{"id":6817,"date":"2012-05-16T06:51:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T10:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2012-05-16T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:06:09","slug":"endless-space-alpha-2-expected-today-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/endless-space-alpha-2-expected-today-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Space: Alpha 2 Expected Today on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6818\" title=\"Endless Space | Alpha 2 coming soon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_alpha2.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Space | Alpha 2 coming soon\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_alpha2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_alpha2-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amplitude Studios is working hard and is close to release a new alpha version for Endless Space. Their expectations are to release the new alpha today on <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/208140\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>. You can see the full list of changes, additions and fixes <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/showthread.php?210-News-from-the-Dev-Team&#038;p=25730&#038;viewfull=1#post25730\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some changes\/additions I retained:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added a drag and drop function for the items of the construction queue<\/li>\n<li>Fixed an issue where AI fleets can initiate a fight during the \u201cEnd turn\u201d phase<\/li>\n<li>Added a warning message if you don\u2019t have a research in queue on end turn<\/li>\n<li>Added a warning message if your bank account become negative at the next turn<\/li>\n<li>Exchanges can no longer be made in cold war or war<\/li>\n<li>Added a colored symbol to most of the icons of the tech tree<\/li>\n<li>Improved the 3D viewport in the Military and Ship Design screens<\/li>\n<li>Added background elements in the Battle view (asteroids, wrecks)<\/li>\n<li>Added a zoom level slider in the Galaxy View<\/li>\n<li>More <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/showthread.php?210-News-from-the-Dev-Team&#038;p=25730&#038;viewfull=1#post25730\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Endless Space is currently in alpha but you can already <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/208140\" target=\"_blank\">pre-purchase on Steam<\/a>\u00a0and start playing now. You have a preview of the first alpha released on Steam on May 2, 2012 <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/endless-space-alpha-first-look-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The game is expected to release on Summer 2012 with the boxed-version expected on Aug 24, 2012. The publisher, Iceberg Interactive, is also planning for French and German versions of the game.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amplitude Studios is working hard and is close to release a new alpha version for Endless Space. Their expectations are to release the new alpha today on Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[811,852,851,863,918],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-alpha","tag-amplitude-studios","tag-endless-space","tag-iceberg-interactive","tag-steam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}