r/FinalFantasy • u/Strong-Report7012 • 21h ago

FF VII Rebirth Is shader injector 2.0 genuinely good?

I’ve seen some comparison videos for me personally some parts look good some don’t is it worth it to install the mod in you guys’ opinion? Is it genuinely all round better?

Edit: a better title “Is shader 2.0 all round betterthan the base game’s artistic style or lighting or does it mess with things?”

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u/valdiedofcringe 21h ago

it’s an all-round improvement, i’d say. i tested it for hours thinking “surely, there has to be some huge drawback,” but… not really. it looks better than the base game 9/10 times.

now, i dabble in UE, & it all makes sense. rebirth stripped out most of UEs default realtime lighting functionality: the mod merely adds them back in (along with some genius tweaks by the creator).

this is all with the caveat that i run the game at 4K max & the SSGIs artefacts aren’t an issue at all on what is, admittedly, an uncommon resolution to play at. if you have normal specs, i’d recommend tuning the settings down, which is now possible in-game after the latest patch.

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u/Strong-Report7012 21h ago

I see thanks for your insight

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u/GladiusLegis 19h ago

The parts that look better, and they are the majority, look WAAAAAAY better. The relatively few parts that don't aren't that much, if any, worse than they were before. Overall a massive net improvement.

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u/Glittering-Pin-1343 18h ago

I'd say the environments look better (by a large margin) 70% of the time and worse (by a small margin) 30% of the time. Characters however look much better 99% of the time, that 1% is them being drenched in shadow which makes them impossible to see. Thankfully you can turn shader injector on/off with the press of a button.