Flashlight Overhaul

Description

Achievments

Working just fine. A lot of workarounds was needed and a lot of bugs was fixed, but its there!

Flashlight Beam

Now has diffusion. No more looking through a spyglass.
You can even get up close and won’t need a microscope to see the flashlight’s light.

Switching between different flashlights

Now exists, not just a swap of color and properties.

Powerful flashlight

Now a rare item, but at least it’s finally justifies its bulk.

Configurable Particle and Fog systems

Are in config file.

Visual Comparison

Vanilla	MINIMAL preset	CASUAL preset

Presets

Five presets are available, selectable in the config:

Configuration

All values are tweakable in FlashlightOverhaul.cfg:

• Flashlight Customization: Adjust the range, angle, and intensity for each weapon class (Pistols, SMGs, DMRs, Shotguns, Snipers).
• Flashlight Types: Separate settings for the Helmet Light (melee/tools) and the consumable Long-Range Flashlight.
• Fog: Density settings for each depth. Can be disabled entirely.
• Particles: Opacity and intensity customization. Can be disabled entirely.
• Other: Miscellaneous gameplay and visual tweaks.

Installation

Mod Manager (Recommended)

• Click the "Install with Mod Manager" button.

Manual Installation

1. Extract the archive.
2. Drop FlashlightOverhaul.dll into your BepInEx/plugins/ folder.
3. Requires BepInExPack for GTFO to work.

Changelog

v2.1.0

• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Sleepers now correctly wake up when illuminated by the helmet light (melee/tool wields).
• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Enemies stuck mid-wakeup animation no longer freeze forever.
• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Deploying a Sentry Gun no longer causes a mid-level freeze or wipes enemy-detection state.
• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Sleeping enemies can no longer be woken through closed security doors — the flashlight beam is now correctly blocked by door geometry.
• Fixed: Flashlight toggle now respects the keybinding set in GTFO's settings — any key, mouse button, or controller button assigned to the flashlight action will work, not just the default F key.
• Fixed: The first ranged weapon after a swap could occasionally stay dark for a full session.
• Changed: MINIMAL preset has a proper smooth gradient again (Core → Mid → Fall) instead of a two-layer hard step.
• Changed: Haze and volumetric FogBeam are disabled by default. Re-enable in the config.
• Added: Headlight now wakes sleeping enemies with a conservative detection profile.
• Added: Cookie textures are pre-generated on level load to avoid a small hitch on the first flashlight toggle.
• Other minor fixes and tuning.

v2.0.0

• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Fixed a critical bug where sleepers completely ignored the custom flashlight beam and would not wake up, restoring correct player detection.
• Fixed [CRITICAL]: Fixed an annoying co-op glitch where another player's actions or weapon swaps would cause your own flashlight to flicker, glitch, or temporarily "drop" its state.
• Fixed [CRITICAL]: The mod now instantly detects your equipped weapon right at the start of a level, completely removing the need to cycle through your weapons on spawn to make the flashlight work.
• Added: Volumetric atmospheric fog inside the beam. Tuned per-rundown — shallow expeditions are nearly haze-free, deeper ones get more fog. Toggle/strength in the config.
• Added: In-beam dust particles now vary in tint (warm-light vs darker-gray).
• Added: Hard density cap on our fog so it can't stack on top of GTFO's level fog.
• Changed: Made MINIMAL the default preset, providing a cleaner vanilla-like experience out of the box.
• Changed: Renamed DEFAULT preset to CASUAL (the balanced baseline).
• Changed: Renamed the old CASUAL preset to VERY CASUAL (balanced baseline with small range and angle offsets).
• Changed: Ranged Fall layer intensity 0.25 → 0.45 across all presets — the cone boundary no longer reads as a moving silhouette during reload / aim-sweep.
• Changed: Dust pool grown from 180 → 365 motes; per-mote alpha reduced ~25 %.
• Changed: Tier bands shifted one slot lower — what previously appeared at tier C now appears at tier E; new C is roughly the old A. Tier values are now individually exposed as config knobs.
• Fixed: Dust particles now fade in smoothly when respawning so motes no longer "pop in" while running.
• Fixed: Pickable flashlight visual occasionally being stamped with the previous ranged weapon's preset for one frame after the F-toggle.
• Other minor tweaks and fixes.

v1.2.0

• Added: New preset[MINIMAL] for vanilla-like expirience.
• Added: Dust particle system.(Can be turned off in the config.).
• Changed: Helmet Light logic. Now works like regular Flashlight with unique properties.
• Changed: Helmet synth falloff cone is now significantly stronger (×2.5 intensity).
• Changed: Rewrote configuration comments to be more user-friendly.
• Fixed: Various beam sync, swap-gap, and preset-resolution issues.

v1.1.0

• Added: Weapon bone attachment for dynamic flashlight tracking.

v1.0

• Initial release of Flashlight Overhaul.

Feedback & Bug Reports

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