The Story of Rust and How it Became a Massive Hit | Rust's Backstory

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Join me on a journey through time as we explore the history of the survival game, Rust. From its humble beginnings as a clone of DayZ to its massive popularity today, we'll cover the evolution of this multiplayer game. Discover the challenges the developers faced, the updates that changed the game, and the impact Rust has had on the gaming industry.
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[@samharding3630]

Having played this game a decade ago in its infancy, its truly incredible to see how far its come

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

backwards in many areas..

[@bleo8371]

ok now disslike.

[@DaddyFrosty]

Pre-XP and Legacy had way better atmospheres.

[@gyorgischwartz]

Zombies were peak rust

[@samharding3630]

@@gyorgischwartz how about them infected animals. They blueprint system has certainly been thru some changes 😄

[@VenturiLife]

A very unique game, that's what kept drawing me back to it, and constant improvement by the creators.

[@ZK.29]

Been watching rust for awhile, I never had a pc so when it was released on console I was stoked. The game is like no other and tells a story each wipe.

[@luckychan1183]

I still wish I could find all those legacy rust videos I would watch 24/7 when I was a kid.

[@alexdubois6585]

faceless was a good one for me when I started playing

[@luckychan1183]

@@alexdubois6585 omg I haven’t thought of that name in such a long time, thanks.

[@TwiztidMenace]

Great video. Been playing rust for years, was addicted from the beginning and it's only gotten better and better.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you. I’m happy you enjoyed it.

[@bleo8371]

no its trash disslike

[@Urrkis]

its not great just addictive

[@lifeunderthestarstv]

*easier and easier.

[@pcwexhaustmods]

So many ways to play rust, that’s what I love about it, got burnt out on pvp so went on pve server, some really low population servers have an amazing amount of detail. Though if you go play rust proper, it takes over your life, as to succeed you have to put serious time into it, such a brutal and unique game with the proximity chat being like OG multiplayer games

[@Squallypop]

5k hours, been here sense the very beginning. Thank you Gary and facepunch team. This is.. THE BEST. GAME. Always has been and always will be my #1 go to.

[@kellen.leavell]

Banger video. this is bonna blow your channel up.

[@Zakkerman]

Hope so lol

[@lauracook6531]

Great job! Very informative! Look forward to what you do next

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@furkangonulal1355]

0:16 bro you did bring tears to my eyes didnt expect that.

[@Zakkerman]

I wouldn’t be able to do anything if it wasn’t for you my viewer. Thank you

[@rottensponge88]

nice one, i bought rust back in mid-late 2017 and back then i wouldve never imaged some of the recent additions the game has seen

[@TheAwesomeFossum]

Spot on video. Glad you brought up garry’s mod as it was known as garrys mod’s dayz lol

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@Brollow]

great work man :)

[@Young_buck2423]

Man you killed this vidoe

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you.

[@Lazidiz]

I rememeber watching rust content since 2016 and still watch it till this day....man its been so long

[@Turpentine_YT]

Very Nostalgic, Great video man coming from someone who has played rust for 6+ Years and has 8,000 + Hours in rust, This was a good watch.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@Hannah_The_Heretic]

A really interesting video, I just typed up "who made rust" and yours was the first video that popped up. Definitely sharing this video to my friends. ❤

[@darks4ys]

A very nice video and also thanks for supporting people that suffered from the earthquake. Such a nice move!

[@chronicleheavy]

Wow after seeing this video i was shocked you only had 927 subscribers I would have thought you would have had a few hundred thousand. You just earned yourself a sub; remember me when youre famours.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you. I will lol

[@jopw6461]

For someone with this amount of subscribers , the vid is really high quality and you’re relaxed/calm voice/energy is perfect for it ! Keep up the good work and I’ll know you’ll grow big in no time 🤲🏻💯

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much. I’m happy you enjoyed the video

[@TayZz_]

rust is the first purchased gasme on my steam account on march 2014 seeing it from early alpha to what it is today is incredible

[@Butteredbread..]

congrats youtube algorithm finally got you noticed

[@Zakkerman]

About time! Lol thank you so much for supporting

[@Butteredbread..]

