• HOW I CHANGE MY CHARACTER?
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Hey children, here's your daily reminder not to feed the trolls or idiots kthx.
It doesn't happen all the time. You can't be serious.
no one cares about you shut up
So, the actual answer is, as previously stated, variety, and also garry making the decision to make Rust an instant-start game instead of trapping people in the character generator for 40 minutes immediately after they start the game and try and join a server for the first time. By not giving people a choice in their looks but instead tying it to their Steam ID, it provides an identifiable "DNA" that defines their visual traits and gives you a way of identifying them at further than the distance names draw over heads. It's a unique value that follows them from server to server and stays the same for long periods (the devs periodically change the character system, which forces a global reroll of characters against your Steam ID -- sometimes this results in minor changes such as going from no beard to beard and sometimes the character is entirely different). Many people want to be able to choose their gender or skin colour or traits, but most games allow you to do that if there is variation (otherwise you're a single specific character like Master Chief). Rust is one of the few games that predetermines your character's appearance and doesn't give you a choice in the matter, and while this is unusual it's a very deliberate design decision by the devs. Consider giving the difference a chance instead of just insisting it be like every other game.
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