Endless Space 2 - The Vodyani - Prologue
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These are the main principles ruling the Vodyani society: Dominate all other races to extract their Essence; worship the holy and pure Endless according to the practices of the Church of the Virtual Saints, and exterminate the Heretic and his blasphemous followers.
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So thats what it looks like to become a gaming laptop
Ahhh watching ssethtzeentach aswell i see?
@@Dripularstein Ahhh watching Wilburgur aswell i see?
@@ilfedarkfairy wowee REEEE!!!
Hey hey people
@@filipbitala2624sseth here
Kill the heretic! Purge the unclean! In the name of the Empe- Endless!
Can't wait for the United Empire and their 40k inspired ships.
Dont forget about the Xenos filth, only in exterminatus can there be peace in the galaxy.
Kinda gave me Adepta Sororitas vibe too
conan263 meh
It's such a shame that the Vodyani don't have unique interactions with the Academy as mechanical adversaries.
It'd be great to basically have a secondary objective of destroying the Academy and bringing Isyander to Vodyani justice.
Well, the final quest in the Vodyani questline requires you to occupy the system with Isyandar's Academy. But by then the Vodyani have already forsaken their gods (Virtual Endless).
I like the outro where instead of choosing between accepting Isyander's truth or keep following their gods, the Vodyani choose to become Virtual Endless themselves.
At least making that secondary objective would have made the DLC "upgrade " of the academy more... torelable
you can in awakening
"Ma'am why are we moving slower than the rest of the fleet?"
"It's so the others can overtake us, it makes for a cooler shot"
"What?"
"What?"
Nah, it's because Ark ships move slower than the rest of the fleet until you get enough upgrades for them.
@@Dallows65 "Ma'am why did we leave 30 minutes before the rest of the fleet?"
"It's so the others can overtake us, it makes for a cooler shot"
"What?"
Still the same :)
Made an alliance between the Unfallen, Hissho, and Vodyani, named "fuck the Cravers"
the cockroaches tried to surrender immediately after it formed.
Whenever I form an alliance in ES2, I call it “Coalition of the Willing”. - It's an old joke, but it still makes me laugh every time I read it.
It's kinda interesting that the only religious faction upon launch is the one that will not choose the option marked as religious in the academy quest since that means accepting that the Endless carried out a genocide. Also interesting how their main mechanic of harvesting dust resembles the way in which the Endless carried out that genocide, and they also destroyed their home world just like the Endless, they really are just replaying Endless history.
Speaking from a lore standpoint, a race seeking to wear the endless mantle, at any and all costs, might very well be the more dangerous faction in the galaxy
and yet there is still Cravers
@@DCPTF2 The Cravers are just doing it for simple survival though, they might be aggressive but they're predictable and far from maniacal, the Vodyani are actually genuinely dangerous because they'd do shit like destroy the entire galaxy to achieve their goals. Also while we do see Cravers in almost every piece of art in the game depicting civilians which suggests they can reject their aggressive ways and live peacefully with others perfectly fine we basically never see Vodyani and Isyander is really the only Vodyani we know of to reject the church.
@@hedgehog3180 a lot of the vodyani quests talk about stuff like vodyani questioning their faith in the church of the endless which is met with punishment. I think it’s more or less that the church doesn’t want any of them to reject their ways. Who knows maybe without the church the vodyani could’ve ended up being a lot better morally
one of vodyani lore quest require then to use core cracker to 3 hot planet,so yeah
@@hedgehog3180 you’re right, I remember craver and sophon fist bumping art on certain quest or event
BRING THE ENDLESS CRUSADE !
FOR THE EMPRAH
FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
BLOOD FOR THE BLO- no, wait, wrong faction!
Ahem... FOR THE EMPEROR !
For the doneld trump
The Black Templars Approves Of This Message!
Did I hear someone say "joining chaos?" Uh oh... SMASH IT!
*Slams exterminatus button*
FUCKIN' HERETIIIIICS!
