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So this game called Rust, apparently the result of minecraft and dayz having sex together, is in alpha right now.
When i saw it for the first time i thought it would have a lot of potential, but oh lawd surprised. There are 2 types of servers in the game that you can join so i'll describe to you my experience in each of them.
Official steam servers:
These servers are the standard ones offered by the devs, they have NO admins and are hacker paradises. But also, the size of these servers being so big creates an atmosphere of continuous chaos. The moment you hop in, you start hearing massive gun fights near you, and everyone is killing everyone on sight. You absolutely have no chance to hide, farm or even make a small shelter without getting shot in the process. These servers are massive clusterfucks filled with trolls, hackers and dupers, good luck staying there for more than an hour. What's even worse, is that you see full-kevlar/armed-to-the-teeth dudes just hunting for naked newbs to kill "for fun". The whole point of the game in these servers is to find a gun through friends or hacking/duping, and start hunting for new guys as it's apparently cool to do so. Have you seen the movie "The purge" ? Well it's pretty much this, except that it lasts for ever.
Community:
I have a lot of mixed impressions about these servers, it's mostly groups of people/gaming communities/forums hosting their own servers with their own admins and rules. Some are really fun to play on, and i would advise anyone buying the game to skip the official servers and to start hunting for good community servers. The downside though, is that admins have way too much power, and can easily abuse it when things don't go their way. In some servers i've played on, just the fact that you kill an admin's friend or farm a specific ressource node that the admin or his crew want, will net you an insta-ban. Some other times, the admins will start duping a fuckton of equipment, ammo and C4 for their crew so they can always be ready to raid other people on the server at will. Again, not every server has these problems, some got really good admins, it will take you hours of research to find a good niche server with nice admins and a good community to play on.
Hacking: It's a major problem in rust, and you'll have to deal with countless of deaths due to them, aka wall hackers busting into your shelter, killing you, destroying your sleeping bag and stealing all your stuff. Some servers with active admins have a lot less hacking problems so again, it's all about the server you play on.
Listen here, i know it's a survival game, but there's a difference at survival and being an instant dickhead killing noobs who have NOTHING on sight. In many servers it's literally impossible to start out or settle a simple camp fire because the admin and his buddies are hunting for fresh meat, or it's an official server full of trolls. It litterally takes one dickhead with a pickaxe to make you go back to square 1 and start everything over. It's that frustrating. Also, i'm aware that this game is just an Alpha build, but that doesn't justify having sub-par anti-cheat systems that even the most poverty free-to-play publisher can provide, especially when the game maker the game is making 20 bucks a pop for an alpha game. So with all that money made, i'm expecting some efforts to be deployed to at least correct the hacking issues.
Does this game have potential ? Yes it does. Do it deliver right now ? Absolutely not. Should you be buying this game ? It's really up to you, but if you're looking for a real survival experience, Day Z Standalone should do the trick.
When i saw it for the first time i thought it would have a lot of potential, but oh lawd surprised. There are 2 types of servers in the game that you can join so i'll describe to you my experience in each of them.
Official steam servers:
These servers are the standard ones offered by the devs, they have NO admins and are hacker paradises. But also, the size of these servers being so big creates an atmosphere of continuous chaos. The moment you hop in, you start hearing massive gun fights near you, and everyone is killing everyone on sight. You absolutely have no chance to hide, farm or even make a small shelter without getting shot in the process. These servers are massive clusterfucks filled with trolls, hackers and dupers, good luck staying there for more than an hour. What's even worse, is that you see full-kevlar/armed-to-the-teeth dudes just hunting for naked newbs to kill "for fun". The whole point of the game in these servers is to find a gun through friends or hacking/duping, and start hunting for new guys as it's apparently cool to do so. Have you seen the movie "The purge" ? Well it's pretty much this, except that it lasts for ever.
Community:
I have a lot of mixed impressions about these servers, it's mostly groups of people/gaming communities/forums hosting their own servers with their own admins and rules. Some are really fun to play on, and i would advise anyone buying the game to skip the official servers and to start hunting for good community servers. The downside though, is that admins have way too much power, and can easily abuse it when things don't go their way. In some servers i've played on, just the fact that you kill an admin's friend or farm a specific ressource node that the admin or his crew want, will net you an insta-ban. Some other times, the admins will start duping a fuckton of equipment, ammo and C4 for their crew so they can always be ready to raid other people on the server at will. Again, not every server has these problems, some got really good admins, it will take you hours of research to find a good niche server with nice admins and a good community to play on.
Hacking: It's a major problem in rust, and you'll have to deal with countless of deaths due to them, aka wall hackers busting into your shelter, killing you, destroying your sleeping bag and stealing all your stuff. Some servers with active admins have a lot less hacking problems so again, it's all about the server you play on.
Listen here, i know it's a survival game, but there's a difference at survival and being an instant dickhead killing noobs who have NOTHING on sight. In many servers it's literally impossible to start out or settle a simple camp fire because the admin and his buddies are hunting for fresh meat, or it's an official server full of trolls. It litterally takes one dickhead with a pickaxe to make you go back to square 1 and start everything over. It's that frustrating. Also, i'm aware that this game is just an Alpha build, but that doesn't justify having sub-par anti-cheat systems that even the most poverty free-to-play publisher can provide, especially when the game maker the game is making 20 bucks a pop for an alpha game. So with all that money made, i'm expecting some efforts to be deployed to at least correct the hacking issues.
Does this game have potential ? Yes it does. Do it deliver right now ? Absolutely not. Should you be buying this game ? It's really up to you, but if you're looking for a real survival experience, Day Z Standalone should do the trick.
