“Don’t be sad that it’s over. Be glad that it happened” 👍 2018-2019 rust was the peak for me. thank you for shepards villa and your contributions to the community jack and therefore playing a part in making the good days of rust be good days. At least for me
I love the good old days. I have lots of fun even though I’m a noob and I can’t aim. But now, cheaters everywhere. I gave up since I got killed after recycling 1000 scraps . It’s a full dark night and got headshot by a cheater with hazmat and SAR. He got banned, but my 1000 scraps will never come back
My personal problem with rust is how it's diverging from the survival genre. I dont play rust as I used to, but I still think facepunch are some of the best devs out there.
It never was a survival game per se. It's always been more of a pvp game with survival elements. If they really wanted to make it a true survival game the majority of rust players would be whining and complaining even more than they already are.
They are some of the best devs when u think about how much they actually care about the game. I still think they have gone in the wrong direction over the past year
I got 6k hours in rust and after the recoil update I almost completely lost all enjoyment towards the game. But lately I've been playing rust a couple of times recently and it has been a refreshing experience getting to enjoy the game in a new state as it is now. This video explains the burnout I had amazingly and the editing is getting better and better every video.
If all it took was for them to change the recoil for you to lose enjoyment I feel like you likely were already getting bored of the game. The recoil is not a major enough part of the game to completely define your experience. Games change shit like that all the time. Look at CSGO, Rainbow Six Siege, etc. The rust community is the only one that gets monthly updates for FREE and still whine and complain about stupid shit. Been playing this game for ten years and it's been a blast the whole way through and the game today is everything that we ever wanted during rust legacy and yet we still get folks whining and complaining anytime face punch decides to make a change that makes the game more accessible to an audience that doesn't have ten hours a day to play a video game.
@@gtas321 they changed the recoil for the worse, instead of it being a new pattern you could learn its a random mess with a lot of bloom. they made gunfights based more so on numbers and luck and not skill to make the game more accessible to new players that dont want to learn a weapon pattern and just want the recoil to feel like cod. the recoil was a big part of the fun because you could learn it and get better. thats not possible now. you just pull down.
@@gtas321 The game just got boring for me I guess. I Wasn't really a clan player but the recoil change still was a bit too much for me. The recoil felt alot more rng based than skill. The aimcone was not fun to play. I've seen a bunch of people complaining about the new aimcone and I completely understand why. I am not hating on the game but I just do not enjoy the game as much that I used to I guess. Alot of the friends that I played with have kind of left the game so I don't play it myself much either. And I know that people still enjoy the game but for me I don't enjoy it as much as I did back in 2018-2020.
@@WhiteKid74 Recoil scripts were a huge problem so trying to learn patterns is a huge waste of time when there were as many as 30 percent of players using a damn script.
What makes me love rust is the fear of the unknown. How many players there is in a group or if this wipe is going to be the most fun/the most boring wipe. That's why i always come back to it.
Rust 2015-2016 was the best era for Rust. The graphics and design, the world had personality, every base didn't look the same, it was beautiful and hella fun.
Wish I saw it. But perhaps better I was playing Gmod survival mod servers which I am sure were the precursor especially because facepunch studios and all!
im having a harder time enjoying rust, but i think it directly relates to me growing up and spending majority of my time working. nothing is more demotivating than finally being able to coordinate a play session over the weekend with you friend, maybe getting in 2-3 hours. then waking up to a rust+ notification saying im dead, just like this very morning
I run a zombie server for those very reasons, (older) players just want to shoot stuff, build and not log in to an off line a day/week later because it can't happen...everyones happy.
0:38 That "over complexity" is actually what reinvigorates someone like me, with anything more than skin deep you start out as a learner but the more you understand something the better it gets. Electricity and automation are game changing for solos and ofcourse big groups although I feel less so for groups as they basically already had that in the form of manual labour. However it really adds layers that are needed to keep something fresh. I started Rust in 2013 and it was a lot of fun. Took a big hiatus from around 2015 -2021 and im glad i did as it got much better.
I am dead serious this is exactly what the rust scene needs, these videos are super helpful for bringing back my want to play rust, when I quit i realized how much time I was wasting and realized 2 years later that I can play not every week and it will be enjoyable. Thank you Jack Sheppard #villa
Thanks for the support man, I've been a big watcher of Rust content and always enjoyed this style for other games so I thought I'd give it a try for Rust.
You earned a subscribe. Thank you for the time to express yourself and relate to me and id assume many others! Stay true Shephard. I too at one point was a customer to one of your many hotels. I just got back into rust and i realized. Its the stories that you share which create value and who you create it with.
This one put me in the feels a little bit and I’m only 14 seconds in. I’ve been playing Rust for maybe 3 months now, and still rocking with the same people I met when I first started playing. We’re having a good time now, but one of these days I know it’s all gonna come to an end. Enjoy it while it lasts
This is Crazy, as a past member of the NOR Clan for many years all of my memories were made there. Hearing that clip of Gray brings back some good memories. -Zathos
I am 100% in the same boat when it came to upkeep. I was sour about it for quite a while, as I loved building expansive bases, but I eventually learn, and actually enjoy the system now, building optimal bases. Good video, can relate quite a bit :P
just came back to rust after 2 years and the last 2 force wipes i did a farm bae with 4 bunkers as a duo and did it the fastest on server for most profit.
