It seems better to me too. Nice shading but as dengue said, there is some minor mistakes for example the shading of the top isn't satisfying.
And at the back of the head, there is some pixels left out.
The eyes look fine to me but I think you should use more colors too.
Gj.

Wow, u sell it?

Personally I like v2 better then the final verision. I think you should go back to v2 and continue from there.

I agree with Tottis the old one looks much more exciting and less dull

Thanks for the input, problem is I deleted the previous version - maybe I'll redo it from the sketch.. anyways here's another WIP:



Working on making the visor glass cracked and the helmet shading atm.. probably should lower everything by about 15% too as the mapping kind of sucks.

Also the blue part will disappear and I'll make grates going from the back all the way to the visor