Legion wrote BTW rust admins are some if the most strict. If you're Ina custom server they'll see you've been previously banned and ban you from the server. And yes rust does hwid ban. It's easy anti cheat.

Legion wrote The only way to play custom servers without getting banned again is using a hwid spoofer and also not having any of the sane accounts you got banned on on your pc. They have an admin plugin that use battlemetrics and other sources that can see what alt accounts you have on your pc and also what other servers you've banned from and they see your gamebanned alt they will ban you from the custom server for sure. I've been banned on rust. After the first time I thought the same thing that they wouldn't hwid ban. I played for a week. After that boom banned again. No cheats involved the 2nd time around. So I'd say without a spoofer you're taking a risk. But sync.top is permanent. If you use a permanent spoofer though you'll be using ethernet forever. I'd say hit or miss tho on the first hwid banned. Maybe I was just unlucky . No matter what you do you'll need something. If you make a fresh account and buy rust right now without doing anything else I guarantee you won't last more than a day on a good custom server

Legion wrote Yeah I had to abandoned my main steam account as well. You could maybe get by not abandoning your acciunt. Just never ever ever open rust on it again. But this is only after you've spoofed and stuff.