As you may have noticed, we don’t usually share Reshade mods however, modder ‘Xanthus’ has released a pretty amazing Reshade mod for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. According to the modder, this mod greatly enhances the visuals of Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey with very little performance cost. His intention was to achieve a level of visual fidelity as close to pure realism as possible.
Going into slightly more details, this Reshade mods brings MXAO (an SSAO algorithm with indirect lighting) for deeper and richer visuals, more vibrant and realistic colors, removes the yellow tint, packs bluer and brighter skies, as well as greener and more realistic foliage, and sports a blend of sharpen filters for crisper and better-looking textures without over-doing it.
I’ve personally replaced my own Reshade mod with this one as it makes the game look better. Not that I’m an expert of Reshade but I found my own settings to be great prior to using this one. Of course some may find this Reshade mod awful and that’s understandable.
In order to showcase the mod, Xanthus released some comparison screenshots (vanilla is on the left and Reshade is on the right) and videos that you can find below. Those interested can download the mod from here.
Have fun!
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More like makes it an oversharpened and overcontrasted mess.
Right? Doesn’t look right to me at all.
I’ll stick with the stock shade for now at least. If nothing else I think they did pretty well with the coloring.
Looks too bright to me. Overly done it seems.
I’m sorry but you have really bad taste. This just makes everything look pink and over contrasted. ReShade in general can’t do much to improve a games visuals.
Notice the horrendous color palette in the first comparison? The vanilla game has much more natural colors in that scene.
If the ReShade added JUST MXAO then it would look fine, since it just enhances the ssao. (And you could probably disable the in game one)
IMO reshade really shines with *very* minor tweaks. Too often people take some of the settings to their extremes and we end up with stuff like this.
Agreed. Less is definitely more with Reshade. MXAO should really only be used with older games WITHOUT ambient occlusion already built in of any kind.
Everyone of his Reshade presets are among the worst I’ve seen. And every time, he thinks they’re “BEAUTIFUL”
The only thing this game and Origins needs is some heavy duty sharpening, but the only sharpening that looks good and no unnatural is Fine Sharp, which is a 7-10 FPS hit in most cases.
Looks much better, ubisoft really doesnt do good lighting in ac
That’s not true… Ever played a game called AC:Unity? AC:3’s lighting was really good at the time as well.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA OHOHOHOOH really?
I specifically posted in the unity perfomance review that the lighting is awful in that game and it feels like certain objects exist in a realm that lighting doesnt exist.
No unity lighting is awful.
Well, there’s no doubt that lighting styles usually end up being very subjective, almost as subjective as your average Reshade preset. Just look at the comments on most Witcher 3 lighting mods (STLM vs. WLM vs. Vanilla), however, you also happen to think that this Reshade preset in the article makes the game look better, so I put little stock into your subjective opinions on lighting. There are numerous objective points of praise with AC:Unity’s lighting quality.
We get your hate. But this over-contrasted garbage is nowhere realistic. Base game has much better lighting.
No it doesnt, base game lighting looks like origins aka brown, like a mudfest, Greece isnt brown.
Bright tones are too redish with this one.
Are these preset makers paying you or something John?
Preset makers have ad revenue?
Adding sharpening almost never makes something look better, let alone realistic. I can’t judge anything else about the reshade profile because the sharpening is so intense.
“”amazingly realistic Reshade mod”” ??
Sorry to break this, but your taste is unique. This preset looks really horrible to me, as well as others out here. Sometimes TOO much/excess of anything is bad, as it totally spoils the originality.
Johny, my hellenic andras, you need to calibrate your monitor.
Since we are talking about mods, as a singleplayer game it definitely needs some XP/money re-balance mods to bypass the utter greed and fix the broken grinding mechanics. Would also be great to mod in some real RPG leveling vs the effortless “level number” scaling garbage it has (chickens are still OP).
No harm for these mods if there’s no grind to begin with and it’s all in our heads – since we paid 100% of the asking price and it effects no one else in our sp experience. Corporate scams need to end in our fully paid products.
aahh!! mah eyes! mah eyes! They are bleeding! :O
2sharp4me….
I think you made a typo. Cause it should be Unrealistic Reshade. Cause if the real world look like that right now. Everyone would have seizures.
yeah. But does it look better than DA WITCHER 3????????????????????
Um. No. Chromatic aberration is not realistic – it looks like butt to be honest.
Wow. That is actually a terrible Reshade. Overly bright, way to high contrast and the colors look lifeless and cold. And sharpening to the point of breaking the textures. And as some others have pointed out, a lot of detail and depth in the pictures gets totally lost.
It just looks so fu**ing bad and dated!