one random thing i did recently was buy my own server. me and a few friends customized the plugins to our liking so it's mostly vanilla with a few useful features. we either play in 2-3 teams against eachother or all go solo. relatively fun again
3:30 I was there for the hotels, I was an admin on Rustafied, Great times! That was back when Coco B was unknown and kept raiding the hotel, great times =]
as someone who has played since 2014, taking big pauses has been the most important thing for me, and also not taking the game seriously alot of the time
As a newer rust player all these updates bring changes to the meta, new experiences and a refreshed gameplay loop. I think it’s easy to get caught up in the past, but the way forward will always be change in a short attention span world
To me the problem isn't change itself, it's that Facepunch is trying to change who Rust is made for. Rust used to be an hard game where time and efforts were super rewarding, now updates after updates they are trying to make the game easier and easier (recoil, all changes made to make clans stronger, now the number advantage almost always wins over individual skill, etc...). I first started Rust knowing it was an hardcore game, and looking for one. I'm just disappointed of how things turned out. There are a lot of casuals games out there, and i hate that hardcore games are getting killed one by one for the sake of casual players... Some will say that it's good and that everyone will be able to play the game, well i would answer that there are 100 casual friendly games out there for 1 hardcore game, i want to have my fun too on these games. And don't get me wrong, i too play and enjoy casual games, but i want to be able to as Jack said, engage in an hardcore session sometimes, on a game made for it
dude not having to waste hundreds, possibly thousands of hours on recoil is a bliss, you can have a real life instead of playing a stupid game. Rust should be about adrenaline, not a cs go with a grinding cooldown between each round. The clans are a real problem tho, but it was always the case
@@gorelovelive5022 some of us enjoyed watching ourselves get better week by week, not saying no life it but I did like seeing myself get better plus when you got good it felt amazing, but his point was hardcore games are far and few between and many of us enjoyed it being more hardcore, we don't get many games like that anymore that lean into those players
@@gorelovelive5022 its your own fault for not wanting to put in the hours to learn the recoil? Playing the game more should reward you, thats atleast what I think
If you want a truly hardcore experience like never before play on 300+ pop as a solo. Trust me, Rust will seem as hardcore as the first time you started it
as a relatively new rust player (started playing late 2021) it's refreshing to see people like this encouraging me to try new things and enjoy the game more., especially since i almost exclusively play solo or SOMETIMES duo. I know i'll never get to experience authentic 2018-2019 Rust but I'm still okay with the rust that I've got :)
My first experience of rust was with my girlfriend now wife when we had a wood base and thought it was a fortress. Log on the following day and we fought off a hazmat with a tommy only using eokas and nail guns. We treasured the tommy and never used it. I will never forget the first days of rust for me.
i got rust when it was in beta for $5 on steam. my only problem was the amount of hackers in it. but they dealt with it to the point where hackers are not very common enough to enjoy the game. i had no idea there was so much backlash from each update. i thought every update was good. and the ones i didnt like, was just not something i cared for that didnt effect the game to me. like the sea labs, i dont do them but its awesome they keep adding more ways for players to obtain loot etc
Honestly... I am a rust veteran and as much as sometimes I dislike rust updates, I am the one who's usually defending Facepunch From MY experience of playing 2x weeklys and monthlys, or 3x and 10x servers, there are very, VERY few cheaters nowadays and when you play the way you like with people you like, you can have fun Altough if only there would be some anti-offline system, it would be really near perfect...
HOLY SHIT what a great video overall touching on so many relevant subjects, i've had a similar experience where playing a monthly wipe on a small server with my "RP player" friend made me have the funniest wipe I have ever had in Rust. In addition to the human connection, actually getting to do stuff / counter / pvp at large monuments because they're not contested by clans of 10+ made it funnier and better pvp than roaming trying to "make a play". Your channel is so small but if that's the kind of quality you put in your videos you're going to blow up SO FAST
Jack w another god tier video keep it up man. Also what about a history of you eventually. I loved when you were talking about the hotels and you got into your story a bit
At 7:20 I about jumped out of my chair... :) I built a lot of hotels myself back in the day - started on Day 1 and have played almost every day since. Thanks for reminding players they are in control of their gameplay and that if they get bored, just change it up. They can be a hemp farmer, a PVP god, a clan base builder, whatever. It is all up to them - just keep playing Rust.
Hey man this video was great it definitely got the reach it deserves! If i could give you a tip, try and time you’re edits with your word’s i saw you did multiple times but those small things have i psychological affect on the views brain that releases dopamine! 2:48 here is a time stamp of where it could of been applied 🎉
I have nearly 7,000 hours and I completely agree with everything you've said here. I honestly think that rust has become TOO competitive you cant have fun anymore. Everything feels like a constant grind and it has no meaning, the loot I get is now unimpressive, or just not enough. I see myself pushing more and more for this dopamine that just never comes. But I do think that as much hatred i have for a lot of the updates rust added, they were needed.
I agree with you about the decay system and tool cupboard system. It completely killed the the game for me at the time because I used to build enromous sprawling cities that housed new players and provided them with protection from KOS players. Now the game is more KOS than ever unfortunately.
Yeah it drove me nuts. Our goal was always to help new players, there's workarounds now but at the time the update really sucked. I don't like change that much either haha.
@@JackShephardTV The biggest thing I ever made was when I named myself Julius Caesar and built the Roman empire. It had 3 different cities that all had their own walls and were connected by this absolutely enormous china wall that had stairs where you could climb on top and use as a vantage point during defense. It was absolutely enormous lol and it housed about 30-40 players back in 2015 before guest codes were a thing. We even had our own currency before scrap was a thing rofl we used metal frags. We even had a barracks and a trained military of like 12 people. We would go around raiding bases and putting signs on them that read "PROPERTY OF ROME" with signs all over the map pointing new players to where the empire was. After raiding people we would invite them to live in the outer walls of the empire. Half the entire server lived in Rome man it was amazing lol I have screenshots too. Bugs even teleported over one day and told me that it's players like me that make rust such a fun game. I'll never forget it haha I was like 19 at the time. I'd build cities like that every single wipe from that month forward. I had NO life back then but it was a blast.
Thanks for putting part of the NT intro(power plant scene) in there. I know it wasn't on purpose but the love and enjoyment us boys had playing together on old recoil was indescribable. It was just nice seeing a reminder of what we had. It brought nostalgia to me just by itself. Good times.
Lol, at 6:47 I know exactly where that was on the legacy map! Those where the days… fresh wipe was a race to that spot, so you could build square foundations in the sea so the enemy had to spend extra C4 lol! 😍 that map is still in my head🤩
at 8 k hours im happy just logging in when i get the urge and grubbing for a start then just snowballing with no intent on coming bacak cause chaos, get offline and never know lol. once you devalue the loot and just play for fun its much better, just countering raids oil and run to every gunshot its how u get better once ur confident in ur abilities you win every time 99 percent of the time ur fighting less skilled player who take the game too serious and let emotions effect them
hey shephard, i didn’t know this was you until i saw this video, you made me enjoy rust with your hotel, thank you so much for the years worth of memories.
