Can't play Rust offline??? EAC f.up again

[Foul old Ron]

I'm at the moment without internet and will be for a few weeks.
Tried to set up my own dedicated server on my computer to mess around on in the mean time, but nope. Not working.
Internet is full of guides on how to set up a "offline" server but none of them works offline at all.
I have been following the guides to the letter, but it seams like EAC screws up and wont let me connect to my own LAN server. It simply won't work offline. And trying to set up the server not to use EAC don't do nothing at all. Server still reject connetion.
+server.secure 0 +server.eac 0 +server.encryption 0 does absolutely nothing.

Can't Rust be played at all in offline mode?
No reason to be online for single player anyway.
Also, I saw with console open ( f1 ) Rust are sending telemetry to Epic. That's on the shady side too.
Has anyone actually made this work??

[Philly2toes]

just join a dead 0 player server dude dont know why you'd play rust solo??

[Phil Arrow]

there is a way of setting up a offline home server just google it

[Bing Chilling]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjwX45-7os

this is by far the easiest way to set up a server
this guy made a program that does 99% of the work
for you

[Foul old Ron]

Originally posted by Penjamin Franklin:

just join a dead 0 player server dude dont know why you'd play rust solo??

Join a server when offline. Sure, that'll work just fine.

[Foul old Ron]

Originally posted by Phil Arrow:

there is a way of setting up a offline home server just google it

Who's the new guy?

[Foul old Ron]

Offline, NO INTERNET ACCESS.. That was the point here.
Server worked perfectly ONLINE. Now I'll have NO INTERNET for a while..
Now, anyone who has done this and know it works?

[Phil Arrow]

Originally posted by Count. 4noThing:

Originally posted by Phil Arrow:

there is a way of setting up a offline home server just google it

Who's the new guy?

when you look in the mirror how big is that d!ck that dangles.......

[Mutly]

Follow this and you will be up and running in no time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lovI9iub9o8

You have to use the right command to connect to your server once you have joined go to your steam account and look for that server in your history and add it to favourites and then it will be in the Rust servers list
connecting to the same machine hosting and playing on
client. connect localhost:28015

connecting to a machine on your network
client.connect (ipaddress):28015
so it would look something like this client.connect 192.168.1.24:28015

[Foul old Ron]

Originally posted by Mavis:

Follow this and you will be up and running in no time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lovI9iub9o8

You have to use the right command to connect to your server once you have joined go to your steam account and look for that server in your history and add it to favourites and then it will be in the Rust servers list
connecting to the same machine hosting and playing on
client. connect localhost:28015

connecting to a machine on your network
client.connect (ipaddress):28015
so it would look something like this client.connect 192.168.1.24:28015

Thanks man. And this works offline? After first start online?
This time around I got something about "disconnect reason, EAC not active". lol.

Anyway. Got it working. Had to add the dedicated server manually as a favorite. Steam didn't see that on it's own.
But once I added it to the list, the name of the server came up.
Now, for the real test. With no internet connection.
Fingers and toes x-ed.
Thanks again for helping.

[Mutly]

Running off line might not work because of the anticheat I haven't tried it off line.

[Foul old Ron]

Originally posted by Mavis:

Running off line might not work because of the anticheat I haven't tried it off line.

Exactly. That was kind of the whole point of this thread.
Rust CAN'T be played offline at all.
No way, no how.
Get this "Steam Auth Timeout" all the time. Due to the crappy anticheat. Rust can't connect to Epic, so it won't let you play single player even.
What a crappy game.
And you can't get around the anticheat offline either.
Even if they claim in a lot of "help pages" that you can play offline setting up a dedicated server. Wonder if any of them have actually tried it. Wall to wall misinfo, in my book.
Maybe we should start to use copies instead, until we again have full access to our own copies of the games.
It's correct what they say:
You don't buy the game, only the ability to play it.
That's not worth the full price of any "game".

Thanks for trying to help anyway.

[8-Bit Ears]

Imagine buying an online multiplayer game and then crying and calling the game bad because you cant play offline

Are you trolling or are you REALLY that dumb

[DrummerJacob]

Originally posted by Phil Arrow:

there is a way of setting up a offline home server just google it

If youre able to read the OPs message, you can clearly see he already mentioned that he tried various guides he found online about having an offline Rust server and they werent working, so whats the point in your comment?

[Space Cowboy]

Originally posted by Count. 4noThing:

Originally posted by Mavis:

Running off line might not work because of the anticheat I haven't tried it off line.

Exactly. That was kind of the whole point of this thread.
Rust CAN'T be played offline at all.
No way, no how.
Get this "Steam Auth Timeout" all the time. Due to the crappy anticheat. Rust can't connect to Epic, so it won't let you play single player even.
What a crappy game.
And you can't get around the anticheat offline either.
Even if they claim in a lot of "help pages" that you can play offline setting up a dedicated server. Wonder if any of them have actually tried it. Wall to wall misinfo, in my book.
Maybe we should start to use copies instead, until we again have full access to our own copies of the games.
It's correct what they say:
You don't buy the game, only the ability to play it.
That's not worth the full price of any "game".

Thanks for trying to help anyway.

There's gotta be some line of code somewhere to disable the steam auth process for offline but no one has figured where or what the command is :/ Ive been trying to set up offline rust before I go outta town for work and Ive been dealing with the same issue for a few days now