[Luis Dias]

So you punks like BP:WiH huh?

Well guess what.
You've seen nothing. NOTHING.


WiH R2 is so much better than R1. My mind has been blown and my world has been rocked.
Mission design that is so incredibly complex and well fredded and most of all, its fun. Story and plot so well written, important things are being revealed ladies and gentlemen!
The BP team has taken almost every bit of criticism I had of R1 and created well... a masterpiece.

Let the hype commence.

Great. Now I'm dying to play it and it is still many months away. Thanks for making me suffer through the wait.

You should be jailed for this. Just sayin.

[bigchunk1]

Aww Spoon, I ache with anticipation.

Like I already told Battuta, I don't want to experience anything spoilerish or whatsoever, until playing the story all at once.

My thoughts exactly. I want everything to hit me like a truck.

[Droid803]

I don't want to expect anything even. Which means I should GTFO of this thread cause I don't even want hype.

[-Sara-]

Maybe we should add this specific topic to our site-block lists to not waste ourselfs with spoilers, Droid803.

[Kolgena]

I want non-****ty framerates.

That aside, I had no idea that R2 had this much progress at this point. I am pleasantly surprised.

[Ypoknons]

Last time I heard something about the next Act being almost finished and then the next two still getting worked on or something like that, or something like that.

[crizza]

Lets stick spoon on top of an Apocalypse and send him flying.

[The E]

Last time I heard something about the next Act being almost finished and then the next two still getting worked on or something like that, or something like that.

That is essentially correct. WiH has a 5-Act structure, and what you played in WiH R1 is acts 1 and 2. Act 3 is more or less finished, and currently in betatesting (which is why Spoon got to play it). Acts 4 and 5 are pretty much planned out, but actual FREDing still needs to be done.

[CKid]

Hang on, 5 chapters? I thought WiH was going to be 4 chapters, each one being 15 missions long.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Me too. And every act has about 15 missions?

[CKid]

oops, I mean the first two acts together were 15 missions so I thought the other two would also be 15 missions together making WiH the same length as AoA. (30 missions)

[General Battuta]

oops, I mean the first two acts together were 15 missions so I thought the other two would also be 15 missions together making WiH the same length as AoA. (30 missions)

This is more like it. Five acts, spread over two releases, one already out. Act 3 is eight missions, though one of those missions is...it could probably be counted as more than one mission, I suppose. Acts 4 and 5 should be targeting similar-ish lengths.

This will make R2 about 1/3 larger than R1. Perhaps a bit more.

[The E]

The point is, we don't really want to pin us down on any specific length. We have an approximate length we're shooting for, but things might happen that will cause us to drop missions or add others.

[crizza]

Well, it's like writing a good book. You have your storyboard and everything, but while you're writing it often happens, that the plot develops unexpected.

[JCDNWarrior]

Happens to me a lot too Crizza, so it's only logical the dev team doesn't want to be pinned down on what they've said many months before release. By the time you're done shaving things down to exactly where you want it to be, a lot may have changed.

[Jellyfish]

Reminds me of the early days of CG movies. By the time you finished the movie, you did so with techniques you didn't use when you started, so you redid the movie with those new techniques, and then you find more new techniques...
Cue dev hell.

With that said, I've never been more exciting for anything since April 14. Good job as always.

[Shivan Hunter]

though one of those missions is...it could probably be counted as more than one mission, I suppose

[General Battuta]

though one of those missions is...it could probably be counted as more than one mission, I suppose

I don't want to get too excited and start people having wild fantasies of 60-minute multiple-checkpoint uberbattles. Keep expectations reasonable!

[Snail]

Save for Act 4

[Shivan Hunter]

though one of those missions is...it could probably be counted as more than one mission, I suppose

I don't want to get too excited and start people having wild fantasies of 60-minute multiple-checkpoint uberbattles. Keep expectations reasonable!

r2 can't possibly be a letdown. If it's half as good as WiH r1 it'll still be an absolutely stunning experience.

Take all the time you need, work those sexps, unf unf unf