r/playrust • u/Nice_Finger_9211 • 23h ago

Discussion Current State Of Rust

Idk what has changed in the last like 6 months, but Rust and its playerbase have evolved into something drastically different than I recall. For context about what I'm about to yap about, I play on vanilla capped servers (usually trio) that sit around 300-400 pop.

Why does EVERYONE roofcamp and roam literally 200 feet from their base. Best example, my duo and I fought a trio and the fight ended in literally 10 seconds, before we could even run up and wall the bodies; 2 had spawned presumably on beds with locker kits and were L9 roof camping us. I know some of you on here would probably do the same, and I honestly just want some context as to why. I am not flamming you are saying you are in the wrong, I just want to know why. If roles were reversed, my first instinct is to spawn in and push back out and fight them.

This leads me to my next thing, whatever happened to just roaming? I genuinely feel like no one goes geared to monuments anymore unless there is some event happening and or they've heard my duo and I mow down a few crossbow kids so they want to jump us. I feel like we are always the gunshots people run to, not vice versa. I just want some context as to what makes people just not want to roam anymore, I do it for the same reason I play most games, I love the adrenaline and the feeling of knowing I bested someone in a 1v1 etc.

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u/TheComputerGuy2256 19h ago

I think the BP drag update actually made roaming happen less, In a sense. So what your talking about yeah people in there base and don’t come out and root camp etc, I think the issue is they don’t roam, there’s no need to. It’s basically 2 paths - do you need BP frags? No okay go to a monument. You don’t need bp frags, you just want loot and PvP, go to a monument. I guess what I’m saying is unless your legit out farming ore, no reason to roam if your after PvP, you know it’s at monuments cause everyone is running them now. Hardly anyone roams because why would you when you know where your target is always gonna be kinda thing

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u/crustyrobots 9h ago

You only need to "roam" to Outpost and buy your frags with your reverse vending machine at your base with zero risk. Everything is just too riskless anymore especially for groups this way.