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4 years ago Jul 01,2020, 15:24:42 PM

Polishing Endless Space 2: The First Patch

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Hello everybody



We are excited to announce today that we are releasing the first in a series of patches for Endless Space 2, and in this first patch we will address several issues reported by ardent members of our community — to mention a few examples; the AI should no longer demand tribute when trying to surrender, Riftborn can once again use Hyperium to accelerate colonies, and laws rewarded by quests will now properly show in the senate screen.


Having such a passionate community who cares so deeply about the games we make, that is something we are truly grateful for — we are glad that so many of you have decided to stick with us and Endless Space 2 despite the issues that have been affecting the game ever since the release of the Awakening expansion.

Tackling these issues is of high importance to us, but we have unfortunately not been able to do so as quickly as we would have liked to, and we apologize for that.

But rest assured that we do want Endless Space 2 to be the best game that it can be, and as such we have enlisted the help of Clumsy Dwarf, who have been working together with us since the development of Awakening (and Symbiosis and Inferno for Endless Legend before that) — Clumsy Dwarf is a newly formed studio made up of people who previously worked at NGD, and we’re happy to have them return to help us in our endeavor to improve and polish Endless Space 2.


There are many more fixes in the pipeline, and some of the ones we are working on aim to resolve some issues with the Umbral Choir and fixing several quests — more information on the next patch will come soon, but until then, you can find a complete overview of today’s patch notes here.


Thank you for your passion as well as your patience.



Stay tuned for more

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4 years ago
Jul 6, 2020, 3:29:29 AM

Sweeeeeeeeeeet. That's really all Ihave to say about that! Will have to start a game ASAP, soon as I get home later today, at least! :)

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4 years ago
Jul 2, 2020, 9:48:35 PM

I'd also like to note that there have been a lot of problems giving this error lately:


System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.CSharp.CSharpCodeCompiler ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Windows mono path not found: D:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\mono\mono\mini\mono.exe


You can see some examples here, here and here that I've helped fix. If you search for it this has come up many times. It's some kind of issue with Unity, and it seems to be the most common bug reported these days. I suspect it isn't an actual problem with the Endless games themselves, however since it comes up so often even just having a more helpful error message could help a lot of users who don't think to come to the forums. I expect that for every person who's taken the effort to seek help with the issue here there's ten more that just gave up.

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4 years ago
Jul 4, 2020, 12:08:05 PM

at least is a good start ,dont forget my idea about  add Biochemical weapons to the game which l already post on the website ,accroading to the current situation of the world if the develop team could  take my idea seriousely last year ,the game would soon be famous in the eariler of 2020.but you give up on that chance.


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4 years ago
Jul 4, 2020, 12:14:29 PM
DayStalker wrote:

Good... good. Now balance Spear of Isyander and the game will be good again..

To be good again, we need more than this.

Academy fleet siege your panet, without reason, you must declare war to fix this... and so on...

Academy need to be considered as an empire, like the others, and we should make war, make peace, make diplomatie with academy... like the others empires.

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4 years ago
Jul 4, 2020, 12:17:26 PM
Sublustris wrote:
Eulogos wrote:

the Master Fleet is so overwhelmingly powerful that it completely ruins the game.

That is simply not true. Sure it is unbeatable at the early stage, but it doesn't make you autowin or autolose, unless this is competitive MP, and even then only one player will find itself unlucky. Spear of Isyander can be dealt with, especially as the game progresses.

If this is a joke ?

I'm not sure we play the same game.

I talk about game setting and especially AI force level.

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4 years ago
Jul 5, 2020, 9:18:21 PM
The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
Loustak wrote:
Do you consider some balancing changes? For instance, I feel like the academic fleet is way too powered in early game and should scale against the player having the best fleet.
Eulogos wrote:
I'm curious - do you intend to rebalance the Spear of Isyander? I have purchased everything Amplitude has ever made except the Awakening DLC and a few sound tracks. I've been reluctant to purchase Awakening due to it's poor reception and the biggest complaint seems to be that the Master Fleet is so overwhelmingly powerful that it completely ruins the game.

Personally I would love if we could do a final balance pass on issues like this, but fixing bugs takes priority, so we may not be able to allocate resources to balance changes.

Perhaps you could think of another DLC to finance these balance changes, the game was better balanced 3 expansions ago, but things have have gone badly since the introduction of Hisho. I would gladly pour more money into ES2 for purely polishing the game, from gameplay issues, balance, AI improvements (see what EL community patch did!) all up to a lore pass making sure the storylines and tech tree are self-consistent. Sure some people might complain to pay for fixes but I think its unreasonable to expect these things can happen without financing the studio.

