I agree, it's indeed very blurry with AA enabled and even with additional sharpening like reshade the result is not really great.
To avoid this problems I have to increase the resolution through DSR to 5120 x 2880. This demands many fps which makes it not a proper solution.

Please Ubisoft provide us a turn off completly option like it was there in all the previous Assassins Creed's already.
I'd rather have some flickering instead of a forced blurry image.

This whole gets more and more ridcolous.
Just look at the article here:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/future-assassins-creed-valhalla-title-updates-will-be-less-frequent-but-more-refined/

And read this statement:

"Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we always strive to provide you with great experiences,” Ubisoft wrote. “That said, we recognize that some of our recent title updates may not have met your expectations or been up to our standards.

“We have made several changes to production pipelines and tools so that we can deliver more robust updates”, it claimed.

See the community is the heart of everything..probably that's why they are ignoring it in such a consequent manner

This biggest topic ignored is probably this here..but there are others too like these ones, to just give few examples:

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/86962/please-let-us-disable-the-temporal-anti-aliasing?lang=en-US&sort=newest_to_oldest

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/77400/anti-aliasing?_=1619643533779

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/79491/blurry-visuals-specifically-water-odin-sight-highlighted-enemies/6

For me it looks like they are just plainly ignoring all kind of technical issues. Still not sure if they are just not competent enough to fix or just plainly ignorant.

They look into fixing quest bugs and of course their cosmetics to grab some additional cash but simply don't give a poop about any PC related problems or requests.
As long as people somehow can play it..no matter how bad the experience is it's not important enough to look into it.

Reminds me also of an old statement from Ubi at the time of AC Unity when they claimed 30 fps feel more cinematic

https://www.technobuffalo.com/assassins-creed-unity-framerate-30fps-more-cinematic

Another patch, still nothing changed, still no communication.

Honestly, this is a really big disappointment.
Even more that there is no reaction to this topic and Ubisoft just keeps silent about it.

Again, it's like we are asking for a very big thing or something new here.
It's about something which was always possible in all the previous games and suddenly not anymore. Normally you could hope for upgrades or improvements in new games.

Instead we recently got alot of downgrades quality wise. And now even settings wise?

For Example: The Division 2 which in my opinion looks worse than the first part in quite some aspects, especially the NPC's.
Some of them don't even move their mouth while speaking when optaining a quest..

Also Ghost Recon Breakpoint doesn't look that great but is needing such high end specs if you want to play in high quality. Even the characters / NPC's here don't look that great for today standards.

And even Watchdogs legion in which not only the NPC's look less detailed but also the animations look pretty bad compared to the previous games.
To not just bash here..the Raytracing stuff looks really, really pretty there. Also I like their DLSS implementation which doesn't makes the image to blurry / ugly if you use the quality setting.

However, that doesn't justify the bad animations (which actually was one thing Ubisoft was always great in the past) / lack of detail for the character models.

Back to Anti-Aliasing in Valhalla - it's not like there is any good reason to not provide any option as it can't be worse than AC Unity which was flickering terribly without Anti-Aliasing.
But even if, I would still prefer an option to decide on my own which one I prefer.

So again, please Ubisoft give us an option to turn off the Anti Aliasing completly and / or get rid of this blur.
I understand and accept that many people like or don't care about a blurry image, but I and other people do.

I'm an Assassins Creed fan from day one and played all the games so far.
But this blur really gives me a hard time to enjoy the game and I didn't play it yet mainly for that reason.

Please don't ignore and let us down..

@zarael1721
Unfortunately also even the request to add an option to disable Anti-Aliasing was neither implemented nor acknowledged.
It's just a shame that they removed the option in this game at the first place. Instead of giving more options they even reduce it and force blur which even if just a minority of people dislike alot.

While I know this problem may be minor and not important for most people for me it's really bothering. As I stated already in other threads (which got obviously ignored) I didn't play the game yet for this reason.
But reading all this comments here and the little reaction from Ubisoft side I fear despite that it's most probably a very quick thing to do they may just continue ignoring it..

