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Rust now has a kinder, gentler 'softcore' mode and shopping drones
Rust's latest update is a big one: 'softcore' mode has arrived. No, that doesn't mean a soft-focus camera and a jazzy saxophone. It means that players won't have to contend with quite so many of the sharp edges present in vanilla Rust's opening hours - those edges primarily being "getting horribly murdered" and "losing all your gear."
Enter softcore mode. Facepunch says it's aimed at "more casual players" and it takes some of the sting out of dying in the notoriously brutal multiplayer game. "We're aware that some players want a less brutal experience (sometimes, anyway)," Facepunch says. "Don't worry, the majority of our servers will still be regular vanilla Rust (hardcore)."
Softcore mode is launching on 10 servers, and in this initial version, you'll find several key changes. First off, you'll be able to reclaim half your inventory after being killed, either by returning to the spot where you died, or by using a reclaim terminal found in the Bandit Town or Outpost safe zones. You'll have 24 hours to do this before the items despawn.
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Softcore Update
This month we launch the Softcore Gamemode to soften the Rust experience for those that want it, a new automated drone delivery service for your vending needs, work on the Hapis revamp as well as the usual fixes and improvements.
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- Added Jackhammer admire
- Added Drones
- Added Drone marketplace
- Added game mode support
- Added softcore gamemode
- Now catching disk I/O exceptions when e.g. trying to take a screenshot with a full hard drive
- Death screen now displays death by poison correctly
- Fixed water jug filling sound not using positional audio
- Fixed items losing their skin when a stack is split (satchel charges)
- Fixed instrument midi playback still working when wounded
- Fixed not being able to buy/sell spacesuits in vending machines (is treated as a distinct item)
- Fixed couch and chair dismount issues
- Fixed deploying items on top of auto turrets
- Fixed keylock floating
- Fixed building plan conflicting phrases and inconsistencies
- Fixed finger clipping on admire Thompson
- Fixed thumb clipping through glove meshes with bow equipped
- Fixed metal shopfront preventing construction placement in certain builds
- Multiple anticheat improvements
- Can now wield items while sitting on the sofa deployable
- Improved padding and removed dead space when scrolling through skins (crafting/repair bench)
- Skin picker will now sort by recently used
- Stricter Vending machine placement
- Can now deploy items inside deployable watch towers
- Jackhammer skinnable
- Returned blue barrel
- Shotgun trap now has more accurate colliders
- Wooden shopfront default BP
- Reduced wooden shopfront cost
- Lowered high end weapons drop rate from APC crate
- Removed wooden shopfront from the loot table
- Change lock position on tool cupboard to not clip with cupboard handle
- Fixed being able to play instruments when wounded
- Keylocks now auto-lock on deploy
- Large wooden box can no longer be clipped into world layer
- Monument loot container size reduced
- Stricter shotgun trap placement
Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 31 January 2021
Rust and Everspace 2 lead the Steam top sellers
Fresh off another all-time concurrent players record, Rust is atop the Steam top sellers list for the third week in a row. Joining it is newcomer Everspace 2, and a surprise entrant towards the bottom.
Once again Rust lands at number one, enjoying sustained popular over the last month or so. In second place, Everspace 2, an action-RPG game where you're a pilot in space that's just come to Steam Early Access. After hosting a successful Kickstarter in 2019, developer Rockfish Games has been hard at work to bring the sequel to fans of the original as quickly as possible, and, well, so far, so good. It's number two on Steam best sellers, and has over a thousand positive reviews on Valve's store.
The middle of the chart has some usual suspects - Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Phasmophobia. But then, in second-last, is a surprise entrant, Skul: The Hero Slayer, a 2D souls-like game from developer Southpaw Games. Version 1.0 rolled out this week, bringing new story chapters, equipment and more, and Skul's drawn in nearly 20,000 concurrent players to his the quest. Not enough to be in the top 25 on Steam Charts, but enough to become a top seller.
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