Considering buying Rust as a solo starting experience

[GrimSakura]

I was looking at Rust for a while now and it seems like a fun game. I have seen many comments of toxicity across the community and i fear that it will destroy my first experience with the game. Also, i see that there are weekly wipes so will i have to do everything again every week? Is it easy to comeback from dying and losing your stuff? Will i have the constant fear that i have to log in to see if my base has been raided? None of my friends are willing to play this with me so i will be starting solo if i buy it. I was also looking at DayZ and Deadside but they seem incomplete and not really worth the money. I would like some help on the above questions and concerns. :)

[caden]

Yes yes yes yes yes and yes. Its toxic, it wipes every week, you will die a lot, and you will get raided. However thats all apart of the fun. Solo is hard, especially as a new player, however it can also be rewarding. You dont need as much gear to survive, therefore you wont have to farm as much. I have raged, quit, and almost uninstalled Rust. However, i keep coming back to more and more fun.

[Spencer]

if you want to play with another person, i´m down
i added you on steam

[GrimSakura]

Originally posted by Chandler:

Yes yes yes yes yes and yes. Its toxic, it wipes every week, you will die a lot, and you will get raided. However thats all apart of the fun. Solo is hard, especially as a new player, however it can also be rewarding. You dont need as much gear to survive, therefore you wont have to farm as much. I have raged, quit, and almost uninstalled Rust. However, i keep coming back to more and more fun.

I like the idea of finding loot though and defending it. I have played some Tarkov but its too hardcore to get back into and i want a more casual experience. Rust seems to offer that even though it may become frustating after some time. Are there items that you can get and sell on the market like csgo?

Originally posted by WhySpeedy:

if you want to play with another person, i´m down
i added you on steam

If i end up buying it i will message you :)

[Spencer]

Originally posted by FrostBubbleZ:

Originally posted by Chandler:

Yes yes yes yes yes and yes. Its toxic, it wipes every week, you will die a lot, and you will get raided. However thats all apart of the fun. Solo is hard, especially as a new player, however it can also be rewarding. You dont need as much gear to survive, therefore you wont have to farm as much. I have raged, quit, and almost uninstalled Rust. However, i keep coming back to more and more fun.

I like the idea of finding loot though and defending it. I have played some Tarkov but its too hardcore to get back into and i want a more casual experience. Rust seems to offer that even though it may become frustating after some time. Are there items that you can get and sell on the market like csgo?

Originally posted by WhySpeedy:

if you want to play with another person, i´m down
i added you on steam

If i end up buying it i will message you :)

ok nice

[KILLERSMOKER [BTA]]

for ur first like 5 hours i would learn the bow before u even play

[Flanker]

Originally posted by FrostBubbleZ:

I was looking at Rust for a while now and it seems like a fun game. I have seen many comments of toxicity across the community and i fear that it will destroy my first experience with the game. Also, i see that there are weekly wipes so will i have to do everything again every week? Is it easy to comeback from dying and losing your stuff? Will i have the constant fear that i have to log in to see if my base has been raided? None of my friends are willing to play this with me so i will be starting solo if i buy it. I was also looking at DayZ and Deadside but they seem incomplete and not really worth the money. I would like some help on the above questions and concerns. :)

My server is a solo, low pop NON toxic server and group, toxic chat and people are soon kicked or banned, there is a link to the steam group in my profile, the server details are on that steam group, we mostly hang out in steam group chat where people will help you with anything you might want to ask, but still kill or raid you, it's all rust, but with nice people ;)

Not all places and people in rust are toxic. The regulars will help you with advice there are links and tips on the steam group too .(You don't have to own rust to join the group and join in with group chat) It's all about learning to be efficient and if you've crap aim like me, then being sneaky ;)

Your Rust experience will vary depending on where you play is the short answer..

