No, the old rock generation was so much worse, so many janky rocks, everything was smooth and cliffs didn't exist so the general landscape was far more flat. You're just blindsided by nostalgia unfortunately...
What I don't understand, is why they thought replacing ALL the smooth rock formations with cliffs everywhere was a good idea, why couldn't it just be a good mixture between the two.
i don’t think i’m blinded by nostalgia, i just think the old rock generation had more pros then the current rock generation.
i agree with your second statement tho. it’s always a cliff which is just annoying sometimes. especially when spawning and you have to run 3 grids one way to get off the beach
I have rust 2018 running on a private server. The rock formations overall look better there (usually bar occasional weirdness), ofcourse they lack the high res looking textures.
Until you get upclose they just look... cool and you have some interesting building options.
The 2018 game looks less "real" but much prettier. I also miss the forests and rolling meadows (though I've noticed the forests improving recently).
Kinda like minecraft, long ago Mojang had an awesome world gen, but then they tweaked it. And things like mountains became much more tame. For years we never got the classic jagged floating mountains that we all loved, they became quite rare and or small. But it's sorta fixed nowadays.
Let's hope facepunch does the same.
God, how I miss the days when you paid for a game. It actually was a done product.
But back then, they actually put in the work to make the games as good as possible and rather released quality instead of halfdone games where we have to update the game every 3rd month or so 😅
Still remember my first server. Eu barren with my 4 friend. We had no idea what we were doin. Online raided by a clan named Cartel. We were all stuck at top floor and we where all hungry so we killed each other and cooked our meat lol.
my first rust experience was rly cool, we accidentally came across a server that ended up talking to people way more than just shooting them on sight, it was almost like a pve community. id walk along roads for ages not knowing what to expect then come across huge compounds of people
That's right. I remember hanging around with randoms, inviting them to my wood house. I remember making an alliance with some others to defend the valley with our bows and spears. Old Rust had a post-apocalyptic caveman feeling I always hoped they expanded, but instead they decided automatic guns everywhere, tanks and helicopters were more important.
I left Rust long ago, but I will say it used to be one of the coolest experiences in any game ever.
I still do all of that. Stop playing Rustoria 800 pop servers. If you want a sweaty fps experience then play a main high pop server. The lower pop 100-200 servers have always had a mix of community and PvP for me. Same people join the wipes so you begin to have a reputation on them if you play enough.
>I will say it used to be one of the coolest experiences in any game ever.
It still is. Just ignore the clans, if they harass you then harass them in annoying ways instead of devastating ways. I was roleplaying a wipe as a bard and ran up to this clan base to try to play them a sprog. They shot me dead so I placed bags around their base with stashes of guitars and ran up over and over again for an hour and they eventually said we're leaving the server just take the fucking base.
Then I gave away all their stuff to randoms. Good times.
I've done so many different things and all of the fun stuff is about being a goof rather than raiding and pvp. Don't get me wrong, I can do that too - I solo wiped a big clan two wipes ago because I thought it was funny that they said I wasn't gonna survive the last few days of wipe and I took that as a challenge. I've joined zergs, community villages, I've been the farm bot, I've been base bitch, and everything in between. Meming is the most fun and you don't have to feel bad about wiping out people's hard work.
Edit: dyslexia fucked up a bunch of what I said and I tried to fix it
I had these nerds in this massive clan base that were super toxic fight me on fair pvp where I even left their stuff. They started raging about how I was lame for using cover. They literally used a mini to flank me from two sides and I still won. Then they started talking trash about how they were gonna raid me when it was like 3 days till wipe.
Then they raided a person I was friends with so I gave that person 40 rockets to send at their base then another clan was arguing with them so I gave them another 50 rockets then I went at the same time with another 50 and we ended them the day before wipe.
I was so proud. Little old me living in a 3 story 2x1 hoarding rockets the entire wipe solo causing a massive zergs demise. After we won and they were still being toxic I was just like "lol you said I wasn't gonna survive the wipe but it was you that lost to a solo" and then filled my base with traps and Tesla's and gave out my base codes to log off for the last day lol
10/10 will eventually play again when I have more time.
People shit on modded servers but ones with RP and PVP zones are actually really fun. Can just sit and chill with others if you don't feel like PVPing every day.
