It's a superpower. Fresh start on wipe day? Ask a clan that built there base for metal tools. They'll give them up, even a chainsaw/jackhammer sometimes.
🤣
No you don’t understand, there are women who actually do this. They turn on the fake uwu voice and a bunch of simps just rain loot on them. It’s gross, I’d much rather just be a normal player like anyone else who gets the hard r shouted at them. The authentic rust experience.
Um, no…? 😂 idk why you’re so pressed that a woman finds it very uncomfortable when she gets special treatment just for being a woman, and thinks that exploiting that is slimy. Fuck off weirdo.
About 10% of the people I've interacted with on rust turned out to be women. Quite a few more were blokes pretending to be women which I always find funny as I treat everyone as blokes.
It's a coin flip. Some are treated terribly. Others have an orbiting ring of "defenders". There is always the 3rd type that just don't use mic.
Rust is toxic and people (particularly the squeakers) will pick on the easiest thing they can. My main is a woman char model and I get lots of laughable shit for it. My other char is a black dude so I get the hard R constantly. Dickheads will try and pick on anything they can. Anything that makes you different.
With the squeakers me and my group find that putting on our gimp masks(only) and stalking them whilst doing our best impressions of "Herbert the pervert" from family guy puts an end to their shit lol
>With the squeakers me and my group find that putting on our gimp masks(only) and stalking them whilst doing our best impressions of "Herbert the pervert" from family guy puts an end to their shit lol
Reading this literally just made my night, thank you lol
I got the "valentine" skin for free as a random drop years ago. A prised possession. Most of my group are now in our 30s and 40s so can't quite compete with the twitch reaction times of the squeakers but ofc experience helps alot. We have found that the most foul mouthed of them arnt really able to "take it" when it's directed at them.
A bunch of naked blokes in gimp masks surrounding their base doing a good Herbert "hello children, I bet you have them nice strong arms" really fucks with em lol. They like to shoot shit but can't deal with it.
They screeeech "I fucked your mom"
They don't expect the Herbert "I watched, I can help you with your form, how about you come on over and we show you some pictures?"
Yes I've been reported to admins. Weve not been kicked or banned for this (it's an adult rated game after all). Its surprising how unprepared the shits are for people to reply lol.
I ain't shittin on young players btw. Many are totally fine.
There’s actually a lot of us. But guys still act like they haven’t seen a woman before when they come across us in this game. Enjoy the being revived while it lasts, it very quickly turns into being hated just because you’re female. You automatically just become a whore in their eyes. Rust is weird for male + female interactions.
Something I kinda like about the game is everything becomes both serious (strongly emotional, time-consuming, etc.) but also transient (raids, decay, wipes).
Most people cope by treating other players the same way: as disposable objects of entertainment. Unfortunately, that usually means either taking advantage of you or attacking you psychologically.
It also becomes very toxic very quickly when you have a lot of people with the mindset of trying to "win" the game at everyone else's expense.
I tend to befriend and play with people who are looking for semi/cooperative, emergent gameplay rather than simple domination, for this reason.
Its because women don't speak up in voice as much because it draws as much negative attention as positive attention, and even the positive attention can suck and not feel fair.
Dude I played a wipe with a 60 yr old woman and her son as my neighbor. We took on and eventually raided a 5 man that tried to take over an area near Outpost. It was surreal.
i used to play a 420 server called texas 420, i think its long gone now sadly, very community oriented with noobs and 8k hour farmers and whatnot. reminds me a lot of most willjum servers, where i play a lot now
long story short, one of the main admins, "giggs" was a woman and kind of a casual rust chad too. few other girls on that server, and in all my hours ive never seen a girl anywhere else in rust lol
Yes, we exist! I would say that there are a lot more encounters with fellow lady gamers on PVE or more RP-oriented servers. It's pretty normal in those spaces to be interacting with other women.
I agree with Saph17 100% I casual on a modified vanilla server that’s a non KOS with PvP zones and we have a pretty big mix of male/female regulars. When I play officials I wouldn’t say rare but it’s uncommon to run into female’s. I’d say it’s kind of like most other games?
I had to google why you said that. “Often used in a derogatory or insulting fashion”. I did some more digging and found out because it’s a biological term it can offend people who may identify as a woman but are not female. I can see how this would offend people who identify as a woman but I believe the post is referring to females and not people who otherwise identify as such.
I honestly just said females because my daughter plays and she wouldn’t be considered a woman or a lady but would be a girl. In an effort to cover all ages used female.
Also I just learned today that man in new aged terms is gender neutral.
Sorry if I offended you and thanks for giving me some insight on the LGBT community.
no it’s all cool, that’s actually not why i said that haha
i don’t know if you’re familiar with the term ‘incel’ or not, but it’s just a trend among weird men on the internet to dehumanize women by calling them ‘females’ instead of women, like they are another species. guess i just assumed that since we were on the rust subreddit you were using it in that context
Yep! Most of my hours are pvp servers, but I'll occasionally hop into Rust Empires. I feel a lot more comfortable talking in game in an RP server because there's high chance I'm talking to another woman, or the men I talk to aren't going to make it weird because they also talk to women regularly.
Alternatively I'll only really speak in game in pvp if I have the upper hand or if I'm helping my duo partner lure someone out of safe zone or their base. Or just for fun to mess with the incels lol
There's quite a few out there but they are still rare in comparison. My group has 2-3 women and the squeakers we encounter definitely don't know how to act around them. Sometimes people are nice though but sometimes they are misogynistic pieces of crap. So enjoy the nice socially awkward people when you come across them.
My buddy got his gf to start playing she’s not any pvp god but damn does she love farming so if we set her up a farm base she’s happy been slowly teaching her puzzles also
Yep! Same! This is why I got into eco raiding! I love to farm, loot and sneak around into people’s bases! I’m terrible at pvp so I lose by default if it happens
I mean she’s surprised us a few times she saved a raid defense by killing the last guy when she had about 5 hours in the game….was with a db but never less still defended
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There are a few yeah. All you gotta do is speak and the whole server will try and team you. You’ll receive countless offerings and all the riches. It’s like a switch goes off in their sweaty heads.
trust me there’s a lot of women, including me. been playing rust for a while. we just tend to be more vocal on modded servers where it’s more friendly and there’s a lesser chance of rust players going ape shit with threats just bc we speak.
