Mod removes the yellow filter from Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced ships with a yellow color grade baked in, making Edward Kenway look perpetually sun-baked and the Caribbean waters lean green. A modder called Blu has already fixed it.

Blu's reshade preset, ACBlackFlag Natural Colors, strips out the yellow tint and corrects oversaturated colors on top of that. You need the latest version of ReShade to run it. If you're already going down the mod rabbit hole, two other tools are worth grabbing alongside it: ACBlackFlagFix uncaps the cutscene framerate, sets cloth simulation to 60 fps, and removes pillarboxing, while Fast Launch skips the unskippable startup videos.

The yellow filter — sometimes called the "Mexican filter" after its heavy use in Traffic and Breaking Bad, sometimes called something less polite — has a long history in games trying to sell heat and tropics. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is probably the most notorious example, where the amber tint was so aggressive it became a talking point on its own. Black Flag Resynced's version is subtler, but side-by-side screenshots Blu posted make the difference clear enough.

The remaster only just launched, so the mod scene is still early. That three useful fixes already exist suggests the community is paying close attention to what Ubisoft left on the table.