Endless Legend - Ardent Mages #1

[@89Pingu]

You can build extractors on deposits even if they're not near your city, just as long as they're in the same region. Also, there's a Tier 1 tech called Language Square that allows you to start parleying with the minor factions.

[@Cideous]

For city placement : the burros expand the city and you want to suround your city center with them to level up your city center so its a good idea to place it 2 away from the border even if there is good tiles there, you'll get the tiles anyway with the burro and you wont lose the 3 tiles you would have gotten. That being said love the game and love the video, hope this series last a good long while. Thanks Quill

[@nathanaeljohn4245]

Very interested to see what you think of the expansion. Would love to watch another lets play on it.

[@SpinifexV]

You don't need to be close to the Glasteel or other resources. You have to build extractors on them (though burroughs also work). They don't give bonuses (or much of them) to production, unlike anomalies.

[@SpinifexV]

Extractors can be built on resources in the city's region, no matter the distance, as long as you have the tech. They don't need to be close to the city.

[@ClockworkIndustries]

Hi, Quill! Love the game and looking forward to the rest of the series! One thing I've seen on other people's playthroughs is that people miss the Language Square technology, on the lower quadrant of Era 1, which enables you to bribe and parley with minor villages. I now have to wear a wig from all of the hair I've torn out from watching other people miss this! You should probably try and grab it if you want to follow your faction quest. Hope this helps!

[@littlemikey46]

Hi Quill! Not sure if you've already recorded the follow up videos, but I'll answer some questions you raised! 1. To Parley, move your army to any neutral village. You can either Parley which starts a quest or Bribe which costs Dust. Once you complete the Parley quest all villages in that region will become friendly, bribing needs to be done per village in a region. 2. Glasteel and Titanium don't need to be next to a city, you can build special buildings like Extractors anywhere in a region you control. 3. You can use resources like Glasteel and Titanium to customise your armies, and create specialised units. Press the fist icon in the top right to view your armies and create new units! (Each civilization only gets a few individual units, but you can then add the minor faction units as well as changing their gear to specialize them even more!) 4. You can move your citizens between jobs by clicking on your city and then dragging the little citizen icons between the various jobs like Food and Industry. I've only played one game so far, so I'm probably missing a bunch of things too, but I hope this helps!

[@FonoMatrix]

totally slept on developement of this game. thanks for this let's play quill, now i know what i'll buy next month

[@austinwright09]

Watched 15 mins of this video and I up and bought the game....you may not tell people to buy but you seem to sell me pretty well on alot of games you play....I'm already saving my money for the next Civ game, I'm ecstatic

[@Pedinmauka]

Quill, u dont have to have glasteel or titanium in your city tiles, u can build extractors if they are in your region. Also, to parley u needed to research a specific tech for that.

[@TheCreat]

Ah finally, I was really hoping you'd start a let's play of this now that it's out. Thanks!

[@fingolfin7001]

The bribing is an action that's unlocked via research. It's in the lower quarter, the one with the speech bubble. Also, more or less top priority (for me) is researching and building the mill foundry, since it increases production speeds by quite a bit. Extractors can be built anywhere in the controlled region, not just in city range. My opinion is that building boroughs asap to increase the city's cover is always a worthwhile investment, especially when adding either science or production.

[@Kaeridan]

Also, that tile has tons of production because it has an Anomaly. Anomalies are things like Chromatic Land, Botanical Gardens, Moss Pearls, Wizard Stones, etc. Each gives the tile a ton of specific outputs, from Dust to Influence and Approval. Some are rarer than others and have higher outputs.

[@biozak1000]

if you were wondering about the borough streets the approval is -10+15x with x being it's level, it's leveled up by surrounding expansions

[@starkgate]

I like the graphics and theme of the game a lot, and I will certainly try it out ! Thanks for showing this game !

[@Bottles7]

Just discovered this games existence! The flavour already has me sold. I only wish Beyond Earth had the depth and presentation this game seems to have. Amplitude are for sure going to be rivalling Paradox if they continue!

[@Denixen]

Really interesting game, I'd love to see you play some more of it!

