{"id":8076,"date":"2012-11-07T09:27:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:42:51","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:42:51","slug":"endless-space-second-add-on-about-ambience-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/endless-space-second-add-on-about-ambience-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Space: Second Add-on About &#8220;Ambience&#8221; and &#8220;Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_addon_2.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Endless Space | 2nd Free Add-on\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8077 alignnone\" title=\"Endless Space | 2nd Free Add-on\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_addon_2.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Space | 2nd Free Add-on\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_addon_2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_addon_2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amplitude Studios announced the first bits of information on their second (free) add-on for <a  title=\"Endless Space review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/endless-space-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Endless Space<\/a>, to come out still this year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amplitude\u2019s\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?165-Endless-Space-update-plan\" target=\"_blank\">update plan<\/a>, this<strong>\u00a0free add-on #2\u00a0<\/strong>content was defined through\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/forumdisplay.php?8-GAMES2GETHER-Design-Discussion\" target=\"_blank\">Games2Gether<\/a>\u00a0by the end of October 2012. The\u00a0<strong>free add-on #3<\/strong>\u00a0content voting is expected to start after that. Three free ad-ons \u201cwill be released until December of this year (2012)\u201d,\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?165-Endless-Space-update-plan\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0Amplitude.<\/p>\n<p>Their <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/endless-space-add-on-rise-of-the-automatons-on-steam\/\" target=\"_blank\">first add-on<\/a>, &#8220;Rise of the Automatons&#8221;, brought a new custom faction with that name; UI changes, namely more information on trade routes with a specific new panel for that; they also upgraded some aspects about diplomacy, including more alliance options and some fixes.<\/p>\n<p>This <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?194-First-info-on-2nd-add-on\" target=\"_blank\">second add-on<\/a> will bring:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Random Interactive Events:<\/strong> Multiple choice interactive random events<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ambience Galaxy Map +:<\/strong> Give more life to the galaxy with the addition of comets, black holes, anomalies, etc\u2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exploration Rewards:<\/strong> There will be rewards on some systems that can only be earned by the 1st players to reach them<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wonders:<\/strong> Adds wonders rewarding players\u2019 exploration with strong and temporary boosts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to this preliminary list of features Amplitude also said to be working on other features than will reinforce the immersion as well as the AI. &#8220;More on this will be revealed on the upcoming weeks&#8221;, added Amplitude.<\/p>\n<p>More <em>Life<\/em>, <em>Ambience<\/em> and <em>Immersion<\/em>\u00a0are indeed\u00a0very welcome, to a good game foundation no doubt, but that lacks soul and more ways to engage and capture people&#8217;s attention for extended periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>Providing more chances to surprise players, with random events, and the investment on <em>eXploration<\/em> aspects, with the\u00a0introduction\u00a0of wonders and rewards for discovery, is surely a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Amplitude is listening, and their Games2Gether initiative seems to be working quite well. The future seems bright for Endless Space, and for all who have been supporting this space 4X game since the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amplitude Studios announced the first bits of their second (free) add-on for Endless Space to come out still this year.<\/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":[216,74],"tags":[917,852,851,863,215],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-patches","category-announcements-and-rumors","tag-add-on","tag-amplitude-studios","tag-endless-space","tag-iceberg-interactive","tag-patch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","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=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}