Black Myth: Wukong

There's some Chapter 4 bosses kicking my arse, after breezing through the game for a time.

Hundred Eyes Daoist Master (Centipede man) and also the Scorpion King on the Purple Mountain secret bit where he tells you not to touch his wine.
 
VincentHanna said:
There's some Chapter 4 bosses kicking my arse, after breezing through the game for a time.

Hundred Eyes Daoist Master (Centipede man) and also the Scorpion King on the Purple Mountain secret bit where he tells you not to touch his wine.
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This spoiler is a big spoiler, so ignore if you don't want any tips (as I have finished the game)
Hundred Eyes Daoist is a tough fight, you absolutely need the needle from the secret boss area to make the 2nd phase easier, if you engage and fight the duskveil before the scorpion king, the scorpion king will aid you in the fight the first time (he can die), I would also do the quest from an npc from the Petalfall Hamlet area before killing any bosses, if you do the boss first you are locked out from the quest chain that rewards a potentially powerful transformation
 
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xaldub said:
Yup, he represents a big step up in difficulty. I beat him last night after about 6 attempts. You pretty much have to try and get through the first phase without using too many of your cooldowns so you can blitz him down with them in the 2nd phase. Make sure you have enough points in staff skills to unlock the second focus point. I switched my spirit to the Wandering Wight as that passively increases your defense plus using his ability deals a ton of damage. I also relied heavily on the transformation and used the immobilise spell every time it came off cooldown. Also, after beating him I wondered if investing points in thrust stance may have been useful particularly for the first phase where he frequently stands back and doesn't engage. The thrust stance allows you to attack enemies at distance.
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I did finally beat him and I agree on all points. I fought him so many times that I had his moves memorised so got really good at avoiding them. Was really satisfying beating that mofo I tell ya.
 
So, Tigger in area 2 is kicking my butt.
The 1st boss I'm struggling with, and what makes it worse is that I can see through and predict 80% of his stuff, but when he does those mad combos I panic and get crushed.

ANYWAY... rather than spit the dummy and delete the game, I thought I'd look for some advice, actually in general.

1) Why am I getting hurt during resolute strike? I thought it was an invulnerable 'see through the enemy' type move?
2) Best time to use focus hits? During immobilization or in regular combat as in point 1, when the immobilization stops and I'm in a resolute strike, I get damaged.
3) Should a hard focus hit ever be performed on it's own or always at the end of a combo?

EDIT = Just beat him but would still like the general combat advice :)

- Thanks
 
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Moonpie2 said:
So, Tigger in area 2 is kicking my butt.
The 1st boss I'm struggling with, and what makes it worse is that I can see through and predict 80% of his stuff, but when he does those mad combos I panic and get crushed.

ANYWAY... rather than spit the dummy and delete the game, I thought I'd look for some advice, actually in general.

1) Why am I getting hurt during resolute strike? I thought it was an invulnerable 'see through the enemy' type move?
2) Best time to use focus hits? During immobilization or in regular combat as in point 1, when the immobilization stops and I'm in a resolute strike, I get damaged.
3) Should a hard focus hit ever be performed on it's own or always at the end of a combo?

EDIT = Just beat him but would still like the general combat advice :)

- Thanks
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For point 1, that's what I used to think, too. But the description is badly worded ... what you're meant to do to perform a resolute strike is hit the enemy with a heavy attack when he's in mid strike animation ( after you've done 2-3 light attacks ). The temporary invulnerability only happens if you time this right ; Monkey will glow red when this happens.

Point 2 - there is no hard set rule here, but I tend to use immobilise when I have my focus points stacked up and want to deliver a really heavy damaging attack. Against some of the later bosses you have to be careful to "freeze" them in a position where you can actually attack them eg. there are dragons/serpents that fly or bosses that can leave the fighting arena temporarily. Also, some boss attack sequences can't be frozen ... but you'll still lose the spell attempting it.

Point 3 .. almost always at the end of a combo / special move. Charging up a heavy attack just takes too long ; you don't get given the time to use it against bosses later on.

And in general for Mr Tony Tiger ... use the damage increasing potion just before starting the fight. It really helps to counter some of his tankiness.
 
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mrk said:
The traversal stutters are absolutely minimal, I've been casually playing around a bit more and restarted a new game too as well and can confirm that it's just basically some minor frame hitches here and there at most - Nothing like how some reviews and gamers are experiencing, and this is with full path tracing enabled too with or without frame gen.

