There are currently two mods via which you can enhance Watch_Dogs’ visuals. One comes from Guru3D’s member TheWorse and the other one comes from another Guru3D member, Kadzait24. Kadzait24 was the first one that has managed to mod Ubisoft’s open world title and despite the harsh criticism he’s received, this modder is still trying to improve the game’s visuals.
Kadzait24 has released a new beta version of his E3 Mod 5 for Watch_Dogs that can be downloaded from here. Do note that this mod is more demanding than TheWorse’s mod.
According to the modder, this latest version adds DoF (which is really aggressive mind you), implements Fog/Wind, improves Rain, Lighting, Raindrops/Puddles, Bloom, Explosions and Shadows, fixes a Cone Bug and the Bright Sky Bug that was present in an earlier version of his mod, and adds some Object Textures, Subsurface Scattering and a Dust System.
The final version of Kadzait24’s mod will – hopefully – pack the following features:
-Improved Depth of Field
-Improved Cloth Physics, reflection, texturing and wet system
-Improved Clothes’ Physics, Reflection, Texturing and Wet System
-Improved Player Camera
-Improved Decal System
-Added DOT Mesh
-Improved Car Paint
-Added Subsurface Scattering
-Improved Decals
-Added Raindrop Ripples and Relief Depth
-Improved Rim Lighting
-Improved Trees and vegetation texturing and Reflection
-Improved WET SYSTEM, now with added technology from the Engine
-E3 Lighting for Daytime, Dawn, Sunset, Night, Rain, Post Rain
-New Parallax Occlusion Mapping which looks outstanding now
-Added Fog and New Skies
-Bloom for every time of the day, even bloom at daylight. Different sets
-New and Improved Wind and Weather effects
-New Clouds System
-Added Dust System
-New Specular System and Dynamic Texturing Sampling System
-Improved Building Reflections
Contrary to TheWorse’s mod, Kadzait24 is also reworking the game’s TODs, meaning that you won’t need to enable SweetFX to get amazing results.
Kadzait24 has also released a number of videos from his mod that can be viewed below.
Enjoy!
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Why do we have to have two separate mods to choose between? Can’t they collaborate and make one tool for users to tweak their own settings?
Two mods to choose from is too much? Have you seen the Skyrim Nexus?!
Yes I mod skyrim. I think this is a very different situation and stand by what I said.
I kind of see what you are saying – why not just one mod to “fix” the game. But there will always be different interpretations of what that means, and people who want to further improve it.
Ideally I’d like to see a stand-alone launcher that integrates all these tweaks, but lets you adjust all of the settings yourself easily or load profiles others have made.
TheWorse 0.8 and Maldo have a UI launcher for the settings, personally I think it’s the best so far.
Maybe I’ll check them out eventually, then. Though tbh the visuals are the only thing I find interesting about this game. I don’t think I’ll be playing it much anyway.
*goes back to Shovel Knight* #nextgen
I like it more than I though, the whole hacking rather than shooting can be fun but exploring and making you own fun makes the game better. Exploiting all the hacking features can make for some interesting fun with the police and AI.
TheWorst and Maldo made a UI launcher and integrated ultra textures tweak and effects in their 0.8 release.
Kadzait starting saying that TheWorse stole his mod and started a huge stink so unfortunately they will never collaborate on this.
20% off in Steam sales already by the way. I’d say it’s worth it with the mods at £31.99
No, it’s not.
meh
Watch Doge. Everything is meh.
Now you know how I feel about Skyrim.
You should feel the same about Watch Doge, because it’s a poorly optimized piece of scam + Uplay + questionable updates + no official mod support, but you say it’s worth £31.99.
Now you know how I feel about Sean.
I havn’t brought the game so it doesn’t make me a hypocrite but it won’t stop those people who like the game thinking it’s worth it. The mods make it run better than Ubisoft did so meh.
BTW, it doesn’t run like crap for everyone so don’t speak for everyone like you think you do. I actually said that before the mods come out, nice try but you failed.
Just keep grinding that axe like I do with Skyrim, clearly you have nothing better to do.
Like I said, I’ve not brought the game, so you can take your agenda else where. Also, do I not have a right to change my opinion about the game since then? It runs great on medium textures 1080p, custom ultra, I’ve just grown to like the game more and what would make me a hypocrite would be if I brought the game at 20% off, I didn’t so again try harder, you failed.
The fact that you recommend the game you haven’t bought yet makes you even more hypocritical.
And liar too.
Just keep on trying to hate on my opinion. My opinion on Skyrim really got to you didn’t it LOL
Whatever you say sweet cheeks.
Sorry sweetheart, I’m married.
@ Nines
Piss off. Your opinion is meh.
I shot his cat named Skyrim and he’s mad at me, just look at the comments now, he’s getting internet neurotic.
I’d wait for the winter sale.
I bought GRID autosport instead. Codemasters made specific PC improvements including a 4K texture pack. Support publishers who support PC.