I was a big fan of Ubisoft games, especially the Assassins Creed games since day one. But the direction they are going and the way they treat customers make me really doubting to buy further Ubisoft games anymore at release. I often even preordered them but if they continue this way I may just grab them in a sale in the future.

From a technical point of view most recent Ubisoft games were quite a disappointment in my opinion. Even tough they post nice videos explaining all the great settings and options the games have I don't feel like the games look much better than the previous games..in some parts they look even worse.

Like Division 2 in which some NPC's don't even move their mouths while speaking while providing new quests.
GRBP which costs so much performance but doesn't look that great either. Or Watchdogs Legion which has a horrible LOD, flickers even with DLSS and a DSR Resolution above 4k..and from the ugly looking hair I don't even have to start. Even some of the animations look quite cheap compared to previous games (but maybe I just remember it wrongly). Also they linked some effects to Anti Aliasing. If you disable Anti Aliasing you won't be able to put Reflections Quality to Ultra or even enable Ambient Occlusion. In my opinion such things are also a downgrade. But hey atleast they made a great video before release and show how great the graphic menu and all the options are..

Back to Valhalla they didn't add but just removed options to disable Anti Aliasing..

This is just very disappointing as there was a time when Ubisoft Games despite some downgrades and sometimes alot of bugs in the beginning still were technically very advanced (Animations, effects, overall quality).
Unfortunately I can't see much of that left these days..sure they add some fancy (and indeed good looking) Ray Tracing effects but downgrade or just don't put much effort in many other parts of the games at the same time.

Back to this issue here..it's even more sad that even major problems like this here just takes them ages to not just fix but even acknowledge.

The communication is almost non existent and very poor. And the customer support here feels like they are just here to calm people down and gather some time at best.
The way custommers are treated here is just sad.

Just wondering if Ubisoft even recogniced or read these posts yet. Would be great to know if it's on their radar.
Unfortunately I didn't hear or read anything about this from Ubisoft side yet.

As these kind of option in most cases is probably a little thing to add it would be great if it could be done in one of the next patches.
But even an information that someone is looking into it would be appreciated.

Even tough I don't have this issue mentioned here I still follow this thread to see if someone at Ubi ever decides to look seriously into this topic and fix it.

But simliar to the requests regarding bluryness and asking for option to disable Anti-Aliasing they don't seem to care at all. Tough here they atleast pretended to look into it. The other mentioned topics they just plainly ignored without even feel the need to even reply.

It's so ridicolous that if it wouldn't be so sad it would almost be funny.

The way they threat their customers..they are on a good way to become one of the companies with the worst customer support in the industry. They have a forum and support to pretend they listen and care but simply don't give a **** about the issues and wishes of their customers. Good job.

Dear Ubisoft Support,

Since the game release several people here complained about the blurry graphics compared to Odyssey.
Most of people including me assume it's related to the lack of an option to turn off the Anti-Aliasing, which was present in the previous games and for some reason isn't anymore.

Since there was never a real reply or even acknowledging of this request I start this thread and link all kind of other threads related to the same topic i could find quickly here.
I again ask the support / devs to please have a look into this and either provide us an option to disable the Anti-Aliasing (and or whatever else causes this blur) or let us know why this is not possible.

Please stop ignoring this, it's just plain furstrating.
I understand it may not have been the top priority to look into but I think after all this months we really deserve a reply regarding this topic.

Even if this topic doesn't seem to be a that big issue for many, for some including me it really is and makes the game so much less enjoyable than it could and should be.

