ENDLESS™ Space 2 is turn-based 4X space-strategy that launches players into the space colonization age of different civilizations within the ENDLESS™ Universe. Your Vision. Their Future.
As we’ve mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, we are going to release an opt-in work in progress version of the patch we are working on for you to try out if you want to.
To access this version, open the properties of Endless Space 2 in Steam, go to the Betas tab, and select the PatchPreview version in the dropdown menu.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress version, not a release candidate for the patch, and is still subject to change. For example, we have heard your feedback on the Relic spawn for Nakalim, but changes to this were not ready for this version.
If you want to report any bugs encountered on this version, please clearly mark any bug reports as being played on version 1.5.5.
Have fun,
Amplitude
Changes
Sobra has received a new texture with significantly less ocean
The Nakalim Protector class hull now has more hybrid slots to allow using additional support modules
Added relic rewards to several quest chapters
Adjusted effects of Temples of the Lost
Reduce FIDS by 50% rather than setting it to 0
Generate +10 Influence per Population (Warning: Does not show on planet FIDS)
Increased the speed of the Academy Master Fleet by 10 to improve utility on large galaxies
Nakalim Peace and Prayer Act now reduces conversion cost by 50% instead of setting it to 0
Fixes
HOTFIX: Fixed an issue that could cause an infinite pending turn when the Academy tries to colonize a system that already contains an outpost. This is currenlty PC only, as the Mac version was not stable.
Diplomatic terms should no longer vanish
Fixed glitches in hero relic assignment interface
Relics are now unassigned from Empire slots by click rather than ctrl-click
Laws unlocked by the Vault Keeper role will now display even if no empty law slots remain
Fixed heroes not displaying their skills when viewed from the marketplace menu
Nakalim Explorers properly receive an additional Support Slot when researching Adaptive Colonies
System output shown on the empire screen now refreshes immediately as relics are assigned/unassigned
Riftborn Explorers will now properly save modules placed in the top support slot
Clarified effect of the “Cannot declare war” diplomatic pressure demand
Clarified conversion requirements in the Temple of the Lost tooltip
Academy Diplomacy screen will no longer briefly show the diplomatic relations screen behind it on opening
Converting a minor faction to the Academy will no longer state Isyander assimilated that faction
Master of Dust text will no longer overlap with the Diplomacy button in non-English languages
Vaulters receive only the Vaulters-specific New Colony Rule from the Vaulter Keeper role
Unfallen can vine Academy systems when allied to the Academy
Player names no longer overflow role cards
Happy Augurs population trait can no longer be selected without the Nakalim affinity
Improved Lost Templar AI economy management
Fleet Accelerator Tooltip now uses the hero icon
“Tools and Fools” Hissho law now displays properly in the keii tooltip
Clarified tooltips of the Revive and Rebuild tactic, “Stop Peaceful Conversion” Accept choice, and Negative Anomalies
Clarified tooltip about metaplot finale blocking hero healing and recruitment
Clarified hacking tooltips to indicate that losing the starting node will cancel the hack
Clarified the cost reduction in the description of Democracy governments
Removed erroneous line from the description of The Last Empire affinity
Nakalim no longer start predominantly scientific in their home system
Added a notification when the loss of a temple locks an Empire Relic slot
Updated 5 years ago.
Report comment
Why do you report The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales?
Are you sure you want to block The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
BlockCancel
Are you sure you want to unblock The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
We released a hotfix for the opt-in preview a few minutes ago:
HOTFIX: Fixed an issue that could cause an infinite pending turn when the Academy tries to colonize a system that already contains an outpost. This is currenlty PC only, as the Mac version was not stable.
Report comment
Why do you report The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales?
Are you sure you want to block The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
BlockCancel
Are you sure you want to unblock The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
We released a hotfix for the opt-in preview a few minutes ago:
HOTFIX: Fixed an issue that could cause an infinite pending turn when the Academy tries to colonize a system that already contains an outpost. This is currenlty PC only, as the Mac version was not stable.
- There's a major faction quest for them which requires converting a large number of systems. That value probably ought to be reduced by about 30-40% to bring it on-par with the difficulty of the other similar quest branches at that point (i.e. the one to research the two terraforming techs).
