Summary
PlayStation 5 Pro users are reporting serious image quality issues inAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The Ubisoft open-world title was recently updated with PS5 Pro support, butAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraunfortunately joins the list of lackluster implementations for the upgraded mid-generation console.
Developed by Ubisoft Massive,Avatar: Frontiers of Pandorawas released in December 2023 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Since the open-world action-adventure game only targeted current-gen systems,Avatar: Frontiers of Pandoragarnered heaps of praise for its cutting-edge visuals, particularly its lush jungle environments, superb material quality, ray tracing features, volumetric lighting, and more.Avatar: Frontiers of Pandoratook advantage of the PS5’s feature setas well, even offering a 60fps performance mode for added smoothness.
As the game’s one-year anniversary inches closer, Ubisoft Massive recently issuedTitle Update 1.2 forAvatars: Frontiers of Pandoraalongside itsSecret of the Spiresstory pack. This update added PS5 Pro support forAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora, offering a 60fps framerate at the base PS5’s Quality Mode settings while utilizing PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution. However, the AI upscaler’s implementation has seemingly gone awry, asAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraexhibits worse image quality on PS5 Procompared to the base PS5.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Fans are Frustrated With Shimmering on PS5 Pro
SomeAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraplayers who tried the game on PS5 Protook to ResetErato complain about the “horrendous” image quality, particularly the abundant shimmering on screen that typically results from flubbed resolution upscaling. YouTuber GamingTech further investigatedAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s PSSR woes in a recent video and concurred with the criticism. The shimmering artifacts are most noticeable around foliage, a significant issue consideringAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s environmentsare full of trees and plants. What makes matters worse is thatAvatar: Frontiers of Pandoraonly offers one mode on PS5 Pro with no option to disable PSSR, leaving players stuck with the subpar image quality.
Fans have been attempting to alert Ubisoft Massive aboutAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora’s image quality issues on PS5 Pro, but the studio has yet to acknowledge them. Interestingly, the PS5 Pro versions ofStar Wars Jedi: Survivorand theSilent Hill 2remake faced similar PSSR-related graphical bugs as well. Bloober Team has since fixed the remake’s issues, and EA is activelyinvestigatingStar Wars Jedi: Survivor’s PS5 Pro troubles. Hopefully, Ubisoft Massive is cognizant of the same and is working on rectifying the problems PS5 Pro users are facing withAvatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora
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Protect Pandora. Become Na’Vi. Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ is a first-person, action-adventure game set in the open world of the never-before-seen Western Frontier of Pandora. Abducted by the human militaristic corporation known as the RDA, you, a Na’vi, were trained and molded to serve their purpose. Fifteen years later, you are free, but find yourself a stranger in your birthplace. Reconnect with your lost heritage, discover what it truly means to be Na’vi, and join other clans to protect Pandora from the RDA.
