When using the low setting for the "Effects" option, the game will start looking like this at random. Sometimes it's right after starting the game, other times after a few minutes of play. Regardless, it never takes too long to happen and renders the game unplayable.

This is a glitch with the Depth of Field implementation. For some reason, it just becomes too strong when the "Effects" setting is set to low. One fix is to increase this setting's quality, but that's very demanding and will considerably lower the fps (I lose anywhere between 15 to 20 fps depending on the scene). So that's not ideal. Another fix is to simply quit to the main menu and load the game again, but since this glitch happens so fast, it's also not ideal to have to do this every three minutes or so.

The best fix for this is to simply disable Depth of Field. This can be done by going to the game's config file and adding a simple cvar.

Go to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pathless\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor.

Open Engine.ini and add the following lines at the bottom:

[SystemSettings]
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

Save the file.

This permanently fixes the glitch while maintaining low settings, so there's no negative impact on the fps. This is how the game should look from now on:


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