SB Plays Endless Space 2: Supremacy 01 - Hissho

[@eddiemet12]

Aztec Japanese bird people for the win. Should be a fun playthrough

[@ramonserna8089]

Tlaloch would approve.

[@peacemaker63604]

Are these similar to the turians in Mass Effect

[@hadenmontgomery5888]

hey SB you got me into the Endless franchise thank you lol.

[@WDGaming010]

Thank you SB, for all your hard work on the covering Endless Space 2.

[@steeltormentors]

loving your endless space 2 videos. Subbed!

[@Bluesquidify]

Bird is the word! And you're right, Amplitude's artists are amazing.

[@ShavedIceable]

Hey man, thanks a thousand for the ES2 videos. Really really enjoy them. Absolutely fantastic streamer.

[@lordmurderkitten6098]

They are a alien species so who knows how it's pronounced. But seeing the Hissho are based on samurai it might be pronounced like the Japanese word "敬意" or "respect" which would be pronounced like "Kei-ee" (or just pronounce it like the letters K-E)

[@peterpetrelli5355]

Hi SB! Excited to see some more ES2 videos! Hope you recharged your batteries. Note: When you encounter 2 Prowlers camping in a system, you have Vodyani next door. They spawn as part of their first quest.

[@benhuber2169]

“Improved AI” I was playing against the cravers AI on normal difficulty and they got 8 colonies in 30 turns which is absolutely insane.

[@benhuber2169]

Not to mention that the sophons were thinking they could fight me and lost their capital system to me in a war that lasted a turn pretty much. Standard Endless AI.

[@theral056]

But in the end you still win because the AI just can't wage war properly. It's the only reason even endless difficulty is trivial: the AI fails in making strong fleets and attacking in a coherent fashion. Still love the game, but the AI is very underwhelming, much like civ6. And it all boils down to fleet usage. Fix that and they'd be competent, even a threat...

[@donk8961]

Replying 2 years later lmao >Be me >Be honorabru bird >Cravers move in down the road >Leave depleted planets littered everywhere >theregoestheneighborhood.jpg >Keep to myself, don't leave home system >Cravers block my driveway >GranTorino.jpg Wiped them out in just 2 wars, sadly not before they depleted all the best planets but luckily stopped their spread.

[@joaogomes9405]

To be fair, that's pretty craver of em.

[@hippokrates4494]

@@theral056 use the ai mod

[@vonsee3198]

"The Swords of Peace"

[@d1halberdgnoll963]

Majestic intro cinematic. Damn.

[@NickNechArt]

SB look at behemoth ship design(double click on right bottom menu when behemoth selected). There is all stats there. you will see that leave your behemoth on starting planet wasn't a bad idea. Also if you would mine that planet with titanium from tern 1, you would be able to use "way of the Obsidian Eagle" very early. Which is powerful.

[@Quellan00]

Can you refit the behemoth to get more probes?

[@Trifler500]

+ Quellan00 Yes, but not until you research the ability to build Behemoths. Once you do that, you can edit the template, then update the ship.

[@Trifler500]

Just FYI, I discovered the mining probe can mine strategic and luxury resources, which is far more valuable than mining the tiny percentage of FIDS.

[@calebob1990]

The thumbnail for this series is awesome.

[@Colovian_Dani]

Wow. They actually remind me vaguely of the Tengu from the Guild Wars series. Awesome :P

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Wait wait wait- hold up. Full stop. 7:50. Are you saying, the sword is a key? It activates an alien spaceship. And it unlocks peoples deaths by stabbing them. *SCREAMS IN TUCKER’S VOICE*

[@Fielmur]

I totally agree, they're brilliant artists, and that's why I think they could try quest and diplomatic mechanics a bit more ambitious for their next game, like interactive cinematics with actual voice acting. I think it would reinforce the lore and encourage the average player to actually bother caring about the awesome work they put behind the art.

[@theral056]

Fielmur I'd rather they invest more heavily in making the AI better. Their art is overly well done, their games being some of the sleekest on the market. If they can improve the AI and make it properly challenging the game would feel more "complete" to me than with added cinematics but weak opponents.

