Those are boring, and are responsible for these games having the feeling of sameiness. I think it is probably time for new 4X games to ditch the conventional victory conditions (conquest, science, economic/industrial). This is in contrast to Civ 6 which had a really strong opening impression but felt more and more shallow with each subsequent new game. I'm on my 4th new campaign of the game and I'm still picking up on some intricacies of the game not related to the uniqueness of the new faction I'm playing so that's a very good sign to me that the game will potentially stay engaging for a good long while. The best thing I can say about the combat is that I don't hate it. I am hoping that it is just growing pains as the studio scales up after partnering with Sega.ĭespite the bugs, I'm still having a good time with the game, although I think all the criticisms have been fair.

Seems like a huge oversight to me because without understanding that mechanic it is hard to understand the benefit of making everything else twice as slow. I just finished a campaign as the Riftborn, and I never used those weird time sphere things because I couldn't determine what the planet depletion mechanic was all about. There's a lot of stuff that I find underexplained. But Endless Space 2 has been a bit of a mess. It's really strange because whatever you thought of all of Amplitude's earlier games, they were all extremely polished in my experience. Personally, I don't find learning about the great heroic exploits of %VodyaniNPC to be a particularly great read. Too often the variable names pop up in these texts instead of the value of whatever the variable is pointing too.

I'll add one more irritating bug in addition to the two mentioned on the show: Endless Space 2 has an issue with with its scripting when it comes to the narrative text.

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