Original War: Sands of Siberia Finally With Version 1.6. It Includes Final Missions of the Ares Campaign
Sands of Siberia, the most important mod for the classic RTS Original War, received version 1.6. It brings the Ares campaign to completion, offering, among other things, five new story missions.
Original War is a beloved RTS. The game is now 23 years old, but it's still worth revisiting, not least because of the excellent Sand of Siberia mod. This ambitious fan project has just received version 1.6.
We waited a long time for this update - after all, the previous edition (1.5.4a) was released in April 2022. It was worth it, though, as the 1.6 release brought a ton of changes and new features. The most important of these are:
- Added final 5 missions of the Ares campaign.
- Added 80 Character biographies for characters from all campaign nations.
- Added 4th difficulty level.
- Added rally point for vehicles produced in the factory.
- Added Pick crates from area command to the depot.
- Added 3 skirmish levels: White Tiger; Motherlode; War for territory.
- Added 3 special classes for the Ares campaign. (Revolver, Hunter, Captive)
- Added a few unique dialogues in the American campaign.
- Added Captain Truman to the American campaign.
- Added passive bonuses for the commander of Gamma, (Lucy Donaldson, Jeff Brown) during the mission "Born Heroes".
- Added new backgrounds for character, building and vehicle portraits.
- Remade missions: "Surprise party", "Born Heroes" and "Genie in a bottle".
- Rebalanced the Gattling Gun and Rocket Launcher.
- Several bug fixes.
The scale of the changes is best reflected by the fact that the previous version of the mod after unpacking was about 2 GB, while 1.6 is 5.32 GB.
Version 1.6 is not just additions/ The authors removed the Russian campaign. This is because it currently presents a low level of quality and suffers from many problems. This campaign will return in an improved form in the 1.7 edition of the mod.
For those who are new to this mod it’s also worth mentioning that besides new campaigns and skirmish maps Sands of Siberia also heavily improves the game's artificial intelligence. In addition, the mod introduces new weapons, animations, and sound effects. It also improves the interface.
Important note: the mod requires a game updated to at least version 3.0.9.306. In addition, the changes in version 1.6 are so big that trying to overwrite the old files will only cause you problems. Instead, delete the old version of the mod first before installing the new one