You say that Codemasters did that for the new game but did they forget to texture the cockpit dashboards? Oh, is this the same Codemasters that removed cockpit in the game from the year before? But hey at least this time they gave us cockpit view, right? Right? Right!
Jeez, someone is grumpy. Cockpit’s not being fully detailed is the only drawback I can think of from playing so far but it’s only cosmetic. The racing is ridiculously fun and the game is packed with content.
No one was talking about the actual gameplay and amount of cars etc. Just pointing out how they do us. You claim they are fantastic and I say they aren’t. Based on history and the latest game.
Am I grumpy? Look at my Profile and click my link. Happy is more like it buddy.
I can beat that Sean.
http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/watch-dogs-pc-cd-key-uplay
£15.75 on cdkeys mate.
Or pay G2A or any other Steam Key site £20 for a key?
“Added DOT Mesh”
“New Clouds System”
“Added Dust System”
“New Specular System and Dynamic Texturing Sampling System”
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LOL…. Does this guy have engine source code access or is he just making up an unrealistic feature list?
You won’t trust anything this guy says or makes after reading how he responds to criticism on Guru3D
http://curitibainenglish.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/envy-21.jpg
Nope, the stuff he says is in there. Normally the skybox moves as one but with this mod the clouds move at different speeds like a parallax effect.
As long as the bokeh depth of field blurs everything beyond 5 metres this is unplayable. So the guys keeps piling on features, allegedly, but can’t fix the distance of the blur? Useless.
TheWorse mod has a light DoF option, move the camera up makes the DoF go away, move the camera down slightly and the DoF is mid distance.
Here’ a shot of mine showing it http://i.imgur…..com/b39c040.jpg
That looks playable. What’s up with the decals though?
Where? DoF is dynamic though so if you’re very near something looking at that something the DoF is really close and off putting, like if you play stealthy.
I misspoke. What I meant the weird shading on the ground. Looked like overlapping textures to me at first glance but now I see that it’s actually the same textures, just some parts are insanely dark for no apparent reason.
Too much DOF blur. Maybe the graphics are nice, but I can’t see anything.
Yeah! It looks like how I perceive things without my glasses!
Subsurface Scattering was there from day1 so I don’t really understand what this guy is trying to achieve by spreading those lies.
Some personal shots. Frame-rate is much lower for me, below 30fps. The Screen Space Reflections have more objects reflecting, clouds look a lot better when moving, the whole scene looks more organic. Pretty sure the sub-surface scattering modification is helping the lighting look better.
http://i.imgur.com/qdTNQ5a.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Vb4a7FE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/cXZdPij.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/v4M8Tkw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Whmi51p.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eGfVHyC.jpg
$0N¥ Paupers are going to cry again that their poor man’s console version looks like trash.
I want mods to change the Aiden’s face ,get the old POM from feb 2013 and the shadows from 2012.
After that i want mods to remove the highlight object and to make 2 separate wheels for hacking and weapons.
I do want to see a mod to remove the highlighting of objects. It breaks immersion for me.
Even though is not a really inmersive game ,it does but besides ,is plain stupid ,is okay on the first 2 hours for big n00bs ,(i wouldn’t need it even if it was my first playtrough) but other than that….it’s there annoying people ,at least give us an option to turn it off.
Comon guys why you do this?make “mods” and some tweak perf for their lazy or schmucks devs???
ubifail never will get my money and they deserve nothing.all cash coming form their beloved console “next-gen”!pc is poor “cousin”.
so Do Not Waste Your Money on ubifail Games!
tnx
Cry more. I’ve enjoyed lots of their games on my PC. A lot of their games are dramatically better on PC than on consoles and cretins like you do nothing but complain. People like you don’t deserve to be gaming at all.
I think Ubisoft makes a lot of good games, but with a little extra effort they could be great. But like you said, I’ve enjoyed most of them too.
check watchdogs on metacritic pc, ubisoft on pc is like cancer their pc versions are a disaster.
I don’t give a shit what Metacritic says, I can form my own opinions, thank you very much.
People didnt go and vote watchdogs on metacrtic with a low score because it was a good port but because it was disaster, get it or do i need to draw it for you?
shut up already everyone knows that ubisoft games on pc are a mess and everyone complains sht the fck up already you do not represnt pc gamers you are the minority.
Guys, honestly, this modification is awesome, loads of SSR all over the place, it’s as close to the E3 2012 demo that I’ve seen. It’s very VRAM intensive though, I can barely get 30fps on my GTX 660. The lighting is just beautiful, looks natural and destroys the console version, no wonder Ubisoft didn’t want to release these true settings to PC.
Nice one, didn’t know about that.
The site, or the price?
Both. Can’t complain at 55% off but haters will hate.
I remember this meme. My eyes instantly go left, then right, then left again for a longer look.
mine looks jaggy, what AA and res you use?
1920×1080, SMAA
wow
Didn’t the mod author get banned from Guru3D? something to do with TheWorse mod? WTF happened??
Some more personal shots of this mod, 1920×1080, Temporal SMAA.
http://i.imgur.com/Bcm0J0i.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/hEupI7x.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zgfXGiK.jpg