Enhancing the graphics of Halo Reach on PC | Modding Reach with Reshade
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2019
- It finally arrived. The first flight for Halo Reach on PC. It was surprisingly well optimized considering all the factors that must have gone into translating a game designed for a very specific set of hardware and controller over to a WIDE range of computers and keyboard and mouse types. In this video, we will be enhancing and modding the visuals of Reach on PC with the help of Reshade!
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Best part? You don’t need to play the game this way :) we can make Reach look like whatever we want
I enjoy the filmic look that per object motion blur and other affects add to a game and for me personally it enhances my experience with a game (Doom 2016 still being my personal favorite use of the effect) but others certainly don’t. It’s how I enjoy my games :)
I like beefing up the visual presentation and making them feel very “exaggerated” which looks awesome on my 1440p, HDR, 144hz monitor
(A fun idea would be black and white with film scratches to make it look like WW2 footage)
Am late night gaming I went back to see your old Monday Q/A,s and when a question about removing sprent thing is do battlefield , call of duty, RAINBOW SIX SIEGE. and more FPS have sprent so HALO community may not grow but spartan slam and Ground pound hope fully recovered
how did you install re-shade in reach?
After the installation of reshade the game give me a message of error and don't start... It means that I'm fucked?
@@Ersymondequartiere312 heres a fix for your halo reach,go into halo reaches directory and delete all of the things reguarding reshade, you could probably delete just 1 of the components of the program and it will disable it from being used
@@evanwiger so you download the program Reshade and then you launch the exe that's in the rar you downloaded,
then it asks you to choose the game launcher which for example will be halo.exe then check all boxes cause you want all effects and after that it will ask you to edit at this point close the program and then start the game and while in game push Home and boom your done now just have fun playing with the options available ^~^
343: removes motion blur and film grain
LNG: I added motion blur and film grain
very glad motion blur is gone it should be on option an not forced on to you
What is motion blur and film grain?
@@liquidtea9554 the worst thing to have in video games lmao
@@IHaveBadWiFiBro Next to DOF
@@liquidtea9554 dogshit ^_________________________________^
Beautiful, ain’t it. Someone oughta take a picture.
Just like a postcard.
Dear Sarge,
Kicking ass in outer space. Wish you were here.
It's almost like a post card. _Dear Sarge..._
@@VeryFamousActor _Kicking ass in outer space, wish you were here._
@ This channel does not exist "I heard that, jackass!" x^D
Bungie's environment designers knew what the ladies like.
Should have stopped at 3:17.
In my opinion, it looked fine there...
loopysausage holy shit yes
"work still needed to be done though"
loopysausage no it’s too oversaturated in my opinion, and I like more saturated pictures usually.
@@Ben-fq1lj I agree
Agreed
"a game I used to think not so highly of in the Halo series."
Careful Arbiter, what you say is *heresy*
Is it? Oracle, what was Reach's multiplayer?
@@Dave_Chrome I love you random stranger.
@@jspr1272 You're pretty good too man
Dave Chrome Did you not like Reach’s multiplayer? It was probably my favourite.
@@provablegrub4581 I loved it too, but there were definitely a few changes to halo's core multiplayer mechanics that rubbed people the wrong way. Armor lock, no shield bleed through, that sort of thing. I found it overall solid though.
Nice cracks on Noble 6. Really adds a nice...oh, that’s just the cracks on my phone screen :/
JOHN-117 Wake up John
*I need you*
JOHN-117 same
are the cracks from what you were doing with that bomb?
Just finishing Halo 3: ODST for the first time as I got this notification.
@@ZeroSmokes yep.
So you're under 12 then?
@@jaxoncully6182 Uncalled for.
@@jaxoncully6182 no, I only got into Halo about 2ish years ago, didn't get MCC until Christmas 2018 and only got ODST recently.
Helljumpers
I have used reshade with like, 90% of my steam games. Seeing world at war bright and vibrant, and Hitman 2 in black and white really changes the tone.
Ooo I want to try hitman like that now. Dying light could look cool as fuck with reshade
How dare you desecrate WAW with light and vibrancy!
