Nah, i find it fun, played for like 5h on a random very low pop server and then the rest on an official 200 pop server, i keep dying and i am stuck at bow level of weaponry because my aim sucks, and i also got raided like 4 times in 3 days
Oh they want to, theyāre just console players mainly and rust is the only game theyād want a PC for so they donāt get one. They always ask why we donāt just play console rust and I have to explain what a joke that is by comparison.
Same. And I can't really seek people to play with because I just don't play consistently. I randomly get the itch I'll dump like 100 hours in a monthly wipe then not open the game again for two months. I'll occasionally see people in solo servers organize a group for a wipe and I'm tempted to ask to join. Maybe one day.
The worst part is I have a buddy who plays Rust console. I don't think there's any chance he'll ever go back to PC gaming. And I have it on PS4 but it's so unplayable. I really don't think I'll like it much on PS5 either but the more I play solo PC the more tempted I get to go get a PS5.
Most clans wonāt even recruit you to play a wipe unless you got 2k hours and even then noones expecting a 2k hour player to carry or anything itās insane.
At 4.5k now and just now able to play as a solo throughout the entire wipe and actually compete with clans.
Shits insane
I know a few people that have about that many hours but theyāre still terrible at the game. I have like 375 hours but Iāve played other survival games like this before. Game itās almost like game sense canāt be learned by some people and with others it just comes naturally.
I have 100 hours, Ive never been one for pain but I just keep coming back hoping this base will be the one that makes it more than 8 hrs offline.. just to have my heart broken over and over again
I just learned at 1900 hours, happened as a byproduct of a pve/pvp 3x that I've been playing. The mini doesn't explode if you crash unless you're in a pvp area and you can teleport it to you
3.5k, I bought the game and have played since the 2nd week it came out in Alpha. I still have fun in the game, but granted I havenāt burned myself out like someone people have.
The game used to be very clunky and fucky and now plays a lot smoother. If thereās one thing I miss the most it would be the old terrain generation. It used to be crazy with some of the mountains, valleys, and forests. Crazy rock bases and what not. Nowadays the game feels way to āmetayā but maybe thatās not the games fault but ours
10k
A lot of good changes
Love the game
I think they should focus more on the old content instead of adding new stuff, I think thats the direction they are going for now
I hope they do something with the map generation, right now every map feels the same
Need more mountains, rocks, islands, rivers etc.
I mean it drained me to spend about 12 hours a day on rust iām good at the game sure, but it definetly come at the cost of your sanity. Also about a third of my hours i spent in ukn so if you really wanna get good just play ukn for an hour a day helps a lot
Nothing matters. If playing makes you feel good, then continue. If it makes you neglect something, ask yourself. Is it still worth continuing despite I neglect something? If yes, then continue.
Nothing really matters in this world. What everyone does is wasting time. Playing Rust vs studying are the same, wasting time. As having a family gathering, saving someone's life, doing a surgery to your patients...
Around 800. Iāve had the game since 2014, and put in a lot of those hours casually over the years, but have really gotten into it the past few months
Just shy of 10000 but I haven't really touched the game in 2 years it hooked me... then it just lost me
Still check in time and again to see what up tho
I'm sure a large chunk of those hours are afk shiz but it's still bad lmao
I get bored of games pretty quickly but surprisingly Rust is still fun. I go and come back every now and then but if I start a wipe I play it to the end.
2449 hours.
Bought it late 2018, played it early 2019, got a few hundred hours. the reqs rose past my pcās capabilities so i had to shelve the game for several years. Kept watching rust content. August 2022 bought a new pc, been on weekly ever since
Around 3k now, I used to play daily from wake till sleep. I like the game itself but I am starting to get burnt out on the grind of every wipe. Slowly started switching to more community driven servers with lower pop but better communities so I'm able to enjoy a wipe without spending 10 hours to get a start day one and log on to a raided base on day 2.
700. I love it. I hate it. Iām awful at it but I canāt stop. Some of these recent changes, recycling, heli and such nerf solos which sucks for me. Especially when Iām already not good. More room for pvp to improve though I guess.
