Endless Space 2 – Umbral Choir
Umbral Choir
Hard to master? How come?
Well, at showtime whatever instrumentalist tin straight off sympathise the basics of UC but the tricky role is to adjust their odd ways. Of course, the role of this guide is to laid upwards yous for what’s to come.
While playing equally the UC, the biggest virtue yous must adopt is the patience! You should never ever seek out fast modest gains inwards early turns because the UC is already strong a faction inwards the early (1-50) turns. If non prepared, the UC becomes a joke at afterwards stages of the game.
From their state of war goals to the economic scheme they receive got a prety unique style. Of course, their biggest disadvantage is having only 1 system. That hurts tardily game FIDSI production rattling difficult but don’t worry amongst expert planning to transform yourself throughout the stages of the game, yous volition grab those multisystem users as well as brand them role of your everlasting peace. Let us start!
General Playstyle
They receive got auto cloaking ships. They receive got 1 organization as well as they tin only receive got their ain population. Their faction scream for is quite piece of cake besides but what else?
I would position the UC equally an exploration/expansion faction. Yes! Even though they are designed to live a tall faction I would say, they play similar a hybrid of both (tallwide) playstyle but rattling much depended on expanding the other systems via sanctuaries.
So naturally, yous should ever essay to discover systems to position your sanctuaries on as well as that way exploration! Of course of didactics ideally, yous should ever discover the systems where your opponent’s potential colonization places as well as create total it amongst the population to brand them sleepers faster during afterwards stages of the game.
The UC is a hidden faction as well as this volition lastly inwards early turns (1-35) but after that, yous are going to battle to remain hidden yesteryear upgrading your stealth from millitary tech tree. Even though yous really don’t take away whatever military machine tech during that time, it volition live natural to pass some fourth dimension on military machine tech. This volition forestall yous from worrying well-nigh the military machine side of the game, preparing your fleet the futurity as well as making yous are a enterprise rival for the Behemoth scream for line.
Behemoth gameplay is a must to remain strong inwards mid as well as afterwards stages of the game. Auto cloaking volition assist yous when settling inwards unsafe locations. Also, yous are going to take away every other possible gain from exterior since yous receive got only 1 system.
The UC has to spread its hit amongst backdoors or sanctuaries early to brand certain live nowadays before some other faction. Even if yous think yous are nowadays every 1 of the nodes inwards nigh your abode faction (including your neighbors). Otherwise yous receive got to grapple to instruct backdoors inwards peachy distances.
Setting upwards a expert seat at far away volition assist yous to kickstart your hacking operations inwards afterwards stages. Even if yous should never focus everything at once, it volition live a expert persuasion to pass some plough for 1 or 2 backdoors inwards peachy distances; equally the game progress, it volition live much harder to instruct inwards those places. Always scream upwards to play a long game as well as never disturb your long term programme amongst fast gains.
The UC’s biggest strength is beingness a hidden forcefulness as well as when yous bring out yourself it must live felt similar a large surprise.
Early Game
The early game is where yous maximize exploring -don’t worry I’ll instruct to the economical as well as other materials afterwards on- thus what that hateful is, yous tin popular out a tertiary scouting ship fifty-fifty a quaternary (depending on the map). The UC also tin utilisation special nodes rattling early thus it’s ideal their exploration ship tin move faster as well as probe too.
You mustn’t waste product turns for hardcore hacking (improving relations,etc.), merely focus on getting sanctuaries, backdoors, as well as special nodes. Always scream upwards to play for the long game inwards patience.
You must seat your closest neighbors yesteryear plough 25 because yous receive got to instruct closer them as well as if yous are lucky they volition start colonizing 1 of your sanctuaries. Getting an early population within your opponents is the primal to move along staying at the top.
It’s also possible to instruct 1 sleeper to your vecino merely to instruct a hint on which techs researched. Therefore yous tin essay to check the colonization possibilities as well as able to position your sanctuaries on systems where it mightiness instruct colonized yesteryear the opponent.
