2013: zombies, cars, a raw island
Early public Rust sat closer to a DayZ mod: slow zombies, different models, a different map. Cars and other pieces were later cut. It is a historical build, not what most players ran at the 2014 peak.
2015 v1069: the classic
Animals instead of zombies, the familiar craft tree, M4, C4, bags, radtown. Build v1069 (12 Mar 2015) is the last one Fougerite, RustBuster, and almost every live slot still use. When someone in CIS says “old Rust”, they mean this.
What we run
The 2015 client, v1069. Not zombie-2013. Not current Rust dressed as “classic”. Mod stack: Fougerite, not the Oxide/uMod that ships for today’s Rust — that API does not boot on this exe.