@@andrewgentry2411 I know this was 9 months ago but he’s fucking right that’s like taking max Payne and turning the color all the way up with saturation and more brightness or something and put happy music behind it (if you don’t get it look up how depressing max Payne is and you will get the point)
Just a slap in the face to the developers vision. I can just imagine how fucking goofy the zombies mode looks
@@GexWozniack every word is a extra gamma point percentage
Always adored Halo reach despite the flaws, glad someone can find a new appreciation in the game even with mods
5hane9ro
It’s my favorite. Idk what’s he’s talking about with the game looking “drab”. I think the colors are just more tastefully done. It reminds me of a water color painting:
@@neomcdoom I have a hard time picking my favorite Halo unlike most franchises where I can easily pick my favorite, but Reach is up there with 3 and ODST battling for my favorite. I'm fine with the colors but I can see the complaint since reach isn't as vibrant colorwise as a game like Halo 3 or 4. But knowing how hard it can be to use vibrant colors in a more gritty feeling game, like only a few things I've seen pulled it off well (even rogue one, the example in the video, I don't think pulled it off too well)
@@5hane9ro 3 had trash multiplayer but the best campaign so its hard for me, I think reach or halo 2 take the spot for me
@@sethrussell7771 how did 3 have trash multiplayer? Of literally any of the Halo games 3 of all games you say had trash multiplayer? How? HOW?
5hane9ro Reach is easily the best halo
Honestly think you took it too far, looks too blurry and too colorful. 3:17 looked great; 6:20 looks like an over-edited Instagram photo lol
Brock D I disagree. I'd like to play it on both and I think I might even prefer 6:20 a bit.
3:17 looks close to Modern Warfare 2, 6:20 looks more like Killzone
I think that's what he was going for, trying to make it look over-the-top and satirical in a way
Would you consider doing the same with the other Halo games? Particularly Halo 4, since I imagine with the already amazing appearance it has you can make it even better!
That would be awesome.
We'll have to wait for Halo 4 to come to PC first, which, since it's last for MCC, will 100% be after Infinite comes out.
@@KayJay01 uhm not necessarily true. who said mcc will take that long for pc?
Tha Nerrd They've said the order they'll work to port the games is reach, 2,3, odst then 4 last. If we generously allocate 2 months for each game, then that's 8 months after Reach is done. Reach won't be done until this Autumn at this speed and 2 months is very generous. I wouldn't be surprised if Halo 4 takes until Infinite, but that's just my guess.
KayJay I don’t think CE and H2 would take very long since they’re already native to PC and Halo 3 already has a port thanks to ElDewrito. I hope it doesn’t take too long but you could be right. In the end, I’d rather have a finished product, plus this gives me more time to build the perfect rig for Halo ;)
Mods are nearly upon us, whether 343 intended for it or not. It's going to be a wide ride ahide of us...
They must have foreseen it at the very least
They already officially stated that modding will be a thing and that they plan to provide modding tools in the future. Also, they've been actively working with modding teams, such as the team behind Project Durango, to help make the transition to PC easier and provide the support that modders need and request.
I thought they said that they’ll support mods.
@@daed1819 they said they're on the table. Depends how flexible they are with mcc open drm support.
@@darkfable199 if they support mods on PC then they need to support mods on xbox
I really get what you were going for and for the most part agree - but gee did the actual gameplay hurt my eyes. It did kinda feel like I was wearing some fuzzy glasses that weren't meant for me and I actually took a small break so my eyes wouldn't hurt.
edit: granted the youtube compression probably exasperated it
Taking notes on rouge one to make a video on reach is on a level of irony I can't get to.
2:06 hell yeah black and white reach
I was wrong
Reach Noir would be awesome as balls.
Not as much as ODST More Noir though.
new alexandria could work with noir aesthetic
The grittiness and war like atmosphere of reach is exactly why I loved it so much.
Consoles players: *"Time to play Halo."* 🤤
PC players: *"Time to mess with Halo."* 🤓
I can't wait to find out what mods will come from 11 years of Halo games
@DreamWarriorFish I really hope it won't come to that. 343i wouldn't allow such a thing to infect their game.
THE POTATO lol wat you scared of mods or something. Not like in a lot of cases they straight up improve the game or anything.
@@newlandpencilnut4754 No, I'm scared of DDossers mostly.
Loved your Reach streams!
I can't stop smiling when watching this, I'm getting some heavy nostalgia vibes
I love how energetic and funny you are, great videos!
Imagine ODST's rainy night city with Reshade giving it a more blue stormy feel just like how the original Halo 3: Recon trailer was.
Oh god, ODST with more intense lighting/shadows, depth of field, etc... holy fuck am I ready
Looks to blurry for my taste personally I would make the colours more vivid and leave it like that
Halo reach is basically the rogue one of halo. Actually, the other way around
The Halo series is the rogue one of Reach?
@@ZekeWaters_ Rogue one is basically the Halo reach of Star Wars
I love the gritty Reach atmosphere.
