Endless Space 2 - The Riftborn - Prologue

[@503leafy]

People were asking for a truly alien race... well they got one.

[@DutchGuyMike]

The Umbral Choir counts as well.

[@donkor3849]

@Kade Prince hmmmm, both of you joined two weeks ago? What a coincidence

[@thegrimcritic5494]

Umbral Choir: “Hold my beer.”

[@taegamerth2044]

hi im the 901th like

[@thegrimcritic5494]

Every chance I can, I try and befriend the Riftborn in all my games. Not only do I just really like their story and aesthetics, but they’re an INSANELY powerful and loyal ally once you manage to get on their good side.

[@mrc9437]

The only problem is terribly slow fleets, if you play for them correctly, then 10,000 industries in your main system are no longer dreams, my favorite faction

[@benceklock4831]

I had to blow their fleets up 3-4 times before they chilled out, accepted a truce and a peace deal and shortly after an alliance.

[@bens9269]

*Unless Horatio. Mmmm… FIDS. 😋

[@justinokraski3796]

Pretty much the only faction who did literally nothing to deserve their suffering

[@fiddlesticks7245]

Wait this isn't the United Empire video

[@QuestionableObject]

None of the factions really did anything to deserve the bad things that happened to them. Even wholly evil factions like the Cravers, being created by the Endless as war machines, eventually abandoned by their masters. Even the Vodyani hardly deserved to have evolved on an almost resourceless world, it was probably already stripped almost bare by the Endless since they found Virtual wrecks on their world which led to their uplift and turn to cruelty.

[@РыцарьДляБедных]

And who the that did, to deserve their suffering? А кто то что то делала ,чтобы заслужить свои страдания?

[@Bruh-hq1hx]

The riftborn later: everything will be white shapes

[@mareksicinski3726]

what?

[@EBTcraft15]

Interdimensional aliens, interesting! Oh and of course the Endless could not be content with screwing just our galaxy, they had to ruin alternate dimensions as well.

[@Tonatsi]

EBTcraft15 oh no, it wasn’t the endless, but a ship randomly exploding in space. It happened (relatively) recently. I’m saw it in one of the official ES2 trailers.

[@Tonatsi]

I feel like if we delve deeper, we might find out the cause of the rift

[@VandheerOfKazaarn]

The cause was a ship called the Grey Owl. It was an old hissho ship stranded on Auriga, with a damaged dust-powered warp drive. Some denizens of the planet attempted to use it as an escape route, when the warp drive suffered a critical error, blew up with the ship and also tore a hole into Coroz (Riftborn dimension). If I have to guess, the Argosy got thrown out of course by this explosion as well.

[@Sir_Bucket]

@@VandheerOfKazaarn but hasn't there been a similar event with the Endless? NAmely the explosion we see in the Cravers intro

[@quantumecho2456]

universes*

[@Tripas350]

Who were the artists responsible for that ship design, because I want to buy them several CRATES of beers. I mean HOT DAMN, that looks nice.

[@manoflead643]

or the one who spent months animating every single individual polyhedron.

[@francescogreggio6712]

No one does art in quite the same way Amplitude does. Plus their soundtracks rock.

[@si2foo]

yeah they keep upping there level of design and quality

[@Sir_Bucket]

@@francescogreggio6712 I agree, that's their main advantage in comparaison to Stellaris, their art is great

[@chaoticneutral7573]

Whole prologue looks like something out of Samsung advertising

[@revenantarchivistillya7054]

Do you think that the Riftborn could shapeshift into Horatio? Could we make a whole other universe beautiful?

[@darakkuunobelu7584]

You asking right questions, friend.

[@brianc4632]

After playing the Riftborn and completing their lore quest, I will say that they would rather kill themselves than shapeshift into Horatio lol. The very existence of organic life horrifies them to their very core.

[@pocketbricks3879]

Ok but why is horatio so goddam handsome? Like I ain’t gay or into literal eggheads but horatio makes me sweat profusely

[@rossmanmagnus]

Pocket Bricks you're led to believe he is beautiful because Horatio -_- . egg shaped head does not necessarily mean beauty unless it comes with big money and power

[@nick012000]

@@brianc4632 The Horatio can forcefully assimilate them, though, and the Riftborn are one of the strongest species to assimilate, right behind the Vodyani and arguably the Cravers.

