The dev team behind The Order: 1886 and Lone Echo: Ready At Dawn got someone behind it.

Oculus, owned by Facebook, announced that Ready at Dawn, after working on several titles together with Oculus Studios for Oculus platforms, is joining the team, while continuing work on Lone Echo II. They have future titles planned, but they can’t announce them yet.

„[…] Ready At Dawn is a veteran game developer, having shipped games to multiple platforms in the past, and a virtual reality pioneer. They’ve created four games for the Oculus platform since 2017, including Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat, and Lone Echo II (currently in development), all of which feature Ready At Dawn’s signature zero-g continuous locomotion system and full-body IK (inverse kinematics). With Facebook’s latest advancements in virtual reality technology, Ready At Dawn can readily explore a future of rich and immersive original virtual reality content.

[…] As with any development studio, the people that comprise it are integral to its success, and that’s no different for Ready At Dawn. The tight-knit community at the studio and their focus, in turn, on cultivating passionately engaged gaming communities are aspects of the company we admire and intend to maintain. They will continue to build amazing game experiences as an independent studio operating out of their current offices in Irvine, CA, and Portland, OR, with the full support of Facebook and the Oculus Studios team behind them.

[…] We’re extremely pleased with Echo VR’s success on Quest, and Ready At Dawn will continue to support and iterate on that franchise. Ready At Dawn has exciting plans for future games, and we hope to bring those experiences to as many people as possible, but we’re not ready to share details at this time. […] We can confirm that the entire Ready At Dawn team will be joining the Oculus Studios team,” their Q&A says,

Now, its last question („Do you plan to acquire other studios? What else are you doing to accelerate virtual reality?”) had a somewhat weird response: „We’re exploring many ways to accelerate virtual reality, and we have awesome and innovative plans for the next few years of gaming. We are thrilled to have Ready At Dawn join our team.” Way to dodge a direct answer.

This confirms that The Order: 1886 is NOT going to get a sequel. Ready at Dawn won’t be getting the green light for that by Facebook, as Sony is also dabbling in VR (and the PlayStation VR should be getting a new version shortly). This acquisition also likely cancelled their planned AAA title that we heard last year.

Source: Gematsu