The Ascent

Overview

U+ for The Ascent is focused on enhancing the strong visuals of the base game and providing quality of life features such as removing black bars, lens dirt, removing character lighting, and controlling FOV.

Setting	Options	Keybind	Description
AutoApplyConfig	off,on		automatically reload settings when config changes - primarily to be used with the UPM overlay
Bloom	game/0-3		Bloom intensity (0.0 = off, 1.0 = default, 2.0 = double, game = use game default)
ChromaticAberration	game,off,on		Recommend disabling in most games as it often just blurs the image for no benefit
DebugLogging	off,on		enable verbose debug logging to UE4SS console - use ALT+D to toggle at runtime
Denoising	game,none		allows turning reflection denoising off which can look better
DepthOfField	game,off,on		depth of field control
EnableKeybinds	off,on		Enables individual setting keybinds if they are available, does not change global keybinds
ExtendedFogQuality	game,epic,ultra,insane		extended volumetric fog quality settings
ExtendedShadowQuality	game,epic,ultra,insane		increases shadow resolution
FOV	game/65-130		Field of view (65-130, game = use game default) - use F10 to reset to game default for cutscenes, F12 to reapply
FilmGrain	game,off,on		film grain effect control
Fog	game,off,on		Turns fog on or off, if on_with_lumen is provided then it allows enabling fog in lumen space (GI and reflections)
LODBias	game,off,minuspoint5,minus1,minus1point5,minus2		Forces textures to be higher resolution, -0.5 is the safest, more can cause frequency patterns to appear, some games benefit from more than others
LODDistanceScale	game,high,veryhigh,epic,ultra,insane		Draw static meshes and foliage at higher quality further away
LensFlare	game,off,on		Allows disabling lens flare
MotionBlur	game/0-1		U+ improves motion blur quality in every game by default, recommend a small amount of blur ~0.2
PostProcessingTonemapperPreset	game,vanilla,morecontrast	CTRL+F6	more_contrast setting can add more depth to the scene
RTAOQuality	game,epic,ultra,insane		increase number of samples per pixel to reduce noise
ReduceInputLatency	game,off,on		reduce input latency at potential FPS cost if not GPU bound
ReflectionQuality	game,epic,ultra		Allows more surfaces to be included in reflections, in some games increasing this can cause some noise
Sharpness	game/0-1		Control UE tonemapper sharpness - recommend setting this to 0 and using RCAS through reshade
SkylightIntensity	game/0-3		Skylight is a flat amount of light added to the scene, it mostly effects outdoors unless a game uses it to light interiors
ViewDistanceScale	game,one,two,three,four		increases view distance scale, affects foliage most noticeably
Vignette	game,off,on	F3	vignette effect control
VolumetricFog	game,off,on,on_disable_emissive	F5	Turns volumetric fog on or off, if on_disable_emissive is provided - it disables the emissive component of fog which can cause fog to be overly intense and washed out

The Ascent

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U+ 2.0

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