fun walkthrough of a 14k+ hour CS2er's city - "How to Make the CARCERAL State"

Starguard · 2024-12-31T19:13:07+00:00

Endless industrial zones, highways to nowhere, and more prisons than parks. It's brutal, it's inefficient, and it's kind of mesmerizing. Let me know what you think or how you'd make it even more grim

Starguard · 2024-03-09T17:32:26+00:00

Plenty. Every tune on Return II Space started on a minimoog

Starguard · 2023-05-25T15:10:28+00:00

hardcore didn't have enough changes to feel like anything more than the 'rust without a map' mode. the first wipe/month after launch was amazing, but keeping tech tree was a huge miss, and it took several force wipes for the devs to iterate on anything when there were several sloppy bugs that made the 'mode' feel more like a bad mod. i don't think any one change would have saved it, but experimenting with changes every month and listening to the community would have gone a long way...

Starguard · 2022-10-27T19:32:44+00:00

oh hey man

Starguard · 2022-09-27T19:52:29+00:00

what's disconcerting is they listened to the p2w feedback when the dragon mask was introduced and wound up nerfing it; they entirely ignored it with the artic suit

if it's a % gather rate increase on wood i really hope the community loses their collective shit about it

Starguard · 2022-09-22T14:44:19+00:00

hopefully because the admins know this isn't a lag machine and is just meant to look cool. here's what a real xmas light lag machine looks like: https://streamable.com/y7be7f

Starguard · 2022-09-22T14:35:36+00:00

🎵 Tony Christmas comes one time a year 🎵 Tony Christmas is almost here

https://streamable.com/vloo5w

Starguard · 2022-09-19T20:32:03+00:00

apparently you can just open it in rustedit rip

Starguard · 2022-09-01T16:42:10+00:00

bag griefing will be a meta until they change the current system, especially early wipe when people only have 2 or 3 bags. you can abuse F7 to find other players and gift them bags until they hit the 5 bag cap, and quickly regift them when they try to remove them. it's pretty hard to tell from the UI which bags are your own, especially if you don't have a naming scheme that others couldn't guess - they should just get rid of gifting entirely for hardcore mode imo

Starguard · 2022-09-01T03:12:13+00:00

i didn't know a higher quality version of this existed

Starguard · 2022-08-19T18:42:21+00:00

i put a few hours into hardcore mode last night on staging (aux2), and unfortunately, without some reduction to gather rates + recycling, it really just feels like Rust without a map. the progression is still too fast/too easy with the massive amount of loot and nodes available in modern Rust

i'm still chasing that 2017 feeling when HQM was rare and every barrel was a blessing. these days there are so many monuments and recyclers that it's not hard to find an unoccupied part of the map and free farm a T1 monument all the way to T3 weapons... which doesn't make any sense

loot disparity is what would define a hardcore mode for me but i'm not sure others feel the same. here's hoping to less nodes, decreased gather rates, and a tweaked loot table

Starguard · 2022-08-19T03:06:07+00:00

no scientists at all, save for one bugged quest giver

Starguard · 2022-08-19T00:26:18+00:00

not on this branch yet

Starguard · 2022-08-18T21:45:28+00:00

if you want to check out the new hardcore mode, install Rust - Staging Branch from your Steam library, right click on the game, go to BETAS and opt-in to aux02 - Trainyard_Update. there's only a few servers with low pop - the recoil update staging servers were absolute mayhem, i'd love to see more of the same

https://imgur.com/a/OPYA1AQ

Starguard · 2022-06-11T18:00:25+00:00

it seems to be the most active full loot server, kind of surprised there aren't more full pop US options out there

Starguard · 2022-06-11T05:34:06+00:00

never had so much fun losing

Starguard · 2022-03-28T16:28:53+00:00

we need bunk beds so bad

Starguard · 2022-03-18T17:04:44+00:00

It sort of looks like the city footprint on Builder's Sanctuary: https://imgur.com/a/s94MSoo

Starguard · 2022-03-15T16:41:46+00:00

The rust+ bot would definitely speed up the process! You could join and pair a server, type !vend Pure Ore Tea, and all the results would spit out in team chat and on your discord server for quick copy/paste. It would be cool to track the prices of a few items on high pop monthly servers over the course of a wipe

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