Lone Echo 2 has arrived - get it here: www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1711938725528735/?locale=en_US Trailer: - but I'm not going to watch it myself - often trailers spoil too much 😇 Some shots:

darkgio6 Maybe try it again with auto res (adaptive res) off and VRS on. Not sure but I think VRS may actually help reduce load a bit based on its description. Also avoid adding any AA (-none). Also, what SS are you using and are you also using OTT to apply this. I use OTT to mainly manage audio and turn on/off ovr runtime services. I leave it's global SS at 0, asw=off, and also set ovr priority to above normal (does not seem to make much difference normal-high tbh). I also use OTT to finetune some games/sims. Probably going to remain a mystery for some I guess. Too bad, really. Edit; saw one person solved bug splats was to go into bios and disable ram XMP. Just thought I’d mention this.

The game is out - just got it 😃 REVIEWS Windows Central - 100% (5/5):"Lone Echo II is 2021's Half-Life: Alyx in just about every way. It's a singleplayer experience that's simply unmatched in its scope, from the story to the environments, the puzzles, and the way you control your character. It's a game that wouldn't make sense without a VR headset and, because of that, it sits alongside the list of must-play titles."https://www.windowscentral.com/lone-echo-2-review RoadToVR says 4/5 - or 7.5/10:https://www.roadtovr.com/lone-echo-2-review-oculus-rift-quest/ Shacknews 8/10:https://www.shacknews.com/article/127071/lone-echo-2-review-continuing-conundrums-of-space-time UploadVR - 3/5:https://uploadvr.com/lone-echo-2-review/

TomCgcmfc wrote:darkgio6 I've only had a couple of LE2 crashes/bug splats (which I reported) with my Q2/rtx3090/Air Link combo. I'm using High settings (I would think your 2080ti should be ok with high as well) and I simply disabled the in-game graphics setting to disable auto-res scaling (scroll down to see this) and I have not had a LE2 crash since. Also, I've left the in-game SS at 1.0x since my Q2 at Oculus Desktop device graphics at 80Hz and full right res slider already looks fantastic. Looks much better than my old Rift cv1 ever did with LE1 at 2.0xSS. I also disabled auto-res scaling on LE1 btw.Thanks. I'm trying disabling auto-res scaling right now.

XMP has been mentioned several times, and it would make sense that although gpu and cpu overclocking are the usual suspects, Lone Echo 1-2's problem may lie elsewhere. I've also been reading all LE2 reviews in the Store, and clearly technical issues are the cause for the rather low rating of about 8/10 - while the first game is 9.4/10. Many also have severe crashing problems with LE1, but LE2 also suffers from problems loading textures which LE1 did not. I think the devs were kinda forced to release the game now, surely it would have benefited from a playable demo to iron out the rough spots before the full release. Having spent much time reading about crashing problems with Lone Echo it feels like old problems are carried over to the Lone Echo 2, and now are even worse. The devs seem to concentrate on users' rig being the problem, but I don't think that's true. I'm not going to try turning off XMP - my rig works flawlessly with all other games - and last night I did play LE2 for more than an hour with no problems. I do hope that Oculus/Facebook provides RAD with sufficient resources to follow up on the complaints and to patch the game - with so much feedback I do hope something will emerge... Also strange with no patch so far - with a game this size, errors will be many. Medal of Honor had many patches delivered in no time, but I hope RAD is spending the time gathering info to make one high-quality patch instead of many small ones... Btw, for what it's worth most of the time I'm getting crashes seems to be when new dialogs are starting - like when loading/playing voices. It's totally impressive that I can enter and exit the Argos with no visible loading at all. But surely the game is constantly loading assets and textures, and Lone Echo 2 may be more than many rigs are able to handle. I do wonder if the crashes are the price some of us are paying to avoid tons of loading screens.... 🤔 Alyx has way more loading screens and no texture problems that I know of. Furthermore, Lone Echo 2 is only 21GB, while Alyx is 65GB, but LE2 seems to have a great number of high-res textures too. Thus LE2 may use highly compressed data which needs to be decompressed while the game is running - this may take up much cpu power, and could of course put a burden on ram too - where even the slightest XMP problem could be a major issue. But I'm just guessing.

Well guys, I disabled XMP in the BIOS, set all to max, and it worked for about 1 hour without a crash. What was weird is that when I disabled it, the first boot crashed. Got back to the BIOS and set all to default ("optimal settings" is what they call it) and it worked. The settings change list in the BIOS, before rebooting, didn't show anything (because XMP was the only thing that I've turned on) but somehow it worked. Maybe there was a feature bugged in the BIOS settings that requiered a proper roll back to default settings to work properly. Anyways, you saved me. Thank you very much

Lone Echo II has arrived in the Rift Store - trailers, reviews and impressions

161 Replies

Anonymous
4 years ago
Interesting they advertise Rift S and Quest at the end.
kojack
MVP
4 years ago
About to release some time within the next 24 hours. Yay!

