Monster Hunter Wilds can look ten times better with just these simple changes

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Modern games adore post processing effects, and often-times they look great. However, Monster Hunter Wilds is not one of those games. Alongside a worse version of DLSS that fans can thankfully upgrade themselves, Capcom’s latest fantasy hunting game has a large number of post-processing effects that make the game look pretty damn muddy.

Thankfully, players on PC can disable a number of these effects themselves to make the game look ten times better. However, you’ll need to delve into the modding community to do it. (You should also grab the mod that gives you unlimited character edits for free.)

Make Monster Hunter Wilds look ten times better

While there are mods that turn off a number of effects, there’s really only one effect that drastically reduces the image quality of Monster Hunter Wilds: lens distortion. While this effect can be set to “off” in the game’s config file, doing this doesn’t actually work.

Thankfully, modder SnakeyHips has released a mod that actually disables lens distortion in the new game to give players a much clearer image. The mod also disables the game’s built-in film grain effect.

“Although there are options to disable this within the game’s config.ini, changing that doesn’t seem to do anything so that’s why I looked into changing it via a script,” the modder revealed on Nexus Mods.

Lens distortion is a great effect for making more cinematic-style games. For something like The Last of Us or Until Dawn, it’s amazing. You get chromatic aberration and softer edges with great depth of field that you would see in a cinematic film captured through a real lens. However, for a game like Monster Hunter Wilds, it just results in a softer image.

As the game gets even more mods, it seems obvious that even more graphical mods will come with higher quality textures and the like. However, with the game’s performance already in the toilet, maybe that’s not wise.