Rust replace provides ping system, double saddles, and Easter eggs

Communication is essential within the new Rust replace, which packs in loads of multiplayer performance that might be very welcome for these of you who take pleasure in taking part in with pals (and even interacting with random gamers) within the survival recreation. With updates to the map markers system, the long-awaited introduction of pings, and a method to trip concerning the open world along with a buddy, co-op followers might be delighted. There’s additionally Easter festivities, so get your egg baskets prepared and skim on for the complete particulars.

First up is an replace to map markers, with an improve permitting you to now place as much as 5 without delay and new instruments to edit the color and label kind of your markers. You also can add handbook labels to them, though these might be shortened to a few characters when proven in your compass. Markers positioned by workforce leaders will present as much as all teammates alongside their very own.

Pings have been launched for much more on-the-fly communication. When utilizing cameras, drones, or binoculars, now you can single-tap the assigned ping key to put a contextual ping, double-tap it for a purple ping designed to characterize hazard, or maintain the important thing down for a radial menu that features six completely different choices so that you can manually select from. All teammates will see pings, and they’ll final for ten seconds until manually cancelled.

If you’ve ever wished you may trip round with a pal cuddled up behind you, you’re in luck – a brand new double horse saddle has been added to Rust. By default, wild horses will spawn with a single-seater saddle, however you’ll be able to change this to a double utilizing the horse radial menu after you have one in your stock. Much like the one saddle, the double variant is out there for buy from the stablemaster or might be manually crafted.

A world mannequin refresh will make it simple to see which ammo varieties you might have dropped, together with updates to a number of different gadgets. Shotgun shells now show otherwise for normal buckshot (purple), incendiary shells (blue), and slugs (inexperienced). Similarly, rockets have new seems, making it simple to identify whether or not they’re regular, high-velocity, or incendiary. The snap lure and street signal gloves have additionally obtained a world mannequin refresh.

To have a good time Easter, there’s a Rust Easter egg hunt taking place. Every 24-38 in-game hours, a hunt will start, giving gamers three minutes to gather as many eggs as doable. The high three gamers within the occasion will obtain particular prize eggs, which might be opened for “varied sorts of loot starting from scrap all the best way as much as an M249.”

You’ll additionally be capable of improve your collected eggs while you accumulate ten of a kind, with painted turning into bronze, then silver, and eventually gold. If you want some assist throughout the occasion, there are some gadgets to make amassing the elusive eggs simpler. The Easter Basket permits you to immediately decide up eggs, whereas the Bunny Onesie and Ears provide you with a bonus over your competitors with the addition of “Egg Vision.” There’s additionally a paintable Egg Suit and a handcrafted Rustigé Egg obtainable within the Rust Easter retailer.

Rust replace patch notes – April 6

Here are the remaining patch notes and enhancements for the April 6 Rust replace, courtesy of Facepunch Studios:

Computer Station UI

• You can now use arrow keys or mouse wheel to change between chosen entities. The UI may even now present the well being of the entity you’re at present controlling.
• We have an present console variable – vehicleDismountHoldTime
  – that may be set to a worth above zero to allow hold-to-dismount on automobiles. This is now additionally used when you’re remote-controlling a drone on the laptop station. Setting it even to one thing small like 0.2 seconds could be a easy method to keep away from unintentionally dismounting and crashing your drone.

Improvements and Fixes

• Alt-click stock gadgets to disregard loot containers
• Computer station UI: Health bar, key controls, hold-to-dismount
• Floating single gadgets: When subs and boats are destroyed, storage drops single gadgets in a floating container
• Vending machine genetics: Vending machine and market now show plant genetics
• Steam nickname repair: Team UI will use Steam nicknames
• Place doorways on deployables: A pair months again I made a dedication to see if doorways may very well be positioned on high of deployables, which triggered a bit an excessive amount of pleasure. It wanted some additional fixes however now ought to work!

Gameplay Analytics

• This month we prolong our analytics platform by recording gameplay stats on official servers.
• We are nonetheless within the stage of rolling it out so we don’t have many footage to point out off.

CPU Affinity, Priority, and 7950X3D Fix

• After upgrading to a 7950x3d I noticed you’ll be able to’t change CPU affinity when EAC is working. I added some instructions so anybody can change their Rust’s core affinity & course of precedence. You can specify a number of ranges of cores, like “0-7,15-23”
• Everyone ought to attempt utilizing cpu_priority excessive and see if it makes any distinction.
• If you might have a 7950x3d, attempt utilizing cpu_affinity 0-15 to maintain Rust working solely on v-cache cores.
• You can add these as steam launch parameters too: ‘-cpu_priority excessive’

Multithreaded Networking

• Multithreaded networking is now enabled by default for each consumer and server. This ought to assist with efficiency of each the consumer and the server, notably with community encryption enabled, which must be the case on most servers.
• As a further optimization, we improved the best way our reminiscence pool dealt with competition between a number of threads to make sure there aren’t any unfavorable efficiency edge circumstances from all these extra threads.
• Earlier final month, we additionally addressed a difficulty the place one thread was spinning at 100% utilization at primarily all instances with multithreaded networking enabled. Since this was resolved, there at the moment are no recognized points and we actually advocate all server house owners to depart multithreaded networking enabled.

Safe Mode

• It’s now doable to launch or reset Rust into protected mode – a fundamental, extraordinarily low high quality settings config to assist diagnose issues. You can use safemode with a brand new button within the Options menu or by passing the -safemode command within the Steam launch settings.
• You ought to solely use this function in case you are suggested by our Support workforce or are experiencing issues with launching the sport. Using this function will overwrite your present settings so you’ll want to again them up beforehand.

Make certain to maintain one step forward of the sport by brushing up on all of the Rust console instructions to optimise your server, together with testing the entire Rust automobiles. We’ve additionally highlighted our picks of the perfect co-op video games on PC when you’re in search of extra video games to play with your folks.