History VideoGame / Rust

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Unlike several of the other primitive weapons, the Eoka Pistol, a low-tier shotgun type weapon, actually existed. A single example was created by the EOKA guerrillas in the 1950's.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: If there was ever a game where you could honestly help people out, this is definitely one. From simple things as killing a wolf/bear/scientist chasing you or handing a newbie some clothes or a couple of tools. Any measure of help can be provided. That being said however...
* 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.'' Also, you can raid bases of users who are offline, steal their stuff, kill them and destroy their sleeping bag (used as a spawn point), as well as destroy their TC/take over their TC, empty it and then lock it to allow the base to decay if you so choose to. Doing so turns this trope into a certainty than a potential.

* ArtificialStupidity: Animals, before the big navmesh update, were... bugged, to say the least. If idle, they were generally simply walking around in circles, ignored each other (even when wolves and bears are near potential prey), and not only did they easily scale slopes and ''rocks'' effortlessly when players couldn't, they also ''went through player-created structures like they weren't even there''. It wasn't not uncommon for wolves or bears to wander into a player's home and kill them in their sleep if they were foolish enough to sleep on the ground floor. Wolves and bears also tended to get stuck on the outside or inside of build structures and objects (making them easy targets for ranged weapons, but they immediately became ''unstuck'' if a player moved into melee range), and pigs, deer and horses could easily be cornered at shorelines if pursued right, allowing players without a ranged weapon to kill them with a spear. Fortunately, this is now mostly in the past.

* RealityEnsues: You will eventually die in the cold environment if you don't wear any clothes or stay near any places of warmth.
** Likewise, walking around in the desert while wearing bulky clothing isn't good for your health either.
** The chainsaw that was recently added attacks very fast and tears through trees like it’s almost nothing. It’s also loud, needs fuel and can take multiple attempts to start.

* ChainsawGood: As of Devblog 198, the Chainsaw was added into the game. It requires fuel and a bit of patience (it may take several attempts to start) and it is noisy, but it strikes very fast. Of course, it's up to you to use it as intended (cutting down trees) or not (cutting down people).

* BossBattle: An NPC-controlled attack helicopter has recently been added to the game. The helicopter will periodically fly over the game world and will lay waste to any player it spots with machine gun fire, rockets, and napalm. It's also heavily armored and requires concentrated fire from many heavily-armed players to bring down. It's essentially a raid boss. To make things fair, the helicopter ignores players who are naked and not equipped with firearms, so it's only a threat to established players.

* MacGyvering: With just wood, rocks and animal carcasses, the player characters can make houses, clothes, furniture, various guns and ''explosives.''

* FinalDeath: Watch out! When you die, all your stuff drops right where you are and you have to somehow navigate back to it if you wanna get it back. And that's if someone else hasn't already picked it up. So far the only thing you get to keep whenever you die is every blueprint you've studied. Even then, you don't keep those if you switch servers.

* FullFrontalAssault: You can go around killing people and animals (and zombies before they were removed) with absolutely no clothes on and suffer nonetheless.

** The Semi-Auto Rifle is this for, well, rifles. It doesn't have the damage and accuracy of the Bolt Action, nor the mag size and fire rate of the Assualt Rifle, but it has a decent fire cap and magazine, it's easier to craft and it can hold its own as a marksman weapon when there's no other option.

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* ArtificialStupidity: Animals, before the big navmesh update, were... Bugged, to say the least. If idle, they were generally simply walking around in circles, ignored each other (even when wolves and bears are near potential prey), and not only did they easily scale slopes and ''rocks'' effortlessly when players couldn't, they also ''went through player-created structures like they weren't even there''. It wasn't not uncommon for wolves or bears to wander into a player's home and kill them in their sleep if they were foolish enough to sleep on the ground floor. Wolves and bears also tended to get stuck on the outside or inside of build structures and objects (making them easy targets for ranged weapons, but they immediately became ''unstuck'' if a player moved into melee range), and pigs, deer and horses could easily be cornered at shorelines if pursued right, allowing players without a ranged weapon to kill them with a spear. Fortunately, this is now mostly in the past.

