Is the echo artificial?

[Kranel_San]

Short answer: Based on 1.0, the echo is definitely something natural while Resonance is the artificial echo.

Long answer: Back in 1.0, the player character had echo visions from the very beginning, but those visions lacked static and distortion. Instead, a transition from reality to the vision will occur, and the player will live the moment as if it's happening right now, and even interact and talk with NPCs in those visions but without the ability to change the overall outcome of the events and their details. However, the way the echo was handled back in 1.0 caused a lot of confusion among the playerbase as it was difficult to know reality from a vision. It was a fine mess of events and the devs had to change the way echo visions happen to avoid even more confusion.