Why does the game look so bad even on ultra?

[Helldivers™ 2]

1080p, ultra settings, TAA on/off no difference, native display mode, the game looks worse than most games i have played the last 5 years, and the performance is terrible too.

That makes me think it must be some kind of bug, because there is no reason the game should logically look or perform like that in 2024.

edit: blocking anyone who keeps whining about 1080p as if it is not the most popular res by far, but something weird and alien. Every other game looks way better at 1080p than this, so point invalid

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Messaggio originale di Deep Rock Galactic:

Messaggio originale di Meatbug:

Unless you provide details what's your actual issue, this smells like troll post.
Do you have issues with blurry textures?
Bad resolution?
Artifacts?

Or are you trying to say that the visual art direction isn't to your liking, cause, you know, these are 2 absolutely different things.

1. Antialiasing off = jaggy hell. Antialiasing on = worst TAA in HISTORY of gaming, blurry mess.
2. Ultra quality upscale = worse than any upscaler i have ever seen.
3. Textures are very low res.
4. Fps are about half they should be for the visuals.
5. Anisotropic is wonky, at distances the ground looks like a mess.
6. Enemy animations, especially bugs, are often choppy, like i can see each individual frame, i think it's a "smart" optimization.
7. Everything looks washed out "maybe just bad art style".
8. Ambient occlusion almost missing, even on ultra
9. Almost no shadows
10. Ship has visibly lower graphics than the rest of the game.
11. Draw distance is bad even on ultra.
12. Effects are fine but explosions a lot of times look like a JPEG.
... .. .... and more

Maybe you should not play this game on a potato.

[Beytran70]

Also just for the actual discussion topic I think the graphics are fine, but to me what I really like are the animations and physics interactions. The way the bugs and bots react to being hit in various locations is really great.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Messaggio originale di Deep Rock Galactic:

Messaggio originale di Eagle_of_Fire:

Maybe you should not play this game on a potato.

1. I run the game at 60fps (but it should be 100 considering it looks so bad)
2. You should know at this point in 2024 that bad performance does not affect visuals. Even if i DID play with a potato, it would look the same. That means you are trolling and im blocking you ;).

"The whole world is wrong, it is not me."

Yeah, we can all see how it is.

[Normarry]

Messaggio originale di Deep Rock Galactic:

Messaggio originale di Eagle_of_Fire:

Maybe you should not play this game on a potato.

1. I run the game at 60fps (but it should be 100 considering it looks so bad)
2. You should know at this point in 2024 that bad performance does not affect visuals. Even if i DID play with a potato, it would look the same. That means you are trolling and im blocking you ;).

You must've come from reddit lmao no way your out here trying to beef with graphics with a game as successful as HD2.

[BigCheese]

I think the game looks really good visually. Maybe something is going wrong because it really doesn't look bad at all. I get the performance issues when things get crazy and that is annoying, but the visual fidelity is good overall.

[Plank]

I think the game looks decent. The bigger issue is why I can't keep a stable FPS despite the game not maxing any of my resources.

[Normarry]

Messaggio originale di Deep Rock Galactic:

Messaggio originale di Normarry:

You must've come from reddit lmao no way your out here trying to beef with graphics with a game as successful as HD2.

Ah yes i forgot, if something is successful it means it has no flaws and you should never say it isnt perfect. Anything out of line is invalid. That reminds me of something..hmm.. ah yes, reddit. Hive mentality drone

Oh yes this is where our thinking glasses come in

[Bilbster]

game looks excellent at 3440x1440 ultrawide with maxed out settings. Make sure you dont have any upscaling options activated, plus 1080p is also getting outdated. If you are not willing to pay the price for higher resolutions and better gpus, id say you are not in a position to moan over about something "looking bad".

[Lord Bullingdon]

I think it looks fantastic

[Simulacrum111]

Messaggio originale di Deep Rock Galactic:

Messaggio originale di Simulacrum111:

1080p is the main issue. Many modern games will not look good at that resolution.

Allow me to disagree, because everything else looks good, and this is not a modern game anyway, the tech is before 2020..

Definitely allowed. I gave my subjective opinion as all opinions are in regard to what "looks good."

1080p does not look good to me. 1080p looks good to you.

Neither of us is wrong. My advise would be to increase the resolution if possible. Your advise would be?

Modern game is a subjective term as well but I would definitely challenge that the technology used in this game in antiquated. Cutting edge? Maybe, maybe not depending on what custom tech they have incorporated.

I can say without much reservation at all that at 4K Ultra the game looks good. Since the OP is using Ultra settings already the easiest adjustment I feel the Op can make is adjust the resolution.

The OP could try playing around with reShade or see if there is anything good on Nexus mods but both would require a bit more effort.

Ultimately, to each their own.

[Ryzilynt]

I'm afraid it's a troll block.

[Sadist_cain]

Who on earth still uses 1080 for gaming really? that ♥♥♥♥ is far more antique than the engine.

Plus older engines usually have more features, albeit less graphics capability, compared to modern ones.
Physics in modern games for example is practically non existent, hardware acceleration 3d audio is a thing of the past and so on.

[SnowMew]

Lot of people keep blaming the engine because it was discontinued in 2018.

Fatshark (Who co-founded Bitsquid, the people who made the engine before Autodesk acquired it) are still keeping it up to date and modern. Look at Warhammer 40K: Darktide. The game looks fantastic. Its art direction and assets are gorgeous.

Besides, how Helldivers 2 looks is less to do with the engine itself and more so its art direction and the quality of its assets.

Personally, I don't think the game is ugly.

[SupaPlayer]

It may depend on your computer, I recently got a new high end computer and performance is perfectly fine for me with frames and everything (except game-fault crashes and freezes). About graphics I think they look pretty good and realistic for what they need to convey

[Lord Bullingdon]

I don't understand the modern gamer attitude of this constant need to have the craziest graphics imaginable: how good do you want it to look? How much more do you want games to push the graphics before it looks "good" to you people? We are now at a level where the graphics in games are totally sufficient and really don't need to be improved on THAT much more. I'd rather games stay looking like this and push the envelope in other ways. Plus who wants to keep buying a new pc / graphics card / processor every few years.