Atavistic survival sim Rust just lately added a complete new space to get brutally murdered in whereas operating round bare—a rainforest. Not solely is that this Rust’s snazziest biome, it is also by far the busiest from an environmental perspective, far thicker in vegetation than the sport’s different areas, as you’d count on from a jungle. This makes it a uniquely hazardous playspace, providing ambush alternatives aplenty for each gamers and prowling animals like crocodiles and tigers.
Certainly, developer Facepunch Studios cautioned gamers in regards to the risks of the jungle on launch, stating on its web site “The jungle is way denser than what you could be used to, so bear in mind that risks and predators might lurk in each nook.” Because it seems, although, gamers have been much more involved with one other drawback—Rust’s jungle is so dense that they can not discover any sources in it.
This was acknowledged and amended by Facepunch in Rust’s most up-to-date replace, which makes quite a few alterations to the rainforest to make useful resource searching simpler. “One of many loudest bits of suggestions we heard after final month’s Jungle replace [was] ‘I can not discover something!'” the studio defined in a Steam publish. “The jungle was a bit too good at being a jungle.”
To compensate for the jungle’s, er, jungly-ness, Facepunch has adjusted the size and distribution of a number of useful resource nodes to make discovering them simpler. For instance, wild hemp bushes now have taller stalks and purple flowers to make them stand out among the many undergrowth, whereas rock formation density has been elevated in order that additional ore nodes spawn. Berry bushes have additionally been given a “devoted” jungle inhabitants, although that is extra in order that meals is distributed evenly over the map.
Facepunch has additionally made a number of non-resource-related tweaks to how the jungle capabilities, similar to automobiles and bikes spawning alongside jungle roads to facilitate a speedy escape. As well as, new gamers will not spawn immediately within the jungle. Even Rust is not that imply, it seems.
The replace’s modifications aren’t unique to the jungle. Facepunch additionally makes basic enhancements to indoor lighting. That is partly an aesthetic change, however primarily a sensible one. Beforehand the system made it arduous for indoor gamers looking to see the broader surroundings, placing them at a drawback in fight. The brand new system goals to handle that, whereas additionally offering “gentle bodily transitions out and in of interiors” as a bonus.
Elsewhere, two new gun silencers have been added, whereas the present silencer has been modified to be non-craftable, making them extra of a valuable useful resource and stopping each single participant from operating round with a silencer. PvP barricades have had their stack sizes lowered to discourage spam placement. Foliage rendering has been improved. Meals spoiling has been prolonged to fruit, greens and eggs. Oh, and along with bee grenades, now you can craft bigger bee bombs which may be launched from a catapult, in case you actually wish to fire up your enemy’s hive.
However that is solely the start, as there are much more modifications so that you can get your head round. Alongside the jungle biome, there have been numerous new options added to Rust this yr. Again in March, Facepunch added real-time meals cooking and craftable pies, in addition to these aforementioned bee grenades, whereas in February, the primitive replace added a brand new mode that restricts gamers to pre-industrial weaponry (like swords, shields, grenades and catapults) for gamers who don’t desire the sport to be a rush to find gunpowder.