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

J/k. Hopefully that solves it for some.

Strange, but last night I took some tours checking out different asteroids - and when checking out this Manufactoring location I suddenly got a new "Construction Site" sub-quest:

The implication of this is that if I don't check more or less everything, then I may not be able to find and do all the quests. Thus if you just stick to the main missions, there might be (many?) minor objectives you'll never know about. 

I do wonder how many such sub-quests the devs have made. Maybe they did it to ensure replayability for all those finishing the game in 6 hours - and then finding out they've missed 15 hours of minor objectives, lol. 

Btw, my camera is always ready, found a few more scenic views and some ... stuff... 

Takes quite a while finding and activating all those charge stations - and here I'm floating above the rings of Saturn

- and here I'm below the rings - it simply looks amazing in the game - just experiencing the world is a great way to relax in Lone Echo 2

Btw, also found an extremely old friend - maybe some of you have found it too:

Not sure if I can do anything with it though... 

There's a few but I'm pretty sure I found them all. There's one very important one that's a bit tricky to find, I will simply say make sure to explore each land mass fully.

I wondered the whole game we we couldn't reach the B habs. I wonder if it was just cut due to time/budget.

No clue tbh. I played it in so many different sessions, not sure what the total would be. 

A minor catastrophe just happened - seems I lost all my save games. After enjoying a perfect 3 hours session yesterday with no crashes, today I got the first crash after 10 minutes - and got a couple more. Thus I thought I'd move the game to my NVMe drive, and normally moving games is not a problem - I've done it many times using the Oculus app. 

Unfortunately there're no cloud saves in Lone Echo 2 - and the save games are placed on the drive where the game is installed - under Software\ready-at-dawn-lone-echo-2\_local\saves. I found out the very hard way that all saves get deleted when moving the game. Actually could not even start the game after moving it - so I moved it back to the original drive. Now the game worked again, but all my save games are gone.

So be very careful when reinstalling or moving the game - all saves will be deleted, but you can make a back-up of the save games. Normally save games would be in your local user folder, or in the cloud, I've got no idea why RAD chose their very unfortunate method - making it very cumbersome to just move the game.   

I finally got around to starting Lone Echo 2 last night. It's cool to be back in the body of Jack.

One thing that I noticed pretty quickly is that they still don't have Mission ISS style rotation control.

In Mission ISS you can rotate the player by grabbing surfaces with both hands, like would happen in real life. In LE2, you use a thumbstick. Otherwise they both work pretty similar for movement.

I haven't checked the options for an invert yet, but if you enable pitch rotation, it's not flight style (stick forward is pitch down). That throws me off, we're flying around in zero g, my reflex every time is flight style.

(For anybody that hasn't tried it (and doesn't get sick from zero g simulation), give Mission ISS a go. It's free (Rift Store) and lets you explore the International Space Station)

I took the issue about deleted save games to Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/qeoegh/be_careful_moving_lone_echo_2_to_a_new_drive/

Turns out some dude has already made a 500MB package with 20 saves throughout the game - get it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z56du6vcoi0vdyz/AABYNjjIbSgm9XgcMT_Dt98aa?dl=0

After double checking, I played the entire game on my slower gen 3 2TB NVMe with 3500 read and 3100 write. Thought I had it on my fast drive which is 7000ish to both.

Okay, where to start; first of all I was really looking forward to this game. LE 1 was one of my first experiences and full game I played till the end of it.. So excited to play the game I bought it at release, took some rare spare time and play..... and then.

• The textures don't load smoothly, just seem to pop-up after looking at it for a while ... 
• Framerate dips really bad when an Oculus Home notification pops up... no way to get back to normal performance.
• Normal performance??? This game sucks compared to LE 1... 
• Changing settings, like to medium graphics settings and then upping MSAA sometimes crashed it...
• Sometimes it 'just' crashes.
• Sometimes framerate collapses out of nowhere...

All of this is immersion-breaking... It's a shame... And, I cannot seem to do a recall in the store. Hadn't played it for an hour... but did buy the combo-package for discount alllthough I had LE 1 already. 

It's not a 'cheap' game... It's been in development for a long time... Please get it fixed so I can play this game and go on with the story!

My specs?
Ryzen 5600x 

RTX 3070

16 GB RAM 

Intel 660p 1TB and Crucial MX500 1 TB store (tried both, doesn't matter)

Absolutely unbelievable. This game has the same stupid BUGSPLAT! errors all over it the first one did. Useless message which gives no troubleshooting hints whatsoever. This time I didn't get it as a 10 dollar deal, so I'm going after a refund.