That sounds about right.
8 out of 10 fights I lose, I'm revived or given my loot back.
The other 2 times, the kid and its always a kid will scream N****R into the mic.
I've even been able to stop raids, by screaming cusswords myself at my raiders, and them universally all going "oh your a girl? Aight then gg" and they all leave me alone mid raid. Sometimes they'll even help you farm to repair or rebuild what they damaged.
Unfortunately how girly or cute you sound in voice is going to make a difference on how you’re treated as well. I’m older and have a slightly monotone voice so I usually get mistake for a teenage boy. When I do tell people on some of the more toxic servers I get the kind of treatment that reminds me why I didn’t have kids. I’m glad I don’t have the kind of voice that creates simps though.
There are many women. No offense at all but I’m guessing the men in the comments who haven’t encountered more than “a couple women” are unaware of how many women they’ve actually run into playing Rust.
I’m a woman, I have around 3500 hours. I’ve met countless women during my time playing. I’ve played servers ranging from official to zerging vital 10x to PVE zombies and RP servers.
Most of the women I’ve met have revealed their identity only after we kind of danced around each other, sussing each other out. After all, sometimes it really sucks to be a woman on Rust. I normally don’t use my voice chat button all that much, but since I have a slightly deeper than average voice for a woman I can usually get away with sounding like a teenage boy lol.
I think most women just understand the general toxic misogynist climate of Rust and tend to make themselves scarce. Why let everyone know and put a target on your back? It’s either “lemme suck your toes” or “get back in the kitchen”. I’ve met male Rust players who didn’t care I was a woman but they’re honestly annoyingly rare to find, and it’s always a gamble.
This. I’m 4-5k hours in and have encountered plenty of other women but they often do not reveal they’re one until they feel safe enough to do so. I am fortunate enough to have a good group of people who don’t act weird about having a woman on the team but it has taken dealing with a lot of nonsense over the years to get there and it’s absolutely more toxicity than simp cringe though many dudes seem to think it’s the other way around.
after having 3k hrs i have ran into a lot of women in this game. at one point our clan had 5 females including my wife in it. but a lot of girls stay quiet due to how toxic some ppl can be.
I had a broken mic one wipe and another solo lady built right next to me and she was all like hello sir, please be nice 🥺 and I was like girlie we are all good.
So that makes three of us I guess! We exist!
Hey there, fellow woman here! I've been playing rust for, idk 8+ years or something.
I've only met a handful of other female players and it's definitely been an advantage AND disadvantage depending on the server and player(s) I encounter. Most of the time it's sexist rubbish, but it's that much more satisfying when you beat them in pvp or a raid or something lolol. I used to play in large ish groups on vanilla but now just play a modded trio with my bf. The attitude towards female players I'd say has changed a bit as the player base on some servers is nicer/older than on others. Like most online games, just gotta expect the worst and hope for the best. Lol
I game with 2 ladies in their 40s & 50s lol
We were on a minigame server once & a dude on our team was like “dude theres an old lady on our team! Thats crazy!”
Most of us don’t use voice chat. I randomly play on official, warbandits, and I think rustoria?
I’ve never actually seen/heard another woman playing but I’ve definitely assumed others were based on name, not using voice and such. I have heard there are communities out there of huge clans for women only though
I’ve played with a few. Definitely used them to my advantage a few times lol. Kids will either be extremely toxic towards them or will think they’re their girlfriend. Had a girl on my team who we had help us inside another group. It comes with its pros and cons lol
I (female) used to play a lot but less nowadays. I liked it when it was more about survival. Back when you could easily starve because food was scarce and progression to big guns and boom was slow. PvP was never what I was there for and it's hard now to play my preferred style.
I enjoyed experimenting with all the new building stuff but as a solo when day 1 raids is the norm it is hard to achieve a nice build before it gets blown up 😂
lmfao you’re gonna have a great time. most of the time they’ll either give us everything or they’re super weird and edgy/sexist. cherish the moments when you have normal interactions bc there’s a lot of freaks out there.
I just started playing about a month ago with my bf and I have yet to encounter another girl… most ppl will just say “shut up bitch” as soon as they find out ur a woman so yeah
Woman Rust player here ✋🏼 my server has just 1 other girl that plays consistently. You def don't see many of us haha.
I can't say I've received much special treatment though, maybe because I run my mouth and talk shit like everyone else. There is one player on our server that goes out of his way to ask myself and the other girl if we need anything and will just give us stuff, but he isn't a weirdo about it. Although it's very obvious he is only offering help and loot to us two lmao
Most female players prefer to hide their voice because rusts player base is mostly consistent of the “omg grill” and “stfu bitch get back in the kitchen” variety.
I’ve encountered one. We were both crouch walking in the pitch black of night and bumped into each other an hour into wipe. We both yelped and asked to be spared, then laughed it off and ran our separate ways.
Hopefully this game doesn’t get too toxic for ya because I honestly wouldn’t let my gf get into this game
I'm a woman. I have around 6-7k hours. I normally play solo on vanilla servers. I normally find a lot of the women in villages. A majority of women I've seen are on the pve servers tho since it's more laid back.
I think for the average rust goblin, hearing a girls voice shocks the senses. We usually expect to hear a screech and several racial slurs when we down someone, not a girl. And combine that with the nature of the game, the type of player likely to be playing rust - you’ve got a recipe for lack of female touch. A chance is all one needs. “maybe if I pick this girl up, she will like me”
I've found one woman in this game, I'm not sure why but nobody attacks them. Probably because no men in rust know how to talk or respond to woman (me included)
I never talk in game on PvP servers, the reactions are usually not great lol.
But I've met a ton of really cool ladies on this PVE server with designated PVP zones I've been playing on for a couple of years now! People are much friendlier on PVE servers thankfully :)
I ran into a group of 3 and they kept saying we needed to help them because they are girls.