@@Zakkerman hey man i dont know if your gona see this but I highly recommend posting more type of these videos (or maybe some rust gameplay ) since i see a lot of people that find the gold mine in what they should post only for them to change what they post a few months after

[@TheLittleLizardMan12]

I thought you had 500,000 subs at first with the quality of the is video, now im suprised you only have 500

[@Zakkerman]

I’m working on it lol thank you for the support though

[@SerWinter]

Nice video, dude

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@C_Engineer]

Ngl it was wild playing legacy Rust when it first came out. Looking back at it now the game has come sooo far.

[@Zakkerman]

It truly has

[@reecewilliamson314]

People need to understand this game. 2014 I brought it after seeing a KZbin video called giving random people guns on rust. And I never played a game as much as I played this. It was honestly one of my favourites games I’ve ever played, the amount of memories and aids I’ve had playing this game, laughing my head off with my friends to crying because I was getting raided by a 10 man clan. Door camping people with water pipes and Eokas to full kit roaming with ak. I now don’t play as life caught up but just know rust has got a place in my heart no matter what…

[@VENAZ]

i bought rust 9 years ago, played through legacy, to experimental. to current. Def one of my fav games

[@florida12341000]

As someone who has played this game on and off for the past i dont even know probably 8 years or so its the best survival game to date. I have plenty of fond memories of wipe days getting on and grinding to get my base established and upgraded like one time making a 3x3 base and getting it fully high quality metaled up but this was back in the day. Or when they first added quarries that you could build yourself and getting one of those down and protecting it. Amazing game

[@faulker6751]

great vid! got yourself a new SUB! been playing since the red bears ! i have 3 servers of my own (CB&R)! keep up the great work looking forward to seeing this channel grow!

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much. I look forward you coming along as I grow lol

[@DBZ483]

Miss the old days of legacy I remember always building a massive base on top of the giant mountain

[@Victorquickrust]

The nostalgia, spot on video. super underrated

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much.

[@spencerburchfield9820]

I literally bought Rust January 1st 2015 after it being a recommended game on the DayZ steam store page. I had no idea what the game would even entail and I will admit it is very very different from then to now. I loved it back then and still think that it's great now and you showing the old clips brought me back. I didn't play legacy Rust because at this time it had just been brought to the new engine. Great video and I actually didn't know some things in this video. Like the word that I heard is that legacy Rust was on a different engine entirely and they were limited with what they could do(prevent hackers + other content) so they had to swap to the unity engine to make rust how they wanted.

[@chairfight]

Nice video! I started playing in 2020 and didn't realize it had such a long development timeline. Great work.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@kemal1453.]

hello man i am from Türkiye i felt very sad that i dont saw your video earlier. from all over my heart Thank you for your support about earthquake i wish you having a great day. may Allah protect you and your family insAllah you kind soul.

[@berkayyigit6494]

Even tho its not much thanks for donating for the people who are hurt by quake and great video keep it up !

[@Zakkerman]

Absolutely. They need it more than me right now. I will.

[@LaggerrLover]

I still remember, the first video of rust that i see was from Verttigo the king of noob KZbin channel. And right of the bat, i hooked with the game

[@S1lentIntensity]

Amazing video man, truly.

[@Zakkerman]

I’m happy you enjoyed it thank you.

[@Spinach_Dip93]

Good video I subscribed keep up the work man

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@PaulDaPig]

Just started playing this game 3 days ago. I saw it years ago but couldn't play it till it was on the console. Once it was on the console it looked like trash so I waited till now for the electricity update and the next-gen console. I now enjoy the game and am going to have 1000 hours in the game.

[@SteveChiller]

I love this game. It lets you do whatever you want to do. Other games force you to go do this or go do that. I got hooked after watching a Welyn video back in 2019.