[@Fielmur]

theral I didn't comment on the AI because they claimed to have seriously reworked it. I would concur about the previous AI being somewhat disappointing... But imo, regarding the ai that's a staff issue, they need more scripters or better scripts. For the art they have everything they need in their hands to add an immersive taste to the key aspects of what gets you ultimately going on with the game (getting involved in the quest or having an engaging perspective of diplomatics. I mean, imagine having 60k voice acted lines in the game instead of 60. It may sound like a lot, but the work involved is not as hard as providing a sharp AI) But for sure, it always tastes better with a somewhat reasonable AI if not a challenging one, I won't argue against that.

[@theral056]

Fielmur I'm all for more art, voicelines in particular. It always irks me in diplomacy when they say something different than they write. I hope the next iteration will continue to gradually improve in the art department (keep quality, increase quantity) but more importantly will dramatically improve the AI (without resorting to blatant cheats). I personally did not notice any improvement post patch, the AI still can't wage war and use fleets properly. Not sure if they can siege, never really saw them try (except for pirate bases they siege for what feels like 40 turns). Anyway the game is still great and been a good successor to endless space. If the next one improves similarly it'll be nigh on perfect ;)

[@scottcoder5060]

To make all of these things happen people need to buy their games. Unfortunately I think Amplitude is a highly undervalued studio. I hope more people get into their games and they're a massive success. They deserve it

[@berserkereq8100]

If no one has pointed it out or you haven't looked it up, the tooltip missing stuff is a bug. Restarting the game sometimes help.

[@j.d.4697]

The visual and sound design in this game gives me chills, love it so much. Makes me extra sad how little there are in terms of faction identity in the research and combat areas and how automated and generic those areas are.

[@blintscav]

The 'observances' remind me of Yoon Ha Lee's novels. Excellent space opera sci fi btw.

[@rogersnick17]

blintscav "A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel" is the best story story out there.

[@krocodockle2544]

If Hissho go republic does hatched at home law get a buff? Just thinking of way to play these guys

[@Garvisonal]

The anthropomorphic weeb birds have arrived to conquer the galaxy

[@dillondy3065]

Garvisonal I am a weeb and I can confirm that they are

[@atiq8987]

I want this game on Switch

[@magicaces13]

I just really struggle to get into es2. Maybe as I've not played endless games before and don't know the lore. It looks lovely and looks quite a chilled game

[@rams3955]

+Jon Stevens dude idk what it is with amplitude studio games but i love everything about them, the look, the idea, the varied factions but can never get into their games no matter how much i want to. Like I cant put my finger on exactly what it is. I dont have this problem with civ or total war its the weirdest thing.

[@magicaces13]

@@rams3955 im exactly the same. Civ, galciv and total war i can get into easily but not ES2. I ended up refunding my game. Maybe down to the style of gameplay its actually quite different.

[@jeremylackey6587]

@@magicaces13 it is brutally more difficult to steer than most 4x games

[@galacta7300]

Really wanna see how they compare to the space-bug bois. Cravers vs Hissio. Reminiscent of the Zerg vs Protoss mindset.

[@niallreid7664]

Cravers are better on land, Hissho see better in space. In a general sense.

[@kitgautier1658]

Appears that the issue with not showing bonuses on popups is a bug, and not intended.

[@Crimsonyte21]

I was put off by the tech tree when I used to play this game. Has it been made more accessible in this update?

[@LiquidGold_8]

Wo man....ive been playing endless legend casually since few years back...but this game...man....all the new system...makes me feel like a noob again

[@PrivateWillyRichardJohnson]

Isn't this the faction that was experimented on and/or made? Like that one chik form endless dungeon. Man how many factions did the Endless make? Granted the Vodgoni seem like they were indirectly made by the endless but still. Anyways expansion hype what what!

[@fuckyoutubecomments7530]

Krosis Kroniid they were definitely enslaved by the endless or a similar empire. Maybe they were uplifted by the endless only to be used? It’s interesting history nonetheless.

[@IIISentorIII]

you get FIDS not FIDSI so no Influence ;). Also with the Hissho you can Conquer every single planet in the game without any sort of penalty, so you "can" make a outpost and lose at least 10 Keii or just invade and get some including the planet ;)

[@McLoed22]

Hey SB, another great video just came in from your Endless Legend lets play. Question though, do you ever sleep? You can't with the number of videos you put out.

