It's also remarkably well put together for a game supposedly released early, though like DayZ it suffers from the attention of hackers. It might be awful, but it allows for people to be creatively vile. I've been killed on sight many times, and I have stories of people luring friends into buildings and locking them in, tossing scraps of food in and taunting them. It is a survival game after all, which means you could go to the trouble of gathering the material to craft a bow and its arrows and hunt the wildlife for meat and cloth, or you could just find someone who's done it and beat them to death. Rust is a bit more cartoony than DayZ, but the players are no less barbarous. They're the base-level of the game's base-building: there are mazes, towers, even entire villages to discover, outposts of the people who play. I've wandered the strange map (it's huge, but only has one road), climbed a mountain range, strolled across lonely plains, and everywhere I go has at least one abandoned shack clinging to a rock face like a lost goat. They're dotted about the land, monuments to the people that came before, often abandoned. With a hatchet to hand, and a generous pile of crafting recipes, it's possible to have a little single-room hut all of your own in a short span of time. The world is strewn with little huts, built to house new spawns spat into the cruel world. With that, you have the ability to gather things more speedily, which should allow you to build a shelter and a door. Your first night will be spent scavenging the land, hitting trees with a rock to carve out wood, and hitting stones to grab the makings of a hatchet.
It's capable of remarkable things, and in this stage I've already had more than £20's worth of fun from it. The internet is rife with tales the dirty sandbox, though my own tales are of a man watching the horror from behind a bush and backing away. It hasn't crashed at all, it mostly runs smoothly (on an 580GTX, i7, 8BG RAM system), and my latest character has been alive for over a week. Overly prepared, actually: those were just moments in almost 20 hours of zombie dodging. But thanks to the all-caps, I was prepared for this. There are other issues: zombies will pursue you through walls, fences, and doors, which wrecks an otherwise carefully cultured sense of immersion. I've lost a few characters: at least two have vanished in the dark hours when I wasn't playing the game, one died after a small fall from a short ladder, and I had to leave one to starve to death in a sort of limbo when I fell through a floor and couldn't get out. It's not as typographically terrifying as they made out. PLEASE DO NOT PURCHASE IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAME AND ARE PREPARED TO HANDLE WITH SERIOUS ISSUES AND POSSIBLE INTERRUPTIONS OF GAME FUNCTIONING." At least Bohemia was clear about what they released, with this warning displayed prominently on the store section usually reserved for game info fluff: "WARNING: THIS GAME IS EARLY ACCESS ALPHA. The nature of these games means there's a lot that can go wrong. I've spent lots of time scrounging for survival in all three, but are any worth supporting on Early Access? And just a few days before that, 7 Days To Die landed, bringing with it all the technical panache of an animated gif of a PS1 game.
#SEVEN DAYS TO DIE PC GAMER MOD#
Just a week before it came out, Facepunch (of Garry's Mod fame and fortune) released Rust, a DayZish game focusing on crafting yourself up from a sort of pre-industrial spawnee to a land-camping hermit. DayZ 's arrival on Steam Early Access was the most prominent and most talked about of the people-vs-people-vs-environment releases, but it wasn't the first.
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