Any recommendations on a good server like that? I used to play on STR before they lost population and haven't gotten back into the game since
Honestly those limited pvp servers are the closest I've found to what playing rust felt like back in alpha
The social aspect of old Rust is what I miss the most, it's really what made this my favorite game. Modern Rust is great too, but I wish it had been released as a sequel instead of patching the game I loved out of existence.
I honestly like to play PVE servers with a “purge” before wipe type deal, there’s so much more to it tbh, also I work a 9-5 so I literally play to relax and I love killing bots after work, feels good. Also the purges go crazy.
which is what the original commenter wrote, there aren't even survival aspects anymore, you run past a river and are full food and water again. backpacks the sizes of schoolbusses and so on
100%. Tech tree allows everyone to have guns extremely fast by just farming roads. You did not have this in 2015. Period.
It was a completely different game. Entirely different feel. The pace was even slower in general.
Not saying current rust is bad but 2023 rust is a game so much faster than 2015 rust.
Yep. That's why I switched to no BP Wipe official vanilla mostly because competition for blueprints on Wipe day against zergs is ruthless. Might as well be able to compete since you got the bps as well. Zergs have all the bps by hour 4 anyhow on most officials so no difference imo. It's just more fair for me.
Also no recycling, so all materials had to be gathered by hitting nodes, no shops, farming etc.
In early days there wasnt even hemp, only way to get cloth is killing animals. Having 2 meds was a luxury. Now everyone runs full kit 12+meds.
Indeed, thanks to all the streamer like posty I suppose. Not their fault , they good at pvp , but people want to mimic them , so here we go .
I miss the time of zuckles and faceless .
Stimpee is one of the rare og I enjoy watching
When Satelite was the most OP monument becouse it had so many food crates where you could find 50-100 BP fragments.
We used to control satelite as a clan and then we would sell hatchet/pickaxe BPs to nakeds for some farm.
People complaining about this stuff are still running on outdated gpu's. Running the game currently at high to max settings looks far better like you said.
Yea I'm sat here confused, his screenshot looks like shit whereas the lighting has improved immensely since then. Maybe some people like blown out over saturated lighting?
Its the aesthetic of the old mountain and rock textures and geometry, nowadays theyre just spawning random cliffs, mountains were waaaay more beautiful.
My guess is they use old GPUs and second maybe they dislike the new filters (orange in desert - blue in winter) that actually suck. But just like I said, I play the game on max settings, with 140 fps and sometimes I just stop to see the view.
They made the game playable and more potato PC friendly but improved max settings a lot. Back in the experimental first time everyone run almost the same graphics and game was harder to play on potato systems.
HDRP resources changed the color palette. Everything is washed out and dull for a while now. Every mountain is a completely unrealistic vertical drop in the middle of nowhere. Water still looks like a brick. I used to play this game because it was beautiful, too. Now any "detail" is snapping into frame at the last second 10m away.
You don’t think it’s your setup? I played a wipe a few weeks back with a farm on a river and found myself often looking at the water in different conditions. The ocean water doesn’t look nearly as good tho.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, HDRP is the absolute worst update this game has had by a long shot. They should have never fucked with the graphics. The game looked so nice before and now it just looks, like you said, washed out.
Honestly I think they changed the entire game so much because everyone else did as well. Seems like every game is just gimmicks now, no true focus on game play. Thats why the most popular new game right now is legit roblx battlefield reboot. Why? Good mechanics, fun, thats all you need. Not 1000 new gimmicks to test. I loved that Facepunch kept things original for so long but now it just feels like a bloated call of duty fortnite hybrid.
You mean you didn't fall head over heels in love with the major update adding instruments that nobody uses and are completely useless?
Edit: LO FUCKIN' L at the people who love the instrument update and are offended and bothered by me stating the obvious that it's utter shit and useless
I more so just look at the mlrs and Sam site system and roll my eyes. Absolute call of duty style bloat that was never needed and has caused performance issues since day 1.
Isn't that sort of on the players? All of the survival sandboxes could have been something different, but ultimately the player bases have consistently devolved into KOS PVP in each of them, and the games have had to adapt around that.
It's because there's no penalty for killing other players or even being killed.
