Lone Echo II added new tools, more complex puzzles, and new enemies for players to avoid. For Lone Echo II, Ready at Dawn focused on expanding the game world and building upon the game mechanics of Lone Echo. The Lone Echo II: Trailer Experience was a VR Awards Finalist for VR Marketing of the Year.
The game was announced at Oculus Connect 5 with the release of a six minute VR trailer experience. Liv and Jack must solve the mystery of this future space station if they want to find their way home. They uncover that the biomass they encountered in Lone Echo has evolved into a mobile form called "ticks" that are attracted to energy sources. They discover they are aboard a mysterious space station that seems to be abandoned. The game differs from Lone Echo in that there are enemies which the player has to avoid and distract.Īfter the events of Lone Echo, Captain Olivia "Liv" Rhodes and Echo One "Jack", the player controlled android, find themselves 400 years in the future. Players have access to a variety of tools including the scanning and cutting tools from Lone Echo. The gameplay is based around puzzle-solving through interaction with objects in the game world, such as cranes, doors, socketing items, holographic maps, etc.
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Players are equipped with wrist thrusters and an EVA booster that gives them full mobility in the zero gravity environment. Lone Echo II features similar gameplay to its predecessor, revolving around zero gravity locomotion, with the player grabbing and pushing off various objects in the environment. Resident Evil 4 is coming exclusively to Quest 2 later this year and Facebook is also funding Splinter Cell and Assassin’s Creed VR games from Ubisoft.Lone Echo II is a 2021 virtual reality adventure game which serves as the sequel to 2017's Lone Echo, both developed by Ready at Dawn and published by Oculus Studios. The company also bought Onward developer Downpour Interactive and Ready At Dawn, the studio behind Lone Echo II as well as one of VR’s best team-based sports Echo VR. Respawn Entertainment was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2017 and, at the end of 2020, dropped its Facebook-funded title Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond onto Steam alongside the Oculus store for Rift.įacebook so far has acquired five VR game development studios starting with Beat Games (the developers behind Beat Saber) in 2019 and, most recently, POPULATION: ONE battle royale devs BigBox VR in June this year. 2019’s graphical powerhouse Asgard’s Wrath from Sanzaru Games was the studio’s last title before Facebook acquired it in 2020 while Sony bought Insomniac Games, the makers of 2019 Rift-exclusive shooter Stormland. You can take a tour down memory lane with David Heaney’s 2019 list memorializing most of the Rift exclusive titles Facebook funded for the platform. Another 18 percent and 5 percent of SteamVR users connect with Rift S and Rift, respectively.
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The company still supports PC VR via the wired Oculus Link and wireless Air Link with nearly 1/3 of SteamVR users connecting to Valve’s Steam store from Quest 2 to play games on that platform.
We’ve known it was coming for quite a long time with Facebook ending sales of Rift S, the cancelling of future PC VR-only headsets, the transfer of the Medium sculpting app development team to Adobe, the lack of updates or newly announced titles for Rift S, and the continuing focus on standalone VR with Quest 2.įacebook officially confirmed to UploadVR this week “we don’t currently plan to make additional Rift exclusive titles.” The release of Lone Echo II for the Oculus Rift platform on August 24th will mark the end of an era as the last exclusive project funded by Facebook for its PC VR platform.
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