The Morning After
149 Comments Posted on December 28, 2013 by Garry Newman
Most servers seem to be running along okay right now. I guess the attackers had to go to sleep at some point. But the exploits remain so we can’t just forget about it at this point. We can’t have the fate of your Rust hanging on the whim of script kiddies.

We’re in touch with MuchDifferent – and despite it being the weekend and everyone being on holiday, they’re making a real effort to help us out. So hopefully the dedicated server will get a bit more bulletproof over the next few days and we can all get back to hitting each other with rocks.

Sarah has given me permission to work tomorrow (on a Sunday!), so I will be fixing as much stuff as I can. The server list is a bit of a priority at the moment, it was never really tested with the amount of servers we currently have – so the performance is terrible. I’ll be reconfiguring that to work better. Anything else you want fixing let us know in the comments and I will try to cover as much as possible.

I am hearing a lot that you want us to do something about cheats, the aimbots and wallhacks that have cropped up recently. We probably haven’t made it clear enough what our strategy is, or how it works. VAC is active. VAC doesn’t ban people straight away. It doesn’t try to stop people cheating. It logs them. The bans are validated. Then they are all banned in a wave. This could take a week, it could take a month, it could take 3 months. But rest assured that hackers will be VAC banned – so please do not be tempted to cheat.

I apologize for all the downtime today/tonight I have no ETA of when the server will be back up. This is a steam/facepunch issue.

Severs BAck up!

Dear Community,

This email is to advise that there is a issue with lag / connectivity across all Rust servers across all hosting providers.

We along with others have been discussing this for the last few hours, a restart may fix your server but it also may not.

Rust are aware of it and we are awaiting some official information on it, we have received numerous tickets about lag and connectivity with Rust please see this email as a reply to your ticket as we won't be replying to each individual rust lag ticket.

We will update again once we know more.

Kind Regards
Sean, FPS

Looking into it maybe theres a patch coming. I will keep you guys posted.