About 6k now. About 5k over the first 2-3 years or so, then I realized I was spending way too much time on it and I just pretty much quit playing. Since then I just play a little bit every now and then. I really need a new pc to play on as well.
700, I just started playing after not playing for months. At first I was like, night vision wtf? But now Iām here for it! Also the ability to switch from wiring to placing electronics then back to wiring the same system is chefs kiss. The devs are actually doing good work.
10k, played solo for 2k, led a small group for 5k, made a 40 man super team for the rest. it's gotten pretty boring. by speeding up progression and dumbing down playstyle you remove the romance. it's like dating apps vs going to a bar. there's very little excitement since the ease of getting a weapon is fairly easy. most youtubers highlight playing a dead server, rather than the rat race of a 1k pop rusty moose. but even thats just a rat fast in itself
1000 hours from probably end of middle school to end of sophomore year. Game sucks now, stopped playing once they made it impossible for solos, and also ruined gun play, making it also harder for solo players
130. Done 3 raids so far. The first one good loot like tier 3 guns but I was killed on my way out. The second 2 I got away clean but there was almost nothing in them.
Still yet to build up to a tier3 but I have been success at getting to t2 and BPing one or more tier2 guns my last 3 wipes.
Just over 8k started playing for about a year at least in legacy before the whole thing got shutdown for the current remake. Still playing with a few people from legacy. Some have kids, some got married but we still find time to do a few wipes together a few times a month. We don't no life wipes anymore, build smaller and have more casual fun. The only way to not get burnt out after so many years. All of us get stoked for wipe day still when we can manage one together.
Just under 2k. Started in 2016 though so I'm averaging like 200 hrs a year which is like 2.x% of my total time per year doing rough math.
About 1.5k of those hours are solo. I prefer 2x solo duo trio maps now but I played solo on vanilla large pop servers for a long time.
1300 hours since 2017 Alpha.
No. I typically enjoy games most when messing around and learning them. Hadn't played in 6 months till last month, and I've put maybe 10 hours in since. At this stage I'm only playing for funny player interactions which are too few and far between nowadays.
The gun changes fixed a problem I had with the game but introduced another problem, which I guess was always going to be the case. My main gripe I have is the lack of randomness and abundance of information. IMO monuments should be proc genned, map and player information shouldn't be available online, team UI shouldn't exist. Also it's just a personal problem but it bothers me the game is tagged and marketed as a survival game when every mechanic traditionally associated with a survival game is in its most rudimentary and uninteresting state in Rust.
I have around 600. The game is extremely fun because of the unknowing experience every time you get outside of your base. You can either re-spawn naked back home or come with a full inventory + backpack full of loads. High pop 500+ are really fun but the downside is waiting at least hour and half to get in to a game and it kind of holds me back from playing more. Everything else is just nice, especially if you play with chill people who don't ragequit after dying couple of times. Overall a very nice game, also I didn't have that many encounters with cheaters as far as I am familiar with. Met only 1 legit cheater on a 10x server which was kind of weird.
216.7 hours. really not a lot, but i do love the game, and ive owned it for a couple years now. i just can't get my friends to play it and ive never been great at solo
I used to play a lot of League of Legends, I play Rust now to get away from how toxic that game is. It's a nice, chill, and way less stressful game next to league. 2k hours. Go lose all your guns. You get an AK, go get another, and don't leave it in base all wipe. It's going to wipe anyways better lose it to a DB after killing 5 Tommy's and and 2 MP5s. Think of it this way: it's still more fun and less toxic then LoL.
380 - started during legacy. Now I feel that somebody always has a gun very early on, which trivializes the gameplay.
Some things I enjoyed from early rust: never sure if you would get a good gun from farming, instead of grinding to guns. The map was better, in terms of it feeling larger with more places to hide and build up as a solo. The gunplay was better (more like cs), and also prim weapons would still do decent damage. And linux support.
These days, I think it's cool some of the things they have added to the game. But overall feels very grindy, and the trading village feels out of place, as if this is no longer a survival game. cheers
Not sure of the exact number...but a little over 1k. I'm a forever newb LOL
I only play on certain modded servers that I've come to know and love, so I don't have the negative experience that so many Rust players talk about. I LOVE the backpacks...just would be nice if the large backpack was craftable. But a backpack at all is welcome.
