Endless Space 2 - The Vodyani - Prologue 

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Well, the final quest in the Vodyani questline requires you to occupy the system with Isyandar's Academy. But by then the Vodyani have already forsaken their gods (Virtual Endless). I like the outro where instead of choosing between accepting Isyander's truth or keep following their gods, the Vodyani choose to become Virtual Endless themselves.

At least making that secondary objective would have made the DLC "upgrade " of the academy more... torelable

you can in awakening

Can't wait for the United Empire and their 40k inspired ships.

Dont forget about the Xenos filth, only in exterminatus can there be peace in the galaxy.

Kinda gave me Adepta Sororitas vibe too

conan263 meh

Nah, it's because Ark ships move slower than the rest of the fleet until you get enough upgrades for them.

@@Dallows65 "Ma'am why did we leave 30 minutes before the rest of the fleet?" "It's so the others can overtake us, it makes for a cooler shot" "What?" Still the same :)

Whenever I form an alliance in ES2, I call it “Coalition of the Willing”. - It's an old joke, but it still makes me laugh every time I read it.

and yet there is still Cravers

@@DCPTF2 The Cravers are just doing it for simple survival though, they might be aggressive but they're predictable and far from maniacal, the Vodyani are actually genuinely dangerous because they'd do shit like destroy the entire galaxy to achieve their goals. Also while we do see Cravers in almost every piece of art in the game depicting civilians which suggests they can reject their aggressive ways and live peacefully with others perfectly fine we basically never see Vodyani and Isyander is really the only Vodyani we know of to reject the church.

@@hedgehog3180 a lot of the vodyani quests talk about stuff like vodyani questioning their faith in the church of the endless which is met with punishment. I think it’s more or less that the church doesn’t want any of them to reject their ways. Who knows maybe without the church the vodyani could’ve ended up being a lot better morally

one of vodyani lore quest require then to use core cracker to 3 hot planet,so yeah

@@hedgehog3180 you’re right, I remember craver and sophon fist bumping art on certain quest or event

The ship design is amazing as well. My jaw dropped when I saw the flyover with their faction's ships

+Robotmebobot Dat's fukken Supremacy from BE!

@@Robotmebobot I just get a weird kind of goosebumps during that scene. Vodyani still have the best ship design, closely followed by Umbral Choir and Riftborn

Vodyani are the best faction/race in the Endless Series, hands down. They are so incredibly unique.

FUCKIN' HERETIIIIICS!

FOR THE EMPERAH!!!

ATTENTION HERETIC

FOR THE EMPRAH

FOR THE GREATER GOOD!

BLOOD FOR THE BLO- no, wait, wrong faction! Ahem... FOR THE EMPEROR !

For the doneld trump

The Black Templars Approves Of This Message!

Completely stolen from Civilization: Beyond Earth, kek.

And we can say Beyond Earth stolen the main quest story style in a 4x from Endless Legend and the circle is complete :D Also, lot of game with a virtual race like I don't know, halo :) So it's classical but I like how they made and I can't be bored by this kind of race ^^

Nyutek Nuh, you cannot stole entire plot style only in month of work.

Really ? Please explain.

Napishtim Just look at Supremacy - golden/black plated armor, straight lines. religion based on technology, et cetera, et cetera.

Deus Vodyani :p

@@kinagrill endleuss vult !

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Have to have them. No universe is complete without mindless fanatical zealots.

they praised endless. that ok to me :)

PURGE THE HERETIC

Starducks Coffee yeah they are op as all hell right now.. if you get a starting system with more than one colonizationable planet or the right anomaly you are guaranteed to win the game

i think the "ancient demons" are the cravers

But the cravers want to destroy everything it's in their nature so it would seem weird they would work together.

+josiah but they are made by the endless no?

I was thinking they might have a concrete vrs virtual rift between them, might be a cool story arc.

some of the artwork shows cravers living in civilized society along with other races. As a race they may be hyper-agressive, but individuals are still independent sentients.

Heh, it's like it's straight out of something from the Witcher :)

There is a creature called Vodyanoy, a spirit of water of some kind :D

It also sounds a bit like "void", with an end that sounds latin/indian.

Indeed, voda (or its variations) means water in pretty much all slavic languages.

Why not zodyani, for example?

I've heard these guys get pop through dust but also will not step onto planets so you might need robos or a slave pop to be effective

Well in the wiki they are described very nicely. They are like BL+cultists.

+Saurabh Banik I think they will be very interesting to play and see how they will bring in other minor factions maybe with dust or influence either way this is going to be fun

well they convert minor factions like the cultists but at the same time drain minor factions of their life force like the BL to propagate their race.

more like roving clans plus cultists, these guys can move cities and value dust, like the RC, but aim to achieve their religious goals too, like the cultistd

thanks!