I can't wait for all the mods and custom campaigns Halo reach will get when it comes out!!!
“Enhance”: * saturation *Up* * contrast *Down* Brightness *Down*
It was a blast to be a part of the stream, please do more streams like this
Definitly feels like too much
Maybe some dirt effects for a bit with the crash but looks way too blindingly bright with the vibrancy for the ground
Game looks really nice as is anyway
I really like your new video style, you also feel a lot more confident! Always waiting for your next upload - A fan from Finland
Thank you so much for testing this, I wasn't in the first flight and this was one of the couple of things that I was wondering if it could be done or not!!
I respect the work you put in to create a cool immersion on a game that I see a lot of potential in. Can't wait for you to do the rest of the missions and even possibly campaigns.
3:20 hey, look. It's the Hollywood blockbuster "orange foreground, blue background" look.
I can't believe you took my favorite game and edited it. . . . It looks f*cking awesome
How exactly in reshade are you changing weapon view models? Like I've seen the sliders and stuff but I don't know what exactly you're doing to use this feature of reshade.
Any help would be great, I don't see much about it specifically online.
It's been an honor
I loved Reach when it came out. It explored the more gritty tone of Halo. The things we don't normally see running around as The Chief.
In Reach we witness a battle that can't be won by Spartans all destined to die in the name of Humanity and it's preservation. We see true sacrifice and loss.
Though we know the outcome we still see those few that risked everything to make a difference.
When you used the Borderlands style it honestly made me think of more of a Halo wars 1 vibe
I LOVE what you did with it, LOVE it. I wish they added a setting that looked like that to the game itself.
The blue's from the vehicle boosts is gorgeous with the tweaks
Ah yes, the most excellent game ever. Borderlands 5: Reach
Great work but youtube compression makes it all look too fuzzy
5:17 I felt something when I saw that blur at the top of the screen. That looks so beautiful
This does put a smile on my face
Excellent video.
Really love the enhancements you made to the level, and that Halolands could be a separate mod. A new age of Halo modding is upon us
does the reshader mod work for any game? I recently go into the newest SPV3 mod and would like to play around with the visual setting in that as well!
Yupp any game
Yep! I was playing SPV3 with reshade yesterday! Hell it works on halo CE haha
@@LateNightHalo awesome I'd really like to play around with and see what visuals I can pull off
I'm familiar with Reshade use it all the time, But would you mind telling me what Reshade setting you used at 4:29 to better the Shadows? Is it "Levels" or some kind of Tonemapping? Thanks.
people are upset about you messing around with the kinks? y'know what.... they are just gonna sit there and watch anyway because we're gonna break the living hell out of this game
It reminds of the Japanese audience in gaming in which they don't like it when people mess with the game which the devs didn't intend (I believe they say disgracing the devs). Something like LNG did would tick them off or modding the base game with extra stuff like with Halo SPV3.
So what you're saying is don't kink shame?
Just out of curiosity, how easy is it to go into the game folder and modify say... an audio file? I didn’t get picked for this flight sadly
Looking forward to modding Reach when it comes out on PC.
Weird to me hearing about these folks getting onto you for messing with the game's visuals, but it's cool to see you took note of that and making it feel consistent (at least for that one level).
This video reminds me of earlier days during my game development studies. A lot of people dragging sliders and just trying to make things until it "looks cool".
It's a cool and fun thing to do! It seems like you already have deeper insight than many of my peers had.
Colour grading and post FX are so complex, where it takes years to master. I was fortunate enough to work with a few film directors who wanted to branch into video games and learnt do much. It's pretty cool to see people making videos and having a good time with experimentation!
I do have some feedback. You quickly identified that the grading and FX wouldn't work in differing levels - very well done! These things need to be done dynamically - in modern games you might be able to spot developers changing them if you look closely (Destiny 2 is quite obvious and a good example). Even walking into areas with different lighting will require changes to colour grading and AO.
Also - remember that colour grading isn't just about the environment! We are playing from the point of view of the protagonist and the story is also significant. Our world can change from vibrant colours to mute and blueish even though the only thing that has changed is our protagonists mentality (think the last level in Reach).
Also, as a rule of thumb you would never add static grittiness/etc. to your camera (visor view). Especially in games that transition camera views (it's so hard when the tool you are using isn't verbose enough). I can't remember the name of the game but one of the coolest instances of this effect is dynamic and based on the environment (possibly Kill Zone?).
Keep up the great work, I hope you are enjoying working on these videos as much as I am with watching them!
