Endless Space 2
Endless Summer Guest Stream with Pangolin Advisor, GamerUnderDev & DasTactic!
🎥Watch on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/amplitudestudios
Welcome to Endless Summer!
Hey everyone,
Welcome to the first ever Endless Summer, a weeklong celebration of the hot months, all things Endless, and our great community. We’ve got plenty in store for you this week, so grab a cold drink, kick back, and hang out with us and your fellow Endless fans.
STREAMS
For the whole week of this celebration, we will host a stream every day. We will cover all the Endless games, and a few SEGA games on top of it! On the weekend, we will even be joined by guests from around the world, with more than 12 hours of streaming content on Saturday and a German guest stream on Sunday! You can find the full schedule on our new hub page.
ACTIVITIES
If you fancy a more active role, we got you covered as well!
We’ve published scenarios for both Endless Space 2 and Endless Legend today. These are not as vanilla as some of the previous scenarios, as we’ve asked the devs to create some custom factions for you to face off against. So, take to the seas on Auriga or the stars around it!
Looking for more action? Try yourself at our Dungeon of the Endless Speedrun challenge. Don’t worry, it’s nice and cool down in the Refreezerator pod, even when our (presumably) cold-blooded hero is taking heat!
Perhaps the weather as beautiful as a Horatio greenhouse has inspired you, and you feel that something is missing from our visual novel Love Thyself - A Horatio Story: A little more mystery, a little more clone romance, a little shopping trip on the concourse? We have put together a little guide on how to create your own scenes for Love Thyself, and you can even earn a reward for your efforts in beautification.
REWARDS
Even if you’re just relaxing on these sunny summer days, we still got new digital goodies for all of you!
For your refreshment, Slowhands has shared some of the most popular cocktail recipes from the Endless galaxy. We’ve also released a small wallpaper collection for each of the Endless games, so you can enjoy our artwork even when you take a break.
 
Finally, everybody who participates in our Endless Summer by being active on Games2Gether during the event will receive a new badge.
GIVEAWAYS
If you’re looking for something else to play, just for this week of Endless Summer, you can get two free games from a selection of five classic SEGA titles from the Mega Drive! Grab them while you can!
Don’t forget, the Steam Summer Sale is still going on for a few more days as well, with virtually all our titles heavily discounted. A great time to round out your collection!
Have a great summer!
-The Amplitude Team
Love Thyself--A Horatio Story Part II
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https://www.twitch.tv/events/uwRpFPB0Ts2c_3ut-vHzzQ
Free Weekend for Endless Space 2!
We’re still celebrating the two year anniversary of Endless Space 2! We want everybody in our great community to join, so Endless Space 2 is free to play from today until Tuesday, May 28.
On top of that, we are offering some great discounts as part of the Steam Spring Cleaning sale. Endless Space 2 is 66% off, and most of the DLC is 50% off. This is a great time to complete your collection!
If you are new to Endless Space 2 and the Endless universe, be sure to check out Games2Gether for some awesome trailers, and sign up for free goodies!
- Free games, like the Endless Space Collection
- Bonus content for your games, like the Muck & Makers update
- Free Digital Artbooks and comics
- and more to come!
Have fun playing!
- Amplitude
Love Thyself - A Horatio Story
Hey everyone,
Do any of you remember April 1st of last year? On that day, we briefly glimpsed perfection as we imagined a new standard in Horatio dating simulators. Back then, we honestly had no plans to follow through on it, for while we could imagine this perfect game, we could not imagine any way to truly capture the experience of dating Horatio, for who can earn his love but himself?
However, at Amplitude we always strive to listen closely to our community. And what we heard were a lot of requests for a Horatio-based experience. A LOT of them. In fact, there were so many remarks about it that they might as well have been clones, with a few remarkable exceptions.
Now, after a year of tinkering, we have finally been able to enhance a select few members of the community team to be able to deliver a true-to-vatgrown-life Horatio experience. We hope you will appreciate their great effort on your behalf, for they will never be the same… No, actually, they will forever be the same, as each other, for they have probably become Horatio. Check out some of their work below.
Part 1 of “Love Thyself – A Horatio Story” is available now on Steam for FREE, and we have dedicated a new forum to it.
Check back later this spring for part 2 and the exciting clone-clusion of this Horatio story!
Have fun,
The Amplitude Team.
Muck & Makers Content Update
Way back in January, we challenged you to explore a target of 3.5 million systems in in 4 days during the Endless Free Weekend. Well congrats, because you made it! Well, maybe not you specifically, but that doesn’t really matter since this hot pile of update is available to all ES2 players! Here’s a more detailed list of the contents:Â
1) Hero – Fore Sagazh Jabble
 A carefree, curious and accident-prone creature, integrated to the society of Heroes when an Academy explorer ship arrived to study their planet.