FOR THE EMPERAH!!!
ATTENTION HERETIC
The music... omg the music...
The match between the cinematics and music is absolutely top-notch for this one. Love it and based on lore, going to be the first faction I play. Was going to play Cravers at first, too
The ship design is amazing as well. My jaw dropped when I saw the flyover with their faction's ships
+Robotmebobot Dat's fukken Supremacy from BE!
@@Robotmebobot I just get a weird kind of goosebumps during that scene. Vodyani still have the best ship design, closely followed by Umbral Choir and Riftborn
Vodyani are the best faction/race in the Endless Series, hands down. They are so incredibly unique.
Yep, already found my first faction.
Okay they look damn cool
Amplitude you do awesome design race bravo!
Completely stolen from Civilization: Beyond Earth, kek.
And we can say Beyond Earth stolen the main quest story style in a 4x from Endless Legend and the circle is complete :D
Also, lot of game with a virtual race like I don't know, halo :) So it's classical but I like how they made and I can't be bored by this kind of race ^^
Nyutek Nuh, you cannot stole entire plot style only in month of work.
Really ? Please explain.
Napishtim Just look at Supremacy - golden/black plated armor, straight lines. religion based on technology, et cetera, et cetera.
I CALLED IT! RELIGIOUS FACTION AHOY!
R
Have to have them.
No universe is complete without mindless fanatical zealots.
they praised endless. that ok to me :)
PURGE THE HERETIC
Starducks Coffee yeah they are op as all hell right now.. if you get a starting system with more than one colonizationable planet or the right anomaly you are guaranteed to win the game
I wonder if the "ancient demon" is the concrete endless
i think the "ancient demons" are the cravers
But the cravers want to destroy everything it's in their nature so it would seem weird they would work together.
+josiah but they are made by the endless no?
I was thinking they might have a concrete vrs virtual rift between them, might be a cool story arc.
some of the artwork shows cravers living in civilized society along with other races. As a race they may be hyper-agressive, but individuals are still independent sentients.
we need this soundtrack
Oh man got to love what this design team does for the 4X genre. They say history repeats itself so are we going to see conflict between virtuals and the concrete once more. Favourite faction so far.
As you may know this bg music is from “To Rise, Virtual” Vodyani’s prologue ost. Check it and also don’t thank me.
thanks!
@@Ravi9A bruh
Vodyani.
It is like creature from Slav mithology. :D
Heh, it's like it's straight out of something from the Witcher :)
There is a creature called Vodyanoy, a spirit of water of some kind :D
It also sounds a bit like "void", with an end that sounds latin/indian.
Indeed, voda (or its variations) means water in pretty much all slavic languages.
Why not zodyani, for example?
i'm not saying deus vult...
but deus vult
Deus Vodyani :p
@@kinagrill endleuss vult !
Wow! I really like the colour of this faction, that kinda carbon black with molten metal orange/yellow/amber...just amazing..my favourite colour combo
A combination of the Broken Lords and Cultists from Endless Legend plus Syd Mead-esque visuals and an inherent ideological conflict? YES YES YES YES YES YES. TAKE ALL OF MY MONEY.
"What if vampires lived in galactic RVs?": The faction.
Space Pope is kinda hot!
Then hurry up and draw hentai of it dude! I'll see you in HentaiFoundry soon enough. :3
Um, spoilers....before she becomes Vodyani she has 4 arms and slither on the ground.
Don't do Dusts kids..
@@tuahsakato17 That's kinda hot!
@@tuahsakato17 My mind still not adjust to believe that Vodyani turn from 4 arm goblin to a golden humanoid figure.
@@cordyceps182 um...trust me dude, it's not :')
She used to look like that alien Anakin Skywalker beat at podracing, the one with the moustache that walk with his hand.
I love how every race is soo unique not only as gameplay but as story background. I just love how much thought the developers put in them, and above all my most favorite are the Vodyani... :)
This has given me more chills than the Sophon prologue, and that means something!
