Black Myth: Wukong | August 20, 2024 | PS5/PC

[Dillah810]

I came back from vacation and instant-copped this game to keep from being to pissed about being back. I'm about to get started, any tips for a newcomer who's done zero reading up beyond some glowing reviews of the game.

Explore every nook and cranny of each chapter. When attacking, pick your spots.

 

[Flexington]

For those looking to get every item/trophy there are some things permanently missable once you fight/defeat a chapter’s boss.

Hopefully this will save yall some time if you’re not trying to go through NG+

Spoiler: “All Permanent Missable Items/Achievements”

**Horse Guai NPC:**

There will be a Horse Guai NPC that you can speak to in Chapter 1-5. You need to speak with him in the previous chapter for him to move to the next chapter. You need to make sure that you’ve spoken with the Horse Guai NPC and exhausted his dialogue each chapter, then you can collect the horse transformation after the Keeper of Flaming Mountain boss fight. If you did not speak with the Horse Guai in every location, you will be locked out of his transformation.

**Chapter 1:**

* **Wandering Wright:** This is the giant head monk statue that you encounter very early on in the game. He will permanently despawn after you defeat Elder Jinchi, which prevents you from getting his spirit and the curio that he drops (there is an achievement for collecting all spirits and all curios).

**Chapter 2:**

* **Second Prince of Flowing Sands Spirit:** This is a mandatory boss fight, where you face the second prince and his father. You NEED kill the father first if you want the spirit of the Second Prince. Upon killing the father first, the Second Prince will enrage, and will drop his spirit upon death. If you kill the Second Prince first, you will be locked out of this spirit.

* **Poisestone Spirit:** The Poisestone that drops the spirit despawns after defeating the Mother of Stones boss, locking you out of this spirit. Although it is highly unlikely for you to miss this, given that the Poisestone is right in front of the Mother of Stones, so it’s impossible for you to miss Poisestone and kill the Mother of Stones first.

**Chapter 3:**

* **Auspicious Lantern:** In the Pagoda Realm map, Lantern Wardens will spawn periodically. There is a grand total of NINE Lantern Wardens on the map, and you must defeat each one of them for this curio to drop. You cannot farm the same Lantern Warden nine times; you must kill each individual warden once. Upon defeating Captain Wise-Voice, all Lantern Wardens will despawn, locking you out of this curio.

* **Apramana Bat Boss/Journal Entry:** Apramana Bat is an optional boss located near the North Shore of Bitter Lake. He will permanently despawn after you slide down the long snow slope in the Valley of Ecstasy. You will get his spirit upon defeating Yellowbrow but you will miss out on his journal entry (there is an achievement for unlocking all journal entries). It's unlikely for you to miss this, as Bajie the Pig will ask you to check out his boss arena when you approach it.

**Chapter 4:**

* **Fourth Sister Questline:** The fourth spider sister has a questline, where you must rip off four runes scattered across the map. There is an achievement related to this questline, as well as the Crane Immortal journal entry. Upon defeating the final boss of this area (Hundred Eyed Daoist Master) this quest locks.

* **Venomous Armguard:** Venom Daoist is an optional boss that unlocks the secret area of Chapter 4 for you. He is a centipede monster that has six arms on his back. You need to break at least four arms in the first encounter, and then defeat him for him to drop this arm armor. You break his arms by hitting him on the back. If you defeat him without breaking at least four arms you are locked out of this arm armor. It is recommended that you switch to a low damage weapon for this boss fight, to avoid killing him before breaking four arms.

* **Scorpionlord:** This is an optional boss in the secret area of Chapter 4, Purple Cloud Mountain. Upon meeting him, he will tell you not to smash the jars of alcohol on the ground near him. You trigger this boss fight by smashing those jars. If you do not kill him before killing Duskveil (final boss of Purple Cloud Mountain) he will despawn permanently, locking you out of an achievement, a gourd, and crafting materials.

* **Daoist Mi:** You meet him as an NPC almost right before the Duskveil boss fight. He has a questline for you, and upon finishing his questline he will turn into a boss. Upon defeating him you get the Violet Hail transformation. His quest locks upon defeating Duskveil.