[Ops_Rat King]

Ok, so first to address your concern of people being toxic and it destroying your first experience on Rust, people WILL be extremely toxic to you. You WILL be killed on sight, you WILL be insulted constantly, and you WILL LIKELY be raided several times in your first few weeks on the game. That seems like a bad thing right? Well it's really not. Each of these times you initially fail and lose will be a learning experience on what not to do the next time around. You die going a certain way leaving your base? Don't go the same way next time, or wait for night time and go stealthily. People being too toxic for your tastes? You can mute both in game voice chat and global text chat if you need a break from it. Get raided whether online or offline? Learn from how they blow into your base and strengthen it accordingly next time, the more it happens the more you learn and the more secure your base becomes.

Your second concern is weekly wipes and having to restart. Well there are anything from weekly, to bi-weekly, to monthly wipe cycle servers. You can find something that will suit you I'm sure. There are 2 different kinds of wipes. A blueprint wipe is when everyone gets a fresh start and has to start completely from scratch. Then there are map wipes, on a map wipe you get a new island to play on with a different layout, and also it removes every item you have along with everything you're built. But you get to keep your blueprints you've earned so you can still make the things you had before.

As for worrying about getting raided, there's a Rust+ app that will let you know everything that is happening to your base once you set it up properly, and will alert you if you're being raided by default by telling you if things you've built have been destroyed.

Good luck be very hesitant on who you trust in this game.

[GrimSakura]

Originally posted by GREAZE:

As for worrying about getting raided, there's a Rust+ app that will let you know everything that is happening to your base once you set it up properly, and will alert you if you're being raided by default by telling you if things you've built have been destroyed.

But is it like having a second job? I may not be in the mood to play Rust for like 3 or 4 days maybe even more. If that happens i will be at a disadvantage right? I am more of a casual gamer thats playing a wide variety of games in my every day life rather than focusing on one.

[RiziN]

If your first experience of the game would be on official servers... It would last around 10 minutes! Living in fear of having my base raided? No, you've got it all wrong, waking up with a standing base is a miracle. EXPECT to have a raided base.
There's monthly wipes, weekly, bi-weekly and daily wipes. Usually it's monthly. And you do lose everything. I think there's a few servers that let you keep blueprints, but items and bases? All gone, if they exist in the first place.

This game is hardcore, high pop servers are insanity for solo's, and I'm putting it mildly. You could however play medium pop modded servers, they're easier, but there's a lack of normal PvP. Also there is no advantage of playing as a solo VS as a group besides: Only you lose gear; Can use keylocks instead of codelocks.

The best part is, to "learn" the game, you need to learn how to shoot, else you'll just die with spears and maybe eokas. So hop on a aim train server and get as good as possible.

Last piece of advice: Just don't trust anyone unless you have nothing to lose. Not even the friend that is right on your side.

[GrimSakura]

Originally posted by RiziN:

If your first experience of the game would be on official servers... It would last around 10 minutes! Living in fear of having my base raided? No, you've got it all wrong, waking up with a standing base is a miracle. EXPECT to have a raided base.
There's monthly wipes, weekly, bi-weekly and daily wipes. Usually it's monthly. And you do lose everything. I think there's a few servers that let you keep blueprints, but items and bases? All gone, if they exist in the first place.

So in the end Rust is about doing some yolo things and interacting with others. You don't really get anything out of it because the progress resets and its focused on spending time doing things to have some fun.

[Rotbane]

From somebody who very recently started to play Rust and is still learning; I find your Rust experience will totally depend on what server you play.

The 1st server I played there were lots of helpful players about and the admins were very active in cleaning up 'toxic behaviour'. You'll still get raided, but it is 100% part of the game and each time you'll learn from it (I am no stranger to this with well over 1k hours on ARK since the day of the Alpha release on XB1!). The admin had some decent rules to cater for more casual players but still make the game rewarding for hardcore players.

I wouldn't worry to much about having to lose everything and start again, without that there would be no thrill of the game. The basic necessities that you need in your base are easily crafted after a quick hour grind, I actually find the actual 'grind' on this game more fun than any other game in this category. On my first server I just grabbed as many items as I could to learn to blueprints, that felt like the most important thing for me to do whilst learning the ropes. Getting raided was inevitable but after the very few hours I've put in compared to many Rust players I've actually only been raided twice, low population servers granted.