@@Ravi9A bruh

Pff, laame! A real inquisitor has an exterminatus head!

To be fair, everyone's questline ends with them taking off into space like that. And canonically speaking it was the Vaulters who actually did it, hence why they're in ES1. But these guys do certainly have a similar feel to them. Which is awesome to say the least. :)

Oh. I didn't know that was how the others ended. I do wish that these guys are cultists of the eternal end in the far future.

just gunna point out that these guys assimilate other major/minor factions people into their own as slave labor. just saying.

Sounds like a more evil cultists....

King328 thats what i was getting at

With dust life stealing*

Seems opposite to me. ES1 design was unique. It was still pretty much the regular "everyone in the universe looks just like stupid humans from tiny planet Earth, with 2 legs, 2 arms, head on top, talk with their mouths etc", but it had some special flavor to it which was mostly the result of genuinely good design work. Horatio concept with cloning and perfection, emotionless cravers made sense, automatons looked more or less legit.. ES2 design is dumbed down for teens. It all seems to be about fake kids drama and tits everywhere. That's what sells I guess, the amount of huge tits in the frame is proportional to the amount of teens spending money on the game. Clothing @ 1:16 in this video is a classic example of bad design. It's a retarded outfit no one in their right mind would wear, but guys from marketing know too well that their target audience is "males 18-30", and most of those think with their dicks and not brains thus common sense is secondary and sexy outfits are the must. One would hope though that a strategy game set in space would be exempt of this nonsense. Still gonna play the full version, but so far disappointed with design, at least based on these cinematics.

It's different. Every outfit has a purpose. I'm not an expert on religions, but as far as I'm aware they often work through fear and intimidation (among many other things of course). All those cathedrals, rituals and outfits in Christianity, for example, seem to exist in the way they are to humble and suppress simple-minded individuals. An ordinary peasant living in a small dirty shack sees a huge white cathedral with gold and beautiful paintings etc and it seems godly to him, it looks out of this (his) world. In his mind something this big and beautiful just can't be a work of simple men, it has to do something with almighty gods. Thus he's not likely to question his religious beliefs and continues to behave the way his religion told him to behave. Pope's outfit is just a part of that show, he just gotta wear something uniform with his religion's main theme, something awe-inspiring, pure and godly. Same with other religions - their designs (churches, outfits etc) are in line with their main themes, they make sense in relation to what the particular religion is about. All of it looks extremely stupid for educated people today, but it used to work just great throughout the centuries. And here we've got a creature from another universe that looks (surprise!) like a super fit human female with huge tits in an outfit with holes all over the specific parts of the body.. and with a spear! :) So she's sexy and she fights. That's what an average modern society' young male gamer is most interested in: sex and violence. Makes no fucking sense whatsoever to wear something like this (try actually using that spear with an outfit like that, let alone space travel dressed that way), but anyone who's been long enough around design and videogames industries knows that those things are made only to provoke micro-boners and increase sales. It's bad taste and bad design (from the artistic perspective). There's very few games these days made for mature audiences, so it's always sad to see another great franchise going in the teens-oriented direction. Thus the rant. Still gonna check the game out.

Rocco actually, you may miss the idea we know nothing about their culture. But ok, even if it is more or less human-like, as their form, the spear and the outfit may be a symbol. We do not know that "naked" parts' meaning in their context. For example, nobles in till ~18th century got a small rapier as a symbol of freedom. But strange alien could say "oh god just look at the design, can you imagine this man with no muscles actually fighting in this outfit with this metal needle? It's definitely girls-oriented" But i agree that tits are ridiculous, we were shown that they were looking as nothing related to human. Also the shoulders look very similar to cultists', it's at least interesting. Sorry for my mistakes in English, it's not my native language

The thing is, nobles in 18th century weren't doing any space exploring shit. They were living in stone buildings on Earth, built for them by "lower" humans that those "nobles" exploited (peasants, slaves etc). They had too much time on their hands (since most of hard work was done by other people, the ones that weren't nobles) so they've made up a lot of stupid crap like symbols etc - partly because they were just bored and didn't have much else to do, and also because those "symbols" served a purpose - they differentiated nobles from lower classes, which helped to keep the hierarchy where poor and stupid worked their asses off for those nobles. For the same reasons they were wearing ridiculous outfits, wigs etc. And that small rapier could still be a reasonably effective weapon in the 18th century. Heck, even today, in 21st century, knives are often used in close combat on Earth: sometimes they are just more effective than firearms. This all isn't relevant when we're talking about a civilization that is advanced enough for space travel. And especially interstellar travel. The amounts of energy (and technology to get access to that kind of energy) required are so enormous that it simply changes everything. How many "symbols" do our astronauts carry with them? None. You've got your suit, and the equipment to survive in space and complete your mission. Nothing else, no fucking symbols, no "culture" items - those are toys for apes stuck on Earth but not for intelligent species. It's downright stupid to portray a leader of such an advanced civilization with a spear! If they can travel to other stars then they have technology (and weapons) we can't even imagine yet. Putting a spear and an outfit like that on those species... it's bad design. Their only goal was to arouse some young males, that's all. I bought all previous Amplitude games simply because I thought they do an excellent job and should be paid for it. I'm not gonna pay for ES2, at least at first I'll try a pirated copy. I just can't believe it's the same designers that did ES1. First one was a good design, but this nonsense is simply upsetting. P.S. Your English is fine. It's also not my native language.

