In the survival game Rust, the Steam ID not only determines the skin color of a player character but also the size of the penis.
Once again, a penis news from the gaming world. As if the Legos weren’t enough.
The survival game “Rust” has recently caused quite a stir. They decided that players could not choose their skin color themselves, but it was assigned to them. As a result, some played as Black and experienced racism from a different perspective – first person, so to speak.
The argument was clear: In real life, you cannot choose your skin color either; you play the hand that life deals you.
Once measured, you can’t escape your virtual penis
With penis size, it’s similar; no matter what nice people want to tell us in the spam filters of our email accounts. As the lead designer of Rust, Garry Newman, explains, Rust takes the Steam ID and bases a number of factors for the appearance of the player avatar on it, including penis length. Then he assigns the “results” of this Steam ID so that the user does not experience anything different the next time. So, you cannot escape your “fate”.
In addition to penis length, this also includes height, head size, face, or the proportions of limbs. In this video clip, you can see some of the variations.
The thing with the penis wasn’t actually planned. It was just that it has its own “bone” in the game structure; there were censorship reasons behind it, and therefore the genitalia was also altered.
Gender will also soon be rolled for Rust
What about women, will their gender characteristics also be randomly determined? Yes, they will, when they are finished. The team is currently working on the female models, it is said. Here, too, the design will be left to chance.
Moreover: Players will not be able to choose whether they wander through the world of Rust as a male or a female. That is also determined by the Steam ID. Or should one better say: The Steam DNA?
The British censored image we used as a title comes from Pc Gamer.
