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)

343: removes motion blur and film grain LNG: I added motion blur and film grain

Beautiful, ain’t it. Someone oughta take a picture.

Should have stopped at 3:17. In my opinion, it looked fine there...

"a game I used to think not so highly of in the Halo series." Careful Arbiter, what you say is *heresy*

Nice cracks on Noble 6. Really adds a nice...oh, that’s just the cracks on my phone screen :/

Just finishing Halo 3: ODST for the first time as I got this notification.

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.

Always adored Halo reach despite the flaws, glad someone can find a new appreciation in the game even with mods

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

Mods are nearly upon us, whether 343 intended for it or not. It's going to be a wide ride ahide of us...

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!

Consoles players: *"Time to play Halo."* 🤤 PC players: *"Time to mess with Halo."* 🤓

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

“Enhance”: * saturation *Up* * contrast *Down* Brightness *Down*

Taking notes on rouge one to make a video on reach is on a level of irony I can't get to.

Loved your Reach streams!

It was a blast to be a part of the stream, please do more streams like this

2:06 hell yeah black and white reach I was wrong

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

Halo reach is basically the rogue one of halo. Actually, the other way around

The grittiness and war like atmosphere of reach is exactly why I loved it so much.

I love how energetic and funny you are, great videos!

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 really like your new video style, you also feel a lot more confident! Always waiting for your next upload - A fan from Finland

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

Looks to blurry for my taste personally I would make the colours more vivid and leave it like that

The blue's from the vehicle boosts is gorgeous with the tweaks

Ah yes, the most excellent game ever. Borderlands 5: Reach

I can't wait for all the mods and custom campaigns Halo reach will get when it comes out!!!

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.

I can't believe you took my favorite game and edited it. . . . It looks f*cking awesome

I LOVE what you did with it, LOVE it. I wish they added a setting that looked like that to the game itself.

I love the gritty Reach atmosphere.

I can't stop smiling when watching this, I'm getting some heavy nostalgia vibes

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.

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!

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.

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).

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.

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.

3:20 hey, look. It's the Hollywood blockbuster "orange foreground, blue background" look.

Excellent video.

When you used the Borderlands style it honestly made me think of more of a Halo wars 1 vibe

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

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.

It's been an honor

You forgot to add the "cinematic 24 fps"

5:17 I felt something when I saw that blur at the top of the screen. That looks so beautiful

Great work but youtube compression makes it all look too fuzzy

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.

This does put a smile on my face

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've been waiting for this one...

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.

I’m looking forward to what we can mod onto this game

Is that a "Borderlines" look or a "Halo Mega Bloks" game look? It perfectly fits the ascetic that that game would have

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!

Reach will always be the best Halo game imo

Your tinkering (minus the level of blur you used; personal preference, there) looked excellent - _much_ better than just... _drown _*_everything_*_ in color upscaling._ But, you were right: you made the colors _pop_ without leading to ocular bleeding, while retaining a somewhat drab/gritty look in the environment. Good work - maybe...save that preset as a baseline and share it when the time is right?

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.

Let me guess, your home? It was... it was beautiful...

A good showcase of the reshade menu, but personally not my taste on anything after the colour correction. Good job though man.

Love the way you say pop! It's like... *POP*

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.

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

I would never really consider the games made by bungie as having an art style of goofy for Halo

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 !!!

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.

These videos are what got me to download Reshade. I'm glad they did, Reshade is pretty fun.

I'm a lazy reshader. I only check Chlarity, Curves, Finesharp Typ 2, Fake HDR and then I'm fine. It works for me the most times. But you are really good in adjusting colors, depth of field and motion blure.

making a beautiful game even more beautiful!

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.

the intro music really makin me go "huh?... huh?... huh?..."

Inb4 we get skyrim level ENB shaders and texture packs for the game

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!

The “dirt and scratches” on the visor is literally a stock image in hundreds of editing pack on KZfaq. I’ve seen this overlay so many times.

Someone here mentioned Halo 4 and I would love to request you make that one a more traditional halo style of color tones. The big flaw with 4 was that aesthetic for the game. So seeing it with bright colors instead of bland and silver metal might really get it om that Halo feel from the original trilogy

Can't wait for SPV3.2. Do a video on it when it comes out.

I always find my self watching your videos while I'm high as hell. they're very intriguing in that state. they're pretty good sober too

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?! 😂

You should do a dark and gridy halo 2 on one of the flood missions, make the lighting look like there's dust in it like there are beams of light, and the shadows dark, reflections more shiny etc. Almost a horror flood mission, I would love to see that.

I'm so excited to see a Halo 2A with cinematics graphic

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.

I tweked Quakespasm`s quake 1 via the opengl api with Reshade and holy shit does this program deserves praise.

I wonder if 343 will implement something like this for a special reach immersion campaign. Have tuned level by level shaders that up the atmosphere, for levels where you take impacts in cutscenes have a damaged visor that catches the light a little.

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

Halo 2 pc with a ps4 controller it was actually plays great

This is sick

We may never see true Reach remaster but at least we can fiddle around with what it may look like

How many weeks do you anticipate I’d have to wait until I can buy this on Steam?

I would love to see a weapons and sfx overhaul

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.

Holy crap. You should make like, a full playthrough of reach with both your customised gritty look and the borderlands one.

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!

I gotta admit, this is really kickass. Remember those mods people did on the console version of reach, where they modified weapon characteristics, and combined vehicles with forge elements? We gonna soon be able to do that, but with greater precision and know-how than ever before. With this video, we have taken our first step into a much larger, and more vast universe than what most of us thought possible. The dark times are no more.

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.

I wouldn’t mind PS4 controller support for Halo, cause playing Halo with mouse and keyboards just feels weird as hell

My man this fking amazing.