The launch of Assassin’s Creed Mirage has returned us to the origins of a saga that was born more than fifteen years ago. With a more contained experience in its scope that tries to remember those first adventures we lived with Ezio and Altair, Ubisoft intended to once again win over veteran players who were somewhat disenchanted with the progress of the saga. The mission has only been half accomplished and some users accuse the company of carrying out the launch in a somewhat hasty manner. A situation that invites you to think very important absence when configuring the visual section.
An oversight makes Assassin’s Creed Mirage ‘unplayable’ for some users
The new Ubisoft title has a graphic adjustment called “Chromatic Aberration” activated by default. It is very likely that you have seen these two words appearing together in the options menu of a large number of titles without understanding what they mean. What you should know is that it is a distortion in colors of the image captured by a lens that appears around the edges of objects. Generally, it causes the object in question to be outlined with colors that do not correspond to it. There are different degrees of intensity depending on how the capture is carried out. We won’t go much deeper into the explanation because you’ll see it right away.
Why do video games introduce chromatic aberration? The truth is that this technique has become popular in recent years as it offers more cinematic and ‘photorealistic’ results. You won’t see it like that in the screenshots, but static images usually don’t do justice to what it really achieves. However, there are two factors to take into account. On the one hand, it must be applied with skill and the right degree of intensity. On the other hand, it is important to give players the option to delete it, as some users may suffer motion sickness. It is exactly the same thing that happens to certain players with virtual reality (and many people traveling by car) and it manifests itself with headaches, dizziness or vomiting.
Chromatic aberration is that effect that you can see in the image on the right (Via Twitter, @NikTekOfficial)
In this sense, Assassin’s Creed Mirage combines the intense application of Chromatic Aberration with the fact that cannot be disabled. This situation has caused many users to express their complaints. “The chromatic aberration in Assassin’s Creed Mirage is very bad. Coupled with the idea of making things look blurry and bad in general, this is killing the game for me (…) It’s starting to give me a headache and makes me feeling nauseous after not long. It’s a shame, because I also really wanted to. Come on, Ubisoft. How come you didn’t realize this?” said a user on Reddit. The problem has also been expressed on other social networks. “Why doesn’t Ubisoft allow you to remove it? It’s very distracting and doesn’t add anything to graphical fidelity beyond making you feel dizzy while playing,” said another user.
Although so far Ubisoft has not made a public statement Regarding this situation, it seems unthinkable that they would leave the problem to be solved. This is a failure that can affect – even temporarily – the health of users, preventing them from enjoying the title. Plus, it doesn’t seem particularly difficult to fix. In fact, the PC community already has access to mods that remove it.
