Disabling Expansion Content

[RabbePompano]

Me and my friends want to play only certain expansions or base game depending on our moods. How can this be done?

[Piglet]

Right-click on the game in your Steam Library - choose Properties, then click on DLC tab and untick whatever you don't want.

And I don't blame you - some of the later expansions turned the game into a bit of a mess in my opinion.

[Rin]

You can disable content ingame as well.

[gman1647]

Originally posted by ForthRight:

Right-click on the game in your Steam Library - choose Properties, then click on DLC tab and untick whatever you don't want.

And I don't blame you - some of the later expansions turned the game into a bit of a mess in my opinion.

I don't have any of the DLC yet. I'm planning on acquiring them at the next sale. What are your suggestions for what to avoid?

[Piglet]

Originally posted by gman1647:

Originally posted by ForthRight:

Right-click on the game in your Steam Library - choose Properties, then click on DLC tab and untick whatever you don't want.

And I don't blame you - some of the later expansions turned the game into a bit of a mess in my opinion.

I don't have any of the DLC yet. I'm planning on acquiring them at the next sale. What are your suggestions for what to avoid?

Each person will have differing opinions on this, but personally I didn't like the Shifters expansion due to the pearls mechanic (where you go around collecting pearls in winter) - it just felt very gimmicky to me and almost like busy work, but I felt like I had to do it for the possible bonuses I could get from them.

Inferno added the dust eclipses (framerate killers) and the fire/volcanic terrain faction, and Symbiosis added some awful new giant units which felt completely unbalanced. Both of these expansions were outsourced to another developer and in my opinion it shows - I don't like either of them.

I like most of the other expansions,

Guardians added some nice wonder style buildings and the actual Guardian units, I really like those.

Shadows added the stealthy faction and spying which I actually really enjoy how they implemented in this game (although I know some people weren't as happy with it).

And finally Tempest improved the ocean areas of the map, added some weather mechanics and also a new faction.

All the other mini DLC's are worth having as they just add new quests and basic content - you can't go wrong with those.

I'm sure some people will feel differently but for me some of the Endless Legend expansions actually made the game worse, which is quite a rare thing in the 4x genre, and quite sad that it happened this way. They probably should have stopped after Shifters - I wasn't a massive fan of that one but I can appreciate what they were trying, and the winter faction is pretty cool. That's the last expansion Amplitude actually developed themselves.

[gman1647]

Originally posted by ForthRight:

Originally posted by gman1647:

I don't have any of the DLC yet. I'm planning on acquiring them at the next sale. What are your suggestions for what to avoid?

Each person will have differing opinions on this, but personally I didn't like the Shifters expansion due to the pearls mechanic (where you go around collecting pearls in winter) - it just felt very gimmicky to me and almost like busy work, but I felt like I had to do it for the possible bonuses I could get from them.

Inferno added the dust eclipses (framerate killers) and the fire/volcanic terrain faction, and Symbiosis added some awful new giant units which felt completely unbalanced. Both of these expansions were outsourced to another developer and in my opinion it shows - I don't like either of them.

I like most of the other expansions,

Guardians added some nice wonder style buildings and the actual Guardian units, I really like those.

Shadows added the stealthy faction and spying which I actually really enjoy how they implemented in this game (although I know some people weren't as happy with it).

And finally Tempest improved the ocean areas of the map, added some weather mechanics and also a new faction.

All the other mini DLC's are worth having as they just add new quests and basic content - you can't go wrong with those.

I'm sure some people will feel differently but for me some of the Endless Legend expansions actually made the game worse, which is quite a rare thing in the 4x genre, and quite sad that it happened this way. They probably should have stopped after Shifters - I wasn't a massive fan of that one but I can appreciate what they were trying, and the winter faction is pretty cool. That's the last expansion Amplitude actually developed themselves.

Super helpful. Thank you. I'm really enjoying this game at the moment. It is beautiful. Looking forward to picking some of these up. I'm tempted to just buy it, but I know they'll have an 80% off sale at some point.

[Piglet]

No problem.

Yes they'll probably be at least 75% off in the Winter sale. I'm surprised the game isn't on sale during Halloween as plenty of other non-horror games are.

[TheDaZ]

After you launch the game, click on content. That let you choose which expansion/addon you want to run.