Does it?
Pray the Endless
Prey the heretics
And rise ourselves as the gods of this universe
For the Virtuals !
For the Vodyani !
For the Great Church !
Incredible epic music. If the ost of the game is half as good I'm sold.
Beautiful design.
Seems opposite to me. ES1 design was unique. It was still pretty much the regular "everyone in the universe looks just like stupid humans from tiny planet Earth, with 2 legs, 2 arms, head on top, talk with their mouths etc", but it had some special flavor to it which was mostly the result of genuinely good design work. Horatio concept with cloning and perfection, emotionless cravers made sense, automatons looked more or less legit..
ES2 design is dumbed down for teens. It all seems to be about fake kids drama and tits everywhere. That's what sells I guess, the amount of huge tits in the frame is proportional to the amount of teens spending money on the game. Clothing @ 1:16 in this video is a classic example of bad design. It's a retarded outfit no one in their right mind would wear, but guys from marketing know too well that their target audience is "males 18-30", and most of those think with their dicks and not brains thus common sense is secondary and sexy outfits are the must. One would hope though that a strategy game set in space would be exempt of this nonsense.
Still gonna play the full version, but so far disappointed with design, at least based on these cinematics.
It's different. Every outfit has a purpose. I'm not an expert on religions, but as far as I'm aware they often work through fear and intimidation (among many other things of course). All those cathedrals, rituals and outfits in Christianity, for example, seem to exist in the way they are to humble and suppress simple-minded individuals. An ordinary peasant living in a small dirty shack sees a huge white cathedral with gold and beautiful paintings etc and it seems godly to him, it looks out of this (his) world. In his mind something this big and beautiful just can't be a work of simple men, it has to do something with almighty gods. Thus he's not likely to question his religious beliefs and continues to behave the way his religion told him to behave. Pope's outfit is just a part of that show, he just gotta wear something uniform with his religion's main theme, something awe-inspiring, pure and godly. Same with other religions - their designs (churches, outfits etc) are in line with their main themes, they make sense in relation to what the particular religion is about. All of it looks extremely stupid for educated people today, but it used to work just great throughout the centuries.
And here we've got a creature from another universe that looks (surprise!) like a super fit human female with huge tits in an outfit with holes all over the specific parts of the body.. and with a spear! :) So she's sexy and she fights. That's what an average modern society' young male gamer is most interested in: sex and violence. Makes no fucking sense whatsoever to wear something like this (try actually using that spear with an outfit like that, let alone space travel dressed that way), but anyone who's been long enough around design and videogames industries knows that those things are made only to provoke micro-boners and increase sales. It's bad taste and bad design (from the artistic perspective). There's very few games these days made for mature audiences, so it's always sad to see another great franchise going in the teens-oriented direction. Thus the rant. Still gonna check the game out.
Rocco actually, you may miss the idea we know nothing about their culture. But ok, even if it is more or less human-like, as their form, the spear and the outfit may be a symbol. We do not know that "naked" parts' meaning in their context. For example, nobles in till ~18th century got a small rapier as a symbol of freedom. But strange alien could say "oh god just look at the design, can you imagine this man with no muscles actually fighting in this outfit with this metal needle? It's definitely girls-oriented"
But i agree that tits are ridiculous, we were shown that they were looking as nothing related to human.
Also the shoulders look very similar to cultists', it's at least interesting.
Sorry for my mistakes in English, it's not my native language
The thing is, nobles in 18th century weren't doing any space exploring shit. They were living in stone buildings on Earth, built for them by "lower" humans that those "nobles" exploited (peasants, slaves etc). They had too much time on their hands (since most of hard work was done by other people, the ones that weren't nobles) so they've made up a lot of stupid crap like symbols etc - partly because they were just bored and didn't have much else to do, and also because those "symbols" served a purpose - they differentiated nobles from lower classes, which helped to keep the hierarchy where poor and stupid worked their asses off for those nobles. For the same reasons they were wearing ridiculous outfits, wigs etc. And that small rapier could still be a reasonably effective weapon in the 18th century. Heck, even today, in 21st century, knives are often used in close combat on Earth: sometimes they are just more effective than firearms.
