Rust July Update bringsHapis Island Expansion & Many QoL Adjustments

The survival MMO Rust has received a new update on July 7, 2022. This update further improves the "Combat Balance", brings many Quality of Life improvements and expands the map Hapis Island with 3 new areas. Also, the loading times have been improved, now you should be able to connect to a server faster.

What it's about:  The developer Facepunch has announced the changes for the July update, special focus is probably mainly on the further changes of weapons and balancing of combat situations. Additionally there are many QoL improvements for players and server admins.

The weapon and combat adjustments in the Rust July Update

First the firing time of the F1 Grenade has been adjusted, by reducing it by 0.5 seconds to now 2.5 seconds firing time it should no longer be as easy to dodge the grenade, also the M39 has been heavily modified to feel like a better variant of the SAR, the rate of fire has been increased and the recoil changed. Also, the use of shotgun slugs is supposed to work better now, as they don't lose as much damage when firing at further range, thus they are supposed to be deadly at medium range as well. Additionally, the following points have been adjusted:

• The option to hide blood has been improved
• An option to turn off visual feedback on damage has been added
• The blood and blur effects have been reduced
• M249 is now more aggressive (probably more damage?)
• HMLMG gets more recoil
• HMLMG loses durability faster
• HMLMG costs more to produce
• Silencers no longer give a bonus to accuracy
• Using scopes increases recoil

The Quality of Life improvements Rust, July update

For the player, besides the reduced loading time to connect to servers, many other QoL improvements have been added. For example, you now have a crosshair when using spray cans, you can mute players in the contacts menu and throw photos into mailboxes. Also, the idle animation in the inventory has been improved and when using the jackhammer you always hit the hotspot even without tap-firing. Items like the mailbox, middle battery, windmill, and BBQ now point towards the player when building.

For server owners, there is now an area in the admin panel where you can view all player-created content such as signs, cassettes, pumpkins, neon signs, and "pattern boomers" at a glance and delete them if necessary. In addition, this panel can also be used to filter for the works of certain players, in case this player has already attracted negative attention before. There is also an improved version of the reporting tool that makes it easier to report problematic works of other players. The use of the "Steam Chat Filter" has also been added to censor insults and other problematic terms in chat. Also, it is now possible to activate and deactivate Harmony mods via runtime, thus not always having to restart the server.

Camera settings for photographers

New commands have been added for the Debug Camera, allowing it to be set up almost like a real camera. By using the following commands, you can set focal length and sensor, for example.

• client.camphysical (1/0) - enables or disables the new "physical" settings
• client.camphysicalsensortypes - Prints camera sensor types with corresponding number
• client.camphysicalsensor - Select the desired sensor
• client.camphysicalfocallength - Sets the desired focal length (in mm)
• client.showcaminfo (1/0) - Enables or disables the camera info overlay

New settings for photographers in Rust!

Hapis news: On the map Hapis Island 3 new areas were added, two of them in the desert and another one in the Arctic. Also, veins of ore, berry bushes and other small bugs were adjusted. For the creative map designers, more assets have been added to make designing a map easier. The assets are simple cubes with different surfaces such as stone, wood or even metal and can be enlarged in all directions to insert walls or floors more easily.

New part of the Hapis Island Map.

All Patchnotes of the july update of Rust

Improvements

• Improved M39 DPS and recoil
• Lowered F1 grenade fuse time to 2.5s (was 3.0s)
• Shotgun slugs have reduced damage falloff
• Achievement todo list is now disabled if game tips are turned off in the game options
• Added a crosshair while free spraying with a Spray Can
• Increased the default number of sprays per player (25 -> 40)
• Can now Mute and Report players from the Contacts screen
• Z/C/Y keys no longer control zoom when in free camera (replaced with debugcamera_zoomin and debugcamera_zoomout binds)
• Added debugcamera_raise and debugcamera_lower binds instead of hardcoding to Q/E
• Added physical camera convars for the debug camera
• Added camera info overlay command for the debug camera
• Kayak now faces away from the player deploying by default
• Mailbox, BBQ, Medium Battery and Windmill now face toward the player by default
• (CUI) Add support for vertical overflow on Text components
• Updated player inventory idle animation
• Added interaction sounds for small loot containers (food, medical, tech, ammunition, etc)
• Updated generic loot crates with existing interaction sounds
• Hapis Island: Added 3 new monuments
• Jackhammer will hit hotspot every time without tap firing
• Torch despawns after 30 seconds
• Dropped backpacks will despawn after 30 seconds for rocks + torches
• Streamer mode will hide map name in server browser
• Can insert photos into mailbox
• `benchmark_demo {demo}` command to run the benchmark on different demos
• Can connect 'domain.com' without a port on the end
• Servers will no longer show the name of the custom map, only "Custom Map" if they are running one
• Optimized bulk loading assets from bundles
• Improved hide blood option
• Added hurt flash disable option
• m249 is slightly more aggressive
• HMLMG recoil is more aggressive
• Lowered HMLMG durability
• Increased HMLMG crafting cost
• Using scopes on weapons now increases their recoil
• Reduced blur/blood effects
• Accuracy bonus removed from the silencer

Bugfixes

• Fixed first shot while ADSing sometimes playing the non-ADS fire animation
• Fixed missing deploy sound for combat knife
• Fixed missing sounds for smoke grenades and supply signals
• Fixed missing crosshairs and camera movement while first person spectating
• Fixed smoke grenade effects not working correctly with first person spectating
• Fixed horses not properly moving with elevators
• Fixed error with a particular configuration of items when making Low Grade at a Mixing Table
• Fixed missing localization on progress bar when Hold to dismount is enabled
• Fixed some deployable entities changing rotation every time they are selected on the belt
• (CUI) Fixed some skin id's not loading correctly (PR#37)
• Fixed some missing sfx on the Spray Can
• Fixed an exploit when changing water quality
• Fixed flashlights & laser needing to be turned on every time you equip them
• Fixed exploit to steal attachments out of shop fronts
• Fixed nodes & animals taking extra hits
• Hapis Island: Fixed berries not spawning
• Hapis Island: Fixed roadside spawns being overly scarce
• Hapis Island: Fixed numerous other reported issues.
• Fixed flashlights & laser needing to be turned on every time you equip them
• Fixed exploit to steal attachments out of shop fronts
• Fixed nodes & animals taking extra hits
• Fixed animal headshots not playing hitmarker
• Fixed exploit to let you keep last item in softcore
• Fixed ability to shoot through armored window collider
• Fixed exploit to keep shopfront standing when breaking wall frame
• Fixed debris not created for walls on triangle foundations
• Fixed research tables getting stuck researching