Welcome To The Early Access of ES2!

Ok so I've got around 10hrs played now and I'm really feeling that the Early game is solid but the game obviously dwindles out from early-mid to midgame at 60-125 turns since that's when the missing features that are hazard stripped off begin to become apparent. A few of my thoughts so far:

One of my favorite new features is the probe system, using them for expeditions and sending them out for information; they have a purpose throughout the game due to the informational power later on.

The early game has a lot going for it and feels very active:

• Initial Research and path you should take
• Where to fire probes and when to use them for expeditions
• First few colonies and forward settling
• Meeting your first Minor faction + interactions
• Discovering the Academy
• Discovering Unique planets and good anomalies
• Quests and events popping up frequently
• First contact with major civs

As well as features I feel are improvements from ES1 or the state of the Alpha right now:

• Solid FPS and graphical quality for the Alpha
• Great Visual Designs, surpassing ES1 in terms of Artwork quality - animated portraits are fantastic
• Colonization is more fun and streamlined under the new system and doesn't feel like it slows down the game like before
• Galaxy map and zoom features are really useful
• The click in and click out feature is great and speeds up menus - left click in, right click out
• I personally like the new system for heroes - with automatic Heroes over time, their upkeep and balance of skills; compared to ES1 & EL
• Playstyles of the 4 factions in right now are quite different - Sophons gain a lot of benefits from following their own research path, Lumeris colonization is fast and flexible, with a heavy focus on Dust, I've not played Cravers yet but I suspect you want to push your early advantages and I have no idea how to play Voydani properly

I've got a few thoughts on the early to mid game but I need to play around more to see, I don't think I've played around with Diplomacy, trade and the senate enough to form a rounded opinion yet. But Im liking the direct trading companies are in with investments, creating routes and new companies being created over time; unsure about diplomacy, I've not really focused on it too much since the AI seems Hostile and when I finally got trading companies up as the Lumeris and had the Voydani at peace the game bugged out - the turn got stuck at prepping and I couldn't figure what was agitating it. Senate is interesting and I can certainly see why you would want to manipulate it to keep policies or get ahead.

I think something I would like to see is more interaction with minor factions since as it is right now you simply spend Influence/Dust to gain approval and then buy them out or beat them with a big stick and take them over. Maybe something like quests or other ways to assimilate the system - but im pretty sure you have a lot of the things I could talk about imrpoving on a list already under the  "And so much more..." but Im looking forward to the additions and improvements to be rolled out over the months.

Played my first round yesterday and it felt pretty well!

Loving my time with the game so far (Had to force myself to go to bed after colonizing my first extra-solar system). I actually had quite a few reservations about certain things (Like the Tech changes, for example), but I gotta admit, this all came together beautifully.

Great job, everyone!

Love it

Just bought endless spaceit is currently downloading i am so excited

TulkasTheStrong wrote:

Zennock wrote:

Excellent. Now, here's hoping for Endless Legends 2.

I'm looking forward to that one as well!

I 2 uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh pls yeah 

but first

MAKE ENDLESS SPACE (2) GREAt AGAIN

Incredible game even in EA

SpaceTroll wrote:

• Full tech tree and all 5 eras

Does this only include all 5 eras, or does 'Tech Tree' mean we're getting a tree like in Endless Space 1?

Incredible!!!! : D Eager to see the game evolution ; )

for the early access are we going to get patch notes?

Very good

You should release this video on youtube to be shared. It's beautiful and it would be nice to spread the early access to social medias.

As for the early access itself, it's pretty enjoyable but I would have one little complain. It's about the narrative. I think it's too linear at the moment for each race. Do you intend to make several possible paths and destinies to extend replayability? Cause after a few times playing the same race, the quests become too repetitive and kill the immersion. 

As well, as I posted on the forum already, the battles would be way better if some dynamism and better visuals on weapons were added. But this one is more like a personal request. 

Nyanko wrote:

You should release this video on youtube to be shared. It's beautiful and it would be nice to spread the early access to social medias. 

The video is available from our website, with an option to share and embedded player. You can also find both videos on our Youtube channel. :)

As a developer you take a perilous path while creating a game with the gamers, because you cannot please every one and it is very hard to involve and reach all the genre players. But on the other plate of the scales the true potential may sprout up due such interaction. A lot of gamers may bring great ideas based on their life and game experience, and of course the vision that they and I have. 

I'm glad to be part of such an amazing interaction (it is rare now days), I believe that we will a have an amazing journey, have fun everyone!

ximulator wrote:

SpaceTroll wrote:

• Full tech tree and all 5 eras

Does this only include all 5 eras, or does 'Tech Tree' mean we're getting a tree like in Endless Space 1?

While it would be great to have the old tech tree back, unfortunately I think the new tech style is here to stay. For what it's worth, I always preferred the tree from the first Endless Space over the "lump of technology" method of Endless Legend.

It's time to plunge on the game :D

Just finished downloading ES2. It's great to be back in Endless Space universe.

When do you plan to release the game for the MAC platform?

Here we go ^_ ^