Mid Game
By the fourth dimension yous hand mid game, yous should already command iii special nodes, a bunch of sanctuaries within your showtime target amongst steady population growth, ended all of your nutrient as well as manufacture buildings.
Know that until yous are certain that yous volition instruct attacked or yous are going to attack, you’ll never inwards take away of a fleet, dissimilar traditional factions. During mid game, yous should focus on increasing your stealth bird as well as assimilate a nestling faction.
Because yous tin access the special nodes rattling fast your options becomes many. You tin purge nestling factions rattling fast or move for the buildings yous lack resources. You should also instruct 2 Behemoth to your organization during this time. Always essay to exploit the fact that yous tin utilisation the special nodes.
I’ll move well-nigh the state of war inwards afterwards but during this fourth dimension yous should live fighting amongst 1 of your neighbors. UC could live a pacifist politicly but their actions are not. Their gameplay fifty-fifty reflects their story. Their way of observing is to infiltrate the organisms they are curious about. So inwards a way, they ever seek to expand or grow. When coming closed to the tardily game yous take away to evolve your population to Umbral Shadow.
Late Game
When yous laid your state of war goals to boom your economic scheme as well as achieved. You tin literary instruct untouchable! Overcollonization penalties shouldn’t worry yous as well as amongst the assist of the early distant hacking points, at nowadays yous tin hand for distant lands. You only take away to live patient again. Patiently create a bunch of sanctuaries on your adjacent target as well as declare war.
With the high bandwidth capabilities, yous tin at nowadays play your ain version of Deus-ex hacking mini-game! You instruct to house lots of defensive programs to lock your opponent down. You receive got many possibilities amongst the high bandwidth, never instruct inwards move to waste.
You are going to live instruct detected eventually but that doesn’t hateful the fun stops. Your tardily game super weapons are also quite powerful too. Not only yous tin dodge incoming fires, but yous tin also spawn your Obliterators inwards different positions.
The UC is rattling strong 1 time yous make all the overstep the initial challenges but that doesn’t hateful yous are out yet! Even though you’re all manufacture accumulates inwards 1 house yous yet can’t grab the tardily game production of multiple systems.
Being patient doesn’t hateful staying idle. You receive got to hold back for your perfect fourth dimension as well as smasher at once. Archive your state of war goals as well as retreat to assemble your strength 1 time again. I’ll live inwards to a greater extent than special well-nigh all of these inwards the adjacent topics.
Choir Economy as well as Espionage Theory
Because of the nature of the UC, I believe both topics are intertwined amongst each other. You mustn’t approach hacking the same way other factions do. Hacking isn’t merely some cool tricks for UC. It’s their economy! So, let’s delve in.
FIDSI
Initial challenges for the UC economic scheme are Science, Production, as well as Food. Having 1 organization way 1 edifice type as well as that way less upkeep to worry about. Also, yous won’t take away whatever ships to protect yourself which nosotros established already.
What yous constantly take away is increasing your food. Food is the superlative priority inwards every stages of the game as well as the way yous assemble is express too. Always utilisation your hacking for expanding or connecting amongst a special node via Transmigration Beacon. Adding that +50 IDSI is a quite large bargain inwards the early stages.
Now the of import role well-nigh the UC economic scheme is that the buildings which give bonus FIDSI for each population are non working for the population exterior of your system. So, what yous should ever live seeking to create buildings which give a bonus to planets or planet types. That’s why yous should ever focus your hacking on expansion.
From early to mid game, when picking your tech, yous are going to juggle amongst industry, science, nutrient as well as the colonization. There are iii major factors are going to interfere amongst that decision. Starting location, special nodes around yous as well as colonization.
Don’t worry well-nigh colonizing to modest planet sized systems. If yous think yous colonized to a bad house merely don’t mail your population at that topographic point but utilisation it equally a backdoor for other expansions. It’s wise to mail your populations to your expert sanctuaries where your opponent has potential to colonize. Because ultimately yous gonna take away to transform your populations into your super population: Umbral Shadow.
