Is it me or the Official Servers are down? - Rust

Just wondering if it is my net connection or the official servers are actually down for the experimental version.

What's the problem that you're having? Can you not connect, or are no servers showing up?

There is no experimental anymore. Just rust, legacy and the Dev Branch. Well technically there is an experimental but thats just the dev branch called experimental. In your steam console opt out of the beta. It will up date and you will see the official servers again... This was in the Friday DevBlog [QUOTE]If you’ve run Rust in the last few days you’ll have noticed that experimental is now the default option. Which means it isn’t experimental anymore. This is what Rust is. The old version, which is now known as Legacy is still available for you to enjoy if you’re not ready for the change yet. I want to explain why we decided to make the switch. We know there’s still bugs, we know it’s not feature complete, we know we still have work to do.. but it had to happen. It gives us a kick up the arse. Now the bugs and the missing features are a million times more obvious and a million times more urgent to us. This is how we wanted to make the game from the start.. with lots of people playing it and giving constant feedback. We’re not saying it’s finished – we’re just saying we think it’s good enough to be our foundation. Branches We currently have 3 branches available on Steam. You can choose your branch by looking at the “Betas” tab in Rust’s properties on Steam. Default You’re probably on this branch. By default the version previously known as experimental launches, but you also have the option of launching Legacy from here too. The option to run Legacy on this branch will eventually be removed – and the version previously known as experimental will be the only version available here. Legacy This branch contains only Legacy. Running a shortcut on your desktop will open up legacy. You won’t ever download any updates because Legacy isn’t being updated. Experimental This branch contains the experimental branch. When we commit code, our build servers build it then it gets automatically added to this branch on Steam. Which means that this version updates multiple times a day, and is nearly always incompatible with the live version. But on the bright side this is bleeding edge, you’re playing updates as soon as they’re compiled. That’s gotta be pretty cool, right? Once or twice a week we will apply the changes on this branch to the Default branch. This is the testing ground.[/QUOTE]

None of the servers are showing up. P.S I opted for the beta program in Dev.

[QUOTE=HappyTron;46165999]None of the servers are showing up. P.S I opted for the beta program in Dev.[/QUOTE] There are no official servers for the Dev/experimental build. If you opt out of the beta the official servers will show back up.

Oh, that clears it up. But then 2 hours ago there was a twitter update about Removing the name of players killed from players sleeping, which would potentially fix the sleeping bag bug. That means it hasn't rolled out on the Non-Dev version yet?

[QUOTE=HappyTron;46166048]Oh, that clears it up. But then 2 hours ago there was a twitter update about Removing the name of players killed from players sleeping, which would potentially fix the sleeping bag bug. That means it hasn't rolled out on the Non-Dev version yet?[/QUOTE] Correct. Until Rust updates via steam it wont be fixed, unless its a server side fix only

Thanks for the info!

[QUOTE=HappyTron;46166048]Oh, that clears it up. But then 2 hours ago there was a twitter update about Removing the name of players killed from players sleeping, which would potentially fix the sleeping bag bug. That means it hasn't rolled out on the Non-Dev version yet?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Once or twice a week we will apply the changes on this branch to the Default branch. This is the testing ground.[/QUOTE] "Default" experimental will get updated to the dev version a few times a week. Dev/experimental is live updates as they happen on @RustUpdates, and the server needs to be kept up to date with these patches (10-30 a day). The purpose of having it update once a week is so that players who may not be ready for a billion updates won't have experimental changing underneath them constantly, but people who want to get the updates as they fly in can (if they're able to run a matching server).

For those on the test branch. One tip I found is wait until its later in the night in the UK, as most of the devs will have stopped posting updates. That gives you about a 6 hour playthrough on those servers without them restarting.