2) Minor Faction – Basryxo
 This society evolved in the detritus of what is essentially a garbage planet, as myriad forms of waste were dumped on the world for centuries. Starting from ragged scavengers to become pragmatic and efficient recyclers, they have learned to turn garbage into gold.
3) Quest – Munchie Madness
 The coolest, tastiest treat across the galaxy is a new fast food, Haroshuarm. The trend has taken settled planets by storm, but unfortunately, the incredible leap in take-out consumption has created vast quantities of garbage, that you will need to handle…
Claim “Muck & Makers” via Games2Gether
Games2Gether is our collaborative video game co-creation platform, where we work with the community to build better games via voting, forums, and more. It’s also a great place to claim free Endless rewards!
To claim your Muck & Makers free update, simply logon to the Games2Gether platform, select the update from the rewards page here, and the update will install immediately on your Steam account.Â
We hope you enjoy,
 - The Ampliteam
PATCH 1.4.12 - MUCK & MAKERS CONTENT UPDATE
ADDITIONS [MUCK AND MAKERS ADD-ON]
ADDITIONS [PENUMBRA]
FIXES [ALL VERSION]
FIXES [PENUMBRA]
FIXES [CELESTIAL WORLDS]
Overshooting for the stars
Hey everyone,
We had a very busy week-end, with two releases, a free week-end, and a beloved freebie on the side. Things went... a bit too well. Here's a quick recap of the crazy last few days we had.
Amplitude Free Week-end & Endless Space 2 Challenge
The free week-end was a resounding success, and we're happy to announce that all reward objectives for Endless Space 2 have been unlocked! For those of you who missed it, players could play Endless Space 2 for free this week-end, and in doing so, unlock content for everyone, free of charge! Welp, that part went pretty well as you all breezed through the thresholds we set. The free content will be coming to Endless Space 2 in an upcoming update, hopefully a few weeks from now!
Endless Space Free Forever
We've had this little gift in mind for a while now, to thank our community for hanging around for so long and helping us create the games we know and love. Giving the very first Endless Space for free indeed was part of the plan... What we didn't anticipate was how many of you would try to redeem the game at the same time. The Games2Gether was hit by thousands of attempts to connect profiles to the Steam API per minute, and on Thursday evening the servers came crashing down. We added more capacity, then the redeeming process on our end decided to give up the ghost on Friday. We fixed that as well, added even more server capacity, and that held... for a few hours. This process continued into the week-end and we are still monitoring the situation to prevent further issues.Â
If you are encountering issues to redeem Endless Space, please let us know in this thread.
Endless Legend: Symbiosis & Endless Space 2: Penumbra
We were humbled by the reception that was given to our two new expansions, Symbiosis & Penumbra. To see that so many of you are still to this day fans enough to support a game that released several years ago is enough to warm our tiny developer hearts. Both the Mykara & the Umbral Choir factions coincidentally expanded on the tall gameplay that made the Cultists so unique! Nonetheless, even with beta testing going on, there were some unforeseen kinks to work out:
For Symbiosis, a hotfix was released on Thursday to address certain performance issues.
For Penumbra, there's a little more than that going on. To contextualize things, our beta ran for quite a while, and both our community and VIPs are among the most dedicated players we could hope for, and we're grateful for them! They have access to our design documents almost from the start, and they're part of what makes working at Amplitude a joy. Their feedback was very valuable to improve the expansion and make it into something truly one of a kind. However, there's a bit of a bias when testing new systems, since we wanted hacking to be a very different system from what it had been in Endless Legend, a system that would add a layer of mind games to the gameplay. Hacking proved to be just that... and then some.
We do however understand that for a portion of our players, Penumbra has for that reason been a little disappointing so far. The system works very well once you've grasped not only how to use it, but how to use it effectively: for instance, it's good to know how to hack the closest system, but it's even better to know that running the hack through a bunch of dummy systems is the surest way to prevent your target from tracing you back. There's a couple of other things, tiny additions and hints that make hacking a little more difficult than it was intended to be, to be fun and effective. We aim to remedy that, to make sure that this expansion is one you want to come back to and enjoy for years to come.
The planned changes are listed in this thread and the earliest will take effect in a branch (to try it, right-click on Endless Space 2 in your Steam library, then select Properties. Under the Betas tab, click on the drop-down menu to select Preview1_4_3). Do take a look and let us know what you think!
We want to thank you again for taking part in this week-end's celebration, and are looking forward to many more with you!
-The Amplitude Team
Endless Space 2: Penumbra is live!
Hey everyone,
In case you've been stranded on an asteroid for the last week, you may have missed our announcement that we have a new expansion releasing today, Endless Space 2: Penumbra!