[@Kaeridan]

I don't know if you figured it out, 'cuz I'm still watching, but just so I don't forget: If you surround your City Center with 4 adjacent (or more) Districts it'll level up. If you surround a District with 3 or more adjacent Districts (excluding the City Center tile) it will level up. This increases the bonuses you get. Someone on the forums made a topic explaining how to build efficient tall cities, which can be done by building districts on a 2-tall or 3-tall line around the city or by building districts in a triangular fashion around your city center, which leads to the best result but is very hard to accomodate on most terrain, since you can't overwrite Ruins or Villages. The biggest city I managed to build was an Ardent Mages' 6x6 triangle with the city in one of the three middle spots, but this took me well over the 300 turn score-victory mark. Also, building districts allows your Garrisoned units to deploy more units at a time when you get sieged.

[@Logisticious_gg]

One of the cool things i love about this game is how it's technically a sequel to Dungeon of the Endless and technically a prequel to Endless Space.

[@wanderingursa8184]

I am sure someone else has mentioned this, But Quill, Endless Legend happens in the same setting and time as Endless Space. The Vaulters story follows a Medical Robot that was shut down within the original vaulter ship was that crashed on Auriga. the Haunt minor faction are Virtual Endless "ghosts"

[@Oborowatabinostk]

Quill you need to revisit this game, the new content is awesome!

[@levelup7396]

It doesn't matter where you build your city in order to gather resources if have the appropriate tech. Extractors are buildings that will allow you to just click on the resource after selecting the extractor building in your production screen as long as the city is in the region of the resource.

[@DerAva]

Looks interesting, would love to see some more of this.

[@Reagord]

Boroughs give negative happiness originally. When you surround a borough or your city center by several other boroughs (I think it's 3 but I haven't checked since the release) you can upgrade them, which gives you the +15 happiness

[@wolfhoundlewis]

Please do make this a regular game on the channel. This looks like it would be a lot of fun to watch you play it.

[@GalegHelross]

Love the look of this game. Hope it works out well for you.

[@TunaBagels]

You always seem to know exactly what game I'm considering buying. Strategy gaaaaaaaames!

[@dustindavis3107]

i was wondering when you were going to do a series with this game quill.. thanks for doing this one..

[@Nuvrin]

Nice, this is the faction I chose to start with as well. Looking forward to the series.

[@JQueasy]

Liking this game so far. More please Quill.

[@Plague_Doc22]

The game looks alot like a mixture of Might and magic (one of my favorite all time series) and CIV which is my favorite strategy game!

[@Lorkken]

People already mentioned it,but I'll repeat it anyway. Resources (glassteel,titanium) can be harvested with extractors from build menu (don't need to be in city radius). Anomaly's need to be in city radius to give bonuses. And parley is Lvl 1 tech idea.

[@Rukdug]

Love your use of the royal "we".

[@kinjiru731]

I hope you'll do more EL gameplay soon, Quill!

[@hanksnow5470]

The way you expand your city is important because it affects happiness: a city hex surrounded by 4 others goes to level 2,and level 2 hexes surrounded by 4 city hexes goes to 3, with a significant increase of happiness. Otherwise increasing the number of cities will drive unhappiness through the roof. So you have to modulate your overall expansion (number of cities) with vertical expansion within cities in order to control unhappiness. If you do it right, you can have very happy cities all over the map; but expand faster than your happiness can support and unhappiness and revolts will be your undoing.

[@Drachnon]

I bought the game yesterday but it looks like there are still a few bugs that need to be fixed. Got stuck waiting for infinite loading turn (it probably had something to do with things I did since I noticed army movement was getting pretty weird). Gonna wait a few days to see if there's any patches.

[@TecToss]

Nice choice of race, hope you will find out what their arcane resource is :p

[@Shdinexus]

Are you planing on returning to this game?

[@PandaTheGFX]

Gotta hope so

[@taigness]

So is this series not in a playlist? :o I can't seem to find it.

[@ThomasVanhala]

I love that they use the same universe in Endless Space, Dungeon of the Endless and Endless Legend. Both Space and Legend is 4X games but I like to see more company's do that and even cross genre like they did with Dungeon. *Brush a copy of Command and Conquers Renegades under the rug*

[@TeamBizzaro]

seems like a good game for a let's play. I hope it catches on.

