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New Trailer and Summer Sale Discount!

To mark the start of the Steam Summer Sale we've given the Store page a sprucing up and also added an awesome new trailer which you can view below ...

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We're also bringing you a massive 50% discount on Rust and all DLC's so now is the time to get your friends onto your team or grab yourself the Instruments Pack or the summer themed Sunburn Pack

The sale will run from June 24th until July 8th.

Rust is getting a free Nvidia DLSS performance uplift in July

Nvidia is bringing DLSS—Deep Learning Super Sampling—to Rust early next month, along with a bundle of other games...
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Now you can trigger your real home's alarm when your Rust base is raided

We're in a new month, which means a new Rust update. There's some pretty interesting stuff going on with Rust's June update, but maybe the weirdest is the Rust+ app now supports IFTTT—which means you can essentially wire up the brutal survival game to some real-life services, apps, and smart home devices...
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Rust's June update brings a new contact system, AI, improved animals, and more

Good news, Rust fans - the survival game's June 2021 update is here, with a bunch of new and overhauled content in tow. Among the stuff coming with the patch, there's a new contact system that'll help you work out friend from foe, the first phase of the Rust's AI rework, update critters, and various other bits and pieces.

First up, that new contact system. Essentially, this mechanic will make a record of any new player you meet in your contacts, and any interactions you have with them - whether that be positive, not so positive, indifferent, or downright "rage-inducing", as Facepunch says in a press release. To help you work out who might be a pal or an enemy quickly, players' nameplates will now show up in colours to help denote their status in relation to you: blue for friendly, and red for hostile. You can use the binoculars to ascertain this from a longer distance, too. Plus, following the update, your name will get revealed if you wave at another player.

On the new-and-improved AI, Facepunch says the first phase replaces a bunch of different systems with a single new one, whose main advantages are that "it should keep the AI updated going forward", plus it'll be easier to add new features to in the future.

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