Remastering R.U.S.E

This is a community discussion group based around heavily modding and remastering R.U.S.E.

What we aim to do!

Having played R.U.S.E for the past several years I have noticed a few areas where the game lacks behind other World War Two based strategy games. I have gathered a collection of changes and tweaks that I would like to implement into the game in order to create a more fair-based experience for players. To me gameplay is everything and I am going to go about this several ways.

Firstly we are going to start off with the time periods within multiplayer. I aim to create a new game mode, which allows multiplayer matches to follow the war year by year. For example instead of the traditional 1939 – 1942 and 1944 time periods, I will be introducing 1939, 41, 42 and so on. This is aimed allowing players to upgrade units based around historical accuracy, thus giving players a new and fresh approach to playing. This will also dictate each player’s style of playing. For example nations such as Germany will have access to early war units such as the Panzer 38(t) and Panzer 2. They will be able to produce these cheap and quickly for an authentic blitzkrieg style of playing. Where as France will have the more heavily armoured Char D2 tanks. These will be slow to produce and deploy however their thicker armour will give them more protection against the early war German tanks.

Another area I am going to focus on will be the upgrading system. The new upgrading system will allow players to upgrade to newer tanks of the same model. For example early Panzer 4’s will have less around protection, a weaker gun but will be fast to produce, however the upgraded models will have thicker armour, a better gun but will be slower to produce.

I also will look at changing how air combat is played. I will look into adding new aircraft to replace the existing one. An example of this would be the increasing the price of the better aircraft and allowing weaker nations such as France and Italy to challenge bigger nations like England and Japan. To compensate I will introduce new aircraft into each nation as a means balance out the nations.

Pricing. Pricing will change dramatically. I will base this around the actual production costs in real life. This is so the standard style of spamming heavy tanks can no longer be easily achieved. Hopefully this will deter people away from spamming prototypes like the Maus and IS3.

Along with these changes there will be an introduction of a vast number of new units. I will post a list of units that will be added at a later date.

To be continued..