Looks like the console version has been patched:

Linky.

Might start it tonight

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Looks like the console version has been patched: Linky. Might start it tonight

Still doesn't quite read like they've definitely fixed everything.

Has the Plus discount ended?  It looked full price when I checked earlier

More of this kind of thing.

Late to the convo but I really liked it! The ending in particular was a highlight as Dee brushes me off asking her back to Boulder. The way they must think about each other ends up really neat in an organic, up in the air fashion unlike typical relationships in stories with arcs and mappable endings. Only real complaint is there's too much copypasta animation rock climbing in certain parts (the way they use them to conceal certain geographic features till the last moment is a bit overdone) and it's an annoyance to the flow in places like the cave.

Agree that if the resources matched the ambition, it really should have been longer. If it meant getting a longer game I'd say the format would have made it a great episodic title.

GurtTractor wrote:

I started this properly today, up to day 3.  The visuals are a spluttering mess, frankly.  I dread to think what it was like pre-patch.  Foliage is popping in all over the place like I'm running through a Halo 2 cutscene, and the game stutters and snags numerous times per minute.  I'm trying not to sound whiny, but it's immersion breaking.  I don't get the logic behind stuff like this; if the visuals push the engine past its limits why not simplify them for a more streamlined experience?  I'm enjoying it, but it's hard to ignore the annoyances.  30fps is fine for a single player first person story/explore-athon, but it needs to be constant.

It seems bizarre they never tried a real version on ps4 but the schedule feels like it was tight so who knows.

Really good to see Firewatch sell so well. Source
Here is to more Camp Santo!!

I was bemused by the slating the PS4 version got. The occasional, minor judder was hardly a distraction from the compelling, engrossing story. Complaints of slowdown breaking the game felt to me very princess and the pea.

Anyhoo, absolutely loved this, however the story felt a little rushed. Having the first note of unease on the very first night did not feel right to me. I would have preferred to become comfortable with the surroundings, before introducing a sinister incident, rather than the other way around. I think I would have also liked the incident with the girls to have been isolated from the main story, existing as a way to develop the relationship between Henry and Delilah.

Enough being a negative ninny.  The introduction was a nice wee bit of storytelling, and a cracking way to establish the lead character.  The strength of the game was in the relationship between H and D, and that was absolutely made by a solid script and natural delivery. I believed in the chemistry they had. I also felt that the text used to describe the various dialogue options was a more reliable indicator of what Henry would go on to say than in any other game with similar dialogue trees.

The game was also gorgeous. Unlike the supposedly good-looking EGttR, where the scenery was insufficiently attractive to warrant dawdling, in Firwatch I walked everywhere at a leisurely place, drinking my surroundings and the joyous differences that the time of day made to the colour and quality of light.

More of this sort of thing.

Oddly, this has the fans blowing like mental on PC.

Salutations.

the juddering was annoying and the game good enough to be carried. The 1st Person view and the whole idea YOU are meant to be washed under this orange haze gets smashed every time your eyes stutter. It breaks any illusion of reality which is what I think the game is trying to convey.

The game is stripped of everything but being in there, and loading just wobbles one off a tightrope.

Tempy wrote:

I have a shite PC so play most games with some kind of dysfunction to their graphics settings. Rarely bothers me. I think Firewatch was dipping under 30 at points, noticeable, but not annoying or enough to break the illusion.

I have a card - what CPU have you got?

ARe you rating steamlink and the controlelr then?

beano wrote:

ARe you rating steamlink and the controlelr then?

Yeah, although I use power lines and I'm
not sure what it'd be like wireless.

The controller is wonderful and awful. I'm currently playing Portal 2 with it and it's sublime. The button placements though are horrid, and any game that requires any fast sequence of presses is not going to be good. It helps that you can map things to the paddles underneath. Some games just don't work and it's hard to know until you play the individual game. Having said that the community comes up with all sorts of configurations that can be changed on the fly but it takes time to tinker, although Steam will save any configurations you prefer on a game by game basis.

Finished, loved it.