Comparing the 5 Most Popular Lighting Mods for Cyberpunk 2077 v2.0.2

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A showcase and comparison of the most popular lighting and environment all-in-one mods for Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty. It’s all subjective of course so this is just my opinion on them. I also provide some reshade recommendations at the end.

Lighting Mods in this video:
1) E3 2018 Lighting Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/1347
2) E3VR Lighting Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/6988
3) Natural Californian Lighting Mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/6737
4 & 5) GITS Fuji and Legacy Mods
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/9274

System Specs:
Powercolor 7900 XTX Red Devil
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
64gb RAM

Mod List:
(I have 150+ mods installed so I’m only listing the ones that directly affect visual fidelity. Any texture upscale mod will eat into your VRAM, so be mindful of that)

– HD Reworked Project Ultra Quality https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7652
– NPC Re-texture Project https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10144
– All of XilaMonstrr’s texture upscales not covered in above https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/users/126616023
– Alternative Skin Material https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7341
– Preem Water/Hair/Judy Hair https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/users/24735399
– Weathermancer
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/9805
– Limited HUD
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/2592
– CGI Ads
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10910
– Sexier Ads
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10828
– Blur Begone
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8105
– Better Windows
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7160
– Big Compass Around Circle Minimap
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/10820
– Better Rain
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8076
– Better Headlights
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/5082
– Immersive Flash
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/8233

Time Stamps:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Mod Selection Criteria
01:57 Featured Mods and Settings
03:25 Walkabout
04:28 Stationary
06:40 Driving
07:32 Cutscene
08:15 Thoughts & Analysis
11:45 My Top Picks
13:06 Reshade Recommendations
15:50 Ending Montage

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14 thoughts on “Comparing the 5 Most Popular Lighting Mods for Cyberpunk 2077 v2.0.2”

  1. Just as a little experiment to satisfy my own curiosity, some of the clips used in the video were captured in native UWQHD+ 3840 x 1620 and some were captured in native 3440 x 1440, can you tell which ones are which?

    Source footage was captured @ 75mbps and the video was exported in 1620p, H264 @ 75mbps to minimize any compression artifacts, so most artifacts present are from youtube's own vp09 compression. And yes, there is a clip where I had FSR Quality active (on accident) but that one should be pretty obvious.

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  4. GITS is cool, but once I realized it makes everything "pink" I just couldn't stand it anymore.

    Now I use NCLM with a custom LUT I made which makes things feel more cinematic and not too perfectly realistic.

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  6. I play on an OLED ultrawide monitor and while I love to change LUT/Reshade for most games, I just can't use something else than vanilla in CP2077. In one condition or another the mods will look broken or unbalanced, while vanilla looks good most of the time.

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  11. Fake HDR is a really great reshade recommendation it makes areas darker and more moody (do increase brightness to get good contrast ) but it allows for most neon signs in the game to come out more and look better especially during night time

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