People also gotta remember how many problems old rust used to have. I remember a time where you couldn't shift while swinging with items. I remember the days of craftable maps and farming trees with swords to craft one. Being lost, and having players who used to use game filters to see perfectly during the night. Old rust used to have a lot of issues in the past that we all probably forgot about. Change is good and bad, but all of us have responsibilities now and for the people who were once avid rust players. It was fun playing with you all. My time for the game is up, hopefully new players can find the same enjoyment I once had. It already seems that way and a new community of rust players is becoming a thing.
Rust devs are honestly one of the best game developer EVER how much update they put out regularly keeping the game fresh for everyone, although there are problems still, i love the devs and i love this game
rip competitive scene. i remember when posty and warrior posted a crazy vid weekly. it would push me to get better and aim train more. used to be able to triple kids 100+ meters back when the holo turned aimcone off.
I find enjoyment in the solo grind...putting up that first solar panel and electrical furnace, then progressing to windmills, and auto turrets...and finally car garages. I love armored cars in rust.
I've recently found trying new things in rust has made the game so much more fun than it ever was before like finding and fixing cars to drive around with friends I've recently learned how farming electricity and the industrial age works and its been a blast testing out all the things I can do rust has always been a great game for me to have fun thanks for making this video! :D
If you want to play old Rust, I recommend you play console Rust. It has the old recoil and gun sounds and it's a lot simpler. I know it's not the best solution, but I think it's the closest thing to old rust you can get.
Great video man. A contribtuion to the community. Thank you for voicing our silent pain. I keep Rust fresh by doing exactly as you say. My group and I don't play it every month but we love the game. When I do play, I only play with I already enjoy and want to spend more time with. And most of all, i tried to remember that I am only roleplaying a dude with stuff to lose. Sometimes people in Rust tend to think they are actually losing stuff... When that's what makes the game fun - finding stuff to lose.
10/10 video jack just keeps getting better and better. Would love to come play sometime and make a villa again I haven't touched the game in a long time tho
The end off video words and pictures almost start cry! old times i miss too! the friends, emotions , anger , no sleeping. Its been that worth . its the best game i ever play and get that emotions!❤ hope soon i coming back to rust! ;)
preface edit: I love how you're carving out this niche as a video essay UA-camr with a focus on the Rust community. Haven't seen this before and there is clearly a demand. The dedicating 1 - 2 weeks a month to Rust while taking breaks has been key to me. I discovered that one a few months back when I started making videos (don't go to my channel this isn't a plug) and I would play 1 week and then edit the next week or two. I found that when I could finally play Rust again after a couple weeks of work I would enjoy the game so much more. Also playing with who you like regardless of skill is so important. I mean everything about this video is spot on. For the monthly updates I have tried to adopt a different mindset about them. I am excited to try out the new changes every wipe, and see how they spice up the game regardless of what they are. I think a problem a lot of people have with change is that it can affect their ability to "dominate" servers, but I think that stems from an inherently flawed perception of how they should play the game. Try and go for fun, the game is only a competition if you see it as such. I'm beating a dead horse at this point but banging video, I loved it.
I play on a server called CK1 that has pvp rules that allow me to experience aspects of the game that is much more difficult to do on official servers because of constant player ganking. There is still PvP, but I can do so much more and not have to worry as much about constantly getting ganked, and when I log in after a few day break my base is usually still standing. The right server makes a world of difference in having fun.
I feel like the games progression is just too quick now, ik people say this a lot, but i haven't heard anyone talk about the sheer amount of monuments that exist today, arctic, trains, underwater labs, military base... Compared to just a couple years ago.
just started playing maybe a week ago. the fast progression is amazing cause you can just come back from falling so easily. i came from ark and it feels great that its not the end of everything if im raided. couple hours and im back. ive logged 30 hours without realizing it
I remember the golden days, even when you save the seed, or your heart beating so fast when u have Ak in your hand, because if you lose it u lose hours of work.
I would love to see more custom maps and custom game modes. Such as a medieval 🏰 version which they planned to make a separate game of but decided not to cause the elements of that game were already in rust.
Bro stated facts. Im 27 yo, i have my personal experience in other games just like you described about yours in rust, but as i staretd to play it few month ago (i have
I've never disliked the change. It's what keeps me excited to revisit the game. Rust shouldn't be tryharded all the time unless it's your job or you really have nothing else to do, that way you'll keep enjoying the game and not get used to some habit of how you do things every wipe and rely on that.
Modded communities keep the game alive for me. I've played for nearly four years now - and right away the grind of Vanilla wasn't going to fit my lifestyle. So learning to build on quiet servers with low pop and friendly players started building my interest. Exploring the game at my pace in relative peace. Then, I worked my way to medium pop modded servers - learned real quick what a skill gap was - but my game sense was developed enough to understand what I was doing wrong. I started playing on mil x battlefield servers - which got me competent on my spray and during the lockdown years I took pvp to the next level. It was me and the same trio for three years and when the world opened back up - they moved on. I feel that lull, that "man I miss the game" but have a hard time getting interested in playing longer than an hour. Now I just play for entertainment, I hop on low pop modded servers - look for new players and teach them the game. Scrims are still some of my favorite ways to kill 20-30 minutes but the toxic interactions of clan heavy and UKN based gameplay was never my stuff. This game, has endless content to me. It may close a chapter to something you will remember fondly - but there is always another chapter ahead to make something out of
My favourite era of rust has always been from 2019-2022 just before the new recoil changes. Back then it seemed with every single update the game got better and more exciting. Helicopters, oilrig, Cargo ship, Train tunnels, underwater labs. The competitive scene was thriving, clan servers like vital, atlas and affinity are places where I've met my closest friends and most hated enemies. Ever since then in my opinion rust has been going downhill. With the introduction of P2W skins and DLCs and the obliteration of the skill gap in recoil control the game is no longer fun for me as a competitive player.
the thing about rust is that its so annoying to get on during wipe days. Like I work every day, and when I get on its been 5 hours since wipe, and all that happens to me is getting absolutely smoked by so many ppl with already decked out kits. I legit have no idea what to do about it.
