The Vaulters pop out of their pods out on January 26, like I already told you jeez, and will cost £8.99. There’s a “community challenge update” alongside this expansion too, which includes a bunch of stuff you can learn about here. One time it got some fighters and bombers, and this other time it got some smartified AI. The game has been updated a little since release. Adam also blathered on about its weird aliens during one of our early podcasts and he loves him some strategy. The expansion also includes new combat features like the ability to board and hijack spaceships, as well as letting you do some diplomacy with pirates.įraser liked Endless Space 2 very much, saying that it was “simultaneously confident and experimental, finding new ways to spice up a genre that can too often be bland”. Whether it's the all-consuming Cravers or the ship-bound vampiric Vodyani, playing with a new faction involves relearning most of what you already know. If there's one thing that makes Amplitude's games stand out from the pack, it's the way that each faction uses a radically altered version of the game's base rules. They really do mean what they say in the first line there. Will they discover the truth about their Gods? Will they find a new home to start all over? Will they save their people that stayed on Auriga?' They will also have their own heroes (including the famous Opbot), technologies, buildings, a new starting special node, the Sisters of Mercy minor civilization that they brought with them from Auriga, and of course, a brand-new main quest. 'A new civilization means a new way to play, the Vaulters will have the ability to teleport and use the Argosy - their legacy super colonizer ship featured in the Prologue video. Here’s what developers Amplitude Studios say about the neon axe-wielding warriors: I like that! But it isn’t very helpful, I admit. While diplomacy with minor factions is minimal, the player can still exert influence over these species with a view to gaining resources from them. Here they are during what I’m informed is a “mood ritual”. Endless Space 2 also adds an interesting feature in minor factions.

I don’t know much about the Vaulters or their in-game powers or specialties, being a complete Endless ignoramus. That was like Wall-E but with zero jokes. This is the first proper expansion and it’s coming out on January 25. Well, it might xcite you to learn that the space race between space races is getting an xpansion featuring the Vaulters, a crowd of godly ne’er-do-wells who’ve feature in previous Endless games, such as Endless Legend. The kind you’d find in grand strategy sci-fi game Endless Space 2. What are yours? Oh, it’s the boring ones.

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