{"id":365,"date":"2018-02-11T22:15:02","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2018-02-16T00:37:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T00:37:51","slug":"new-test-server-hardmode-survival-open-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"New Test Server &#8211; Hardmode Survival &#8211; Open Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>\u00a0\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-366\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rust61.jpg?resize=620%2C337\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"337\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rust61.jpg?w=620&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/rust61.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our new Hardmode Survival server is available for testing! This is the first of three (or more) servers that we\u2019ll be running player testing and gathering feedback before making it our new, permanent second server.\u00a0 Right now, we\u2019re testing what we\u2019re calling \u201cHardmode Survival,\u201d which strives to make the Rust experience a little bit more like actual survival.\u00a0 Below is a list of the current changes from Vanilla:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buildings no longer fall apart in just a couple of days.<\/li>\n<li>Bleeding is no joke.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get gored.<\/li>\n<li>Bullets no longer tickle.<\/li>\n<li>Melee is horrifying.\u00a0 If you stab someone, they will die.<\/li>\n<li>Arrows are brutal.\u00a0 Life is NOT GOOD with a stick jutting out of you.<\/li>\n<li>Cold, hunger, and dehydration are a problem.\u00a0 Do not neglect these.<\/li>\n<li>All forms of armor offer more protection than normal\u2013but not as much as weapon damage has increase.\u00a0 The world is very lethal.\u00a0 Other players, even moreso.<\/li>\n<li>Text chat can only be read over the same distance that voice chat could be heard.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lonely world, and your ability to hear it is crucial to surviving in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The current test cycle runs until 1 March, and as a thank you for players who are taking time to test this for us, anyone who has spent more than 15 hours active on the new server <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/PM5F6ZC\">and completes a feedback survey<\/a> will get to start on the 1 March wipe on either server, with 3 elite crates and 20 pills spawned for them to help give them a leg up on whichever server they prefer to play.<\/p>\n<p>To connect to the new server, you can point your server browser at:<\/p>\n<p>[NA\/EU]-SVRust \u2013 Test \u2013 Survival Mode<\/p>\n<p>Or you can connect\u00a0 directly via the console by typing:<\/p>\n<p>client.connect 104.156.230.170:28066<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Our new Hardmode Survival server is available for testing! This is the first of three (or more) servers that we\u2019ll be running player testing and gathering feedback before making it our new, permanent second server.\u00a0 Right now, we\u2019re testing what we\u2019re calling \u201cHardmode Survival,\u201d which strives to make the Rust experience a little bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/?p=365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Test Server &#8211; Hardmode Survival &#8211; Open Testing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7DdxS-5T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rust.ars-insolitus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}