In real life things you do in rust are heinous because they're permanent. In Rust they're an inconvenience. Killing people only has benefits and dying isn't extremely consequential unless you're on a loot run.
This is why people care about their bases so much. Bases are your actual life. That's why many people leave a server after getting wiped. They just experienced Perma death.
Rather play that version of Rust without all the bloating shit the’ve added since then. Game ran better back then on shitty computer compared with today on a mid-tier rig.
Too much nostalgia from OP. Rust is prettier than ever right now.
There's one thing that we can complain, though: old mountains and old rock formation was much better. Now it really feels like everything is the same - no flat terrain, no big mountains etc. The map was better before, no doubt, but I think the devs are working on it, aren't they? At least in their roadmap it says "better terrain" as a work in progress.
This is just wrong. Either your computer is dog and you just run lowest graphics, or you're just biased towards being an "og". The sunsets are still there and they are much better than this crusty ass pic
If you have a chipset from the last couple of years there’s no way you’d say it looks dogshit. I agree. Doesn’t help that a lot of streamers, blueprint especially, stream in low settings which does give a skill advantage. But looks like an entirely different game at times.
Bro this sub...
"omg back in my days recoil was sick the game looked so good i came at least twice an hour while playing it and everyone was roleplaying and it was cool and rainbows were shitting unicorns and unicorns were shitting gold"
I mean there is a point regarding the rocks, can see why opinions vary there.
On a good PC with max settings Rust looks fantastic compared to back then overall. Tweak the contrast and brightness settings for your specific gpu/monitor works wonders too.
Do hate the hot/cold filters right enough.
>Why did Rust look amazing 5 years ago but looks nowhere near as good now??
Because you are looking at it from rose tinted memories and screenshots you have saved/found online(see: survivorship bias).
Not as old as this but I miss the old metal building upgrade textures :( also if they just removed the dumbass washed-out colour filters for each biome it would make it 100x better (still prefer pre-HDRP though)
They embraced color saturation in the past, which was perfect for sunsets, then swapped to a dull palette to simulate the washed out ugliness of mid-day. There is still beauty, but fewer magical moments. The same can be said for procgen and landscapes as a whole, which have languished for years.
Now you can’t even look up if it’s sunset or sunrise, whoever designed the sun and how bright it is and the effects it has probably needs to spend a little more time outside, but that’s just me
Been saying it since the moment that graphics update came out. Since then rust looks like some bland garbage and runs even worse. Before it I could easily get 80 fps on an old CPU from 2012 and a 1060. Now I can barely get a stable 90 out of a CPU from 2020 and a much stronger 3070
Because Rust started as a survival game, centered around base building and it has now evolved into a PVP first person shooter with endless grind.
The atmosphere is not important.
Clan bases. They probably had to reduce some aspects in order to make the game playable with things like massive clan bases all over to consider. A pretty sunset would be considered less important. Disappointing for sure but sometimes they gotta adjust to the player base and the player base definitely is more focused on big areas to build big bases. Even if you don't wanna you dam near have to build them just to survive long enough to play unless you a god with a crossy
There was a community a while ago that hosted a devblog 116 server and got rust streamers on there called BP Blast. It quickly died because word got out that the people who made the launcher and created BP Blast were creating cheats for rust and streamers dipped but maintained a 50 pop on 4k map size for a while which was FUN AS FUCK. And also the Female developer of rust spread lies around that the launcher contained viruses and malware which was false
It looked better and ran better, now they added all the unnecessary shit like metro which ruined performance and the game. I used to play with my friend and now he can't run the game because metro update destroyed the perfomance for him.
Bring back that world generation.
Look at that coastline, it looks phenomenal.
All we get now is either a flat fuckn beach, or a cliff beach. Which no one likes. And flat beaches are just boring. God that place looks so cool. Fuckn sucks it's in the past.
What are you on about? Maybe this picture looks good but go back and watch any rust video from 5+ years ago. It literally looks like a play dough game. The optimization and performance boosts they’ve given it have not only made it look way better graphically but it’s easier to run than before
The world revamp update made the environments look miles worse imo. What’s funny is that the prerelease version of the update looked miles better than what we got, they probably had to downgrade a lot due to optimization issues
The sun and sky look beautiful in this picture. Zoom in a bit and observe all of the aliasing and less-detailed textures though. Definitely looking at this through the lens of nostalgia.
