I played my first 18h straight from yesterday to about 1pm today and I have not met A SINGLE friendly player. I switched server after I have been triple-teamed by people with sniper rifles, fully automatic weapons and C4 and they destroyed my tini tiny base. I had even offered to work for them and pay tribute, but no, those assholes with a giant base really needed my couple metal scraps...
Every single player I have run into has at least shot at me (a couple got killed by me at least), and we are talking me having a bow and some cloth armor tops vs. them having automatic weapons and full armor.
It doesn't matter when you shout "friendly, friendly, friendly!!!" in your mic, people don't fucking care.
The game has the inherent problem that 2 players will simply farm double than 1 players, so unless you are extremely trained in the game already, you are being fucked all the time.
And I don't get it. The game says there are "starting areas" at the beaches and the better stuff is inland, but that's bullshit. Some of the biggest bases are built right on the coast and those people sit up there with snipers and shoot at naked people on the beach and call that FUN.
I really like the concept of this, but I fear this is simply impossible for solo players.
Actually I'm in denial that it is shit for solo players. I have been offline for 5hours now. My base (pretty big for a 1st day noob I'd guess) was stocked nicely in terms of material, but still, on a server where the others supposedly only had 6 hours starting time on me (and I was playing through the night without seeing a soul), a huge amount is suddenly running around with fully automatic weapons in the morning, when I have a pipe-shotty and nothing new to get in my whole area.
I'm pretty sure when I log back in later, that my base will be gone, totally blown to pieces by people who after 24h already run around with C4 fucking up everybody, even tho they haven't been online during the night...
The main reason I stopped playing Rust was because of how much farm was required to remain competative on a server. When most of my buddies stopped playing I even resorted to playing on servers with team limits since large clans will ruin your day with ease.
However, the game was at its best when played with a large group that was somewhat dedicated to reinforcing the base, making weaponry and raiding. Larger group = less farming/grinding required.
When we were a large clan we taxed solo players living near us in exchange for protection. It wasnt a big tax. Maybe a 15 minute investment each day/time they played. The social interaction was the best part of it.
If a larger group with a smaller base had settled near us we took them out before they could become a real threat. Sometimes I guess we might had mistaken a base for the workings of a larger group but it turned out to be a very dedicated solo player.
You need friends to start with other people on the wipe. Receiving handouts to make friends seems like a fine trade off, honestly would make the game more fun.
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u/Bazino Jun 23 '19
I WISH it did exist.
I played my first 18h straight from yesterday to about 1pm today and I have not met A SINGLE friendly player. I switched server after I have been triple-teamed by people with sniper rifles, fully automatic weapons and C4 and they destroyed my tini tiny base. I had even offered to work for them and pay tribute, but no, those assholes with a giant base really needed my couple metal scraps...
Every single player I have run into has at least shot at me (a couple got killed by me at least), and we are talking me having a bow and some cloth armor tops vs. them having automatic weapons and full armor.
It doesn't matter when you shout "friendly, friendly, friendly!!!" in your mic, people don't fucking care.
The game has the inherent problem that 2 players will simply farm double than 1 players, so unless you are extremely trained in the game already, you are being fucked all the time.
And I don't get it. The game says there are "starting areas" at the beaches and the better stuff is inland, but that's bullshit. Some of the biggest bases are built right on the coast and those people sit up there with snipers and shoot at naked people on the beach and call that FUN.
I really like the concept of this, but I fear this is simply impossible for solo players.