In all my encounters with minor civilizations I made nice and once they liked me enough I could assimilate them into my empire. Minor civilizations are non-player races that players can decide to either negotiate with or destroy. The key benefit to having more systems is that it gives you more resources to build upgrades and ships.Īs you explore the galaxy you can happen upon a minor civilization. To colonize a system, your colony ship will be used to create an outpost and after a set amount of turns a new colony will be yours. Systems can consist of one to five planets and most will not be habitable at the beginning of the game.
Scouts are great for exploring the area around your home system and to find a new system you want to colonize with your colony ship.
As the game starts you begin with two ships: a scout and a colony ship. For both of my games I played as the human inspired United Empire. There are eight total playable races in Endless Space 2. Knowing I wouldn’t get to play as much as I would like for this review, I decided to go for broke and started a game with me and 11 other AI players. We're talking real-time, cinematic battles with every single encounter.Starting a new game with what I had learned from the tutorial, I was ready to take on the galaxy. You won't see what I mean until the end of the video (around the 30 minute mark), but it's worth the wait. Unlike most 4X strategy games, which rely primarily on number breakdowns when conveying the outcome of their battles, Endless Space 2 is promising to add some real spectacle. However, the big thing that stood out for me was the space battles themselves. Population management, internal politics, diplomacy, trade, galaxy generation: they're all being reworked. Okay, well, what does that mean? What's different this time around?Īs the game's design document explains ( you can actually read the entire thing online), there are changes being made to almost all of the game's core systems.
"It's why when we finished Endless Legend, especially looking at 4X from a different point of view, it'd be really nice to go back and take some of these learnings to Endless Space." "When we first started Endless Space, we had no idea how to make a 4X ," explains Amplitude co-founder, Romain de Waubert de Genlis, as we go hands-on in the video below. This team's quadrupled in size since that first Endless game and it seems they're eager to show what they can do with all that extra manpower. Endless Space is where it all began for Amplitude Studios and now, four years later, it's time for the sequel.
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