Recent reviews by KoreRat

Its great.

Cell shaded voxel-based true successor to the Command & Conquer franchise.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I think they did a great job with this. It looks great, it runs great, it sounds great. There is a small issue with audio clips repeating, but since this is launch day I'm sure that will be fixed in due time.

Decent rail shooter.

I think its supposed to be funny.

Poor controls.

In 2014 I played over a hundred hours of Rust, the version that is now considered 'Legacy'. I enjoyed that game and thought it was well worth my dollar, despite its flaws.

Originally posted by KoreRat:

Posted: Jul 11, 2014 @ 4:54pm

The major downfall is that unless you play Rust everyday, you'll have to start over every time you play. I enjoy playing Rust, but get tired of always having to start everything over when I logged back in after a couple days.

But these days its a different game with some new flaws, but also the same old flaws.

I love not having any control over the look of my character.
I love starting the game naked with only a rock and a torch.
I love the crafting and XP system.

Your first few hours in Rust, which if your lucky are during the daytime, will be a little intense. You'll need to gather some wood from the many trees around. Then you'll need some stone and if you're lucky there are some boulders nearby that you have harvest. Now you have the materials to make a pickax and hatchet to replace your starting rock. But now starts the hard part, food, clothing, shelter. If your lucky there will be a pig nearby that you can kill, but often there will be nothing and you will have to search it out. Once you start finding and killing animals you can start making clothes, remember you're completely naked when you start. You also will want to gather more and more wood and stone so you can build a shelter. You're going to need a place to store things when you go out exploring and looting.

A lot of that sounds like most games of this type, its a pretty standard method of getting your feet wet. For my return to Rust I played up to level 10, to see how this new system feels.

My first life was taken almost as soon as it started by a bear who felt I was too close.

My second life went much better, I lasted almost thirty minutes before dying of starvation.

On my third life I made an attempt to find my last corpse, I don't know what the despawn timer for them is, I ran for maybe five minutes or more to get to the derelict power plant. But failed to find/remember where I was when I died. I did however manage to build a small shelter on a beach, where I left most of my things and went out hunting/exploring when the game crashed.

When I came back the next day I learned that I had been killed and got the pleasure of respawning. But since I knew where my house was I simply ran naked across the map to the beach. When I got there I found half my little house missing and my storage chests empty. Such is the life in these games, so I trudged on. Gather, hunt, build. I built a larger house and learned some new crafting recipes, and even learned how to turn my wood structure into stone.

Once again returning to the game I learned that while I was away I had been robbed of just about everything. The only things left in my house was some charcoal and bone fragments. I tried to see if I could get myself on my feet again, but I hadn't even a Rock for harvest with. And while I had a crafting recipe for one it required a small amount of Stone, and I had no means to gather any... So I swam as far into the ocean as I could before I drown. Respawned and ran back to my house and repeated most the the prior days activities.

When I came back the next day it was the first time that I wasn't starting a step backwards. I had ample food and clean water. I had a lot of the various resources, except for stone. Stone is almost as essential as wood but is far more difficult to gather. You can chop any tree for wood, but you can't get stone from any rock. There are certain rocks that spawn in the world that you get your various minerals from(sulfur, metal, high quality metal, and stone) and that's fine. I should also be able to gather stone from the massive boulders that are all over the place, but no. So as I traversed the wilds looking for the right boulders the game crashed.

And I haven't been back since.

Rust is not a bad game. Its good, its hard, and its unforgiving. And its just like I said two years ago "unless you play Rust everyday, you'll have to start over every time". And that's just not what I'm looking for in a game. I don't have the 4-5 hours of single sitting playtime to get myself into a safe place so I can walk away from the game for a day or two. And I want to actually feel like I'm making progress.

For me there are other games in this genre that I'd rather play, but this might be your thing.


Also I did bludgeon someone to death on a beach with my rock, and then ate them. How many games let you do that?

My computer is a giant pile of bantha poodo and I had to install mods to bring the games quality lower than what Bethesda intended. I have to wait upwards of five minutes to load a save/fast travel to places sometimes.

None of that will stop me from playing this game.

Its worth all the hassles and headaches.

You know what kind of game this is, there are a plenty of them to choose from. This one is still EA, and as such there are bug, cheaters, exploits, an annoying amount of crates, and a-hole players. Most of that will be fixed as things progress, and yes there have been plenty of improvements over the months.

I was and still am on the fence about splitting the game into two, but whats done is done.

Buy this if you want a nice foundation of a survival game and want to enjoy the ride.

Otherwise just wait until its a full release.

Shootin, stabbin, stranglin Nazis.

I backed this game on Kickstarter because I liked everything about it. Fun throw-back graphics, mayhem, destruction, and buses. What I didn't expect was the sheer difficultly.

The first level has you find and destroy 18 Tombs while avoiding bumpers and the edges of the map. Oh, and your speed increases every couple seconds.. The best I have done is 16, out of an unknown number of attempts during an hour of gameplay.

There are many people out there that want a hard game, I'm just not one of them, but you might be.

If you want to play the "Dark Souls of Bus Games" then buy this and enjoy. If you're like me and prefer to play a more casual game you might want to take a pass on this.

I've had little to no issues with my Steam Controller used with my Steam Link streaming from my lower end computer.

System Specs:
AMD Radeon HD 6700
AMD Athlon II X2 3.0GHz
8GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
300GB WD & 1TB WD