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Je m'appelle Audrey et je travaille dans le département de User Research d'Amplitude Studios. J'effectue une thèse sur l'onboarding* dans les jeux 4X*. 

Dans le cadre de celle-ci, j'ai créé un questionnaire pour mieux comprendre vos attentes et vos expériences en matière d'onboarding dans les jeux 4X.

Vous êtes fan de jeux 4X ? Vous avez une opinion sur l'expérience d'onboarding dans les jeux 4X d'Amplitude Studios et plus largement dans les jeux 4X en général ? J'ai besoin de vous ! 

The "Complete your collection" option only works during sales. And there isn't a discount on the game at the moment, so it won't work right now.

As far as I remember, during sales you can just buy the Definitive Edition to "complete your collection," even if you already own the base game.

​Endless Space 2 Re-Awakening Update: Version 1.5.60 

COMBAT CHANGES

• Weapon/Defense/Support Module related changes: 
  • Defense module stats are rebalanced, and Shield Capacities are substantially buffed. 
  • Weapon DPS values, fire rates, effective ranges, Weapon Hull & Shield penetration values are tweaked. 
  • Strategic modules, EMP Weapons, Railguns, Swarm Missiles, Blast Effect Batteries, and Squadrons are adjusted in terms of their stats, effects, and use cases. 
  • Support modules are balanced, some are reworked, and new ones are added. Flotilla-wide effects are expanded. 
• Ship Hull changes: 
  • Ship Health, Hull weakness, and manpower capacities are adjusted. Carriers are significantly nerfed. 
  • Coordinator and Protector ship bonuses are significantly buffed, and new effects are added. 
  • Ship targeting priorities are changed and made visible in the ship design view under the ship “Role” UI. 
  • New Attacker and Protector Ship Hull Upgrades are added to the tech tree, increasing their module multiplier to x1.25 
• Battle Tactics changes: 
  • Battle Tactic effects, ranges, and tech stage placements are changed. Their UI is made to be more descriptive. 
  • New situational but powerful battle tactics and upgraded versions of existing tactics are added to the curiosity rewards. 
• Squadron changes: 
  • Squadron movement speeds are substantially buffed. 
  • Fixed squadrons dealing significantly more damage than intended 
  • Squadron stats are adjusted in line with new squadron roles: Light & Heavy Bombers, Interceptor & Strike Fighters. 
• Mechanics & Other Changes: 
  • Flak damage, Flak fire rate, and projectile health values are adjusted. Flak targeting orders are adjusted. Swarm missile, BEB, EMP missile, and normal missile fire rates are aligned. UI is updated to provide more information. 
  • Fixed Evasion: Evasion used to provide only half of the intended effect; now works correctly. 
  • Ship level-up effects are adjusted. 
  • Fixed ship experience on construction. 
  • New tags for modules are added: “Only once per ship” “Only once per flotilla” “Can only be used on Medium Support Ships” 
  • Curiosity rewards and drop rates have been rebalanced. 
  • Re-added removed technology "Vacuum Protection", moved the following items onto it: 
    • Advanced Explosive Drones (Empire Improvement)
      Increased bombardment damage from ground battle strategies 
    • Extreme Swarm Missile (module) 
    • EMP Disruption Field (module) 
    • Repulsive Plates (module)
  • "Weapon Interference Beam" unlock with either Advanced Game Theory or Tensor Algorithms 
  • "Shield Interference Missiles" unlock with either Advanced Fusion Power or Hyperium Magnetics 
  • Cleaver module has had its damage and manpower damage increased to match its tier 

ACADEMY CHANGES

• Reduced Academy Aggression 
  • Academy fleets no longer siege player colonies and outposts while at neutral relations 
  • Academy fleet power now scales with Academy level and starts much lower 
  • Introduced “Endless” Difficulty setting for the Academy 
  • Introduced “Academy Expansion” setting 
  • Adjusted the speed at which the Academy gains levels to better align with players 
• Introduced Academy Diplomacy 
  • Improve your relationship by donating during role assignment periods 
  • Nakalim gain favor by donating systems to the Academy 
  • Ask for favors at the cost of relations 
  • Each faction has access to one unique favor 
• Adjusted Legate role (formerly Master of Dust): can declare a Crusade against a player, which allows any other empire to attack their fleets regardless of their diplomatic relation. 
• Each major faction now has its own preferred Academy roles 
• Academy ship equipment and fleet strength have been entirely reworked 
• Ships loaned from the Academy are now prohibited from invading 

