Tips for low hour accounts and ppl #LFG

[Bronzebronco]

First off if you dont have many hours you may as well bot to 500 or play with others that share the low stats.

Second you should probably be aware if youre picked up by a large group theres a good to reasonable chance you will slave for them and work way harder on gathering in this game when your "team" will afk if thats the group you find yourself in.

Third Try to be as understanding to the people that are willing to teach you the game. This game is unforgiving and being stupid will cost you time and probably friends. Please be open to people telling you that youre not good and are being dingus in almost any situation. Always assume you have a plethera amount of information to accumulate over the time of playing this game. I have met people with 8k hours that are brain dead. This game delivers updates consistantly giving random new advantages such as terrain updates, textutes, adding new weapons, and tools. Knowing how to use your surroundings in any fight will help advance your tactics in pvp encounters.

This game will demand a portion of your life depending on if you want to play this game efficently and want to be "successful" on a wipe to whatever that means to you. This game use to have the norm being 1 month server wipes which would allow you to accomplish a bit on that server from fresh to wipe. This has been turned down to only being 1 week servers which forces you to be on at wipe times to get a head start on other plays on the server when it comes to building near T2-T3 landmarks, so be prepared to get on the server of your choices wipe time to rush to the location you want to build, Great right...

Fourth The golden rule in my opinion is stay the heck away from groups that are toxic and that use you. Even if the group consistantly wins pvp fights and raids often, its not worth the negative experience. Play the game until you bring friends along with you, you can get a long with or players you come across that make you happy and have a good time.

Fifth Do not engage in toxic behavior and be aware that this game has a community with a large player base willing to dox your personal info, send you phising links to get into your accounts on your computer, People will pretend to be your friend to get your 3rd party applications information to find your ip address and do some pretty crazy things. This is real, This does happen, and people are not being stopped for harassing people through this game IRL. This is your warning if youll ever get one.

Sixth If you wish to get better at this game in pvp practice at a smart pace. Groups that pick you up will may just throw you into pvp lobbys such as combattags/ukn avoid player on player combat until you get a feel for all the weapons. Work your way through each weapon based on how you think you will farm for your wipes. (etc pythons from green crates that can spawn at T1 monuments or sars if your planning on camping people that are using them in a roam. Practice is key for pvp. Try to start on a aimtrain lobby against wondering bots and practice CQC first with each weapon varient and get a feel for what you like most per weapon class. Its dont let anyone tell you its impossible to go from revo to ak.. Once you have worked your way through the weapons youre most confident with practice against other players for hours. I know it may seem completely out of it at first when you wan to be playing wipe, but practice in the down time when the group is offline and get that spray down!

Engaging in Pvp doesnt mean pushing extending yourself from your comfort zone. Try to analyze the battlefield as you see fit for your combat skills and work with what plans you can formulate around your surrounding areas for ficticious scenrios such as double barrling a sar and trying to make a quick get away, identify the point of contact where you wish to ambush the player, locate the most efficent escape rout and try to set up some sort of snare to catch enemies off guard that chase, who knows that one sar kit can turn into a full metal ak set as well.

Seventh Be prepared to fail a considerable amount. Lets all be honest and accept most of us arent born sharks and cannot adapt to our surroundings as godly as we believe we can. Being honest with yourself will help you view the most realistic way to go about your gameplay in rust. The best way to play is knowing your limits and what youre capable of. Set realistic goals for how you want to go about your play sessions and you will achive those goals through tenacity and through the hard times a battle hardend player will be forged awaiting the onslaught of waves of players due to patients and time.

Eigth design a base on a build server or FORTIFY it will help you perfect your building skills to use the most efficent amount of resources for the most exspensive compounds. Stay away from youtube builds, Theres over hundreds if not thousands of views for the most op designs and that will only negate the purpose of unique designs which is most imporantly not securing the loot but forcing the raiders to guess where the loot is and if not cause them to waste raid mats.

Close to lastly if you dont get merk'd off a server from getting ruined theres a chance youll get raided, design a base to have ways to hide/move loot or have a fallback base such as a boat base or a random bunker base in the middle of east jhabimble. Being the group that forces the raiders to lose any profit of GP or Sulfur will delay theyre raiding rampage instead of letting them snowball and reck a server in one night. Its not the greatest solution to your groups doomsday but it will take away the possibility of the server dying in one night, whats being said here is be the hero of the server and hide/get rid of the gp if you believe youre getting raided by an unstoppable force. That will build up reputation that groups may admire you for, giving yourself a name to players that may want to play with you, the community talks like crazy and word gets around fast of oversized groups, known insiders, ghosters, and even cheaters. Knowing your enemy is only half the battle. Be prepared to learn as much as youre willing to practice pvp. Knowing if a players name is a farmer for a clan may encourage you to push him and kill him before his clan arrives to finish the fight for him.

Kinda lasty try to stay away from 20+ groups thats the most dangerous thing you can do and the most boring way to play the game, it may seem like a great idea but you will find yourself over the game before you even get that into it. This game brings out the worst in people and its hard to say how every single person handles their anger but from personal experiences between 30+ odd groups and the minimal amount of hours that i have, i have always had fun in group -10 players and have had more success in pvp/raids/counters via small groups, hone your skills on the synergy of your group and become great players that do not rely on numbers rather game sense and knowledge.

