{"id":8794,"date":"2013-03-12T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2013-03-12T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:36:27","slug":"endless-space-4th-free-add-on-released-and-50-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/endless-space-4th-free-add-on-released-and-50-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless Space: 4th Free Add-on Released And 50% Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_virtual_awakening_addon_large.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\" title=\"Endless Space: Virtual Awakening add-on\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8797\" title=\"Endless Space: Virtual Awakening add-on\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_virtual_awakening_addon.jpg\" alt=\"Endless Space: Virtual Awakening add-on\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_virtual_awakening_addon.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/endless_space_virtual_awakening_addon-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amplitude Studios released Virtual Awakening,\u00a0their fourth free add-on for Endless Space. The add-on is already available on Steam since yesterday, and you just need to fire the game and Steam will auto-update.<\/p>\n<p>The first add-on,\u00a0<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, updated AI and diplomacy. The second add-on,\u00a0<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 \u201cambience\u201d and \u201clife\u201d content. The third add-on,\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/endless-space-3rd-free-add-on-on-steam-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lights of Polaris<\/a>, brought a new wonder, hero, Steam achievements and &#8220;battle actions in auto&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Only three free add-ons were originally planned, but later on Amplitude announced a fourth which would contain all the rewards unlocked during a Steam free weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual Awakening, the fourth add-on, adds the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1 new Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gas Giant Transformation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2 new Buildings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deep Space Facility<\/li>\n<li>High Energy Array<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3 new Planet Anomalies<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hostile Dust<\/li>\n<li>Endless Trouble<\/li>\n<li>Humeris Insidentes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4 new Random Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mad Scientist<\/li>\n<li>New Religion<\/li>\n<li>Sleeping War Machines<\/li>\n<li>Endless Facility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4 new Heroes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pirate<\/li>\n<li>Deuyivan<\/li>\n<li>Automaton<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Endless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>6 new Exploration Rewards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pool of heroes is refreshed<\/li>\n<li>Unveil surrounding systems<\/li>\n<li>4 boost (industry or approval)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See the full release note\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/forums.amplitude-studios.com\/content.php?263-Virtual-Awakening-Release-Notes\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Well, this seems to be it concerning free add-ons for Endless Space, at least for the time being because Amplitude seems to be focusing their full attention on the Endless Space expansion now. We covered Amplitude&#8217;s expansion <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/endless-space-expansion-pack-announced\/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> back in August of last year. More on that when we have details on content and expected release date, but, the main focus of the expansion seems to be a major overhaul of the combat system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>50% Sale until March 18th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the new free add-on release, and to commemorate 300,000 copies sold, Endless Space will be on sale until March 18th on <a  href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/208140\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/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>\u00a0(made before all four free add-ons) and 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 released Virtual Awakening, their fourth free add-on for Endless Space.<\/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":[917,852,851,1244,18,863,215],"class_list":["post-8794","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-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\/8794","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=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacesector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}