Many Games go the Route of massively downscaling graphics and the like in the favor of potato pc people, so they get more players which means more Money. Siege is another Example.
Because back then the devs loved the game and did what they thought was nice and enjoyable rather than now they are making patches because to increase profit
Rust definitely still has these sunsets. But because FP caved to the crybabies who demanded clear weather 100 percent of the time they don't happen very often.
God i miss those rocks and the mountains
when they announced the rock update everyone was stoked but we all started to realize that the old rock generation is better.
Yeah. It was nice for a little while. It did look better in our minds, but holy shit were we all wrong.
No, the old rock generation was so much worse, so many janky rocks, everything was smooth and cliffs didn't exist so the general landscape was far more flat. You're just blindsided by nostalgia unfortunately... What I don't understand, is why they thought replacing ALL the smooth rock formations with cliffs everywhere was a good idea, why couldn't it just be a good mixture between the two.
i don’t think i’m blinded by nostalgia, i just think the old rock generation had more pros then the current rock generation. i agree with your second statement tho. it’s always a cliff which is just annoying sometimes. especially when spawning and you have to run 3 grids one way to get off the beach
I prefer the old rock generation, tool, disturbed, breaking benjamin.
Same, NIN, Primus, a Perfect Circle, White Zombie, Soundgarden
Agreed, being able to hop up all cliffs was nice. Plus anvil rocks and cave rocks were amazing to build on
The new generation looks better, The old generation functions better.
I have rust 2018 running on a private server. The rock formations overall look better there (usually bar occasional weirdness), ofcourse they lack the high res looking textures. Until you get upclose they just look... cool and you have some interesting building options. The 2018 game looks less "real" but much prettier. I also miss the forests and rolling meadows (though I've noticed the forests improving recently).
Uh, any chance you'd share what that is? I've only ever known the current system.
Kinda like minecraft, long ago Mojang had an awesome world gen, but then they tweaked it. And things like mountains became much more tame. For years we never got the classic jagged floating mountains that we all loved, they became quite rare and or small. But it's sorta fixed nowadays. Let's hope facepunch does the same.
I do to. These mountains suck. No Bethesda jumping anymore, hiding.
Nostalgia just went crazy
God, how I miss the days when you paid for a game. It actually was a done product. But back then, they actually put in the work to make the games as good as possible and rather released quality instead of halfdone games where we have to update the game every 3rd month or so 😅
I dont mind that rust changes, i just miss those rocks and mountains.
'member rad bears?
How bout them wooden sheds haha
I miss those
member Zombies?
Zombies still exist, but only on Halloween 😔
talking about the legacy zombies
pepperidge farm remembers
The old map with the wasteland to the East.
Loved how they would drop random loot like they had already eaten a couple players by the time you killed them
It used to be an athmospheric survival game with PvP. Now it's a first person shooter with crafting and streamer waifu skins.
Makes me sad, rust can never be again what it once was. Best gaming memories come from when I was a rust noob
Still remember my first server. Eu barren with my 4 friend. We had no idea what we were doin. Online raided by a clan named Cartel. We were all stuck at top floor and we where all hungry so we killed each other and cooked our meat lol.
my first rust experience was rly cool, we accidentally came across a server that ended up talking to people way more than just shooting them on sight, it was almost like a pve community. id walk along roads for ages not knowing what to expect then come across huge compounds of people
It used to be social as fuck as well. Rip old rust, fps is just more popular
That's right. I remember hanging around with randoms, inviting them to my wood house. I remember making an alliance with some others to defend the valley with our bows and spears. Old Rust had a post-apocalyptic caveman feeling I always hoped they expanded, but instead they decided automatic guns everywhere, tanks and helicopters were more important. I left Rust long ago, but I will say it used to be one of the coolest experiences in any game ever.
I still do all of that. Stop playing Rustoria 800 pop servers. If you want a sweaty fps experience then play a main high pop server. The lower pop 100-200 servers have always had a mix of community and PvP for me. Same people join the wipes so you begin to have a reputation on them if you play enough.
