Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

James Cameron's Avatar
James Cameron's Avatar: The Game	2009
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora	2023

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a singleplayer first-person RPG game in the James Cameron's Avatar series.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store		Deluxe Edition, Gold Edition, and Ultimate Edition also available.
		Deluxe Edition, Gold Edition, and Ultimate Edition also available.
Green Man Gaming		Deluxe Edition, Gold Edition, and Ultimate Edition also available.
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+. Deluxe Edition, Gold Edition and Ultimate Edition also available.

All versions require Ubisoft Connect, Denuvo Anti-Tamper, and VMProtect DRM.

Version differences

Standard Edition

Includes the base game and the Child of Two Worlds DLC as a pre-order bonus.

Gold Edition

Includes the contents of the Standard Edition and the Season Pass.

Ultimate Edition

Includes the contents of the Gold Edition, the Sarentu Heritage Cosmetic Pack and the Sarentu Hunter Equipment Pack DLCs.

Monetization

Type	Notes
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.
Subscription gaming service	Available via Ubisoft+.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Child of Two Worlds	Included with pre-orders.
Season Pass	Included with the Gold and Ultimate editions of the game.
DLC 1	Upcoming DLC. Included with the Season Pass.
DLC 2	Upcoming DLC. Included with the Season Pass.
Sarentu Heritage Cosmetic Pack	Included with the Ultimate Edition.
Sarentu Hunter Equipment Pack	Included with the Ultimate Edition.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Boost	Utility items can be purchased with Tokens to provide early-game weapons and armor. ^[2]
Cosmetic	Ikran, Armor, and Weapon skins can be purchased using Tokens. ^[2]
Currency	Tokens can be purchased in bundles for real money, at a base rate of 500 Tokens per $4.99 USD ^[2]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\AFOP\

Save game data location

System	Location
Ubisoft Connect	<Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\4740\
Epic Games Launcher	%PROGRAMFILES%\Epic Games\AFOP\

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Ubisoft Connect		Synced saves are accessible on all platforms.^[3]

Video

Graphics settings

Video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		Rendering on multi-monitor setups is supported via AMD Eyefinity and Nvidia Surround technologies.^[4]
Ultra-widescreen		Cutscenes are pillarboxed to 16:9. See Ultrawidescreen Fix/Remove Pillarboxes for a solution.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Slider with 60-105° horizontal FOV range
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Some level of anisotropic filtering seem to be always in use without any apparent in-game option to control it
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Game has TAA, FSR 3.0 Native and DLSS options. See Anti-aliasing (AA) to disable anti-aliasing.
High-fidelity upscaling		TAAU, FSR 3.0, DLSS 3.5 FSR 3.0 (with Frame Generation), DLSS 3.5 (no Frame Generation, no Ray Reconstruction)^[4]
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Full, half-rate, third-rate and quarter-rate options
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)		HDR Peak Brightness `100 - 5000 nits` slider, HDR Peak Brightness UI `100 - 1000 nits` slider
Ray tracing (RT)		Features ray-traced global illumination^[5], reflections^[6], and contact sun shadows^[7]. The game uses a hybrid of software and hardware raytracing, with a compute shader-based fallback for those GPUs without hardware raytracing.^[8]

Unlock Additional Graphics Settings

Unlock the additional "Unobtanium" preset that exceeds the "Ultra" preset.

Also unlocks the corresponding extended values for some graphics settings used by the "Unobtanium" preset.

Command Line/Launch Options
See command line arguments Use `-unlockmaxsettings` ^[4]

Ultrawidescreen Fix/Remove Pillarboxes

Hex Edit Game Executable

Before editing, make a backup of the afop.exe and afop_plus.exe file in case the modifications go wrong.

Go to <path-to-game>
Open afop.exe (or afop_plus.exe for Ubisoft+ users) with a HexEditor (HxD)
Press Ctrl+F
Select Hex Values tab
Select Search direction Forward
Search for the first instance of 39 8E E3 3F, should be at offset (found on left side) 034FEBE0 as of v.1.03
Replace 39 8E E3 3F with the value for your resolution
Save the file, Ctrl+S

Disable Chromatic Aberration

Edit config file

Before editing, make a backup of the graphic settings.cfg file in case of error.

Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\AFOP
Open graphic settings.cfg with a text editor (e.g. Notepad++)
Change ["chromatic aberration"] = true, to ["chromatic aberration"] = false,
Save the file, Ctrl+S

If ["chromatic aberration"] does not exist, add ["chromatic aberration"] = false, to Graphics section.

Disable Vignette

Edit config file

Before editing, make a backup of the graphic settings.cfg file in case of error.

Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\AFOP
Open graphic settings.cfg with a text editor (e.g. Notepad++)
Change vignette = true, to vignette = false,
Save the file, Ctrl+S

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Disable TAA by editing a config file
Go to the configuration file(s) location. Open the `graphic settings.ini` file in a notepad. Find the TAA line, change its value to `0` and save the changes.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Certain actions such as eat, craft, and climb, are hardcoded and cannot be changed
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration		Supported natively.

