Alright so personally I think apunkagames or apunkagames.biz is safe even though windows defender thinks it is a trojan but windows defender is toothless as hell, I've downloaded quite a lot of games from there, mainly compressed games and repacks such as hitman and mirror's edge. Works like an absolute charm for shitty internet users like me but best to use an adblocker and turn on the 'ask before downloading'... Source: over 2 years ago

Apunkagames.biz is also a good option. Source: over 2 years ago

Daily pop peak is 8-12 so far, feel free to check battlemetrics.com. Source: 7 months ago

The server browser on scum is a mess so battlemetrics.com is the best way to browse servers just sort by population or search for hardcore, vanilla, 10x loot whatever youre looking for. Source: about 1 year ago

Official is littered with cheaters in fact the publisher owner of snail games is known to own a cheater tribe called tea. Go tobattlemetrics.com and search u.s. Servers I recommend a fresh wipe of your server type. Search things like 1/ to get a cluster that just wiped. Source: over 1 year ago

Some handy websites are rustlabs.com and battlemetrics.com. Rustlabs acts as a wiki of sorts for the game and battlemetrics is a better way of finding and joining servers. Source: over 1 year ago

Sometimes a server just doesn't show up in the server list. You can try finding the server in just-wiped.net or battlemetrics.com there is a connect button in these websites that connects you to the server through your steam account. You could also find out if the server is really down from player count in the websites I mentioned. Source: over 1 year ago