Facepunch Studios director Alistair McFarlane took to Twitter to announce that Rust has surpassed 259,646 concurrent gamers on Steam. On the time of writing, the sport has now surpassed 262,000 gamers reaching its all-time peak in line with SteamDB. Within the publish, McFarlane highlighted how a lot of an accomplishment this was and thanked gamers for his or her assist. “Rust going energy to energy! we simply beat our all-time CCU, beating covid and all different important occasions, stated McFarlane. “For the previous a number of months, we’ve been hitting new month-to-month data, this was an enormous one we have been uncertain if we’d ever beat, not until there was one other world pandemic.
Rust going energy to energy! we simply beat our all-time CCU, beating covid and all different important occasions.
For the previous a number of months, we have been hitting new month-to-month data, this was an enormous one we have been uncertain if we might ever beat, not until there was one other world… pic.twitter.com/8U0YD5b8Ez
— Alistair McFarlane (@Alistair_McF) January 2, 2025
Rust particulars:
The one goal in Rust is to outlive. Every thing desires you to die – the island’s wildlife, different inhabitants, the atmosphere, and different survivors. Do no matter it takes to final one other night time.
Rust now enters its eleventh 12 months of continued enlargement and has had over 385 content material updates, with a assured content material patch each month. These embrace common stability fixes and enhancements to AI, and graphics, in addition to updates to environments and the frequent addition of content material resembling new maps, extra weapons, additional autos, and a plethora of utility gadgets. Preserve an eye fixed out for normal seasonal occasions, as there’s all the time one thing fascinating or harmful (or each) taking place on the island.
Updates to the sport embrace:
- Procedurally generated worlds with group map editor assist
- Host your personal servers and with server-side modding assist
- Transportation: horses, modular automobiles, sizzling air balloons, helicopters, bikes, trains, boats, and extra
- Complicated electrical, farming and automation programs
- Base Constructing and Raiding
- New factions, enemies, and wildlife
- New monuments, terrain, and areas to discover
- Superior underwater areas to find
- Musical devices and the flexibility to carry out to gamers
- Massive overground and underground prepare networks
- Huge latest graphics improve and atmosphere overhaul
- ..and way more
EXPLORE
You wake bare on a mysterious island, armed solely with a rock and a torch. You’ll must courageous environmental risks and deficiencies (from warmth and chilly to thirst and hunger), construct a shelter, eat (or be eaten), and scavenge supplies. Discover the island and its deserted settlements, mysterious monuments, and the factions that occupy them.
However, above all, be careful for different survivors…
BUILD
Design and construct bases to retailer your loot, defend your territory, and management the assets of the island. Analysis the tech tree, develop farms, command electrical energy, and commandeer numerous types of transportation to traverse the island. No matter it takes to get forward.
SURVIVE
There aren’t any guidelines in Rust however the ones you make for your self. Craft instruments, armour, and weapons to defend your self. Cooperate with pals, make alliances, and construct a settlement collectively. Discover the island and what’s taking place in it, commerce with different gamers, or prey on them, raiding their bases and taking their hard-won items.
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