Plans for Tour of Duty in AH2?

[Preon1]

Hi all!  I've been out of the loop for the better part of a year waiting for AH2 to come out.  Now that it's so close to release, I've been looking for threads relating to the Tour of Duty concept. (flying a career of missions in a server driven campaign complete with multiple avatars and theaters)  Has that been lost?  It seems AH2 will release with the basic AH1 features plus an upgraded graphics/physics engine. (not trying to knock it)

Will we be able to expect the career progression concept that was being discussed a year ago?

Patiently waiting,
-Preon

[Zanth]

I know the topic section is labled Tour of Duty, but no one is discussing that yet as we are all equally ignorant on that subject.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Preon1
Hi all!  I've been out of the loop for the better part of a year waiting for AH2 to come out.  Now that it's so close to release, I've been looking for threads relating to the Tour of Duty concept. (flying a career of missions in a server driven campaign complete with multiple avatars and theaters)  Has that been lost?  It seems AH2 will release with the basic AH1 features plus an upgraded graphics/physics engine. (not trying to knock it)

Will we be able to expect the career progression concept that was being discussed a year ago?

Patiently waiting,
-Preon

The crew at HTC said a while back (over a year ago, I'll look for it) that AHII Would have a seperate arena for ToD. Thus we would have AHII Classic (with the current MA style of play) and AHII:ToD with the "mission arena." It was also explained that AHII would initially release with just the "Classic" component, with the ToD to be added later.  This would allow them to release AHII without having to wait for all the full developement of the Mission Theater aspect.

As I recall, they didn't mention a time frame between the two releases.

-Sik

[Sikboy]

Here's some hearsay from Slapshot, from the 2003 Con.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96169

-Sik