Hi guys, and possibly gals,
Fariel here. I'm not really anyone of great concern to you, I just wanted to say thank you for the time I've invested in to your game. However, given the current state of things, I will not be investing further time in to the current alpha due to the reasons I'm outlining below.
Rust has always had a bit of a sweet spot for me in its concept. Ever since I heard about it I've been excited to play it. It's simple, really. Build things and survive. It's like minecraft and dayz had a love child. An absolutely wonderful love child, which I want to see grow and mature in to a full fledged game.
But I can't do that, at least not yet. So much of the game is ran on the client side that "hacking" is extremely easy, even with cheatpunch and VAC-secured servers. It's so easy that a number of hacks have swept through the population so rapidly that no one is safe, anywhere. It seems like every thirds person I encounter on official servers is able to shoot through walls.
I can't get attached to the time I invest in a game when someone can log in to a server, instantly kill everyone, and then destroy all containers on the server and send us back to the stone age.
I can't get attached to the time I invest in a game when I can be inside my house, completely sealed away from the outside world, and get head shot by someone standing at my closed front door screaming racial slurs.
And it's not even the racial slurs that bother me. They're actually part of the game's character, and what gives it its charm. It's terrifyingly gritty. My friends have come to call Rust in its current state an "Anne Frank simulator," and frankly, I agree with them.
There is no safe, no matter how hard you work.
Do I see this as a waste of $20? No. I see this as an investment in to a game I hope to put thousands of hours in to. I see this as hope for the future of gaming. I see it as an opportunity to shine light in to the dark existence of games. But as of now, the game is not in a playable state, even as alpha...
...And I look forward to when I can return.
With love and anticipation,
Fariel
They're working on the hacking; you are paying for a game in alpha, which means there are bound to be issues. Either way, the devs are working to solve these issues.
Well that was somewhat thought-out, respectful, and entirely unnecessary.
Except for the last part, this was not what I expected from a thread with this title.
For my case its different, I wasted money buying a game that can't keep their official server up and running most of the time. My official server that I played in Singapore have gone down after 2 days in every single patch since 6th February patch (zombie removal patch). The hacker can't destroy the server because the server is always down.
As of now, every official server except US servers is down and no news or word is given out as usual.
I'm sorry I don't quite see what's your problem.
There are thousands of servers besides official one, thousands of vanilla-official-like servers. Hackers usually don't play those, if they do they get banned by (active) admins. You just gotta find the right server.
Every game has a cheat to it, if it's aim/wall hacking in FPS games, duping, speed hacking and what not in MMORPG's and many other.
Honestly what do you suppose he can do? Do the lightning serverside? That's retarded. Movement? Cheatpunch checks for that already, pretty sure that's the reason you get kicked by falling off a rock awkwardly. Same goes going through doors.
Only thing which I see that is pretty bad is AoE killing, I can agree about you about that, then again five seconds of the admin TP'ing to check or checking server logs and the problem is pretty much solved.
You paid for alpha/early access and you have it, how can people expect a fully working game with a fully working anticheat by alpha I've no idea, it's called alpha for a reason. Cannot really bitch till the games released.
Luckily this is in alpha so the devs are hard at work especially hacking. Hopefully.
[QUOTE=Fariel;43966839] My friends have come to call Rust in its current state an "Anne Frank simulator," and frankly, I agree with them.
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I agree.
I hope your hacking miseries depart and you can enjoy the game.
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