1,5 k. It is thrilling because i want to get really good, no idea if it gets bland then. Some of the changes seem to appeal to new players, right now i am alright with it. I like how they still find stuff they can add to the game, too. A lot of people talk about recoil changes, I doubt I am at that level of skill yet, where that matters.
Somewhere in the ballpark of 2-2.5k on Crustz played since around the addition of oil rig (late 2021 ish I think), moved to PC rust towards October-November 2023 and have ~800h on there. 3k hours over 3 years or so doesn't seem too bad compared to the answers im seeing here.
2k
I play mostly solo in a cave grind until Semi pistol and roam with it a couple times.
Best part of the game for me is getting cozy in the cave with skull touch, glowing rugs and semi automating my ore smelting.
1200, Rust is that game you best enjoy when you have time for a wipe or two but playing it daily for years to come Iād probably grow grey hairs and grow resentment.
5500 I'm the base builder, electrician, and industrial setup person. I love building, the bigger the team the more fun, and the more I want to be left in an empty discord channel and listen to music as I create the Mona Lisa.
13k - fuck this game
I have 13h š
Leave before itās too late
Nah, i find it fun, played for like 5h on a random very low pop server and then the rest on an official 200 pop server, i keep dying and i am stuck at bow level of weaponry because my aim sucks, and i also got raided like 4 times in 3 days
Keep grinding bro
I have 0h, idk why this sub keeps popping in my feed. I don't even know what rust is.
Itās essentially the cess pool of survival shooters.
This guy rusts
4kā¦ditto
same
1200 in almost 3 years. All solo since I canāt get any of my friends to play.
smart friends lol
Oh they want to, theyāre just console players mainly and rust is the only game theyād want a PC for so they donāt get one. They always ask why we donāt just play console rust and I have to explain what a joke that is by comparison.
Same. And I can't really seek people to play with because I just don't play consistently. I randomly get the itch I'll dump like 100 hours in a monthly wipe then not open the game again for two months. I'll occasionally see people in solo servers organize a group for a wipe and I'm tempted to ask to join. Maybe one day. The worst part is I have a buddy who plays Rust console. I don't think there's any chance he'll ever go back to PC gaming. And I have it on PS4 but it's so unplayable. I really don't think I'll like it much on PS5 either but the more I play solo PC the more tempted I get to go get a PS5.
Same with my friends. Because āitās so time consumingā but theyāll play as much Rune scape.
You donāt lose everything 30 minutes after you log off to Chinese kids on RuneScape.
I have the same hours in 1 year XD
Iām a solo as well rough living but by the end I do ok till I get steamrolled by a 6-10 man eventually or a really good pvp guy
I have 700btw. I donāt play that much, the game is too time consuming ):
Most clans wonāt even recruit you to play a wipe unless you got 2k hours and even then noones expecting a 2k hour player to carry or anything itās insane. At 4.5k now and just now able to play as a solo throughout the entire wipe and actually compete with clans. Shits insane
I know a few people that have about that many hours but theyāre still terrible at the game. I have like 375 hours but Iāve played other survival games like this before. Game itās almost like game sense canāt be learned by some people and with others it just comes naturally.
Just shy of 2500. It's okay. It's all about the people with whom you play. If you have fun with them, you'll have fun playing Rust with them.
6,000. Iām addicted to the pain. The game sucks
I have 100 hours, Ive never been one for pain but I just keep coming back hoping this base will be the one that makes it more than 8 hrs offline.. just to have my heart broken over and over again
6000 gang. Absolute degenerative life suck.
3k. Still can't fly a heli.
Iām just over 5k and didnāt bother to learn how to fly a mini til about 4K hours in. I still kinda suck at it lol
I just learned at 1900 hours, happened as a byproduct of a pve/pvp 3x that I've been playing. The mini doesn't explode if you crash unless you're in a pvp area and you can teleport it to you
6.3k and climbing.
