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Black Myth Wukong Launches To Record-Breaking Player Numbers On Steam | MMORPG.com

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imageBlack Myth Wukong Launches To Record-Breaking Player Numbers On Steam | MMORPG.com

Black Myth: Wukong, the hotly anticipated action adventure game from Chinese studio Game Science, launched on PC and PlayStation 5 today, and in doing so it broke concurrent player records.

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  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    It deserves it.
  • hovsep159hovsep159 Member UncommonPosts: 87
    edited August 21
    after playing it all i can say is that the game is fairly average. it doesn't really do much unique.

    the dodging is also very unresponsive because the game does not seem to have a action queue.

    so sometimes you just do not dodge at all because you press dodge during the animation and sometimes you do, alot of times the perfect dodges you do feels more like luck than mastery.

    the whole combat just ends up being spam as many staggering attacks and spells as possible in a fast amount of time because of the unresponsive combat.

    as for exploration it's very minimal, if you look at the linear dark souls series or even god of war despite it being linear you have alot of leeway on where you could explore to find weapons n stuff but in this game it's very minimal.

    game also spams you with bosses sometimes, alot of em are very average and not balanced properly, with quite a few em having moves that have hardly any build up and attack faster than you can react to (which results in as you guessed, spam staggering attacks and spells).

    the story and voice acting is pretty hit or miss, the game basicly expects you to know the whole journey to the west book to know what's going on, this game is more of a "HEY LOOK! IT'S X CHARACTER FROM THE BOOK" kind of game instead of an actuall reteling of the story in
    a video game format.

    as for graphics it's pretty ok, honestly nothing awe inspiring it just looks like any other unreal 5 game like if i compare hellblade 2's graphics to wukong, hellblade 2 easily takes it

    ign's score of a 8 out of 10 is a pretty reasonable score for this game. and it's honestly very overhyped most likely due to the insane amount of marketing this game got.
    music is also very backgroundish and mostly quiet, honestly i don't remember a single ost except for the shamizen player at the second chapter.

    i will have to wait a month or two till people get past the honeymoon phase and see the flaws with the game.
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  • dirtysidedirtyside Member UncommonPosts: 151
    i question those numbers .......... when i seen it had some type of Asian influence all over it , it doesn't take much to put out a call to run those numbers up even without bots
  • hoenens1hoenens1 Member UncommonPosts: 321
    Jeah those were bots, those numbers dropped SUPER faster after those high numbers.
  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member UncommonPosts: 408
    2.3 million peak players down to now 344k. 25 millions hours played means 1-2 hours on average. Sounds like a free trials maybe. We will know for sure when they start sharing record numbers but no mention of revenue, retention, or related stats. Super high numbers mean nothing after a few months or so. Just ask many games.
  • Asm0deusAsm0deus Member EpicPosts: 4,618
    I heard the combat was kinda meh...in that it not responsive enough and there like 1 or 2 sec delay to everything.

     I read somewhere nvidia gpu suffer more from this or some such.

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  • BrotherMaynardBrotherMaynard Member RarePosts: 647
    hoenens1 said:
    Jeah those were bots, those numbers dropped SUPER faster after those high numbers.
    If they were bots, why would there be ANY spikes? Bots, i.e. software that can simulate human action completely independently of human beings. Or are you suggesting that these bots take coffee breaks and go to bed for 8 hours each day? When you look at Lost Ark as a famous example of a (past) bots' paradise, there were never any spikes, there was consistent activity through the day.

    People go to sleep and then to work. That's not such an outlandish concept, is it? Look  at the chart:



    14:00 UTC is late afternoon in Europe and late evening in Beijing. 22:00 UTC is midnight in Europe and 6 AM in Beijing. On a work day.

    Those 300k players are probably US players, as everyone else is asleep. Especially with this game, where you can safely assume most of the players are Chinese, given its setting and source material.

    This has nothing to do with bots, it is what a healthy playerbase looks like. People with a normal work / life balance.

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  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    edited August 22
    hovsep159 said:


    ign's score of a 8 out of 10 is a pretty reasonable score for this game. and it's honestly very overhyped most likely due to the insane amount of marketing this game got.

    IGN did their best to tank the game before it even released, accusing the devs of all kinds of "sexist" bullshit because one of their "journalists" couldn't translate Chinese correctly and IGN repeatedly reaffirmed their bullshit take in every article they wrote about the company and game. Wanna know why the game is so popular? Backlash against IGN, Kotaku, and every other rag that proliferated the bullshit claims, as well as the "consultants" Sweet Baby Inc. that tried to force the devs Game Science to spend 7 million on their services or "your game won't do well". People are tired of the bullshit.

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  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,045
    The large drop after the first day may be because the main story only takes about 15 hours to complete and do everything on the game is another 20 hours on top of that.

    It's not a very big game and it doesn't have a lot of replayability.

    So, yeah, it doesn't matter if the game is American or Chinese, short single player only games come and go very quickly these days.

    Anyone remember Hellblade 2?
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  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member UncommonPosts: 408
    Never knew an 8 out of 10 was tanking a game or score. Seems pretty respectable to me.

    The population does seem to be cyclical. Its back up to 2 million or so players this morning so the timing does fit. I still do find that many players with so few hours though (on average) interesting. I wonder if its more game design or cultural. 
  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    Never knew an 8 out of 10 was tanking a game or score. Seems pretty respectable to me.

    The population does seem to be cyclical. Its back up to 2 million or so players this morning so the timing does fit. I still do find that many players with so few hours though (on average) interesting. I wonder if its more game design or cultural. 
    https://www.ign.com/articles/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-history-of-sexism-is-complicating-its-journey-to-the-west

    That's where their shit started, with their hack so-called "journalist" Rebekah Valentine. And they linked to it in every article afterwards, knowing it was all bullshit.

    They only came out with the good review after getting trashed in dozens of youtube vids, on X, etc.
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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,426
    edited August 23
    Bit weird he is not called Sun Wukong or Monkey for that matter, this is Monkey! we are talking about. I can't think of a better selling point lore wise.
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,404
    He's Hanuman  B)
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  • BrotherMaynardBrotherMaynard Member RarePosts: 647
    Not too bad for 4 days:




    I think there will be one hell of a party over at their studio...

    So shall we have a little wager? 3 million concurrent players this weekend? If you lose, I'll have a beer. If I lose, I'll have a beer. Honest - no cheating!

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  • GrimDogGamingGrimDogGaming Member UncommonPosts: 178
    edited August 23
  • BrainyBrainy Member EpicPosts: 2,206
    Another Dark Souls without death penalties, who would have thought that would be popular.
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