Endless Space 2 Stellar Prisoner Update Adds Two New Heroes

If you’ve ever played an Amplitude Studios game, you know they have a penchant for dishing out free content. It’s no surprise then, that the latest update for Endless Space 2 expands the game with two new heroes, new planets, anomalies, quests and more. There are also bug fixes and performance improvements, but honestly, it’s all about breaking a glowing guy from a neutron star prison.

Here are the most interesting additions, balance changes and fixes. If you’d like to check out the full list, you’d better take a look at the changelog.

• Added Neutron Star special node
• Added 2 new unique planets, Veil & Teonha
• Added hero Koros Apogee
• Added hero Tiaych Zhilleaq
• Added the quest Invisible Chains (look for the neutron star!)
• Added a unique Anomaly on Auriga & Bilgeli (2 total)
• Reduced Auriga base science as it is now given by Husk of Knowledge anomaly
• Fixed the quest improvement “Craver Dark Ops” being available to be built multiple times
• Fixed custom faction feedback on planet FIDSI tooltips
• Fixed Unfallen home system not having a bonus of 1000 System Manpower
• Fixed cooldown timer for changing battle tactics set not being affected by game speed
• Added Enhanced Astronavigation as a starting skill (tier 0) for Tiaych Zhilleaq
• Fixed incorrect feedback of Sophon Free Move movement points (showed +2, when it gave +4)
• Sophons Free Move now gives +2 Vision Range instead of +1.5
• Sophons Free Move now gives +2 Movement Points instead of +4
• Disabled Apathetic/Fervent Colonists Traits for Factions with Shipbound (since it’s irrelevant to them)
• Disabled Guardians Trait for Factions with Shipbound (since it’s irrelevant to them)
• Fixed some political traits not affecting politics properly/being wrongly feedbacked
  • Merchants
  • Monumentalists
  • Aggressive
  • Investors
  • Conservationists
  • Automatists
  • Sociologists
  • Biologists
  • Dutiful
  • Virtuous
  • Skeptics
  • Fanatical
  • Sanctuarists
  • Pragmatic
  • Preservationists
  • Harvesters
  • Druids
  • Territorial
• Exploration quest Mysterious Plague ship is now disabled for the Vodyani Faction
• Horatio Carrier now has 13200 HP instead of 5500 HP
• War exhaustion trend computation will now depend on game speed
• Added Distributed Energy and Gamma Analysis tooltips
• Lumeris refund for outposts is now equal to the Dust spent to colonize
• Updated Gas FIDSI to differentiate the planets
• Populations Collections for Custom Factions are now dissociated from the vanilla factions’. This allows for clearer feedback.
• Fixed a bug where the Horatio population collection bonus level 3 had overpowered, unintended industry effects
• Fixed an issue of Influence provided by Outposts
• First contact action with Minor Factions is now free
• The New Colony Rule Industrialist law only applies its effect on the newly acquired colony
• Fixed tooltip of the Explore Binaries anomaly reduction displaying debug text
• Fixed the quest Babies not Booms sending population on outpost. Now, it will add population only on Colonies.
• The quest The Good Life is now disabled for custom factions with the Affinity Shipbound
• The quests Babies Not Booms and An Unexpected Visitor are now disabled for custom Factions with the Affinity Shipbound
• Relationship trend of Minor Faction now depends on game speed
• Having Pacifists in the senate does not remove the Eternal War effect over minor factions
• Fixed Shipbound Custom Factions based on Cravers Visual Affinity being able to create multiple Ark designs