Afraid to launch Rust - Help

So I'm an honest gamer but hear a lot of chatter of waves of bans and macros so slightly scared. I'm super new to Rust (friend gifted me a copy before price increase ^_^). So with that said I want to double check before launching up Rust. Heres my setup: Windows 10 - I got a new ssd so i ended up doing a complete reinstall of windows, so my fresh install is 2 days old Logitech G13 - Yes i use a gamepad mainly rather than my keyboard. I don't use any of its advanced macro'ing just standard key remapping. Corsair M65 - The corsair software is a lot like Logitech with advanced macro'ing which I'm only using key remapping. Steam Controller - Not using on Rust but its software has macros Nvidia GeForce Experience - It touches the rust config file to optimize rust for my GPU OBS-Studio - I'm Display capturing not capturing the Rust window Dev Tools - Filezilla, Putty, Unreal Engine, Unity Engine, Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, and PinMore (Windows Stope app for making Windows Tiles) Discord My normal routines: Mess around in the Workshop making skins Play 2-3 community servers Client.Connect to my localhost test server (i'm thinking about starting a server). I want to code a plugin for the oxide mod to help log and moderate and test that locally. Also saw a couple plugins like report player, ping/steam check, etc I was going to use but don't know if these are tied to bans at all. Have only read about EAC and macro's but double checking ^_^ Honestly an honest gamer ^_^ Before you post about hacks/hackers/hacking. I have hacked in the past... I would consider myself a White Hat Hacker. Explanation: I ran a private game server when for favorite korean mmo shutdown their NA servers. So I hacked the abondonware game clients to work with my java server. I then had problems with hackers abusing speed, duping items, injecting false info, etc. So since most hackers are like magicians and don't want to uncover tricks, I had to learn the hard way and attack my own server to look for open ends. So I haven't had a server I've needed to test protection on in awhile so I don't have ANYTHING suspicious ANYWHERE near this computer. Being completely honest any hack tools I have backed up are on an external hard drive in my storage unit (family shit i've moved a lot recently I havent seen that drive in 3 years lol). Recently Banned? If you did get banned and HONESTLY weren't hacking... That means no cheatengine, shady dll's. packet sniffers/injectors, lions, tigers, & bears! But if you're on a clean machine, lemme know what other macro's or applications can you think of that may triggered a EAC ban. Thoughts, should I wait for patch? Based on my setup and routine should I wait for a patch before I try playing?

I was inactive for weeks before the day i got banned. I did have script in my mouse but it was for dota 2 combination & battlefield vehicle spammer (entirely unrelated to rust) . I played rust for an hour or so that day (script wasn't running, just stored in my mouse , logitech g502). Played around with Rust Server Manager(from oxide) in the background , hosted a local server to look for node spots for the server i was going to play in. Logged out , 2 hours later i got game-banned. So right now I'm kinda torn between whether having script inside the mouse caused a ban ,irrespective of whether it was on OR that Rust server Manager caused some false-positive. If i got a ban for simply having scripts in my mouse then that's bullshit. Appealed to EAC , still waiting. Been around 36 hours.

oxidemod.org is offline... i wonder if one of their plugins could cause something like that

No, i think its not roblem form oxide. Its server sided and i have admin tools like admin radar. almost never use it but the tool itself when activates show in chat ESP activated. WTF admin radar? Just casual ESP And i was worried but you do not attach anything to client.

yay oxidemod is back online ^_^ agree just thinking aloud. I am still super paranoid for having a clean install of windows ^_^ I'm playing empyrium using my Logitech G13 on a EAC protected server right now n still tripping. Is it just a Rust EAC thing or a global EAC thing?