Pets! & Above ground trains? | Rust update 11th February 2022
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The new arctic RUST update has been live for a whole week now, which means it’s time to move on to other things! But first, today is the last day to earn Twitch Drops by watching RUST streams, so if you are missing any drops yet, you’ve still got a little time left to get on that.
RUST is getting pets?!
A new branch simply titled ‘pets’ appeared yesterday in the commits. As of this update, most of the commits are marked hidden, so any details around which animals qualify as ‘pets’ or what activities and behaviors you will get to control are still unknown. We will bring you more information about this feature when it becomes available!
RUST Above-ground rail system
An ambitious new branch has appeared to begin work on a procgen system for an above-ground rail network. Little is known about this feature at this time since work has just begun. Still, I imagine we’ll be seeing little bits and pieces unfold as the team figures out the various complexities of incorporating such a system amongst all the other features already present in the procgen.
Other highlights in this RUST update include:
- Other bug fixes and adjustments ongoing for the snowmobile to adjust viewing angles
- Snowmobile headlights have been added to the front and rear of vehicle
- A new branch for “pets” has sprung up with initialization commits
- Half of the pets branch commits are hidden so far, so not many details are known yet
- ‘rail_network’ branch has also just appeared with a variety of sentiments expressed :)
- A procgen segment for the railroad to be procedurally generated has been committed to the ‘rail_network’ branch
- Work continues to bring free-spray functionality to the spraycan
- A fix to wait for the public IP to be populated before testing for connectivity will solve the “your IP is 0.0.0.0” error on server start up
- Hapis continues to be updated
- New achievements will be coming to include some of the newer content
- An update to the loading screen will be coming
- A possible fix for the footstep bug!
- An always sprint / auto run option is in the works
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Video Transcript
Greetings, survivors and friends; Shadowfrax here with your weekly Rust news pie, and how are you finding the arctic update? Have you recovered from all the excitement yet? How many times have you been mauled to death, or worse, by a cuddly wuddly polar bear?
Well, now that particular development chapter has come to an end pretty much, we are once more faced with thinking about the future and what comes next, so here’s me doing my best to give you that all-important heads up. But first, as always, a reminder to grab a free subscription and get yourself firmly into that ring-a-ding-ding club.
So we’re going to go straight to works in progress first this time because that’s where the next round of excitement is currently waiting to jump out at us, and when scanning the commits, two things made my ears prick up instantly.
The first is a branch called pets, and apparently, this is exactly what it sounds like. Work has begun to explore a permanent in-game pet, building on the system used for Frank from last year. As for the rest of the details, your guesses are as good as mine right now.
Will we be able to tame a variety of things? Wolves are obvious, bears maybe too, but what about sharks? Might we be able to ride them? Will the emotional support boar become a reality? Will we be able to have more than one pet at a time? If so, what about herds of killer chickens? Imagine the raids. Personally, I’d have a pet scientist or two. Awwww, he’s so cute. Can we keep him?
Stay tuned for more on this, and tell me what you think below.
The next really interesting commit was this one, as a new branch has been started called rail_network, although it comes with a caveat straight out the station. Maybe it’ll be a rail NOTwork instead.
I’m assuming lots of stuff here as details are spartan, but this looks like work to make a procedural above-ground rail network happen because there’s still just way too much usable land out there, and we need more no-build zones, dammit.
Joking aside, I think this has been the plan for a long time, and the subway was just a much easier way around it because it could all happen on a separate layer; of course, there have been above-ground rail networks for a while on custom maps. It’s easy to make that sort of thing happen there, and I’ve shown a few on this channel.
But procedurally, I imagine it’s a right pain in the arse because you need to make it work around the roads and whatever else is there. However, here we are, and the TEAM looks like they’re going to give it a go. Not sure if the plan is to link it up to the rails at monuments, or at least get somewhere close; perhaps if it works, it’ll get linked up to the underground too? This is all just speculation, of course, and I might be wrong, and it might even get abandoned—more details on this as they emerge.
In other news, work to bring in the other functions for spray cans such as decals and free spraying is ongoing. And after they were introduced in this latest patch, a new meta emerged almost instantly, as I kind of thought it would. If you can get cupboard auth in a raid, then you can simply reskin doors to ones with windows in and find out which ones are worth blowing off and which aren’t.
Enjoy it while you can, though, as this is being changed, so you won’t be able to do it if you can’t open the door due to a lock. Boohoo.
There are a few tweaks going on to snowmobiles, firstly to adjust the first person viewing angles and also to add front and rear lights to the makeshift Poundstretcher version.
The snowy edges of lakes will no longer be considered as ice by cars and snowmobiles, but icebergs which were considered as ice now behave as snow, as they are quite snowy on top, because of course.
There was a fix for hearing phantom footsteps when a player is out of the line of sight, which was a culling issue.
New achievements are coming, including Killing sharks with spears, killing players with Rockety McRocketface, Activating the Excavator, riding a Submarine, reeing over 180 decibels in voice chat, and going for half an hour without being killed by a hacker.
The loading screen is apparently SUBJECT TO CHANGE, and a new one is coming this month. Just a UI update, I think, so nothing too exciting.
And finally, an ‘Always Sprint’ option is being added to save your pinky finger or, if you’re really weird, your thumb. If enabled, sprint key behavior will be inverted. Which means you will sprint by default, and holding the sprint key will return you to walk speed, I think I’ll start calling this the Forrest Gump option, and I think it’ll be popular. Tell me what you think below.
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