[@Olhado256]

I don't want to criticize any particular game or setting but I'm always happy when I see a fantasy world that's a little more creative than the standard Tolkien-esque elves/dwarves/orcs thing.

[@HiddenHopeKNL]

Ugh and this marks the beginning of the end times, where we have no time to fully play anything. From endless legend, to wasteland 2, Civ beyond earth, dragonage inquisition, bravely second, pokemon omega ruby. From the summer drought of games, to the winter flood, save me batman!

[@Plague_Doc22]

This looks amazing and I'm only a couple of minutes in and im sold! Now I'm just praying my PC can handle the game as its very outdated.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Noooooo my PC cant play it, god damnit gaaah!

[@maxben3391]

Well I am using a laptop. Yes it does have a video card, but the laptop overheats easy. The cinematics didn't work (stuttered like crazy), but everything else functioned well with minimal lag on the lowest graphical settings.

[@Plague_Doc22]

Ben B Well my PC is about as old as anything you can find in nature. I'm pretty sure a dinosaur used it before me. It's ancient (like 10 years). Gotta get myself a new gaming PC bad!

[@Hidrobyte]

Oh I so much love this Game eventhrough it's nocht perfect right now. You should do al Multiplayer, quill18 .

[@mankindisgreedy]

The new districs will level up if they are connected to four other districs which will give you the bonus. You also missed the anomaly to the west quill!:)

[@caphalor08]

GREAT GAME

[@asson432]

Oh, you silly dummy... The game is fantastic, however and in my most modest, personal estimation, and I certainly hope that you'll both appreciate and do justice to it and its fantastic lore.

[@OpenWorldAddict0]

Please try the Lords of the RIngs mod for Civ 5, pretty please?

[@pbbdmedia]

This looks to be great! Please continue- nice to see something not Sid Meier!

[@comicbstudios]

Your city does not need to be on top of the glassteel

[@Cetadrius01]

4 min in and I already hooked

[@professor0magic]

This is delightful, I was much anticipating your content in this game, civ gets boring after a while.

[@dekoboreal]

Best game of the year for me!

[@FuFightersStudio]

Well done quill nice game to play

[@levelup7396]

One more tip. Approval is quite important. You get up to 30% increase to all FIDS, but not influence, with fervent (the highest) approval. Although it's not quite clear in how the way the game displays it because the bonus for food and industry will only appear in the city screen, while the dust and science bonus will appear in the empire screen.

[@samirelokdah5549]

Quill, expand to special tiles first, like the two great ones to the left of your capital

[@mathieugariepy2948]

you could split your army into individual units and explore more. Also: Empire Plan +2 vision.

[@Mr_Kiwi_the_Wizard]

iv been playing this game as the broken lords, very fun guys to play.

[@Karol-bw3hb]

Your city doesnt have to be in range to extract the glasssteel. You can build extractors on resources as long as they are in a region you control. To parlay with the minor factions you need the language square technology. If you pacify them through diplomacy you dont have to spend production on rebuilding the village to get the extra population. You should try to settle cities on river tiles because with some tech you can make good money which there are not many ways of getting early on in the game. You also probaby shouldn't settle more than 4 cities early on and build the first 4 district adjecent to the city hall. You will then get a level 2 city hall. It has some minor benefits I think but the important thing is you will get a quest to get a level 2 city hall. You could technically do more than 4 cities without unhappieness but then you cant have many districts. Anoher very important thing is you shouldnt delete the stock unit build. If you do you cant retrofit your units. I made a new unit and deleted the old thinking I could upgrade but that didnt work. Maybe I missed something but yeah I rage quit because of that. Hope this helps somebody. Gg

[@cheeseme202]

It would be really cool if you did a multiplayer game with Arumba, he is also playing and trying to learn this game.

[@vabalokis]

finally something more interesting than civ bs

[@Lazeric84]

Quill, to "parlay" you need to research it. It's the bottom middle option in era 1.

[@Zodroc]

You should play as the Vaulters. They're like medieval space marines.