The Nakalim Protector class hull now has more hybrid slots to allow using additional support modules
Interesting. Should synergize with what feels like a general theme for their faction.
Adjusted effects of Temples of the Lost
Extremely good change! One of the biggest problems with the previous system is that it didn't synergize with unique planets, which ought to be a very deliberate thing for Nakalim to try to do.
Conversion is actually pretty hard for them, currently, because it's really hard to get the bubble to stretch out far enough, fast enough. This change may singlehandedly solve that.
Nakalim Explorers properly receive an additional Support Slot when researching Adaptive Colonies
Was rather afraid this had been a deliberate omission rather than a bug. Very glad this is fixed. :)
Generate +10 Influence per Population (Warning: Does not show on planet FIDS)
And for our next trick, the faction will be able to make ANY planet unique. That's right, massive influence output on demand, what could go wrong?
I dunno, nakalim felt balanced the way they were, I mean as in really, I know most people could not contain their dissapointment with not being able to roflstop everyone by playing newest shiny faction, like it was for every DLC before.
They basically smoothed out the relic gain so instead of there is a hardly enough relics in the beginning and then getting a quest that drops 11 relics on you, now you get 1-2 relics for most completed quests which roughly nets you the same relics overall but in less of a peaks and valley kind of way.
I dunno, nakalim felt balanced the way they were, I mean as in really, I know most people could not contain their dissapointment with not being able to roflstop everyone by playing newest shiny faction, like it was for every DLC before.
But they already are strong.
Not to mention additional quest relics.
My thoughts are closer to this as well. But I do think the starting generation of relics (and the other trigger that causes them to repopulate) does/did need some tweaking. I like incorporating relics in the quests along the way also. I think there is room to adjust the starting dust (currently 100), and I doubt it will change, but it would be nice to see the marketplace populated with resources on turn 1 instead of turn 2. There is something to consider about starting their explorers with hyperium speed and probe upgrades. Personally, I think its overbearing that they single handedly nerf Sophon's omniscience trait with their forgotten lore trait in the early game.
This faction is interesting to play for an economic victory. They have a lot of factors that push them that way. Maybe some unique technologies along these lines would be nice. It seems like like a developmental oversight that they have no unique techs (I exclude ship designs and upgrades and the tier 4 Cathedral)
Is this Windows only? I chose the previewbuild (it even shows next to the name of the game on the steam list) but in-game nothing change. Still says .5.3-GOLD-PUBLIC....
The nakalim faction quest where you have to acquire a large number (14 in my case, on a densely-spaced-systems 8-player map) of systems for the Academy is astonishingly difficult compared to the other quests. In order to finish this quest, I had to bring everything humanly possible to bear on it, including winning the rejuvenators academy quest, and building several Obelisks of All Space-Time, and stacking almost every influence-generating bonus in the game.
You need to scale this down! It's just too many systems. The mission would be somewhat achievable by converting the very few systems which were naturally near enough to be susceptible, and/or doing special forward settling to pump out early influence bubbles, but beyond a certain low threshold (3-6 systems) this gets incredibly difficult. Later on it could be done by driving deep into enemy territory, taking one of their core worlds, and building a new bubble growing from there, but if you're strong enough to take one of their core worlds, you're probably strong enough to conquer the empire, and/or are snowballing out of control and just generally winning the game.
Furthermore, the reward for this is unbelievably bad, especially given the nature of the necessary ingredients to win the quest.
It gives you 10 empire influence per relic. That's perhaps 300 influence at that point in the game - which is nothing. A single system of mine was easily giving 1000.
It's possible to boost this by amplifying the value (dramatically), but at this point you're already getting far more influence than you need, in order to finish the quest. This reward needs to be completely reworked.
One idea for fixing this could include reducing the % malus "beliefs, not breakthroughs" gives (this being the reward). Another one would be reducing the FIDS malus on the new Temple.
Just to illustrate it, this is what my influence was looking like over the course of the game. I still had trouble pulling this one off.
Was playing fine yesterday. However today when I went to load my saves from yesterday it starts loading them but then crashes back to Windows every time.