This all isn't relevant when we're talking about a civilization that is advanced enough for space travel. And especially interstellar travel. The amounts of energy (and technology to get access to that kind of energy) required are so enormous that it simply changes everything. How many "symbols" do our astronauts carry with them? None. You've got your suit, and the equipment to survive in space and complete your mission. Nothing else, no fucking symbols, no "culture" items - those are toys for apes stuck on Earth but not for intelligent species. It's downright stupid to portray a leader of such an advanced civilization with a spear! If they can travel to other stars then they have technology (and weapons) we can't even imagine yet. Putting a spear and an outfit like that on those species... it's bad design. Their only goal was to arouse some young males, that's all. I bought all previous Amplitude games simply because I thought they do an excellent job and should be paid for it. I'm not gonna pay for ES2, at least at first I'll try a pirated copy. I just can't believe it's the same designers that did ES1. First one was a good design, but this nonsense is simply upsetting.
P.S. Your English is fine. It's also not my native language.
Symbols are not primitive stuff appeared just because someone was bored. It's the sign of developped culture. Symbol is the way to express more than an object can say. More developped culture means more developped symbols. Read Georg Trakl, for example. His expressions are hardly understandable if to think "rationally". But through symbols and emotion he creates not only the world, but also the phylosophy. Our lack of symbols in space exploration means not the advenced technology, but our poor culture in this shpere. This is understandable, not many people travel in space now and do not do it for time, conparable to the whole life. But this civilisation lives on the fucking motherships, it means that they have quite rich space travel culture. And spear in this context can mean actually everything, imaginable and unimaginable.
About the spear itself -- even in "primitive" 18th century those rapiers already looked pretty much archaic. And the point sometimes was not even sharp. So symbol is almost irrelevant to technology
In my opinion, your explanation of nobles is a little bit marxistic. It means reductionism.
I love her voice, and whatever accent that is or is supposed to be. Pure love.
Cultists of the eternal end, anyone?
Their questline literally ends with them taking off into space to spread the word of the eternal end.
I'm certainly interested...
To be fair, everyone's questline ends with them taking off into space like that. And canonically speaking it was the Vaulters who actually did it, hence why they're in ES1.
But these guys do certainly have a similar feel to them. Which is awesome to say the least. :)
Oh. I didn't know that was how the others ended.
I do wish that these guys are cultists of the eternal end in the far future.
just gunna point out that these guys assimilate other major/minor factions people into their own as slave labor. just saying.
Sounds like a more evil cultists....
King328 thats what i was getting at
my exterminatus hand is acting up again
Pff, laame! A real inquisitor has an exterminatus head!
Just bring Broken Lords 2.0 pls
I wanna steal dust
I've heard these guys get pop through dust but also will not step onto planets so you might need robos or a slave pop to be effective
Well in the wiki they are described very nicely.
They are like BL+cultists.
+Saurabh Banik I think they will be very interesting to play and see how they will bring in other minor factions maybe with dust or influence either way this is going to be fun
well they convert minor factions like the cultists but at the same time drain minor factions of their life force like the BL to propagate their race.
more like roving clans plus cultists, these guys can move cities and value dust, like the RC, but aim to achieve their religious goals too, like the cultistd
DEUS VULT!
this game just cant help itself with the fucking brilliant factions and music
I didn't notice this but around 1:25 , the lights of the background appear like angel wings. Sorta makes sense since this is a religious faction.
This is just a comment to the prologue videos in general. Every single one of these are some next level stuff, GREAT work. Did not expect so much cinematic quality here, and I am so pleasantly surprised.
out of all factions I do not know why, but this video gives me the most chills....
