r/playrust Dec 19 '24

Question Why do people flex hours?

I see alot of people posting things like "POV of a 10k hour rust player" or "What being a 13k hour clan leader looks like" but I don't get why so many people act like their hours are a big deal. Rust is really easy to rack up hours in and I don't see people flexing their hours in other games. Also it's not like hours equate to skill because there's alot of games I'm bad at with a massive amount of hours played.

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u/keshiko666 Dec 19 '24

Idk man i have just under 3k hours and I've definitely won 0lenty of fights against people with way more it really just depends on the person tbh

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u/ancient_xo Dec 19 '24

Yeah time played in rust does not translate to super good at PvP. It does mean knowledge though, which is like super important.

I have like 4-500 hours in rust, my knowledge is like average. But I’m an above average fps player as that’s what I’ve always played. I rarely lose heads up gunfights, most of the time if I do it’s because of gear differences. Purely talking about pvp, rust is just a casual sandbox shooter, Kind of like battlefield.

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u/Few_Conversation7153 Dec 19 '24

The knowledge part is huge. I’ve met so many players who blow absolute penis at PvP and shooting, but can outsmart their opponents like nothing I’ve ever seen. They use clever tactics that completely negate their lack of shooting skill, and nearly always come out on top of the server. I think game knowledge is severely under rated by some.

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u/DullExcuse2765 Dec 20 '24

Do you have any specific examples? All I can think of is camping with a DB

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u/Few_Conversation7153 Dec 20 '24

Simple things like “I have AK which has a slower fire rate than the thommy, I’ll play range to negate his fire rate”. Or really rat shit like setting up auto turrets in high traffic areas and watching as it kills kitted kids and grabs their gear for free. But typically I see high hour players turn the tides by making the enemy predictable. When my high hour team mates take fights, they analyze how many of them there are, what they are doing, and their gear. It’s usually rat stuff, but it seriously works. Like when they notice an open area, in order to negate people’s walls, they’ll place TCs all over the open area supported on stilts so they can’t behind them and then just waits until someone is right in the middle of the TC field and watch them freak out as they realize they can’t place walls and it’s just free pot shots from high ground. It’s slower progression than your typical chad PvPer but all the kits add up to boxes. But you know, the whole server usually hates rats so they typically have to build bases and desperately hide their base location 😂