Symbols are not primitive stuff appeared just because someone was bored. It's the sign of developped culture. Symbol is the way to express more than an object can say. More developped culture means more developped symbols. Read Georg Trakl, for example. His expressions are hardly understandable if to think "rationally". But through symbols and emotion he creates not only the world, but also the phylosophy. Our lack of symbols in space exploration means not the advenced technology, but our poor culture in this shpere. This is understandable, not many people travel in space now and do not do it for time, conparable to the whole life. But this civilisation lives on the fucking motherships, it means that they have quite rich space travel culture. And spear in this context can mean actually everything, imaginable and unimaginable. About the spear itself -- even in "primitive" 18th century those rapiers already looked pretty much archaic. And the point sometimes was not even sharp. So symbol is almost irrelevant to technology In my opinion, your explanation of nobles is a little bit marxistic. It means reductionism.

3nd favorite. Prefer the dwarf looking vaulters.

Does it?

Well no reason to hate you since you are wrong XD

nah its not. climate change victims where they change form to virtuals

Minor Factions :P

harmony definitely not minor

harmony definitely not minor

harmony was my favorite faction in endless space and to be fair, the broken lords in endless space 2 wouldn't make a lot of sense, since the vaulters were the only ones to leave Auriga before it permanently died hence why it's barren in endless space. Though if there was another faction that had their expansionist play-style that would be neat too, I hope harmony comes back in ES2, they were awesome

harmony SHOULD be there with no doubt! DUST Haters should make some good opponent etc %) but its not we decide what should be here or what not :( and yet, games2gether forums suggestions !

Then hurry up and draw hentai of it dude! I'll see you in HentaiFoundry soon enough. :3

Um, spoilers....before she becomes Vodyani she has 4 arms and slither on the ground. Don't do Dusts kids..

@@tuahsakato17 That's kinda hot!

@@tuahsakato17 My mind still not adjust to believe that Vodyani turn from 4 arm goblin to a golden humanoid figure.

@@cordyceps182 um...trust me dude, it's not :') She used to look like that alien Anakin Skywalker beat at podracing, the one with the moustache that walk with his hand.

They are BL+Cultists actually

It's just supremacy from Beyond Earth, mate.

Yang Lan space ISIS as I like to refer to them.

One of the hero of the Voldyani is a vaulter that got assimilated and was chosen to don the cloth.

If I recall correcly weren't sower build by the concrete endless? This faction looks like they paise the virtual endless I smell some conflict (crossing fingers).

+Skyarrow Yes, you would be correct, but i was merely saying they look similar, with the worshipping of the endless and being robots, cyborgs in case of these guys.

Oh ok sorry I misread your comment. But I really hope the Sowers retun and are not replaced by the Vodyani. They were my favourite race to play as in ES and it would be really cool to see the conflict that destroyed the Endless so long ago still being fought by thier ancestors. Just because there was conflict between Endless to begin with. And it would really give the Endless even more of an impact on the World than they already have (now even affecting the politics of the ES universe).

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Easily the worst questline in the game, for ease of completion and lack of bonuses

they were apparently pretty grotesque before they found the virtual relics of the virtual endless, which allowed them to evolve into what they are now.

could you please put a link of your source? that would be quite helpful .....thanx.

Saurabh Banik wiki.endless-space.com/factions/vodyani

I would actually say Lumeris would be more military and economic faction like United Empire or Sheredyn from endless space 1, tho i don't have endless space 2 i'm pretty sure that's what they focus on

The Lumeris is the economical facction and the industrial would be the rift lords, as for the pacifist are the unfallen, as for industrial you could also call theunited empire

Borislav Stoqnov The urge....to purge!

Mezari are the United Empire. You may even rekindle Mezari culture as part of UE questline.

Well I think they are similar to broken lords from endless legend. Maybe even based on same technology. As I understand they are something like clouds of energy bound to cotume(like broken lords.) And they need to consume life force of the living to sustain themselves(like broken lords)

It's what would happen if the Broken Lords embraced their soul-sucking powers.

These guys are more like Necrons. Race of aliens that turned themselves into robots, and worship a race of energy beings as gods.

you have to find someone to harvest asap, ideally a minor faction. from then on it's easy peasy

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