Rust provides boats, improves forests, deploys choppers

Sandbox murderthon Rust has added driveable motorboats in its newest replace, elevating it to the best class of recreation: one the place you and your friends can pootle round a large world singing songs till hubris causes a crash. The replace’s additionally excellent news for landlubbers who’d choose to guide a woodland hike, because it improves and expands forests. I’m certain these are the one huge modifications on this patch and there’s nothing to homicide one another over, comparable to priceless provide crates dropped by new NPC transport helicopters – nothing like that.

Boats! Now spawning across the island are rowboats with outboard engines, which use Low Grade Fuel.They seat 4 gamers, which is actually sufficient for a singalong. If pleasureboating isn’t sufficient, you too can use these to putt out and harvest the offshore floating junk piles additionally added on this replace. But if you happen to’re not attempting to ramp boats over skerries, I don’t perceive you in any respect.

Forests! This replace revamps our leafy pals with a second kind of forest, a extra deciduous kind with birches and beeches to distinction with the pine-y previous ones. Forests are denser now too and might seem in additional locations, together with alongside the perimeters of lakes. Ah, what bliss! I actually hope no

Ah, hell.

That’s the CH-47 Chinook, a transport helicopter which seems in a brand new server occasion. This behaves in a different way to the assault helicopter already patrolling the island each few hours. The Chinook will spawn offshore, select and head to a drop zone on the island, attempt to homicide close by gamers, then drop a locked provide crate. These crates are marked on each participant’s map and unlocking them takes some time, ready for a pc system’s timer to tick down, so that you would possibly have to struggle to safe them.

The replace additionally improves hair, fixes a small stutter with gunfights, provides a couple of new bits on Hapis Island, and extra. Hit the patch notes for full particulars.

Rust is now out of early entry, formally launched in February. We despatched younger Matthew to the homicide island to put in writing a Rust review, the poor pricey. Facepunch Studios aren’t carried out with it but, thoughts. See Rust’s development roadmap for extra on their plans.