If yous think yous are getting unlucky well-nigh non beingness able to check your sanctuaries amongst your neighbor’s colonization. What yous tin also try, hacking your vecino as well as travail to alter their politics to ecology. With luck, at nowadays yous tin manipulate the AI having costless colonization, important yous volition instruct meliorate results of sanctuary places.
You won’t take away to expand your abode organization at showtime but equally yous abduct your sleepers, yous take away infinite inwards your abode base of operations for transforming your regular pops to super pops. Ultimately your economical goal is to max out your spots amongst super pops. After yous think yous receive got plenty population inwards your abode organization yous tin at nowadays focus on getting to a greater extent than population-based buildings.
About the special nodes; of course, the meliorate ones are the 1 gives yous directly +50 ISDI as well as yous should only pass bandwidth for those but that doesn’t hateful others are also of import equally yous progress through the game.
Resource gathering as well as Behemoths
Behemoths are an essential role of the UC economy. Since yous receive got to a greater extent than access to to a greater extent than special nodes as well as having auto cloaked Behemoths, It volition live foolish non to play around amongst them.
At first, yous should instruct the scientific behemoths first. Lowering scientific discipline terms should live to a greater extent than useful for yous to increment your hacking capabilities fifty-fifty further. Your 2d or 3rd pick should an economical Behemoth.
Your resources gathering capabilities are slightly express for the UC but that doesn’t hateful your options are too. At early stages establishing fast colonies could live the start of something but the shortly equally your opponents start kicking yous out or stopping your hacking amongst defensive programs yous are going to experience pressure. That pressure level increases equally yous realized the only way to increment your luxury resources gathering is yesteryear laws. Therefore it’s possible to force for a mining Behemoth but that would live a waste product for luxury resources until yous receive got entered late-game luxry resources.
You see, the argue to instruct to a greater extent than resources are non of import for the UC; your organization upgrades terms a lot as well as yous only instruct to make one! So, yous tin skip the whole luxury resources mini-game for one-half of the game as well as focus on strategic resources.
Due to the high terms for organization evolution building, it’s possible to hold back patiently for the higher tier luxury resources (e.g. Endless Foundries) which gives to a greater extent than % based bonus as well as assemble it as well as spent it on your showtime organization evolution level; The lastly stage of organization evolution terms 250*3 resources! Since exploration is a natural fit for the UC yous wouldn’t live missing much yesteryear rushing this.
Best way to assemble resources for UC is via behemoths. In early turns where special nodes giving population-based bonuses (e.g. neutron star) were bad but at nowadays they receive got a utilisation inwards your empire. Mid-Late game strategic resources are best to collect from special nodes.
Hacking as well as Umbral Shadow
Once an early game annoyance pirates instruct your friend inwards the tardily game. After yous finished expanding lots of special nodes as well as infiltrated your desired locations. Now yous tin gain an extreme amount of resources yesteryear hacking pirate droids. They give random resources but if yous receive got unlocked much higher tier curiosities this functioning becomes much to a greater extent than important.
Trying to maintain expert relations amongst the nestling nations as well as doubling their income via hacking is a possibility but it’s non that lucrative plenty to waste product thus many turns on hacking perchance inwards fourth dimension if this pick gets buffed I’ll allow yous know; correct at nowadays if anyone tin assimilate them as well as all your function could move to waste.
Of course, your ultimate goal is to pursuit for umbral shadow populations as well as at that topographic point are 2 ways of getting it. One is hacking as well as abducting amongst the terms of 2 sleepers the other is conquering a organization as well as abduct them amongst the terms of 1.