As a Rust player that started playing in 2021 and Have 1.5k hours in total, I can say that change is the most important thing about Rust, because if Rust never got any other cool updates like teas, new recoil, submarines, etc, the game would get old and boring for everyone. Even if some updates were "bad" or "good" we still needed them to keep the game somewhat fresh for everyone.
I'm not an OG Rust player, but I feel this way about Minecraft, I grew up with it as a kid but it just kept changing and becoming complex and what not, I enjoyed the simplicity but hey, it's the memories we made along the way that matter.
4k hours over the past 4-5 years, by far my 3 least favorite updates that to me changed everything was the terrain generation change, and the gun sounds+recoil change, almost a year and i still don't know the gun sounds that I previously had memorized.
2 years ago, I stopped playing official pvp. The stress and time spent on that, I don't have that anymore. I enjoy rust again but in a different environment, rust pve. It's nice meeting new people mostly my age, old people who have different priorities now. The builds, Im not calling it base anymore, I built a home made on wood with windows front door and fireplace. It's very calm and having fun doing my house electricity and found ways to use power efficiently. I will never forget my past, the clan, farming and dying with loot, defending and counter, most of all the oil rig fun.
Rust with the recoil update is just a worse pubg. I said it, if I want to scramble for loot all day and get in endless fights for no reason, I would rather play the south korean game. Rust has no purpose anymore, people just raid to raid or doorcamp because they heard people online. There needs to be more direction to this game.
There is one new side of Rust which is evolving now, Rust Roleplay. People who dont like pvp toxicity or have time time to be pvp chads anymore are joining together in servers like "Chill Roleplay". One of the best modded server with best admins and great community I found till now. Been there for more than 2 years now and trust me when I say that this will be future of Rust from now on.
I play this game since legacy release, around 9000 hours spent and the game becomes easy but the more I play the more I enjoy all the aspects of the game, even such as having rough times or rebuilding after getting raided, playing against the odds solo versus clans. The game is the best there is with monthly updates and what the devs do for the game is needed even if we dont like it.
I'm a 2018 player and Rust died for me when OTV happened, they accommodated the game to newer players and I didn't like the direction the game was going, the recoil change was the last straw to me.
Initially I didn't like the change to the tool cupboard. I originally designed a base to avoid tc destruction and counter being griefed by losing your door key. I was annoyed but I soon took it as a challenge to create new base designs to confuse and counter offline raiders. I've seen this same phenomenon happen to other games and players. World if warcraft is a clear example with its release of classic.
I think all the new functions are pretty fun, I’ve only played for 3 years and it’s been a heck of a time 😁, for a game that’s 10years old I think it’s only getting better and better.
I really didn't find much lack of enjoyment in the game all these years, but I think that a big killer for my enjoyment is the shift away from clans that fought each other to villages that suffocate areas. A clan might lock down a monument for a few hours but there is always gaps to get some stuff vital for a wipe, with villages its like fighting against a wave, never all together but playing like a bunch of small groups that will all converge on you in a heartbeat. not to mention how much more laggier and roof camp ridden their compounds are. You should make a video looking at the shift away from Clans to villages, how the Zerg is being redefined for better and worse.
“Don’t be sad that it’s over. Be glad that it happened” 👍 2018-2019 rust was the peak for me. thank you for shepards villa and your contributions to the community jack and therefore playing a part in making the good days of rust be good days. At least for me
I love the good old days. I have lots of fun even though I’m a noob and I can’t aim. But now, cheaters everywhere. I gave up since I got killed after recycling 1000 scraps . It’s a full dark night and got headshot by a cheater with hazmat and SAR. He got banned, but my 1000 scraps will never come back
I'm so happy you had a great experience with Villa. Appreciate all the support man.
shut up taco
@@chonkitman8920 don't get greedy. Recycle 250 scrap at a time. Or 500. Or whatever you're willing to lose
2018-2019 rust was ass wym
My personal problem with rust is how it's diverging from the survival genre. I dont play rust as I used to, but I still think facepunch are some of the best devs out there.
It never was a survival game per se. It's always been more of a pvp game with survival elements. If they really wanted to make it a true survival game the majority of rust players would be whining and complaining even more than they already are.
@@gtas321I mean it was first a survival zombie game basically a Day Z clone
They are some of the best devs when u think about how much they actually care about the game. I still think they have gone in the wrong direction over the past year
@@gtas321 nah, youre just new to rust
@@joelhodoborgas I am a ten year veteran
I got 6k hours in rust and after the recoil update I almost completely lost all enjoyment towards the game. But lately I've been playing rust a couple of times recently and it has been a refreshing experience getting to enjoy the game in a new state as it is now. This video explains the burnout I had amazingly and the editing is getting better and better every video.
Thank you PROD, glad you love the story telling and you're like my work. I try my best to entertain! You'll be excited for our 3 part series.
If all it took was for them to change the recoil for you to lose enjoyment I feel like you likely were already getting bored of the game. The recoil is not a major enough part of the game to completely define your experience. Games change shit like that all the time. Look at CSGO, Rainbow Six Siege, etc. The rust community is the only one that gets monthly updates for FREE and still whine and complain about stupid shit. Been playing this game for ten years and it's been a blast the whole way through and the game today is everything that we ever wanted during rust legacy and yet we still get folks whining and complaining anytime face punch decides to make a change that makes the game more accessible to an audience that doesn't have ten hours a day to play a video game.
@@gtas321 they changed the recoil for the worse, instead of it being a new pattern you could learn its a random mess with a lot of bloom. they made gunfights based more so on numbers and luck and not skill to make the game more accessible to new players that dont want to learn a weapon pattern and just want the recoil to feel like cod. the recoil was a big part of the fun because you could learn it and get better. thats not possible now. you just pull down.
@@gtas321 The game just got boring for me I guess. I Wasn't really a clan player but the recoil change still was a bit too much for me. The recoil felt alot more rng based than skill. The aimcone was not fun to play. I've seen a bunch of people complaining about the new aimcone and I completely understand why. I am not hating on the game but I just do not enjoy the game as much that I used to I guess. Alot of the friends that I played with have kind of left the game so I don't play it myself much either. And I know that people still enjoy the game but for me I don't enjoy it as much as I did back in 2018-2020.