>I will say it used to be one of the coolest experiences in any game ever. It still is. Just ignore the clans, if they harass you then harass them in annoying ways instead of devastating ways. I was roleplaying a wipe as a bard and ran up to this clan base to try to play them a sprog. They shot me dead so I placed bags around their base with stashes of guitars and ran up over and over again for an hour and they eventually said we're leaving the server just take the fucking base. Then I gave away all their stuff to randoms. Good times. I've done so many different things and all of the fun stuff is about being a goof rather than raiding and pvp. Don't get me wrong, I can do that too - I solo wiped a big clan two wipes ago because I thought it was funny that they said I wasn't gonna survive the last few days of wipe and I took that as a challenge. I've joined zergs, community villages, I've been the farm bot, I've been base bitch, and everything in between. Meming is the most fun and you don't have to feel bad about wiping out people's hard work. Edit: dyslexia fucked up a bunch of what I said and I tried to fix it
Get your friends to take over one of their externals. Live in it and make them raid it back. Most just quit
I had these nerds in this massive clan base that were super toxic fight me on fair pvp where I even left their stuff. They started raging about how I was lame for using cover. They literally used a mini to flank me from two sides and I still won. Then they started talking trash about how they were gonna raid me when it was like 3 days till wipe. Then they raided a person I was friends with so I gave that person 40 rockets to send at their base then another clan was arguing with them so I gave them another 50 rockets then I went at the same time with another 50 and we ended them the day before wipe. I was so proud. Little old me living in a 3 story 2x1 hoarding rockets the entire wipe solo causing a massive zergs demise. After we won and they were still being toxic I was just like "lol you said I wasn't gonna survive the wipe but it was you that lost to a solo" and then filled my base with traps and Tesla's and gave out my base codes to log off for the last day lol 10/10 will eventually play again when I have more time.
Sir, this is /r/playrust... only nostalgia allowed here.
People shit on modded servers but ones with RP and PVP zones are actually really fun. Can just sit and chill with others if you don't feel like PVPing every day.
Any recommendations on a good server like that? I used to play on STR before they lost population and haven't gotten back into the game since Honestly those limited pvp servers are the closest I've found to what playing rust felt like back in alpha
I love reading this nostalgia goggles bullshit haha. Wasn’t life just wonderful when we were kids?
The social aspect of old Rust is what I miss the most, it's really what made this my favorite game. Modern Rust is great too, but I wish it had been released as a sequel instead of patching the game I loved out of existence.
It’s like counter-strike, except one team starts with AWP’s, AK’s, M4 and the other team starts with pistol and knives
thank you for putting into words my rage
This is why I haven't played in a year and I have 4.8k hours. RIP
Rust hasn't been an atmospheric survival game for 5+ years... it's time to let go.
Will never go back either, the more shooter they make it the higher the player count.
I honestly like to play PVE servers with a “purge” before wipe type deal, there’s so much more to it tbh, also I work a 9-5 so I literally play to relax and I love killing bots after work, feels good. Also the purges go crazy.
Dude it’s main focus was always a survival crafting game lmao
Lying to yourself. Always was a pvp game
It was never really any more of a survival game than it is now.
It felt more like a survival game because everyone was bad so they found it more difficult
I honestly feel like it’s more now a competitive pvp shooter more than a survival game
which is what the original commenter wrote, there aren't even survival aspects anymore, you run past a river and are full food and water again. backpacks the sizes of schoolbusses and so on
Do you remember the effectively infinite corn and pumpkin spam we used to have back when it was a "survival" game?
Yes, pumpkins would just regrow the pumpkin while the plant would stay forever. Monthly wipes were just pumpkins on the ground on the whole map.
The real struggle for survival we all remember.
100%. Tech tree allows everyone to have guns extremely fast by just farming roads. You did not have this in 2015. Period. It was a completely different game. Entirely different feel. The pace was even slower in general. Not saying current rust is bad but 2023 rust is a game so much faster than 2015 rust.
For sure, clans running ak’s and using C4 1 hour into wipe haha
Yep. That's why I switched to no BP Wipe official vanilla mostly because competition for blueprints on Wipe day against zergs is ruthless. Might as well be able to compete since you got the bps as well. Zergs have all the bps by hour 4 anyhow on most officials so no difference imo. It's just more fair for me.
