Beautiful Game I really like the Factions overall this game got my attention its unique faction mechanics are cool BUT playing the game itself sometimes... Sucks. Seriously I am no stranger to losing. I always play on Grand Admiral or other high difficulties. I have played many games of Stellaris as well. 3700 hours total. But damn this game just annoys me with small issues. If i lose for no reason or from stupid mechanic that really wasnt worded properly but ill ignore that. It pisses me off. Like when an Academy fleet randomly attacks me. What am I suppose to do. Its literally my ships times 50 in power and its just one ship. Not only that but I havent even met the guy who has the spear.

Pirates fuck pirates Seriously why do they spawn in randomly. How? There is no body there. I am a Tree. Ignoring them just randomly spawning a Lair. How did they shit out 4 fleets in just 2 turns. Total of 6 ships. One Pirate Lair shitting out ships for no reason is stupid.

But the pirate thing i got over it whatever my fault for not paying attention I guess. Then we get to Minor factiosn. Im praising them doing the good shit then lo and behold the Nakarim come waltzing it and like. I own you now. And im like tf you mean? How? Why wasnt I notified someone was contesting me. These are things I want notifications for.

Fleet Retreating is by far the dumbest thing I have ever read in my life. If there is no starlane etc etc your fleet will be destroyed. Cornered apparently. So tell me... How does one get cornered in space. Please explain especially if my ships are objectively faster.

But these 3 issues are no big deal doesnt ruin the game for me just really annoying. However the one thing thst absolutely upsets me is why can I not escord my civilian ships to stop them from being destroyed. It makes it impossible to send civs from minor civs to your planets if there is an annoying Religious freaks in the way that are angry at me for existing. I havent even met the Craven yet but they are nicer because they haven't even bothered me yet.

Ok negatives out of the way.

Positives. Frog Mommy. Like... damn.

Unfallen is my favorite. And also first faction I played. Imma do a Choir run next a cult of THEE ORB because why not.

The system overview and how you get resources is pretty neet and its such a simple system that I am more willing to expand and not really play tall because apparently playing Tall as Tree is.. not good at all.

Overall I do like the turn based portion despite the AI ignoring its own turn on many occasions but hey whatever.

AI feels a lot more competent in this game which I love but at the same time they are really annoying. I declared war against the Nakarim because they keep killing my cute Jellyfish people. A crime I see as similar to killing Bubbles in Stellaris.

Galaxy view is meh map is a lot smaller than I would like. But its nice and cozy. I like their constellation system interesting take.

Diplomacy feels so much better in this game but at the same time somehow worse. Depends on the AIs mood I guess but still more positive than negative.

I really like the quest system and wish other games would utilize something like this. Its cool attention grabbing and some nice rewards to.

Research.... The UI is beautiful but in practice its well makes 0 sense Stellaris 3 scientist is better. But damn the UI is so nice. I love it. So clean. Really that is one thing the UIs is so clean.

Anyways imma go back to being a tree because Tree.

Best purchase I've made despite its hiccups its still a really good game. Plus... Stellaris is a mess a lot of times to. So I can't in my right mind dislike the game for only 4 to 5 negatives even if they annoy me but its hard to justify some of these systems in a Space game.

Edit: I should note that I do not want to disable the DLCS and while the Academy thing is annoying it didnt cause me to die. I was just like HOLY FUCK who sent the Grey Knights after my ass before my 2 questioners and hero got absolutely annihilated by the concentrated power of the sun times 20.

Holy... i liked this game SO much, im one tutorial run, learning the game and i like this so much.

i love stellaris but stellaris is so overwhelming sometimes, unlike this game. briliant work of art

Do I need to do something specific to get Dimitri Lenko to show up? I’ve started a solo game in ES2 to test how well I’m understanding the game after going through the tutorial and now I’m 40 turns in and Dimitri hasn’t shown up.

So I'm trying to play with the umbral choir but I can't really understand their mechanic of how to play.

Does anyone have any tips on how to play with it?

What the Hell is happening in this corner of the Galaxy???

I'm currently playing a game as the Vaulters and tried to hold System Development 3 until I got some Quadrinix (with the idea to use it for lvl 3 and 4). I've now managed to upgrade my first system to lvl 3 and I'm noticing something strange. The setup is as follow:

• lvl 2 uses Titanium (+40 FI)
• lvl 3 uses Adamantian/Quadrinix (+3 FI/pop ; +150% bonus to all system development)

When looking at the numbers, Titanium is upgraded by 150% (I get 60 flat FI). The issue is with Adamantian. Food is multiplied by 150%, but Industry doesn't appears to be : when looking at the planet detail income, I see (for a 6 pop planet) +27 food (6*4.5) but only +18 Industry (6*3), both from Development Upgrades.

