Today we have plenty of new fixes for the game!

Thanks to everyone who is trying the demo and sharing their feedback ✨

A couple of fixes/improvements I would like to highlight

Achievements

• Fixed the Tahuk’s achievement “Coup de Grace” (Thanks to Aww_Potatoes for the report!)
• Fixed the Last Lords' achievement “A Mortal Coil” (Thanks to Aww_Potatoes for the report!)

General UI

• Added an error popup when the installation is corrupted

Economy

• Updated the following technologies:
  • Conscription: Removed “Propaganda Machine” (Converter Industry -> Approval)
  • Lodgings: From +5% Food and Industry on Content City to +10 Approval on City Hall and +5 Approval on Ministry
  • Cold Cellar: From +10% Food and Dust on Jubilant City to +1 Approval on Districts at least level 2
• Fixed placement previews not showing the malus of approval for habitations placed next to works

​Hello there!

While we continue to “enjoy” the bright sun of summer 🥵 we are ready to start sharing our next Public Test Branch (PTB) to the entire community!

HIGHLIGHTS

🛣 New Awakening Quests > Specific per faction

>What did we change? We move from a shared quest for everyone to specific quests and dialogues depending on the major factions, as not all of them see and react to the events the same way.

⏳ Disabling Simultaneous Turns

>We disable part of the simultaneous turns. What does it mean? The AI won’t move any of their units until the player hits 'End Turn. But they will be able to react to diplomacy, building their districts, etc.

>This mitigates the feeling of “AI hunting” while enabling that AI can react to player requests.

🧬 Asymmetrical Minor Factions

>Minor Factions are an important part of the journey of every player on Saiadha as they are native to the planet and players are engaging with them constantly. We are increasing the difference between each other to make them more unique and to offer different playstyles, both economic and military, for the players.

🦗 Necrophage buff

>We heard your feedback about Necrophage being undertuned (while playing with them not against 🤣). And we do agree that, to a certain extent, it was a bit hard to recover if you were behind everyone, that's why we have buffed them a bit!

📜 CHECK OUR COMMUNITY HUB TO GET ALL THE CHANGELOG

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We want to take a moment to thank everyone who has been sharing feedback since the very beginning. And today’s patch strongly focuses on player feedback, especially on one of the most discussed topics: the game’s narrative experience. 

HIGHLIGHTS

All these highlighted changes are based on your feedback. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us! 

📜 New Quest Window 

>We’ve rebuilt the quest interface to make storytelling smoother, richer, and more engaging.

​At the beginning of the Early Access, the community shared their disappointment about how the narrative presentation from ENDLESS Legend 1 was missing, and that the experience felt “too click-heavy”. This is something we couldn't change quickly, and we have been working in the “shadows” for months to improve this crucial part.

🖼️ More 2D art 

>Reworking the quest window was a great opportunity to add more 2D art, something many of you had asked for.
This update introduces new artwork across Major and Minor Factions, reinforcing their uniqueness and presence in the world.

📝 Kin of Sheredyn & Necrophage Quest Improvements 

Both factions received plenty of feedback on the narrative part. Both factions have plenty of changes on quest, tone, choices, etc.

⚖️ Resources Window Enhancement 

>Three major additions that have been heavily requested by the community:
- Auto-sell resources above max stock to the market
- Bulk buy/sell
- Auto-renew Booster

📜 READ HERE ALL THE CHANGES

The entire team is grateful for the continued support. If you have a spare minute, leaving a Steam review means a lot to us, and helps us continue building updates like this 💖

We know AI is an ongoing topic and something we keep improving. We would like your thoughts on some key areas of the game as it is really important how you, players, perceive the AI is performing.

We created dedicated threads on discord, but if you prefer not to join, feel free to reply directly on this post.

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⚔️Combat

If you feel the AI is badly using its armies, let us know why. Are they pursuing meaningless objectives? Are they not reacting to threats? Are their army compositions bad?. Does the AI make moves that feel stupid, like wasting opportunities or throwing away units that could be saved? Let us know, again with detail description of what happened and what you think should have happened, and a save.

💰Economy

This one's a bit tougher to judge because you can't look into AI cities, but if you have a feeling the AI is mismanaging their growth, make a save, send it our way, and tell us what you think is wrong.

🔊 Diplomacy

For this we're mostly interested in situations where the shown attitude of the AI doesn't match their proposals. Again, saves included if you can. (And yes, we know about the AI basically never surrendering, but that's not what we're talking about here, because we already have a lead on the cause of that.) Please, on each of the topics try to describe the situation, how you expect the AI should behave and also include some save files so we can replicate specific situations you are describing (specially important on battles). Do not forget to mention on which difficulty you are playing

Hello there! 

Today, we are happy to share with the entire community that we are releasing our next big update, Stand United. 

Here you will find a 5-minute video that summarizes the key elements for the update 👆

HIGHLIGHTS

📊 District Cost Scaling 

>While balancing costs/yields is always an ongoing topic, we noticed that there were some issues with how district cost were scaling, which was generating frustration among players  
> Thanks to everyone who shared feedback on this topic 🤗 

>There are 3 main areas we made changes
- Basic / Elite district 
- District Effects & Synergies
- Population Vocations

💥 Combat Retaliation 

>Now, when a player attacks an enemy unit for the first time, the enemy performs a counter‑attack that deals 70% of its base damage.  We think it will improve combat even further
You will find specific units having unique skill/passives that plays around this new tool

💂 Militia Panel 

>The team created a new Militia Panel, so you have a better understanding of what Militia you have in your city, as well as in the territories attached to it. 

