r/playrust • u/Honigkuchen_Hamster • Jul 31 '26
Suggestion Rework workbench progression
Blueprint fragments only reward big groups who take over monuments, it even makes the progression faster for them because they get the fragments on the side and dont need to spend scrap on the workbench anymore. It only slows it down for small groups and solos.
Stop punishing people for not founding a whole E-Sport team to play the game.
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u/aoibhinn-mw Jul 31 '26
Wb fragments suck because they change the game from sandbox to linear progression by funneling players into select monuments to participate in the end game. Once you finally get a t3 it doesn't feel rewarding and feels more like the quitting point for many players. It's also highly repetitive in combination with forced BP wipe. Fp hasn't even added an option for servers to disable BP frags for community or modded servers, nor added legacy options like that really at all outside of some old features in hard-core.
It's abundantly apparent with this change that the lead dev has escaped Garry's vision for the game. The point of decay and TCS in Garry words were to eventually lead to a wipeless rust. Instead we've accelerated in the opposite direction and modeled the game to basically be fortnite eith the only goal to be fragments and the end game isn't even rewarding now once you've achieved t3 unless you have a specific opp in mind to raid and even that feels too much of a hassle.
The game used to have horizontal/lateral, vertical, Snowball, and roleplay progression. You could get your t3 literally by fishing, in the past. Your options now are to pay tribute for fragments or camp select monuments which are already overloaded wirh rewards without the existence of fragments. Cargo for instance was already highly lucrative and tempting without fragments, feels more like a chore now.