Despite Rust sitting in my Steam library for what looks like without end, I’ve by no means fairly drummed up the braveness to dive into its singularly brutal apocalyptic world of indignant bare individuals working their means again out of the stone age so as to shoot one another within the face. This weekend I’ll lastly give it a spin, as its newest replace provides a effectively defended, NPC-run protected zone for gamers to fulfill and commerce in with out concern of a sudden loss of life.
The coronary heart of what Facepunch are calling the Compound update is a closely fortified safe-zone that’s thought-about impartial territory for all gamers. While the No Sleeping rule appears a bit a lot, the No Weapons, Looting or Killing guidelines appear much more cheap. Breaking any of those directives marks you as a goal for the compound’s many defensive auto-turrets, and the standing persists after loss of life, so that you’ll be locked out for whereas for those who do resolve to go rogue.
The compound additionally comprises merchandising machines which let you decide up primary assets, making it place for brand new gamers to make use of as a base of operations, assuming they’re not going to be gunned down by campers simply outdoors the gates. While the floor is rather less lethal, underneath the water is stuffed with new challenges. Procedurally generated shipwrecks and hand-crafted sunken outposts might be discovered underwater, though you’ll have to craft or purchase the brand new scuba gear to totally discover all of it.
The replace features a entire bunch of smaller but nonetheless necessary enhancements. Probably the most important of which is a significant overhaul to the anti-cheat programs within the sport. A laundry listing of probably manipulable variables have been closed off to cheaters, or so the builders reckon. While monkeying round with the code, they’ve additionally wrung some CPU optimisations out of the engine. It ought to carry out a bit of nicer for gamers with older CPUs now.
First-person clothes fashions at the moment are additionally A Thing, together with your present geared up gear set now correctly seen in your character’s fingers and arms. There are lots extra under-the-hood tweaks made to the sport by this replace (together with higher ambient occlusion, extra NPC AI to permit the Scientist faction to do their factor and a few audio enhancements), however you’ll be able to learn the full patch notes over here.
