Black Myth Wukong Gets a Huge Update On PS5

One of the most surprising things about this particular update, other than the fact that this update comes a year after the game was released, is the fact that this update is 93GB in size. Let me repeat, it is 93GB. Now, why is that? Here is a list of all the patch notes included in this update for the game.

Bosses

• Improved the combat experience against Yaoguai King “Giant Shigandang”.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

• Added language support for Czech. 

A Big Update for a Big Game

Now, this is a lot. I get it. But this patch includes so many performance updates, as well as gameplay experience updates. Many of these updates are pretty insignificant on their own, but collectively, the fixes are pretty substantial. Now you don’t need to download this update. You can play the older version of Black Myth Wukong just fine, especially if you don’t want to try to make space in your already full PlayStation. However, if you are interested, I just want to let you know what all entails in this update.