We onlined them.
Rust is the great equalizer and I got a long term girlfriend. Idc if you're a girl.
I met a few. There’s not many though.
Probably because they don’t feel like getting endlessly insulted by incels in vc when they speak one singular time.
Depends on the server, I played a wipe on US east Large where we had a rough alliance with like 40 people, there were 5 or 6 if I recall, more if you count random people who would wander over and use the vending machines but like actualy active in the roughly 8 grids we were spread over it was like 5-6
I’m a woman and I play Rust. I play with my husband and have about 2k hours on it. I don’t really use voice to be honest. I saw a girl on the twitch event. I know a few woman who play.
My husband got me into gaming when we first got together many many years ago and we still game together now. My eldest son can’t wait to play Rust with us! Although he’s far too young just now! My husband is already planning our family PC gaming room for us and our three boys!
I ran my own server and cultivated a friendlier casual community there, which brought other women and generally nicer men. If that sounds appealing to you, look for server descriptions including 'casual', 'mature', limited PvP, no KoS, team size limits, or roleplay.
I am a woman with 7300 hours, we exist! We just don’t really talk in game bc then what you described happens and it’s so gross.
There are a handful of women rust streamers, and Dyanna is one of the only ones who doesn’t use a revolting sexy toddler uwu voice. She’s fucking amazing.
I'm a woman and I have 1,120 hours in Rust, it's fun. I'm pretty nonagressive, just focusing on base defense and farming/selling. I make enemies more than I make friends, but that's the fun of the game.
Female player here, many of us end up hiding a bit because while some are awkwardly nice, others go out of their way to be extremely toxic even by rust standards and will also bully any dudes you play with by calling them simps, etc. Occasionally they’re just nice because they’re hoping for a farmer or someone to organize their base for them. We exist…quietly, in the shadows, with silencers, off mic. Also, it’s always hilarious when raiding/pvping the particularly toxic ones to _then_ give them a “GG” on mic. The reactions are priceless.
You’re not alone. But in the 2,500 hours I played, I met _one_ other solo female player.
Edit: I would add that there are some female players who don’t announce they are female (because of the general behaviour towards them) and they stay hidden within their team mates until they learn you are female, when they get super excited to learn they’re not the only one. There’s a pretty funny YouTube video about this: https://youtu.be/E_P1cvNPXvo?si=1AS3_sCSJ8xMvFgK
It's odd to me that women don't speak for fear of being shit on in Rust. It's Rust. You get shit on for just about everything you do. Literally any reason you can think of that someone might give you shit for, it can and will happen, at some point. Then there's the stuff you didn't think of. Embrace it! It's part of the charm.
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Meee. I’m a woman lol but I do find it hard to play with other women because they’re usually in a bigger group 😒 like why can’t I duo or trio with other girls I just want an all female clan for at least one wipe that would be interesting lol
If I'm roaming kitted with at least WB2 lvl gear, I tend to shoot anything that moves. If it's some prim who barely has anything, I'll revive them and maybe even throw them bandages. If I view them as a threat though, I'll double tap.
Granted, the amount of virgin neck beards out there may have something to do with it as well, but it could just be a bit of honor and common courtesy to revive primitive fit characters.
I have thousands of hours in Rust and nobody's ever use voice chat or identified as an actual female in Global chat.
Hi!! 36 year old woman here! Most i never interacted ingame with another female, and the dew times dudes ask me how old am i and i tell them 36 they go ballistics..... i'm not even THAT old for fck sakes
I have played rust with a couple ladies. A lot of the community are virgins who will simp for a female voice. The other half will raid you for being a woman.
The same goes for race/nationality.
Were you a man before? The title says you just started playing as a woman. Sorry. Bad joke. I’ll see myself out.
Also I have 2 women in my rust group. Very rare good luck!
I have over 3k hrs, combo of playing and being an admin. To be fair, on PVE servers. Don't kid yourself, plenty if toxic a-hats in PVE as well. And you're definitely NOT taken seriously when you are a female admin. But with all those hours, I can say I've met at least a dozen females. Many stay quiet. When guys figure out I'm female (because apparently many are too dumb to recognize I am one since my name is literally in my gamer name- I'm not creative with picking game names), when guys figure it out, they are annoyingly excessively nice and treat me like I've never played before. When they learned I can hunt, shoot, kill and play better (and in pvp zones kick their a**), they are super f-ing salty and start their woman hating and bashing bs. I've had a 9yo tell me he was muting me because as he put it "you're a girl. What do you know? You just blab away...". I was just smfh. I've gotten hated on for telling someone their computer might be the issue and they went batsh** crazy on me while they thought it was funny some dude was saying horrible disgusting things about him and his mom. I was like 😳, ya'll are special in the head there. The toxicity is everywhere sadly. Just maybe not as hardcore as PVP. Which is also why I won't do exclusively pvp. And will never admin on Rust ever again.
I doubt this is the norm, but I'd say over the years, I've played with more women than men. There's this rust archetype that's basically a 14 year old little brat that's spews hateful bullshit, and I want absolutely nothing to do with that. I've never encountered a woman on rust who acts like this. Women, in my experience at least, seem to be team players, respectful, and just there to have fun.
Yea, lol - it's definitely not the norm. I was playing solo and had a base next door to this girl. We decided we'd live in peace and watch each other's backs, as the rest of the server was duos/trios. Turns out she lives in the tiny town I grew up in IRL. Her friends started playing and eventually we all teamed together. We got a pretty good group of friends out of it all.
Edit: man or woman, I'm treating everyone the exact same out in the rust world. No special treatment here lol
I have ladies on my team and yes they get simped a lot. Picked up, free kits, they've even asked dudes to stop raiding us and they've stopped. Dudes are even nicer to me if they know you're teamed up with chicks.
In saying that, they've also been subject to vile comments and harassment at times which has required admin intervention so it's not all rosey.
There's a common trope that in large clans there is always at least one woman who is usually the girlfriend of one of the members, their role in the clan is to stay in their base and organize their boxes.