Lastly this game was meant to have a fun experience and to kill time for fun, if youre not experiencing this game in a fun way at all please do not continue to play the game and wine of the forums/reddit to change the game. This was once down a great path but now has to be settled for remembering the great unexplainable feelings experienced by this game that is no more due to the drastic game changes that have pushed this game closer to its fall.

[BombsOnyaMoms]

Wow. Great post. +1

[Mortibus Ostium (Sparky)]

So basically for new players to enjoy this game they should get into a large group and become a slave? Wow... And you wonder why people are starting to hate this game. Also, I was brought into a group recently like this and didn't start out as a slave. However, I noticed that the clan "leaders" were some of the biggest D-Bags and most useless players I have ever met. So you know what I did? While they were asleep I changed all the codes, killed them, and got rid of there bags. Then gave the base to some random group. Felt great.... This whole "I have more hours then you, so you are only good as a slave" bs only bites them in the A$$. Most of these so called "leaders" who clame to be pro's are pathetic... Leading a group of mentally handicapped rejects, in an online game doesn't mean sh*t and when they push the limits, it bites them in the A$$.

[Bronzebronco]

@Mortibus ostium e.e can't tell if troll or not. However to clear things up by my second note i was alerting players to watch out for this behavior and notice this as soon as possible to find out what type of group youre in as a group to only focus on gameplay and goals you set for the wipe or a group willing to be socail with eachother. This may help you maybe avoid the experience you have just described for future group hunting.

[BombsOnyaMoms]

Originally posted by Rule 34 Fit:

@Mortibus ostium e.e can't tell if troll or not. However to clear things up by my second note i was alerting players to watch out for this behavior and notice this as soon as possible to find out what type of group youre in as a group to only focus on gameplay and goals you set for the wipe or a group willing to be socail with eachother. This may help you maybe avoid the experience you have just described for future group hunting.:md_potion:

I thought that was clear. Im guessing hes either a troll or has very poor reading comprehension.

[BIT Bear]

Originally posted by BombsOnyaMoms:

Wow. Great post. +1

Agreed. Very practical advice for newer players that want to get far.

[Nefartious]

One thing you did miss, is any solo or small group player really shouldn’t horde much. Keep about enough resources to keep the base up for 2 days tops.

Once people get comfortable, greedy, hoarding mats is horrible to do.

Expect to lose everything at anytime while playing rust.

Need to setup shop and farm scrap/crates for a bit to get setup.

Best base for resource storage is not on land 🤔

[Mortibus Ostium (Sparky)]

Originally posted by BombsOnyaMoms:

Originally posted by Rule 34 Fit:

@Mortibus ostium e.e can't tell if troll or not. However to clear things up by my second note i was alerting players to watch out for this behavior and notice this as soon as possible to find out what type of group youre in as a group to only focus on gameplay and goals you set for the wipe or a group willing to be socail with eachother. This may help you maybe avoid the experience you have just described for future group hunting.:md_potion:

I thought that was clear. Im guessing hes either a troll or has very poor reading comprehension.

Not trying to be a troll or anything... But as it stands, the game is unplayable unless you're in a big group. You'll barely be able to progress enough to really do anything.

I was also pointing out being in big groups comes with a ton of drama & non-sense.

But also here is VERY little room for samll groups of friends (1-4 players) to play this game and progress very far.... Without playing for 6-8 hours per day to grind resources/scrap. Believe me, I've seen it all: small (hidden) bases, creating alliances with bigger tribes, having just a shack (and stashes): They all end up with the 10+ tribes stomping you out and calling you a noob...

So yeah... Unless you have 10+ friends to play with who you can trust AND you have no life outside of playing this game; you will lose, every time.

[BombsOnyaMoms]

Originally posted by Mortibus Ostium:

Originally posted by BombsOnyaMoms:

I thought that was clear. Im guessing hes either a troll or has very poor reading comprehension.

Not trying to be a troll or anything... But as it stands, the game is unplayable unless you're in a big group. You'll barely be able to progress enough to really do anything.

I was also pointing out being in big groups comes with a ton of drama & non-sense.

But also here is VERY little room for samll groups of friends (1-4 players) to play this game and progress very far.... Without playing for 6-8 hours per day to grind resources/scrap. Believe me, I've seen it all: small (hidden) bases, creating alliances with bigger tribes, having just a shack (and stashes): They all end up with the 10+ tribes stomping you out and calling you a noob...

So yeah... Unless you have 10+ friends to play with who you can trust AND you have no life outside of playing this game; you will lose, every time.

Thats only on official servers. Idk why so many ppl want to play there. Official servers have been a garbage fire for 4 yrs now. It was more obvious in legacy, before eac. Official servers were pretty much for cheaters only back then. I guess newer players just assume thats the best place to play. The community tab has lots of well populated servers with grp limits. I play either solo or with 1 rl friend. We usually play on cndblood duo max, it stays well populated throughout the month. Idk if that server would have a good ping for you, but im confident you can find a similar one that does. I agree, the big zerg clans on officials are awful to deal with...so dont.

[ShortSPX]

+1

[Bronzebronco]

I might make another post with game sense tips and tactics for combat depending on how well this post is received, lmk what you guys think.