

Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Image: Valve Recommended Stories On one hand, they’ve found that even after all these years, there’s no other game quite like Rust, but on the other, its sharp edges have cut into beginners’ desire to keep playing. New Rust players on Steam, then, are split. Progress is hard won, especially given that players can stroll in and wreak havoc on carefully constructed bases while others are logged off. Anything is possible, but it’s often sandwiched between mounds of death and toxicity.

Some aid newcomers, but others ruthlessly bully them. Where streamers all role-play and only open fire in an agreed-upon set of locations and scenarios, regular Rust servers are a hodgepodge. It’s by no means the worst looking game in existence, but it was never much of a looker to begin with.Rust’s dark - though not exactly little-known - secret is that Twitch streams are not indicative of what the game is actually like. Having said that, Rust is not a particularly good looking game. Both options drastically improve the experience in my opinion, so good on Facepunch Studios for including them in a console title. Players can turn off motion blur and change the FOV. I will commend the developers for including graphical options in the console version. It’s in these moments that it’s not difficult to see why Rust’s emergent world is so loved. Just two people enjoying the night ambience by the fireplace. We just sat in each other’s company for a few minutes. During my first play session, I shared a campfire with a complete stranger. There are moments of excellence amongst the frustration.

Without access to private servers, Rust Console Edition is a frustrating loop of dying by gunshot, and losing all of your collected materials, time and time again. New players cannot, and will not, overcome the difficulty curve if someone instantly murders them within five minutes of entering a server. It is supposed to be an often callous experience, and I’m all for that. This is of course what makes Rust what it is. Nearly all new play sessions are cut short because a group of players with guns or other advanced weapons immediately have the upper hand. Busy servers coupled with an aggressive and often toxic community makes for an underwhelming experience. In Rust Console Edition there is a limited selection of public servers, which are all mostly full. Private and custom player vs enemy servers provide newcomers the perfect avenue to learn the game’s numerous mechanics. At the time of writing, players cannot join or host private servers, which is a major problem for new players. We’re used to console games featuring stripped back graphics compared to PC, but Rust Console Edition also lacks several key features at launch.
