There's something incredibly...sad about this genre of game. It's like for kids who can't cut it in actual competitive games that are based around skill so they scurry to these games where winning is based on who's been in the server longer rather than any kind of mechanical skill. It'd be one thing if it was treated like a party game, like a Mario Kart/Party type deal, but you realize there are people who take it hyper seriously and base their entire personalities around it, unable to recognize the fact no one is impressed and everyone is just sort of laughing at them from across the pond.

I don't think of it as the same type of competitive game, it's a digital LARP playground. There are no rounds or winners, just people pretending to be african warlords.

it's an anti social game that lets everyone harass each other. even the new players can be a headache to those mega bases

>>715323703 (OP)
i love haven and hearth for being an open world survival game that i can actually enjoy, but that involves avoiding everyone else. the pvp autists on the forum are insufferable.

>>715323703 (OP)
Yeah I actually gave rust a shot a few months back, made a base, died some times, didnt think much of it until there was a guy camping outside my door for over an hour, yes an hour, I could tell because the campfire comfort trick (it goes higher the more people nearby).
So I just went on my phone, alt tabbed, etc, and he actually sat there with a gun for over an hour waiting for me to exit, he knew I couldn't defend myself because my house was very basic and just stone, and finally I got bored and just went out and he instantly killed me and he raided my basis for...some wood, stone and cloth, over an hour of his life gone for the slightest drip of dopamine to one tap someone who couldn't defend themselves, I don't think I ever experienced something so pathetic in my life

>>715323703 (OP)
>It's like for kids who can't cut it in actual competitive games that are based around skill so they scurry to these games where winning is based on who's been in the server longer rather than any kind of mechanical skill.
thats exactly it, its a place for shitters to mend their bruised egos

>>715324237
>haven and hearth
looks cool. is the world big enough that i can always find untouched wilderness to hide in?

>>715324485
i would do this too if i had the game

>>715324804
You should value your time more, it's the only thing you can never get back

>>715324840
you sat there for an hour along with him, so you are no better

>>715324912
I actually did other stuff like my dailies in ZZZ, talked with friends, and worked on a video commission, so you almost had a point there.
Meanwhile he had to be sitting there staring at the door the entire time because the second I opened it he fired with no delay.

>>715325001
he can play on his goyphone too while he listens for your footsteps or door to open

>>715325189
>>715324485
why doesn't some up sneak up behind the camping guy and kill him while he's watching your door?

>>715325189
There would still have been a delay for him to move his hands from the phone to the mouse once he heard the door, sorry anon there is no "gotcha" moment here for you
>>715325290
Dumb luck

>>715325413
yeah sorry you're right. you're only slightly worse than him instead of equally worse

>>715323703 (OP)
you're supposed to watch this gay australian man suffer in it, not actually play it.

>>715323703 (OP)
It's like it's a trend for non-competitive games to be some new gay esport, with picrel being one of the more egregious examples
>don't build a base the way YOU see fit, you HAVE to follow the meta or else you'll get raided!!
>don't interact with anybody outside of PvP EVER, you'll just loose your shit!!
>don't bother trying to team up with randoms on the server, just kill them and take their shit!!
For what something be incredibly fun, it really falls flat

>>715323703 (OP)
its almost like its simulating a post apocalyptic dystopian ruin of civilization full of raiders and psychopath survivalists....or something....

>>715324061
It's actually like a mad max sandbox playground. It's not anti-social or prosocial. Rust is what you make of it.

>>715324726
Yeah
There's like 150~ concurrent players so unless you're on central continent or extremely unlucky you won't meet anyone at all

>>715324840
Pretty sure she alt tabbed, shitposted on /v/ or something for an hour instead of sitting in the house in rust the whole time