[@SlothPilgrim]

I'm not sure how to ask this but isn't the starting engine on your ships different from the one you can put on them? The icon for the ones on the ships is different from the one you can chose in the menu. Is there any reason why you don't swap the engine, when you upgrade the ships? Also new Endless Space AND Endless Legend videos Yay :-D. Thank you, I have watched many hours of your game play :-)

[@Trifler500]

The ships start with the base engine, but since the Hissho start with a science tech, it unlocks the next engine. So yeah, it's a good idea to upgrade the engines on the templates and the hero ship right off the bat.

[@mattbrassfield2291]

the mouse was a bug that was fix 1 patch after this update went live, it put off allot of people, it was a coding error from the dev team.

[@Chunkhead]

Keii - It's like when Austin Powers yells "JUDO CHOP!". It's pronounced Key Eye.

[@lupahole]

Space samurai FTW!

[@socksucker9308]

bird samurai people :U

[@jefferybrown6473]

Weren't the Hissho a race in the first game?

[@rogersnick17]

Jeffery Brown They were

[@NightArcher1]

It doesn't have firepower yet. wait until you can actually design them.

[@frosty9392]

If the in-game narrator could get turned up, that'd be super

[@RalphsLegend]

So this is like a digital table-top game?

[@SBPlaysGames]

In many ways, yes!

[@franchised1]

I can tell that you don't really like war in these games, why is that? especially when your playing as an extremely war driven faction. Almost feels like your shooting yourself in the foot by doing that. I don't have much experience with 4X games so I don't know if this is just a preference of yours or is going to war typically a bad move to make. I could understand your adverseness if you were playing a different faction, but Hissho are all about fighting and receive big bonuses for doing that.

[@theral056]

franchised1 going to war kills the AI and eliminates any semblance of challenge. If you're passive they can at least compete thanks to their FIDSI bonus.

[@Qulize]

@@theral056 So... Do I just let the AI build up and then attack them when they're like, big enough to be a threat? According to the users here, the AI sucks when it comes to waging. Asking because planning to buy this game...

[@theral056]

@@Qulize It's really up to you what you find fun. The AI will not be able to compete with you strategically or tactically no matter what. It may have twice the ships when it's smaller and still fail to use them effectively to smash you. It can be fun don't get me wrong, but a bit in a TD kind of way where they come in piecemeal. The game is definitely worth a buy and while you're learning and making mistakes the AI is competent enough. When you're really good you may want to turn pirates off and ensure that there are many systems for the AI to colonize - slightly larger map than recommended amount of players - so the can grow and stand up to you. You'll have to find your own level of difficulty first though. If you never played ES2 immortal will probably still kill you ;)

[@Jovian999]

Given the Japanese aesthetic, I'd say your pronunciation of Keii is safe.

[@habibainunsyifaf6463]

lol... their home planet is basically called 'home'

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

Your planet is called dirt.

[@happypenguin369]

SB I think Keii is pronounced like Ki or Key

[@guildmasterwigglytuff235]

In the gameplay trailer they pronounced it key-ee

[@guildmasterwigglytuff235]

*kay-ee

[@CMSVeritas]

Japanese style is definitely Kay-ee.

[@giarnovanzeijl399]

Weeabirds for the win.

[@couguard]

so, the racist war-birds begin with xenolinguistics? i find this amusing.

[@habibainunsyifaf6463]

in order to discriminate other races equally... we must learn to cuss in their own language.. "oy, Horatio! i think it's good you destroyed every used mirror you have since it can't stand seeing your ugly head!!!"

[@benhuber2169]

They’re not necessarily racist. They have a strong belief in honor. Picture Japanese samurai where defeat means death by either your own hand or someone else’s. Since others do not agree with their extremist honor ideals they are the enemy. That’s how I see it at least. Less about racism, more about honor.

[@couguard]

and the japanese are known for their rampant xenophilia...

[@frosty9392]

knowing your enemies' language(s) is a HUGE benefit

[@ridleydidnothingwrong]

couguard so they fuck anyone from outside their country, lmao I think the word you're thinking of is xenophobia

[@haidenmartz7379]

Hi

[@donk8961]

It's pronounced KE-ER-UUUUUUU

[@davidhatesspiders8049]

SB actually means moron in mandarin