[@FTGarcia7]

stractors dont need to be in the city zone you can build then in the region just need the tech and parley is a tech also

[@christopherzajonskowski7123]

Well, well... I waited for month that some of my favorite LPer finally play this game. At the moment the only thing that bothers me is the lack of a challenging AI in the game, since even on high difficulty you have no problem to simply wipe out all of your enemys with 2-3 armies with up-to-date equipment - with every fraction regardless their suggested victory-type. -.- But besides that - maybe the best TB-Strategy since Civ5... :)

[@MrVykis]

probably someone would make a mod for better AI

[@andymion]

Endless Space had the same problem, took several updates for the AI to become even remotely challenging.

[@christopherzajonskowski7123]

tbh - It's easy to overlook that EL is still an early access title since it actually feels good to play and looks quite polished. I've all my trust in Amplitude that they'll make the AI at time. It should be clear, that the AI is one of the last thing to work out in a project where also central game mechanics are subject to change - otherwise you have to teach the AI what to do with every update und balancing-changes. But so far I find that Amplitude is one of the few studios that make proper games - even if I'm very 'conservative' whit buying early access titles in early stages of developement - I own all three of their games since their early days. :) And I haven't regret it thus far. The combat is a still a bit... nah... let's face it - it's boring to the bone. But I for myself favor the automated combat - even in ES - so it's not that great deal for me. Since it looks like the new Civ will be a clone of Civ5 (what means not, that I won't buy it nonetheless ^^) EL is the only proper TBS title for me for the next month. Well, so I have to WARN them, to make it a really good game. :D

[@tymurgubayev4840]

Christopher Zajonskowski it's not. "We are very glad to announce that Endless Legend is now out of Early Access and officially released on Steam!"

[@christopherzajonskowski7123]

Tymur Gubayev Yeah... seems that I'm not totaly up to date. :D Okay, that's somewhat weird... As we know Amplitude, being out of E.A. doesn't mean there no more frequent updates, but I'm not absolutely sure if I would see EL to be a "release-candidate" in it's actual state. o.o We'll see where this is going...

[@jackskellingtonsora]

To parley you need a particular tech.

[@Tanth1982]

You don`t need resource extractors to be in city range. Also - parley is a tech. Yeh, i know its 73463934th comment of old same advice )

[@Loryster]

regular series please!

[@woodwyrm]

There's a tech in exploration which allows you to parley with villages.

[@NerieI]

Yeah Quill I understand to not read the manual... but who doesn't read every tech first, to know what to get? Like.... you know... the Tech that allows to Parley? ;D And for the Extractors, you don't need to be close to the ressource, if you have the Tech. You can build them anyway, if they are in the same region.

[@thepunisher4356]

The one thing I want to see that I haven't is what the extent is that you can do at sea, aka no one that I've watched has made a port city. I think from what I saw you unlock ships or ports in the second era.

[@cascainho]

Quill you don't have to be near the glasssteel to build a extractor there.

[@Sedado77]

quill18 "Who reads Manuals anyway?" On Next video you should do: "Unboxing and Reading 5th edition D&D MANUAL!" Lol

[@tommyv711]

also u can drag and drop the workers into production assignment

[@ADDodger]

What would you say are the major differences between this and Age of Wonders 3?

[@ricardofigini7280]

Age of Wonders 3 focuses far more on strategic combat gameplay whereas this game is more about empire building in ways other than just killing your opponents.

[@ADDodger]

Ricardo Figini So would it be fair to call this game a mix between Age of Wonders 3 and Civilization?

[@Hidrobyte]

you could call it that, but I think It would fall short of explaining it, because it has some really nice mechanics with the provinces and minor fractions.

[@zenkai121]

I found endless legend to be more well paced compared to age of wonders, leading to better overall gameplay

[@Azariel886]

Age of Wonders 3 just released its dlc / addon "golden realms" last thursday, you might wanna have a look at it. also Worlds of Magic just got released to EA on Steam, the dev try to make a true successor to Master of Magic, this might also be of interest for you :). as always great videos!

[@reamonnkennedy9127]

Use your luxury resources like dyes for a boost. You spend these to give a temporary boost to your empire's happiness and other things like tech, dust, etc. This is done in one of the menus of the game. Click on the resource in the menu at 23.07. That should let you spend them. I got stomped by the AI in my first game because they were using this feature and I wasn't! Well that was one of the many reasons.....