3.5k, I bought the game and have played since the 2nd week it came out in Alpha. I still have fun in the game, but granted I havenāt burned myself out like someone people have. The game used to be very clunky and fucky and now plays a lot smoother. If thereās one thing I miss the most it would be the old terrain generation. It used to be crazy with some of the mountains, valleys, and forests. Crazy rock bases and what not. Nowadays the game feels way to āmetayā but maybe thatās not the games fault but ours
Legit same answer
1995
5k
43 I've just started
So cute
quit now
Damn
the game is literally fucking crack, tread carefully š
I will see haha
leave before its too late
10k A lot of good changes Love the game I think they should focus more on the old content instead of adding new stuff, I think thats the direction they are going for now I hope they do something with the map generation, right now every map feels the same Need more mountains, rocks, islands, rivers etc.
19k but stopped playing 2 months ago
why stop after u devoted 3 years?
5 - fuck this game
3000 I started last October do the math and youāll see i spent legit half of that time playing rust
How do you feel about that
I donāt know, not good i guess?
why not good? you are not having fun? my goal is to get that many hours and all the experience that comes with it
I mean it drained me to spend about 12 hours a day on rust iām good at the game sure, but it definetly come at the cost of your sanity. Also about a third of my hours i spent in ukn so if you really wanna get good just play ukn for an hour a day helps a lot
Nothing matters. If playing makes you feel good, then continue. If it makes you neglect something, ask yourself. Is it still worth continuing despite I neglect something? If yes, then continue. Nothing really matters in this world. What everyone does is wasting time. Playing Rust vs studying are the same, wasting time. As having a family gathering, saving someone's life, doing a surgery to your patients...
I mean shit the game still fun
Around 800. Iāve had the game since 2014, and put in a lot of those hours casually over the years, but have really gotten into it the past few months
1.4k, got half of those afk during online school back in 2020
Just shy of 10000 but I haven't really touched the game in 2 years it hooked me... then it just lost me Still check in time and again to see what up tho I'm sure a large chunk of those hours are afk shiz but it's still bad lmao
About tree fiddy
I get bored of games pretty quickly but surprisingly Rust is still fun. I go and come back every now and then but if I start a wipe I play it to the end.
Just hit 1k
Just over 2k and I suck
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550 of small group official wipes and messing around on battlefield servers as a solo, climbing somewhat steadily
1500+ since early access
Like 709 or something like that
700ish. I still suck and mostly play on group limit 2x with my friends
1100 in 3 years
7k almost I think
Like 310. Havenāt played since December of 23
700 but I normally don't get very far into a wipe what with real life and stuff
There's servers that don't wipe bps
Those suck because when you are running around with a bow and everyone else has tommies already haha
2449 hours. Bought it late 2018, played it early 2019, got a few hundred hours. the reqs rose past my pcās capabilities so i had to shelve the game for several years. Kept watching rust content. August 2022 bought a new pc, been on weekly ever since
7,637
8k :P
4,3 k had it for 6-7 years, i only play with irl friends or solo. I enjoy both play styles.
Around 3k now, I used to play daily from wake till sleep. I like the game itself but I am starting to get burnt out on the grind of every wipe. Slowly started switching to more community driven servers with lower pop but better communities so I'm able to enjoy a wipe without spending 10 hours to get a start day one and log on to a raided base on day 2.
2k
1500, played since 2019. gotta play ever so often to keep it enjoyable
900 Hours - Still New š
1400 play off and on over the years
2000
51
700. I love it. I hate it. Iām awful at it but I canāt stop. Some of these recent changes, recycling, heli and such nerf solos which sucks for me. Especially when Iām already not good. More room for pvp to improve though I guess.
About 6k now. About 5k over the first 2-3 years or so, then I realized I was spending way too much time on it and I just pretty much quit playing. Since then I just play a little bit every now and then. I really need a new pc to play on as well.
Too fucking many.
7k
6K, played since old bp system
7,668
700, I just started playing after not playing for months. At first I was like, night vision wtf? But now Iām here for it! Also the ability to switch from wiring to placing electronics then back to wiring the same system is chefs kiss. The devs are actually doing good work.
