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Blacktail

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Blacktail
Blacktail cover
Developers
The Parasight
Publishers
Focus Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 4
Release dates
Windows December 15, 2022
Reception
Metacritic 80
OpenCritic 80
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives First-person
Controls Direct control
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Fantasy
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Blacktail is a singleplayer first-person action and adventure game.

General information

Official Discord server
GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %LOCALAPPDATA%\BLACKTAIL\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1532690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\BLACKTAIL\Saved\SaveGames
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1532690/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable TAA by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.PostProcessAAQuality=0

Depth Of field

Disable Depth Of Field by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.DepthOfFieldQuality=0

Sharpening

Disable Sharpening by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.Tonemapper.Sharpen=0
Disables the Sharpening filter that's used alongside TAA. Recommended to use with the TAA workaround, as the game may appear oversharpened after removing TAA.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Enable Anisotropic filtering by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.MaxAnisotropy=16

Chromatic aberration

Disable Chromatic aberration by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0

Motion blur

Disable Motion blur by editing a config file
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open the Engine.ini file with a notepad.
  3. Add the following lines to the bottom of the file and save the changes:
[SystemSettings]
r.MotionBlurQuality=0

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, Music, Voice Over and Sound Effects
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 12
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-3570K
AMD FX-4300
System memory (RAM) 8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 20 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 960
AMD Radeon RX 470
4 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1532690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1532690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. BLACKTAIL Launches December 15th With DLSS 2 - last accessed on 2022-12-01