NAKALIM CHANGES

• Gameplay Affinity: The Last Empire 
  • -50% Base FIDS on Planets by default 
  • Can build Temples (Cost 1 Relic and 1 Turn), which remove the FIDS malus and convert Base Science into Influence. 
  • Systems that have temples on all planets can build a Cathedral (Cost 1120 Industry, no Relics), which provide the following bonuses on their system: 
    • +10% FIDSI 
    • +30% Influence Radius 
    • +5 Vision 
    • 5% Enemy Health damaged per turn of Fleets in Influence Radius 
    • 20% Friendly Health repaired per turn of Fleets in Influence Radius 
    • Increases number of total empire relics that can be allocated (See below) 
• Cathedrals provide empire relic slots, which provide powerful empire-wide bonuses and require multiple relics to activate. Any bonus may be activated at any time, but only one per Cathedral may be active. These replace Food/Industry/Dust/Influence relics, and are toggleable on / off. Empire relics focus on increasing one of the innate strengths of the Nakalim, with one changing based off of leading political party 
  • Exploration Slot - +25% Movement Point efficiency, +5 Vision Range on Fleets & Systems 
  • Expansion Slot - +1 Colonization Threshold per Cathedral, No disapproval from planet type on planets with temples 
  • Diplomacy Slot - provides a constant amount of minor faction relation and increased influence radius 
  • Political Slot: Get bonuses for all elected parties, but government types with fewer political parties get more powerful bonuses 
    • Industrialist - +50% Strategic Deposit Generation on Temples 
    • Scientist - +20 Dust, +10 Influence, +10 Manpower per Unassigned Relic 
    • Pacifist - +100% Trade Value on Systems with Cathedrals, +40% Fleet Health Regeneration in Friendly Territory, +20% Troop Health per Temple in System 
    • Ecologist - +100% Luxury Deposit Generation on Temples 
    • Religious – Heroes are earned faster and can be assigned outside of Borders 
    • Militarist - -20% retrofit Dust cost, Fleets can be retrofitted outside of Friendly Territory 
• Can assign a relic to a hero, which provides the following bonuses (you can no longer assign multiple relics to a hero, the effect is now binary): 
  • +25% XP on Hero 
  • +50% Hero Recovery Rate 
  • +10% FIDSI on Fervent, +5 Approval per Temple on System 
  • +10% Fleet Health, +10% Fleet Damage, +10% Fleet Evasion, +10% Fleet Shields 
• Unassigned relics generate 50 science, can be upgraded via empire improvements 
• Adjusted relic spawning formulas to respawn them once they reach a certain threshold and to focus their spawning location on getting further and further, eventially stopping near the middle of the galaxy. 
• Trait: Beliefs not Breakthroughs 
  • Planets do not generate science 
  • Systems only produce half science 
  • Science gained from battle rewards is halved 
  • Technologies can be traded at higher than normal cost 
• Trait: Forgotten Lore 
  • Technologies granted by Forgotten Lore now do not reduce the Sophon research bonus 
  • Created a lower level version of Forgotten Lore that only unlocks tier 1 technologies 
• New Trait: Slumbering Ruins 
  • Some systems will be marked as Slumbering Ruins per Nakalim player. These systems are marked to all Nakalim players, and retain their status even if colonized by another empire or obliterated (though, owned by another player it needs to first be conquered, or if obliterated it needs to be repaired). 
  • The system can be awakened from its dormant state by colonizing it. 
  • Awakening a Slumbering Ruin provides a small amount of Major Population, a few early game buildings (if not already constructed), and a temporary flat FIDSI bonus. 
  • Once Awakened, a system cannot be reawakened by another Nakalim player, but all Nakalim players can see that it was reawakened. 
• New trait: Well Founded 
  • Starts with the area around them revealed (Starting constellation on non-unique galaxies, radius of systems around them on unique galaxies) 
• Trait: Apathetic Colonists 
  • Outposts generate 25% less food 
  • Colonies ship 25% less food to outposts 
• Systems can now be gifted to the Academy as an invasion outcome 
• Added an “Align” Minor Faction interaction that allows “vassalizing” a minor faction 
• Nakalim heroes: Rebalanced most skills 
• Nakalim Population 
  • +2 Approval (+1 Approval Spliced) 
  • +2 FIDSI on Happy (+0.5 FIDSI Spliced) 
  • Collection Bonuses 
    • 10 Population: Boosts Religious politics 
    • 20 Population: +10 Approval on systems with Nakalim 
    • 50 Population: Unlocks a new offensive and defensive ground battle strategy 
  • Politics: Religious, Relativist (Science -> Religious), Utopian (Industrial -> Ecologist) 
• Xirmisala Population 
  • +1 Food 
  • +4 Dust on Happy 
  • Collection Bonuses 
    • 10 Population: Boosts Religious politics 
    • 20 Population: +10% Dust on systems with Xirmisala 
    • 50 Population: Unlocks the Dust Dowsing Law 
  • Politics: Religious, Relativist (Science -> Religious), Utopian (Industrial -> Ecologist) 
• Relics can now be collected while a fleet is cloaked 
• Nakalim now start with a colonizer and 2 explorers 