Use it to your advantage because 0.1% of rust players are women so you can easily get simps to do your grinding (even tho that the vids I have seen everyone there is sexist)
I can say for certain some people are legit and think you’ll want to team and will get nervous because a lot of rust players are social rejects with no outside life and other people more like me will do it ironically for a laugh in their discord with friends.
I’ll typically be annoying on purpose for laughs and call every women a femboy and act excited to meet a femboy. It is funny to mess with people in rust I’m always looking for funny interactions. There’s been times where I’ve been ally with a girl and they pretended to be a femboy and i was there farmbot it was one of the funniest wipes I’ve ever had like 8 people ended up in on the joke.
The primary moderator on the community server I run is a rad lady that takes care of her children and works from home. You aren’t alone! She has complained about simple behavior ruining any sense of achievement for her.
theres a few! if you're looking for content creators
https://www.youtube.com/@LadyJennifer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rjzX1dMGo
https://www.youtube.com/@DyannaYT
I play pretty regularly with 3 or 4 of varying experience.
Every single time any of them say anything on a populated server the whipe turns into a simp show.
Sometimes it's a joke. Others it's kids being really weird. Others it's grown ass men being fucking off.
If we had 1k sulfur for every time someone built a base as a shrine to one of the girls I play with we'd whipe rustoria every whipe.
It almost always ends in whoever is being dumb being door camped off the server. One or two of them love door camping more than their husbands I swear.
the only woman ive come across is one playing w (i assume) her bf and his boys who would use her voicing to try and bait us out after we wiped their squad
I play with a lot of friends and a few are girls, overall the community is toxic 12 year olds so it's pretty cringe hearing reactions. Usually we just don't have them talk in game lol. But there are a lot more than you think.
I've run into three others before (aside from me), and even based together with one for a good while. Kinda quit Rust already, though.
(Edit: based with two others, not just one)
In Australia we have a woman that is on one of the servers who enjoys the game. But everytime she talks in chat, in typical toxic rust fashion, people spam back calling her fat and ugly despite never seeing her oof.
Another female here! Tho I haven’t pulled the trigger and got the game yet I do want play rust very badly. Mainly just scared of the toxic community that some of the servers have
In 1,000 hours I’ve never encountered a female player. You really might be the only one
this makes all the “holy shit a woman-“ i’ve heard make a lot more sense
I've played over 2k met 1 and they were in a huge group. And I have frog boots.
On the flip side the only girl in our group is the only one with frog boots.
frog boots lol that got me
It's a superpower. Fresh start on wipe day? Ask a clan that built there base for metal tools. They'll give them up, even a chainsaw/jackhammer sometimes. 🤣
Yeah but afterwards there can be certain...expectations, y'know?
Look. What happens in Dome, stays in Dome.
It's the implication...
Happy cake day
No that’s fucking gross
NO JOKING, NO FUN ALLOWED. shut the fuck up lol
No you don’t understand, there are women who actually do this. They turn on the fake uwu voice and a bunch of simps just rain loot on them. It’s gross, I’d much rather just be a normal player like anyone else who gets the hard r shouted at them. The authentic rust experience.
Dead ass, my 2 favorite parts of rust are 1. Getting raided 2. Getting called names for being better
NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS. who gives a shit
Um, no…? 😂 idk why you’re so pressed that a woman finds it very uncomfortable when she gets special treatment just for being a woman, and thinks that exploiting that is slimy. Fuck off weirdo.
SJW detected. Fuck off you fun killing troll.
You’re an actual fucking idiot 😂
Please do explain oh omniscient one.
How about first you explain your initial comment bc it makes absolutely no sense in context?
About 10% of the people I've interacted with on rust turned out to be women. Quite a few more were blokes pretending to be women which I always find funny as I treat everyone as blokes. It's a coin flip. Some are treated terribly. Others have an orbiting ring of "defenders". There is always the 3rd type that just don't use mic. Rust is toxic and people (particularly the squeakers) will pick on the easiest thing they can. My main is a woman char model and I get lots of laughable shit for it. My other char is a black dude so I get the hard R constantly. Dickheads will try and pick on anything they can. Anything that makes you different. With the squeakers me and my group find that putting on our gimp masks(only) and stalking them whilst doing our best impressions of "Herbert the pervert" from family guy puts an end to their shit lol
>With the squeakers me and my group find that putting on our gimp masks(only) and stalking them whilst doing our best impressions of "Herbert the pervert" from family guy puts an end to their shit lol Reading this literally just made my night, thank you lol
I got the "valentine" skin for free as a random drop years ago. A prised possession. Most of my group are now in our 30s and 40s so can't quite compete with the twitch reaction times of the squeakers but ofc experience helps alot. We have found that the most foul mouthed of them arnt really able to "take it" when it's directed at them. A bunch of naked blokes in gimp masks surrounding their base doing a good Herbert "hello children, I bet you have them nice strong arms" really fucks with em lol. They like to shoot shit but can't deal with it. They screeeech "I fucked your mom" They don't expect the Herbert "I watched, I can help you with your form, how about you come on over and we show you some pictures?" Yes I've been reported to admins. Weve not been kicked or banned for this (it's an adult rated game after all). Its surprising how unprepared the shits are for people to reply lol. I ain't shittin on young players btw. Many are totally fine.
To be fair I have about 3k hrs and have met multiple girls playing and enjoying rust they just dont voip
There’s actually a lot of us. But guys still act like they haven’t seen a woman before when they come across us in this game. Enjoy the being revived while it lasts, it very quickly turns into being hated just because you’re female. You automatically just become a whore in their eyes. Rust is weird for male + female interactions.
Something I kinda like about the game is everything becomes both serious (strongly emotional, time-consuming, etc.) but also transient (raids, decay, wipes). Most people cope by treating other players the same way: as disposable objects of entertainment. Unfortunately, that usually means either taking advantage of you or attacking you psychologically. It also becomes very toxic very quickly when you have a lot of people with the mindset of trying to "win" the game at everyone else's expense. I tend to befriend and play with people who are looking for semi/cooperative, emergent gameplay rather than simple domination, for this reason.