* 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.'' But [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment on the plus side]], nothing's stopping you from going back up to the top, getting better items and coming back to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge settle the score.]]
** Also, you can raid bases of users who are offline, steal their stuff, kill them and destroy their sleeping bag (used as a spawn point), as well as destroy their TC/take over their TC, empty it and then lock it to allow the base to decay if you so choose to. Doing so turns this trope into a certainty than a potential.

** Heavy Plate armor is certainly this. The leg and body armor reduce damage taken to about 25% of the original amount and the helmet has a whopping 90% damage resist! The armor also reduces your movement speed by 30% (originally, you had to wear the whole set for that, now only one piece is needed for the full speed penalty) and aside from the leg armor, the armor also has other drawbacks (the body armor prevents you from ADSing and the helmet narrows your view).

** Averted with the APC and Transport heli, who will attack anyone regardless.

* {{Griefer}} - Like most other games in the genre, the primary appeal for most players seems to be dicking with other players.

* Chainsaw Good: As of Devblog 198, the Chainsaw was added into the game. It requires fuel and a bit of patience (it may take several attempts to start) and it is noisy, but it strikes very fast. Of course, it's up to you to use it as intended (cutting down trees) or not (cutting down people).

** High Velocity ammo travels faster than standard ammo, reducing bullet drop over longer distances. The same speed also leads to overpenetration and less time to leave a large injury, reducing its damage.
** There are military weapons that are powerful...but they run on a gas blowback system instead of the (presumably) piston system that the handmade weapons use, noting also that the environment is ill-suited for the former, making military weapons more fragile as a result.

''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 would end up developing into its own game, though. (Without zombies.) Even though UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} "Early Access" sales have made it one of the most popular indie games around, its makers considered it to still be in an ''early alpha'' stage years after it's debut. After years of being in Early access however, the game would finally see a full release on February 2018.

** Also, you can raid bases of users who are offline, steal their stuff, kill them and destroy their sleeping bag (used as a spawn point) if you so choose to. Doing so turns this trope into a certainty than a potential.

''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. (Without zombies.) 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.

** An extension of this to a lesser degree is sheet metal, which is much more affordable but isn't much stronger than stone (and doesn't hold up any better against C4), which you get from mining ore anyway, and stone also becomes increasingly less important for making items as you progress, making it an ideal building material. It's best to make sure your entire building is at least stone and have all your doorways have armored doors, which actually hold up slightly better than stone structures do and about as well as sheet metal, and thus become much less of a weakpoint in the overall building.

** Back onto pistols, suprisingly, the M92 can be this for military weapons. It’s resistant to damage, 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.

* SchizoTech: Weapons attachements are quite high tech compared to weapons they are arrached to. Much in the same way, there are automated turrets avaible for players.

** Also, you can raid bases of users who are offline, steal their stuff, kill them and destroy their sleeping bag (used as a spawn point) if you so choose to. Doing so turns this trope into a certainity than a potential.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: You can throw many tools and weapons that arent't otherwise ranged, with varied results. Both varieties of spear, of course, can be used for this purpose, especially for hunting, though prey animals that don't die immediately from the hit will just run away with the spear in their bodies, and it's generally a stupid idea against wolves and bears.

** There are military weaponry that are powerful...but they run on a gas blowback system instead of the (presumably) piston system that the handmade weapons use, noting also that the environment is also ill-suited for the former, making military weapons more fragile as a result.

* ScavengedPunk: Lots of equipment player crafts are based on items they need to scavenge, leading to situations where assault rifle is an AK-47 knock-off that uses slightly modified bolt-action cycler.

* BreakableWeapons: All your tools will eventually break the more you use then. They deteriorate slower if you use them for their intended purpose.