Into The Radius 2: An Honest Review

[@farmertrueVR]

Early Access or not, I’m having more fun playing Into The Radius 2 than any other VR release so far of 2024. I have about 25-30 hours into streaming it this far, and it’s intense and there’s something new every time. It’s my 2024 VR GOTY so far. One of the main differences between the two that not many people mention is that it uses UE5. Unreal Engine 5 is a dream come true for VR. What can be done with lighting, water, shading, fluidity, reflections and overall visuals can help transport people to the VR environment like they are there. It’s a running joke on my stream where I can’t help but to play around with the lighter or light in the backpack to see the reflections on artifacts. The little details like that are so mesmerizing. Either way, great video! First time stumbling across the channel and am always looking to support other VR content creators that are not mainstream and offer some actual substance. Hope to catch you around. Cheers!

[@wtfimcrying]

how do you have more than 20 hours in it lol? the game has like 10 hours of content at most.

[@farmertrueVR]

@@wtfimcrying I like to 'stop and smell the roses' as they say to see all the ins and outs of a game. It helps me show people the levels of detail (or lack of detail) that games have while I'm live streaming. That being said, to say the game only has 10 hours of content is wild. You'd have to be speed running through the game and skipping major parts of maps in order to even get to security level 3 in that time. I'd like to see that happen as I don't see how that would be possible unless you are blatantly trying to speed run and skip parts of the game. I have over 30 hours in single player now and still have not been to certain parts of the forest map and still have not used over half the weapons. I also have played around 4 hours of co-op and plan to start another co-op run here soon. But when a game offers the raid style of gameplay which is done properly and done well, you can return to the game and still enjoy playing it over and over again. Thankfully, I still have some stuff to do.

[@wtfimcrying]

@@farmertrueVR i mean 10 hours to finish all the main line quests. I like to “smell the roses” too. But i played the game before my pulley system, so maybe i rushed more than i thought i did. I also didnt have much time to play

[@poiuyt-yx2jt]

itr 2 must get goty

[@Tuck-Shop]

I've played Satisfactory with UEVR. UE5 is great in VR. Reflections are beautiful. A little grainy due to ray tracing method used. Did I mention that already? Ray Tracing. VR.

[@bombproofdrip0075]

I think the best way that they could increase the feeling of isolation is by having proximity chat, making separation feel even more isolating

[@Eyesack1]

I think it would be cool if mimics could learn and “mimic” you and your friends voices through vc

[@feihnbuckland7011]

I think there should be an enemy or some kind of encounter where you are separated and one player gets pulled into an alternate dimension stranger things style and has to fight a tough enemy, being replaced by a mimic if they lose, and the other player has to have a panic moment figuring out whether or not the coop partner is real

[@feihnbuckland7011]

would bring back some of that isolation creepiness and maybe even increase it as your one rock to lean on has potentially become a threat

[@rat4469]

The tide is currently a place holder as they will be adding the teleporting within the next update but there is unforcene issues with multiplayer teleporting you different places putting extreme pressure on the hosts PC

[@TheSidwysDrftr]

I was fine with it cause stuff was still in the works. What was frustrating was every time I joined a co-op or the host loading a save resulted in my death since there is a tide de-sync between players.

[@ztormsink5931]

Best review VR I seen in a long time! Keep this thing up. Went I played the first one, it was blowing my mind but now, coop. holy crape dude!

[@stringcheese7791]

Into the Radius 2 doesnt really feel like Into the Radius

[@BigGremlin-cc7hu]

yeah...:(

[@Lukeskysquwker]

I want the Rex back

[@hh33ll99]

Honestly into the radius 2 is way worse than the first one in my opinion

[@Sami-d9o1h]

Well then just play the first one goofy mfs

[@al-xo2cy]

a thing that i think is forgoten a lot is that if you look carefully the first game you clearlywork for some soviet group in the second for the un i think it’s more the soviet failed in exploring and securing the zone so the un come in to fix everything

[@gareth6972]

Honestly, for me, the option of co op was the only thing I felt ITR1 was missing. I much prefer enjoying games with my friends and ITR2 potentially gives us the perfect opportunity.

