0.12.1

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• Linux: hand tracking with EchoXR Hands works again. Turn it on under Mods → More mods. VR no longer fails to start with it.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.12.1-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.12.1-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.12.0

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• Linux: VR starts again with EchoXR Hands installed (hand tracking is off on Linux for now).
• Faster downloads, everywhere. Everything now comes from the CDN first (cdn.echovr.de), including the list of what's new and developers' test folders. release.echovr.de is only the fallback, and every file is still checked against its checksum.
• No long waits when the CDN can't be reached. The launcher notices within 5 seconds and takes everything straight from release.echovr.de for the next ten minutes.
• Repairing game files reads them from the CDN too, and carries on from another server when one fails.
• Test builds can go back to the test build before them, not only to the published version.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.12.0-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.12.0-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.20

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• Going back from a required mod now sticks. When you go back from a new version of a mod the game needs (such as GPU Rating), the launcher keeps the version you went back to. Before, it put the new version back at the next start.
• Go back from a test build. A mod or plugin installed from a developer's test folder can go back to the newest published version before it.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.20-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.20-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.19

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• The CDN can't hand you a wrong file any more. Downloads from cdn.echovr.de now go by each file's checksum. An address like that only ever holds that one file, so an old or half-updated copy on the CDN is impossible. release.echovr.de stays the fallback, and every file is still checked.
• Go back works for everyone. release.echovr.de now keeps every earlier version of the game update (nEVR), mods, content packs and plugins. Settings → Go back works even if you installed after the update. Press it again to go back one more version.
  • Right after an update, going back still happens instantly with the copy the launcher kept. Otherwise the version before is downloaded.
  • Content packs can go back now too.
• The Quest's game data and the SteamVR store artwork are now checked after downloading too.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.19-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.19-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.18

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• Faster downloads through our CDN. Game files, updates, mods, plugins and launcher updates now come from cdn.echovr.de first. release.echovr.de stays the fallback.
  • Every file from the CDN is checked against the checksum release.echovr.de gives. A copy that is out of date is never used: the file then comes from release.echovr.de directly.
  • If release.echovr.de can't be reached, the launcher still works from the CDN, but never goes back to an older version than the one it has.
• Go back to the version before an update. If an update breaks something, Settings → Go back puts the version you had before back. This works for each part on its own: the launcher, the game update (nEVR), a mod, a plugin.
  • Updates keep what they replace from now on, so the game update, mods and plugins go back right away, without a download.
  • The version you went back from isn't offered again until a newer one is out. Use newest gets it anyway.
  • It's also in a plugin's menu, on a mod's row and in a version's Manage menu.
  • When we pull a version with a serious problem, the launcher tells you and offers the way back, or goes back by itself.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.18-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.18-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.17

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• "Content Overlay: Failed" fixed. A mod with game data (such as EchoCombat) needs Echo VR's game files as they shipped. An older installer (EchoCombat's own install.bat, for example) could change them, and the mod then ran without its game data.
  • The launcher checks those files itself now. When they were changed, it tells you and offers Repair game files: every game file is checked and only the changed ones are downloaded again. Your settings, mods and licence patch stay.
  • It asks again at PLAY, where you can also play without that mod for now. The Mods page has the same Repair game files button.
  • Until the files are repaired, the mod stays off as a whole. No more half of it running.
  • When a mod's overlay still can't serve its data, the Mods page says why.
• Copies of Echo VR the launcher found or you added (from the Meta app, or "Add existing folder") are checked once like a new install: game files checked and repaired, the community update put in, and the copy counts as that build from then on.
• A folder only administrators may write to (the Meta app's library under Program Files): repairs, the licence patch and EchoXR go through the launcher's administrator helper. Windows asks once.
• Configs of your own are kept as .old.
  • A config.yaml you wrote yourself (or an older tool did) is renamed config.yaml.old. The Mods page and the Game server plugin's choices apply again. Local plugins you turned on stay on.
  • A config.json in _local is renamed config.json.old. nEVR's built-in config, with friends and parties, applies. "Use my own config.json" is gone from Settings: nEVR doesn't take a server from it anyway, and the Game server plugin chooses the server.
  • The launcher says once what it renamed.
• Upload logs sends nEVR's newest crash record even when newer runs followed it.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.17-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.17-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.16

Update in Settings → Update now (launcher 0.11.6 or newer), or download it below.

