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Multiplayer survival sport Rust continues to get larger and deadlier with every passing patch. This month’s replace, referred to as Highway Renegades, provides new automobiles like motorbikes and bicycles, a touring vendor in an armored truck, and…
Oh, no. Oh, no no no. The replace additionally provides handcuffs.
Rust gamers can take one another prisoner now. Excuse me, sorry, I am simply going to have a vivid and traumatic flashback to taking part in DayZ in 2014.
There I used to be, having simply spawned on the seashore with barely sufficient time to even go searching, when three closely geared gamers instantly confirmed up and surrounded me. Spawn tenting was nothing new in DayZ, and I did not significantly care if they simply shot me as a result of I may respawn with out dropping something, however they’d greater than that in thoughts. They advised me to place my palms up, then had me kneel down. They handcuffed me—neither the primary or final time that might occur to me in DayZ—after which certainly one of them used a blood assortment package on me. The second my blood was drawn, they executed me with a single shot to the again of the pinnacle. It was chilly, all of the extra so as a result of it was so effectively achieved.
Not that Rust is not completely brutal, too, and I am not saying handcuffs aren’t a logical addition to the multiplayer murderbox. It is simply that being handcuffed and on the whims of different gamers can fairly rapidly progress to a stage of ugly that goes past simply getting overwhelmed or shot to demise.
If that wasn’t sufficient, there’s additionally a prisoner hood you possibly can placed on a handcuffed participant to not solely limit their actions however their imaginative and prescient, because it’ll block all the pieces however a small sliver on the backside of their display. What are you able to do with somebody who’s handcuffed and hooded? Abduct them, in fact! Load them onto one of many new bicycles or bikes that come within the replace—there is a three-wheeled bicycle variant that has a seat you possibly can drive a prisoner into, and the bike has a sidecar. Being hooded stops gamers from taking a look at their map so they will not know even the place you take them. Scary!
Prisoners will not be fully helpless, although, as a result of there is a “minigame” that permits them to ultimately break away. It is not a lot of a sport, actually: it seems to be such as you simply maintain down the assault button whereas a meter fills, and when it does, {the handcuffs} break. But when somebody pushes or injures the handcuffed participant, it’s going to reset their escape progress. So when you’re handcuffed, be ready to be shoved round loads, too.
At the least the replace provides somebody new to Rust who will not attempt to cuff and abduct you: a touring vendor. In a truck that broadcasts music just like the ice cream man (however has armor plating and laser-guided turrets mounted on the roof) this vendor will seem on roads promoting sources and weapons, driving round for half-hour at a time, and stopping when you run over to his truck to purchase one thing.
As at all times, ShadowFrax has an ideal breakdown of Rust’s July replace and there is much more info on the Rust devblog.
