{"id":8279,"date":"2012-12-19T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=8279"},"modified":"2013-08-22T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:52:50","slug":"endless-space-3rd-free-add-on-on-steam-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/endless-space-3rd-free-add-on-on-steam-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Space: 3rd Free Add-on On Steam Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8281\" title=\"Endless Space | Lights of Polaris add-on\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_lights_of_polaris_addon.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Space | Lights of Polaris add-on\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_lights_of_polaris_addon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_lights_of_polaris_addon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amplitude Studios releases their third, and last of their planned free content add-ons for Endless Space today, available later on the day on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>This third free add-on&#8217;s name is Lights of Polaris, and is part of Amplitude&#8217;s <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?165-Endless-Space-update-plan\" target=\"_blank\">update plan<\/a> for Endless Space, which comprised three free add-ons for their space 4X game till the end of 2012. The first add-on, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/endless-space-add-on-rise-of-the-automatons-on-steam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rise of the Automatons<\/a>, brought a new custom faction, a new trade route UI panel, improved AI and upgraded diplomacy. The second add-on, <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/endless-space-2nd-free-add-on-and-steam-free-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Echos of the Endless<\/a>, injected some &#8220;ambience&#8221; and &#8220;life&#8221; content, namely random events, wonders and cosmic objects such as\u00a0comets, black holes or\u00a0anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publisher, this third\u00a0free add-on will now bring:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Holiday Special<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Polaris Factory Wonder<\/li>\n<li>New Oros Gec Faction Hero<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steam Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steam Achievements<\/li>\n<li>Steam Cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Community Feedback &amp; Balancing<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Battle Actions in Auto (auto battle cards)<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced Battle Action AI<\/li>\n<li>Refactored Faction Traits<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNo Pirates\u201d Option<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHide exploration flags in the galaxy view\u201d Option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the full release note <a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?227-Lights-of-Polaris-Release\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that your saves may not be compatible with this new update. So, if you&#8217;re in the middle of a game probably you should play it safe and disable Steam&#8217;s auto update for Endless Space as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that seems to be it with respect to free add-ons for Endless Space, but it&#8217;s not the end of the line for this space 4X game.\u00a0In the summer, Amplitude announced an expansion (paid content) for Endless Space, where battles improvements seem to be the big focus. You can read more about it <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/endless-space-expansion-pack-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\Edit: There&#8217;s an\u00a0extra free DLC\u00a0planned for the coming months with the rewards unlocked in a past Steam free weekend event. Thanks\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/endless-space-3rd-free-add-on-on-steam-today\/comment-page-1\/#comment-306594\">Eleazzaar<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Endless Space checkout our\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/endless-space-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/endless-space-beta-playing-the-amoeba-part-1-intro\/\" target=\"_blank\">AAR<\/a>\u00a0\u201dPlaying the Amoeba\u201d. Information on where to buy can be found on our\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/games\/#endless_space\" target=\"_blank\">game\u2019s list page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amplitude Studios releases their third, and last, of their planned free content add-ons for Endless Space today, available later on 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":[216,74],"tags":[917,852,851,1244,18,863,1179,215],"class_list":["post-8279","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-endless-space-free-add-ons","tag-free","tag-iceberg-interactive","tag-lights-of-polaris","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\/8279","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=8279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}