Inb4 we get skyrim level ENB shaders and texture packs for the game
Halo reach big titty mod
leave that shit in skyrim thank you
@@TheMirixboy "yeah man leave excellent graphical upgrades to Skyrim"
Bruh wtf are you on
@@michaelwright7689 I was referring to titty mods and all those waifu mods. Not sure why you assumed graphical mods but not titty mods lol
@@TheMirixboy You didn't tag Helljumper when you responded so I assumed you were responding to OP. Sorry about the mix-up.
Halo reach is the first game I ever played/owned and I absolutely adore it. It's like my first game couldn't have been a better one. I prefer it over so many current games even now. And I'm so overwhelmingly happy reach is getting so much new content now. I f***ing LOVE Reach so much
It's cool to see all how little things can make a big difference amd that simingly anodine choices can change a lot of the experience.
2:47 What was the tool you used. (anyone else can answer if they know)
How many weeks do you anticipate I’d have to wait until I can buy this on Steam?
I've been waiting for this one...
These videos are what got me to download Reshade. I'm glad they did, Reshade is pretty fun.
Is that a "Borderlines" look or a "Halo Mega Bloks" game look? It perfectly fits the ascetic that that game would have
so blurry, I cant play blurry games have to disable all anti-aliasing, motion blur
but AA smoothes edges. thats not what makes games blurry :P
@@MarioMadness1 it blurs edges
@@MarioMadness1 Some text in games like on walls, posters, vehicles, or weapons gets blurry when AA is on
To decrease blur use fxaa not maa
@@upstreamlotus0 FXAA is literally the cheapest form of post process AA that visibly blurs everything
SMAA or TXAA with a sharpening filter are much better choices
Alternatively if your PC can handle hardware AA then MXAA or nVidia's DSR is the way to go
Where would you go to see if you got selected for the test?
LNG, is there a way to modify halo 2's forge/multiplayer to a more colorful set? I mean, it's good but colours doesn't feel alive like in halo 3.
Even tried some effects and Nova makes it feel more comfy, but it's too bright
How did you maka those inperfections?
Or where can I download this preset?
You forgot to add the "cinematic 24 fps"
Nice man...halo and reshade - perfect combination
Have you had a chance to try out the new ray tracing settings in reshade? Would love to see how reach looks with that on!
do the effects of Reshade apply to all game modes, including multiplayer?
That's what I was looking for man! The fuzziness, the lighting and the enhanced colours. Thanks a lot for the video! When I first played reach it looked so washed out and dark I thought the game was broken.
This is how I remember my first experience with the visuals of Halo 1 and 2 on XBox.
How long does it take from start to finish to set up Reshade? I'm really thinking of adding this brand of tweaks to my Reach PC experience. C:
Do you think I could run this or any other Halos on my integrated graphics laptop? I'm hoping I could at least run halo 3
Yeah... Reach was suppose to be gritty, gloom, and hopeless.
That being said... don’t really care for your reshade. However, I did enjoy the video.
Love the way you say pop! It's like... *POP*
Resahde and Sweetfx are things that makes me LOVE pc gaming... just the fact that you can upgrade a game's graphics so easily is just amazing !!!
Professional designer here (just a fact, not a flex): I gotta say, while I agree Reach's art style, while beautiful in it's own way and fitting for the game's theme & story, I am not really a fan of the modifications you made. The VISR effects are way too pronounced and don't really fit the game very well. I get what you were going for, but it is just not a great route in my opinion.
The colours are not terrible, although the added contrast dealt through them (or whatever other effect[s] you applied) causes Halo 4 level issues with the lighting, and obscures a lot of texture details. I honestly think (and this is nothing on you personally, just a general statement) that the game would benefit more from someone releasing an updated texture pack for certain textures, more than anything else really. I noticed that despite the vastly improved visuals, thanks to both the increased resolution as well as the frame rate, a lot of the textures on larger objects & terrain look exceedingly blurry & flat at even medium range. It's not a massive problem, being that it's only certain textures in specific areas & since it's hardly at a level that is too distracting, but it would still be a incredible difference if they were redesigned at a much, much higher resolution (say, >8K or so) and then downsampled if need be, hardware / engine dictating.
Also, the DoF effect is cool and all, but would be better served if it were gradually faded into the arm/weapon & foregrounded objects the closer it got to the player (aka edges of the screen). I don't know if that is even possible using the mod you used, but if so, I think that would definitely make it easier on the eyes.
Despite all of that, though, it's a really cool video. I may have to go about trying it out myself.
Always loved the way you representing your creativity and your own perspective of things. Work u done for Reach PC build is impressive. How can we do the same thing or something we'd like to? Will u make some sort of guide for that?