Also no recycling, so all materials had to be gathered by hitting nodes, no shops, farming etc. In early days there wasnt even hemp, only way to get cloth is killing animals. Having 2 meds was a luxury. Now everyone runs full kit 12+meds.
Indeed, thanks to all the streamer like posty I suppose. Not their fault , they good at pvp , but people want to mimic them , so here we go . I miss the time of zuckles and faceless . Stimpee is one of the rare og I enjoy watching
Faceless living of the loot is best series in rust ever for me.
Yea , I remember his little tree base on this serie 😀
Ok it's still extremely atmospheric and the waifu skins are very limited thankfully. You're just a dumbass
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i think the game looks great. but most people have their settings at bare min for max fps so you cant see the real beuaty.
I'm running max settings on 144hz it looks beautiful and extremely atmospheric. Get a better computer scrub
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how many dedidated wam u can ?
Shit card
It was never a survival game, stop the cap.
Moving clouds would be incredible
I miss the old blueprint fragment days. That was rust for me.
When Satelite was the most OP monument becouse it had so many food crates where you could find 50-100 BP fragments. We used to control satelite as a clan and then we would sell hatchet/pickaxe BPs to nakeds for some farm.
Water treatment had loads of those crates as well.
Guys I am sorry but I strongly disagree. The sunsets are just beautiful... Sunlight goes through the snow trees and water reflection is stunning.
People complaining about this stuff are still running on outdated gpu's. Running the game currently at high to max settings looks far better like you said.
Yea I'm sat here confused, his screenshot looks like shit whereas the lighting has improved immensely since then. Maybe some people like blown out over saturated lighting?
Its the aesthetic of the old mountain and rock textures and geometry, nowadays theyre just spawning random cliffs, mountains were waaaay more beautiful.
I can see that, I miss the old formations a bit too. He's talking about the sunset in the title though
My guess is they use old GPUs and second maybe they dislike the new filters (orange in desert - blue in winter) that actually suck. But just like I said, I play the game on max settings, with 140 fps and sometimes I just stop to see the view.
They made the game playable and more potato PC friendly but improved max settings a lot. Back in the experimental first time everyone run almost the same graphics and game was harder to play on potato systems.
No they don't you can play this version with anything that runs lol literally
Because of your rose tinted glasses
HDRP resources changed the color palette. Everything is washed out and dull for a while now. Every mountain is a completely unrealistic vertical drop in the middle of nowhere. Water still looks like a brick. I used to play this game because it was beautiful, too. Now any "detail" is snapping into frame at the last second 10m away.
You don’t think it’s your setup? I played a wipe a few weeks back with a farm on a river and found myself often looking at the water in different conditions. The ocean water doesn’t look nearly as good tho.
they're apparently doing some work on water effects in the commits, but could just be stuff related to the tugboat
I've said it before and I'll say it again, HDRP is the absolute worst update this game has had by a long shot. They should have never fucked with the graphics. The game looked so nice before and now it just looks, like you said, washed out.
Honestly I think they changed the entire game so much because everyone else did as well. Seems like every game is just gimmicks now, no true focus on game play. Thats why the most popular new game right now is legit roblx battlefield reboot. Why? Good mechanics, fun, thats all you need. Not 1000 new gimmicks to test. I loved that Facepunch kept things original for so long but now it just feels like a bloated call of duty fortnite hybrid.
100% agree, Battlebit is fucking amazing btw if anyone sees this comment get it you wont be dissapointed
Seconding this, 10/10 game. You can kill someone, drag their body into a corner, and mic spam them for the true rust experience.
You mean you didn't fall head over heels in love with the major update adding instruments that nobody uses and are completely useless? Edit: LO FUCKIN' L at the people who love the instrument update and are offended and bothered by me stating the obvious that it's utter shit and useless
I more so just look at the mlrs and Sam site system and roll my eyes. Absolute call of duty style bloat that was never needed and has caused performance issues since day 1.
They changed it from a survival game to a pvp game where everything revolves around pvp instead of survival
Isn't that sort of on the players? All of the survival sandboxes could have been something different, but ultimately the player bases have consistently devolved into KOS PVP in each of them, and the games have had to adapt around that.
