Firewatch

2016

Firewatch Enhanced

Firewatch Enhanced fixes high-FPS movement, improves save loading, and adds FOV, subtitle size and dialogue timer options for Firewatch on Windows.

Firewatch Enhanced
A small collection of fixes for the Windows version of Firewatch.
Features

  • Fixes player movement at high frame rates with VSync disabled.

  • Adds an optional FPS counter. It is disabled by default.

  • Adds an option to remove the time limit from dialogue choices. It is disabled by default.

  • Adds a subtitle size slider with a range of 75% to 200%. The original size is 100%.

  • Adds a Field of View slider with a range of 30 to 110. The original value is 55.

  • Exposes the game's hidden Mouse Acceleration setting in the Controls menu. You need to disable that option if you're experiencing an issue with high mouse sensitivity.

  • Includes Ignore Pads option which is set by default, this fixes issue with controllers causing automatic rotation of character.

  • Adds a New Game (Skip Intro) button that skips the opening text sequence.

  • Includes a simple noclip mode for unstucking your character.

  • Improves save loading and reduces some asset-streaming stalls.

  • Reduces unnecessary player interaction checks above 60 FPS.

  • Prevents the Free Roam day/night cycle from getting stuck after leaving the cave.

  • Prevents long-running Free Roam saves from loading an invalid day/nigh cycle step after the cycle wraps around.

If an existing Free Roam save already has broken cave lighting, install the patch, enter the cave again and move through gate until you drop on the first stone, after that go you can go back and the day/night cycle should be restored. The exit event will restore the day/night cycle and the next save should load correctly.

The new options are available in the existing General, Graphics, and Controls settings.

Installation
Download the Windows release and extract it into the Firewatch folder, next to

Firewatch.exe

The release includes BepInEx 5, so no separate mod loader is needed.