Graphics look awful

[xsg]

I have gone through every setting but the game just looks outdated/like a cartoon. Compared to what I have seen online my graphics look so bad. Is there a setting I am missing or shaders I need to install?

[IMAPRO POTATO]

go on king mods and try some shaders other than that i dont know

[TommyFresh]

It will look pretty bad on lower resolutions. What you've seen online is most likely 4k (even if the video is downscaled to 1080p) I run on 1440p and whack render resolution up to 200% and that looks as good as you can get it. Still not the best graphics when comparing to other games but it looks pretty decent.

[n00b]

"Awful" is just too much of a subjective description, nobody is able to identify which aspects of the game graphics you consider awful. Screenshots for illustration are pretty much needed for a proper discussion.

But in the end, it may just boil down to "what you want is definitely overwhelming any existing hardware based on the state of the game's codebase". Just as an example, I would consider the night light simulation to look pretty awful - once you are too far away from any light source, it stops getting rendered at all, leaving the objects it illuminates in the dark. Or consider the mirrors at night: They are not dark, but show the landscape illuminated - because showing mirror content basically requires another landscape to be rendered per mirror, and because it is just a tiny detail, and players might not play at "game" night as much as "game" day, I can understand that proper rendering of mirrors at night is not the highest priority.

[ROCKnROLLA]

Originally posted by Real-Gotten Gains:

I have gone through every setting but the game just looks outdated/like a cartoon. Compared to what I have seen online my graphics look so bad. Is there a setting I am missing or shaders I need to install?

What graphics card are you using? What resolution are you set to?

[UltraZippy]

Depending on your setup you could try following this video by Farmer Klein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oYBFXpQsMU it's based on an Nvidia 3080 setup but he goes through the settings