Everyone can access this information, so be careful, as the AI will be more inclined to attack areas you have left unprotected! 👀

✅ Steam Deck Verified 

>So happy to share to the entire community that the game now is Steam Deck Verified 🎉  Thanks to everyone who has been trying the game and sharing feedback with us! 

📜 READ HERE THE FULL PATCHNOTES

We are ready to start the next PTB for the following update! 

A few weeks ago, we released the Voice of the People update and a following update to start solving the district cost issues. Now we will be able to try all the changes for these. 

 📜 READ HERE ALL THE CHANGES

HIGHLIGHTS

⚔ Combat Retaliation

Let’s start with the basics: What does it mean? When a player attacks an enemy unit for the first time, the enemy performs a counter‑attack that deals 70% of its base damage. 

We think it will improve, even more, the combat. Here are the main goals behind the change 

1. The first goal is to create attrition in fights and limit the alpha strike potential 
2. Second goal => 1 more thing to consider in battle while taking decisions & creates an oportunity of content & units personality (fuck those pesky ochlings)

 

 Even if this could generate a quick reaction (good or bad), please try the change and let us know what you think. Perhaps there are areas we can tweak to improve it. 

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Due to this change we have tweaked all units in-game, from an overall increase on HP to adding interesting new effects on certain units (the game designers had a good time including dedicated passives for certain units). 

Lastly, we have changed some other areas, related to combat/units, so please take a look at the full changelog. 

 

Currently missing on the PTB / Known Issues

There are two elements that are not YET in the game, but that will arrive on the update 

• Better UI feedback > to let player now which units can/cannot retaliate 
• Include retaliation in the math's for the Instant Resolutions 
• [Solved next week] The retaliation damage preview shows too much damage; you actually only take about 70% of their damage
• [Solved next week] Broken Focus is still applied in the forest

 

📊 District Scale Cost

We have been following the subject since the moment the community started talking about the topic. We have been “cooking” internally on the solutions to the topic, and here we are. 

A few weeks ago, we did an initial patch to solve the issue of what we are calling “Basic Districts” > Farm, Work and Communal Habitation. 

While the patch got a very nice reaction from your side, it proves that we were heading into the good direction and we algo noticed some funny outcomes   

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There are several changes around this issue 

Basic / Elite district

This is not “purely” now, but now it is more evident the difference between the 2 type of districts. 

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Even, if we already tweaked the basic district, it is worth to share in case any player missed the information. Here an example of the formula (but you will find all of them in the bottom)  

Before	After
Farm cost formula	5000 min (50 + Target.DistrictCountAnyDistricts * 25)
Merchant's House cost formula	10000 min (149 + Target.DistrictCountMoney * 149 + (1 + Target.DistrictCountAnyDistricts / 1.2) ^ 3)

As we removed the exponential factor, even if it count the other district, it will have a much lower impact (+10 industry per district). Lastly, something I saw many of you asking, bridges will count in this +10 industry but they have their own scale cost separated.  

Foundation growth

As a part of the update, the team also tweaked how the game calculate the foundation cost. We also removed the exponential factor. Lastly, we reduced the max cost from 1000 to 500 influence.  

District Effects & Synergies

We enhance all districts to have “a puzzle system“ that will generate additional synergies between them. An example: Merchant house will produce additional Dust if closer to Work, but the Farms will generate less food if adjacent to Works. 

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Population Vocations

In order to control a bit more how much influence and dust a player can generate we decided to do 2 big changes in vocations: 

• Scribes now focus purely on Science (no more Influence) 
• Citizens and Artisans give slightly less Dust, bringing them in line with the other changes

 

This change, also, will make more interesting some of the minor faction populations! 

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💂‍♂️ Militia Panel

As we updated how the Militia works (territory-based with their fortification level) we wanted to improve how the militia was displayed.  

Before 

The only way was to mouse over to the fortification icon in your city 

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Now ✨ 

You have a dedicated window directly on your city panel. It make it way easier to distinguish all the units that form the militia from the main city + ministries attached.  

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Remember that you can improve the militia units by investing on additional fortification, and also increasing their veterancy with certain technologies. 

 

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🔊 What feedback are we looking for

• 💥 Combat retaliation feelings
  • What are your thoughts about the new feature? 
  • Share specific examples on areas we should consider to tweak. Perhaps you will find that certain units might be quite stronger than others 
  • Do you feel it makes the combat more tactical or just “tedious”?

   

• 📊 Districts Costs and Synergies
  • How does the new scale cost feels? Do you think they scale too much? 
  • What do you think about the new synergies of districts

  

If you have other things or topics, do not hesitate to share them with us as we will be reading them 💖 

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How to access the PTB via Steam

1. Go to your Steam Library. 
2. Look for “Endless Legend 2”  
3. Right-click on your Library entry and go to Properties.  
4. Select Betas > and select “public-test-branch“

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Another nice blog from u/DerekPaxton

📜 State of the game - April 2026

"We just passed 7 months in Early Access. 7 Months of feedback and consistent updates that (I believe) made the game better every month. The PTB program has been a great way to test new features before it hits the larger Early Access crowd. And, even more noticeably, sharing early plans with all of you has been very informative to help us get it right when we implement, or even skip implementations entirely when you let us know that you don’t want the change."

• Recap of Voice of the People update and player stats

> Do not forget to check the Video Highlights in case you missed the update

• What's Next
  • District Scaling Cost
  • More Balance
  • Writing changes
  • Diplomacy
  • World Generation
  • Additional Team Colour
  • More Distinct Minor Factions

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Thank you for playing!

I hope you are enjoying the Voice of the People update. Your game analytics, survey responses, steam reviews, discord feedback, comments on reddit, steam and Amplifiers all help improve the game. We have a lot more to come. 

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