Earlier this month, a mod surfaced for Silent Hill 2 Remake that removed its iconic fog. And today, YouTube’s ‘Digital Dreams’ shared an 8K video, showcasing 15 minutes of gameplay from SH2 Remake with that mod.
This mod completely changes the visual style of the game. It also proves how crucial to the game its fog is. First of all, it significantly improves its whole atmosphere. Without it, the game feels a bit dull. Also, in a true PS1 fashion, it hides some of the building pop-ins.
For those unaware, Konami used the fog to improve the performance of the first Silent Hill game on the PlayStation. That’s why it was so aggressive in it. Yes, it attributed to its atmosphere. However, from a tech perspective, it was also used so that it could hide distant objects (something that allowed PS1 to run the game).
Now while the game may look great in this video, everything falls apart the moment the sun goes out. If you haven’t played SH2, there are some cool sunny foggy areas. These look amazing in the remake. Without the fog, though, everything looks awful. Here is a screenshot from that area. As you can see, James’ hair looks awful, and the grass and bushes look flat (as they don’t have any shading or shadows).
Anyway, if you want to try the mod, you can download it from this link. Just make sure to temper your expectations. While it can look great sometimes, it can also look awful at other times. This isn’t the way meant to experience the game. Still, if you have already beaten it, you can use it to explore the city of SH2.
Speaking of Silent Hill 2, Bloober Team hasn’t released any patch for it as of yet. As I’ve already said, there isn’t ANY mod that can reduce or fix the game’s traversal stutters. However, there are some cool mods that you can try. For instance, you can enable NVIDIA Ray Reconstruction for better visuals. You can also remove the 30fps cap from the in-engine cutscenes. And then we have the DLSS 3 Frame Generation Mod. Oh, and if you are not interested in a paid mod, you can force AMD FSR 3.0 Frame Generation. Just use the guide from this article to enable it. Finally, you can download two mods to improve the 3D models of Angela and Maria.
Stay tuned for more!
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Console wehraboos are having a meltdown since they found out about this mod … "why ruin the game", " its not the way the game was meant to be played, "this is cheating" … and what not
The funny thing is that the remake is arguably the worst way to experience Silent Hill 2. Somehow I doubt the consoomers who are mindlessly eating up this slop have any level of self-awareness to notice the irony of them complaining about this fog removal mod.
I agree, the original is still perfectly playable and Blooper is… a inconsistent studio.
The game have it's moments, it's basically domestic abuser simulator, since you kill women legs and sexy nurses. I'm playing the game with japanese dub and no tranne mods for a better experience(it's kind of messy, Angela hair keeps clipping thru her face). I also played the first one some 10 years ago and replayed it with the Enhanced Edition mod last year.
"I'm playing the game"
And by "playing" you meant pirating it I hope?
Yes.
Based.
looks absolutely ridiculous
I tried this on a replay and it didn't work for me. I think there might be some conflict with one of the other performance mods as that's all I used besides the flashlight one. There's also a mod to make it sunny most of the time but it does look awful, I think if you want no fog you'd need an always cloudy skys component to it. Having been a fan of this game since ps2 I think the remake adds a fair bit to it but is definitely not as scary and should be treated as a separate thing, if you want the most creepy version of this game get the OG version with the enhanced ed mod works great.
They could have made this game in the Unreal Engine 4 with baked lighting like Dead Island 2, good graphic fidelity without making your GPU sweat. I honestly don't see the point of UE5.
Uhm, that's true for any game unless it's specifically pushing for graphics.
Interesting, i was curious on what it would look like as a sort of tech demo, looks very nice.
Would like to see what it looks like with a middle "less fog" too, instead of normal or none.