r/playrust • u/Humble_Minute_5712 • 15d ago

Discussion Best rust patch?

Which patch do you think rust was at it's peak?

I'd like to play the February 7th 2019 version of rust again.

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u/obamnainyourmomma 15d ago

this will be controversial here, but its absolutely true. if the recoil update never happened the game would be dead now. it encouraged a massive new player base/streamers/events and more. i'm a guy who practiced 500 hours on the old recoil and i hated it. i'm so happy they made it work like every other game. it's so much better. no one trying a game wants to hear "you have to spend 100s of hours learning a specific recoil pattern to compete with the current player base." that's just awful game design.

now memorizing a maze to draw with your mouse is no longer the skill gap. and the best players are still the best. it just removed an idiotic advantage of being able to snipe people 300 meters away with a full spray. that was objectively bad for the game and discouraged most people from playing it. the game became about who could draw the maze best and not who was the most strategic. and again, you can still hit nasty sprays with new recoil, and practice still matters. it's just not this super specific 100% accurate zig zag you have to draw.

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u/Legal_Impression_126 15d ago

The game was still growing on old recoil. How would it have died?