What’s in this weeks Rust Update?

Let me start by telling: i’m excitedddd! This update should be fixing a lot of trouble with animals. Furthermore, people asking why the f* a stag gives you chicken: it won’t anymore.

@RustUpdates
Some people noticed that the @RustUpdates twitter-account has gone silent this week. This has been done on purpose.

Many people, including us, liked to have a sneak peek into the Rust kitchen. Just like Rustafied says: it’s a unique selling point to Rust. You know what happens in the development stages. However, knowing what happens can also give disappointments, even though you may be wrong.

Facepunch removed the Rust Updates stream, but is working on a new way to let users show the development while it happens.

New Animal AI
If tomorrow’s update makes it, we will see a whole new side of animals. One of the biggest changes this week will be the new animal AI. After working on it for weeks, the AI is ready to be tested. Rust developers asked us to test this in the staging branch. One of the most idiot things right now about animals: they walk through rocks and walls. With the new AI, this is not going to happen anymore. I have not been able to see one animal run up a sharp cliff or through a large rock.

Unity 5.4 => Unity 5.6
One of the reasons for the shitty Animal AI was a problem in Unity 5.4 which set the devs with tied hands for this Animal AI. The update to Unity 5.6 includes several fixes and improvements. Also fullscreen exlusive mode should work again. Check out all improvements in Unity 5.6 on their site.

Server Performance
Work on server performance never stops. On the contrary, there has been much positive things on this side for the last 2 weeks. Unfortunately, updating core products can bring some hits on performance again, which we are seeing now on the staging branch. Let’s hope this will be figured out before tomorrows update.

Other changes in this update
– Deer meat incoming! Deers (stags) don’t drop chicken anymore as there is now the deer meat item
– Searchlight fixes, balance, and visual improvements
– View model tweaks: LR-300, Rocket Launcher, Thompson, P250, MP5, pickaxe and binoculars

Plugin Mods
Getting such a big update could also mean bad stuff for things like plugins. Especially the Remover Tool, Clans or any plugin that relies on functions deep inside the Rust core. After updating the servers tomorrow, some plugins may not work untill developers edit their plugin.

This update will force wipe all servers. See you tomorrow!