Firewatch

mrjawapa · 2016-02-10 03:01:47

Firewatch by Campo Santo was released today. I've pretty excited, and bought the game a few hours ago.

Official Site: http://www.firewatchgame.com/

I'll post some opinions/reviews as I begin playing. Anyone else who is playing should do the same

Different55, Koya, Dazz, Pingohits

Different55 · 2016-02-10 03:48:45

Day one Linux support? Count me in. Anyone who supports Linux from day one has my support.

Not only does it support Linux, it looks pretty neat too.

JadElClemens

JadElClemens · 2016-02-10 04:36:37

RUNS ON GANOO / LOONIGS DAY ONE?

GOAT. 100% GOAT.

Honestly though, this doesn't really seem like the type of game that interests me. I'm tempted to buy it because day one lanugs suprot, but I don't think it's worth $20 if I'm not even going to be into it.

The graphics are sweet though tbh fam.

mrjawapa · 2016-02-10 05:32:50

I'm very impressed with the art work.

The intro story is kind of sad, and almost made me tear up

They have a serious issue with frame rate. If they can fix the frame rate issues so I can stop freezing that would be awesome. I have to close the game, and reopen it every time it occurs.

mrjawapa · 2016-02-11 02:19:57

So, the game seems to be running slightly better today, though nothing has changed.

I'm amazed with the graphics. They are so good.

I wish the game was more free-world, or at least barriers were a little more natural in places.

I think the game would be better if there were more animals: deer, fox, rabbit, etc.

I'm enjoying the story. There's a minor side plot that I guess is going on.

Different55 · 2016-02-11 04:20:04

JaWapa wrote:

I'm amazed with the graphics. They are so good.
*posts screenshot that looks like it could win a jpeg artifact contest*

ok mr

Well it sounds like they worked out the one or two bugs that linux had so I'm going to go ahead and buy this. It's on sale for 10% off which is like so totally awesome like wow.

But seriously this game looks neat and I think my sister would enjoy it a lot. She likes to watch people game for the story but she's not much into gaming herself. Something that's basically no skill, pure story like this looks like it is would probably be right up her alley.

N1KF · 2016-02-11 05:49:46

Different55 wrote:

Something that's basically no skill, pure story like this looks like it is would probably be right up her alley.

You mean a movie?

Different55 · 2016-02-11 07:22:20

N1KF wrote:

Different55 wrote:
Something that's basically no skill, pure story like this looks like it is would probably be right up her alley.
You mean a movie?

An interactive movie with a script where you're the main character and you help influence the script as you go, yeah. Like I said, she enjoys stories more than puzzles and gameplay. She's crazy antisocial and spends most of her time in books. Anyway, from what I've seen so far it's a really interesting story being told.

I'm enjoying it, anyway. Only seen one slight graphical bug, where the shading on a distant fire at night would change slightly if you were positioned in just the right spot. Nothing major at all, so I'm glad to see that. Linux may have 25% of the whole steam catalog but that doesn't save us from bad ports.

Just finished the game. Was pretty neat.

N1KF

mrjawapa · 2016-02-11 13:00:04

I had the graphics on the lowest quality possible; hoping it wouldn't keep crashing.

Different55 · 2016-02-11 16:54:09

Ouch. Did it work? If not you should report it to the devs because I'm like 2% sure that isn't intended.

mrjawapa · 2016-02-11 21:50:40

Different55 wrote:

Ouch. Did it work? If not you should report it to the devs because I'm like 2% sure that isn't intended.

It did. I had the settings on the lowest possible the day before, and it kept crashing. But it worked last night. I played about 30 minutes without any interruptions.

Koya · 2016-02-12 00:34:25

I have bought the game but haven't had time to play it, thank you JaWapa for notifying us of the release - remember looking forward to this, then like everything I forgot.

mrjawapa

Dazz · 2016-02-12 00:57:46

Amazing graphics and the story is great too, I wish we could see D. and as JaWapa said, more animals etc wouldn't hurt.

mrjawapa · 2016-02-12 01:25:12

Crashing issue is back.

There are already a lot of comments on it.

EDIT: it crashes when it tries to load a bunch of trees, the sky, or a particular rock wall.

The graphics are already on the lowest setting.

mrjawapa · 2016-02-12 02:04:04

Color distortion?

Trees that are failing to load. When it does this, random flashes of color appear.

Different55 · 2016-02-12 02:10:48

What are you trying to run this on?

mrjawapa · 2016-02-12 22:08:50

Laptop

Windows 8.1
Intel i5 2.4 GHz with boost (quad core)
8 GB RAM

Different55 · 2016-02-12 22:19:04

No graphics beyond integrated? Might just be that your integrated graphics aren't up to the task then. They might be running out of memory, maybe try giving your integrated graphics more RAM to play with.

Miasmic · 2016-02-12 22:35:03

I finished Firewatch yesterday, the voice acting is perfect, and the scenery and atmosphere - but the sound design was a bit lazy, and the lack of animals, and as someone said earlier, the actual exploration mechanics are really annoying, there are no sensible consistent visual references for where you can and can't go, so you often end up just walking into random bushes and rocks - because sometimes you can walk over them and sometimes you can't :/ and the map was often quite annoying to use.

I got stuck in rocks a couple of times as well and had to go back a save point, but despite all it's clunkiness, something about the story and the way it unfolds really stays with you afterwards, it's far too short though...that ending -_- ..... I tried to refuse it it but the credits rolled anyway.

mrjawapa

Anatoly · 2016-02-14 15:31:22

Nice that Jawapa found a game where he is able to steal money, interesting jawapa, are you already a games moderator in there? How many coin ddid you already stole?

Pingohits · 2016-02-14 16:08:01

AnatolyEE wrote:

Nice that Jawapa found a game where he is able to steal money, interesting jawapa, are you already a games moderator in there? How many coin ddid you already stole?

some woman, Bobithan, !nb4

some woman · 2016-02-14 16:31:08

AnatolyEE wrote:

Nice that Jawapa found a game where he is able to steal money, interesting jawapa, are you already a games moderator in there? How many coin ddid you already stole?

yes because every single game is online
and has currency

mrjawapa · 2016-02-15 06:45:50

It crashes once it reaches 1000MB of memory.

I have 8GB of RAM and 1TB of storage space. I don't get it.

Different55 · 2016-02-15 16:25:46

0/10 would report to game devs.

Gosha · 2016-02-15 16:33:22

I have not that bad pc .

I lag on minimal graphics
Come оn, game

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