Please see here the list of threads already existing regarding this:

Please give us an option to disable the TAA. | Ubisoft Forums

Please, let us disable the temporal anti aliasing. | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

AA No option to disable Anti Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry Game - Temp Fix (Nvidia Only) | Ubisoft Forums

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Blurry Graphics | Ubisoft Forums

What is anti-aliasing in AC Valhalla? | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing in 1080P sucks... | Ubisoft Forums

Why is Anti-Aliasing not able to be completely disabled? | Ubisoft Forums

Please give us the option to completely disable Anti Aliasing! | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry graphics, less detailed textures than in odyssey | Ubisoft Forums

Feedback: Antialiasing | Ubisoft Forums

Missing option to turn off AA | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry visuals (specifically water, odin sight, highlighted enemies) | Ubisoft Forums

Please give option "ANTI ALIASING OFF " | Ubisoft Forums

Another topic not exactly the same but also graphic related..not sure if still existent but here also the link:

[PC] Clutter Ultra setting missing | Ubisoft Forums

Any word on this topic from official side please?

Another patch and still no word about it.
Why is it so hard to just implement a simple option to turn this off? I really don't get it.

It's not like anything which needs alot of investigation or effort..all we ask for is a simple option to turn blurry options / effects off as we always could in the past.
Simple as that.

Any word on this Ubisoft? Or remaining silent and ignoring?

@Ubi-Borealis @Ubi-Mark
Can we please have an offical reply / update here?

So unfortunately I can confirm that not only there is still no toggle to disable anti-aliasing after this patch but that also the only workaround some people were using to disable it is not working anymore.

I really hope that this happend just by chance and Ubi is not using their ressources (they should use to finally after 8 months bring us finally an official option) to sabotage people's workarounds, they used to be finally being able to enjoy the game as they should have been able to, right from the start.

If this happened on purpose this company reached a new low in the gaming industry. Seriously.

@lotan_
Oh wow that true?
Can please someone from UBI bring some insights what's going on here?

@ubi-mark
Thanks alot for finally replying to our posts, I honestly appreciate it.
I really hope the devs will implement an option as it would be such a big help for me and others to finally enjoy the game for real.

As for me I tried to counter the blur and achieve a nice picture quality several times with all kind of tricks I could think off like reshade, DSR etc. but just didn't manage to get a result I could really enjoy.

In that regard I stoped playing after a very short time and delayed in hope we still get an option in some time.

So thanks again..also for forwarding to the dev team and looking forward to hear from you again once there is any news / update.
Even if it took very long if we in the end finally get an option I will still be very happy and appreciating.

@vincent13122 Yeah that's a very good example. I don't really understand how this can be considered as good looking as it just puts a blur on your image and hides all the little details and nice textures the devs created.
If I would create nice textures and then others put such ugly effects on it that people can't even see all the work i did anymore I would be quite annoyed.

So feel free to make a TAA implementation but if you do..please, please, please give us an option to turn it off. It can't be that hard isn't it?

@fgxraven Totally agree with all you said. It's just sad how much blur is used these days and more and more devs feel instead of giving more options to reduce it. It's sadening to see how often these days games get released without basic options to turn of Anti-Aliasing, Depth of Field and Motion Blur. Luckily atleast majority of devs decide to provide an option with some patch or offer the option through ini file adjumstments. Unfortunately not so Ubisoft as it seems.

It's indeed a huge step back and if I compare ACO to ACV I have to say ACO looks just so much better. This is an immense downgrade in my opinion. Sadly it would only need a simple little thing to just add an option to solve this issue but it seems that's already to much to ask for. But it's calming to know that Ubisoft despite ignoring us since this game got realesed says: "Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we always strive to provide you with great experiences.."

How about showing us this being at their hearts by finally acknowleding and listening to us instead of ignoring? Someone from Ubi listening?

So, any news from Ubi Side? Or still planing to continue your big silent?
Interestingly many devs these days think they need to force TAA or some other ugly blur effects on people.

However big majority of them atleast leave the option to disable this stuff in their config files.
Just today had another example and tested it for new released "Days Gone". This game is also terribly blurry in standard settings.