[@forenamesurname5326]

playing for 5 years, ty for this

[@Zakkerman]

No problem lol

[@ImLosti]

This was a real good video .. i got so many Flashbacks .. to the early Rust Moments and the Following TIme to now. And yes its fucking Awesome .. More then 6k Hours in this game right now.. and its going just up! :D Greetings from Germany! :)

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@elslappo6603]

Have played this game for nearly 10 years, used to play this on my parents pc on the internet! anyway, i've had my steam account for 6 years now, and have put in about 6.5k hours in total. I absolutely love rust!

[@jakkrit6910]

1:20 dam i still remember that shit shack that can only put one door but have to use explosive to raid lol.

[@unclefungus2011]

"This game is the reason I have trust issues"

[@Jamespetersenwa]

I JUST looked through my purchase history. I was one of the first 150,000 and I literally just got into rust....4 months ago. So I had the game for almost 10 years before I got into it (mostly because I was into other things). That's quite the delay.

[@downforwhatever9597]

I cried watching this thank you man

[@Zakkerman]

Oh no. I’m sorry

[@Dirtyirish]

Awesome video man

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@tripp-hq]

This was great to know the Rust history. I only started playing Rust since 2020 cause that's when I moved to pc.

[@Zakkerman]

I’m happy I could help

[@millionare5446]

i've been watching rust videos since 2014 and i still have never played this game

[@AAdamOnTV]

Really good video! Keep it up!

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@TheR3alHer0z]

Great video, keep it up man!

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much.

[@ooga3757]

Welyn was my door to rust videos in yt, started from 20mins videos to 56mins to 3 hours video. First long video i watched was from welyn which was almost an hour long, i realized hmm i kinds like these stuff. Just recently i started watching stevie and blooprint, i dont even play the game or have a pc to game it💀. Idk why i enjoy watching rust videos so much bruh

[@rileyv1136]

Downloaded the game on my Lenovo laptop in 2015 and was so sad I couldn’t run it. Fast forward to 2022 and I’ve got a computer good enough to runit and I can tell y’all that I was addicted for a week straight 😂 amazing game. I’d wait 7 years all over again

[@jackalderson3458]

there was rust pre-mini copters and rust post mini-copters. Mini's were probably the most game changing update, to date, other than maybe the recent industrial update but it's imapct is still to be seen.

[@sneakysquirrl708]

SUGGESTION: 0:17 make your donation cut scene longer. I had to rewind the video twice to full read it. Good luck 🍀 with donations. 🎉.

[@Zakkerman]

Yeah, I thought that maybe that would happen. Sorry

[@jonjosmyth3330]

Great video 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@turdfurgusson6373]

I remember when rust can out. Steam got mad cause 1000s of pictures of men's downstairs posted on Steam. Was pretty funny. Awesome video brought me back to the days of legacy Rust. Thanks

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much. I remember those days lol

[@nafisalsadnan1502]

Just found your video. You are amazing. Keep going. Long way ahead mate.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much. I hope to see you in future comment sections as well.

[@vornadopro6502]

I remember downloading Rust for free on New Years Eve of 2013 when every character model was wearing military uniforms as default. The game was really buggy and the game wasn’t really playable including the servers that were available to play on crashed every few hours. By Early 2014 the game became better to play. I stopped playing and then returned to play in like late 2016. The game was still a bit rough 3 years later. Now the game is amazing.

[@E.T.whisperer]

I'm glad I jumped in in the earlier stages of this game.

[@comradekenobi6908]

what software do you use to find KZbin channels about rust in 5:27 ?

[@Zakkerman]

KZbin. You can sort and filter each search

[@comradekenobi6908]

@@Zakkerman i want to filter out so that only yt channels about rust appear do you know a way to do this?

[@Zakkerman]

Yes when you are searching. Enter your search then one all of the results have loaded look for a little filter icon. In there you can find the channel option.

[@Selfmadekennelz]

Great video brother

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@FrostyBae]

I MADE IT in the vid big W's

[@ddhrmk1]

and the legends says eoka still looks the same in ur hotbar

[@Mali47534]

I didnt know rust was riddled with cheaters even when it first came out

[@leem270]

Ahh the good old days. Have been playing since the beginning :(

[@Singularity979]

Get After iT King, you deserve iT.