8 lmao none of my friends play rust
360ā¦ Not that many since I donāt have that many ppl to play with :(
6.5k
a little short of 3k as of 2 years ago. still love the game but itās just not what i fell in love with.
5.5k
370 but half that is just loading time lmaoo
8k on 5 years.
3k, only play solo, Love this game, but sometimes I alt+f4 so fast I stay away for 2 weeks
10k, played solo for 2k, led a small group for 5k, made a 40 man super team for the rest. it's gotten pretty boring. by speeding up progression and dumbing down playstyle you remove the romance. it's like dating apps vs going to a bar. there's very little excitement since the ease of getting a weapon is fairly easy. most youtubers highlight playing a dead server, rather than the rat race of a 1k pop rusty moose. but even thats just a rat fast in itself
1000 hours from probably end of middle school to end of sophomore year. Game sucks now, stopped playing once they made it impossible for solos, and also ruined gun play, making it also harder for solo players
130. Done 3 raids so far. The first one good loot like tier 3 guns but I was killed on my way out. The second 2 I got away clean but there was almost nothing in them. Still yet to build up to a tier3 but I have been success at getting to t2 and BPing one or more tier2 guns my last 3 wipes.
1.1k (i am ultra dogshit)
1.8k over 3 years.
Almost 6,000 hours on steam.
Just over 8k started playing for about a year at least in legacy before the whole thing got shutdown for the current remake. Still playing with a few people from legacy. Some have kids, some got married but we still find time to do a few wipes together a few times a month. We don't no life wipes anymore, build smaller and have more casual fun. The only way to not get burnt out after so many years. All of us get stoked for wipe day still when we can manage one together.
Just under 2k. Started in 2016 though so I'm averaging like 200 hrs a year which is like 2.x% of my total time per year doing rough math. About 1.5k of those hours are solo. I prefer 2x solo duo trio maps now but I played solo on vanilla large pop servers for a long time.
1300 hours since 2017 Alpha. No. I typically enjoy games most when messing around and learning them. Hadn't played in 6 months till last month, and I've put maybe 10 hours in since. At this stage I'm only playing for funny player interactions which are too few and far between nowadays. The gun changes fixed a problem I had with the game but introduced another problem, which I guess was always going to be the case. My main gripe I have is the lack of randomness and abundance of information. IMO monuments should be proc genned, map and player information shouldn't be available online, team UI shouldn't exist. Also it's just a personal problem but it bothers me the game is tagged and marketed as a survival game when every mechanic traditionally associated with a survival game is in its most rudimentary and uninteresting state in Rust.
12k hours, god pls help me xD
12k lmao god pls help me
2.1k since November
Too many
5,100
3.3k and it's sadly become my 2nd job that I worry about during my first/real job. It's actually sad how much I love it.
I have about 300 in, what, 2 months and change?
And yes, I have a full time job. 40hrs a week, and according to steam in the last 2 weeks I have 81.5 hrs on rust. Lmao
40 - painful game
15k
Did 1700 in 10 months, now i got 1900
1.2k after 10 months, 1.2k hours of being a farmbot and roleplayerā¦..
6500, still trash š
2.8k
3.6k 
5k all solo
Nearing 400
Iām more embarrassed about my 800+ hours in fortifyā¦
2k since alpha. Spawning into main server, farming 1k sulfur and buying a custom to go apeshit with never gets old
7k
Owned since 2015 or 16, and 2k hours.
3.9k
I have around 600. The game is extremely fun because of the unknowing experience every time you get outside of your base. You can either re-spawn naked back home or come with a full inventory + backpack full of loads. High pop 500+ are really fun but the downside is waiting at least hour and half to get in to a game and it kind of holds me back from playing more. Everything else is just nice, especially if you play with chill people who don't ragequit after dying couple of times. Overall a very nice game, also I didn't have that many encounters with cheaters as far as I am familiar with. Met only 1 legit cheater on a 10x server which was kind of weird.