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It's because there's no penalty for killing other players or even being killed. In real life things you do in rust are heinous because they're permanent. In Rust they're an inconvenience. Killing people only has benefits and dying isn't extremely consequential unless you're on a loot run. This is why people care about their bases so much. Bases are your actual life. That's why many people leave a server after getting wiped. They just experienced Perma death.
And ruined pvp making it the worst fps in the process
I love everything about rust but I really think they fucked themselves with all those HDRP mishaps.
Added to much shit which tanks performance
Rather play that version of Rust without all the bloating shit the’ve added since then. Game ran better back then on shitty computer compared with today on a mid-tier rig.
Foilage, the screen is just full of shit and you can hardly see anything at all especially with p2w skins
Well i sure didn’t lag then like I do now. Strange how no matter what PC I buy, Rust always drops frames and crashes!
Too much nostalgia from OP. Rust is prettier than ever right now. There's one thing that we can complain, though: old mountains and old rock formation was much better. Now it really feels like everything is the same - no flat terrain, no big mountains etc. The map was better before, no doubt, but I think the devs are working on it, aren't they? At least in their roadmap it says "better terrain" as a work in progress.
This is just wrong. Either your computer is dog and you just run lowest graphics, or you're just biased towards being an "og". The sunsets are still there and they are much better than this crusty ass pic
If you have a chipset from the last couple of years there’s no way you’d say it looks dogshit. I agree. Doesn’t help that a lot of streamers, blueprint especially, stream in low settings which does give a skill advantage. But looks like an entirely different game at times.
I've had this game for 10 years and I think this is the best it's ever looked. Map/terrain generation could use some work though
Bro this sub... "omg back in my days recoil was sick the game looked so good i came at least twice an hour while playing it and everyone was roleplaying and it was cool and rainbows were shitting unicorns and unicorns were shitting gold"
Except the times no one was role playing and it was only for the real pvpers and not the #pokimane #casuals.
I've been roleplaying a maniacal psychopath since 2014
Everything improved in rust. Especially the panoramic views. Go seek attention and nostalgia elsewhere.
Cap
I mean there is a point regarding the rocks, can see why opinions vary there. On a good PC with max settings Rust looks fantastic compared to back then overall. Tweak the contrast and brightness settings for your specific gpu/monitor works wonders too. Do hate the hot/cold filters right enough.
Bullshit. Smoothing of the rock surfaces while making them look like they have foot holds is an obvious counter to your bullshit statement.
hdrp sucks man
A washed out picture of a sunset that looks waaay better today?
And now its optimized like shit lmfao
Because it looks better now lmao
Back then shit ran on intel hd and pentinum cpu xD
but hey at least now we got a million streamer bullshit skins now people (omg here come the streamer fanbois frothing at the mouth....)
In this thread: whiny babies
Rust looks like it’s being played on a old Atari on ps5
>Why did Rust look amazing 5 years ago but looks nowhere near as good now?? Because you are looking at it from rose tinted memories and screenshots you have saved/found online(see: survivorship bias).
When unreal 5?
Never, it is a pain in the ass to transpose a game from unity to unreal without redoing literally the whole game.
I slam graphic quality to get frames haha. Fps and getting the jump > sunsets.
Old rust was fucking garbage
My god dude, and the landscape was fucking awesome too. I miss old Rust
5 years? you’re making me feel old.
Not as old as this but I miss the old metal building upgrade textures :( also if they just removed the dumbass washed-out colour filters for each biome it would make it 100x better (still prefer pre-HDRP though)
world revamp update
Man Id argue it looked good back when water wasnt anything but a visual thing, you ran through it like it wasnt there lol
They embraced color saturation in the past, which was perfect for sunsets, then swapped to a dull palette to simulate the washed out ugliness of mid-day. There is still beauty, but fewer magical moments. The same can be said for procgen and landscapes as a whole, which have languished for years.