[@Chunjor]

I was watching rust videos and I saw that , thanks for donation.( Turkey )

[@DJHazzard]

I bought Rust in 2016. It was my best game purchase since Company of Heroes 1. No game can captivate you like RUST.

[@gxdx7801]

Thank you a lot for your amazing videos and for donating all revenue to disaster relief charities

[@Zakkerman]

Of course. Thank you for watching none of this would do anything without people like you.

[@mikkithetrailerguy7876]

impressive...most impressive

[@2pizza753]

Hearthwarming video!

[@darrenmorgan8902]

I have been playing rust 5weeks and ngl never played a game like it swear it's giving me trust issues lol didnt realise there was this much history behind it great video also just subscribed keep up the great content

[@Super_Burrito]

This video does do a decent job of telling the history but there’s more to be told than just what’s in this video.

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@secreto1835]

Respect for putting all the revenue to the families affected by the earthquake

[@Zakkerman]

Absolutely. Any revenue for the life of this video will go directly to them. Whether a little or a lot. They need it more than I do.

[@theelogician8633]

very good vid man editing was prof af keep at it this could be your career fs!

[@Zakkerman]

Trying my best lol

[@shesuchi]

no mention of the otv server and how much it blew it up??

[@donglefuirongl7994]

Rust is the future I imagined as a 14 year old back in the early 2000nds when I was playing Fallout, Rust is basically a sequel to Fallout....

[@zackvanblaricum4585]

I can’t wait for them to add different types of servers on consoles so it’s not always so sweaty and hostile

[@alberust8875]

big w vid keep it going broski

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much.

[@dogeboat]

Only 550 subscribers? Wow you are underrated

[@Zakkerman]

Working on it lol

[@demir4281]

thank you for supporting turkey thanks a lot

[@aaronlong4892]

So I slept three hours last night so I could wake up at 3am and play rust

[@nikotinslv]

You either fall in love with rust or hate it to the bottom of your heart.

[@5-40_]

I was just getting to the end of Rust for myself, starting to feel burnt out and needed a change...so i started my own server and have double the amount of time a week i'm now on....Dam this game. Hahahaha.

[@p0ptar795]

BROOO WHAT 564 SUBBBSSS I WAS THINKING 1MIL LOL GOOD JOB YOU WILL GO FAR

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much. I’m working on it lol

[@Nomadowy]

Good video sir

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@wadebootz4861]

rust is the game that got me into gaming on pc, i use to play alot of survivel and action games but rust takes the top of the list :D

[@morphoisthelast2912]

Damn i’ve been going though that histrionics since 2013

[@poisenwhafflechicken]

nice vid man

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@shmorn9500]

good video, thought you had wayy more subs, liked n subbed :)

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you so much

[@_Juke_]

Facepunch have killed building "Freedom" with many building updates

[@jamyorday]

What I would give to go back in time to play rustopia us main for a week in 2015-16.

[@ibrahimaboud7207]

Huge respect for the support of effected families in the middle east ❤

[@atrece1313]

Keep up the good content bro

[@Zakkerman]

I’ll try my best lol

[@atrece1313]

@@Zakkerman that's all you need

[@Zakkerman]

Good content and quality lol

[@RastaMouseYT]

You didn't mention the island survival servers on gmod.... you could level up different skills to farm better... make a base and try and raid others . Imo this is a major point in rust's creation

[@kluxii244]

Would be nice to mention that the original rust was called legacy, when the new "version" ( more like different game ) named rust experimental was created.

[@Zakkerman]

That’s something I wish I could change.

[@HundKappa]

Nice video!

[@Zakkerman]

Thank you

[@LuzuVlogsGamer]

Literary now we get bigger Content updates than before xo Like DLC's but free and big and every month

[@idonz21]

I heard the very first version was playable in browser. Any word on this?

[@Zakkerman]

So, I did a little bit of research and seen a couple of videos of someone playing on a browser. I am not certain yet but yes. It looks like there was a browser version from 2013.