[@delta1525]

I thought the game was going to be more open worldish. I don't like how, so far at least, big sections of the map are just anomaly mazes.

[@TheSidwysDrftr]

With the new dev diary that was released after this video launched, it seems very promising to become even better. My only struggles is hardware/software BS that comes with VR in general.

[@OptimusGrizly]

You forgot the tumbleweed. At least that's what i have seen it referred to as. It is like the chair thing but it doesn't explode and roams the pathways in the "exploding state".

[@reidaschbrenner736]

YEAHHHHHHHH HES HEREEEEEEE

[@maddugqc6911]

Wow high quality content.. This channel will blow off! :D

[@AnonyAnomaly]

this that REAL VR CONTENT!!! KEEP THIS SHIT UP KING!!!

[@excortis3113]

I bought ITR only a few days before the reveal of the ITR2 early access. I'm gonna beat ITR then i'll buy ITR2.

[@thecraft56674]

dang underrated video this is sick keep uploading videos like this it is very awesome

[@SHOTGUN_RA1D]

is he using a vr chat player 😂

[@masoncoleman6462]

I thought that 😂😂

[@philipguisinger4502]

Good call on everything in the video! I haven't really tried the co op but I'm sure it could help considerably with the northern forest area for sure. Those choke points are FULL of enemies

[@tigerek1986]

I absolutely loved first one. Beside ghosts of tabor my favorite game. I'm really hoping that second on will be released on quest 3 as well

[@BlujusticeVR]

It took 2 years after the full release of into the raidus to get a massive dumbed down port to quest 2, and longer to get a quest 3 visual update, into the raidus 2 will be completed sometime mid next year, meaning a port wouldn't be worked on for a few years from now, quest 4 would be out by then lol

[@keynerbotello6183]

This game and Arizona sunshine 2 are single-handedly responsible for getting me to dig up my quest 2 and buying a new link cable. Both amazing vr experiences.

[@a_random_n3rdvr]

Bro I just finished Arizona Sunshine 2 last week. VR has a bright future ahead

[@stan-wl9yj]

Ive played it and its fun, the og itr is better, for now, but knowing what cm did with the og early access i think we kan be shure that intr2 will be an amazing experience

[@odditivity.]

5 hrs on record rn playing in v.0.11 me and my mate couldnt wait for the full release. Only done coop and heres some things i want to say/add-on; Coop as of right now is buggy, but the bugs ive come across are not massive and all we news to do to fix them is just rejoin. Its like a trade; more fun but less horror. For me its been really fun but no where near as scary, but at the same time i dont find the map scary where as itr1 i found that map scary (itr1 map 1000000 times better than itr2 map) I gotta agree with you on most points and there are some performance issues but its really good. I think people are forgetting its only got like 1% of the content itr1 had. For early access its grate and the devs have done a great job. But for coop they need to add more enemies and tender to the amount of people in a party, but in our current save the difficulty is normal so that might be why. Cant wait for more enemies, but bugs and map need improvement the most. The map doesnt feel as scary, itr1 its a grey desolate plain where as itr2 its cluttered. The buildings arent dark and they dont feel abandoned they just feel destroyed. Itr2s map needs to be more barren and dark even in the day and should follow what the map in itr1 has done. But ive only got 5hrs right now and im not too far into the game (as we restarted due to wasting all our money so realistically the current save i play on is 2 hrs) so i could be wrong and it could be perfect in the later game. Sorry for the yap and great video!

[@odditivity.]

sorry for typos wrote that at like 1am

[@samuelarias593]

Im glad the Radius team went for a more realistic/less stylized appearance for the game because personally, everything looking like playdough really turned me away from the first game

[@UnderAverage]

video is super underrated. Keep it up bro

[@embercampbell3325]

The probes could trigger anomalies in the first game though?