[@TheDownrankTrain]

Our universe is to the Riftborn what the Warhammer 40k warp is to us.

[@MegaOnepiece1]

Best comment

[@DeathMessenger1988]

Getting shamelessly retconned for the sake of pandering to groups that care nothing for the franchise? Makes sense. XD

[@erikweltz8187]

@@DeathMessenger1988when were the riftborn retconned?

[@DeathMessenger1988]

@@erikweltz8187 Do I need to explain the joke? Really? The Riftborn's original universe is getting contaminated by ours, which DownrankTrain compared to Warhammer 40K's Warp. Recently, Games Workshop has started retconning stuff like making Female Custodes to pander to people who don't know or care about Warhammer 40K (or anything in general). And this is usually the first step to ruining franchises, just like what happened to Star Wars and Terminator. The true fandom often refers to that as invasions or contaminations. Got it now?

[@erikweltz8187]

@@DeathMessenger1988 I knew about the GW stuff, but I guess I took your original comment literally and thought there was some retcon that happened to the Riftborn made to pander as well.

[@luiseatoll6368]

"Willing to do anything.. to save our own" Several turns later and there's no one but the Riftborn.

[@Sebas3n]

our worst nightmare the lego army

[@festivity7700]

i laughed harder than i should have

[@literallyme26]

Sebas3n, "We are Lego Duplo, and we're here to destroy you..."

[@Keron1]

imagine you walk on a riftborn

[@sirblockepicmcswaggins5248]

ow

[@GmodPlusWoW]

That's one of their racial abilities: dealing critical damage to bare feet.

[@kroposman2302]

An Unbidden guest... oh, wait... wrong game.

[@lilwitchschierke2530]

Yassss!!!

[@arnoldgila9212]

Unbidden wait WAIT

[@gangrell3223]

Now, imagine a story from this video in a Warhammer 40k universe: "Hey guys, remember this Eye Of Terror thing? You know, the most fucked up place in our galaxy. Let's send a colonization fleet right into it! What could possibly go wrong?"

[@lior414]

It was literally canon in the first years of rogue trader that there are non imperial human planets within the eye of terror that are also completely uncorrupted by chaos and pretty much do their own thing

[@AMabud-lv7hy]

@@lior414 Imperium: "The Eye of Terror is literally terrifying! We shudder to imagine what horrors birth out of there to threaten our galaxy" Some random xenos civilization living there "Ah, such peace and calm"

[@lior414]

@@AMabud-lv7hy lmao this exactly

[@bulthaosen1169]

But the warp and reality is closely linked in 40k. These were completely seperated realities altogether.

[@DeathMessenger1988]

I read this in Majorkill's voice, for fuck's sake! XD

[@Syrth91]

Im gonna need that ost so badly

[@n.allstein]

Syrth91 it's so good.

[@manoflead643]

it gon be good

[@matthewnelson4160]

Seriously... I don't usually buy OSTs for games but... yup

[@francescogreggio6712]

If you don't have it already, check out Endless Legend's OST . I believe it's from the same composer, thought it has a more fantasy-ish theme to it.

[@attiladukai2121]

Preordered the founder, gonna have it all X) 111% worth the money.

[@MagusLay]

That theme still hits my heart where it counts, even after four years.

[@crystallkingh3048]

I really like the idea of that other universe, beeging a place of pyre geometry and sentience, bacuase why would all universes follow the same laws of physics. (?)

[@user-rm1jp6hf5h]

That spelling is genuinely disgusting. Just use autocorrect.

[@zackmar4449]

@@user-rm1jp6hf5h The irony in your own sentence is truly beautiful.

[@user-rm1jp6hf5h]

@@zackmar4449 eh?

[@zackmar4449]

@@user-rm1jp6hf5h It is spelled "disgusting", not "discusting".

[@user-rm1jp6hf5h]

@@zackmar4449 Now say the spelling mistakes of the original comment.

[@VentXekart]

Interdimensional beings trying to save their own universe from destruction? Weird but I like them, especially since they remind me of the Harmony.

[@Filsoh]

They are not saving it, they escaped their universe and came into ours, did you not watch the video?