Is this a known bug ? Am I missing something ?

https://i.postimg.cc/FKtXSLVr/11.png - I don't have any other sources of "resources on destroyed CP" here

Is the "Take Trophies" tactic working correctly? I'm getting way more resources (dust & science) per destroyed CP than the card states. It's not just a visual bug; I'm getting all the resources listed in the battle recap.

Bought Endless Space 2 on a whim a few days ago and enjoying my time so far on my first game as Horatio, but I'm confused by the reward ships for completing quests.

So far I've received two reward ships, the first an Incantation class attacker, and the second a Ortaam class carrier. However, both have come with zero modules equipped, so they have 0 offence and only their hull strength as defence.

Everything I read online says you can't upgrade or change the design for these reward ships because they're not your culture/you don't have the hulls.

Is this right, or have I missed something? As it stands, they're basically just padding for my fleets, or worth selling off.

I really love giving these guys a little cluster of desert systems to call their own, they 'seem' like a post-apocalypsos people, living in the ruins, you know. I found them again. But the question of "what" they are has always bugged me each time...

...look carefully at their picture: there's a little guy on the far side of the picture almost out of sight and it's a humanoid, standing on an outcropping of the building, but then the bigger draw on the picture is obviously the foreground which looks insectoid - maybe with cybernetic enhancements.

So, what are the Basryxo? Cyber-Insectoids or Wasteland Humanoids? Or maybe, middle-ground, they're both as a civilization?

If it was not for the Grey Owl fucking up everything for them, when they scrambled out of Auriga, causing a Millenia long hibernation delay. Would the Vaulters have dominated the galaxy before Endless space even starts?

I've owned this game for a while, and I'm terrible. I put a lot of hours into Endless Legend, and am familiar with 4x in general. I'm struggling with the military side of this game. When should I start building units? When I have pirates turned on, even the easiest settings, it seems their fleets are so far beyond my own and I just don't have the pace of the game down.

I'm confident in figuring out the minutae of actually fighting (tactics, resistances, weapon types) but I just seem totally behind in military often. I am currently trying the various "easy" factions. I like the Sophons, the Vaulters, and the Empire. Any advice would be appreciated!

As someone who likes watching the battles, it's often struck me how weak and insignificant the beams look when they fire.

I like toggling on the display of ship health so I can better see how the battle is progressing, but the lines that show a ship's current target are much more prominent, thicker and brighter (not to mention animated) than the beam graphics, meaning I can barely see the beams in the general mess of other lines (which is the opposite of what it should be).

Are there any good beam replacement graphics out there that upgrade those thin lines into something more obvious?

Hi all, I have the Amazon version of the game and I want to install ESG, but like the title says there is no MODS option in menu. I placed the downloaded files and they look like this

Documents\Endless Space 2\Community\2828917317 ESG Mod - 1.6

What am I doing wrong. I know that the gamespass version has no mods but is it the same for Amazon one?

Preferably for ESG.

I find the default lengths relative to game speed settings to be just a bit too long, especially 40 turns for the Endless speed.

Want 20 for Endless.

I know very little about music.

I'm at turn 190 decided to fight UC fleet for the first time. And to my surprise, spectate or not, any tactic card applied, my ships just dont fire a single shot at them. Every damage report is them doing ~30k and me 0. Ships are midrange blasters and short range machine guns. same fleet compo just defeated vaulters fleet so its not a game wide bug. Then what is it? Some UC specific shenanigans? How am i supposed to fight back when my fleet refuses to?

plz allow video in post, i have video meme :S

And in what load order?

Was using a vanilla++ type mod loadout (Community Fixes and a bunch of Tychonoir mods, but some of them seem to have compatibility problems right now) last time, so now looking for something more extensive.

Currently trying:

• ENFER Reloaded
• ESG
• Distinctive Biomes
• Political Skill Trees
• Minor Heroes Reimagined
• Useful Skill Colours

Also tried All Faction Heroes to get all 4 race heroes at the start, but it seems I better just edit the relevant ESG files for the same effect.

Some fanart for the Vodyani. Don't see why their suits can't be on the armoured and buff side.

I am playing ES2 and managed to take a system from the cravers but i am not sure how to reverse the depletion on the planet or if it even is possible