Would really appreciate that.
I will make a Reshade guide in the future so everyone can make their perfect Halo!
making a beautiful game even more beautiful!
I feel like a lot of the changes were too much for me personally, but that's the great thing about reshade, it's customizable. I think the best way to go is to add a slight amount of saturation, fxaa and msaa x4, ambient occlusion, and anisotropic filtering.
So glad to have Reach in MCC AND on PC. One of my favorite games to ever play, I feel like I can really STEP INTO Noble Six’s character the badass dude without a real background, like you can make of him (and even “her” too!) what you want. The armor customization is also the best in the whole series of Halos imo.
How the heck do you get reshade to work on Windows games?? I sure cant
Yes, because when I think of a war on reach where plant/human life is getting exterminated by aliens. I think of colors and motion blur.
reshade is customizable chill
You know you don’t have to use this, right?
I’m looking forward to what we can mod onto this game
Is there a frame cap on the halo games for pc?
I was so early, the vid only loaded at 144p with a terribile fps rate! Perfect to watch a video about graphics, ain't it?! 😂
Buy topping up the graphics module are you changing the shade colours which have made improvements which the PC is gradually testing outreach before it comes to the platform on the MCC on Xbox 1
I think the color improvements your changing already with reshade make the game look 100 times better! The vibrancy still works with the music in my opinion!
And what you need next is new sound effects for the in game weapons and vehicles.
Reach will always be the best Halo game imo
I wouldn’t mind PS4 controller support for Halo, cause playing Halo with mouse and keyboards just feels weird as hell
The KB+mouse controls looks great. All the videos i Saw, guys said the same thing. Faith, my friend
Coming from Cs, tf2, quake etc. I loooove kb/m for most comp shooters. But I have to agree that controller is where I feel best with halo, even after playing halo online (El dewrito) with kb/m. My xbone controller just feels more right, even if I'm not as accurate
Ikcatcher u can use PS4 controller use dds 4 tools it’s what I do I can’t use my mouse cos it’s breaking
when i got my flight they said NO RECORDING so idk fam
I love the scratches idea and wish they would implement that into the harder difficulties such as in line wolf it adds scratches when taking damage. I believe it would be so good to play it with more and more visor deterioration during the campaign.
Edit I even remembered the thought of first person vehicles would be so great for reaches feeling of being only able to survive barely and losing every battle instead of feeling like mastercheif winning at everything. You really feel like your fighting to get reach clear of as many casualties before it all goes under instead of cheif bringing the fight to them
De momento ¿Cuáles son los requisitos del juego?
Es para prepararme.
I tweked Quakespasm`s quake 1 via the opengl api with Reshade and holy shit does this program deserves praise.
is it possible to mod the graphics to look like halo 3?
A good showcase of the reshade menu, but personally not my taste on anything after the colour correction.
Good job though man.
With the geforce Nvidia filters, you can add subtle changes to some of the filters for more color or saturation but what I liked the most is the clarity filter.
The “dirt and scratches” on the visor is literally a stock image in hundreds of editing pack on UA-cam. I’ve seen this overlay so many times.
what was reach's download size?
I can't wait to enjoy it too! I hope halo reach runs on my pc well, or i'll be a bit sad :(
I find the reshade tool pretty neat. Helps with quick iteration of visuals without needing to recompile / restart the engine for testing shaders / textures.
@Skepz
Honestly, right now (shamefully), it's a 2015 5k imac. Got it from a friend for a great deal (the 5k screen is still one of the best on the market today). It has an i5, 32gb ram, an a 2gb radeon r9 395m.
I want to invest in an eGPU, as my desk is small and putting a tower, cables (cats like to chew on those), and monitor would be tough without a new desk. Apple did disable thunderbolt 2 egpus, but there's a community hack for them to still work just fine though.
@@1337GameDev Probably got a pretty low ceiling on bandwidth if you're piping it out to the gpu and back into the 5k's monitor on TB2. I just hope you do your research before spending a bunch of money on a gpu and enclosure.
Edit: Also I used to work doing maya and substance stuff for UE4 on the same iMac with the same specs, haha. Great screens though. Every PC in the office had two 32inch 1080p screens. That was the good thing about the iMac, was they couldn't give you a garbage screen. I didn't do any engine stuff so the iMac was powerful enough.
I'm so excited to see a Halo 2A with cinematics graphic
Did the 343 studio/dev team work along side bungie when they were making halo games like halo 1-3, and halo ODST and reach?
Let me guess, your home?
It was... it was beautiful...