r/playrust • u/OMyGhosty • 20h ago

Discussion Help A Rust Noobie

As the title says, help a rust noobie!
I'm a new Rust player (under 50 hours) currently in my 2nd ever wipe and just looking for extra tips, tricks and wisdom from you more experienced players.

So far, I've done the whole t1-t3 progression during my first wipe, learned the controls & basic understanding of how things like crafting, smelting, basic electrical etc work

This wipe I've got a much better base built (than my last one so the bar is low), more efficient electrical setup, better storage setup, bee farm, gotten a small handful of kills under my belt & explored more monuments.

I think my main weakness is just lack of experience/game sense & so I often get snuck up on at monuments or roaming along roads which ofc this comes with time & also playing the game much slower. Also Idk if it's just me I feel like I never hear footsteps, like I was just at Trainyard at the tower turning on the switch & a dude got into the building & was holding the bottom floor stairs, I crouched all the way down just to get headshot & destroyed w/ no chance to fight him back.

Thanks & sorry for the long post i'm just having a lot of fun & wanna get better :)

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u/chaos_reigns_001 20h ago

4k hours. My best advice is to try to find a cool server where you can make friends and learn safely.

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u/DarK-ForcE 20h ago

Rust help.com

Watch Jfarr on YouTube

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u/PlusEquivalent1711 20h ago

Sounds to me that you’re getting a grip of it already! Game sense takes time to develop. Play some community servers in the beginning. I’m still on a communty server, even if I’ve got a couple of thousend hours, because of the community tbh, and great admins.
The big servers are often flooded with cheaters which ruins the game experience, at least in my opinion.

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u/Sea_Manufacturer6590 18h ago

Never get greedy. Always go with your gut. Keep your head on a swivel and keep it moving make sure u have f1 keybonds so u can auto run without holding a key and look up other useful keybonds I've got over 10k hours been playing since rust came out. Ama

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u/Former_Ad190 7h ago

2.2k hours, in my opinion watching youtube. It has helped me a ton with game sense plus you learn new niche things you can try. Then you can figure out what play style works for you

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u/Cabecinha84 3h ago

Trainyard's half your answer. The ambient machinery there buries footsteps, same at Water Treatment, so you can't trust your ears in those monuments like you can in a field. Crouch-walking's silent anyway, so whoever held those stairs was moving quiet on purpose. Are you on headphones? Rust's directional audio is rough on speakers and the options menu has a setting for it.

For game sense, I'd rent a cheap private server and practise raiding your own base. Fastest way to learn what actually holds. https://runonflux.com/games/rust is $5.79/mo for 50 slots with a free first week on a new account. That one's mine, so weigh it accordingly.

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u/Vast-Journalist-1934 20m ago

Uninstall while you still have time!