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4 years ago
Jul 2, 2020, 8:37:45 AM
Loustak wrote:
Do you consider some balancing changes? For instance, I feel like the academic fleet is way too powered in early game and should scale against the player having the best fleet.
Eulogos wrote:
I'm curious - do you intend to rebalance the Spear of Isyander? I have purchased everything Amplitude has ever made except the Awakening DLC and a few sound tracks. I've been reluctant to purchase Awakening due to it's poor reception and the biggest complaint seems to be that the Master Fleet is so overwhelmingly powerful that it completely ruins the game.

Personally I would love if we could do a final balance pass on issues like this, but fixing bugs takes priority, so we may not be able to allocate resources to balance changes.

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4 years ago
Jul 9, 2020, 10:13:26 AM

Kinda sad that I can't use wasd to switch systems anymore. Guess overcolonization brings even more of a punishment now.

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4 years ago
Jul 23, 2020, 7:39:04 PM

I really hope to see the custom race options get some polishing.

Like the Riftborn Issue.

Selecting Riftborn Visual with non Riftborn Affinity causes many sterile requiring techs to appear.

But unless a player selects Riftborn Affinity they can only terraform to fertile.


I enjoy the game most playing my favorite custom faction of Genesplicing Riftborn.

This has always been a huge thorn in my custom race.



Have the Devs ever thought about setting a Kickstarter to help fund polishing?


Players who donate for fluff stuff, new skins for ships, heroes, and planets, new heroes, and etc.

Nothing that requires major programming.


The programmers can focus on the polishing which would be released to all.

The artists can focus on the rewards which can be released to the donators right away and be available after a year to new buyers.

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4 years ago
Jul 31, 2020, 9:32:31 PM

This is great news! I'm just returning to the game after a little break. I'm glad this game is still getting some love.


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4 years ago
Aug 6, 2020, 2:10:03 PM
Eulogos wrote:

I'd also like to note that there have been a lot of problems giving this error lately:


System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.CSharp.CSharpCodeCompiler ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Windows mono path not found: D:\Games\SteamLibrary\steamapps\mono\mono\mini\mono.exe


You can see some examples here, here and here that I've helped fix. If you search for it this has come up many times. It's some kind of issue with Unity, and it seems to be the most common bug reported these days. I suspect it isn't an actual problem with the Endless games themselves, however since it comes up so often even just having a more helpful error message could help a lot of users who don't think to come to the forums. I expect that for every person who's taken the effort to seek help with the issue here there's ten more that just gave up.

How is Unity related to running ES2 anyway? ES2 is not a Unity game, or is it??

Just curious.

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4 years ago
Aug 6, 2020, 4:51:08 PM
Horse_B wrote:

How is Unity related to running ES2 anyway? ES2 is not a Unity game, or is it??

Just curious.

ok, it is indeed a Unity game, sorry. Just googled it.

Somehow I was under the impression ES2 had been developed using some other engine. Nevermind.   

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 9:25:37 PM

Glad to see this grevious assault on Horatio's perfection has been set right.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 3:40:34 PM

Thank you for keeping up with the game. Looking forward to see how the patches come out.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 3:41:19 PM

As mentioned in the blog, we're working on more bugfixes. We're hoping to release the next patch within about a month or two, but I don't have any clear estimate yet nor any guess which issues will be next to be fixed.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 3:42:35 PM
iDrunk wrote:

Thats nice, thank you.

What about other patches in general?

Just to add to what @The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales mentioned above, there are other patches in the pipeline with more bugfixes. Not all fixes and improvements are locked down yet, which is why we can't provide exact ETAs on patches and their content. I hope that makes sense.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 4:04:40 PM

Thank you for the patch. Hope you'll maintain the rest.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 4:13:04 PM

Looking forward to playing with the patch! It is great to see continued support for ES2!

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 4:58:20 PM

Thanks for the patch, I'm happy to see some polishing on endless space 2, I really like the game !

Do you consider some balancing changes? For instance, I feel like the academic fleet is way too powered in early game and should scale against the player having the best fleet.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 8:58:25 PM

IT LIVES!

Glad to see you're still supporting ES2, I had given up on that game.

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 11:42:26 PM

Awesome to hear that the game is getting more patches 

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4 years ago
Jul 1, 2020, 11:44:48 PM

I'm curious - do you intend to rebalance the Spear of Isyander? I have purchased everything Amplitude has ever made except the Awakening DLC and a few sound tracks. I've been reluctant to purchase Awakening due to it's poor reception and the biggest complaint seems to be that the Master Fleet is so overwhelmingly powerful that it completely ruins the game.

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4 years ago
Jul 2, 2020, 5:29:56 AM
Eulogos wrote:

the Master Fleet is so overwhelmingly powerful that it completely ruins the game.

That is simply not true. Sure it is unbeatable at the early stage, but it doesn't make you autowin or autolose, unless this is competitive MP, and even then only one player will find itself unlucky. Spear of Isyander can be dealt with, especially as the game progresses.

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4 years ago
Jul 2, 2020, 6:47:23 AM

Academy spreading like poison bothers me more than the Spear. Thank you for the fixes though.

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