Rust has well and truly taken over Twitch in the new year, even hitting a massive 1.2m viewers on the platform last week, and it’s all thanks to Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel and his can’t-look-away “villain” persona in the OfflineTV servers. Every few weeks, Twitch will move to a new “flavor of the month”. In 2020, that was titles like chaotic party game Fall Guys, whodunnit Among Us, and even going back to the start of the year, shooter Escape from Tarkov. One game, though, was more explosive than all the rest: Rust. Facepunch’s multiplayer-only survival title has been around for a while — in fact, it’s just celebrated its seventh birthday — but only recently has it found its way to the upper echelons of Twitch’s streaming platform. It’s suddenly enjoying a late-stage renaissance. That’s all down to one thing — in early December, creator group OfflineTV founded a streamer server, led by stars like Pokimane, Shroud, and Myth. It was an interesting concept, but it was taken to the next level by a single invite. Enter Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel. Over the last few weeks, xQc has proven something: he’s the perfect Rust villain, and just what OTV’s servers needed…
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xQc was the perfect Rust 'bad guy' for OfflineTV's explosive server