Also, their nutrient consumption is higher thus rushing for super popular isn’t a expert strategy inwards the long game; yous volition deadening your process. To boom your economic scheme yous receive got to receive got a substantial amount of nutrient production inwards guild to maintain umbral shadow as well as maintain growing steadily at the same time. Since yous receive got only 1 population boosting them amongst the luxury resources is the most of import thing to assist them.
Sleeper leaching is a newly introduced thing which UC has the capacity of beingness the best at it but focusing that early is a high-risk depression payoff province of affairs where yous tin wound your growing. Your opponents volition grapple yous but if yous hold back for plenty to sustain multiple sleepers per plough thus yous should start leaching.
I would also suggest only starting leaching during late-game or state of war times. You tin only wound their economic scheme really bad when they are trying to upkeep multiple fleets as well as tardily game is where people start making existent money.
War Philosophy
Manpower
UC’s manpower issues tin only cease after a long menstruation of time. Because of expansion as well as nutrient consumption, the UC isn’t best to suit for the world battles or boarding pods. They tin barely create total their ain ships. This province of affairs volition only instruct meliorate inwards the tardily or super-late game. You tin essay to obtain from trading or nestling factions special grants but it volition live a waste product really as well as yous shouldn’t force a difficult thing.
Having said all that yous yet receive got the best options when it comes to conquering systems. That is sieging! Since yous tin institute sanctuaries within your opponent base of operations as well as yous tin utilisation whatever of your sanctuaries to spawn ships. Yes, yous guessed it right! After yous won your infinite battles yous tin fully dedicate 1 of your ship designs to besiege them inwards few turns without spending unmarried manpower. It’s utmost of import for UC to pass the to the lowest degree amount of manpower inwards battles.
Since these siege ships are going to live bad inwards displace yous should consider redesigning them giving it displace speed as well as alter it back.
The best role well-nigh the UC is yous tin alter your ship designs at whatever of your sanctuaries. That way yous tin merely modify for each battle or situation. Scouting won’t live a employment for a hacking master copy similar UC but live certain to pay attending to others as well as make a few to a greater extent than clicks inwards guild to win.
War Goals
You are hidden but yous instruct to receive got only 1 system. That way yous can’t principle your opponent’s wonderful systems. Besides the commons razing as well as looting yous instruct to make 1 thing which other factions tin not. Abducting all of the sleeper population inwards a unmarried turn!
This is your 1 as well as the only 1 that thing goal inwards the game. Yes, yous tin abduct amongst the terms of 2 sleepers but non only that is costly it’s a deadening as well as risky process. Not only yous are notifying that yous are nowadays as well as targeting your opponent. You are also putting your self inwards danger as well as slowing your expansion yesteryear busying your hacking operations.
Therefore yous receive got to programme your target many turns before inwards guild to receive got a expert amount of sleepers. Ideally, large systems are a expert way to go. It’s also of import for your target to non know yous are targeting there. If yous readied your sleepers before yous attack, yous volition notify your opponent yesteryear leaching its resources.
So the most optimal approach is to create your population inwards sanctuaries cease complete defenses yesteryear sieging as well as before yous smasher the concluding blow as well as invade yous brand certain yous receive got plenty sleepers at there. When yous conquest at nowadays yous tin abduct all that sleepers as well as your population inwards the abode base of operations to super pop. Just brand certain yous receive got plenty population to plough otherwise it’s waste. After yous receive got every possible population or filled upwards your coffers yous tin start razing to cease the war.
Ships as well as Tactics
Say yous receive got maxed out your organization amongst super popular (umbral shadow) thus your only state of war goal is to destroy really. But yous instruct to that house inwards patience. Always scream upwards to receive got multiple sanctuaries inwards enemy territory before yous attack. With expert production line, yous tin spawn 3-7 ships inwards 1 plough depending on the size.
The UC has to convey the grapple to enemies territory otherwise it’s besides weak to protect it’s own. With the constant barrage of ships, yous receive got to brand your opponents yield. Repairing as well as upgrading is your best offensive tool.