[@pixelfreak7381]

if you play as their faction you will see that they obviusly also try to fix the spread of the corrutpion

[@null_entity472]

"...This is so good! There's no way the next faction will be able to be better than this one" *Next update* "How, Amplitude? They somehow made this one even better, but now that This is so good, There's no way..." Every time.

[@Operador2281]

The fact that the blight are the Umbal choir is so fascinating!

[@topher_69eze34]

Rifborn prologue Is too beautiful, I'm crying tears of joy, THANK YOU for this wonderful creation I will savour it forever so, THANK YOU. This is by far the most characteristically and materialistically unique faction in all the ENDLESS UNIVERSE, BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU, OH GOD OF 4X SPACE STRATEGY GAMES, THANK YOU!!!!

[@Kehlvowen]

Best music, best visuals, most overpowered gameplay. Godtier.

[@valk_7233]

I agree they are even more OP than Unite Empire or the Vodyani... and their ships are beautiful AND powerful! Definitly my new favorite faction!

[@garrettguerra1824]

What's the songs name

[@chumaktv5386]

*Proceeds to relentlessly attack my 2 system Sophonity because I was unfortunate enough to spawn in the same constellation"

[@yamakaze951]

I'm reminded of the Process from Transistor.

[@caernyralim2745]

I have to say, I love the creativity with the factions in this game :D

[@RawbeardX]

Species 8472, is that you?

[@jeanluc6150]

Yes, it is.

[@Joyexer]

nice reference xD

[@sirblockepicmcswaggins5248]

damn straight it is, though these guys are more geometric blobs than xenomorph type things. Still respect for making such a reference

[@Alex-wh3zw]

These prologues are masterpieces on their own.

[@cabrelbeuk72]

Beaucoup de soins et d'originalité dans vos races. Un grand bravo !

[@RomanusKaiser]

Everything about this is amazing. Nailing it.

[@RED_Theory038]

As always, art and animation just leaves me wanting to see more and more! Can't wait to see how these guys play.

[@ghus2046]

Why would u do this to innocent white legos?!!?

[@IcekPanNaPolin]

To make them pay for the pain of stepping on a lego brick barefooted!!!

[@RobbieForReal]

To this day, this theme song, this species concept.. is still one of my favorite ends of sci-fi media. I would die to see an Endless esc. Mass Effect style game including these different factions. I've always found the factions to be so convincing and so interesting - but I feel like the 4X medium doesn't fully make these factions feel like they've really been fleshed out. The Endless games have been fun for me over these years, and it pains me to see ES2 and EL on a decline - but the games have a limit of interesting re-playability for most players I feel like. Introducing all of these species/factions into a personal journey would be so fantastic. We know Asari and Salarian's not because we saw some cool art and heard some convincing voices on a flat screen or saw a cool trailer - it's because we talked to them, we met them, we helped and fought along side them. That's what I feel like Endless needs these days.

[@SewerRatsarepeopletoo]

Harmony. Disharmony. Dust. Poison.

[@ansem9999]

I think i've fallen in love…

[@brennanlangless8912]

The two factions that I actually like because they’re peace seekers are the unfallen and the rift born The unfallen want to heal the universe while the other factions are so set on tearing the universe apart And the rift born just want to be left alone in their space

[@Operador2281]

Until you win then the riftborn start to change our universe to their image.

[@brennanlangless8912]

@@Operador2281 And this is compared to the 40ks imperium of mankind,tyrinds lite editions ( humans and cravers )

[@Mamorufumio]

i have to say i can't wait for them to release the soundtrack of this game as it just sounds amazing so far.

[@nononunu9847]

The chill man, the chill ....

[@tjguy4565]

Harmony?

[@petrosanarov9786]

A DLC faction from the First Endless Space

[@seanconnery2605]

Random Guy. No they Established that the harmony are a part of our universe. This is something else.

[@KrimsonVagus]

Random Guy Harmony are silicoids, so they are quite normal in our universe. These guys are from a very different universe than ours...

[@tjguy4565]

sean connery Yes I know but this looks based off of the harmony dlc form es1

[@Altronza]

What if they are the Harmony, but from another universe. Well if not they are still awesome. Also I'm glad that they are adding factions like this.