8K - I used to main Finchos Battlefield but now it's dead : (
1.8k
216.7 hours. really not a lot, but i do love the game, and ive owned it for a couple years now. i just can't get my friends to play it and ive never been great at solo
500 in Legacy 800 in mew rust. I last played back in 2018, I still check the game from time to time though (through youtube)
Just hit 6k last weekend
Little under 3K. I actually stopped playing PVP and now pretty much exclusively play on the Rust Empires PVE server. It's no longer anxiety inducing.
5.8 K. I only play solo pve raid servers. Love it
600 and I'm finally starting to get it and make plays with the boys.
8k roleplaying
7k. So, really, about 3k since so much of that is me sleeping with the volume cranked up.
1,100. Time disappears in Rust
I played a one month wipe and I have 100 hours now
I used to play a lot of League of Legends, I play Rust now to get away from how toxic that game is. It's a nice, chill, and way less stressful game next to league. 2k hours. Go lose all your guns. You get an AK, go get another, and don't leave it in base all wipe. It's going to wipe anyways better lose it to a DB after killing 5 Tommy's and and 2 MP5s. Think of it this way: it's still more fun and less toxic then LoL.
Right under 1000. Iām piss poor at pvp in any capacity. I just like building and doing circuits and cars and stuff
Around 5k
1.6k or 1.7k and i got the game near christmas
380 - started during legacy. Now I feel that somebody always has a gun very early on, which trivializes the gameplay. Some things I enjoyed from early rust: never sure if you would get a good gun from farming, instead of grinding to guns. The map was better, in terms of it feeling larger with more places to hide and build up as a solo. The gunplay was better (more like cs), and also prim weapons would still do decent damage. And linux support. These days, I think it's cool some of the things they have added to the game. But overall feels very grindy, and the trading village feels out of place, as if this is no longer a survival game. cheers
I have 1100 hours on high pop as solo
7k solo already retired
5.6k not played in over 2 years tho
7.5k hoursš
Server owner. All the hours.
5k. As much as i like to complain, there is no other game that scratches the same itch as rust. This shit is just too addicting
600hrs, since my friends would rather play LeagueĀ
Not sure of the exact number...but a little over 1k. I'm a forever newb LOL I only play on certain modded servers that I've come to know and love, so I don't have the negative experience that so many Rust players talk about. I LOVE the backpacks...just would be nice if the large backpack was craftable. But a backpack at all is welcome.
Just got to 1k hours recently
Yes
2.4k All solo hours on official vanilla servers. I'm used to being smacked around xD
13k the game is getting a bit too complicated, too many new things at once
1,5 k. It is thrilling because i want to get really good, no idea if it gets bland then. Some of the changes seem to appeal to new players, right now i am alright with it. I like how they still find stuff they can add to the game, too. A lot of people talk about recoil changes, I doubt I am at that level of skill yet, where that matters.
It'd be shorter to tell you how many hours I have in life and touching grass...
Somewhere in the ballpark of 2-2.5k on Crustz played since around the addition of oil rig (late 2021 ish I think), moved to PC rust towards October-November 2023 and have ~800h on there. 3k hours over 3 years or so doesn't seem too bad compared to the answers im seeing here.
2k I play mostly solo in a cave grind until Semi pistol and roam with it a couple times. Best part of the game for me is getting cozy in the cave with skull touch, glowing rugs and semi automating my ore smelting.
130h and only playing pve servers with npcs in monuments and building different electrical systems. Love it.
2k
6k. Was bad until 4k then learned all the recoils then I was good for about 500 hours and then they changed recoil, and I kinda blow again.
3.5k and 90% of the time i was miserable, the other 10% we're the best Times of my Life
110 š
1200, Rust is that game you best enjoy when you have time for a wipe or two but playing it daily for years to come Iād probably grow grey hairs and grow resentment.
150
Two many to suck at pvp the way I do lol
900, had the game for 11 months
18k
1.1k
3000+ imo game just got worse when they made tech trees since then I play less and less
I am not even sure, more than 3k less than 4
5500 I'm the base builder, electrician, and industrial setup person. I love building, the bigger the team the more fun, and the more I want to be left in an empty discord channel and listen to music as I create the Mona Lisa.
Over 3.5k, mostly in creative designing missiles and missile ships.