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Hardcore Mode Unleashed with Enhanced Gameplay Features

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The 2022-08-26 Rust update introduces the Hardcore game mode and many improvements and bug fixes.

  • New: Added Hardcore game mode.
  • Updated: Many improvements including better line of sight check, mesh LOD, Hapis Island tunnels, zipline blockage fix, UI widget, console scale, gunshot sounds, nailgun noise, and optimized loading.
  • Fixed: Numerous fixes including rail mesh, server crash, fall damage, camera snap, Hapis roads and cliffs, spray duration, monument messages, spectator target, UGC delete, train track parenting, Twitch Rivals trophy, sign collisions, sign deployment, and water flickering.

Features

  • Added Hardcore game mode

Improvements

  • Better line of sight check when deploying sleeping bags and beds
  • Slightly better mesh level of detail and batching performance
  • Hapis Island: The two big road tunnels have been reworked and improved.
  • Trees should no longer block ziplines
  • Use a single pickup UI widget when hitting resources
  • Add global.consolescale convar to change font size in console
  • Distant gunshot sounds are more muffled and reverberant
  • The nailgun attack is quieter
  • Added a new option in the experimental settings to enable Optimized Loading for faster loading on SSDs

Fixed

  • Fixed rail mesh sometimes not being completely smooth
  • Fixed exception at server startup on certain map seeds
  • Fixed edge case where player could receive fall damage after respawn
  • Fixed camera snapping after closing inventory on OSX
  • Hapis Island: Fixed roads surface clipping.
  • Hapis Island: Fixed all the little cliff holes we've identified and had reported.
  • Hapis Island: Various other bugfixes.
  • Fixed sprays lasting too long when sprayed indoors
  • Fixed "Too close to monument..." messages appearing incorrectly when attempting to build
  • Fixed some cases where changing spectator target while first person spectating wouldn't hide the player's body
  • Fixed not being able to delete items in UGC browser
  • Fixed players on train tracks sometimes parenting to an oncoming train instead of taking damage from it
  • Fixed Twitch Rivals trophy clipping through the world when dropped
  • Fixed Sign collisions
  • Fixed Small sign being unable to be deployed on boxes
  • Fixed Water flickering when using TSAA has been resolved

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