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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

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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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Steam Global Top Sellers for the Week ending 24 January 2021

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Rust has hit another all-time player count record

Rust just keeps on storming to new player count highs. The survival game's seen a sizeable surge of interest as of late, following a burst of big name attention on Twitch, hitting an all-time player count record earlier this month of 134,483 concurrents on Steam. Now, that's been blown out of the water, with a new peak count of not far off double that figure.

Steam Charts shows that Facepunch Studios' multiplayer game hit an all-time concurrent player count high on Valve's plaltform this past weekend, with the number topping out at an eye-watering 244,394 - significantly beyond the record set just a couple weeks ago. Similarly, SteamDB records an all-time peak of 245,243 concurrent players this weekend.

These numbers might not quite put Rust in the realms of Steam's other biggest hitters, like CS:GO, Dota 2, and PUBG, which often draw in peaks of hundreds of thousands of concurrent players. However, they're far beyond those the sandbox game's used to bringing in, which over the past few years have typically been somewhere between the 50-100k mark.

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