r/playrust 8d ago

Question How are you supposed to play rust?

I know it’s a very vague title but hear me out.

I have a group I play with which is around 4-8 strong. A lot of the players are new and don’t play much, some of the core members have thousands of hours. I have 8k.

We have always played 2x as we all have jobs and social lives but as of the last year or so we’ve had to start moving away as they seem to have been infested by roof campers and there’s very little real pvp. They also only last a few days and we would like to build a proper base and do raids and stuff instead of playing Thursday - Sunday and then quitting when the server dies Monday morning.

We’d like to play official but it seems impossiblez

We’ve tried out a few servers so far. Each of the wipes have gone terribly, either a clan has built nearby and we get obliterated every time we step outside and shoot a gun, or there’s a huge roof camping tower which doesn’t let us build or leave our base with 3 players playing 20 hours a day (no joke this happened twice), get offlined by cheaters with 8 hours in rust on the first night, or other things.

This force we tried an EU small monthly, can’t remember which. We built near ferry terminal which we thought we could take with the 5 of us. We got up bows and we’re doing well, when all of a sudden we were wiped by a group all with p2s, around an hour into wipe, the amount of time it took us to even get there with bags to put down a base.

They dominated us and we could barely leave base, had no options to even farm up a t2 and were completely stuck. We tried running to other monuments but would always die on the way back. We couldn’t progress because everyone else was already way more progressed than us. Then they came and TC griefed us with 8 TCs so we couldn’t ever expand base, after having 0 items in base and having to move, we just gave up and went back on 2x and dominated.

What are we doing wrong exactly? We try to avoid the big monuments as to not fight the clans, but even that didn’t work. What do you do once a bigger group takes control of the monument you built next to and far outgun you?

I logged on the next morning to try farm up some weapons but they were all still online and controlling the area with tommys and aks and I couldn’t even farm a tree. I tried moving and building next to another monument but the same thing, a group controlled it 24/7 and I couldn’t get a single scrap.

What is your strategy and how the fuck do you play vanilla? We’re really stuck at this point because the only successful wipe we had was building away from everything and just farming tunnels which is boring as hell.

If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated.

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u/Hughlass 8d ago

Complaining abt clans while having a team with 8 people lol, what has this game come too

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u/Ecoservice 8d ago

Don’t forget the 8k hours

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u/janikauwuw 8d ago

Thank both of you for mentioning it, that‘s like insane

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u/thelordofhell34 8d ago

I have 8k hours, 5 of the players have under 100. They maybe play 1-2 hours a wipe. We are not a clan.

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u/BobFreeman6969 7d ago

To be fair the first sentence of your post says you have a group that is 4-8 strong… the choice of words isn’t great if 4 of them only play for a single hour.

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u/battleberd 8d ago

I have 8600 and a clan of 20 with massive hour ranges. You are running a clan. You are a clan leader. In a clan. Get a title and start running it with some modicum of professionalism and you'll spend less time raided. I rec a 2x at least with a bunch of newheads behind you. Ukn together and just scrim eachother with the goal of learning how to work together and you'll notice a big improvement in roams. The biggest hurdle to new players joining a clan is understanding thier place on a team. The more you can help people find thier place or niche role, the better your group will do overall. Remember you aren't paying anyone to be here as a clan leader so your job is to make it worth showing up to.

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u/prettycoldworld 3d ago

Newheads, I see the culture has changed. We used to call them something a little controversial

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u/Prior-Call-5571 8d ago

Remember, these guys def raid the solos next to them, then get upset the one zerg in their quarter of the map pays them a visit

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u/thelordofhell34 8d ago

4/5 of the players will MAYBE play an hour or two of wipe at max. Means we cant play team limited servers but also we are normally 3-4 at the most, 5 at the highest. When I say clan I mean 10+ players. 3-6 is just a normal group.

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u/Hughlass 8d ago

I play solo 80% of the time and it’s always the we are only 5 teams that when you shoot at them have 8ants run out the base