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Lunar New Year
Happy Lunar new year to everyone! To help everyone celebrate we have added some new and old items to the Steam item store.
First off, throughout the Lunar New Year celebration, everyone will be able to craft a set of throw-able firecrackers to make a racket. Traditionally set off to scare away evil spirits, many people would set them off when opening the front door before they went out. We somehow doubt these will scare off a dedicated door camper but you can try!
Server update is required to enable craftable firecrackers - experience on community servers may vary.
[h2]Ox Mask[/h2]
To celebrate the year of the Ox we have created a beautiful Metal Ox Mask with jiggling tassles. Similar to last years Rat Mask, it replaces the wolf headdress.
The Ox mask can be purchased on the Rust item store.
[h2]New Year Items[/h2]
In addition to this year's Ox mask, we’ve added items back from prior years sale to the item store, the Dragon Door Knocker, Gong, Fireworks Packs and the Chinese Lantern.
Also, Don't forget Rust is currently 33% off in the Steam Lunar New Year Sale until the 15th February, now is the perfect time to get your friends involved!
First off, throughout the Lunar New Year celebration, everyone will be able to craft a set of throw-able firecrackers to make a racket. Traditionally set off to scare away evil spirits, many people would set them off when opening the front door before they went out. We somehow doubt these will scare off a dedicated door camper but you can try!
Server update is required to enable craftable firecrackers - experience on community servers may vary.
[h2]Ox Mask[/h2]
To celebrate the year of the Ox we have created a beautiful Metal Ox Mask with jiggling tassles. Similar to last years Rat Mask, it replaces the wolf headdress.
The Ox mask can be purchased on the Rust item store.
[h2]New Year Items[/h2]
In addition to this year's Ox mask, we’ve added items back from prior years sale to the item store, the Dragon Door Knocker, Gong, Fireworks Packs and the Chinese Lantern.
Also, Don't forget Rust is currently 33% off in the Steam Lunar New Year Sale until the 15th February, now is the perfect time to get your friends involved!
Rust has hit yet another player count record on Steam
The Steam player count records just keep on coming for Facepunch Studios' survival game Rust. Last month, the title - which has seen a massive surge of popularity of late thanks to an uptick in streamer interest - hit a new peak concurrent player count record of around 245k players. Now, the multiplayer game's average player count has soared to all-new highs.
Head to Rust's Steam Charts page and you'll see that - as of writing - the game's average player count over the past 30 days has hit a new record high of 146,404 - far beyond averages seen on Valve's platform since its launch way back in 2013. It's also just over 4k beyond January's record-breaking average of 142,117 - an eye-watering leap from the regular figures between the 46-61k mark seen over the course of last year.
Given it's still early February, we won't know for a good few weeks yet whether the average will stay this high across the month - and so, whether we'll see a new record average player for the whole of February. But, it's safe to say Rust's popularity isn't showing any signs of dying down any time soon.
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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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Rust has hit yet another player count record on Steam
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Rust has hit another all-time player count record