The Twitch streamer Félix “xQc” Lengyel has been playing the survival MMO Rust for some time now. Recently, he switched to the RP server of OfflineTV – and found a supposed gift. However, it turned out to be a deadly trap.
What kind of trap was it? xQc was taking one of his first rounds on the role-playing server of OfflineTV when he stumbled upon a strange box. Another player had placed it there, on a small pedestal, with a phone on top.
As xQc approached, the phone rang and he answered. The voice on the line informed him that he had won – 200 units of scrap, an important item in Rust. The conversation ended with the question: “Are you a fan of Pokimane by the way?”
Then the walls around the pedestal closed in with gates featuring Pokimane’s face, and the ground was electrified. xQc slowly died from this, trapped in the death trap:
What is xQc even doing on the server? On January 12, xQc declared that he would leave the PvP server “The Badlands” and instead switch to the RP server “The Divide”. He thought it would be better for everyone.
The reason was likely that his PvP actions were becoming less and less successful, partly because uninvolved third parties were sabotaging his plans. This might be related to the fact that more and more viewers are snitching on their streamers, ruining the fun for others.
Previously, xQc was the “bad guy” of the first server before it split into the two new servers. He brought PvP to the 50 streamers who made Rust big on Twitch.
Twitch itself reacts to the incident
This is how the action is received: On Twitter, the clip from trap setter and LoL streamer Albert “BoxBox” Zheng has already received over 94,000 likes and has been viewed 1.2 million times. Even the official Twitter account of Twitch responded with a meme:
xQc still received the scrap after his virtual death, as a small reward for participating. After all, this is a role-playing server where people are supposed to have fun, not a PvP slaughter.
The gates with the face of the streamer Pokimane are, by the way, exclusive Twitch loot. Everyone can get them via the Twitch Drops of Rust by watching the corresponding streamers.
While the Rust servers in the USA seem to be working well, the parallel German project is not doing so well. There, the idea of a joint influencer server started with a debate on sexism, which grew larger and larger. Affected individuals were even threatened and insulted. Currently, the German Rust project is offline for the time being.