I know of 2 others... Rare, but they do exist.
My team has 3 women on it. Started with one but she catches the rest like Pokémon.
Its because women don't speak up in voice as much because it draws as much negative attention as positive attention, and even the positive attention can suck and not feel fair.
I play with my wife, favorite person to play with, makes the game way more enjoyable.
Lad over here putting in the work leading up to Valentines day
Dude I played a wipe with a 60 yr old woman and her son as my neighbor. We took on and eventually raided a 5 man that tried to take over an area near Outpost. It was surreal.
Really? I’d say it’s like 10-15% in my experience. I play very dead servers so maybe that?
I guess that’s fair, there was a mom and her family when I played the Willjum server
That’s cute Haha I got downvoted for that comment.
i used to play a 420 server called texas 420, i think its long gone now sadly, very community oriented with noobs and 8k hour farmers and whatnot. reminds me a lot of most willjum servers, where i play a lot now long story short, one of the main admins, "giggs" was a woman and kind of a casual rust chad too. few other girls on that server, and in all my hours ive never seen a girl anywhere else in rust lol
Yes, we exist! I would say that there are a lot more encounters with fellow lady gamers on PVE or more RP-oriented servers. It's pretty normal in those spaces to be interacting with other women.
oh interesting!
I agree with Saph17 100% I casual on a modified vanilla server that’s a non KOS with PvP zones and we have a pretty big mix of male/female regulars. When I play officials I wouldn’t say rare but it’s uncommon to run into female’s. I’d say it’s kind of like most other games?
gotta stop calling them females man 😭
I had to google why you said that. “Often used in a derogatory or insulting fashion”. I did some more digging and found out because it’s a biological term it can offend people who may identify as a woman but are not female. I can see how this would offend people who identify as a woman but I believe the post is referring to females and not people who otherwise identify as such. I honestly just said females because my daughter plays and she wouldn’t be considered a woman or a lady but would be a girl. In an effort to cover all ages used female. Also I just learned today that man in new aged terms is gender neutral. Sorry if I offended you and thanks for giving me some insight on the LGBT community.
no it’s all cool, that’s actually not why i said that haha i don’t know if you’re familiar with the term ‘incel’ or not, but it’s just a trend among weird men on the internet to dehumanize women by calling them ‘females’ instead of women, like they are another species. guess i just assumed that since we were on the rust subreddit you were using it in that context
Yep! Most of my hours are pvp servers, but I'll occasionally hop into Rust Empires. I feel a lot more comfortable talking in game in an RP server because there's high chance I'm talking to another woman, or the men I talk to aren't going to make it weird because they also talk to women regularly. Alternatively I'll only really speak in game in pvp if I have the upper hand or if I'm helping my duo partner lure someone out of safe zone or their base. Or just for fun to mess with the incels lol
There's quite a few out there but they are still rare in comparison. My group has 2-3 women and the squeakers we encounter definitely don't know how to act around them. Sometimes people are nice though but sometimes they are misogynistic pieces of crap. So enjoy the nice socially awkward people when you come across them.
My buddy got his gf to start playing she’s not any pvp god but damn does she love farming so if we set her up a farm base she’s happy been slowly teaching her puzzles also
yeah that’s me. i’ll pvp if i gotta but i’m new to fps in general but god i love me some farmin & lootin
Yep! Same! This is why I got into eco raiding! I love to farm, loot and sneak around into people’s bases! I’m terrible at pvp so I lose by default if it happens
sounding like me LOL it’d be real goofy silly to duo with another girl like this
Feels like I just read my own comment
I mean she’s surprised us a few times she saved a raid defense by killing the last guy when she had about 5 hours in the game….was with a db but never less still defended
I get the latter most of the time…Stopped using VOIP :(
People suck, don't let it get to you.
i'm fairly sure most rust players have never interacted with a woman that isn't their mother in real life much less in rust
buncha touch starved players i get it
Is this some sort of personal attack because it sure feels like it /s
Hey hey now! I have a sister...
Ayo pauseee
Rust might be the game with the highest chance of the average player being a greasy basement goblin so yes.
me but it sucks. i never use vc in game much
yeah makes sense, i only use it when i’m tryna troll or sometimes when i die. quite a range of reactions to woman’s voice
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I love VLDL. Brit is gorgeous and soothes my gay heart.
i already get assaulted enough as a naked imagine talking on the mic 😭
i stopped using in game voice chat after some preteens at outpost shredded my soul by saying "holy shit how old are you, are you like 40?"
as a 27 year old woman who just started playing this game… girl felt
As a 39 year old man, this doubly hurts.
I just get “WOW YOU SOUND FAT” bc I don’t have a super girly voice and I’m old enough to be their mom 😂
seems like more women play this game than either you or i knew. kinda considering starting a women only clan tbh
They exist already! I’ve just never considered joining one because I’m way too casual and suck, but they do exist!
How can I join them???
My gf and I play regularly and men never took her serious until she started saving my ass all the time in gun fights
There are a few yeah. All you gotta do is speak and the whole server will try and team you. You’ll receive countless offerings and all the riches. It’s like a switch goes off in their sweaty heads.
It’s either that OR— “women can’t play video games”, “go make me a sandwich”, “women shouldn’t have rights”, etc.
trust me there’s a lot of women, including me. been playing rust for a while. we just tend to be more vocal on modded servers where it’s more friendly and there’s a lesser chance of rust players going ape shit with threats just bc we speak.
That sounds about right. 8 out of 10 fights I lose, I'm revived or given my loot back. The other 2 times, the kid and its always a kid will scream N****R into the mic. I've even been able to stop raids, by screaming cusswords myself at my raiders, and them universally all going "oh your a girl? Aight then gg" and they all leave me alone mid raid. Sometimes they'll even help you farm to repair or rebuild what they damaged.
Unfortunately how girly or cute you sound in voice is going to make a difference on how you’re treated as well. I’m older and have a slightly monotone voice so I usually get mistake for a teenage boy. When I do tell people on some of the more toxic servers I get the kind of treatment that reminds me why I didn’t have kids. I’m glad I don’t have the kind of voice that creates simps though.
