After the record-breaking launch of The Black Myth: Wukong, updates are slowly starting to roll in. Today we released patch 1.0.8.14860 for PC and PlayStation 5.
The patch, which is about 1.6GB in size, includes a number of fixes and adjustments, as well as a single balance change for a specific boss.
Warning! Spoilers for “Black Myth: Wukong” follow.
According to the patch notes below, update 1.0.8.14860 slightly reduces the stats of Yaoguai King “Captain Wise-Voice”.
Captain Wise-Voice is a mandatory boss fight against Yaoguai King and is one of the four “Captains” you can encounter in Chapter 3. If you’re having trouble, check out IGN’s Captain Wise-Voice boss fight guide for helpful tips on how to emerge victorious from this tricky battle.
Black Myth: Wukong has sold an incredible 10 million copies in just three days, according to developer Game Science. The action RPG, which inspired by the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West”recorded an incredible three million concurrent players across all platforms.
On Steam, Black Myth: Wukong has broken a number of concurrent player records. It is the most played single-player game of all time on Valve’s platform, ahead of CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077, and the second most played game on Steam, now behind only battle royale PUBG. (Sony does not make PlayStation player counts publicly available.) In fact, Black Myth: Wukong helped Steam set a new concurrent player record.
Black Myth: Wukong Update 1.0.8.14860 Patch Notes:
Important updates:
- Fixed an issue where enabling FSR could cause some players to crash during launch or the prologue.
- Fixed a crash issue in certain areas of Webbed Hollow when NVIDIA Full Ray Tracing is enabled.
- Fixed an issue that caused hair to stretch abnormally.
- The hair effects for the Yaoguai King “Lingxuzi” have been optimized.
- Fixed an issue where certain enemies could get stuck in their movement in certain situations.
- Yaoguai King “Captain Wise-Voice”’s stats have been slightly reduced.
- Fixed an issue where the Lesser Yaoguai “Lantern Warden” attack in the Pagoda Realm could knock players into walls.
- Fixed an issue where the Summoner could become stuck and unresponsive when performing Whirling Strikes in Stance.
- Fixed an issue where the Chosen One could not change stances properly in Chapter 6.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Chosen to experience stat errors in certain situations.
- Fixed an issue where the icon for the quest related to Yaoguai Chieftain “Daoist Mi” would continue to appear in the travel menu after the quest could not be completed.
- Fixed an issue where the progress bar when collecting portraits in journals was incorrect.
- Fixed some text errors in Chinese.
- Added translations for portraits in multiple languages and optimized existing translations.
- Added translations for song titles and lyrics in multiple languages in the Music Library and fixed display errors for English lyrics.
- Optimized translations for talents, equipment and inventory in several languages and fixed some text errors.
- The layout of subtitles in multiple languages has been improved.
- The translation of loading screen tips has been optimized in several languages.
Additionally, we’ve identified an issue where setting the system language to Turkish on PS5 causes the game to crash on launch. Similarly, setting the Windows system language to Turkish on the PC version may occasionally cause crashes during certain boss fights.
If you are experiencing this issue, the current temporary workaround is to change the console language to English or another language from the PS5 main menu: Settings > System > Language > Console Language. For the PC version, please change the Windows display language to English or another language from the operating system settings: Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region > Windows display language.
We are actively working on resolving this issue and will address it in an upcoming patch. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
IGN reported on a super cool Black Myth: Wukong secret that lets you summon a boss to defeat another boss while basically doing nothingand how An optional boss encountered very early in the game completely destroys players. While you’re here, IGN has many more Black Myth: Wukong guides to help you out, including Important tips and tricks, Things Black Myth: Wukong doesn’t tell youand our Boss list and guides.
IGN’s Black Myth: Wukong Review gave it 8/10. We said, “Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.”
Last week IGN confirmed an email from the Black Myth: Wukong marketing team It informed content creators who were assigned a Steam key that they were not allowed to include “feminist propaganda” or use so-called “trigger words” such as COVID-19 in their reporting.
Game science has not yet provided an answer to Previous report from IGN Compilation of numerous sexist comments from studio founders and other developers over the last decade.
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