DEVThe-Cat-o-Nine-Tales
Shifter
DEVThe-Cat-o-Nine-Tales
Shifter
53 100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales?
Are you sure you want to block The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
UnblockCancelVIPPARAdoxiBLE
Digital Newcomer
One just can't leave a bad idea alone
VIPPARAdoxiBLE
Digital Newcomer
41 300g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report PARAdoxiBLE?
Are you sure you want to block PARAdoxiBLE ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock PARAdoxiBLE ?
UnblockCancelKeimpe
Officer in Disguise
All generalizations are wrong... ;)
Keimpe
Officer in Disguise
20 200g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Keimpe?
Are you sure you want to block Keimpe ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Keimpe ?
UnblockCancelMasterofMobius
Morgawr
MasterofMobius
Morgawr
23 100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report MasterofMobius?
Are you sure you want to block MasterofMobius ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock MasterofMobius ?
UnblockCancelAzheelthorn
Newcomer
Azheelthorn
Newcomer
36 200g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Azheelthorn?
Are you sure you want to block Azheelthorn ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Azheelthorn ?
UnblockCancelDEVThe-Cat-o-Nine-Tales
Shifter
DEVThe-Cat-o-Nine-Tales
Shifter
53 100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales?
Are you sure you want to block The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales ?
UnblockCancelVIPPARAdoxiBLE
Digital Newcomer
One just can't leave a bad idea alone
VIPPARAdoxiBLE
Digital Newcomer
41 300g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report PARAdoxiBLE?
Are you sure you want to block PARAdoxiBLE ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock PARAdoxiBLE ?
UnblockCancelBadBecauseMad
Mirror Addict
Can't keep away, can you?
BadBecauseMad
Mirror Addict
16 300g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report BadBecauseMad?
Are you sure you want to block BadBecauseMad ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock BadBecauseMad ?
UnblockCancelJetrel
Book
Jetrel
Book
18 300g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Jetrel?
Are you sure you want to block Jetrel ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Jetrel ?
UnblockCancelLevie87
Red Six
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
Levie87
Red Six
11 600g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Levie87?
Are you sure you want to block Levie87 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Levie87 ?
UnblockCancelLevie87
Red Six
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
Levie87
Red Six
11 600g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Levie87?
Are you sure you want to block Levie87 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Levie87 ?
UnblockCancelkoxsos
Lumeris Recon
Make ES2 playable again.
koxsos
Lumeris Recon
50 100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report koxsos?
Are you sure you want to block koxsos ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock koxsos ?
UnblockCancelLevie87
Red Six
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
Levie87
Red Six
11 600g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Levie87?
Are you sure you want to block Levie87 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Levie87 ?
UnblockCancelKeimpe
Officer in Disguise
All generalizations are wrong... ;)
Keimpe
Officer in Disguise
20 200g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Keimpe?
Are you sure you want to block Keimpe ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Keimpe ?
UnblockCanceldustwhit
Lost Ducky
One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind
dustwhit
Lost Ducky
33 200g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report dustwhit?
Are you sure you want to block dustwhit ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock dustwhit ?
UnblockCancelYoshMasterX
Newcomer
Yoshi!
YoshMasterX
Newcomer
21 400g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report YoshMasterX?
Are you sure you want to block YoshMasterX ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock YoshMasterX ?
UnblockCancelJetrel
Book
Jetrel
Book
18 300g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Jetrel?
Are you sure you want to block Jetrel ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Jetrel ?
UnblockCancelShurdus
Officer
Shurdus
Officer
19 900g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report Shurdus?
Are you sure you want to block Shurdus ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock Shurdus ?
UnblockCancelTheFool432
Archivist
“We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
TheFool432
Archivist
19 600g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report TheFool432?
Are you sure you want to block TheFool432 ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock TheFool432 ?
UnblockCancelVIPlo_fabre
Cosmonaut
This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGLYu94U3IU remembers us that "impossible" is only a word.
VIPlo_fabre
Cosmonaut
50 100g2g ptsReport comment
Why do you report lo_fabre?
Are you sure you want to block lo_fabre ?
BlockCancelAre you sure you want to unblock lo_fabre ?
UnblockCancel