[@XxXColdWorldXxX]

Fory anyone interested Tropico 3 is currently given away on Humble Bundle, have fun

[@Aiphares]

yeah some more endless legend would be awesome :D

[@jamesdawson2937]

The parley is one of the tier 1 research techs

[@Plaufin]

Remember to equip the inventory slots!! you get +1 movement/+1 vision!!! :)

[@MrUbershroom]

This or Ago of Wonders III?

[@ozisponas1593]

both

[@MrUbershroom]

But if one had to choose?

[@lionheart1983]

MrÜbershroom Age of Wonders III is less about city/research management and more about the unit battles, were as endless legend is more about all aspects of the game. So it depends on which you prefer to play.

[@ricardofigini7280]

MrÜbershroom i ihnk at this stage Endless legends seems to still need a bit of work to be complete. Having played Age of Wonders 3 quite a bit I would recommend it over Endless legends right now. The combat is much more interesting and the game is overall more challenging and as a result more fun.

[@ricardofigini7280]

J B I think the combat in AoW is more interesting than that of Endless legends. Its not the best thing ever for sure but you at least have full control over your units.

[@mossing234]

A small tip use your other units to explore before setting down a city.

[@auua93]

This seems more interesting than the new Civ :)

[@Anergyne]

Looking forward to be playing and watching Quill play both, myself.

[@zeratu1000]

yep i think the same

[@BerzerkerCave]

quill don't you dare make lines with your cities. you expand around middle and gain huge bonuses

[@24nero24]

i love civ games and games like stellaris and am thinking of getting this one is it worth the money

[@DexterNewton32]

I'd give it a shot. It's on sale atm (until the 17th).

[@ultimategameplay1]

To me, its a bit shallow compared to those game. Have you tried Europa Universalis 4?

[@DexterNewton32]

ultimategameplay1 The problem is EU is a full on grand strategy. That is a different thing. Also, it is not turn based. I like it too for what it is (and play it) but I like the 4x Civ-like games just as much.

[@ultimategameplay1]

***** I tend to lump strategy games into one category (turned-based or not). I find myself having more like "oh shit" moments in turned based games but find myself having a more in-depth gameplay interaction with grand strategy games.

[@DexterNewton32]

ultimategameplay1 Yeah, but ultimately they are both fun. And I personally think you can't really lump them together, you need to separate them. GS is a whole other world.

[@callumcrichton5787]

Quill your extractors don't have to be next to the city their like tile improvements from civ

[@ozisponas1593]

This game lacks strong very imperialistic race just to make for bigger challenge in late game wind walkers are somehow like it but they are kinda lame and meh also got to love how ardent mages are basically slanesh just not evil

[@LBP2024]

more quill18!

[@pooker1208]

Just to let you know you unlock the parley option through a 1st era technology.

[@33Puppylove]

Quill, you need to read all the tech's before just picking whatever. The parley village mission is only possible if you unlock the appropriate tech in the tech tree. Also there is an important food tech your going to want because as a science civ, you will be low on food. Especially in your home region.

[@Leverquin]

does every race have the same research

[@tryptamigo]

i simply cannot figure out how to enjoy 4x games without quill18 dumping his internal monologue onto youtube to show me how to go about it. i had this game sitting in steam for a decade, so i fired it up after watching a few videos from this series. i got pretty far, but the one problem i'm having is seeing units on the world map. i regularly lose track of my own units, and i don't even notice when enemy units are in my territory. they really need to always show the army flags like how Civ does it. mid game + war made it frustrating enough to where i finally took a break.

[@tommyv711]

you need to stand on a tile next to the minor village to be able to parley

[@BerzerkerCave]

also your city is screwed because it is next to a village and you cant remove those.

[@achmedaan]

Do a multiplayer game with Arumba please!

[@animewarrior3]

damn. you like, picked the hardest faction bar none to play as as a new player.

[@skulldoxbox2]

More please

[@nateglod790]

Reminds me of fall from heaven for civic

[@jackskellingtonsora]

Fall from Heaven is bloody awesome. I've been wanting to see quill play it for quite some time.

[@hosumihai8511]

Ardent mages, strongest race :D. Peace.