@@WhiteKid74 Recoil scripts were a huge problem so trying to learn patterns is a huge waste of time when there were as many as 30 percent of players using a damn script.
The quality of this video is outstanding! The script, the editing, the storytelling, etc.
Keep it up!
Thanks man, glad you take notice. I try my best to give you something I'd want to see myself. Much love my guy.
What makes me love rust is the fear of the unknown. How many players there is in a group or if this wipe is going to be the most fun/the most boring wipe. That's why i always come back to it.
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Sounds like a gambling addiction
Fuck yeah
Rust 2015-2016 was the best era for Rust. The graphics and design, the world had personality, every base didn't look the same, it was beautiful and hella fun.
Wish I saw it. But perhaps better I was playing Gmod survival mod servers which I am sure were the precursor especially because facepunch studios and all!
was glorious the og blue print system
Bases in dome and dont tc maintein
Yea the bases bever are the same ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
Your editing is getting alot better congrats man you deserve the ammount of fame you are getting.
he needs more
Get better at age
im having a harder time enjoying rust, but i think it directly relates to me growing up and spending majority of my time working. nothing is more demotivating than finally being able to coordinate a play session over the weekend with you friend, maybe getting in 2-3 hours. then waking up to a rust+ notification saying im dead, just like this very morning
Yup that's not the vibe haha. The scheduling is annoying but makes the wipes worth it if you can fully commit.
I run a zombie server for those very reasons, (older) players just want to shoot stuff, build and not log in to an off line a day/week later because it can't happen...everyones happy.
0:38 That "over complexity" is actually what reinvigorates someone like me, with anything more than skin deep you start out as a learner but the more you understand something the better it gets. Electricity and automation are game changing for solos and ofcourse big groups although I feel less so for groups as they basically already had that in the form of manual labour. However it really adds layers that are needed to keep something fresh. I started Rust in 2013 and it was a lot of fun. Took a big hiatus from around 2015 -2021 and im glad i did as it got much better.
I am dead serious this is exactly what the rust scene needs, these videos are super helpful for bringing back my want to play rust, when I quit i realized how much time I was wasting and realized 2 years later that I can play not every week and it will be enjoyable. Thank you Jack Sheppard #villa
Thanks for the support man, I've been a big watcher of Rust content and always enjoyed this style for other games so I thought I'd give it a try for Rust.
i like to cycle out wipes for fun, solo chad, zerg, farmer
this keeps me constantly interested in a new type of rust
You earned a subscribe. Thank you for the time to express yourself and relate to me and id assume many others!
Stay true Shephard. I too at one point was a customer to one of your many hotels. I just got back into rust and i realized. Its the stories that you share which create value and who you create it with.
This one put me in the feels a little bit and I’m only 14 seconds in. I’ve been playing Rust for maybe 3 months now, and still rocking with the same people I met when I first started playing. We’re having a good time now, but one of these days I know it’s all gonna come to an end. Enjoy it while it lasts
Me and my teams decide to quit😢. Too many cheaters out there. Just keep getting kill, can’t farm at all. Playing for 2hrs still 0 scraps 0 ores
This game has been a part of my life for 8 years, many close friends have come and gone, don’t be sad that it’s over, be happy it happened brother.
Ive been playing with the same team for 3-4 years now
This is Crazy, as a past member of the NOR Clan for many years all of my memories were made there. Hearing that clip of Gray brings back some good memories. -Zathos
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I am 100% in the same boat when it came to upkeep. I was sour about it for quite a while, as I loved building expansive bases, but I eventually learn, and actually enjoy the system now, building optimal bases. Good video, can relate quite a bit :P
just came back to rust after 2 years and the last 2 force wipes i did a farm bae with 4 bunkers as a duo and did it the fastest on server for most profit.
Some high quality videos bro, keep it up.
YOU FIXED ME, U TOUGHT ME MULTIPLE WAYS TO GO ABOUT THINGS, FOR A WHILE I HAVE BEEN LOST BUT U CHANGED THAT, TYSM
If ever get bored I just play in unique ways like iceberg island wipes or solo
one random thing i did recently was buy my own server. me and a few friends customized the plugins to our liking so it's mostly vanilla with a few useful features. we either play in 2-3 teams against eachother or all go solo. relatively fun again
3:30 I was there for the hotels, I was an admin on Rustafied, Great times! That was back when Coco B was unknown and kept raiding the hotel, great times =]
Goddammit bananaman
@@Tyler-Lord oh hey 🤣
Nice to see a familiar face man. I showed Bugs the video recently he was pretty nostalgic about the villages.
@Jack Shephard Fantastic 👍
Keep the good work, your videos are very underrated, you're going to blow up soon. 💯
as someone who has played since 2014, taking big pauses has been the most important thing for me, and also not taking the game seriously alot of the time
you're exactly right. i was getting burned out so now i only commit to 2 wipes a month and have more fun doing it.
As a newer rust player all these updates bring changes to the meta, new experiences and a refreshed gameplay loop. I think it’s easy to get caught up in the past, but the way forward will always be change in a short attention span world
Nice to see you again Friskey!
