Story mode cut-scenes have awful color?

[MrH]

Is it just me or what? The scenes with JC are especially orange, and other parts are extremely dark. The gameplay itself looks great.

[Aeon Reaper]

yeah same thing

[Moojo]

In the video options, try setting the Gamma at around 85-90, and Contrast at 70-75.
You can also lower the brightness a bit.

[Grubbo]

High Voltage ****ed up the story mode cutscenes. Crushed the black levels, and other nasty things. Have NO idea why.

[Dennis G]

I worked at NetherRealm on story mode and am a PC player. I'm having this same issue and was hoping it was just me or some easy fix but I guess I'll contact a few people and see what happens. If I come across a fix I'll report back here.

[Wanderer]

I'm also finding that alternate stages appearing in story mode are quite bright compared to their counterparts. The stages have strange stuttering issues where as the counterpart stages do not.

[Wanderer]

Originally posted by Dennis G:

I worked at NetherRealm on story mode and am a PC player. I'm having this same issue and was hoping it was just me or some easy fix but I guess I'll contact a few people and complain. I don't like seeing my hard work totally destroyed. If I come across a fix I'll report back here.

That would be awesome Dennis. Thank-you from all of us. :)

[MrH]

Originally posted by Dennis G:

I worked at NetherRealm on story mode and am a PC player. I'm having this same issue and was hoping it was just me or some easy fix but I guess I'll contact a few people and see what happens. If I come across a fix I'll report back here.

I'm interested to hear any updates, cheers.

[Dennis G]

I did more testing and it seems that the video gamma/contrast/brightness changes the story mode video as well as the gameplay when it shouldn't. I tried to mod around it or find any configuration settings but it looks like most of that isnt even available to edit in the consumer build. I sent out an email about it which should get into the right hands eventually I hope.

[Zaxx]

Originally posted by Dennis G:

I did more testing and it seems that the video gamma/contrast/brightness changes the story mode video as well as the gameplay when it shouldn't. I tried to mod around it or find any configuration settings but it looks like most of that isnt even available to edit in the consumer build. I sent out an email about it which should get into the right hands eventually I hope.

Everyone has this issue sadly just like the missing animations on the character select screen. Please look at this stuff and try to get out a fix of High Voltage, man! Anyway congrats on the awesome story mode and the excellent game! :)

[Devnant]

A fix would be awesome. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[Brilliant Ben]

Is it just lighting and color problems for the cutscenes? It seems to me like these are low resolution prerendered cutscenes in standard definition. There is such a difference between in game settings at max graphics and the dull low settings graphics of the cut scenes. This was also an issue I was familiar with MK Komplete edition, it had the prerendered cut scenes from the xbox360 game in the PC port.

[Dennis G]

The story scenes are high quality pre rendered video. Higher than the regular game.

[Brilliant Ben]

I'm running ultra settings at 2715p with a gtx980.

Game play just looks some such cleaner and clearer. The cutscenes look almost like 720p not 1080p.

hope this is helpful in some way

This is gameplay screen shot
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417728

And this is cutscene screen shot
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417673

Gameplay
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417561

Cutscene
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417620

[Juxtapose]

Originally posted by TriggerNipples:

I'm running ultra settings at 2715p with a gtx980.

Game play just looks some such cleaner and clearer. The cutscenes look almost like 720p not 1080p.

hope this is helpful in some way

This is gameplay screen shot
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417728

And this is cutscene screen shot
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417673

Gameplay
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417561

Cutscene
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=586417620

It has to be because of the resolution you're playing the game on. Keep in mind the Xbox One version of the game is less than 1080p (something similar to 900p) and the PlayStation 4 version is 1080p.

The PC version is a port of the console versions, I suspect the Xbox One version, so you're playing the game at a higher resolution than the cutscenes were rendered in, I suspect.

[Brilliant Ben]

yeah that was my point. The thread starts with "cut scenes have awful color" and I think thats because, like you have also pointed out, this port has lower resolution cutscenes and graphics settings from the console version which was also the case when they ported the MK Komplete edition to PC. I'm wondering if that is the cause and it not neccessarily be a bug of some sort or I'm totally missing what this thread is referring to. cheers