The RUST community continues to grow

 Facepunch founder Harry Newman published a letter in which he summed up the results of 2015 and shared the plans of the RUST multiplayer survival simulator team for the near future. And it became known that:

- Now the average online is 15,000 players (peak - 29,000). So the game's community continues to grow.

- A total of 2,976,670 copies of the game were sold in 2014 and 2015.

- In 2015, 198,501 copies of the game were purchased in Russia, and 186,791 in the USA.

- 48% of players have played 20+ hours, 50+ hours - 29%, 15% - 100+ hours.

- In 2016, RUST will leave the Early Access stage. But updates will continue to be released (they will be related to new content, not gameplay). The system of construction, destruction and other basic bases will not change after that. But there will be new AI, vehicles and weapons. Naturally, developers will not forget about adding balance edits, optimization and bug fixes.

Read more    - Work has already begun on the Roadmap. You can see it on a special page . Of the most interesting changes, it is worth noting:

First quarter of 2016

Experience system. Players will have experience, which is a kind of currency. Experience is awarded for collecting resources and crafting for the first time.

Character level system. The level is based on the total accumulated experience. And if you increase the level, then you open up new blueprints.

System of drawings. It is somewhat reminiscent of the tree-like system of skills in other games (if you want to open a new blueprint, you will first have to learn the previous one).

Skill system. Skills will be divided into 3 categories: survival, crafting, and fitness.

Second quarter of 2016

By chopping trees, you can get branches, berries and bird eggs.

Wolves will become much more difficult to fight. And the bears will have vulnerabilities (that is, it is useless to hit other parts of the body).

With the help of self-grown food, you can gain experience (you just have to eat it).

Also, this week is likely to be a wipe of servers.

RUST - Admins can now play as female characters

 The multiplayer survival simulator RUST continues to receive various updates. And a female character model has already appeared in the game.

So far, only server administrators can run after female characters. And according to Facepunch founder Harry Newman, the team needs a little more time to finalize custom features and more.

So regular players will have to wait a certain amount of time. By the way, it is worth considering that, as with other character traits in RUST, the gender will be assigned randomly (and you cannot change it due to the linking to the Steam ID).

Before - New game from the creators of Garry's Mod and RUST

 Facepunch Studios, which previously noted work on Garry's Mod and RUST, announced their new game Before at The Game Awards 2014. From the first seconds of the video, the project can even be confused with the work of WilD from Michel Ansel , but this is only at first glance.

Like the studio's last game, this is survival in a harsh world. True, this time it will be necessary to govern not one person, but an entire primitive tribe at once. Everything must be done to ensure that people survive in these difficult conditions, as well as develop spiritually and culturally.

It is not yet known if the game will have a multiplayer mode.

RUST - Plans for future updates

 The FacePunch development team has shared plans to further develop the multiplayer survival simulator RUST with different categories and priorities.

The main task in the list of developers is the system of drawings, with the help of which it will be possible to create various objects. As planned, drawings can be shared with friends. Also, the developers want to open up the ability to destroy, create and repair absolutely everything that is in the game world. It is also planned to introduce the game in various weather conditions, including storms that can destroy entire buildings.

At the stage of approval and concept is agriculture, drawing maps, as well as a variety of transport: water, land and air. The plans even include weapons for storming buildings and fortifications.

RUST - Item Editor, UI and Farming

 The FacePunch development team announced the release of a full-fledged survival MMO RUST item editor, personally announced by Harry Newman on the pages of the game's official blog . The developer also added that user-created items will only appear in the game after voting and verification.

Players should also expect the addition of sane in-game chat, alerts and a pop-up menu. The introduction of farming into the game is also announced, but due to performance problems, work on it is being delayed.

About Rust and Garry's Mod fees

 Harry Newman of Facepunch Studios revealed on his Twitter microblog that Garry's Mod has grossed over $ 30 million since its release on November 29, 2006.

But he also added that their game Rust has already raised 0.34% more funds, although it has only been on sale since December 11, 2013 and has not even officially been released yet, but is in "early access".

