Fashionable backpacks have made an appearance at Rust

Facepunch's multiplayer survival simulator has received its first major update for 2024. Together with it, the heroes will finally have duffel bags. And also a metal detector for collecting valuable resources, refined guns and a lot of improvements, including upgraded graphics and server performance. The list of changes is completed by refreshed animation of vehicles. Let's tell you more about what the game will please the audience in February.

As the characters' loot is getting bigger and bigger, Survivor has two sizes of backpacks - large and small. The first has 28 cells for all sorts of items, and the second has only 12, but it is allowed to make it from fabric, while the large backpack you will find only among the battle trophies. And in search of resources you can now use your personal metal detector with flashing light and sound signal. You can dig the ground with any cold weapon - no problem if you forgot your shovel at the base. Firearms were also not left aside - guns were balanced in such a way as to make recoil and aiming cone more convenient.

As for technical corrections, the servers now use fewer objects to relieve memory. But it doesn't mean that groves, stone piles and warehouses of consumables have been thinned out in the game. It's just that Facepunch employees found a software solution to the problem - they used a scheduler to interact with objects. Optimization also touched shaders and textures, and the latter even became better, because they were applied to them less aggressive compression procedure. Finally, doors with gates, including car doors, work smoother now.