[@Gage-t2i]

Yes

[@christuusgnosis]

I lost my gun and other crap several times it just falls through the ground and disappears if you are sitting the body sticks out too much you can't stand, its such a slow game but if you sit the harness is so big you are constantly grabbing things you don't mean to while moving needs serious work its also not fun tryin to kill some guy who is so far away he's a couple pixels but he can one shot u totally lame right from the start you should have binoculars and a scope for your pistol its so lame to be killed by a dot more than 2 blocks away

[@vagabanda11]

I would be better to teleport you with minimal health left and no healing. 3 in 1. Still a death sentence, but Scary and challenging.

[@superslicer6]

I'm calling it, someone is going to make a mod unlocking the player limit.

[@a_random_n3rdvr]

This sounds chaotic I love it

[@wastheman3854]

just call it what it is- stalker VR

[@SHOTGUN_RA1D]

should i do a video in into the radius 2

[@WiseOwl_1408]

No

[@sonicthelegend8741]

It's better than retribution that's for sure

[@IvanHernandez-cm2kh]

I'm so excited

[@eSkizl]

Would maybe specify in the title this is a review of an early access game, nice video though, high quality

[@zachrohler1047]

I dont get how so much is gone that was in the first game. Like why couldnt they just port that stuff directly from the first game? They all worked very well. I get multiplayer takes precident but those systems were already done lmao

[@k0lpA]

It's a new engine they can't port the stuff from the first much

[@ForrestGump-h2p]

how dare they add bugs into my early access game

[@BigGremlin-cc7hu]

no way itr2 is going to release in 2025.

[@samm7128]

Nice vid

[@a_random_n3rdvr]

Thanks bro

[@bloomingpain-flower7074]

bro doing a review of the game but can't google how to correctly pronounce the name of the Zone, it's even written in a way so you simply read it as it is - Pe-cho-r-s-k. American exceptionalism in its' finest.

[@altf4755]

I think it's just him tbh

[@JonathanNormandy]

In 2 the 2 2 2

[@drmikehuntphd7905]

Reflector anomaly so ugly without high effects D:

[@boomdaddymaxwell]

ITR1 had much better looking anomalies

[@drmikehuntphd7905]

@@boomdaddymaxwell Err, no.

[@BlujusticeVR]

God that intro almost gave me a seizure, what a mess lol

[@Cowboy_Jackman]

good review, be funny tho

[@gareth6972]

Those of us who aren't hard of thinking just want to take in a review without the need for bad attempts at comedy.

[@SatireTheoryOfficial]

How is there less content but it costs more. Like KNIFES not being in the game???

[@a_random_n3rdvr]

@@SatireTheoryOfficial Early access game IG. Maybe they’ll come in the future. Tbf you don’t really need knives rn given that guns are much more effective at taking out both the mimics and spawn

[@CakeyClowny]

@@a_random_n3rdvr yes but it still is sad

[@Lockmahn]

Multiplayer is enough of a reason

[@CakeyClowny]

@@Lockmahn If it wasnt buggy sureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@Lockmahn]

@@CakeyClowny My brother in Christ it is in early access and CM Games has literally no experience with multiplayer (at least that's what the devlog said...) so it's going to be buggy. It's going to become worth the forty dollars when the multiplayer is fixed, and forty is going to be a sweet deal when 1.0 comes out. And if you got it when it first came out it would have been thirty dollars...

[@snb8272]

itr2 is irrelevant at the moment and the stans who talk about it constantly can suck on my ballz. itr1 is prime plus it can actually run without two gpus. yall need to learn what EARLY ACCESS MEANS

[@OptimusGrizly]

Get a better GPU

[@marcocontreras70]

0 views in 1 second bro fell off

[@a_random_n3rdvr]

Nuh uh

[@cheriel.]

😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 😢