MODDING

• Adding new modifier operations, Minimum & Maximum 
• Increased the ability of modders to change Academy diplomacy, AI, ship spawns, etc. 
• Exposed multiple new formulas in the registry, along with the ability to revert the academy back to using "stress" instead of relying on academy levels 

OTHER CHANGES

• Slightly increased infantry health and damage 
• Unfallen now start with an additional vineship 
• Influence conversion unlock tech has been moved to T2 Empire Development 
• Explorer hull upgrade tech has been moved to T2 Science and Exploration 
• Reduced the military support requirement of the Sophons Quest "Chapter 2. Seeding the Cloud - Part 1" and the "Masters of the Arena" quests so that they were reasonably achievable 
• Changed screen placement of several T3 &T4 Military technologies (no gameplay changes) 
• Clarified some confusing tooltips 
• Dust Bonanza no longer has an upkeep cost 
• Denarque University industry cost reduced by 2/3 
• Improved AI from using some incorrect module combinations 

BUGFIXES

• Battle Result Notifications no longer block the turn, while keeping the big stability improvement that originally caused this issue (Note: This fix works for Single Player and Multiplayer hosts only, but not Multiplayer clients, who will still need to dismiss the battle report notification to let the end turn progress) 
• The Academy's aggression & power level scaling has been fixed 
• Isolated systems are no longer blocked from being colonized by the quest Death Without a Corpse 
• Horatio's Main Quest: Chapter 2 (Industrialist) will no longer get stuck if another empire destroys the fleets (It will complete) 
• Relics gained from converting will always be 2, it is no longer scaled by gamespeed which resulted in 1.33 relics on slow 
• Quest "Forged in Battle" Now is 25-55 turns instead of 10-70 by galaxy size 
• System Trade Value no longer scales with Game Speed 
• The mining probe lifetime of multiple Behemoth modules is no longer additive, now taking the highest instead 
• Influence gained from Lumeris pop bonus is now shown in the Empire Influence tooltip 
• Unfallen Terraform Options (Hot types to Forest) now use the forest art (previously all were Savannah) 
• Optics Research Lab's yield is now shown in the System Science Tooltip 
• All Singularities now affect heroes as intended 
• The Diagnostics.xml file should no longer be filled with errors if the Nakalim main menu screen is displayed 
• Fixed Nakalim being after the Umbral Choir in the faction selection 
• Behemoths no longer shown under Faction Hulls for every faction 
• Capped many cost reductions from reaching 0% 
• GasWarm now has the Temperate tag 
• Fixed Custom Umbral Shadows not having GUI Elements 
• Fixed Influence Radius flickering and huge influence border growth projects 
• Fixed many slots on Academy ships not functioning properly 
• Fixed Behemoth Mining not properly transferring its FIDSI to your planets 
• Fixed some icons some icons appearing as much lower resolution than they should 
• Fixed malus for missing colonization tech not showing up in planet FIDSI breakdowns 
• Fixed some empire relic effects not toggling correctly 
• Fix miscellaneous tooltips from not showing up properly / being duplicated 
• Fixed starting Behemoth modules not unlocking when you research the Behemoth hull technology 
• Fixed Bait / Jammer modules not correctly applying movement effect 
• Added missing EmpireAttitude localization strings 
• Adding missing warning strings 
• Fixed many typos 
• Fixed Hero Skill GUI showing an incorrect amount of available relics 
• FIDSI per Population bonuses on Planets no longer appear as though they are giving you a large percentage 
• Fixed Aligning a minor faction not failing any assimilation quests associated with it 
• Fixing colonization module tooltip appearing in the incorrect category 
• Fixed some modules appearing as though they require a different strategic resource in the tech tree 
• Minor factions can no longer run out of quests to give 
• Fixed brainwashed faction still allowing their boosts to be used 
• Fixed terraformation not showing difference between planet FIDSI 