• A new rail with room for many plugins.
  • Play, Install, Mods, Servers and Settings sit at the top. EchoVRCE, Friends, your plugin tabs and the Plugins page follow under the COMMUNITY and PLUGINS dividers.
  • More plugin tabs than fit scroll (mouse wheel, a thin scrollbar). The ≡ button at the top left shows the tabs' names.
  • Right-click a plugin's tab to unpin it or move it up or down.
• The Plugins page is a library: every plugin as a card, yours first, then the ones you can get.
  • All / Installed / Available are the card's tabs. Every card shows its whole description.
  • Each card has Open (or Get), Update when there is one, a pin that puts its tab in the rail or takes it out, and ⋯ (or a right click) for Update, Pin, Remove and its homepage. Clicking a card opens the plugin.
  • Plugin pages can have settings and presets, for the coming Controllers plugin.
• EchoXR 0.6.0-rc1. Hands sit where the Rift's Touch controllers put them, taken from the controller's grip.
  • Throwing and pushing off on Virtual Desktop: EchoXR now turns the speeds itself. Before, they could go off in the wrong direction when you recentered.
  • EchoXR reads controller settings from EchoXR.txt: hand angle and position, deadzones, vibration and an X+Y Menu button. None of them change how hard you throw or push off.
• Logs (Mods → Logs is a menu now):
  • Plugin logs folder and nEVR log folder (nEVR's log of each start and its crash records).
  • Logging: Normal / Detailed / Quiet sets how much nEVR writes (Detailed: debug lines too, for finding a problem). A log_filter_config of your own beside echovr.exe is left alone.
  • Upload logs now sends every plugin's newest log (EchoCombat's too), not just the first few.
• Disabled buttons look disabled (grey, no hover), for example JOIN in Event lobbies before a match ID is typed. Friends has its page title.
• There may be an easter egg. uwu

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.16-beta.3

Beta. Get it in Settings → Advanced settings → Beta → Update now (launcher 0.11.9 or newer).

• The rail, from the design feedback:
  • Play, Install, Mods and Servers sit where they were, closer together.
  • EchoVRCE, Friends, the plugin tabs and the Plugins page are larger, with room between them. Long plugin names wrap when the names are shown.
  • With many plugins pinned, the tabs move up before they get closer together; more than fit still scroll.
• The Plugins page:
  • All / Installed / Available are the card's tabs, as on the Servers page; under All, your plugins and the ones to get each have a heading.
  • Every card shows its whole description; the version line wraps instead of being cut.
  • Update and Open both stay readable (one over the other when they don't fit side by side). Get has a download icon; plugins not out yet say Coming soon.
  • Clicking a card opens the plugin.
• Friends has its page title; each card says what it holds.
• Disabled buttons look disabled (grey, no hover), for example JOIN in Event lobbies before a match ID is typed.
• Logs (Mods → Logs is a menu now):
  • Plugin logs folder and nEVR log folder (nEVR's log of each start and its crash records).
  • Logging: Normal / Detailed / Quiet sets how much nEVR writes (Detailed: debug lines too, for finding a problem). A log_filter_config of your own beside echovr.exe is left alone.
  • Upload logs now sends every plugin's newest log (EchoCombat's too), not just the first few.
• There may be an easter egg. uwu

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.3-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.3-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.16-beta.2

Beta. Get it in Settings → Advanced settings → Beta → Update now (launcher 0.11.9 or newer).

• A new rail, from the design feedback:
  • Play, Install, Mods, Servers and Settings stay big. EchoVRCE, Friends, the plugin tabs and the Plugins page are smaller, with darker names, under the COMMUNITY and PLUGINS dividers.
  • More plugin tabs than fit scroll (mouse wheel, a thin scrollbar). There's no ⋯ menu any more.
  • The ≡ button that shows the tabs' names is now at the top left.
  • Right-click a plugin's tab to unpin it or move it up or down, as before.
• The Plugins page is a library: every plugin as a card, yours first, then the ones you can get.
  • All / Installed / Available pick which cards show.
  • Each card has Open (or Get), Update when there is one, a pin that puts its tab in the rail or takes it out, and ⋯ (or a right click) for Update, Pin, Remove and its homepage.
• Still in this beta: EchoXR 0.6.0-rc1 and plugin pages with settings and presets (see 0.11.16-beta.1).

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.2-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.2-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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0.11.16-beta.1

Beta. Get it in Settings → Advanced settings → Beta → Update now (launcher 0.11.9 or newer).

• The rail has room for many plugins. Before, only two plugin tabs fit and the others were left out.
  • The rail is now in three groups: the game's pages, EchoVRCE and Friends, then your plugins.
  • With more plugins the gaps get tighter. Tabs that still don't fit go under ⋯, and a taller window shows more.
  • Pin / Unpin on the Plugins page (now the puzzle piece) takes a tab off the rail or puts it back.
  • Right-click a plugin's tab to unpin it or move it up or down.
• EchoXR 0.6.0-rc1. Hands sit where the Rift's Touch controllers put them, taken from the controller's grip.
  • Throwing and pushing off on Virtual Desktop: EchoXR now turns the speeds itself. Before, they could go off in the wrong direction when you recentered.
  • EchoXR reads controller settings from EchoXR.txt: hand angle and position, deadzones, vibration and an X+Y Menu button. None of them change how hard you throw or push off.
• Plugin pages can have settings and presets. This is for the coming Controllers plugin, which sets the above with presets you can save and share as files.

Downloads:

• Windows: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.1-windows-setup.exe (installer) or -windows.zip (portable).
• Linux: Echo_VR_Launcher-0.11.16-beta.1-x86_64.AppImage, or -linux.zip / .tar.gz.

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