If you find Rust to be a little too unrelenting, give this a shot
If you’re new toRustor it’s been too long, you might want to start slow with a Softcore server. It’s an official new way to play that’s more “casual”-oriented – but that doesn’t mean it’s completely chill.
As outlined by Facepunch Studios’ Maurino Berry, there arefour main differencesin Softcore mode, at least to start. The team expects to “continue to iterate and improve on it moving forward.”
To be clear, this offshoot isn’t taking away from the default hardcoreRustexperience – vanilla servers will still be in the “majority.” Initially, at launch, there will be 10 servers running Softcore mode.
The new update also includes a marketplace with delivery drones to foster more trading. Eat it, Bezos!
Rustwas a bewildering and hostile survival experience when I first played it years ago, and I mostly mean that as a compliment. But as curious as I’ve been to revisit my deadly old stomping grounds as the game continues to grow, there’s a mental barrier – I’m not always in the mood toface the odds.
I can’t say this new mode sounds pleasant, exactly, but I’m intrigued. I’ll see how it adapts. With over 200,000 concurrentRustplayers, there’s no shortage of people to put Softcore through its paces.
“Softcore is something we’ve wanted to do for years,”saidproducer Alistair McFarlane. “We’ll be tweaking and updating based on player feedback.We know this isn’t for everyone, it’s an experiment! – let’s see where this goes and progresses over the next few months. EVERYTHING is subject to change.”
