Bloated Stars and Blurred Backgrounds

[Eva]

For those of you running Post Processing at Epic, you may have noticed the bloated stars. This is because at epic level of post processing, depth of field is turned on.

This can be cured two different ways:

1) Turn Post Processing down to High instead of Epic.
2) Leave it at Epic but use the following console command:

r.DepthOfFieldQuality 0

In general, I hate depth of field in games anyway, because it isn't very realistic due to the game not know where I am looking. When I look at stars, I focus on the stars. When I am looking at the background, I look at the background.

As an aside, for those running on Xbox series X, it has depth of field turned on. Again, you can get rid of much of the blurring of both stars and background objects by using the console command above.

The game developers would have done the players a real service if they had explained somewhere accessible from in game what the various levels of things do. What is the difference between Low and Medium Advanced graphics? What is the difference between High and Epic Post Processing, etc.

[Scheneighnay]

Is there any documentation on what the settings all do?

I've been interested in the specifics of a few of them for reasons like that.

[Eva]

For Ark Ascension itself, I haven't run into it. There IS documentation of some of the unreal 5 stuff. The only trouble is it is a very long list of commands so it might take a while to find anything in particular.

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/unreal-engine-5-all-console-variables-and-commands/608054