This is the better trailer that ever see of endlles space 2
Most epic faction and prologue ever!
Their ships are designed like cathedrals!
"Amateurs"
- anonymous Imperial Navy officer
Broken lords mixed with cultist in space? TAKE MY MONEY!
I usually don't like the relligous zealot races but the message of this one isn't wrong and is good. Probbably my favorite. Especially because of the transhumanist astetic and cool ships.
3nd favorite. Prefer the dwarf looking vaulters.
Damn ! Very good designed race, the best so far ! The trailer is really good, especially the music that I find amazing !
Can't wait !
It's just supremacy from Beyond Earth, mate.
Since this... trailer (?) come... i knew that this IS my faction!! WE WILL RISE ENDLESS!!
I hope the existence of the Vodyani in the game doesn't mean the Broken Lords won't be in ES2 anymore. I really really liked their lore and their playstyle. Broken Lords and the Harmony are just asking to wage war on each other! Here's to hoping Amplitude reads this and ports those two factions into the game.
Minor Factions :P
harmony definitely not minor
harmony definitely not minor
harmony was my favorite faction in endless space and to be fair, the broken lords in endless space 2 wouldn't make a lot of sense, since the vaulters were the only ones to leave Auriga before it permanently died hence why it's barren in endless space. Though if there was another faction that had their expansionist play-style that would be neat too, I hope harmony comes back in ES2, they were awesome
harmony SHOULD be there with no doubt!
DUST Haters should make some good opponent etc %)
but its not we decide what should be here or what not :(
and yet, games2gether forums suggestions !
Cultists from enfless elgend in space? SOLD IT
They are BL+Cultists actually
I like the fact that the dust lights form angel wings behind her as she speaks of Ascención
Hmm i'm getting a D&D feel from this.
The followers of Lolth and how they split the Drow "dark Elves".
Good vipe.
I thought absolutely nothing would be better than the sophons...
i was so wrong!
The accent adds a little something special imo. It really helps that near-Eastern feeling.
Might be completely and entirely wrong here, but looking at the contrasting halos of the Hierarch and the False Prophet, it looks a bit like they might represent the two different sides of the Endless - the Virtual and Concrete Endless. The square, angular halo of the False Prophet seems more solid and defined, or 'concrete', against the more traditional round, elegant and circular halo of the Hierarch. Maybe the two different sides are mimicking the conflict of the Endless - the desire for ascension to a completely incorporeal form vs regaining their flesh and possessing bodies once more.
the music for this game is on point, holy shit. so grand
This orange lines in the end look like some sort of a wings for hierarchich
I love this faction already, kinda reminds me of the protoss ≧∇≦
This looks so awesome! The music is so badass!
Ooohhh yes, The lords in sspaaace. Dust vamps. It's all there. The design is all future templar order with , sounds like lierally the same concept.
With dust life stealing*
I like how the "ancient demon" looks vaguely like a Wind Walker.
This game has some of the best visuals ever
Possibly the best voice actress in the game.
Love the epic sound track for these guys, hope it becomes a recurring theme for theme.
First look these Vodyani people are so admirable cus of their determination and faithfulness. But when I found the description of this faction on official website, that they are actually seeing other intelligence who do not devote themselves to the Endless as monsters and apostates to be enslaved, and they actually drain the lifeforce of people from other faction as FIDS, well, they are less admirable.
Yang Lan space ISIS as I like to refer to them.
H-h-heretic,you say? [Urge to purge the unclean intensifies].
Borislav Stoqnov
The urge....to purge!
Broken Lore + Cultist = YES!
It's what would happen if the Broken Lords embraced their soul-sucking powers.
So we have science faction (Sophons), militarist faction (Cravers), religious faction (Vodyani), and pacifist faction (Lumeris). Hope we get a pure industrial and ecological civ going, and then some hybrids to really round out the roster.
