A common complaint about the game (hardly surprising. No problems leaving the battle video, only when entering. This loads the scenario fine and dandy, but the actual display is still stuck on the “Fleet Battle at XYZ” pop-up. Jarring at first, I grew used to it and rather enjoyed being able to flip my music selection from “Ambient Empire Ruling Sounds” to “Space Combat, Scene 1.” It’s also a rather unique way to market a game as having no loading screens (except the menu). #2: Problems loading the combat simulation.Īlso a bug, this one in two flavors. Maybe the Cravers ate somebody they shouldn’t have *cough*Voydani*cough*. I was in my corner of space, minding my own business (bullshit!) when all of a sudden, my ascension up the tech tree was interrupted by the error.

I got no clue what was up with the Sophons, though. Ignorant fools, I was uplifting them to a higher plane of existence! Seems that they were all upset that I was a “Vampiric Bastard” who kept “Abducting and Harvesting” their citizens. As the Voydani, I was cleaning house with all the minor factions up in my grill. The error comes up every time I try to fight one of their ships. I strongly suspect this bug exists due to issues in how the game covers faction deaths, because as the Cravers I had murdered the last Voydani Ark and was cleaning up stragglers. I made it to turn 69 (thanks, game) before Terrible Things happened to my computer.

Ignoring it, amusingly enough, was more effective.

Same turn rolls around, yellow/red screen of death on my monitor. Suggested options include A) loading an autosave from a couple turns ago, and B) ignoring it. Every campaign that’s made it to turn 67-ish so far (Craver, Sophon, Voydani) suffers a fatal error. First up, Bad Things! I Wish These Weren’t in the Game, But They Are I think I’ll take a stab at writing a few words on the Early Access release of Endless Space 2.

14 hours in, 4 campaigns played/started, it’s the wee hours of the morning, going on afternoon.

Endless space 2 loading screen