Option to remove film grain!

[Eiyer]

Is there any way to remove film grain? I've looked for INI files and there are none, and no options in the game to remove it. It is overbearing...my whole screen is nothing but static outside of the flashlight zone!

[Dr. Faustus]

i second this idea.
or at least give a film grain slider like in l4d2 to reduce the grain.

[Buon Tia]

This is one of the things that I hate the most about this game.

[Igor_HellishGuy-c902]

idk what kind of "film grain" but i did notice the effect of wearing helmet

[Alphaweibchen]

It's that weird white noise effect (is it even called that?) And I agree, some people like it, some don't, Slider sounds perfect.

[general3009]

maybe that will be one of the new settings that come out in the beta.

[Jeremiah]

+1

[Eiyer]

I'm glad so many agree, wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't overwhelming my screen, but it's literally all you can see, especially outside of flash light.

[G.M.S.]

i could barely stand in the menu without feeling like i had a needle going trough my eye.. i dont want to sound exaggerated.. but woa.. this has the worst Chromatic Aberration filter i ever experienced... on top of this film grain and so many filters im not sure i even understand !!!..

i seriously do hope this gets options to turn off or adjust with slider as mentioned, as some other games provide that option.

i feel extremely turned off by this effects and actually makes me sad, i added this game on wishlist back in 2017... the mood/ambient creepy feeling for co op horror shooter seems spot on, but then.. what the heck is going on with this seizure inducing filter fest ?!?! ......gosh...

Sounds weird complaining like this when maybe core concept/game play is what should matter.. but i cant help but feel this effects are so bad it actually overcomes the rest... not that anyone will care with my opinion but i had to trow this out for the few mins i could endure trying it...

[Eiyer]

G.M.S, Core gameplay is what matters most, but when everywhere you look is nothing but sparkly white dots, it completely overwhelms the gameplay. I understand it's supposed to be hard to see on here, but it shouldn't be hard to see cause of Film Grain. Dark is fine, sparkly dots are not.

[ProdigyXP]

I wonder if we are all seeing the same thing (being serious, not trolling)? Maybe in some PC configs this is looking different or overly exaggerated to some? (not talking about the character select screen) I wasn't seeing anything like what some are describing. It sounds like some descriptions are the snow effect when trying to tune in a TV channel in the old days. The closest I saw to something like that was dust motes, but it was very subtle to me. Probably too late now, but screenshots would tell us.

[Shrinkshooter]

Originally posted by ProdigyXP:

Probably too late now, but screenshots would tell us.

The film grain is rather strong. You can see here in the screenshot the bullet casing is covered in visual noise. That's the grain.

[ProdigyXP]

Man, I wish I could get back in to see from my end. That looks really bad, but I don't recall it looking anything close to that on my end. That's some extreme grain.

EDIT: I’m a knucklehead. I was remoted into my home PC when I looked at your screenshot and am using 8-bit color for speed considerations in the remote software so it was looking way more grainy than your actual screenshot is. ;-)

[Eiyer]

Yeah, see...that's extremely ridiculous...No reason it should be so STRONG. It blinds you to everything. I'd much rather it be extremely dark than hard to see because of the grain.