As promised by Game Science, Black Myth: Wukong has a new update on PC and PS5, and it’s fairly sizable. In terms of gameplay improvements, it makes some changes against the Yaoguai King, “Giant Shigandang.” The exact nature of these is unknown, but it likely makes for a more fun fight, especially after complaints.
The Journeyer’s Chart, introduced in a prior patch as a map, will now properly guide players to the Keeper’s Shrine to pick up their first chart. However, the update’s main appeal is the various performance improvements. PC players can look forward to AMD FSR 4 support, improved global illumination at low settings, and Compatible Mode.
On PS5, Performance Mode has gone back to 60 Hz. While lighting quality is “adjusted,” input latency is lower and the output resolution is higher. The game’s loading speed, clarity of “certain textures,” and more have also been improved.
Check out the full patch notes below for more details. Alongside PS5 and PC, Black Myth: Wukong is available for Xbox Series X/S. For more details, head here for our review.
Black Myth: Wukong 1.0.20.21756 Patch Notes [PS5, PC]
Experience Improvements
Bosses
- Improved the combat experience against Yaoguai King “Giant Shigandang”.
Interaction
- Journeyer’s Chart interface will guide the Destined One to Travel with Keeper’s Shrine before any Journeyer’s Chart has been obtained.
- Improved the readability of the “Cleared” label in the “Load Journey” interface.
Performance
- Integrated AMD FSR4. On compatible hardware, it will be available in the in-game Settings after updating the driver and enabling FSR4 in the driver settings. (PC)
- Improved Compatible Mode. Now, with Compatible Mode enabled, ray tracing, frame generation, and some super-resolution functions will be temporarily disabled to help players avoid game launch failures caused by driver, hardware, or system abnormalities. (PC)
- Adjusted the default graphics settings for certain graphics cards to match the various graphical changes in the current game version. (PC)
- Significantly improved the lighting quality when Global Illumination is set to low, making it closer to the effect when Global Illumination is set to high. (PC)
- Adjusted Performance Mode back to 60Hz, reducing input latency and achieving higher resolution than before. However, the lighting quality level has been adjusted to enhance performance. The original Performance Mode is still retained and renamed “Performance Mode (Legacy)”. (PS5)
- Improved the game’s loading speed. (PS5)
- Improved the clarity of certain textures. (PS5)
- Improved CPU and rendering performance in numerous scenarios.
- Improved memory usage in numerous scenarios.
- Improved the quality of motion blur to mitigate the aliasing issues that occur when the camera pans.
Localization
- Added language support for Czech.
Bug Fixes
Bosses
- Fixed an issue where Yaoguai Chief “Top Takes Bottom & Bottom Takes Top” became undefeatable under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue where the iron ball failed to display properly during battles against Yaoguai Chief “Top Takes Bottom & Bottom Takes Top” under certain conditions.
Performance
- Fixed several issues that caused screen ghosting and edge flickering. (PS5)
- Fixed an issue where XeSS 2.0 failed to enable frame generation on some displays. (PC)
- Fixed an issue where the game might crash on launch when both DLSS 4 frame generation and ray tracing were enabled. (PC)
- Fixed multiple rendering errors in NXSR that caused ghosting and edge flickering, and improved NXSR’s rendering quality. (PC)
Localization
- Fixed text overlapping in the “Make Medicine” interface for certain languages.
- Fixed voiceover and subtitle errors in certain cutscenes.
- Fixed an issue where some text in Settings was not properly localized.
- Corrected translation errors and fixed issues with spelling, capitalization, and terminology consistency in several languages.
