Alistair_Mc

Please can you send me your Steam user/profile name?

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You're all banned!

..can we have our skulls back?

kvetchingkrist - That's incorrect, her Pookie pants and hoodie are planned to be generic drops.

Fantastic work!

We have plans to add them or something similar in the near future.

I read the subreddit least twice a day ;)

Nope - it was pulled due to quality concerns.

Still planned! - just not a priority currently.

Over the years we've supported many Youtubers and Streamers with their own skins and paid out tens of thousands, far as I'm aware more than any other game developer.

We've done two prior Twitch drop campaign to help support community events and streamers.

Working with some of the top streamers who enjoy playing Rust is a fantastic opportunity to reach out to new players and market Rust to a broader audience. Long term hopefully this benefits everyone.

We've already reached out to our current content creators and told them to hook up with one of the community skinners and submit a skin which we'll review and add to the game long as they're at a high enough standard.

It was a great suggested idea - You'll be seeing this change in Jan 7th update.

https://files.facepunch.com/Alistair/12/30/6N5281/InhDG7nlgO.mp4

Thanks for all the comments and feedback - we'll be considering them carefully for the January patch.

We released an optional server update yesterday which greatly reduced their splash damage against construction.

We currently have no intention to resell the original xmas lights.

There could change in future so don't take that as we'll never resell them.

Happy Holidays!

In November we saw over one million unique accounts.

Third-party applications to combat recoil are regularly detected, EAC bans hundreds of users weekly - this is not an area we're ignoring.

No problem - it's not always an easy subject to address.

would the Rust+ verification idea work?

Possibly - it's something we'd need to discuss internally and weigh up the pros and cons.

The distance of the projectile as seen in the combatlog can be manipulated via the client and thus unreliable data compared to the data seen by the server. Unreliable data cannot be trusted to a high degree but can be used to build up a larger dataset which takes time.

Anticheat is a hugely complex issue, and it's a topic we have to be vague discussing deliberately.

Recently we've seen more cheats become active, which happens more often during this time of the year with the growing player base and holiday period. Unfortunately, EAC did fall behind the curve as of late, I have voiced my concerns to them last week and this week. Monday and today the majority of cheats were hit with ban waves and efforts against the others continue.

Over the last 12 months, systems have been put into place to collect and analyze player data to combat aggressive cheat play styles to prevent an impact on the larger server population, and these are often known as the three-day temporary bans. There are many plans to expand on this data collecting to make it more accurate and quicker.

Reports are fed into this system, so I encourage anyone who believes they encounter a cheater to report. Players cannot be temporary banned based on reports alon...