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Title: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: cooldued on December 14, 2010, 11:24:24 AM
I Googled aceshigh in pics and found this what is it? did they just go lets just changet the name to "Aces High II" and get rid of the "Tour of Duty"? :headscratch:
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: fudgums on December 14, 2010, 11:27:30 AM
2 weeks!
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: IrishOne on December 14, 2010, 11:29:13 AM
2 weeks!


 :lol


i remember hearing that over and over again when ToD was supposed to be coming out
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: cooldued on December 14, 2010, 11:29:30 AM
2 weeks!
:huh ... what?
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: ariansworld on December 14, 2010, 11:30:11 AM
Last I heard, it was cancelled.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: The Fugitive on December 14, 2010, 11:31:26 AM
See Rule #4
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: cooldued on December 14, 2010, 11:33:51 AM

 :lol


i remember hearing that over and over again when ToD was supposed to be coming out

isnt it out?

http://www.gamershell.com/download_6294.shtml (http://www.gamershell.com/download_6294.shtml) this is a page with versin 2.00.1 or something on it
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 68ZooM on December 14, 2010, 11:36:36 AM
didnt you see where the file date is 2004
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 321BAR on December 14, 2010, 11:39:06 AM
didnt you see where the file date is 2004
he's a lil kid...
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: cooldued on December 14, 2010, 11:45:58 AM
well im going to download it and see what was so special about it that thay added "Tour of Duty" to the name
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 68ZooM on December 14, 2010, 11:51:08 AM
he's a lil kid...

and that's supposed to mean?
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 321BAR on December 14, 2010, 11:56:38 AM
and that's supposed to mean?
nevermind :rolleyes: stupid is natural with kids. anyone who says otherwise is lieing through their teeth cuz theyve been there before :rolleyes: i thought you were ragging on him like everyone else does on these forums...
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 68ZooM on December 14, 2010, 12:01:32 PM
nevermind :rolleyes: stupid is natural with kids. anyone who says otherwise is lieing through their teeth cuz theyve been there before :rolleyes: i thought you were ragging on him like everyone else does on these forums...

no i dont rag on or belittle anyone on purpose, i was raised better than that, unless they open that door themselves then i'll say what i have to and take the png   :D   just pointing out that the file was 6 years old   :aok
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: grizz441 on December 14, 2010, 12:17:29 PM
You can search google, but you can't handle searching these boards?  FAIL!

The search function on this board sucks.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: jimson on December 14, 2010, 12:24:56 PM
Tour of Duty, AKA Combat Tour was going to be a new immersive game addition here.

It was supposed to have coordinated missions and such, a roll playing aspect with you following a career path and would make use of AI augmented forces and so-forth.

It never materialized and was cancelled. Some aspects of the concept have been and will probably continue to be added to the game in general.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: cooldued on December 14, 2010, 02:11:13 PM
Tour of Duty, AKA Combat Tour was going to be a new immersive game addition here.

It was supposed to have coordinated missions and such, a roll playing aspect with you following a career path and would make use of AI augmented forces and so-forth.

It never materialized and was cancelled. Some aspects of the concept have been and will probably continue to be added to the game in general.

finally someone with a real answer to my original question!! :x
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: BGB the 3RD on December 14, 2010, 08:00:21 PM
It was not canceled,  but delayed indefinitely.  They know its a kikas idea, But the work to make it play yo a similar level of sweetness they provide currently in ah was not going to happen in forecasted time frame

I really look forward to Tod someday
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: EskimoJoe on December 14, 2010, 08:03:38 PM
It was not canceled,  but delayed indefinitely.  They know its a kikas idea, But the work to make it play yo a similar level of sweetness they provide currently in ah was not going to happen in forecasted time frame

I really look forward to Tod someday

This. Basically, they reasoned that with all the time and resources spent making ToD and it's current state (at the time), they'd be better off just providing a constant flow of updates towards the main game itself.

At least, that's how it is from what I remember.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: Lusche on December 14, 2010, 08:26:20 PM
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We had our convention this past weekend which gave us the chance to speak with players in person and talk about the future of AH.  We’ve been thinking about how we were going to move forward and came to some conclusions that we decided to announce at the convention.

The main news is that we have decided to put Combat Tour on an indefinite hold.  The reason for this is that we have decided that it is better to steer our development in a way that allows us to implement our CT developments first as part of the regular game. 

The way we’ve been going has been like trying to fight a two front war with only one army.  It’s stretched us too thin and has hurt our overall level of productivity.  It also has handcuffed us in a lot of our development decisions by forcing us to indefinitely postpone a lot of other things.

Our biggest obstacle with CT is in breathing life into it to make it fun and immersive.     While a basic structure is there, there’s a ton of detail work to be done to reach that end goal.  Without it, it just has too much of a cardboard cutout feel that’s not going to engage players and hold their attention for long. 

What this all means for now is that we are going to focus on core game development.  We’re going to pull the CT AI mission system and redevelop it for use by CM’s in scenarios and special events.  We’re working on new terrain upgrades in both the technology and the art used.  We want to implement a character animation system.  We want to bring back the old 8 player H2H but expand it both in the number of players and with additional gameplay capabilities.  There’s a lot of systems in the game engine that are dated and in need of overhaul.

In hindsight, this is how we should have approached it from the start.  This will keep us heading in the right direction while getting improvements out to our current players and speeding up our development.  It’s really a chance to reboot our process to get back to our old development cycle that saw things moving at a faster pace.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,250755.msg3086244.html#msg3086244
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: jimson on December 15, 2010, 12:23:56 AM
It was not canceled,  but delayed indefinitely.  They know its a kikas idea, But the work to make it play yo a similar level of sweetness they provide currently in ah was not going to happen in forecasted time frame

I really look forward to Tod someday

You are correct, but I say cancelled because I doubt it's still in the works at all and they have moved on to other ideas, however I will be happy to be proven wrong.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: Banshee7 on December 15, 2010, 12:28:47 AM
The search function on this board sucks.

Someone slap me, I agree with Grizz!
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: grizz441 on December 15, 2010, 09:27:44 AM
Someone slap me, I agree with Grizz!

I'll search for a quote that I know was said by 'someone' recently and I'll get 30 threads from 1999 at the top of the list.
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: Banshee7 on December 15, 2010, 11:17:10 AM
I'll search for a quote that I know was said by 'someone' recently and I'll get 30 threads from 1999 at the top of the list.

I know how that feels.  I was looking for a post that I knew almost word for word and knew the thread, but the search came back nothing.  It said it never existed.

Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: Mar on December 15, 2010, 11:25:39 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GR4Stg0eNg

:x
Title: Re: Aces High II: Tour of Duty?
Post by: 321BAR on December 15, 2010, 11:33:59 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GR4Stg0eNg

 :x
:rofl epic! :aok