Halo reach looks blurry?

[Vtex]

As the title says, Halo Reach doesn't look good, it looks blurry, I don't remember the name of this effect but it makes the game not look sharp at all. This effect didn't exist on the Xbox 360 as far as I remember, after playing for a while it gets very tiring on the eyes.
(I have the default graphics on high)

Is there any graphic option, solution or mod that could help? Thanks

[SR388]

is it the anti aliasing?

[Fastspectre]

no a year or so ago in a patch they added this weird ugly bloomy smear effect to it and said that it was that way when it released... on xbox
maybe it was but we had it for years without it, nice crisp hd and they f'ed it up without implementing a checkbox in the graphic settings to turn it off...
and till this day they haven't given us that option...
because they hate Reach, and want you to become a stan and only play halo 3
i'm not a fan of mods but if there is a standalone mod that ONLY removes that fn blurry smear effect from reach i'd install that
devs NOT doing their job right again...

[Vtex]

Originally posted by Fastspectre:

no a year or so ago in a patch they added this weird ugly bloomy smear effect to it and said that it was that way when it released... on xbox
maybe it was but we had it for years without it, nice crisp hd and they f'ed it up without implementing a checkbox in the graphic settings to turn it off...
and till this day they haven't given us that option...
because they hate Reach, and want you to become a stan and only play halo 3
i'm not a fan of mods but if there is a standalone mod that ONLY removes that fn blurry smear effect from reach i'd install that
devs NOT doing their job right again...

I just saw a comparison and it looked so much better before, the effect it has now makes me want to tear my eyes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_eVjS_OdI0

[Vtex]

Originally posted by SR388:

is it the anti aliasing?

I confirm that it is nothing that can be changed.

[EvilTaffyapple]

Originally posted by Vtex:

Originally posted by Fastspectre:

no a year or so ago in a patch they added this weird ugly bloomy smear effect to it and said that it was that way when it released... on xbox
maybe it was but we had it for years without it, nice crisp hd and they f'ed it up without implementing a checkbox in the graphic settings to turn it off...
and till this day they haven't given us that option...
because they hate Reach, and want you to become a stan and only play halo 3
i'm not a fan of mods but if there is a standalone mod that ONLY removes that fn blurry smear effect from reach i'd install that
devs NOT doing their job right again...

I just saw a comparison and it looked so much better before, the effect it has now makes me want to tear my eyes out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_eVjS_OdI0

But the video you posted literally shows the pc version isn't affected by blur

[Fax_the_Sender]

xbox 360 version had bloom and motion blur and AA which made it all really blurry.
mcc reach released without all that but a later update added the bloom back.

[Snark]

It's the awful bloom effect, it wasn't there on release, it was patched in.

Essentially Halo purists on Youtube complained that the bloom didn't scale properly on the MCC. Ironically this bug made the game look better because it minimized the bloom and made the image look crisper. You see the actual resolution and scale of the bloom on the Xbox 360 version of Reach was terrible.

The devs released an update that restored the awful bloom and never gave you an option to turn it off. Sometimes fans need to realize that not everything that's authentic is actually good. Something similar happened with a GTA4 restoration where the fan base cranked up the low res bloom up to 11, essentially dating the graphics further just cause it was like that on Xbox, lmao.

Your only way of turning the bloom off is either making a mod or replacing the current maps with an earlier version before the update.

[Fax_the_Sender]

i've already modded all the maps on my install to remove the bloom.

[Vtex]

Originally posted by Fax_the_Sender:

i've already modded all the maps on my install to remove the bloom.

Does that include the campaign levels or do you mean the multiplayer maps?

[Fax_the_Sender]

i've only done the campaign maps and firefight so far.

[Vtex]

Originally posted by Fax_the_Sender:

i've only done the campaign maps and firefight so far.

Sorry for the late reply, is this a nexus mod? I would really appreciate it if you could share it, since the only Halo I play more than the others is Reach and I would like to enjoy it more, thanks!

[Fax_the_Sender]

it will be soon.