Recent reviews by rai

Let me start by saying Rust has an insane amount of potential. The engine and everything is pretty fantastic, but let me stop right there. Everything else is complete crap. The devs completely ruined any type of meaningful progression by allowing people to cheese the best loot on the first day with helis and oil rig. People with no life allowed to completely decimate servers because they play 24/7 and then raid everyone else for absolutely no gain other than the fact they felt they screwed everyone over. To literally gain nothing they don't already have. This meta is complete cancer. Play 24/7 and hoard loot and then offline the whole server so you have nobody to even PVP with is completely brain dead to me. There's got to be a point where you realize the meta is complete crap. I think they are more concerned with catering to people who play 24/7 and buy up all their skins rather than making this a playable and fun meta. Which is extremely short-sighted if you think about it. If the game was fun for casual players also, then it would cater to a much larger audience and in turn their revenue would increase exponentially.

The game in its current state caters to kids who are the most vile human beings in real life that have to take out their anger on the world in this game. Stay up until 4 am playing by themselves hoarding loot and farming until they can make the game not fun for everyone else. Misery loves company.

That should be the slogan for Rust. "Misery Loves Company"

Game is decent, but then you realize the devs are worried about cranking out microtransactions and unbalanced characters instead of making dedicated servers. God forbid they have to spend any of that microtransaction money to make the game more enjoyable. Currently Killers host the game and if they don't like the lobby they have, they will either lobby dodge constantly andwaste time, or pull the plug in loading so that you waste rare items. Also plenty of Killer hosts have crappy 3rd world ping and/or constantly pull the plug to cheat or a multitude of reasons. Also the playing with friends UI is incredibly annoying having to exit to main menu every single time a Killer lobby dodges or after every game/disconnect. A simple quality of life improvement would be having persistent lobbies with friends along with dedicated servers, but they are worried about microtransactions and cranking out unbalanced characters for greed.