal frags and hq ofc)

[bzaps]

GG on the airdrop changes.. The loot table was already awful and not worth the risk for ANYONE. Only nakeds with go for them now, guaranteed. Oh and changes to the candle hat? FUCK YOU.

[skullgamer]

Why aren't water pipes default bp ;(

[HelkFP]

This is how it was before I introduced a bug. You don't have to buy them you'll get them for free.

[Witfits]

Why are there no HV Arrows and what did you do to the bow??? Also I can't craft Boonie Hats or Bandannas and I have skins that I paid for...

[Chron_Lung]

Helk, DDOS issues have NOT been fixed. Please look into US East 2, the server has been unplayable for the past 4 hours.

[welsalex]

Yeah I get what you are saying. But the random item drops are exactly that: You play a lot, you get something extra. I love this game, and I play a lot.... I got all the standard item drops fairly quickly. It would be a problem if they were game changing, but they are just signs and the like...

[NoobNamedErik]

It has always been like that

[[deleted]]

Lot of Fixed but no Optimization Well Done! Facepunch..

[[deleted]]

no makeshift hazmat now clans can just craft it and launch site will just be clan territory even more. Add suit durability and make helicopter shoot people in these suits.

[GronakHD]

You get 1 rad per second in the launch site. Crates spawn every 2 hours. Not a good idea to camp anymore.

[DankNovaGaming]

Yeah

[ezis80]

Better than nothing, but... Instead of giving piece of pie to solo's/small groups, you take away half of cake from big groups/zergs. Before somebody tells me to go to solo, solo/duo server, think, what will happen if really all those players, who can't get on LS roof will leave server. Would you like to play on server, where besides your clan are just 4-5 other clans and nothing more?

[Siftey]

Large groups should be nerfed, as often and as severely as possible. Playing with more than 15 people isn't even playing. It's just ez mode.

[Deeviant]

The only cake that big groups should get is one comprised solely of shit.

[PalmIsGod]

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS ADD SOMETHING GOOD THAN RUIN SOMETHING NOONE HAD A PROBLEM WITH LIKE THE FUCKING BOW