Rust has received an update on PC today as Facepunch gets ready to add vehicles to the map which could change the game quite a bit. The studio has also changed some functionality when it comes to the turrets. Turrets originally needed specific ammo but now they’ve become modular meaning you can put any gun in the turret. The turret will then take on the gun characteristics. For example, if a gun is loaded with incendiary ammo then the turret will fire incendiary rounds at targets.
Aside from the modular turrets, a new ring road has been added to the island which will have smaller roads coming off of it that will lead to monuments. On the death screen, a life stats page will show which includes data such as kill counts, distance covered, weapon accuracy, and damage is taken/healed. On Steam the Rich Presence function has been added so people in your friends list can see what you’re doing in Rust. Those who like a bit of music will be pleased to know that there will be experimental support for MIDI pedals.
The entire change list can be found below.
Rust February update changelog
Added .mid file support for instruments.playrecording Added stats to death screen
Added support for Steam Rich Presence
Added support for Steam Friend Groups
Added support for MIDI sustain pedal input
Added global.teleport2owneditem to teleport admin to a players items
Added player.wakeupall command to wake up all sleepers (cinematography)
Added player.copyrotation to copy the rotation of a player to a target player (cinematography)
Added player.mount to mount a given player to the target mountable (cinematography)
Added two lane ring road
Added Modular Turrets
Added save cfg on exit
Added Message of the day (motd convar)
Added Support for temporarily banning players (s,m,h,d,w,M,y)
Added Allow typing when the console autocomplete is active
Fixed SAM sites in monuments not regenerating if server restarts while the site is destroyed
Fixed player not being able to wake up if they died while the chat box was open
Fixed “Musical Maestro” achievement not unlocking correctly (play an instrument to trigger it)
Fixed several vehicle parenting trigger bugs and exploits
Fixed road mesh normals
Fixed Auto Turret bounds so they can no longer be hurt through walls
Fixed players being able to lag out the server with 1000 fireworks
Fixed sleeping bags taking 4 days to decay outdoors
Fixed Quit button delay
Fixed autoturrets retaliating against SAM sites when they accidentally get hit
Fixed an item being lost when a corpse with full inventory despawns, the item that can’t fit into the backpack will get thrown onto the floor now
Improved placement logic for tree hit markers
Changed supermarket, gas station and warehouse to roadside monuments
Only spawn prefab mountains on 5k maps or larger
Can no longer build or deploy on roads
Introduced sane upper limits for monument and cave counts
Reduced object count on 5k maps or larger (server performance)