To me the problem isn't change itself, it's that Facepunch is trying to change who Rust is made for. Rust used to be an hard game where time and efforts were super rewarding, now updates after updates they are trying to make the game easier and easier (recoil, all changes made to make clans stronger, now the number advantage almost always wins over individual skill, etc...). I first started Rust knowing it was an hardcore game, and looking for one. I'm just disappointed of how things turned out. There are a lot of casuals games out there, and i hate that hardcore games are getting killed one by one for the sake of casual players... Some will say that it's good and that everyone will be able to play the game, well i would answer that there are 100 casual friendly games out there for 1 hardcore game, i want to have my fun too on these games. And don't get me wrong, i too play and enjoy casual games, but i want to be able to as Jack said, engage in an hardcore session sometimes, on a game made for it
dude not having to waste hundreds, possibly thousands of hours on recoil is a bliss, you can have a real life instead of playing a stupid game. Rust should be about adrenaline, not a cs go with a grinding cooldown between each round. The clans are a real problem tho, but it was always the case
@@gorelovelive5022 some of us enjoyed watching ourselves get better week by week, not saying no life it but I did like seeing myself get better plus when you got good it felt amazing, but his point was hardcore games are far and few between and many of us enjoyed it being more hardcore, we don't get many games like that anymore that lean into those players
@@gorelovelive5022 its your own fault for not wanting to put in the hours to learn the recoil? Playing the game more should reward you, thats atleast what I think
If you want a truly hardcore experience like never before play on 300+ pop as a solo. Trust me, Rust will seem as hardcore as the first time you started it
@@Urrkis bro just say your a loser
simple way to enjoy something is to take a break, this applies to everything in life and not just rust
as a relatively new rust player (started playing late 2021) it's refreshing to see people like this encouraging me to try new things and enjoy the game more., especially since i almost exclusively play solo or SOMETIMES duo. I know i'll never get to experience authentic 2018-2019 Rust but I'm still okay with the rust that I've got :)
My first experience of rust was with my girlfriend now wife when we had a wood base and thought it was a fortress. Log on the following day and we fought off a hazmat with a tommy only using eokas and nail guns. We treasured the tommy and never used it.
I will never forget the first days of rust for me.
This video was so good, keep the grind up
I played happis island last week for a wipe, and the completely change in scenery just made it so enjoyable again
rust is a game of its own and its constantly evolving, theres no other survival game that stands out like it.
They have beaten all odds. It's truly a remarkable development cycle for this game.
i got rust when it was in beta for $5 on steam. my only problem was the amount of hackers in it. but they dealt with it to the point where hackers are not very common enough to enjoy the game.
i had no idea there was so much backlash from each update. i thought every update was good. and the ones i didnt like, was just not something i cared for that didnt effect the game to me. like the sea labs, i dont do them but its awesome they keep adding more ways for players to obtain loot etc
I assume it's a loud minority for somethings. You can't make everyone happy. Good insight on this comment.
I’m speechless. We need more Rust videos like this.
Honestly... I am a rust veteran and as much as sometimes I dislike rust updates, I am the one who's usually defending Facepunch
From MY experience of playing 2x weeklys and monthlys, or 3x and 10x servers, there are very, VERY few cheaters nowadays and when you play the way you like with people you like, you can have fun
Altough if only there would be some anti-offline system, it would be really near perfect...
After pvping for 4k hours I dedicated a whole monthly wipe to learning genetics and farming and it was some of the most fun I've ever had
HOLY SHIT what a great video overall touching on so many relevant subjects, i've had a similar experience where playing a monthly wipe on a small server with my "RP player" friend made me have the funniest wipe I have ever had in Rust. In addition to the human connection, actually getting to do stuff / counter / pvp at large monuments because they're not contested by clans of 10+ made it funnier and better pvp than roaming trying to "make a play".
Your channel is so small but if that's the kind of quality you put in your videos you're going to blow up SO FAST
Jack w another god tier video keep it up man. Also what about a history of you eventually. I loved when you were talking about the hotels and you got into your story a bit
Every wipe i try to do something different and random. Rarely the same base build, i don't speed run BPs, i just vibe out and go with the flow.
At 7:20 I about jumped out of my chair... :) I built a lot of hotels myself back in the day - started on Day 1 and have played almost every day since. Thanks for reminding players they are in control of their gameplay and that if they get bored, just change it up. They can be a hemp farmer, a PVP god, a clan base builder, whatever. It is all up to them - just keep playing Rust.
100% Rust is such a great game. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Hey man this video was great it definitely got the reach it deserves!
If i could give you a tip, try and time you’re edits with your word’s i saw you did multiple times but those small things have i psychological affect on the views brain that releases dopamine! 2:48 here is a time stamp of where it could of been applied 🎉
I have nearly 7,000 hours and I completely agree with everything you've said here. I honestly think that rust has become TOO competitive you cant have fun anymore. Everything feels like a constant grind and it has no meaning, the loot I get is now unimpressive, or just not enough. I see myself pushing more and more for this dopamine that just never comes. But I do think that as much hatred i have for a lot of the updates rust added, they were needed.
Glad you agree. Yeah stakes definitely make this game what it is. I assume many good things will come though for Rust and those who wait.
I agree with you about the decay system and tool cupboard system. It completely killed the the game for me at the time because I used to build enromous sprawling cities that housed new players and provided them with protection from KOS players. Now the game is more KOS than ever unfortunately.
Yeah it drove me nuts. Our goal was always to help new players, there's workarounds now but at the time the update really sucked. I don't like change that much either haha.
@@JackShephardTV The biggest thing I ever made was when I named myself Julius Caesar and built the Roman empire. It had 3 different cities that all had their own walls and were connected by this absolutely enormous china wall that had stairs where you could climb on top and use as a vantage point during defense. It was absolutely enormous lol and it housed about 30-40 players back in 2015 before guest codes were a thing. We even had our own currency before scrap was a thing rofl we used metal frags. We even had a barracks and a trained military of like 12 people. We would go around raiding bases and putting signs on them that read "PROPERTY OF ROME" with signs all over the map pointing new players to where the empire was. After raiding people we would invite them to live in the outer walls of the empire. Half the entire server lived in Rome man it was amazing lol I have screenshots too. Bugs even teleported over one day and told me that it's players like me that make rust such a fun game. I'll never forget it haha I was like 19 at the time. I'd build cities like that every single wipe from that month forward. I had NO life back then but it was a blast.
Thanks for putting part of the NT intro(power plant scene) in there. I know it wasn't on purpose but the love and enjoyment us boys had playing together on old recoil was indescribable. It was just nice seeing a reminder of what we had. It brought nostalgia to me just by itself. Good times.