However you can disable TAA and DOF in the config files. The game has alot of Aliasing I noticed after disabling it, so I kind of understand that they tried to get rid of by intense blur.
Nevertheless the game looks just so much better without these effects turned on that I can gladly look past this jaggies.

So I'm asking here why did some smart brains at UBI think that it's not just enough to not give an option anymore in the menu (which again, was always there in every past game before) but also made sure that you can't change anything helpful in the config files?

And more than that..how can a company be so ignorant to ignore such simple requests (which shouldn't even need to be made at first place) from their fans and customers for months already now without even just acknowleding or just say any word about it?

This is just disrespectfull beyond words.

@katzenkrimis71

Hmm that's a pitty..but the big issue with the framedrops for many people also happened after a patch.
In that regards it seems Ubi was good to introduce some new nice "tweaks".

Dear Ubisoft Support,

Since the game release several people here complained about the blurry graphics compared to Odyssey.
Most of people including me assume it's related to the lack of an option to turn off the Anti-Aliasing, which was present in the previous games and for some reason isn't anymore.

Since there was never a real reply or even acknowledging of this request I start this thread and link all kind of other threads related to the same topic i could find quickly here.
I again ask the support / devs to please have a look into this and either provide us an option to disable the Anti-Aliasing (and or whatever else causes this blur) or let us know why this is not possible.

Please stop ignoring this, it's just plain furstrating.
I understand it may not have been the top priority to look into but I think after all this months we really deserve a reply regarding this topic.

Even if this topic doesn't seem to be a that big issue for many, for some including me it really is and makes the game so much less enjoyable than it could and should be.

Please see here the list of threads already existing regarding this:

Please give us an option to disable the TAA. | Ubisoft Forums

Please, let us disable the temporal anti aliasing. | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

AA No option to disable Anti Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry Game - Temp Fix (Nvidia Only) | Ubisoft Forums

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Blurry Graphics | Ubisoft Forums

What is anti-aliasing in AC Valhalla? | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing in 1080P sucks... | Ubisoft Forums

Why is Anti-Aliasing not able to be completely disabled? | Ubisoft Forums

Please give us the option to completely disable Anti Aliasing! | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry graphics, less detailed textures than in odyssey | Ubisoft Forums

Feedback: Antialiasing | Ubisoft Forums

Missing option to turn off AA | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry visuals (specifically water, odin sight, highlighted enemies) | Ubisoft Forums

Please give option "ANTI ALIASING OFF " | Ubisoft Forums

Another topic not exactly the same but also graphic related..not sure if still existent but here also the link:

[PC] Clutter Ultra setting missing | Ubisoft Forums

This whole gets more and more ridcolous.
Just look at the article here:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/future-assassins-creed-valhalla-title-updates-will-be-less-frequent-but-more-refined/

And read this statement:

"Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we always strive to provide you with great experiences,” Ubisoft wrote. “That said, we recognize that some of our recent title updates may not have met your expectations or been up to our standards.

“We have made several changes to production pipelines and tools so that we can deliver more robust updates”, it claimed.

See the community is the heart of everything..probably that's why they are ignoring it in such a consequent manner

This biggest topic ignored is probably this here..but there are others too like these ones, to just give few examples:

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/86962/please-let-us-disable-the-temporal-anti-aliasing?lang=en-US&sort=newest_to_oldest

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/77400/anti-aliasing?_=1619643533779

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/79491/blurry-visuals-specifically-water-odin-sight-highlighted-enemies/6

For me it looks like they are just plainly ignoring all kind of technical issues. Still not sure if they are just not competent enough to fix or just plainly ignorant.

They look into fixing quest bugs and of course their cosmetics to grab some additional cash but simply don't give a poop about any PC related problems or requests.
As long as people somehow can play it..no matter how bad the experience is it's not important enough to look into it.

Reminds me also of an old statement from Ubi at the time of AC Unity when they claimed 30 fps feel more cinematic

https://www.technobuffalo.com/assassins-creed-unity-framerate-30fps-more-cinematic