A free update for Endless Legend landed yesterday adding a new victory condition that lets you build a spaceship and flee the planet in a culture-wide mic-drop exit that will make your enemies sad. This victory is available to all factions, but only after they've completed "Faction specific Quests".
The update also adds three new map generation presets including New World, which puts everyone on the same island so they can eat each other, Hunger Games style. The Scattered preset gives each faction their own island and Symmetrical does what you'd expect.
A new minor faction called the Dorgeshi have also been included at the community's request and diplomacy has been expanded to let you ask other factions to declare wars on targets of your choice. There's good news for modders, too. They'll now "have access to the game Simulation" which should hopefully enable folks to make deeper rule changes and create more varied scenarios.
Endless Legend was the best strategy game of 2014, earning a commendation for design in our game of the year awards, thanks largely to the way it tries to innovate on staid turn-based strategy principles. It also has amazing, varied factions, like science vikings from space, and people made from soul dust. For more info, check out our Endless Legend review, and the Endless Legend site.
- An improvement on diplomacy allowing you to ask an empire to declare war on another empire.
- An integrated set of AI and Simulation tools, which allow you to browse through all the variables of an empire. Very useful for modders who want to understand what is going on. It allows you to switch between empires, so obviously this will be available in a special launch mode, to avoid multiplayer cheats.
- The world generation is enriched with a system of presets, offering exotic continents layout: New World, Scattered, Symmetrical.
- A Victory Quest has been added. Once you complete your main faction quest, you can attempt to achieve this quest to win the game (new victory condition). I will not give more details to allow you to discover this yourself.
- A new outgame scene featuring the Drakken has been added.
- New Steam achievements have been added per G2G design and vote.
- The Dorgeshi minor faction (G2G) has also been added.
- 6 new keyboard shortcuts as requested on the forum.
- An improvement on diplomacy allowing you to ask an empire to declare war on another empire.
- An integrated set of AI and Simulation tools, which allow you to browse through all the variables of an empire. Very useful for modders who want to understand what is going on. It allows you to switch between empires, so obviously this will be available in a special launch mode, to avoid multiplayer cheats.
- The world generation is enriched with a system of presets, offering exotic continents layout: New World, Scattered, Symmetrical.
- A Victory Quest has been added. Once you complete your main faction quest, you can attempt to achieve this quest to win the game (new victory condition). I will not give more details to allow you to discover this yourself.
- A new outgame scene featuring the Drakken has been added.
- New Steam achievements have been added per G2G design and vote.
- The Dorgeshi minor faction (G2G) has also been added.
- 6 new keyboard shortcuts as requested on the forum.