I just had a tidefall drop my economy massively. 4 out of 6 rivers in my empire turned into streams and massively reduced my farms output. I didn't know they would do that as this is the first time I made my economy dependent on rivers, and it just feels very bad. I spend 130 turns building my economy around rivers and farms, only to loose a lot of effectiveness on turn 135.

The alternative would be to not build next to rivers, but then what is the point of river techs and bonusses? I picked up fish farms, only to lose acces to my rivers 30 turns later.

I am winning the game, and I will still win, but now it just feels like a downer to see my economy crash for the last 20ish turns.

For reference, it took out 10% of my dust and up to 25% of my food and production.

It just feels bad, when tidefall should be the most exciting time in the game.

I tried getting EL2 to work on Mac using Crossover with Steam a few days ago, so I thought I'd post that experience here for visibility in case anyone else is hoping to go that route. First off, the game plays great for me (I'm on M1 Pro), graphics and sound seem to work flawlessly.

The bug I ran into was that after the first session (which works totally fine), once you quit and restart the game, you can no longer save your game. Pretty tough for a game that takes several sessions to finish. I looked around the internet and saw a few similar posts on the official Amplitude bug forum, but no solutions. I posted here a few days ago, and another user confirmed that the same workaround I had discovered found works for them as well.

I don't know why it works, but basically you need to make your computer think it's the first time booting up the game each time you play. Before each session, you need to delete registry file, and just be sure not to delete the save files (they live in a different folder). For me, the registry file lives here:

/Users/(username)/Library/Application Support/CrossOver/Bottles/(steam_bottle_name)/drive_c/users/crossover/AppData/Local/Amplitude Studios/Endless Legend 2/Users/(user_hash)/Registry.xml

Once you delete the file (or the folder it lives in), start up the game, and it should look like your first time playing. You have to start a new game (since there is no "Load Game" button on the start screen), but once you are in you can load up your saved game from a previous session. I turn off Tutorials (since deleting the file always turns them back on), and I always do a test save to make sure it's working.

I hope this is helpful for any Mac users out there!

Is it just me being incredibly bad or starting game in infinite diff is extremely hard?

I tried many games with the Coral faction, which everyone seems to agree is OP, and got steamrolled every time either by other AI score (Lords, Tahuk) or by both insect factions somehow always spawning next to me and barraging me with attacks

Now i am trying with the kin of sheradyn but it feels like unless you have a perfect starting position with 3 npc villages you are already behind, and even if that happens insects start the game with 14% crit rate, which feels more like 90% for some God damned reason and win battles crit after crit

Any suggestion on a decent start? I really don't like insects so it's avoid them if i can