PlayStation controllers		DualSense, DualShock 4, DualSense Edge Added in Title Update 3^[9]: Gyro Aiming functionality is supported.
PlayStation button prompts
Light bar support
Adaptive trigger support
DualSense haptic feedback support
Connection modes	Wired

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Controls settings

Audio

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Master Volume, Dialogue Volume, Music Volume, SFX Volume.
Surround sound		Presets: Headphones, TV Speakers, Soundbar, Hifi Stereo Speakers, Surround System. Night Mode toggle for reduced dynamic range. ^[10]
Subtitles		Size: Small, Medium, Large. Background Contrast slider. Speaker Direction toggle.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost		Toggle in settings
Royalty free audio

Localizations

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

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	12

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Anti-cheat	BattlEye

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10, 11	10, 11
Processor (CPU)	AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6 GHz Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.7 GHz	AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 3.7 GHz Intel Core i5-11600K @ 3.9 GHz
System memory (RAM)	16 GB (running dual-channel mode)	16 GB (running dual-channel mode)
Hard disk drive (HDD)	90 GB (SSD)	90 GB (SSD)
Video card (GPU)	AMD RX 5700 (8 GB) Intel Arc A750 (8 GB, with ReBAR on) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB) DirectX 12 compatible	AMD RX 6700 XT (12 GB) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB) DirectX 12 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Minimum is for 30 FPS at 1080p, Low graphics preset, AMD FSR 2 set to Quality.^[11]

Recommended is for 60 FPS at 1080p, High graphics preset, AMD FSR 2 set to Quality. ^[11]

References

↑ Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Massive - last accessed on 2021-10-20
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Does Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Include Microtransactions? – Answered - last accessed on 2023-12-09
↑ Ubisoft Support - Cross-progression in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ PC Features Deep Dive - last accessed on 2023-12-08
↑ Nikolay Stefanov post on X - last accessed on 2023-08-28
↑ Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Offers Ray-Traced GI and Reflections, Next-Gen NPC/Enemy AI - WCCFTech - last accessed on 2023-03-27
↑ Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - PC Features Trailer - last accessed on 2023-08-28
↑ Eurogamer - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - the big developer tech interview - last accessed on 2023-12-18
"I think one of the things that you will see with us is that - as we are all Swedes - we are pretty bad at naming things. So we don't have a catchy name for it. But I think it's a really cool, versatile system that allows us to basically take advantage of all of the different techniques that we've done so far. So, for The Division, we had the probe-based lighting, and this is continued now where we are using it as sort of a cache for the secondary bounces, screen-space GI and ray tracing. Of course we're also taking advantage of hardware ray tracing. But also one of the things that I think we should mention is that we also have a compute shader fallback for this, for graphics cards that don't support hardware-accelerated RT."
↑ AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA - TITLE UPDATE 3 & 3.1 - last accessed on 2024-03-07
↑ Configuring sound levels in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09
↑ ^11.0 ^11.1 Ubisoft System requirements for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09

[1] Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - Massive - last accessed on 2021-10-20

[Microtransactions-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Does Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Include Microtransactions? – Answered - last accessed on 2023-12-09

[3] Ubisoft Support - Cross-progression in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09

[pc-features-deep-dive-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ PC Features Deep Dive - last accessed on 2023-12-08

[5] Nikolay Stefanov post on X - last accessed on 2023-08-28

[6] Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Offers Ray-Traced GI and Reflections, Next-Gen NPC/Enemy AI - WCCFTech - last accessed on 2023-03-27

[7] Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - PC Features Trailer - last accessed on 2023-08-28

[8] Eurogamer - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - the big developer tech interview - last accessed on 2023-12-18
"I think one of the things that you will see with us is that - as we are all Swedes - we are pretty bad at naming things. So we don't have a catchy name for it. But I think it's a really cool, versatile system that allows us to basically take advantage of all of the different techniques that we've done so far. So, for The Division, we had the probe-based lighting, and this is continued now where we are using it as sort of a cache for the secondary bounces, screen-space GI and ray tracing. Of course we're also taking advantage of hardware ray tracing. But also one of the things that I think we should mention is that we also have a compute shader fallback for this, for graphics cards that don't support hardware-accelerated RT."

[9] AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA - TITLE UPDATE 3 & 3.1 - last accessed on 2024-03-07

[Configuring_sound_levels-10] Configuring sound levels in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09

[System_requirements-11] 11.0 ^11.1 Ubisoft System requirements for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora - last accessed on 2023-12-09

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Developers

	Massive Entertainment
	Ubisoft Shanghai
	Ubisoft Stockholm
	Ubisoft Chengdu
	Ubisoft Toronto
	Ubisoft Montpellier
	Ubisoft Kyiv
	Ubisoft Reflections
	Ubisoft Leamington
	Ubisoft Düsseldorf
	Ubisoft Bucharest
	Red Storm Entertainment
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	Snowdrop^[1]
Release dates
Windows	December 7, 2023
Reception
Metacritic	72
OpenCritic	71
IGDB	72
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, Subscription gaming service
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	RPG
Themes	Sci-fi
Series	James Cameron's Avatar