Dustline Royale

Rust x PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS x Forza Horizon 5 - a top-down battle-royale car-combat mashup. One map, one shrinking bluezone, eight armed cars: loot a Rust-styled desert, fight 7 AI rivals, be the last engine running.

How the three games are really in it

• Rust (primary, required) - the world & loot: the mod scans your Rust install's Bundles/items/*.json and builds the loot pool from real Rust items - every weapon (AK, MP5, Thompson, pump shotgun, bolt rifles...), med, armor piece and car module is a genuine Rust item shown with its genuine icon and name (3098 items scanned).
• PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (companion, required) - the bluezone: the mod verifies your PUBG build and its pak listing (PUBG is never launched - kernel anti-cheat), and brings PUBG's zone rhythm: 9 phases of wait/shrink/hold with rising DPS, target-ring preview, hazmat + antirad give zone resistance.
• Forza Horizon 5 (secondary, optional) - the garage: the mod reads media/Cars/*.zip car packs from your FH5 install (auto-located via Steam). 12 cars: Huracan EVO, 720S, Jesko, 370Z Nismo, RX-7, Charger Daytona, Camaro SS, Trophy Truck, Warthog, Supra MkIV, Nomad, VelociRaptor 6x6. Missing FH5? The game tells you in-game and falls back to Dustline test cars.

How it plays

The mod never launches any of the three games - it reads item metadata, car pack filenames and pak listings from your installed copies, read-only. No game content ships inside the mod.

• First minute: spawn at a fork - SCRAP (car modules + mats) or GUNS (weapon crates). Loot a pistol, pick a lane, phase 1 announces in 40s.
• Car combat: ram damage scales with closing speed; 7 AI rivals with distinct skill/aggression and preferred cars.
• Crafting: spend scrap on armor plates (35) and field repairs (+45 HP).
• Armor soaks 60% of damage; zone does 1-15 dps across 9 PUBG phases.
• Death feed, ALIVE counter, and a source panel showing which of the three games were detected on your PC.

Controls: WASD drive, mouse aim, LMB/Space fire, C craft, R rematch, M mute, ESC garage.

Requirements: Rust (required), PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (required), Forza Horizon 5 (optional - unlocks the real car roster). All read-only from your own installed Steam copies; nothing is launched and no game content is redistributed.