The shadowy, wraith-like spy faction known as the Umbral Choir will be infiltrating the Endless Universe, alongside cool new espionage features like hacking and invisibility. Roaming the universe since the dawn of time, the Umbral Choir are silent observers of the woes of the galaxy. At last, they heard the death cry of another dimension and decided to rush to the aid of those who suffered.
The Umbral Choir
10 months ago, we started out on a journey to co-create the Umbral Choir faction with our community. We held a series of votes on everything from species origin, morphology, nomenclature, ship structure, lore & much more…. This series of 11 community votes helped us create the badass spectral faction we’ve arrived at today, which looks unlike all the factions we’ve created before. Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Hacking & Invisibility
Ever wanted to feel like a real-life hack3r? Well now’s your chance. No matter what faction you’re playing, you will able to attempt to hack into others’ home systems. Penumbra also brings new invisibility modules for ships, powerful tools to help you hid from your enemies. Or counter them by installing detection modules!
Here's a video introducing the Umbral Choir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSnSFYteKG0
We are also introducing a new expansion for Endless Legend, called Endless Legend: Symbiosis! Check out this link for more info.
Endless Free Weekend
All of our games are also playable for free this week-end, and we even have something special cooked up for Endless Space 2 players! Check this site for more info.
Both expansions are already available, at a base price of $12.99 / €12.99 / £10.99.
But until February 4th, you can grab them at a discount!
Get Penumbra HERE at 10% off!
Get Symbiosis HERE at 10% off!
Or just grab them both in the bundle HERE at a 20% discount!
Harmonic Memories, Celestial Worlds, & Patch 1.3.27!
Hey everyone,
After the resounding success of our previous content packs, Untold Tales & Lost Symphony, we thought: why not give the people what they want? So we're back with a music content pack, Harmonic Memories, & a quest content pack, Celestial Worlds. Both content packs are priced at $2.99 / 2.99€ / £2.49 with a 10% discount until Thursday, November 22nd! Want more details on the good stuff within? Read on!
Harmonic Memories
There's nothing quite like music for immersion, and the Endless Universe is no exception. We've worked with our one and only FlybyNo to reimagine, remaster and remix 9 tracks from Endless Space, first of its name, and bring them to Endless Space 2. If you're looking for one more excuse to go ahead and get the content pack, read what our favorite composer had to say:
"For this musical add-on, I chose my 9 favorite songs from Endless Space and modernized them with new instruments and musicians.
In two pieces we recorded some “duduk”, the Armenian flute emblematic of ES1's main theme. I also recorded a duet of singers for all the choir parts (that I had sung myself at the time, and I can tell you that I sing particularly badly!). All the rhythmic parts were redone by my assistant Alexandre, and I replaced most of the synthesizers with brand new ones. The new synths include John Bowen’s Solaris and The River, a rare French synthesizer of which only 20 copies have been produced to date. I hope you enjoy listening to this creation as much as I did producing it."
The content pack also includes the Harmony hero, FES2 Reflects. Reflects is a fatalist hero who has decided to accept Dust as a natural part of life to be understood, resulting in Reflects’ integration to the Academy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CQEgXhwFyQ&feature=youtu.be
Celestial Worlds
In a new huuuuge quest line featuring 14 chapters and multiple endings, Isyander begins to lose his grip on Academy operations. Restless heroes start to make their own decisions, as they realize Unique Planets are sources of power that could be anybody’s property… Places to be, people to meet.
Additionally, discover 2 new Unique Planets, 6 new Weapon Modules, and 8 new Empire improvements.
Patch 1.3.27
[BALANCE]
Lumeris:
Vodyani:
Horatio:
Riftborn:
Hissho:
Unfallen:
United Empire:
Accompanying tweaks:
Economy:
Space Battle:
Others:
[FIXES]Â
We hope you all enjoy this chance to make the game even more immersive! What's your favorite ES1 track?
Umbral Choir Making-Of & New G2G Vote!
Over the last few weeks, we've published several articles letting you have a behind-the-scenes look at how we are creating the faction of the upcoming spying-themed expansion, the Umbral Choir. How do they play? What do they look like? Who are they exactly?
Find the answers to these questions and more in the articles below!
Umbral Choir Making-Of, Pt 1: Game Design
Click here!
Umbral Choir Making-Of, Pt 2: Inside a Game Design meeting
Click here!
Umbral Choir Making-Of, Pt 3: Art
Click here!
Umbral Choir Making-Of, Pt 4: 3D Art
Click here!
Umbral Choir Making-Of, PT 5: Lore
Click here!
Finally and as promised, here is the first of our new G2G Votes on the Umbral Choir! We're starting off with their home system's name!
Click here!