The Black Fable: Wukong updates are beginning to kick into gear following its record-breaking launch. At present we’ve patch 1.0.8.14860, out throughout PC and PlayStation 5.
The patch, which weighs in at round 1.6GB, makes a variety of fixes and changes, in addition to a solitary steadiness change to at least one boss in explicit.
When Black Fable: Wukong launched, developer Recreation Science apologized for any tech issues gamers encountered, and promised to launch patches aimed toward these efficiency points. In a press release, Recreation Science warned that “regardless of a number of inner full-process exams of Black Fable: Wukong, given the sport’s huge scale and the myriad of software program and {hardware} environments, occasional severe points should still come up.”
Patch 1.0.8.14860 kicks off this course of with a variety of fixes for crashes and different launch issues. Nevertheless it additionally makes a slight change to the stats of 1 boss, detailed under.
Warning! Black Fable: Wukong spoilers comply with.
In accordance with the patch notes, under, replace 1.0.8.14860 barely reduces the stats of Yaoguai King “Captain Sensible-Voice.”
Captain Sensible-Voice is a required Yaoguai King boss battle, and one among 4 “Captains” you can encounter in Chapter 3. If you happen to’re having hassle, take a look at IGN’s Captain Sensible-Voice boss battle information for useful tips about emerge victorious from this difficult battle.
Black Fable: Wukong has bought an unimaginable 10 million copies in simply three days, in keeping with Recreation Science. The motion RPG, which is impressed by the classical Chinese language novel Journey to the West, has seen an eye-watering three million concurrent gamers throughout all platforms.
On Steam, Black Fable: Wukong broke a variety of concurrent participant rely information. It’s the most-played single-player recreation of all-time on Valve’s platform, forward of CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077, and the second most-played recreation of any sort on Steam, now behind solely battle royale PUBG. (Sony doesn’t make PlayStation participant numbers publicly accessible.) Certainly, Black Fable: Wukong helped increase Steam to a brand new concurrents report.
Black Fable: Wukong replace 1.0.8.14860 patch notes:
Main Updates:
- Fastened a difficulty the place enabling FSR may trigger crashes for some gamers throughout startup or the prologue.
- Fastened a crash subject in sure areas of the Webbed Hole when NVIDIA Full Ray Tracing is enabled.
- Fastened a difficulty the place hair would stretch abnormally.
- Optimized the hair results for Yaoguai King “Lingxuzi”.
- Fastened a difficulty the place sure enemies may get caught movement in particular conditions.
- Barely diminished the stats of Yaoguai King “Captain Sensible-Voice”.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the assault from Lesser Yaoguai “Lantern Warden” in Pagoda Realm may push gamers into partitions.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Destined One may get caught in performing “Whirling Thrusts in Thurst Stance” and turn into unresponsive.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Destined One couldn’t swap stances correctly in the sixth chapter.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the Destined One may encounter stats errors in particular conditions.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the icon for the search associated to Yaoguai Chief “Daoist Mi” would nonetheless seem on Journey menu after the search grew to become unable to finish.
- Fastened a difficulty the place the progress show for gathering Portraits in Journals was incorrect.
- Fastened some textual content errors in Chinese language.
- Added translations for Portraits in a number of languages and optimized present translations.
- Added translations for track titles and lyrics in Music library in a number of languages and corrected show errors in English lyrics.
- Optimized translations for Skills, Gear, and Stock in a number of languages and mounted some textual content errors.
- Improved the structure of subtitles in a number of languages.
- Optimized the interpretation of loading display ideas in a number of languages.
Moreover, we’ve recognized a difficulty the place setting the system language to Turkish on PS5 causes the sport to crash on launch. Equally, on the PC model, setting Home windows system language to Turkish might result in occasional crashes throughout sure boss fights.
If you happen to encounter this subject, the present momentary workaround is to alter the console language to English or one other language through the PS5 essential menu: Settings > System > Language > Console Language. For the PC model, please change the Home windows show language to English or one other language through the working system settings: Settings > Time & Language > Language & Area > Home windows show language.
We’re actively working to resolve this subject and will repair it in an upcoming patch. We apologize for any inconvenience this will have prompted.
IGN has reported on an excellent cool Black Fable: Wukong secret that permits you to summon one boss to beat one other boss when you mainly do nothing, and on how one elective boss encountered very early in the sport is completely destroying gamers. When you’re right here, IGN has loads extra Black Fable: Wukong guides that will help you out, together with Important Suggestions and Methods, Issues Black Fable: Wukong Would not Inform You, and our Boss Listing and Guides.
IGN’s Black Fable: Wukong evaluate returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “Regardless of some irritating technical points, Black Fable: Wukong is a good motion recreation with implausible fight, thrilling bosses, tantalizing secrets and techniques, and a phenomenal world.”
Final week week, IGN verified an electronic mail despatched from the Black Fable: Wukong advertising crew that advised content material creators who had been granted a Steam key that they have to not embrace “feminist propaganda” or use what are referred to as “set off phrases” akin to COVID-19 in their protection.
Recreation Science has but to reply to IGN’s earlier report compiling quite a few sexist feedback made by the studio’s founders and different builders spanning the final decade.
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