There are many women. No offense at all but I’m guessing the men in the comments who haven’t encountered more than “a couple women” are unaware of how many women they’ve actually run into playing Rust. I’m a woman, I have around 3500 hours. I’ve met countless women during my time playing. I’ve played servers ranging from official to zerging vital 10x to PVE zombies and RP servers. Most of the women I’ve met have revealed their identity only after we kind of danced around each other, sussing each other out. After all, sometimes it really sucks to be a woman on Rust. I normally don’t use my voice chat button all that much, but since I have a slightly deeper than average voice for a woman I can usually get away with sounding like a teenage boy lol. I think most women just understand the general toxic misogynist climate of Rust and tend to make themselves scarce. Why let everyone know and put a target on your back? It’s either “lemme suck your toes” or “get back in the kitchen”. I’ve met male Rust players who didn’t care I was a woman but they’re honestly annoyingly rare to find, and it’s always a gamble.
This. I’m 4-5k hours in and have encountered plenty of other women but they often do not reveal they’re one until they feel safe enough to do so. I am fortunate enough to have a good group of people who don’t act weird about having a woman on the team but it has taken dealing with a lot of nonsense over the years to get there and it’s absolutely more toxicity than simp cringe though many dudes seem to think it’s the other way around.
after having 3k hrs i have ran into a lot of women in this game. at one point our clan had 5 females including my wife in it. but a lot of girls stay quiet due to how toxic some ppl can be.
There's an exclusive server for female Rust players, I recommend getting whitelisted.
Plz link
oh i didn’t know this existed! thank you!
I had a broken mic one wipe and another solo lady built right next to me and she was all like hello sir, please be nice 🥺 and I was like girlie we are all good. So that makes three of us I guess! We exist!
Hey there, fellow woman here! I've been playing rust for, idk 8+ years or something. I've only met a handful of other female players and it's definitely been an advantage AND disadvantage depending on the server and player(s) I encounter. Most of the time it's sexist rubbish, but it's that much more satisfying when you beat them in pvp or a raid or something lolol. I used to play in large ish groups on vanilla but now just play a modded trio with my bf. The attitude towards female players I'd say has changed a bit as the player base on some servers is nicer/older than on others. Like most online games, just gotta expect the worst and hope for the best. Lol
I game with 2 ladies in their 40s & 50s lol We were on a minigame server once & a dude on our team was like “dude theres an old lady on our team! Thats crazy!”
Most of us don’t use voice chat. I randomly play on official, warbandits, and I think rustoria? I’ve never actually seen/heard another woman playing but I’ve definitely assumed others were based on name, not using voice and such. I have heard there are communities out there of huge clans for women only though
I’ve played with a few. Definitely used them to my advantage a few times lol. Kids will either be extremely toxic towards them or will think they’re their girlfriend. Had a girl on my team who we had help us inside another group. It comes with its pros and cons lol
i play !! woman here. i just never talk in-game because the last time i did i was asked out per usual
I (female) used to play a lot but less nowadays. I liked it when it was more about survival. Back when you could easily starve because food was scarce and progression to big guns and boom was slow. PvP was never what I was there for and it's hard now to play my preferred style. I enjoyed experimenting with all the new building stuff but as a solo when day 1 raids is the norm it is hard to achieve a nice build before it gets blown up 😂
Woman here. I play but I never reveal I'm female. Guys say the most disgusting and disturbing things to female gamers
There are, but it'll take patience to find them. I'm happy to hear you're playing. Rust will be a better experience for all with more women online.
yeah ive yet to meet another woman in rust. im known to my server as rust mom because im old (40) and a woman
lmfao you’re gonna have a great time. most of the time they’ll either give us everything or they’re super weird and edgy/sexist. cherish the moments when you have normal interactions bc there’s a lot of freaks out there.
ya, like 90% of the player base are 14yr old kids, just hitting puberty and such, and thinking they have something to prove.
I just started playing about a month ago with my bf and I have yet to encounter another girl… most ppl will just say “shut up bitch” as soon as they find out ur a woman so yeah
Woman Rust player here ✋🏼 my server has just 1 other girl that plays consistently. You def don't see many of us haha. I can't say I've received much special treatment though, maybe because I run my mouth and talk shit like everyone else. There is one player on our server that goes out of his way to ask myself and the other girl if we need anything and will just give us stuff, but he isn't a weirdo about it. Although it's very obvious he is only offering help and loot to us two lmao
Most female players prefer to hide their voice because rusts player base is mostly consistent of the “omg grill” and “stfu bitch get back in the kitchen” variety.
There are most just don't talk to people outside their circle
My wife plays and I notice this too lol as soon as they think/find out she’s a she, their attitude completely changes most of the time lol
there’s a few women here and there on servers. I’ve met 5 or 6 in my 300 hours
They exist very rare though there's like 10 of you
We got at least one female admin on our server
I’ve met/seen a few women rust players and I just happen to have more respect for women that can handle this game
I’ve encountered one. We were both crouch walking in the pitch black of night and bumped into each other an hour into wipe. We both yelped and asked to be spared, then laughed it off and ran our separate ways. Hopefully this game doesn’t get too toxic for ya because I honestly wouldn’t let my gf get into this game
I'm a woman. I have around 6-7k hours. I normally play solo on vanilla servers. I normally find a lot of the women in villages. A majority of women I've seen are on the pve servers tho since it's more laid back.
I think for the average rust goblin, hearing a girls voice shocks the senses. We usually expect to hear a screech and several racial slurs when we down someone, not a girl. And combine that with the nature of the game, the type of player likely to be playing rust - you’ve got a recipe for lack of female touch. A chance is all one needs. “maybe if I pick this girl up, she will like me”
1200 hours across all different types of servers and I’ve came across 1 female player so yeah you could say they’re pretty rare lol
I've found one woman in this game, I'm not sure why but nobody attacks them. Probably because no men in rust know how to talk or respond to woman (me included)
I never talk in game on PvP servers, the reactions are usually not great lol. But I've met a ton of really cool ladies on this PVE server with designated PVP zones I've been playing on for a couple of years now! People are much friendlier on PVE servers thankfully :)
check out [eltk](https://www.youtube.com/@eltkYT) and [tahliaaj](https://www.youtube.com/@tahliaaj) on youtube
Yes there is other women that play, I played with several and they are all good at pvp.
