ME2LE Crushed blacks

Isnt it the same in the original 2 too?

I just send a Bug Report to EA about this, would be great if we all could do that in order to get Bioware to understand that it is a common problem.

For a second there, with that title, I thought I was on 4chan.

Ah but as I said, original game was also crushed with blacks. Its how they wanted it to look. I thought it was always a bad choice to curve the S so much from dark end for the game.

With those settings you'll lose all the shadow detail from the scene it seems..

Based on the screenshots I have saved from my medium skintone Shepard on the original game, it was not nearly this bad, especially when you look at that picture of her with Jack on Pragia. The lighting differences on the two characters is absurd.


No, it's the opposite. Detail from the shadow regions comes back (notice you can actually see detail all over Shepard's face), but contrast is lowered, so the shadows are not as deep. Nvidia's in-game filters can help, and with more tweaking yesterday, I ended up with the image below (from a cutscene, because I forgot to take more in-action photos):



It would be far better if Bioware fixed this properly, both because the workaround is inferior and because console players don't even have that option, but I find it far preferable to play this way than to go through another ME2 run with Shepard as a walking shadow.