Oh hi! It's another review for Romanov's Vengeance!
I kind of expected to do this because the devs mentioned that there was going to be a hack of a lot more coming for RV, and boy they weren't wrong. The newest stable version of RV contains a lot more than the previous version had, including new game modes, maps and a Yuri faction. I took some time to play it over the past few days so here's an up-to-date review of the mod. I'll also point to a download link 'cause this bootyhead forgot to do it.
1) Gameplay
The gameplay has improved since the last release. The biggest difference I noticed is the V3 Launcher and Dreadnought logic has been improved. They still hurl their rockets at the enemy LIKE A BOSS but they now set them up before launching them, something that has now been around since OpenRA began, and probably the reason why Dreadnoughts and V3s currently aren't available in the RA2 port for OpenRA (as of this post). I also liked the new game modes in the game. I played a 1v1 Domination match and while it took me a while to figure it out, once I did it was really fun. It'd be fun to make dedicated AIs for each game mode (given it doesn't impact the load time) but the new AI as a whole is great. The cheaters.
2) Detail
The level of detail is unfortunately the same as in previous versions. I honestly don't fault the devs for this but its still something I feel I need to nitpick. I think it has improved SLIGHTLY with the new version, bit I still noticed that some of the shadows were off and the Prism Tank has a black mirror instead of a white one - something I don't like to stare at for too long. Again I know it's not dev's fault and I wouldn't say they had any control over it, but I still don't like it.
Overall...
It's not a MASSIVE change per se, the newest version, but still one that I appreciate. The game feels pretty new with all the changes and I definitely recommend giving it another chance, if not for the looks definitely for the new game modes and subfactions. I've also heard there are multiplayer servers up and running but I haven't gotten the chance to play any of them so that's not being included in the review. Overall a great improvement over the previous version. You can find the newest release here: Github.com. Now leave me alone with my rockets and maybe one day we can take over the world together. Revenge needs to be taken, after all!
One mission, one purpose.
