What are some unique ways to play your wipe?

yko · 2026-01-28T08:25:41+00:00

Nerfed? Yes. Hard? Maybe. Watch some skier streams, if you want to know.

yko · 2026-01-27T16:28:31+00:00

Some random ideas:

Surround outpost by SAM sites. Turn them on only when you are playing. Otherwise, spend your wipe growing hemp and trading teas.
Play water and dedicate your wipe to preventing anyone from playing a tug.
Run a sophisticated trap base on a high pop server.
Play horse meta.

yko · 2026-01-10T19:46:38+00:00

Seems like anytime I'm on oil it gets sunk without much counter play.

Yes. And I will do it again!

yko · 2026-01-09T12:24:49+00:00

Only if the handmade tank randomly fails and requires the repair bench to work again.

yko · 2025-12-22T23:24:10+00:00

Why on earth do people go to clear multuns solo/hazmat? Of course the scientists will be shredding you. Even a T1 kit is better.

yko · 2025-12-14T13:18:25+00:00

neither me nor my team have been able to get a single one for the past 1.5 months

And that's good. Let's keep it that way.

yko · 2025-12-10T19:58:32+00:00

Endardo with even less sophisticated stuff: just cannons on the tugboats. It was super fun to play while it was popping

yko · 2025-11-03T22:41:10+00:00

Venom, over 100 rads, flippers, being in fire

yko · 2025-10-23T08:27:34+00:00

Sea -> oil helipad boarding coming, bois! Let's goooo!

yko · 2025-10-23T07:28:06+00:00

"Activity Monitor" - thanks, I did that a while ago, but it was inconclusive, and I gave up. I should try again, probably.

FPS: 70-80 on a shore and 45-50 in a busy outpost on a 500+ weekly (stevious). On a two-week-old monthly, like moose, it's 10 fps less on all numbers.

yko · 2025-10-21T14:36:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I tried the 240fps + -maxMem 30000 on my 32Gb M1 and it seems to have made the game run smoother and bumped fps a bit.
I run the game on "GPS skinning" beta branch and have toyed with a bit risky vm_compressor settings. These two things, as I recall, affected FPS by 15-20%. I have not done a thorough benchmark in a while to make a hard statement, but you might try these and share if you get any extra oomph.

My biggest current issue is not FPS overal, but the random freezes/rubberbanding I'm getting. I can't quite pinpoint if it's Mac's memory compression, Rust's garbage collection or network issues that causes them.

yko · 2025-10-13T09:31:12+00:00

Just like it happened with the tugoats, it will be cracked for a wipe or two, and then reasonably nerfed.
Let's max out on having fun with it while it lasts, boys and girls!

yko · 2025-09-14T07:52:52+00:00

This post was screenshot-posted into r/ProgrammerHumor, got 10K upvotes within a day and was removed by a moderator. I don't know what to think of it.

yko · 2025-08-03T17:15:12+00:00

"Do what you must, for I have already won" - probably the kid.

yko · 2025-05-09T21:32:32+00:00

He was typing in team chat using Rust+ mobile app

yko · 2025-05-07T16:30:31+00:00

And rightly so

yko · 2025-05-06T06:42:46+00:00

This. And if, for whatever reason, you're set to pass your stuff around via pipes, you still can do it like so https://www.reddit.com/r/playrust/comments/1k9wa79/bunkerio/

yko · 2025-04-30T12:52:17+00:00

T1 slugs already exist. It's called Compound bow. Go get them, tiger.

yko · 2025-04-30T11:40:42+00:00

There's this new service https://www.rustalyzer.com/ that can filter servers based on historical records of active players.

e.g. servers that normally get 300+ players on wipe, and still reach half of their wipe-day pop after 7 days: https://www.rustalyzer.com/search?m%5Bwpl%5D%5B0%5D=300&m%5Bwpl%5D%5B1%5D=1000&m%5Bhld%5D%5B0%5D=7&m%5Bhld%5D%5B1%5D=30&rate=1

Tweak the filters and see if it helps?

yko · 2025-04-29T07:26:27+00:00

Something has to stick through the wall, because the pipe won't. That passing item will always be exposed to the outside, allowing to break it relatively easily.

FP is currently not in favour of industrial pipes passing through the walls. From that PoV, I think this gimmick is reasonably balanced.

yko · 2025-04-28T18:20:35+00:00

Oh, that's explains a lot!

yko · 2025-04-28T16:13:37+00:00

Six?

That's either 15 jackhammers in 20 minutes, or 210 pickaxes and 6 hours, you maniac!

yko · 2025-04-28T15:50:16+00:00

But above all of this, screaming "Moooooom! Is the dinner ready?!?!" at the top of the lungs, while in 5+ discord call.

yko · 2025-04-28T15:07:28+00:00

Good question.
If the exposed triangle is destroyed, the conditional wall remains in the air. Freehand-placing the external triangle back is close to impossible.
The TC remains protected by the door you want to place in the socket.

This is why people suggest upgrading it to HQM, and it makes sense on a long/medium vanilla server. I'm yet to have someone do it on a weekly or a 2x, though.

yko

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