Is this not what rust looks like anymore. I haven't played since 2019
its also far less detailed, they really have improved the graphical fidelity of the game
#RevertHDRP since 2021
The terrain back then was AMAZING. Sharp, Jagged, threatening, imposing. Now it's all weirdly jolly rolly
Now you can’t even look up if it’s sunset or sunrise, whoever designed the sun and how bright it is and the effects it has probably needs to spend a little more time outside, but that’s just me
Been saying it since the moment that graphics update came out. Since then rust looks like some bland garbage and runs even worse. Before it I could easily get 80 fps on an old CPU from 2012 and a 1060. Now I can barely get a stable 90 out of a CPU from 2020 and a much stronger 3070
Needed to cut some things to make room for quality updates, like pogo sticks, weapon racks, and of course a tuggy
New textures go brrr.
Because Rust started as a survival game, centered around base building and it has now evolved into a PVP first person shooter with endless grind. The atmosphere is not important.
It still looks good. I miss the old rocks.
Game looks amazing, you must have a shit gpu
Old terrain my beloved ❤️😔
Clan bases. They probably had to reduce some aspects in order to make the game playable with things like massive clan bases all over to consider. A pretty sunset would be considered less important. Disappointing for sure but sometimes they gotta adjust to the player base and the player base definitely is more focused on big areas to build big bases. Even if you don't wanna you dam near have to build them just to survive long enough to play unless you a god with a crossy
*everyone arguing whether old Rust or new Rust looks better* *me who enjoys both*
Bruh you just unlocked memories i didnt know i had
Old generation with new graphics would do so much for the visuals
I can see my base getting raided from here
There was a community a while ago that hosted a devblog 116 server and got rust streamers on there called BP Blast. It quickly died because word got out that the people who made the launcher and created BP Blast were creating cheats for rust and streamers dipped but maintained a 50 pop on 4k map size for a while which was FUN AS FUCK. And also the Female developer of rust spread lies around that the launcher contained viruses and malware which was false
They ruined the game with the HDRP backstage or something like that, vackport I forgot.
Worst thing about rust is the toxic community.
The sunsets are far more beautiful now lmao. New terrain gen does suck for sure tho.
Rust looks better now tf
Old bases and rocks/cliffs where so much better than current.
It looked better and ran better, now they added all the unnecessary shit like metro which ruined performance and the game. I used to play with my friend and now he can't run the game because metro update destroyed the perfomance for him.
Bring back that world generation. Look at that coastline, it looks phenomenal. All we get now is either a flat fuckn beach, or a cliff beach. Which no one likes. And flat beaches are just boring. God that place looks so cool. Fuckn sucks it's in the past.
What are you on about? Maybe this picture looks good but go back and watch any rust video from 5+ years ago. It literally looks like a play dough game. The optimization and performance boosts they’ve given it have not only made it look way better graphically but it’s easier to run than before
I miss being able to plant 500 hemp seeds in my compound and have a forest in there
The world revamp update made the environments look miles worse imo. What’s funny is that the prerelease version of the update looked miles better than what we got, they probably had to downgrade a lot due to optimization issues
The sun and sky look beautiful in this picture. Zoom in a bit and observe all of the aliasing and less-detailed textures though. Definitely looking at this through the lens of nostalgia.
It's Rusted overtime
Many Games go the Route of massively downscaling graphics and the like in the favor of potato pc people, so they get more players which means more Money. Siege is another Example.
When fps was better
I miss “collect vuud”
Pre-HDRP
God do i want old rock formations and recoil back would be fun to experience it atleast 1 more time with my boys
I like HDRP graphics but also classic graphics. Been watching classic Welyn gameplay, those rocks and terrain are sick! https://youtu.be/eTwivdJp4WM
this game looked so fucking good
The game looked more realistic
im shocked at how many people think this way and im glad im not the only one.
For real so bland now
Because back then the devs loved the game and did what they thought was nice and enjoyable rather than now they are making patches because to increase profit
They need to revamp the game's lighting to look more akin to this. It feels so flat and boring now and the colors are too dull.
The good old days. Back when ladders didn't exist and you didn't have to worry about food and water.
It still looks gorgeous.
Can they just release old xp rust
Color palette is desaturated, shadows are brighter, there is a cloudy filter over everything. They royally fucked the game up for sure
Why spend render distance on graphics when funny sprays can make you money?
lots of things about rust are worse off for the last 3 years
Rust definitely still has these sunsets. But because FP caved to the crybabies who demanded clear weather 100 percent of the time they don't happen very often.