Happy to bring back the memories man! Thanks for watching.
the undertale themed music/edits perfectly nailed bringing forth the feeling of nostalgia for me. amazing editing and another banger video
Lol, at 6:47 I know exactly where that was on the legacy map! Those where the days… fresh wipe was a race to that spot, so you could build square foundations in the sea so the enemy had to spend extra C4 lol! 😍 that map is still in my head🤩
i dont play rust anymore but that's exactly what i needed to watch, thank you
at 8 k hours im happy just logging in when i get the urge and grubbing for a start then just snowballing with no intent on coming bacak cause chaos, get offline and never know lol. once you devalue the loot and just play for fun its much better, just countering raids oil and run to every gunshot its how u get better once ur confident in ur abilities you win every time 99 percent of the time ur fighting less skilled player who take the game too serious and let emotions effect them
w quality. 2018 rust was peak. love your vids, have a great day
hey shephard, i didn’t know this was you until i saw this video, you made me enjoy rust with your hotel, thank you so much for the years worth of memories.
Hey Obzzz! Nice to see a fellow guest man. Hope life has been fruitful, come join us for another wipe soon!
People also gotta remember how many problems old rust used to have. I remember a time where you couldn't shift while swinging with items. I remember the days of craftable maps and farming trees with swords to craft one. Being lost, and having players who used to use game filters to see perfectly during the night. Old rust used to have a lot of issues in the past that we all probably forgot about. Change is good and bad, but all of us have responsibilities now and for the people who were once avid rust players. It was fun playing with you all. My time for the game is up, hopefully new players can find the same enjoyment I once had. It already seems that way and a new community of rust players is becoming a thing.
Not being able to run and swing weapons at the same time is a feature not a bug 🤦♂️
Rust devs are honestly one of the best game developer EVER how much update they put out regularly keeping the game fresh for everyone, although there are problems still, i love the devs and i love this game
This video was the best video I have watched in a long time... Really hit the feels.
Content looks like it has potential keep going man!
Dang this is so well put together. Subbed.
Solid video man, nice to see what I can do when I get bored of the game ;)
rip competitive scene. i remember when posty and warrior posted a crazy vid weekly. it would push me to get better and aim train more. used to be able to triple kids 100+ meters back when the holo turned aimcone off.
I find enjoyment in the solo grind...putting up that first solar panel and electrical furnace, then progressing to windmills, and auto turrets...and finally car garages. I love armored cars in rust.
I've recently found trying new things in rust has made the game so much more fun than it ever was before like finding and fixing cars to drive around with friends I've recently learned how farming electricity and the industrial age works and its been a blast testing out all the things I can do rust has always been a great game for me to have fun thanks for making this video! :D
Glad your enjoying the journey man! Thanks for watching.
If you want to play old Rust, I recommend you play console Rust. It has the old recoil and gun sounds and it's a lot simpler. I know it's not the best solution, but I think it's the closest thing to old rust you can get.
Great video man. A contribtuion to the community. Thank you for voicing our silent pain. I keep Rust fresh by doing exactly as you say. My group and I don't play it every month but we love the game. When I do play, I only play with I already enjoy and want to spend more time with. And most of all, i tried to remember that I am only roleplaying a dude with stuff to lose. Sometimes people in Rust tend to think they are actually losing stuff... When that's what makes the game fun - finding stuff to lose.
Thank you man! I hope this sparks some joy for people to return back to Rust. I agree 100% the stakes make the game worth playing.
10/10 video jack just keeps getting better and better. Would love to come play sometime and make a villa again
I haven't touched the game in a long time tho
The end off video words and pictures almost start cry! old times i miss too! the friends, emotions , anger , no sleeping. Its been that worth . its the best game i ever play and get that emotions!❤
hope soon i coming back to rust! ;)
This was just an awesome video man, thanks!
You're killing it with these essays homie, thank you
Thank you so much my guy!
preface edit: I love how you're carving out this niche as a video essay UA-camr with a focus on the Rust community. Haven't seen this before and there is clearly a demand.
The dedicating 1 - 2 weeks a month to Rust while taking breaks has been key to me. I discovered that one a few months back when I started making videos (don't go to my channel this isn't a plug) and I would play 1 week and then edit the next week or two. I found that when I could finally play Rust again after a couple weeks of work I would enjoy the game so much more. Also playing with who you like regardless of skill is so important. I mean everything about this video is spot on.
For the monthly updates I have tried to adopt a different mindset about them. I am excited to try out the new changes every wipe, and see how they spice up the game regardless of what they are. I think a problem a lot of people have with change is that it can affect their ability to "dominate" servers, but I think that stems from an inherently flawed perception of how they should play the game. Try and go for fun, the game is only a competition if you see it as such.
I'm beating a dead horse at this point but banging video, I loved it.
Wow... Just wow, I will be watching all of your videos from now on. What an amazing video
I play on a server called CK1 that has pvp rules that allow me to experience aspects of the game that is much more difficult to do on official servers because of constant player ganking. There is still PvP, but I can do so much more and not have to worry as much about constantly getting ganked, and when I log in after a few day break my base is usually still standing. The right server makes a world of difference in having fun.
I feel like the games progression is just too quick now, ik people say this a lot, but i haven't heard anyone talk about the sheer amount of monuments that exist today, arctic, trains, underwater labs, military base... Compared to just a couple years ago.
True, great insight! Yeah I think it's modded that really did damage to our community attention span on that front.
just started playing maybe a week ago. the fast progression is amazing cause you can just come back from falling so easily. i came from ark and it feels great that its not the end of everything if im raided. couple hours and im back. ive logged 30 hours without realizing it
Your just scratching the surface man, enjoy it. It's the game of a lifetime!
@@JackShephardTV it was until june 2nd 2022
I remember the golden days, even when you save the seed, or your heart beating so fast when u have Ak in your hand, because if you lose it u lose hours of work.
W take awesome vid deserves so much more recognition
Wow man I never thought I would need to hear this but thank for opening my mind up ❤
after 7k hours on the game, lost all enjoyment towards the game, im playing wipes without even enjoying them. ur a legend, good vid.
Thanks man hope something in the video helps
I would love to see more custom maps and custom game modes. Such as a medieval 🏰 version which they planned to make a separate game of but decided not to cause the elements of that game were already in rust.
Bro stated facts. Im 27 yo, i have my personal experience in other games just like you described about yours in rust, but as i staretd to play it few month ago (i have
If they added more traps especially ones that became more effective when your clan offline, then they game would be 1000% better.