I'd really recommend going for it if you're unsure, I love the game and will be putting many hours in. If you want to learn with another noob feel free to add me if you grab it!

[RiziN]

Originally posted by FrostBubbleZ:

Originally posted by RiziN:

If your first experience of the game would be on official servers... It would last around 10 minutes! Living in fear of having my base raided? No, you've got it all wrong, waking up with a standing base is a miracle. EXPECT to have a raided base.
There's monthly wipes, weekly, bi-weekly and daily wipes. Usually it's monthly. And you do lose everything. I think there's a few servers that let you keep blueprints, but items and bases? All gone, if they exist in the first place.

So in the end Rust is about doing some yolo things and interacting with others. You don't really get anything out of it because the progress resets and its focused on spending time doing things to have some fun.

You got it right, mostly. There is no specified end goal, you do what you want to do in Rust! But what most people do is... PvP! There are roleplay servers and plugins and zombie servers, but the official ones, it's literally, and only, PvP. Mining a stone node? There's probably a 40+ member clan zerg holding AK's to your head by now!

You could argue you want to do all monuments, it's a cool goal; Maybe get all Blueprints, not that there's much of a point; Build a hotel? Probably completely destroyed by morning. Some people just PvP to farm sulfur and raid a massive base + have an online raid defense.

One thing is for sure though, the only item you should get attached to is your rock and a torch. But even then people will see you as free target practice.

But yeah, all in all? Yolo.

[RiziN]

Ah and I didn't mention it; Again there's modded servers catering to this, but in official servers, playing for 1 day and then not more for 5 days? Raided, lost everything. There is however modded servers that help you through game progression, so even though you probably did lose everything, you might have gotten enough blueprints not to start at stage 0 again.

In other words, to have a good vanilla experience, Rust does become a second job. And yes there are skins in game, but buying skins doesn't give you the blueprints for it.

[GrimSakura]

Originally posted by RiziN:

In other words, to have a good vanilla experience, Rust does become a second job. And yes there are skins in game, but buying skins doesn't give you the blueprints for it.

But if i play on a modded server? Will i lose my stuff even if i don't play for some days? From what i am reading from you guys i am eager to buy the game and try it to see where it goes. I just can't play only this one cause i have many games that i usually play right now every day. Doing a little break for a couple of days and losing my stuff doesn't sound like fun.

[RiziN]

Originally posted by FrostBubbleZ:

Originally posted by RiziN:

In other words, to have a good vanilla experience, Rust does become a second job. And yes there are skins in game, but buying skins doesn't give you the blueprints for it.

But if i play on a modded server? Will i lose my stuff even if i don't play for some days? From what i am reading from you guys i am eager to buy the game and try it to see where it goes. I just can't play only this one cause i have many games that i usually play right now every day. Doing a little break for a couple of days and losing my stuff doesn't sound like fun.

Well... You won't lose your stuff as if it is a rule per se, but other players will offline raid you, meaning once you log off they're gonna blow your base and take everything while you're sleeping/working.

In modded servers losing stuff isn't as bad because you can very easily get it all back; Or maybe you're on a low pop server, so your base might be safe for now.

But for example, you log on a random modded server, and you don't realize wipe is tomorrow! The next morning the server is full AND you have nothing once more.

However, as a rule of thumb "Break for a couple of days" means you did lose everything, unless you're on an empty server or your base is that well hidden.

You could also say Rust isn't the time investment type of game, because at the end of the month it will all be for naught, and that's assuming you didn't give up in the first week.

Honestly, go watch some Rust videos, better see for yourself, here's a good starter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0SnrlxxwRk

And here's a bit of reality through an animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzI82BodS8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaxtkQBBldE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7VgS4voyxQ

BTW: The animations are much more accurate than you'd think.