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Black Myth Wukong Launch Leads To 1 Exabyte of Steam Traffic

Black Myth Wukong Launch Leads To 1 Exabyte of Steam Traffic

The most recent Journey to the West video game adaptation as of this writing is Black Myth: Wukong , which provides an alternate epilogue to the tale. Here, 4K gameplay upgrade Wukong rejects the offer of immortality after his pilgrimage and is punished by Heaven for doing so by being sealed in stone. Since then, monkeys from Mount Huaguo have ventured out to try to revive him by collecting the 6 Relics he divided his spirit into. The latest one, armed with a staff like Wukong, is known only as The Destined

Beefy file sizes seem to be commonplace in the video game industry now , outside of small, stylized indie titles that go for a largely 2D aesthetic. Black Myth: Wukong is certainly not one of these games, and its realistic style and grand vistas require a lot of space to work. With most games released recently, this space also has to be stored in an SSD, which is, fortunately, more common now, but Black Myth: Wukong 's requirement of 130GB (according to its Steam page) is a lot to ask for a relatively linear g

At the start of your adventure, you'll be drip-fed a few different options for armour and weapon upgrades, but as you progress, the different array of options will be staggering. Some of these are only unlocked at the end of various obscure quest lines, so getting the achievements for getting all of the armour and weapons is a hefty challenge, and that's not even considering the material cost required for e

Wait, wasn’t Mega Man: The Wily Wars just a Genesis remake of the first 3 NES games ? Well, yes. However, that was only part of the story. After beating all 3 remade games, it would unlock a new section called ‘The Wily Tower,’ where Mega Man could choose any of the weapons from MM’s 1-3 to tackle its sta

Even when you're there, you could miss the option to challenge Yin Tiger, since very few other bosses need to be manually challenged. And once you do challenge him, you'll then need to take down this incredibly aggressive foe in his tiny arena outside his smithy. His transformation is a lot of fun once you have it, but the process of getting it requires a lot of hurdle-jump

The action RPG nature of the game means you do not need the absolute fastest frame rates and anywhere between 60 and 100 FPS will be ideal. This means you can focus on gaming at 2K 60+ FPS, which the GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER GAMING OC 12G can do with the help of DLSS/FG and other assistive graphical technologies. The GPU comes with 12GB of GDDR6X VRAM, a triple-fan cooler, and a boost clock speed of 2565 MHz, which is not only faster than the reference card, but also other RTX 4070 Super offerings.

If 1,024 Megabytes equals one Gigabyte, and 1,024 Gigabytes makes one Terabyte, then an Exabyte is made up of 1,024 Petabytes . It takes 1,024 Terabytes to make a single Petabyte. In other words, that's an enormous amount of data. Of course, not all of it is exactly attributed to Black Myth: Wukong , though, it's safe to assume that a major portion of it

All of this is to say that Black Myth: Wukong is nothing short of a massive success, and if the words of critics aren't enough, then the data surely is. And that's an extremely large amount of data we're talking about h

Getting Started Beginner Tips Combat Tips How To Access DLC Items Best Skills To Unlock First Cannot Absorb Spirits Without Guidance, Explained Meditate Location Guide Loong Scales Location All Celestial Jade Lotus Pill Locations All Celestial Taiyi Pill Locations Kun Steel Location All Skandha Locations All Transformation Locations All Curios Locations All Awaken Wine Worm Locations All Luojia Fragrant Vine Locations All Spell Locations All Formulas Locations All Celestial Nonary Pill Locations All Gourd Locations How To Craft Celestial Medicine How To Respec How To Get Refined Iron Sand How To Find Fine Gold Thread How To Open The Purple Prison Cells In The Pagoda How To Unlock More Curios Slots How To Get The Elder Amourworm Spirit How To Unlock The Secret Ending How To Get The Ashen Slumber Transformation Who Is Wukong? Who Is Zhu Bajie? Where Is Sha Wujing? Every Animated Cutscene, Explained Endings, Expla

Thanks to the extra VRAM and solid performance gains over the regular RTX 4060, the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is the best budget offering for Black Myth: Wukong, which is a heavy title to run. You will have to make some compromises on the visual settings and rely heavily on DLSS and FG to get the optimal experience. At 1080p , the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti VENTUS 2X BLACK 16G OC can deliver a solid 60+ FPS experience but will struggle at 2K resolution, so you will need to drop to the medium to high range.

To gain this potent Spell, you will require Loong Scales, found in Chapter 2, after fighting the First Prince of Flowing Sands boss. This gives you access to three secret Loong bosses in Black Myth: Wukong , one of which is faced near the 'Relief of the Fallen Loong' Shrine in Webbed Hollow, Chapter 4 . Upon defeating Yellow Loong, you will gain this Transformation as a rew

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