They’re fascinating, and will no doubt prove to be powerful in the right hands, but it took me quite a while to figure out what their deal was. Now, a little bit wiser, I know that the space vampires are maybe not the best race to pick first.
A race of parasitic entities given form by the suits that they wear, who left their ruined homeworld and now live in gargantuan Arks that exploit the worlds they orbit. They are, perhaps, the most unusual of the four races in Endless Space 2 at the moment. I briefly messed around with them when I visited Amplitude last month, but they’d only just been added to the game and didn’t really work. Having spent most of my time with the Lumeris when I last played, I found myself drawn to the Vodyani. In the 100 turns on offer, there are already a lot of diversions and meaty choices to chew your lip over, and it makes for a compelling glimpse of the bigger picture. This morning, I harvested the life-force of a planet full of peaceful aliens. Last night, I gave my entire empire pets. Already, I’ve gobbled up countless star systems and found myself in plenty of scraps with space-faring ne'er-do-wells. Endless Space 2 is warping into Steam Early Access next week, but since I’m not a particularly patient intergalactic conqueror, I got my hands on it a wee bit early.