Resident Evil 2 (2019) Brightness Fix

Resident Evil 2 (2019) default brightness settings give a washed out look. Forcing players to do their own calibration in-game. The reason is so everyone is able to accurately calibrate the look of the game to match their TV/Monitor in order to give everyone the best expereince possible. This is all well and good but it left many individuals confused since its out of the norm for a game to be like this. Not everyone is going to understand that this needed to be done as most would just jump into the game and not think about it andthose of us who did do the calibaration are either left saisfied with the result or left feeling like it still wasn't right.

This preset is made for the unsatisfied people. If you have already set the brightness correctly and you are satisfied with the result and are just looking for a reshade preset to boost the look of the game then this is NOT for you.

Check out RE IMMERSION - RESHADE 2. 0 by jimmyandresrg instead

Now bare in mind, I'm not sure if this will work for others but hopefully it does.

The first thing I did was set my brightness settings according to the games instructions and got my results. It looked good but I didn't FEEL right. So I put the in-game brightness back to default settings and created this reshade profile with Reshade version 4. 5. 4 and tried to match how it looked with my in-game brightness calibaration from before. I got a result that ended up looking extremely simimlar in the end LOL. I did FEEL satisfied though and it FELT better to me. I also decresed the greenish filter it had. I wanted to decrese it a bit more but I felt it ruined the look a bit so I put it back up a bit.

Last but not least. I sharpened up the image and increased the colours but only a little bit.

I realise the the brightness corrections I made are more of a placebo effect since they are pretty simimlar to how it looked after i did my in game calibration but it certainly FEEls right to me and hopefully this can be a universal solution for the unsatisfied and those that want a quick fix but want to preserve the original look.

IMPORTANT

I made this preset with after modding out the games own Vignette and Sharpenning effects. Why? Because i hate Vignetting in games and I'd rather have a sharpening effect in a game that I can fine tune in case I don't like the default setting. You cant adjust either of those in the games settings unortunately and I cannot understand why Capcom did this but they did. So if you download this preset and you haven't modded those features out tthen it may not look right. That being said, Vignette shuldn't be negatively affected by my preset since its not much diiferent from adjusting your in-game brightness setting. If it is then i appologise. Sharpenning could pose as a problem however if you haven't disabled it in-game. Look at the instrc