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[PA Comic] Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - Fleshtown
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Killing the other players too.
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As long as we're asking Rust questions we're not sure we want answers to.
I haven't played the game, but I'm pretty sure everyone starts nude. Only, other players will appear to have pants unless you enter the console command Tycho mentioned yesterday. I kind of agree with him that you should enter that command. I'd hate to waste my time murdering a guy only to find out his pants were a lie.
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I have beat Rygar on the NES and many of you have not.
Or use their body parts?
I'm imagining Gabe's house to be richly furnished with scalps.
For people who haven't played the game, what's great about this is that when you build a home and place a door on it, you are the only one who can open that door, from inside or out. So if you can manage to lure someone back into your home and close the door behind them, they are essentially trapped in your home like a prisoner. If the door is made of wood and they have a hatchet or pickaxe, they might be able to hack their way out after about 10 minutes of chopping away at it. If you made the door out of metal though, the only ways they can get out are to either suicide or blow the door/wall with C4. If you can get someone in there who has spent a reasonable time gathering resources and crafting stuff and doesn't want to lose it all, but hasn't found any C4 yet, then neither of those are really options for them, so they are stuck in your house for good until they starve to death.
What this leads to is people acting out really weird role plays of trapping people inside and torturing them slowly, Buffalo Bill style, or keeping them as pets or any other number of creepy fantasies. By simply killing them, Gabe is actually probably doing them a favor, but I like to imagine the Rust version of Gabe has a bit of fun with them before that.
Of course, not everyone is dumb enough to be lured in like that, but where it gets really interesting is when you do things like build a house around someone else's house, so they can never get out (or back in, depending on where their sleeping bag is placed). The freedom you're allowed on where and how to build structures leads to some absolutely crazy stuff that happens in this game, and it is glorious.
I hope they'll continue the trend on Friday and just officially make this Rust week.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
The resource gathering itself is both boring and random, and if that's all there was to it it would not make for a fun game. The three main things you have to gather/hunt are wood, rocks, and food, all of which are randomly scattered throughout the map. I can get into the details of how these mechanics work, but I doubt too many people care about that here.
That said, what does make resource gathering more interesting is the fact that you're doing it in competition with all of these other players, and there are a limited number of resources on any given map. If you come across a rock and no one else is around, you chip away at it and gather stones and ore, all the time looking around hoping no one else will club you while you're distracted. Or you can find a spot where there are several resources available, go hide in the cliffs nearby and wait for someone else to come along and begin gathering them, and then pop them with an arrow and take everything they have already gathered.
This means that every time you go out to gather more resources, it becomes a heart-pounding race to see how much you can gather before coming across someone else who wants to murder you. You see another rock in the distance. Do you make a run for that rock, or cut your losses and high tail it back to your shelter? Someone else makes it there first, but he didn't see you skulking about. Perhaps you try to befriend him and share resources, or maybe take a chance at killing him, knowing he could just as easily kill you first.
In short, the act of gathering resources itself is boring. What makes it fun is all of the social interaction that goes along with it. And when I say "fun", I mean that you will rage hard in this game the first time you collect 500 wood only to have some new spawn hit you over the head with a rock and steal everything from you.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
edit: Tried it out-- not as funny as hoped:
As a matter of fact, yes, and this is often exactly what happens. There is actually a lot of incentive for people to work together and build up a group, because that then makes it much easier to gather resources and raid others. Many servers have become essentially wars between different factions trying to control parts of the map, each with their own huge base they've built up.
The hard part is finding people you trust enough to join up with. There are plenty of those who will claim to be friendly, only to lure you into a sense of complacency so they can kill you and take all of your stuff. Much like Gabe in today's comic.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Don't sell yourself short. This is actually pretty awesome. In this context, Gabe takes his pants off after he lures him home and goes for the kill. Why's he doing that?
Well, even the sort of person who would follow a half naked man back to his house on the promise of chicken would think twice if that person's pants were covered in brains.
I skimmed this topic and it didn't look like anyone answered. Currently yes, all characters are male. Eventually there will be an option to be female. All characters start out nude, and with genitals that you can clearly see. Like, if you walk up to another nude character you can clearly see man-parts. The pants are an item you have to craft. I believe there is some kind of censorship option to not see other players genitals.
I look forward to being able to see uncensored ladyparts.
Also, teeming up is good but so is killing random people. I'll kill anyone I see near my base when I play because I don't want it to get raided (which it always is unless you play with a big group of people or play long enough and get a really well developed base that cannot be easily raided).
They can murder too. Equal chopportunity
"Don't go, it's a trap!"
Easily solved though, just make everyone's default starting model have visually distinct animal skins, that way you know someone has nothing worth murdering them over.
Unless murder is your thing.
Or you're Gabe.
Also a video:
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yeahhhhhhh....
still disturbs me when it's men tbh
these comics are inducing a slight chuckle, but it's the kind of laugh you give while your eyes are screaming
Judging by the latest podcast, it's to make way for the massive erection that he gets while brutally murdering another human being.
I haven't played the game yet.
After reading through all these posts that apparently make this game some sort of murderhouse simulator, I read this post and could swear I heard "Wild Horses" playing in the background.
actually it's "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazarus that Buffalo Bill danced to while tucking.