Avenger

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@October now get your ass in here too

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No update video by FooRun as of yet, but here's a look at the devblog for this week: 
 
http://playrust.com/devblog-158/
 
Research Tables are back! For what? For turning scrap into components. You can get scrap from breaking barrels or looting boxes.
Scraps increase probability of success in creating components, so the more the better.
 
Most importantly as @Rootbeer predicted, the game changes today, in a major way. Directly from the devblog:
"Raid Towers
The first major change is that you can now place all building blocks of the twig building tier inside other player’s cupboard radius without being authorized. This obviously opens the door for raid towers, dramatically changing the building and raiding meta of the game."
  
and this: 
 
"Ladders
In addition to making raid towers first class citizens I’ve enabled ladder placement inside the cupboard radius. Ladders are supposed to be used as an alternative for boosting or be used in the construction of a raid tower. Ladders now have more forgiving placement rules, even allowing you to attach them to the edge of floors. They can also be climbed from both sides and be traversed around to switch sides. Climbing a building with ladders should involve some risk but also be a relatively cheap way to exploit weaknesses in a base design."
 
 
This doesn't mean your base is doomed, because now turrets can see and shoot through building blocks.
 
 
There's a lot more in today's update and I'll add on when I get off work, but these were the most game-changing updates we've seen in a very long time. 
 

 
 
 
thanks @Avenger
 

Wow!!! U da based!!!

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A few updates today will have an impact on performance:
 
Navmesh should load faster client-side when connecting to a server.
 
Optimizations include both animal and deployable culling (player culling has been in place for months)  
basically this means your client isn't trying to render shit unless it is possible for you to see it.
 
Some sound tweaks related to distance- might get more details when the devblog hits to determine
which sound distances have been increased and which have been decreased.
 
Gameplay Changes:
 
Vending machines can be given names, which appear on the livemap/minimap 
Eoka pistol has been buffed Wooh!  Tighter spread makes the eoka possibly worth it on day 1 vanilla servers!
Muzzle break was nerfed. Less accurate, less velocity, less damage
The Heavy armor helmet now reduces vision regardless of settings (exploit of ignore hud option previously allowed free vision)
 
AI Tweaks
 
There is now a cone of sight for animals. This means you can sneak up on them, instead of them having esp hacks. 
Animals have stamina. They slow down and stop to regenerate.
Bears and wolves will be more aggressive.
Deer and boars will be non-aggressive until provoked (for reals this time...I think)
Chicken damage was nerfed. 
 
 
 
 
 
Edited to add the devblog is out! http://playrust.com/devblog-157/   WIPE HYPE!!!!

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Fixes:
Last week we saw lots of Violation level kicks just due to jump boosting on other players' heads. This issue has been resolved with some tweaks to antihack. 
There was a bug with stone doorways as well, allowing players to shoot through cracks. This has been fixed.
Nav Mesh changes make servers run more smoothly, causing less stress on the server's cpu - making our already not laggy server, even less likely to lag.

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shoutout to that tree.

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It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

The biggest point of claiming rooms in overtime IMO is to force the t's to confront the remaining innocents before overtime hits and gives the innocents a better advantage when it does. The rule is stated very clearly about claiming. If someone is already in a room and another runs in and claims the room they can't kill whoever is already in the room. Only those who enter afterwards. Outside open areas aren't claimable for obvious reasons. Descriptions of the room being claimed are absolutely necessary as to avoid inno's killing inno's, but it still happens because like you stated people mute VC or ignore regular chat which is on them.
 
This is quite an essential part of the game mode and has been an easily followed rule for many years. If you believe someone isn't following the specified rule properly feel free to take ss's and either ask an SO or staff member about the circumstances or report it in the complaint department if you feel any staff currently on aren't doing their job. Someone usually responds to any complaint within the moment you post to a few hours at most. 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

It isn't RDMing if they enter your claimed area, so no one is getting away with RDM..  
 
That's just plain idiotic.
 
The rule states "You may claim a room during Overtime, you must describe the room over voice chat or normal chat", open areas like "I claim outside" aren't allowed.
 
Refer to my first 2 points.
 
 
 
 

Dont mute the voice chat then.