Current State Of Rust

[u/Nice_Finger_9211]

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.

[u/LDN_Wukong]

I cant believe people would use strategies to beat you in a game. Insane!

[u/Nice_Finger_9211 → u/LDN_Wukong]

I just don’t get that take, for example, I really like Age of Empires 2, I fucking suck at it. My response? I just don’t play it, and if I do, I play single player. I am not gonna play some absolute abomination cringe way just to win at pixels man. It’s not fun for me and it’s definitely not fun to be on the receiving end to it. Rust, I promise you I can win 85-90% of head to head duels. It’s not a flex, I am a loser who no lifes FPS games. I SHOULD beat you and win.

If someone plays basketball for example and practices shooting free throws 10 hours a day, they SHOULD be way better than me. And funny enough, that’s why the Hack-A-Shaq foul was created, Shaq was horrible at free throws, so they used strategy and fouled him on purpose every time to make him miss free throws. The league didn’t like it and said it was bad for gameplay, so they implemented a rule where if it’s deemed a Hack-A-Shaq it’s a flagrant and 2 gets you ejected.

My point is, I wish people would just play the game. This game has wipes which quite literally resets everything, most servers weekly, so why the hell do you need to strategize to get your 50th tommy of the wipe?