Generally you need to play a technique sport, however you don’t need to need to assume a lot about what you’re doing. You simply need to conquer. You simply need to dominate. You simply need to eat — and that’s the place Limitless Legend 2’s Necrophage come into play.
They’re your typical swarm faction, just like the Zerg in StarCraft or the Tyranids in Warhammer 40,000. They don’t seem to be evil, they’re merely hungry and the world is an all-you-can-eat buffet. Amplitude doesn’t even hassle you with founding colonies. The Necrophage want solely a sole capital metropolis as the middle of their empire, although they will declare different territories by constructing a Burrow and upgrading it right into a Nest. However these should not totally practical cities. They’re merely outposts — gateways to your endless hordes.
Limitless Legend 2’s in depth narrative system typically sends you on a worldspanning chase for NPC armies or particular places, which could be fairly annoying in case your important military at present is totally out of place. However the Necrophage don’t care about positioning — Burrows and Nests anchor a worldwide underground tunnel community, enabling Necrophage armies to cross half the globe in a single flip. For those who focus your efforts into increase this community as you discover, you’ll be capable of react to any threats or quests very quickly in any respect. It’s excellent to use strain on enemies as properly, since your reinforcements are by no means far-off.
Velocity. Relentlessness. These are already two nice qualities of swam factions we will put a checkmark behind. And there’s extra so as to add, as a result of the best way the swarm beneficial properties items is actually thematic. For those who defeat enemy armies in battle, you mechanically spawn Larva close by. These are essentially the most primary Necrophage items and could be advanced into stronger items by feeding them corpses. The extra you combat, the extra your military grows. Must sacrifice some Larvae in a battle to maintain the momentum going? No worries, they’ll get replaced instantly.
This mechanic actually captures one other core facet of a superb swarm faction: It feels such as you’re an unstoppable drive that grows on the expense of the enemy, each in amount and in high quality.
While you conquer a metropolis with the Necrophage, you don’t get the choice of turning it into your colony. As a substitute, you may both eat among the inhabitants in the interim (the unstated intent being that you simply’ll be again for dessert later) or devour all, together with town’s strategic assets. Together with your armies additionally with the ability to harvest the terrain they traverse, you actually really feel like a menace on a world-ending scale, leaving nothing else behind you than barren soil.
Who cares in regards to the finer factors of Limitless Legend 2’s improved diplomacy system when you can simply begin snacking away? In any case, you wouldn’t waste time by speaking to your meal, and for the Necrophage every part is edible. It helps that fight feels loads higher than in my final hands-on with the sport, since preventing is what you’ll be doing because the swarm more often than not — however I nonetheless dislike the fight UI with unit playing cards and skills being within the high left. It’s really easy to overlook stuff.
That stated, the Necrophage don’t mesh very properly with some facets of the sport’s hero system, like with the ability to assign buddies and companions to characters. Are they actually able to such sentiments and relationships? Renaming these relationships for taste causes could be a quite simple repair.
Regardless, Amplitude has hit the mark with this faction — the Necrophage are an expertly crafted swarm energy fantasy. Getting hungry? The newest Limitless Legend 2 demo will go dwell on Steam on August 11, 2025, permitting you to strive them out your self.