RUST - CheatPunch has blocked cheaters

 The FacePunch development team went on the warpath against cheaters in a survival MMO, installing a special system called CheatPunch on stable servers, which acts by analogy with the VAC System - it locks the game account forever. According to the first data, there were only 4,600 lucky ones. The founder of the project, Garry Newman, even published a very funny letter about this, in which he deliberately mocked dishonest players: “If you were kicked out of the server with a message about the blocking, you were caught hot. You perfectly understand We understand that it was your 9-year-old cousin. Your computer has been hacked. The CIA wants to block your games so that you join them in the hunt for aliens. For those like you, we will launch a site with proof of everyone's guilt. "

World of Darkness: Developers will borrow ideas from RUST and DayZ

 In an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun , the CEO of CCP Games said that MMORPG World of Darkness will give us an open world and sandbox elements. According to him, these features will appear in the game thanks to such survival MMOs as RUST and DayZ (roughly speaking, they drew inspiration).

The concept of humans and vampires will not change, but definitely RUST, DayZ and similar projects will influence the final version of WoD. We remind you that World of Darkness has been in development for 8 years.

"In general terms, the World of Darkness is like the 'real' world we all inhabit. The same groups are popular, violence also spreads within cities, bribes and corruption flourish among the same governments, and people visit the same cities for their culture. this world has the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower. However, unlike our world, it has hidden horror - in the World of Darkness, all the diseases of our world are even more serious. Our fears are much more real. Our governments are even more decadent. Our ecosystem is dying more and more with each at night. And vampires exist. "

The creator of DayZ on the prospects for the game on consoles

 DayZ's head of development, Dean "Rocket" Hall, in a recent interview with Gamereactor, spoke about the prospects for the game's release on Xbox One and PlayStation 4. According to him, he actively communicated with Microsoft regarding the Xbox One, but nothing has been decided so far, although the developer does not discard this proposal. ... At this point, he only understands that both consoles are capable of providing an environment in which Bohemia can operate. However, PCs are still a priority, and consoles have yet to prove themselves worthy of the chance. At the same time, Dean believes that they both have potential and expects that their time will come.

RUST - Over one million copies sold

 Garry's Mod sandbox creator Harry Newman has some interesting information regarding survival MMO RUST . On his Twitter, he wrote that over one million copies of the game have already been sold.

We remind you that RUST is currently in alpha stage. We managed to achieve such sales in two months. It is worth noting that the same DayZ Standalone was able to achieve similar sales in about one month.

Rust - no more zombies

An update on the Rust blog informs that the developers decided not to wait and removed all zombies from the game in order to avoid comparison with other zombie and survival games at the request of the players.

Along with this, they improved the AI ​​of animals, and now they react correctly to each other and to shots. True, the white wolves were also taken by zombies and we will not see them in the game again.

In addition, the creators of the game have added new models for resources, fixed many Rust bugs and continue to develop their popular brainchild.

DayZ will not compete with RUST and Project Zomboid

 We've already told you about the recent AMA with survival horror developer DayZ Standalone, Dean Hall. And during this event, Dean also touched on games like RUST and Project Zomboid . He revealed that DayZ is not going to compete with these games.

When asked about how the developers will keep the interest in DayZ going, Dean said the need to provide a survival atmosphere (hunting, etc).

“The DayZ project has already won everything it needs. Now we just have to make a good game. You don't have to think about sales anymore. You can fully focus on improving DayZ. ”

RUST - Developers can't believe their phenomenal success

The creator of the popular sandbox Garry's Mod, Harry Newman, in an interview with GamesIndustry, spoke about the success of his new creation RUST, which breaks sales records that exceeded all his expectations. Alas, the developer does not give exact numbers, but he assures that in a few months the Facepunch Studios development team managed to earn 40% of what Garry's Mod achieved in nine years. Three days later, the developer in his Twitter said that revenue rose to 55%. A team of 15 people simply cannot believe this phenomenal success.

Analytics minute. Through simple manipulations we find out that Garry's Mod sales amounted to 3.5 million copies, which is more than $ 22 million, and 55% of this amount is $ 12 million. The average price of a game in all regions is $ 11.99. It turns out that the game has already sold in a million copies. The theory is confirmed by the first place in the sale of Steam. This is right before DayZ, whose developers recently reported breaking the million-copy mark. Note that the Steam sales rating is calculated not according to the final values, but intermediate ones.

RUST is currently in beta testing and is being distributed through the Steam Early Access system