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After four "long" years of development, Garry Newman and his team at Facepunch Studios have decided that it's high time to let Rust leave Steam Early Access. On February 8, you will be able to purchase the "finished" version of the open-world, survival sandbox that Newman and his team have been constantly tweaking on a very regular basis.With this move will come some changes as it applies to new updates and deploying patches.
Will you still update every week?
Part of leaving Early Access is making the development more stable. That means that not rushing in features and fixes that end up breaking something else. For that reason we're going to be transitioning to monthly updates.
Obviously these updates aren't going to work unless people are playing them, so we're going to do what a lot of other games do and have another version of Rust that will sit alongside the "stable" version.
• Main Branch - monthly tested updates with smaller irregular hotfixes between them
• Staging Branch - bleeding edge, daily updates
You can have both versions installed at the same time, so our hope is that we'll get one or two servers on the staging version that are populated all the time and help test the updates that are coming to Main at the end of the month.
Part of leaving Early Access is making the development more stable. That means that not rushing in features and fixes that end up breaking something else. For that reason we're going to be transitioning to monthly updates.
Obviously these updates aren't going to work unless people are playing them, so we're going to do what a lot of other games do and have another version of Rust that will sit alongside the "stable" version.
• Main Branch - monthly tested updates with smaller irregular hotfixes between them
• Staging Branch - bleeding edge, daily updates
You can have both versions installed at the same time, so our hope is that we'll get one or two servers on the staging version that are populated all the time and help test the updates that are coming to Main at the end of the month.
Newman also continues on to say that yes there will be a price increase once the game leaves Early Access. The price will go from its current Early Access price of $19.99 (USD) to $34.99. That means you still have some time left to get it for the cheaper price. Don't complain when you see the price increase on February 8, because you have had ample warning that it's coming.
Facepunch promises that more is still coming for Rust, so be sure to keep an eye out.
