History VideoGame / Rust

** The Military weapons (LR300, MP5, M249) are this. They certainly look and sound cool and they have the stats to back them up...but they are also very rare (the M249 in particular can only be obtained through helicopter and APC wrecks), cannot be crafted and researched, and are typically more frail than the craft able variants.

** The Military weapons (LR300, MP5, M249) are this. They certainly look and sound cool and they have the stats to back them up...but they are also very rare (the M249 in particular can only be obtained through hell and APC wrecks), cannot be crafted and researched, and are typically more frail than the craft able variants.

** Back onto pistols, supringly, the M92 can be this for military weapons. It’s suprisingly resistant, has the best stats out of all handguns (Best mag size, second in damage only beaten by the Python) and easier to get (Scientists can drop it). Of course, the boring part is that, well, it’s a pistol.

** The Military weapons (LR300, M92, M249) are this. They certainly look and sound cool and they have the stats to back them up...but they are also very rare (the M249 in particular can only be obtained through hell and APC wrecks), cannot be crafted and researched, and are typically more frail than the craft able variants.

** The rocket factory has a [[TankGoodness Bradley APC]] patrolling the place, forcing players to either sneak around it or kill it with rockets (and thus also risk losing a rocket launcher and rockets to other players as well).

* ImprovisedWeapon: Quite a few weapons player can craft fall into this. For example, satchel chages are actually four improvised bean can grenades strapped together in a package.

* WouldNotShootACivilian: If you’re unarmed and/or unclothed when the attack helicopter comes knocking, then it will leave you alone and move on.

* ImAHumanitarian: You if you decide to kill humans and eat their meat. You can also use their bones to craft stuff.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: If there was ever a game where you could honestly help people out, this is definitely one. From simple things as killing a zombie chasing you or handing a newbie some clothes or a hatchet. Any measure of help can be provided. That being said however...

* InfiniteFlashlight: The craftable tactical light that you can place on a firearm needs no batteries. This, coupled with the fact that you're already holding a weapon while using the light and don't need to switch out if you're attacked, completely outclasses the torch.

** To an extent, this has been Downplayed recently, as Sheet Metal buildings, while now more expensive, is more suitably durable (A cool 1000 HP) and Armored buildings are not only MUCH more resistant (2000 HP as opposed to 1000), they only require HQM and half as much as before. Of course, setting up a base like that will still require a fair amount of materials, but it is easier for newer players to get a more defensible base.

* ImprovisedArmour: Many armor pieces fall into this category. Such as an helmet made out of coffee cans, burlap clothing and bucket helmet, which is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin bucket that has been turned into a helmet]]

* WillNotShootACivilian: If you’re unarmed and/or unclothed when the attack helicopter comes knocking, then it will leave you alone and move on.

* WontShootACivilian: If you’re unarmed and/or unclothed when the attack helicopter comes knocking, then it will leave you alone and move on.

* VideoGamePerversityPotential: Thanks to the option of being butt naked and the alpha stage of the game, players have become quite creative with their bodies. An example is reenacting ''Film/TheHumanCentipede''.

* ArtificialStupidity: Animals are... Bugged, to say the least. If idle, they're generally simply walking around in circles, ignore each other (even when wolves and bears are near potential prey), and not only do they easily scale slopes and ''rocks'' effortlessly when players can't, they also ''go through player-created structures like they aren't even there''. It's not uncommon for wolves or bears to wander into a player's home and kill them in their sleep. Wolves and bears also tend to get stuck on the outside or inside of build structures and objects (making them easy targets for ranged weapons, but they immediately become ''unstuck'' if a player moves into melee range), and pigs, deer and horses can easily be cornered at shorelines if pursued right, allowing players without a ranged weapon to kill them with a spear.

** Not having a second floor, or an even-numbered floor at all. Normally the problem of getting up to a second floor only accessible via ladder hatch once said hatch has been destroyed can be bypassed by "boosting" with the help of another player, even if you don't have build permission. This becomes impossible with two players and much, much more difficult for a larger group if there is no second floor to boost up to in the first place, and a small box is sufficient enough for people who can use the hatches to actually open said hatches and climb up. Just remember to take stability into account when planning out your building design.

** Not having a second floor, or an even-numbered floor at all. Normally the problem of getting up to a second floor only accessible via ladder hatch once said hatch has been destroyed can be bypassed by "boosting" with the help of another player, even if you don't have build permission. This becomes impossible with two players and much, much more difficult if there is no second floor to boost up to in the first place, and a small box is sufficient enough for people who can use the hatches to actually open said hatches and climb up. Just remember to take stability into account when planning out your building design.

* BoringButPractical: Creating "airlocks" with two locked doorways in a row and closing each one behind you before opening the next one as you leave and enter basically greatly reduces the chance of accidentally letting someone into your building (for reasons such as if you end up getting killed as you open the exterior "airlock" door by an opportunist trying to get in), and will force raiders/greifers into wasting explosives if they choose to blow up your doors in order to get inside.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: ... you can also be an absolute ''asshole'' to people. From picking you off at a distance for no reason, holding you up for your items and then killing you anyway, or finding yourself waking up in the middle of nowhere instead of where you signed off safely ''because your shelter just got ruined, all your hard-earned stuff taken away and your respawn point destroyed.''

''Rust'' is a first-person, multiplayer-only, persistent-world, SurvivalSandbox game. Perhaps unsurprisingly from that description, it started (by the creators' admission) as a ''VideoGame/DayZ'' clone, complete with zombies. It's developed into its own thing, though. Rather, maybe one should say it is develop''ing'' into its own thing; even though UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} "Early Access" sales have made it one of the most popular indie games around, its makers consider it to still be in an ''early alpha'' stage.

In ''Rust'', you start alone and naked in a vast wilderness (Seriously. [[WithThisHerring Bare-ass naked.]] Depending on the server, you might not get ''[[NintendoHard anything]].''), doing whatever it takes to survive. Aside from killer bears and wolves wanting to eat you, cold, starvation, and radiation will all kill you. You need to gather materials, craft them into tools, and hopefully scavenge some weapons; then you can make fire to keep warm and cook the game you kill.

* FullFrontalAssault: You can go around killing people and animals[[note]]And zombies before they were removed.[[/note]] with absolutely no clothes on and suffer nonetheless.

''Rust'' is a first-person, multiplayer-only, persistent-world, SurvivalSandbox game. Perhaps unsurprisingly from that description, it started (by the creators' admission) as a ''VideoGame/DayZ'' clone, complete with zombies. It's developed into its own thing, though. Rather, maybe one should say it is develop''ing'' into its own thing; even though {{Steam}} "Early Access" sales have made it one of the most popular indie games around, its makers consider it to still be in an ''early alpha'' stage.

* NoPlotNoProblem: ''Rust'' stands out among the many ''DayZ''-like games on Steam in that it feels no need to explain the game world or why it is the way it is, without even the usual perfunctory "Zombie apocalypse, go out there and kill stuff". You're simply dropped into the wilderness naked and are expected to progress at your own pace from caveman to hunter-gatherer to modern survivalist[=/=]U.S. Marine.

* RealityEnsures: You will eventually die in the cold environment if you don't wear any clothes or stay near any places of warmth.