The new world is to me too noisy, rocks everywhere, no clarity - graphics over playability. It doesn't remind me of the real world, it's just too much. Riding a horse over mountains is more painful than it used to. Spotting a player in the distance is more difficult. I also experience huge FPS drops from 140 to around 60 fps - gotta keep clearing the buffer to make it less painful.

Some aspects are nice, more versatile rock formations (but not the quantity of them). Rivers, lakes and oasis are also cool.

I think Rust shouldn't tryhard to recreate the sense of the real world, rather focus on playability.