Spending dust on repairing shouldn’t live considered equally a waste product since yous tin reinforce the balance of the spots amongst sanctuaries. UC ships are mediocre at best. In guild to compete, yous gonna receive got to inquiry additional slots. Because of the high amount of back upwards modules, they are expert at siege (as I said earlier). You receive got to utilisation lots of massive assail tactics as well as maintain fighting over as well as over each turn.
UC ships are mediocre at best. So, inwards guild to compete, yous ever receive got to unlock additional slots. They are expert at ambushing strategies or siege. Due to manpower issues, your fleets are going instruct weaken, yous tin utilisation some different battle tactics (e.g. Lifepods Away) inwards guild to receive got some command over it. Since yous volition explore amongst your generals though yous volition receive got meliorate generals than most of the factions.
Ambushing is a peachy tool for yous to dictate your tactics. Since your ships are auto cloaked as well as yous tin spare additional back upwards modules yous should utilisation your battle cards right. It has changed quite a lot as well as amongst expert scouting, yous tin at nowadays to a greater extent than persuasion on what to expect. Changing your ship spawn location each fourth dimension inwards guild to ambush the provide lines for your opponent is highly annoying. After yous pressured 1 house really difficult yous tin widen the state of war yesteryear attacking different places.
Just imagine spawning a nitty-gritty cracker inwards 1 of the opponent’s citadel system. Sanctuaries are 1 of your best offense.
Political Situation as well as Hero Management
UC is inwards a bad political situation. Your population creates a huge amount of pacifists as well as their collection bonus isn’t helping the situation. Also, both of the UC population has the same political traits as well as since UC doesn’t receive got whatever population management therefor trying to micromanaging populations to effecting political clime is out of the question.
So, your only enterprise pick is to alter your authorities where yous receive got to a greater extent than command over your laws. Starting inwards a democratic authorities is really rattling useless for the UC but inwards afterwards stages where yous receive got multiple high-level heroes amongst senate bonuses unlocked…yes, thus going for democratic is really useful.
At first, glance maintaining scientific discipline tin live expert constabulary because of the lowering organization improvements but laws from manufacture (+30 nutrient inwards sanctuaries) or ecology (tech-free colonization) are quite expert for expanding your empire.
Since amongst the population as well as authorities type yous have, it’s almost impossible to alter freely. Changing your authorities type to dictatorship is really tin live lifesaving. So, connecting +50 influence special nodes could live a expert solution for your influence problems.
Federations are an absolute no-no for the UC since yous only receive got 1 system. After yous think yous expanded plenty as well as well. Changing to a democracy is a expert idea. Their bonus is expert as well as they receive got 2 slots of representation as well as yous yet instruct to manipulate the elections.
UC hero gameplay is limited. However, yous tin yet squeeze some strategies to gain expert admirals. Because of the expert scouting as well as exploring potential. You tin position your other heroes inwards scouting ships for exploring higher tier curiosities as well as since its expert for UC to skip some of the luxury resources inwards guild to upgrade cheaply amongst higher tier luxury resources, yous tin receive got a expert synergy amongst your overall UC strategy.
It volition live relatively condom amongst exploring inwards cloaked ships. UC has the potential of having high-level admirals amongst this strategy but yous tin ever sell your heroes to marketplace If they genuinely receive got no room to grow.
Their ain race is suited perfectly for the governor where yous tin increment fifty-fifty farther your hacking capabilities. Their admirals only receive got 1 expert science as well as that is the %20 dodging which isn’t something to live overlooked at too. You should ever expression for a expert fighter though.
Diplomatic Relations
Diplomatically the UC receive got few options to consider. Their human relationship amongst the pirates is complicated. During the initial stage of the game, they are really going to bother amongst hacking or blocking your way but this is an only a modest hickup. Unless they are on a superb organization or multiple pirates blocking, yous shouldn’t destroy them because after yous increased your hacking capabilities having expert relations are rattling beneficial for you.
