That said, it’s been really good for me. Reliable chat between my and a few friends, plus some big-ish rooms that I participate in.
The author also works on Veloren[1]—another fun Rust project!
[1]: https://veloren.net
That game is fucking cool. A couple years ago me and some friends compiled it for kicks and giggles to see what it was all about. To our surprise, the game ran silky smooth on my GTX 1050 Ti. We get into a lobby. We play for a half hour.
We're just exploring (the map is barebones but has cool landmarks) when I realize that you can scroll to zoom out from your character. In a psychadelic twist, you can just keep zooming out past normal ARPG levels and into a minimap-scale world, then above the clouds, all without dropping a frame.
I don't know how well-maintained the project is today, but it's got the bones for a badass RPG. One of these days I'll hop back on...
If the last time you played was a few years ago, they've pushed out a huge amount of features since then. Very impressive for a fully open source game.
"Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft."
I love how pointing out that it's written in Rust is more important that describing what the game is about or inspired by. Classic open source project unsure of who's the intended audience.
Our target audience is just as much potential contributors as it is actual players. Mentioning Rust is very deliberate: it pulls in a lot of motivated developers, both those trying to learn the language and those with expert knowledge looking for a creative, relaxed way to put their skills into practice.
Updates every Thursday! If you ever get on the main server, look for "varsderk" and I'll help you bootstrap fast. :)
I'm the only user on my server and I've not joined any very active room, but so far its impact on my small VPS performance has been negligible.