 

[Dillah810]

For those looking to get every item/trophy there are some things permanently missable once you fight/defeat a chapter’s boss.

Hopefully this will save yall some time if you’re not trying to go through NG+

Spoiler

I always wondered what would happen if you killed the father first.

 

[Dillah810]

I came back from vacation and instant-copped this game to keep from being to pissed about being back. I'm about to get started, any tips for a newcomer who's done zero reading up beyond some glowing reviews of the game.

@Flexington 's post brings up another thing. Even though you said didn't read up about the game, you should definitely read up about all the secrets in this gam that you can. There are a lot of secret areas and bosses you can easily miss if someone didn't tell you beforehand where they are. Those secret areas/bosses give you lots of powerups, armor, and weapons you're gonna want to have. If you pay full price for this game, you should experience everything this game has to give, and there's a lot of things that's easy to miss.

 

[Midwest]

Spoiler

purple Stone Mountain

 

[Deezay]

Update out:

Major Updates:
Fixed an issue where enabling FSR could cause crashes for some players during startup or the prologue.

Fixed a crash issue in certain areas of the Webbed Hollow when NVIDIA Full Ray Tracing is enabled.

Fixed an issue where hair would stretch abnormally.

Optimized the hair effects for Yaoguai King "Lingxuzi".

Fixed an issue where certain enemies could get stuck motion in specific situations.

Slightly reduced the stats of Yaoguai King "Captain Wise-Voice".

Fixed an issue where the attack from Lesser Yaoguai "Lantern Warden" in Pagoda Realm could push players into walls.

Fixed an issue where the Destined One could get stuck in performing "Whirling Thrusts in Thurst Stance" and become unresponsive.

Fixed an issue where the Destined One could not switch stances properly in the sixth chapter.

Fixed an issue where the Destined One could encounter stats errors in specific situations.

Fixed an issue where the icon for the quest related to Yaoguai Chief "Daoist Mi" would still appear on Travel menu after the quest became unable to complete.

Fixed an issue where the progress display for collecting Portraits in Journals was incorrect.

Fixed some text errors in Chinese.

Added translations for Portraits in several languages and optimized existing translations.

Added translations for song titles and lyrics in Music library in several languages and corrected display errors in English lyrics.

Optimized translations for Talents, Equipment, and Inventory in several languages and fixed some text errors.

Improved the layout of subtitles in several languages.

Optimized the translation of loading screen tips in several languages.

Additionally, we have identified an issue where setting the system language to Turkish on PS5 causes the game to crash on launch. Similarly, on the PC version, setting Windows system language to Turkish may lead to occasional crashes during certain boss fights.

If you encounter this issue, the current temporary workaround is to change the console language to English or another language via the PS5 main menu: Settings > System > Language > Console Language. For the PC version, please change the Windows display language to English or another language via the operating system settings: Settings > Time & Language > Language & Region > Windows display language.

We are actively working to resolve this issue and will fix it in an upcoming patch. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

[Brief Keef]

Damn this game is a journey chapter 3 and 4 feels like they go on forever...wonder how long it will take to get everything maxed out

 

[homiedontplaydat]

I finally just beat Captain Wise Voice last night and now they wanna nerf him

 

[he_is_I]

Yo I beat the big baby and it said I couldn't absorb his spirit without guidance. I died and came back now it's gone. ????

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

Yo I beat the big baby and it said I couldn't absorb his spirit without guidance. I died and came back now it's gone. ????

When you get the item needed to do it and are at the levels end, it should allow you to absorb any spirits that you missed.

 

[he_is_I]

When you get the item needed to do it and are at the levels end, it should allow you to absort any spirits that you missed.

Cool, thanks

 

[Deezay]

Cool, thanks

Don't be me and run back to the area. Lol
It's in your inventory waiting

 

[Rekkapryde]

think I'm gonna reallocate my sparks to get more mana. Tony The Tiger demented cousin is whupping my ass in Chp 2.

 

[Deezay]

think I'm gonna reallocate my sparks to get more mana. Tony The Tiger demented cousin is whupping my ass in Chp 2.

Is that the one that tells you if you step forward he's going to thrash you?

 

[Westbama Heartthrob]

My PS5 players,

Notice any improvements with the patch?