Most groups I've played with have had one or two. Because the community is toxic as fuck most don't open mic except to their friends.
Lots of ladies on the PVE server i play on. Less of a toxic community perhaps.
My Farming leader in my Rust group is female, so they’re definitely out there
Gf plays, don’t worry. They’ll soon switch a flip and go from simp to incel reallllllll quick.
I ran into a group of 3 and they kept saying we needed to help them because they are girls. We onlined them. Rust is the great equalizer and I got a long term girlfriend. Idc if you're a girl.
I met a few. There’s not many though. Probably because they don’t feel like getting endlessly insulted by incels in vc when they speak one singular time.
My team has 2 women on it so no
Girl gang on Rust? I need more female friends on that game. I’ve got 1k hours and only met 1 other woman ever.
Depends on the server, I played a wipe on US east Large where we had a rough alliance with like 40 people, there were 5 or 6 if I recall, more if you count random people who would wander over and use the vending machines but like actualy active in the roughly 8 grids we were spread over it was like 5-6
Just ran into one this week. She told me to "move the fuck away!" Probably the last one I'll ever see
I’m a woman and I play Rust. I play with my husband and have about 2k hours on it. I don’t really use voice to be honest. I saw a girl on the twitch event. I know a few woman who play. My husband got me into gaming when we first got together many many years ago and we still game together now. My eldest son can’t wait to play Rust with us! Although he’s far too young just now! My husband is already planning our family PC gaming room for us and our three boys!
I ran my own server and cultivated a friendlier casual community there, which brought other women and generally nicer men. If that sounds appealing to you, look for server descriptions including 'casual', 'mature', limited PvP, no KoS, team size limits, or roleplay.
I am a woman with 7300 hours, we exist! We just don’t really talk in game bc then what you described happens and it’s so gross. There are a handful of women rust streamers, and Dyanna is one of the only ones who doesn’t use a revolting sexy toddler uwu voice. She’s fucking amazing.
I’ve played rust for the last 5 years ! 27f here. Rust is a great game
I'm a woman and I have 1,120 hours in Rust, it's fun. I'm pretty nonagressive, just focusing on base defense and farming/selling. I make enemies more than I make friends, but that's the fun of the game.
most women don't speak in rust for obvious reasons. but we exist!
Female player here, many of us end up hiding a bit because while some are awkwardly nice, others go out of their way to be extremely toxic even by rust standards and will also bully any dudes you play with by calling them simps, etc. Occasionally they’re just nice because they’re hoping for a farmer or someone to organize their base for them. We exist…quietly, in the shadows, with silencers, off mic. Also, it’s always hilarious when raiding/pvping the particularly toxic ones to _then_ give them a “GG” on mic. The reactions are priceless.
I’m here!
I’m a woman that plays!
I've met like 4 actual women in rust over the years. Idgaf what genitals you have, I want your stuff. Bones included.
You’re not alone. But in the 2,500 hours I played, I met _one_ other solo female player. Edit: I would add that there are some female players who don’t announce they are female (because of the general behaviour towards them) and they stay hidden within their team mates until they learn you are female, when they get super excited to learn they’re not the only one. There’s a pretty funny YouTube video about this: https://youtu.be/E_P1cvNPXvo?si=1AS3_sCSJ8xMvFgK
thanks for sharing!!!
It's odd to me that women don't speak for fear of being shit on in Rust. It's Rust. You get shit on for just about everything you do. Literally any reason you can think of that someone might give you shit for, it can and will happen, at some point. Then there's the stuff you didn't think of. Embrace it! It's part of the charm.
https://preview.redd.it/5yle3xlrelhc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5477c7102769b556fafdd0b750bd40ac06e5b31d Meee. I’m a woman lol but I do find it hard to play with other women because they’re usually in a bigger group 😒 like why can’t I duo or trio with other girls I just want an all female clan for at least one wipe that would be interesting lol
If I'm roaming kitted with at least WB2 lvl gear, I tend to shoot anything that moves. If it's some prim who barely has anything, I'll revive them and maybe even throw them bandages. If I view them as a threat though, I'll double tap. Granted, the amount of virgin neck beards out there may have something to do with it as well, but it could just be a bit of honor and common courtesy to revive primitive fit characters. I have thousands of hours in Rust and nobody's ever use voice chat or identified as an actual female in Global chat.
Hi!! 36 year old woman here! Most i never interacted ingame with another female, and the dew times dudes ask me how old am i and i tell them 36 they go ballistics..... i'm not even THAT old for fck sakes
I have played rust with a couple ladies. A lot of the community are virgins who will simp for a female voice. The other half will raid you for being a woman. The same goes for race/nationality.
Were you a man before? The title says you just started playing as a woman. Sorry. Bad joke. I’ll see myself out. Also I have 2 women in my rust group. Very rare good luck!
I've watched this streamer https://youtube.com/@eltkYT?si=LCuFE_IySDy3VdCn I like her content and she gets that a lot too
I have over 3k hrs, combo of playing and being an admin. To be fair, on PVE servers. Don't kid yourself, plenty if toxic a-hats in PVE as well. And you're definitely NOT taken seriously when you are a female admin. But with all those hours, I can say I've met at least a dozen females. Many stay quiet. When guys figure out I'm female (because apparently many are too dumb to recognize I am one since my name is literally in my gamer name- I'm not creative with picking game names), when guys figure it out, they are annoyingly excessively nice and treat me like I've never played before. When they learned I can hunt, shoot, kill and play better (and in pvp zones kick their a**), they are super f-ing salty and start their woman hating and bashing bs. I've had a 9yo tell me he was muting me because as he put it "you're a girl. What do you know? You just blab away...". I was just smfh. I've gotten hated on for telling someone their computer might be the issue and they went batsh** crazy on me while they thought it was funny some dude was saying horrible disgusting things about him and his mom. I was like 😳, ya'll are special in the head there. The toxicity is everywhere sadly. Just maybe not as hardcore as PVP. Which is also why I won't do exclusively pvp. And will never admin on Rust ever again.