Since the UC are non expert at gaining luxury resources it is a expert way for them to maintain hacking their droids for random loot as well as equally yous unlock to a greater extent than high tier resources yous tin fifty-fifty instruct those. It’s similar a loot box but during tardily game dedicating multiple hacking operations for this is a quite lucrative business. You mightiness fifty-fifty wishing to ally yourself amongst the pirates thus that, they volition bother mortal else amongst hacking as well as attacking. Even protect them amongst your ain fleet if anybody wants to destroy them. Why would yous kill the goose lays golden eggs?
The UC tin attain high influence easily yesteryear having the connector amongst the special nodes as well as yous should consider purging nestling factions without bloodshed because of the manpower reasons. Even rattling distant ones are an ok target for you. The purging terms volition increment thus after yous purged the ones yous liked yous should purge merely to prevents others having other perks because at the tardily game yous volition receive got lots of influence stacked upwards as well as nada to pass it on.
Because the UC needs to plough their sleepers into super populations, it has to declare state of war to 1 of its neighbors at some indicate inwards the mid-game. So yous must maintain your hidden condition until yous attack. Since the UC is bad at trading, having merchandise deals won’t make that good. You tin also essay to brand deals amongst others for manpower or other luxury resources since both of yous rattling much inwards take away of. Science deals are a mediocre thing for yous due to possible high scientific discipline income. Maybe bring together inwards an alliance merely to focus others but inwards reality, they play similar a exclusively wolf.
Playing Against Umbral Choir
Fighting amongst an invisible forcefulness isn’t piece of cake but 1 time UC becomes opaque yous tin encounter how delicate it really is. Of course, the detection is your best tool for this job. Pressuring UC into investing military machine tech making them deadening down.
They are rattling expert at edifice wonders. You if yous tardily on edifice 1 yous mightiness equally good quit but if yous care to squeeze mid-game wonders it volition definetly disrupt them.
Your only way to approach hacking against UC is the counter-hacking. That way yous receive got to pass your bandwidth to many defensive programs as well as draw the source. Shutting downwards a uncomplicated hacking won’t make yous whatever expert since their hacking criminal offense is high. Simply focus on researching to a greater extent than defensive programs as well as essay to draw them. If yous are lucky yous tin drive blackout inwards their organization as well as really wound them.
Regular check-ups for turning sleepers are quite an piece of cake way to dispose of them yous merely brand certain yous receive got plenty happiness. Before the war, yous receive got to brand certain where their sanctuaries are. Destroy them or at to the lowest degree laid upwards for them. Since their defenses are rattling weak yous tin force for a fast invasion.
Obliterating systems where yous are non nowadays could receive got the potential to disturb their momentum. Their ships receive got a depression number of weapon systems as well as their manpower is ever a employment for them. Dedicating a few ship types merely to throw some EMP or swarm missiles are maintainable against battling amongst them. Of course, boarding pods are rattling expert against their lower amount of manpower ships. Also, brand certain that yous never out of decloaking tools.
When dealing amongst UC yous receive got to approach it similar yous dealing amongst a snake: yesteryear going to head. If yous won’t pressure level their organization difficult enough. They’ll maintain sending yous fleets to your systems. Even though yous tin perchance make to a greater extent than ships comparison them, it volition receive got a spell for yous to assemble all of your ships inwards 1 house (except Vaulters of course). Pressuring them is a difficult blow to their economic scheme equally good fifty-fifty if they successfully escape to other special nodes. Their other connector to special nodes volition destroy.
You receive got to increment your siege duration but fifty-fifty if they penetrate your defenses faster than yous gathering upwards forces as well as addressing the situation. You must receive got a citadel on your best organization inwards guild them to non onslaught easily fifty-fifty if they penetrated the showtime line of defenses. You receive got to defeat them inwards the world battle. If they are stacking inwards 1 house rattling hard. Always scream upwards that yous tin ion moving ridge their asses.
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