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What’s changed on Rust in each patch.

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Features

  • Added local player voice chat notification
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Improvements

  • Upgraded to Unity 5.3.1p2
  • Switched OSX and Linux to new OpenGL core
  • Disabled Xmas content
  • Disabled Lazy Aim
  • Tweaked Viewmodel animations
  • Mace, Longsword & Salvaged cleaver are now throwable
  • Can cook bear meat (and burn it)
  • Can melee attack underwater
  • Can build underwater
  • New biome textures (sand, gravel, stones, rock, road, dirt)
  • Ocean and river water colour changes
  • New set of rocks and rock spawning improvements to procgen
  • Server seed and salt now write back to the convars if filled automatically
  • Stability now has diminishing returns on huge buildings
  • Building block placement quality of life improvements
  • Rain forces more fog and clouds
  • Rain tends to be more intense when it happens
  • Atmosphere fogginess reduces view distance more aggressively
  • Increased Voice Chat quality
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Fixed

  • Fixed UI banding
  • Fixed trees sometimes being missing on first connect to a server
  • Trainyard dungeon blocker fixed in the central building pipes
  • Water treatment Plant dungeon blocker fixed where player would get stuck in one of the tanks
  • All dungeons: fixed major holes in sewers meshes that allowed you to see under terrain.
  • Fixed monuments occasionally messing up rivers
  • Fixed random terrain holes that could occur near caves
  • Fixed monument terrain adjustment sometimes leading to floating objects
  • Fixed anti hack issue that could block self-inflicted damage
  • Fixed roof exploit
  • Fixed various sleeping bag exploits
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Removed

  • Voice Chat UI removed
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Fixed

  • Fixed rcon password exploit
  • Fixed item dupe exploit
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Features

  • Added tree quality slider to the main menu performance options
  • Added server side player damage verification
  • Added water shoreline foam
  • Added atmospheric scattering/fog to some particle shaders (e.g. smoke, flames)
  • Added Small/Medium/Large gifts
  • Added XMas stockings that refill periodically
  • Added Comfort-giving bear deployable
  • Added Candy Cane
  • Added world spawn gifts
  • Added community skins
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Improvements

  • Optimized tree culling and LODing
  • Salvaged hammer & pickaxe are now throwable
  • Improved light transmission on vegetation shaders
  • Major water overhaul to simplify/speedup and attempt to fix serious bugs affecting DX9 on some AMD GPUs
  • Auto Turrets no longer shoot each other
  • Auto Turrets can no longer be placed completely under water
  • M249 was made much more accurate
  • Helicopter crates are now lootable if they happen to land in water
  • Other XMas content
  • Rcon.port defaults to game port
  • If Rcon.ip is undefined listen to any ip
  • Sound performance tweaks
  • Increased clientside physics step
  • Decreased serverside physics step
  • Updated to Unity 5.4.2
  • Disabled rain collision (performance)
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Fixed

  • Fixed vegetation LOD bias exploit
  • Fixed being unable to upgrade foundations with a turret on them
  • Fixed being able to jump higher when standing in water
  • Fixed light LOD performance regression from dungeons
  • Fixed shelves being unplaceable on certain triangle floors
  • Fixed bleeding damage lag exploit
  • Fixed "see through wall" bug accidentally introduced the week before
  • Fixed wave displacement on very shallow, flat water beds
  • Fixed "black river" at a distance bug; most noticeable on low quality terrain
  • Fixed a bug causing broken decals on tree trunks
  • Fixed infinite 5.56 Ammo exploit
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Improvements

  • Improved water movement
  • Updated stone world model/physics
  • Radial reset for sleeping bags/beds
  • Can no longer throw melee tools underwater
  • Stuck projectiles spawn ontop of corpse if would fall through world
  • Healthbars (player and world objects) now round up instead of down
  • Can no longer heal underwater
  • Made impact sounds more consistent
  • Tweaked the m249 fire sound
  • Tweaked the metal hatchet impact sounds
  • Tweaked fall damage sounds
  • Made fall damage sounds only play when you take 20+ damage
  • Disabled the sounds in the new dungeons when far away (perf)
  • Set up voice limiting for some of the helicopter sounds
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Fixed

  • Fixed various lag exploits
  • Fixed foundation steps being unplaceable in certain situations
  • Fixed LODGroup errors on the keylock
  • Fixed lantern stacking / hiding exploit
  • Fixed nighttime water reflection highlights
  • Fixed floor / foundation overlap exploit
  • Fixed floating doors when placed next to stairs
  • Fixed embrasures and shutters randomly collapsing
  • Fixed being able to block monument entrances using signs
  • Missing footsteps on generic surfaces fixed
  • Building parts door frames see through fixed
  • Fixed ladders and painting frames clipping inside walls
  • Fixed rockets going through building parts
  • Fixed lock LOD distances
  • Fixed barrel/trashpile LOD distances
  • Fixed a couple little bugs with sound playback
  • Fixed footstep sounds not playing on surfaces with a generic material
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Removed

  • Removed ability to place locks on some prefabs
  • Removed blood/battery/note from spawn tables
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Features

  • Added soft target impact sounds for a bunch of melee weapons
  • Added underwater world FX.
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Improvements

  • New m249 sounds
  • New snow and sand impact sounds
  • Lots of impact sound adjustments and fixes
  • New player body fall sounds
  • New player fall damage sounds
  • New stone external gate sounds
  • Cancelled crafts don't break the max stack rules
  • Pie menu sounds obey volume controls
  • New key bind (input) system
  • New window shutter sounds
  • New corpse fly swarm sounds
  • Adjusted bandage sounds
  • Adjusted ambient sounds
  • Adjusted large fire sounds
  • Improved skin shader
  • Improved snow FX.
  • Improved rain fullscreen FX.
  • Erm, dungeons greybox.
  • Reload happens automatically when switching ammo types
  • Reloading with only one ammo type is more responsive
  • Shotgun shell has +2 pellets
  • Eoka spread increased
  • Eoka damage increased
  • Handmade shell pellets doubled
  • Handmade shell damage per pellet halved
  • Melee range increased across the board
  • Lowered eoka cost
  • Ambient light improvements
  • All-new coastline generation
  • Big water streams towards the outer realms of the main island
  • Landmass bias towards the center of the island
  • Chance for small isolated islands off coast
  • Highland cliffs and canyons
  • New underwater environments (placeholder art)
  • Revamped tundra environment (placeholder art)
  • Snow biome is restricted to mountain tops
  • Rock material improvements
  • More natural mountain, hill and lake blending
  • Less artificial prefab terrain blending
  • Occasional barrels around powerlines
  • Slightly improved river-ocean transition
  • Better prefab mountains
  • Better lighthouse spawn rules
  • Better player spawn positions
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Fixed

  • Fixed real player names showing in corpse loot during streamer mode
  • Fixed steam inventory breaking with more than 128 items
  • Fixed weapons effects firing twice (!)
  • Fixed external gates frequently not playing open/close sounds
  • Fixed water bugs in DX9
  • Fixed water performance issues in quality 1 and 2
  • Fixed unlootable items if thrown under quarry hopper
  • Fixed rapidfire bow exploit
  • Fixed rockets detonating on shooter if fired while moving forward
  • Fixed repair door exploit
  • Fixed shelves being too strong (can now melee them)
  • Fixed key lock LOD causing it to disappear too soon
  • Fixed various building exploits
  • Fixed various deployable exploits
  • Fixed various LOD and batching issues
  • Fixed missing building gibs in certain situations
  • Fixed roofs being cheaper and more stable than walls (now identical)
  • Fixed admin cheat noclipping (antihack.admincheat convar)

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