{"id":6987,"date":"2012-06-01T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=6987"},"modified":"2012-06-01T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T16:25:23","slug":"endless-space-goes-beta-next-monday-4th-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/endless-space-goes-beta-next-monday-4th-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Space Goes Beta Next Monday 4th June &#8211; Release July &#8220;when satisfied&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6988\" title=\"Endless Space | New race: The Pilgrims &quot;I wonder who or what built this, and why?&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_beta.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Space\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_beta.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_beta-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amplitude Studios <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/showthread.php?210-News-from-the-Dev-Team&#038;p=38785&#038;viewfull=1#post38785\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that they will go Beta for Endless Space next Monday (4th June 2012) at the end of the day on Steam. So, I believe they mean end of day in France&#8217;s (Amplitude&#8217;s HQ) time.<\/p>\n<p>So, apparently, you have until this next Sunday to <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/208140\/\" target=\"_blank\">benefit<\/a> from the 25% off on full price promotion during alpha pre-ordering.<\/p>\n<p>The beta will include the following new features (on top of <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/showthread.php?210-News-from-the-Dev-Team&#038;p=25730&#038;viewfull=1#post25730\" target=\"_blank\">many bugs and other changes<\/a> since the first alpha):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 playable factions: previous 5 plus the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.amplitude-studios.com\/Articles\/AMOEBA\" target=\"_blank\">Amoeba<\/a>, <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.amplitude-studios.com\/Articles\/SOWERS\" target=\"_blank\">Sowers<\/a> and the <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.amplitude-studios.com\/Articles\/PILGRIMS\" target=\"_blank\">Pilgrims<\/a>\u00a0(art work above)<\/li>\n<li>Multiplayer enabled! You&#8217;ll be able to play against 7 other players online<\/li>\n<li>German and French languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Amplitude <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/showthread.php?210-News-from-the-Dev-Team&#038;p=39545&#038;viewfull=1#post39545\" target=\"_blank\">also stated<\/a> that in these past weeks their main effort has been spent on:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Achieving the first version of the multiplayer<\/li>\n<li>Completing the last 3 playable factions (art, gameplay)<\/li>\n<li>Improving the diplomatic system (better feedback, better attitude behavior)<\/li>\n<li>Tweaking the game parameters and content to improve the gameplay flow and depth<\/li>\n<li>Fixing many bugs<\/li>\n<li>Including some of the community requested improvements (they didn&#8217;t say which at this point but they promised a long list of changes a few hours before the release &#8211; squeezing all you can, right guys?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amplitude is now aiming final game release &#8220;around July&#8221;. They didn&#8217;t want to advance a firm date (clever of them). They said that &#8220;the final date will depend on when we\u2019ll be fully satisfied by the game&#8221;. Good.\u00a0I remember that the publisher, Iceberg Interactive, announced a retail release date for 24 August 2012 by the way. So, you have some time :)<\/p>\n<p>Then, they end the beta announcement with an intriguing teaser statement: &#8220;For us, the release is the just the beginning for Endless Space\u2026 definitely not the end!&#8221; ~Amplitude Studios<\/p>\n<p>So, if you didn&#8217;t <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/208140\/\" target=\"_blank\">pre-order<\/a> yet, and are planning to buy this game, I think this weekend would be a good timing for that. 25% off is still much more than a couple of beers :)\u00a0Here is our <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/endless-space-alpha-first-look-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\">hands-on preview<\/a> for you to have a close look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amplitude Studios announced that they will go Beta for Endless Space next Monday at the end of the day 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":[86,852,851,30],"class_list":["post-6987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-4x-game","tag-amplitude-studios","tag-endless-space","tag-space-strategy-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987","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=6987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}