Games in Asia: One of my friends once described me an “overly-friendly misanthrope.” I enjoy the company of others, but enjoy my own more and as such I have avoided multiplayer games like the plague. Games are my private time to relax and recuperate from the stresses of the day. So, the idea of welcoming others into that sanctity is totally beyond me.
Rust is the most popular survival MMO on PC. With a daily concurrent player count of 130K, it is counted alongside the likes of GTA V, PUBG, and Apex Legends. We explored the highly customizable graphics menu of the game in our optimization guide which includes several options to customize the shadows, draw distance, etc.
Rust is among the most popular Steam games with ~100K concurrent players. Despite being in its 10th year, the game has received 375 content updates, with a guaranteed content patch every month, with no signs of slowing down. Following recent graphical updates, Rust features cutting-edge visual detail with over a dozen options to tweak quality/performance.
From base building to swinging willies, here are the best survival games around, which include a couple of less than obvious picks.
The author makes a critical mistake.
Multiplayer RPG's can never match up to single-player, AI-based equivalents because players are just role-playing while artificial characters ARE what they are supposed to be.
For example when you watch a movie with friends, someone will always make a joke to hide emotion in the deep, hard-hitting scenes, and thus these scenes lose their power in multiplayer.
When a player-character in Rust dies, you know they'll be revived, and it would be stupid to cry for them (they're not really dead!), but when your companion in something like Mass Effect dies (Mordin for example, though this isn't a spoiler for those of you who STILL haven't played ME3, he doesn't need to die, but his death is epic), the very entity you had in your party and spoke to is now gone for the rest of the game; he is unaccessible. When your son dies in Crusader Kings 2, they really die, and everything they were is gone, which can't be said for humans.
Comparing advanced AI to humans then is pretty simple. Multiplayer games like RUST are like C-movies, where none of you can act convincingly and think the whole thing's a laugh, while AI-based single-player games CAN be blockbusters once the technology is there to allow convincing voice synthesis and spontaneous AI personalities.
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