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Facepunch Studios breaks its monthly update streak for the first time in 12 years, pushing the massive naval content drop to Feb. 5 while shipping a wipe-only patch Thursday and a content-rich Christmas update on Dec. 18.
Facepunch launches its annual Rustmas event with jingle-bell gift hunts, stockings, an advent calendar, returning store items, Twitch and Kick drops, a Can Be backpack collaboration, and a base-decorating contest running through January 1.
Studio betas add if-local statements and animation graph state machines. BasePart:BindToCollisionSummaries gives precise physics contacts. Text-to-speech auto-translates across 11 languages. IP-based avatar licenses and unified group roles go live.
This week's recap covers a required chat migration deadline, terrain performance gains, new UGC validation tools, a homepage thumbnail mandate, and the platform-wide Halloween event The Hollow.
Server error logs in Creator Hub now include clickable stack traces that open the exact script and line in Studio, plus a new structuredStackTrace API field for custom tooling.
Creators can now publish games with up to 62 custom terrain materials and see up to 90% less CPU memory overhead. The feature requires enabling Expanded Terrain in Workspace properties.
Valve shipped a substantial update to the CS2 map scripting API, giving creators new precache controls, hostage state tracking, direct convar access, and a consolidated GameRules surface for round and warmup management.
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.
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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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