I've never disliked the change. It's what keeps me excited to revisit the game. Rust shouldn't be tryharded all the time unless it's your job or you really have nothing else to do, that way you'll keep enjoying the game and not get used to some habit of how you do things every wipe and rely on that.
I love rust but man i miss when it was focused more on a perfect bland of pve and pvp survival rather than just loot, tech tree and shoot.
Modded communities keep the game alive for me. I've played for nearly four years now - and right away the grind of Vanilla wasn't going to fit my lifestyle. So learning to build on quiet servers with low pop and friendly players started building my interest. Exploring the game at my pace in relative peace. Then, I worked my way to medium pop modded servers - learned real quick what a skill gap was - but my game sense was developed enough to understand what I was doing wrong. I started playing on mil x battlefield servers - which got me competent on my spray and during the lockdown years I took pvp to the next level. It was me and the same trio for three years and when the world opened back up - they moved on. I feel that lull, that "man I miss the game" but have a hard time getting interested in playing longer than an hour. Now I just play for entertainment, I hop on low pop modded servers - look for new players and teach them the game. Scrims are still some of my favorite ways to kill 20-30 minutes but the toxic interactions of clan heavy and UKN based gameplay was never my stuff.
This game, has endless content to me. It may close a chapter to something you will remember fondly - but there is always another chapter ahead to make something out of
My favourite era of rust has always been from 2019-2022 just before the new recoil changes. Back then it seemed with every single update the game got better and more exciting. Helicopters, oilrig, Cargo ship, Train tunnels, underwater labs. The competitive scene was thriving, clan servers like vital, atlas and affinity are places where I've met my closest friends and most hated enemies.
Ever since then in my opinion rust has been going downhill. With the introduction of P2W skins and DLCs and the obliteration of the skill gap in recoil control the game is no longer fun for me as a competitive player.
the thing about rust is that its so annoying to get on during wipe days. Like I work every day, and when I get on its been 5 hours since wipe, and all that happens to me is getting absolutely smoked by so many ppl with already decked out kits. I legit have no idea what to do about it.
Best rust video ever, without actually playing rust.
started to play around 2015 and i stop around 2019 it was fun but life goes on like taco said
Brilliant video Jack. Opa!
As a Rust player that started playing in 2021 and Have 1.5k hours in total, I can say that change is the most important thing about Rust, because if Rust never got any other cool updates like teas, new recoil, submarines, etc, the game would get old and boring for everyone. Even if some updates were "bad" or "good" we still needed them to keep the game somewhat fresh for everyone.
Change keeps things fresh 100%, it sucks initially but can be appreciated later on.
I'm not an OG Rust player, but I feel this way about Minecraft, I grew up with it as a kid but it just kept changing and becoming complex and what not, I enjoyed the simplicity but hey, it's the memories we made along the way that matter.
4k hours over the past 4-5 years, by far my 3 least favorite updates that to me changed everything was the terrain generation change, and the gun sounds+recoil change, almost a year and i still don't know the gun sounds that I previously had memorized.
2 years ago, I stopped playing official pvp. The stress and time spent on that, I don't have that anymore. I enjoy rust again but in a different environment, rust pve. It's nice meeting new people mostly my age, old people who have different priorities now. The builds, Im not calling it base anymore, I built a home made on wood with windows front door and fireplace. It's very calm and having fun doing my house electricity and found ways to use power efficiently. I will never forget my past, the clan, farming and dying with loot, defending and counter, most of all the oil rig fun.
Me binging all these rust videos without having played a second of the game in my life
im pretty sure i was in one of your hotels back in the day!, the feeling was a feeling that i cant express but always will remember.
Great video man, good job. I've just uninstalled recently, it eats up for too much of my time.
vids been great recently. u hella underrated!
Thank you my guy!
Rust with the recoil update is just a worse pubg. I said it, if I want to scramble for loot all day and get in endless fights for no reason, I would rather play the south korean game. Rust has no purpose anymore, people just raid to raid or doorcamp because they heard people online. There needs to be more direction to this game.
YO JACK LOVE UR VIDEOS SO MUCH, PLZ MAKE MORE LONGER VIDS BEST UA-camR EVER!!!!!!!
Thank you! And yes next video will be longer 20-30 minutes. Excited to share it with you.
There is one new side of Rust which is evolving now, Rust Roleplay. People who dont like pvp toxicity or have time time to be pvp chads anymore are joining together in servers like "Chill Roleplay". One of the best modded server with best admins and great community I found till now. Been there for more than 2 years now and trust me when I say that this will be future of Rust from now on.
I play this game since legacy release, around 9000 hours spent and the game becomes easy but the more I play the more I enjoy all the aspects of the game, even such as having rough times or rebuilding after getting raided, playing against the odds solo versus clans. The game is the best there is with monthly updates and what the devs do for the game is needed even if we dont like it.
I'm a 2018 player and Rust died for me when OTV happened, they accommodated the game to newer players and I didn't like the direction the game was going, the recoil change was the last straw to me.
Initially I didn't like the change to the tool cupboard. I originally designed a base to avoid tc destruction and counter being griefed by losing your door key. I was annoyed but I soon took it as a challenge to create new base designs to confuse and counter offline raiders. I've seen this same phenomenon happen to other games and players. World if warcraft is a clear example with its release of classic.
I think all the new functions are pretty fun, I’ve only played for 3 years and it’s been a heck of a time 😁, for a game that’s 10years old I think it’s only getting better and better.
I really didn't find much lack of enjoyment in the game all these years, but I think that a big killer for my enjoyment is the shift away from clans that fought each other to villages that suffocate areas. A clan might lock down a monument for a few hours but there is always gaps to get some stuff vital for a wipe, with villages its like fighting against a wave, never all together but playing like a bunch of small groups that will all converge on you in a heartbeat. not to mention how much more laggier and roof camp ridden their compounds are.
You should make a video looking at the shift away from Clans to villages, how the Zerg is being redefined for better and worse.
Both are inherently unfun unless you are also in a clan. Instead of calling them "FP Official" they should be called "FP Clan" servers.
Doing a history documentary on the entire clan scene from the start of Rust you'll be in for a treat!