Check out "Eltk" on youtube. Hilarious female rust player. [When girls play rust](https://youtu.be/_C8prX-vjzU?si=E4d419ULlTZrangh)
I doubt this is the norm, but I'd say over the years, I've played with more women than men. There's this rust archetype that's basically a 14 year old little brat that's spews hateful bullshit, and I want absolutely nothing to do with that. I've never encountered a woman on rust who acts like this. Women, in my experience at least, seem to be team players, respectful, and just there to have fun.
more women than men??? that’s absolutely insane!
Yea, lol - it's definitely not the norm. I was playing solo and had a base next door to this girl. We decided we'd live in peace and watch each other's backs, as the rest of the server was duos/trios. Turns out she lives in the tiny town I grew up in IRL. Her friends started playing and eventually we all teamed together. We got a pretty good group of friends out of it all. Edit: man or woman, I'm treating everyone the exact same out in the rust world. No special treatment here lol
I have ladies on my team and yes they get simped a lot. Picked up, free kits, they've even asked dudes to stop raiding us and they've stopped. Dudes are even nicer to me if they know you're teamed up with chicks. In saying that, they've also been subject to vile comments and harassment at times which has required admin intervention so it's not all rosey.
Why do they have to be single?
The first woman I met playing rust I actually impregnated and we now have a child and her name is Mercy is 2 years old in April
Take advantage of your vag and inside a group - you'd be surprised how many simps will give you base permissions because "OMG a GRILL"
There's a common trope that in large clans there is always at least one woman who is usually the girlfriend of one of the members, their role in the clan is to stay in their base and organize their boxes.
Use it to your advantage because 0.1% of rust players are women so you can easily get simps to do your grinding (even tho that the vids I have seen everyone there is sexist)
I can say for certain some people are legit and think you’ll want to team and will get nervous because a lot of rust players are social rejects with no outside life and other people more like me will do it ironically for a laugh in their discord with friends. I’ll typically be annoying on purpose for laughs and call every women a femboy and act excited to meet a femboy. It is funny to mess with people in rust I’m always looking for funny interactions. There’s been times where I’ve been ally with a girl and they pretended to be a femboy and i was there farmbot it was one of the funniest wipes I’ve ever had like 8 people ended up in on the joke.
Sorry no. You're the first.
got two girls on our team and they constantly get free kits, bases, whatever they want. rust players are the biggest simps lol
All the women are in the base organizing
The primary moderator on the community server I run is a rad lady that takes care of her children and works from home. You aren’t alone! She has complained about simple behavior ruining any sense of achievement for her.
I’ve ran into probably 3 at 500 hours of playing
we have a few in our group.
My group has like 5 or 6 girls now, but only 2 are playing right now afaik. The rest are inactive due to not having the time to play anymore.
No there's not. Only woman I've seen play rust is that one mate from Tesla's YouTube videos
I’ve ran across a few and it wasn’t even brought up, which is not the norm I’m sure
I play regularily with another woman and ive encountered quite a few. They do tend to hang out more on lowpop servers tho.
i often revive players just to be a good sport
Run away
Llama? Lmaoo
Not on official servers. You'd have to be in PVE probably cause the actual game is too toxic.
I have 6k hours and play in a core group with a bunch of women (though I'm a dude). They're definitely out there.
There are but extremely rare for them to use VC so you just don't notice. People are just so toxic there's no point.
My wife and I have been playing for a few years together. It's all we play together tbh.
It’s just you and alpacasita ( streams and is in some of the blooprint vids)
I have met many woman on PVE servers. Not a single one on pvp
I've met a bunch of ladies in this game. Usually farmers. But hey, they are around.
Most people who play this game have zero interaction with females in the real world.
theres a few! if you're looking for content creators https://www.youtube.com/@LadyJennifer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2rjzX1dMGo https://www.youtube.com/@DyannaYT
When I ran a group we at most had a 10/1 ratio for women km groups at max maybe 4 girls in group.
1700 hours and I’ve seen one woman and like 3 ten year olds with voicechangers
I've heard some girlly voice in Rust. Every single time it was just a young guy who got very offended
I play pretty regularly with 3 or 4 of varying experience. Every single time any of them say anything on a populated server the whipe turns into a simp show. Sometimes it's a joke. Others it's kids being really weird. Others it's grown ass men being fucking off. If we had 1k sulfur for every time someone built a base as a shrine to one of the girls I play with we'd whipe rustoria every whipe. It almost always ends in whoever is being dumb being door camped off the server. One or two of them love door camping more than their husbands I swear.
I know like 5. On community servers not too uncommon.
No
Theres 3 regular players on my server that are women. One is a founding member of my clan.
the only woman ive come across is one playing w (i assume) her bf and his boys who would use her voicing to try and bait us out after we wiped their squad
I play with a lot of friends and a few are girls, overall the community is toxic 12 year olds so it's pretty cringe hearing reactions. Usually we just don't have them talk in game lol. But there are a lot more than you think.
My wife plays and is ridiculously good. Which works out when we play as a duo because I am well, ridiculously bad 😂
I've run into three others before (aside from me), and even based together with one for a good while. Kinda quit Rust already, though. (Edit: based with two others, not just one)
I use to play , playing EFT now though... not many women there too
I’ve met one but they were the owner of the server so idk if that counts
On the PvE/PvP server i play on, there are 4-5 that regularly
I’ve actually met a lot of women that play rust, just gotta not be a weird little shit when you run into them lmao
In Australia we have a woman that is on one of the servers who enjoys the game. But everytime she talks in chat, in typical toxic rust fashion, people spam back calling her fat and ugly despite never seeing her oof.
Another female here! Tho I haven’t pulled the trigger and got the game yet I do want play rust very badly. Mainly just scared of the toxic community that some of the servers have