My CV1 is ready.
- RuneSR2
  Grand Champion
  4 years ago
  Same here - unless it can regain life in other forms 😎
  
  That said - if the trailer experience still represents the game, then this is a game made for oled hmds. The TAA blur in the trailer was beyond massive, but image quality is perfect and totally sharp with the CV1. At least 50% of the game's time in development was done when oled hmds ruled the Oculus world.
RuneSR2
Grand Champion
4 years ago
My old review of the Lone Echo 2 trailer experience - man, was that really 3 years ago 🤔 😮

Well, maybe not a bad idea waiting 3 years - now I believe my rig is ready for Olivia!
pyroth309
Visionary
4 years ago
Seems odd that there's no advertisement for the game still. Can't even find it on Oculus experience page by searching Lone Echo. I just Dug up this page from search engines www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1711938725528735/?locale=en_US

But can only wishlist it. Some red flags. Seems like a very quiet release considering the impact the first one had.

Not only that but if you go to Ready at Dawn's site, there's no mention of Lone Echo 2... Seems like it's being swept under the rug.
- RuneSR2
  Grand Champion
  4 years ago
  Agreed, this may not exactly be a Quest promoting game, although Quest owners can just use Link.
  
  Btw, 21GB and GTX 1080 for recommended do seem much like the old game - but that one is still one of the most demanding VR games when you start to increase res 🙂
  
  Tried to freshen up some screenshots:
  
  Screenshots also look somewhat dull - if you'd really want to sell the game, you'd want close-ups of Olivia and some great textures...
RuneSR2
Grand Champion
4 years ago
Just read that 10 - 10:30 AM PT should be the launch time. Thus in 30 - 60 minutes.

Also I stand corrected - a GTX 980 was recommended for Lone Echo, and a GTX 1080 as recommend gpu for Lone Echo 2 indicates much higher system requirements. Asgard's Wrath and Stormland also had GTX 1080 as recommended gpu - Medal of Honor had a RTX 2080 (and Alyx a GTX 1060).
RuneSR2
Grand Champion
4 years ago
The game is out - just got it 😃

REVIEWS

Windows Central - 100% (5/5):
"Lone Echo II is 2021's Half-Life: Alyx in just about every way. It's a singleplayer experience that's simply unmatched in its scope, from the story to the environments, the puzzles, and the way you control your character. It's a game that wouldn't make sense without a VR headset and, because of that, it sits alongside the list of must-play titles."
https://www.windowscentral.com/lone-echo-2-review

RoadToVR says 4/5 - or 7.5/10:
https://www.roadtovr.com/lone-echo-2-review-oculus-rift-quest/

Shacknews 8/10:
https://www.shacknews.com/article/127071/lone-echo-2-review-continuing-conundrums-of-space-time

UploadVR - 3/5:
https://uploadvr.com/lone-echo-2-review/
RuneSR2
Grand Champion
4 years ago
Oasis wasn't exactly negative, lol
nalex66
MVP
4 years ago
Just checked the store at the end of my lunch break, saw that the game was available, and made my purchase. Looking forward to checking it out tonight!
KNP54
Heroic Explorer
4 years ago
humm it's downloading at something like 1MB/s.... I have a 1 gigabit connection.......
- RuneSR2
  Grand Champion
  4 years ago
  It is going a bit slow, but still getting like 10MB/s.
RuneSR2
Grand Champion
4 years ago
Anonymous and others. There's now a bundle including Lone Echo for free when you buy Lone Echo 2.
So if some have problems running Lone Echo, at least the game is free:

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/2953440614986081

EDIT: I didn't buy the bundle as I already have Lone Echo - but it seems you automatically activate the bundle when you buy Lone Echo 2 - in the Store it says I now have the bundle.
- Anonymous
  4 years ago
  Think I will stay away from this one - Lone Echo would never run on my rig constant crashing to desktop and no support.
  Only game out of my many that has ever done that to me.
  - pyroth309
    Visionary
    4 years ago
    
    Anonymous wrote:
    Think I will stay away from this one - Lone Echo would never run on my rig constant crashing to desktop and no support.
    Only game out of my many that has ever done that to me.
    Did you ever try with the 3090 setup? I never had issues with Lone Echo on any of my 4 systems.