The most important bit of customization is known as the Gameplay Affinity. However, you're given a surprisingly large amount of leeway to customize how they play the game. The visual affinity will also replace a limited set of technologies with 'faction-specific' ones, but almost all of these are just the technologies that give you your ship designs. You are able to pick your own icon to represent the empire and pop units. It includes their population's portrait, their ship designs (both the visual look of their ships, but also the module loadout of those ships), as well. Because they take a while to set up, designs for them can be saved for future matches.Ī custom faction is not, strictly-speaking, freeform much like Amplitude has done in their earlier title, Endless Legend, you will still be locked into one of the pre-existing faction's appearance and more importantly, their active story-quest that you progress through in the game. They can be created and managed at the same start-game screen where you'd normally select a built-in faction. A custom faction in Endless Space 2 allows you to play a match as a race/faction/empire of (partly) your own design.
