Find Boards Downstairs to Patch Window

[skippermonkey]

so like.... does this ever go away? I'm several chapters/days past this plot moment, but the text is still there, forever.

cant even post about this in the "Have an issue?" thread since its locked.

Any hope of fixing this bug?

[zaphodikus]

I don't think you actually do, this is Henry remember.

[Coppix]

I had the very same problem with my game and I spent some time finding a solution for it myself because it seems like people have had this issue years ago and apparently the devs never fixed it. The solution involves a little messing around with the save files but it's pretty straight forward. But be aware that any wrong changes will corrupt your save file, so you should always keep a copy!

1. find your current save file on your computer
   (path is usually something as follwos: C:\Users\*name*\AppData\LocalLow\CampoSanto\Firewatch\saves)
   
   
2. open the main save file (e.g. "1.sav", not "1_Day_33.sav") using the following website: "https://hexed.it/" (drag and drop it into your browser)
   
   
3. using the "search for" feature on the right of the screen search for the quest the game is stuck on. In this case we are looking for "QUEST_Day3_GetBoards". There will be two hits for this query but we only care about the one coming first in the file, the one that is followed by the string "..@@."
   
   
4. the fix is to change the first of the two "@" mentioned above to a "Ç" by changing the corresponding hexadecimal byte on the left from "40" to "80", thereby changing the sequence of "40 40" (representing "@@") to "80 40" (representing "Ç@).

This solution tricks the game into believing you actually completed the quest instead of constantly reminding you of the task you already did hours ago. As you can also see in this file, all the other quests before and after are all followed by this sequence of characters ("..Ç@."), which means that the game recognises them as completed.

Hope this is helpful and not too confusing :)

[Andlean]

Originally posted by Coppix:

Hope this is helpful and not too confusing :)

This worked for me! Your explanation was also a big help, looks like there's a separate task for picking up the first board and that was what I was missing, so editing that @@ sequence did the trick. I was very close to giving up and either restarting the game or not finishing it at all, so thank you!!

[Alt0153]

thanks for this fix, just had to use it myself

[MichaelJay]

I followed above. I have 2 save games. focused on the 2nd one. Unfo all entries of "QUEST_Day3"... have "Ç@" and "80" there already. Much sadness.