Forced wipe tomorrow… what is coming?

New month, new game! Tomorrow, Thursday the 2nd, the forced wipe is on our doorsteps.

For the past couple of weeks the performance of our EASY SERVER original and EASY SERVER USA has been low. Rustafied also mentions this and is working with the developers of Rust to get to know where the performance drops come from. It’s not an issue of hosting services, but mainly pushing the limits of the game/engine.

What’s coming in tomorrows update?
Tomorrow is the first Thursday of the month. This brings a force wipe within all Rust servers. Good thing to know is that the forced wipe is meant to bring updates to the game which demand a wipe to give everyone a fresh start. Developers have to wait for a forced wipe to bring some things in the game.

From tomorrow, we will see more snowy areas. Andre from Facepunch is upping the cold by increasing the area of arctic and reducing the tundra.

Adding on the sash functionality from last week, Helk is working on getting weapon models to display on players backs. This makes an Oxide mod for Weapons on Back unnecessary.

Expect a bit more movement from bushes and the like this week as wind flutter has been added to foliage. This is part of a new foliage system arriving with the map changes this week, which hopefully provides some client optimizations and maybe a bit of new eye candy. More on this in our Thursday update post (once it’s all merged in).

There’s also an increased nobuild zone around the trainyards.