[@cha0sunity]

Looks like the Harmony was a inspiration for the Riftborn

[@Тоска-к8к]

My absolute favourite faction. The Cultists and Sowers are also pretty great.

[@marinyvon-maze1224]

0:50 gives me goosebumps

[@PugsleyThePear]

The music gives me chills.

[@TheOmnipresent]

Shit made me cry when I watched it - rooting for them hardcore.

[@spunkyslimeguy6900]

Holy balls that looked awesome 10/10

[@eruno_]

The story sounds nearly identical to *Harmony*, except Harmony were from silicoid planet while *Riftborn* are from entirely​ different universe

[@fuckyoutubecomments7530]

Kǒito_ Other than a blight they are pretty different. The blights are a little different in style too.

[@Arcelux]

FlybyNo did a great job with the soundtrack!

[@Arcelux]

Thank you for the like. This is the track that always makes my hairs stand up!

[@theghast160]

god tier 10/10 animation! best of cheers to the animators responsible.

[@raphaelgoh5632]

man thats sad like they lost their home and are outcast

[@manoflead643]

So are the Horatio. So are the Vodyani.

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

Every faction in this game is sad. Sophons are depressed, lazy sciencists who drown themselves in work to forgot of their irresponsibility. Cravers are intelligent and capable slaves of their own nature looking for purposed. Im sure u ll find something sad on every race in this game.

[@carlosalbertolararojas3610]

Paranoia aside the horatio seem to be really happy :P

[@SchizoLingvo]

Isn't Horatio just one outcast dude who cloned himself ad infinitum? Seems pretty sad to me

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

Horatio's story by my opinion is more gravitating towards being scary than sad. Imagine yourself this. You kick out a person out of your society. He comes back with a billion of his own clones who do his biding without question and then he together with his clones proceeds to turn everyone including your friends, girlfriend, dog into clones of himself. Someone needs to turn this into a dramatic novel or a movie.

[@Ganolink]

This looks like a perfume commercial

[@ptibaf]

They look SOOOOO Awesome ! Gonna love them really

[@matibakija7083]

Wow! Gnostic invasion dice!

[@quocvietophu1627]

The original Harmony from ES1 but on Steroids

[@KrimsonVagus]

Daym, I like these guys already. Any time there's a cool non-humanoid faction, sign me up!

[@actualteddybear891]

I like the shape people even if they've stabbed me in the back in every playthrough so far.

[@seanconnery2605]

So you mean the endless used dust and it affected these beings inter dimensional?

[@impervas5801]

Welcome to our universe! Enjoy chaos,death,stupidity, horor and cookies.

[@wolfyjr2541]

So beautiful

[@CrimsonReaper189]

the prologue has me hyped

[@ДенисШастин-ъ8ш]

Piece of art

[@thesupremegentlemanatheist7382]

I may enjoy Stellaris gameplay more than Endless Space but I just love the art and species of Endless Space more.

[@skryreprototype1826]

Illegal aliens in my universe? I don't think so! Looks like it's time to make 'new patriots' out of the Riftborn.

[@torhenryandreassen6144]

Amplitude... you're great... even now that you're with Sega. ;)

[@ShiniGami-uy2dv]

excellent music :)

[@mambablack3695]

I like this race.

[@TheGreatLordApples]

reminds me of the moth bats from endless legend, love it

[@MazzaAzi]

......hey don't look at me i'm STONE dry

[@Tristaene]

Composer of all the new OST's and ES 1's OST is FlyByNo, if anyone is wondering. :)

[@dragonfireblacksmith5972]

anyone else thinks that this beat slaps

[@melongeed]

Yes, baby! Give me more of this!

[@AmrothEldarion]

Blight? Does that mean our universe is the Darkspawn?

[@redsol3629]

The Rift was like a flower.

[@kayseek1248]

Is anyone watching this even though the game has been released?

[@HigaaraEnd]

I mean, it's so beautiful.

[@ANGH3LL1C420]

This is my favourite faction.

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

I cri everytime.

[@Ezullof]

Whoaaaa that's really cool!

[@Carltoncurtis1]

This is the Gnostic creation myth!

[@actazrath5878]

Thank you teacher. Now everytime I open my eye. Everything want to kill me.

