Devblog 91

You’ve all been naughty, but that hasn’t stopped Santa visiting Rust. Read all about it at the official site.

• Optimized tree culling and LODing

• Added tree quality slider to the main menu performance options

• Fixed vegetation LOD bias exploit

• Added server side player damage verification

• Fixed being unable to upgrade foundations with a turret on them

• Fixed being able to jump higher when standing in water

• Fixed light LOD performance regression from dungeons

• Fixed shelves being unplaceable on certain triangle floors

• Fixed bleeding damage lag exploit

• Salvaged hammer & pickaxe are now throwable

• Fixed "see through wall" bug accidentally introduced the week before

• Fixed wave displacement on very shallow, flat water beds

• Fixed "black river" at a distance bug; most noticeable on low quality terrain

• Fixed a bug causing broken decals on tree trunks

• Added water shoreline foam

• Added atmospheric scattering/fog to some particle shaders (e.g. smoke, flames)

• Improved light transmission on vegetation shaders

• Major water overhaul to simplify/speedup and attempt to fix serious bugs affecting DX9 on some AMD GPUs

• Fixed infinite 5.56 Ammo exploit

• Auto Turrets no longer shoot each other

• Auto Turrets can no longer be placed completely under water

• M249 was made much more accurate

• Helicopter crates are now lootable if they happen to land in water

• Added Small/Medium/Large gifts

• Added XMas stockings that refill periodically

• Added Comfort-giving bear deployable

• Added Candy Cane

• Added world spawn gifts

• Other XMas content

• Added community skins

• Rcon.port defaults to game port

• If Rcon.ip is undefined listen to any ip

• Sound performance tweaks

• Increased clientside physics step

• Decreased serverside physics step

• Updated to Unity 5.4.2

• Disabled rain collision (performance)