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Version 744 ships a live CollectionService:GetCollections() method, async collision computation, a Studio memory leak fix that stopped Play/Stop cycles from bloating RAM, and a HipHeight=0 bug that made avatars sink into floors. Several Luau and rendering fixes are also pending.
Facepunch celebrates a dozen years of Rust with its highest-ever Steam peak, 700 million hours played, and a confirmed Naval update arriving February 5 alongside mobile launch plans.
Facepunch's February update introduces player-constructed vessels, a new offshore region with floating cities and ghost ships, plus overhauled watercraft mechanics.
Facepunch Studios has launched its Lunar New Year 2026 event in Rust, adding three new horse-themed cosmetics, returning seasonal items, and cutting the base game price in half on Steam.
Facepunch's March update extends daylight by 20 minutes, reworks boat building and combat, adds electricity to vessels, and changes how the Deep Sea event works.
Facepunch's April patch brings two new deployables, a revamped tech tree unlocking system, shield hitbox changes, and a long list of quality-of-life fixes.
Facepunch replaces the ten-year-old player skeleton, adds a new armor set and rifle, and rewrites the animation system to support contextual movement — all while promising a customizer by year's end.
The August 2026 forced wipe brings a connected monument system where restoring the Power Plant unlocks satellite crashes, oil pumping, water distribution, and recycler buffs across the map.
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GTA Online’s Title Update 1.73 adds a weekly completion bonus that boosts GTA$ payouts for a set of thirteen Contact Missions and Heists, but the boost only applies while the session’s host has not already finished the mission’s finale that week. This means every player in the session can benefit, provided the host’s status meets the requirement.
The Minecraft Brush tool—introduced in the 1.20 Trails & Tales update—lets you carefully excavate suspicious sand or gravel without mining, revealing hidden items such as pottery shards and armor trims through an archaeology-style animation.[1][2]
Rust Softcore combines faster gathering, scheduled raiding, reduced player-to-player bullet damage, partial item retention, and a four-player default team limit. Choose Softcore when those rules suit your schedule and group; choose Vanilla when you prefer the default Rust rule set without these Softcore-specific changes.
Metin2 is an action MMORPG operated by Gameforge. Update 26.1 introduced Enasir, a summonable NPC that provides remote storeroom and merchant services.
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