Models can be exported from the main menu of the game, under Mods -> Game Asset Exporter

But just be warned, the models are nowhere near ready for 3D printing and will need a lot of work, starting with the fact the weapon turrets are separate files.

Hey everyone,

We've just released a patch for the beta. Here's the full changelog:

Fixes

• Fixed many typos
• Fixed many missing localization / gui element errors
• Fixed many FIDSI bonuses not appearing on the Planet & Empire breakdowns
• Fixed many small crashes with the GUI system
• Fixed Gas Planets having a FIDSI penalty when their associated tech is researched
• Fixed Nakalim hull upgrade technologies upgrading wrong hulls
• Fixed Riftborn not having access to Influence Conversion
• Fixed the Academy and Minor Factions suffering from missing colonization tech penalties
• Fixed systems donated to the Academy referencing resources that do not exist
• Fixed crash relating to loading a save with a defeated empire
• Fixed having Influence over the Unfallen giving negative diplomatic pressure
• Fixed not being able to attack the Academy when at war (requires a change of diplomatic state on loaded saves)
• Fixed Vodyani not having their explorer hull tech moved to the correct place
• Fixed Vodyani "Evacuate System" not being available after Brainwashing a minor faction
• Fixed Vodyani & Nakalim not being able to use minor faction boosts after Brainwashing/Aligning a minor faction
• Fixed Arks not showing Module Multiplier
• Fixed "Shield Reload Per Phase" not being affected by module multiplier
• Fixed Custom "Shipbound" factions not having the correct Ark Essence Cost formula
• Fixed effect from "Smoking Gun Part 2" not applying to systems as it should
• Fixed movement bonus from "En Passant" sometimes not applying
• Fixed the Umbral Choir "Wildlife Module" and "Self-Surveiller" not having any effect
• Fixed growing multiple population not correctly selecting next population type
• Fixed being able to donate Academy systems to the Academy
• Fixed some Behemoth upgrade effects not applying to all Behemoths
• Fixed Flotilla shields not having any effect
• Fixed some removed technologies still being rewarded, crashing the game

Changes

• Updated credits to include the team for the (Re)Awakening patch
• Made Involuntary Nomads and Slumbering Ruins traits incompatible (due to gameplay conflicts)
• Updated Academy Diplomacy screen to show a breakdown of current sources of Academy Relation
• Nerfed Influence from Awakening Systems from 50 to 20
• Nerfed Nakalim relic action, now gives 2 relics instead of 3, costs 20 relation
• Reduced overall kinetic weapon damage by 10%
• Increased overall energy weapon damage by 10
• Adjusted ranges of starting battle tactics
• Added icon for Nakalim "Divine Sentry" fleet action

AI

• Space Combat Tactical AI has been improved
• Ship Design AI has been improved
• Fixed the AI not searching curiosities on its own systems
• Fixed AI not using Economic Behemoths correctly
• Added "IsAI" property on ClassEmpire for modders
• Improved Minor/Academy/Pirate Tactics Card selections
• Improved Vodyani AI fleet management

Modding

• Added new documentation, "AIGain.md", which lists all potential AI Gain inputs
• Added new documentation "LaunchArguments.md", which lists useful launch arguments relevant to modding

Please let us know in this thread if you encounter any problems or bugs. 

I don't know all the details, but as far as I remember it was just a matter of our contract running out, and deciding not to renew it.

Rebalancing the Ramscoop and Probe Factory is in our backlog, though it's not at the top of the list, as there are other far-reaching aspects we want to address.

KryoVault wrote:

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:
The mining probe lifetime of multiple Behemoth modules is no longer additive, now taking the highest instead

Will there be some sort of toggle/config to bring back the old, additive behavior? You know, since mining the galaxy is the favorite past time of every chicken samurai. :)

Probably not, but Behemoths are one of the big subjects we want to tackle once we're confident Awakening is in a better state.