Rise of the Crime Lords is a mod that adds the Black Sun Syndicate and The Hutt Cartel as playable factions along with multiple additions to the original ones as well as adding some new unplayable ones.
Don´t take me wrong, it´s truly a great piece of work for a mod made in single person and I enjoyed playing it! New factions, ideas, unique units... However I have to be fair to the other mods (PR, TR, RaW, ORaW, Legacy, Alliance, CW...) and compared to them I can´t give you anything close 10, sorry.
How to make it better? I would suggest you to continue on fixing bugs (some abilities not working, text missing) and focus on the balance (units cost mainly, maybe some new units).
Bu keep it up, will wait for a 3.0 or sort of that! ;)
Great Idea. I see a great future for this Mod.
A few Ideas:
- New Units (since BS and HC are almost the same, different base texture)
- Techs (There are no techs for the new factions. They could even use the same techs as the ZC since they are in the same line, all three of them criminals. Even the mercenary posts does not hace any tech. The Criminal factions can have the same tech as the GE and RA aswell. Maybe change the text, skin, tech name but this will help a lot)
- Buildpads - The Hutt Cartel (in my experience) cant obtain the big buildpads. This is really bad since the mines are mostly the first thing you go get when playing. / The Hutt Structure (which I just forgot his name) Has no units when playing with the BS.
Besides that, great job on the heroes, their text. The new "dropships" and their skin. It is indeed a really good work, and, like said before, I can see it having a great future.
I haven't played the mod but i am gonna love it if you put more units to the new factions and fix the bugs and ad the mandalorian faction playable. Then this mod can be a great.If you have z3rox is foc addon 3.5 you can use that stuff for that mod. Now then i will give a 9/10 or 10/10.
Excellent mod, the thing i love most about it is that it's quite polished and that it stays close to the vanilla game, just adding more factions and units to play with.
Both the new factions are fun and are cool to play as or fight against. However, I felt that the hero units for the Black sun were very over-powered in space (which was fun a first, but got boring fast). Overall, however, I thought the mod was very good and enjoyable to play
Good mod with good faction with good units. My review is 10. Because of many creative thing in this mod. Great thanks to authors for this!