I'm also playing with controller just because some of the control mechanics seem to be better suited to controller use, plus rumble feedback is nice in this:


I'm actually very impressed but will still wait for a black level raise mod or patch before continuing properly. I see some ReShade mods exist now but I dislike ReShade so will await for a proper LUT or something.
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Is this just a normal Xbox Series X controller?
 
Rroff said:
I've only run the benchmark but can max it out - cinematic + ray tracing very high with good DLSS quality at 1440p on my 4080 and get 60FPS without frame gen or around 100+ with. 4K struggles though - 60FPS with frame gen but you can tell it isn't a true 60FPS unless I drop DLSS to performance quality or knock some settings back.

Looks like auto HDR is kicking in on my 4K display with the game though it isn't working the best - at times it comes close to looking photorealistic.
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I was messing about today doing a bit of benchmarking to see the differences between Windows 23H2 and 24H2 and noticed there is some odd things going on with the benchmark. I dunno if there is some dynamic content which isn't consistent each time or some kind of bug or what but while it mostly runs normally, sometimes it is like frame generation hasn't even enabled and other times it will give varied results - I've seen 70, 89, 109 and 122 from different runs with FG on and 58, 60 and 71 FPS results with frame gen off.

On an AMD 7700X with 4080 system something wasn't running right at all - intermittent stutter and most runs coming back as 59 FPS average despite displaying higher/correct FPS for much of the run and I can't seem to fix that - it runs everything else fine. Seems to be the same issue a lot of people are complaining about on Reddit, etc. but my 14700K with 4080 Super setup definitely is not exhibiting that at all despite sometimes inconsistent performance.

Part of the problem seems to be that settings don't always stick and/or require restarting the application despite not always telling you that, but it isn't entirely down to that.
 
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has there been a single patch for this game yet?

i refunded after audio cut outs and the over sharpening ruining the entire look
 
I installed Windows 24H2 yesterday and the game is improved @ 2160p from about 100 ish on 23H2 to fps to 130 fps. I'm playing with HUB settings. So medium Ray tracing, shadows high, global illumination high and rest on cineimatic. Just feels great and smooth.

I hasten to add this was in game I noticed not the benchmark. I will run that to see what I get.
 
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Jimbo said:
I installed Windows 24H2 yesterday and the game is improved @ 2160p from about 100 ish on 23H2 to fps to 130 fps. I'm playing with HUB settings. So medium Ray tracing, shadows high, global illumination high and rest on cineimatic. Just feels great and smooth.

I hasten to add this was in game I noticed not the benchmark. I will run that to see what I get.
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Can't speak for 7800X3D, 4090 or playing at less than cinematic settings but it was 0-1% at 4K, 3% at 1440p and 5% at 1080p difference with 24H2 in my fairly quick and dirty testing on a couple of Zen 4 based systems.
 
Also mid way through chapter 2 myself and just killed Garfield. Found out that a bluetooth connection from a xbox controller seems to be a bit slower than using the wireless dongle method of connecting the xbox controller up to the PC as I downed him on the 2nd attempt after changing over. I knew something wasnt right when I kept on getting hit on his combos.
 
VincentHanna said:
There's some Chapter 4 bosses kicking my arse, after breezing through the game for a time.

Hundred Eyes Daoist Master (Centipede man) and also the Scorpion King on the Purple Mountain secret bit where he tells you not to touch his wine.
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MadMossy said:
This spoiler is a big spoiler, so ignore if you don't want any tips (as I have finished the game)
Hundred Eyes Daoist is a tough fight, you absolutely need the needle from the secret boss area to make the 2nd phase easier, if you engage and fight the duskveil before the scorpion king, the scorpion king will aid you in the fight the first time (he can die), I would also do the quest from an npc from the Petalfall Hamlet area before killing any bosses, if you do the boss first you are locked out from the quest chain that rewards a potentially powerful transformation
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I brute force my way with chapter 4 final boss luckily without the needle. Basically went full melee damage + as high of crit I can get and utilise a maxed out the Binding spell to get the full bonus to attack and critical hit chances.
I am currently stuck on the final chapter boss fight and it is indeed a challenge, currently struggling but it is doable with some throwing swear words and not panic.
 
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Anyone think is a GOTY contender ? I think it must have a decent chance. The graphics, gameplay and audio are top tier, and there is a lot of game to be had for your money. This is not a short game, especially if you take time to explore and kill the optional bosses. The only two games that I think could trump it would be Space Marine 2 ( if it lives up to the hype ) and Indiana Jones ( establised IP with large fanbase ). Also, the difficulty may put more casual gamers off to some extent. Thoughts ? Too early to call, or is this already your main GOTY contender ?
 
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