I would actually say Lumeris would be more military and economic faction like United Empire or Sheredyn from endless space 1, tho i don't have endless space 2 i'm pretty sure that's what they focus on
The Lumeris is the economical facction and the industrial would be the rift lords, as for the pacifist are the unfallen, as for industrial you could also call theunited empire
The Broken Lords rise again!!!!
I am liking the soundtrack of this game.
"We will see the heretic drown in his blasphemies" *picks rejuvenator on Academy quest*
Can we get the soundtrack to this prologue? I am in love with it.
Space Cultists!
Someone call the Golden Throne!
For the Endless!
Well, I guess it is time to get some more soup again!
So much epic!
Oh so basically the Holy Roman Empire, an entire nation built on the memory of a once powerful empire.
Her accent sounds like...
a mixture between Christopher Walken and John Travolta
(refer to Howard Wolowitz impression)
hm, time to decide between my good old sophons and this now
it would be awesome if the cultist of the end escapes Auriga, anti endless vs endless worshippers.
Can't wait to play them when you guys have early release. I'm definitely interested in who the heretic is and if that is going to play out as a minor faction or DLC content later on. Will we be fighting demons in SPAAACCEE?
So the 0:26 creature is their original form and they've used endless tech to upload their minds to these black fiery humanoid suits?
I can't wait mooooore
Something tells me that the 'Heretic' the faction leader's brother, was trying to save his race.
No confirmation of them being related in any way. As for what he's up to: just watch the Launch trailer.
Holy shit! (pun intended)
Best waifu!
Amplitude... Why do you have to do this to me
so will these guys have like a counter religion? from this rebel group or another faction im assuming there is someone with concrete backing since these guys found virtual relics. cant be the hissho since they are a minor faction now. (2 if u count the cravers)
seems like spiritual successor of the sowers, with the whole endless religion type thing
If I recall correcly weren't sower build by the concrete endless? This faction looks like they paise the virtual endless I smell some conflict (crossing fingers).
+Skyarrow Yes, you would be correct, but i was merely saying they look similar, with the worshipping of the endless and being robots, cyborgs in case of these guys.
Oh ok sorry I misread your comment. But I really hope the Sowers retun and are not replaced by the Vodyani. They were my favourite race to play as in ES and it would be really cool to see the conflict that destroyed the Endless so long ago still being fought by thier ancestors. Just because there was conflict between Endless to begin with. And it would really give the Endless even more of an impact on the World than they already have (now even affecting the politics of the ES universe).
I love the soundtrack !
Could we get it some day?
really remind me of the Protoss
These guys are more like Necrons.
Race of aliens that turned themselves into robots, and worship a race of energy beings as gods.
what if the heretic is a broken lord? Remember the broken lords suffered the same fate but some of them survived Auriga. They always hated draining other creatures which is something this faith believes.
Don't hate me if I am right
Well no reason to hate you since you are wrong XD
nah its not. climate change victims where they change form to virtuals
Am I the only one who notices a strong resemblance between Vodyani's design and Mezari's? We know that the Mezari were a starfaring civilization, that they were the precurors of the Vaulters, but nothing else. Well, my guess is that, while the Vaulters slowly developed their own culture on Auriga, the Mezari went down the path of over-industrialization, later becoming these actual Vodyani...
Mezari are the United Empire. You may even rekindle Mezari culture as part of UE questline.
WARNING! BATTERY CHARGE: CRITICAL!
*minor species located*
BATTERY CHARGE: NOMINAL
basically feels like playing the covenant from halo
Ahh, space Vatican
Endleus Vult! We will take the Academy!
Infintum Vult!
мощно.
A very interesting Faction...I would like to play their quest line but the System I have to conquer only has a sun but no planets. I can't do shit. HELP!
Easily the worst questline in the game, for ease of completion and lack of bonuses
Let the Galaxy burn! blood for the blood god!
The crusaders be comin to nom on your peeps
***cough*** sounds like literary every SOB from 40k