50 streamers who usually stream on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitch are currently playing the survival MMO Rust on a shared server. But as shooter chief shroud believes, there is now a threat to the peaceful activities on the private server: The Twitch streamer xQc has discovered the OfflineTV server and apparently plans to cause trouble.
What is going on with Rust? Rust is a survival MMO from 2013 that actually doesn’t play a major role on Twitch. However, that changed on December 26.
50 streamers from the streaming group “OfflineTv” have created a shared server and have been playing Rust together for 4 days. Streamers like Pokimane, Myth, shroud, and Valkyrae are among them. The fact that so many streamers with thousands of followers are now playing the survival MMO has given Rust an incredible boost on Twitch:
- The survival MMO peaked at 300,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch
- This is well above the normal average: Usually, Rust has around 9,000 concurrent viewers.
The streamers use the server as a shared sandbox, chatting and playing pranks; everything is quite relaxed.
“Something bad is going to happen”
What kind of evil looms? The troublemaker of Twitch is Felix “xQc” Lengyel. He is always looking for new ways to entertain his mostly young audience, who are into anarchy and chaos.
With the streamers who are hanging out on Rust’s shared server, xQc actually has nothing to do. He wasn’t originally invited to the private server, but then knocked on the door and wanted to join.
As shooter expert Michael “shroud” Grzesiek explains, this situation can only end in one way now.
“The server will soon implode. I can feel it. Something bad is going to happen. I predict: Now that xQc is building a base, he will start killing people. Once that happens, the server will either die or they will kick him out.
Because I am sure: The people here do not want to fight on this server. Myth maybe a little, us a little, but no one else. No one wants to fight here.”
Sandcastles and the people who destroy them
What’s behind it: shroud probably has a good instinct: xQc would sell his grandmother for a good action.
It really seems to only be a matter of time until the former Overwatch pro goes into “player killer” mode. It seems hard to imagine that he would play ring-around-the-rosy for days without touching anyone. He is known to be too temperamental, and it contradicts his concept of what “good entertainment” on Twitch is: movement and chaos.
xQc on the prowl, you can hear the screaming of the victims:
The situation that is developing shows a typical conflict in survival MMOs: The activities on a normal server resemble those at a beach during vacation time.
Some love to build a sandcastle, spending hours on even the finest details until everything is perfect and matches their vision. And others love to destroy such a castle in seconds.
Update 12/31 4:32 PM: shroud was right. The conflict has indeed escalated in the last hours.
Twitch punk disrupts peaceful Rust – shroud: “I would kick xQc”
Survival MMOs are popular because they allow players to indulge in various playstyles. Some build large fortresses and even empires in these games, found guilds, and establish a small society. Others are nomads, traveling light and love to ambush other players and take them down:
