ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
Hello Survivors, it’s been a very exciting week for us at Double Eleven with it marking the one year anniversary for Rust Console Edition! The team is super proud of what we have achieved so far, and we plan to keep the ball rolling by introducing more exciting content to the game. Speaking of new content, we can now confirm that our next major update, Deadly Catch, is about to be released next week, alongside the monthly wipe!
We’ve been testing it for some time in our Public Test Branch Environment and thanks to all the feedback provided, we are now ready to release our next content update, which will feature the Fishing Villages, fishing and the addition of kayaks to the game. Here’s a deeper dive on all the new features:
Deadly Catch Main Features
Kayaks - Kayaks will be super useful to help you get to the Oil Rigs without the need for low grade fuel or splashing out the scrap for a better boat. For a “small” cost, you can buy the Blueprint for the Kayak and the Paddle (which can also be used as a weapon) in one of the traders inside the Fishing Villages or if you are lucky, you can find a kayak inside one of the many containers around the map. The Kayak is also a great vehicle to travel to the open sea for some exciting fishing sessions!
Fishing - This new mini-game allows you to catch a great variety of fish depending on where you are and the type of bait you are using. Rivers, lakes and ocean shores will all provide different fish, and some of them can only be obtained with the right bait! Find the bait to help with your fishing needs from hemp, pumpkins and corn plants.
Once you catch it, you can then cook the fish to use as food or sell it in one of the vending machines inside the Fishing Villages. It’s a great way to farm some extra scrap!
Fishing Villages - The Fishing Villages are the new monuments added with Deadly Catch, and two variants will be present in the map (small and big). They are safe zones, just like The Outpost or The Bandit Camp, so no fighting inside it or the turrets will get you!
Inside the Fishing Villages players will encounter traders selling Blueprints for the Kayak, Paddle, and Handmade Fishing Rod. They also sell diving gear and boats. And like we mentioned before, there’s also a vending machine where you will be able to sell all your fish!
During this first year we of development we brought you Devastation Unleashed that introduced the Tech Tree, bigger maps and Gestures, and Offshore Blowout that brought the most requested monuments to the game, as well as the grenade launcher, we also had the release of the skin store. This game has come a long way since we first released it in 2021.
As we move forward we plan to keep adding more and more to the game but always keeping in mind that any new content needs to be optimised, and that the more we add the more memory is consumed. So we will take time to make sure players will get the best gameplay experience possible.
To celebrate the one year anniversary with our community, we also have a special skin that everyone will be able to claim in the near future, for free! The weapon chosen for this first year was the popular Thompson. We hope everyone enjoys this black and red design with the Rust logo on it! The anniversary skin will be available soon (sometime next week) and we will make a big announcement on Twitter and Discord once it’s available to claim!
We would like to thank you all for the amazing support during this first year, and we promise that many more exciting updates will make their way onto the islands in Rust Console Edition. See you in the game survivors!
