Shades of Sam Stranding

Created by Voltar

Added June 11, 2021

Shader used: ReShade

Preset description:

Based on my preset for AC Valhalla and tweaked for Death Stranding. Cinematic stylization with more blue tones in blacks/shadows, revised colors/tints, corrected lights/overbrights with some bloom and lens flare effects, polished by balanced level of sharpness. Prerequisites: - disable in-game antialiasing Game engine has strange bug: every time you launching game, TAA enabling itself but in settings it stays as "disabled" - so please reenable/disable AA in graphic options every time or you'll end with in-game "stealthy-enabled" blurry TAA mixed with Reshade SMAA Shaders: 1) FilmicPass 2) prod80_04_Technicolor 3) LiftGammaGain 4) Lightroom 5) Curves 6) Clarity2 (please download this one from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hqdT4zIuRgGN8ATrKCxPnNKF6LePcuGs/view?usp=sharing and place downloaded Clarity2.fx to your \reshade-shaders\shaders\ folder inside game. For copyrights - official source of this shader here https://github.com/Mortalitas/GShade/blob/master/Shaders/Clarity2.fx) 7) SMAA 8) FilmicAnamorphSharpen 9) AmbientLight (with custom textures of dirt and lens flares) 10) Vignette 11) prod80_06_ChromaticAberration 12) Border Installation: Install latest version of Reshade and check shaders listed above (except Clarity2 cause it not included in default repositories, download it from link in shader #6 section). If you don't need (or don't like at all) custom dirt/lensflares effects from AmbientLight shader - you're ready. Or if you want that custom textures and all settings in one pack, just download https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nTAXkxsvLF7o0mM3qekyfPTPzI7598AY/view?usp=sharing (WinRaR v5+ archive) and copy \reshade-shaders\ folder and Reshade.ini file from it to game folder with overwrite of all files. If you don't like dirt and lens flares effects please just uncheck AL_Dirt and AL_Lens from AmbientLight shader.

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