[@chumaktv5386]

This reminds me about this thought experiment in which an expidition, trying to find life on another planet, destroyed the climate for microorganisms that could've developed into life in far future

[@Qlas111]

I'll keep to my Empire and Vodyani :3

[@Red_Oni_Nerd]

So these are almost in a way the Harmony?

[@fuckyoutubecomments7530]

Yeh

[@brickcraftproductions3065]

@@fuckyoutubecomments7530 But From a Different Dimension

[@fuckyoutubecomments7530]

Brickcraft productions a whole other level my man

[@notpublic7878]

holy hell this looks good

[@MachineAndy]

I am curious about the multiplayer aspect of the game. Will I be able to play and explore with my friends? How does multiplayer work in this game?

[@actazrath5878]

Thank god I can pretend to be a chair.

[@cyberking8049]

are those black gue some kind of dark matter?

[@patrickdawson6281]

threw some money your way by buying the early access when it released been waiting for the official release before I play though any clues as to the rough full release date?

[@crystallkingh3048]

there is an update every 5 weeks or so, so the full release may be in the end of april

[@patrickdawson6281]

great thank you very much

[@cliveklg]

Their Time Shifting affinity on systems make them seem like the Ardent Mages

[@sirgrem2988]

I love this species, I don't know why! Just truly love their ways of doing things

[@someoneunidentified5712]

* Sobbing. *

[@topher_69eze34]

And also its update 3 coming up

[@ValosarX]

SOOOOOO COOOOOOOL!

[@maciejochowski7662]

Epic!

[@aleronnunes957]

is this another faction?

[@imperator5228]

Yep, the Twitch stream detailing them starts in an hour.

[@justlegeek]

ok, I'm gonna look up for that one

[@HaechiYT]

Ah shit... I'm thorn with this. I love the concept, but I don't think I can get behind the visual choices. As shapshifting race from an other dimension, why would they transform into ships with "our universe" type of propulsion and design. They should look nothing like humanoid ships. Everything they are should be foreign to this universe and nothing should b recognizable. I'd rather have them being blobs of white cubes, suddenly shifting into a weapon of some sort to fire, and go back to their form right after.

[@DaPsykopaatti]

I feel exactly the same for design. From the start of the trailer I was expecting something like Evangelion 1.11's Ramiel in terms of how they'd look in-game before the actual ship started taking shape. Though the propulsion thing could be explained with them having to play by the rules of Endless universe as the official wiki page mentions they come from an alternate dimension where the laws of physics work completely different.

[@samuelescobedo1257]

Haechi It's possible that they stole Endless universe technologies before leaving, since they would have no other idea of what physical laws to expect.

[@HaechiYT]

I know and I agree... BUT, a strong concept shouldn't have to be justified by extrapolation. It should stand on its own and not raise questions of basic coherence.

[@Etzlo1]

I'd have liked to be the long strings of crystals to be how they also appear in "our" universe, just an endless amount of strings of cubes rotating around each other

[@yang4985]

We can see it this way. Though they are from another dimension, another universe where fundamental physical laws are completely different from our universe, they are after all coming into our universe through the rift. So this means they need to transform themselves to adapt the laws of our universe such as light speed limitation, propulsion, material property and so on. This is why it looks not VERY foreign.

[@sky14983]

THE BGM!!

[@1000_Gibibit]

Interesting backstory and amazing video but "having to survive" doesn't set a very interesting precedent for the faction's playstyle. Maybe there will be more lore since this is the prologue? :o

[@Xardis]

Harmony? 8472?

[@fedesur7261]

OHHH MYY GODDD

[@rKhael53]

They're looks like Beyonders (far nicer and weaker though)

[@tuckerhiggins4336]

I want the Automatons!

[@raphaelgoh5632]

Tucker Higgins dont worrie they are the new Automatons :D

[@topher_69eze34]

still waiting for Harmony or Automatons. Still hungry

[@hsd6716]

i found this randomly and have no idea what this is but big f for space octogon bois

[@manoflead643]

I just noticed how different these are from the other prologues. They all start off with a negative tone, like fucking their atmosphere, then get positive since they made a big ole space empire, while these guys start off nice and go downhill. Huh.

[@mythoxvortex4015]

magnifique !!!

[@bon3scrush3r]

Love this faction