Black Myth Wukong's Invisible Walls Are Ruining Player Immersion

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Summary

Black Myth: Wukong is a success with ten million copies sold in three days, a record on Steam, and an 81 Metacritic score.
Players have complained about frustrating invisible walls blocking paths in the game, sparking major discussions online.
The game's design choice to use invisible walls without indicators like rocks or trees has been widely criticized by players.

By all accounts, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Myth: Wukong has been a resounding success. It 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:smashed the record for mo♔st concurrent🍸 players in a single-player game on Steam, beating the four-year-old record set by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077, sold , and scored a very respectable . Not bad for a studio's debut game.

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However, while the game is already a critical and commercial success, there have been some major bugbears for players, most notably the in🍎visible walls that plague the world. This has led to a flurry of player complaints online.

Black Myth: Wukong's Major Invisible Wall Problem

Invisible walls are nothing new in video games. They've been around for years, preventing players from reaching areas and locations they're not supposed to. Not many are as frustrating as Black Myth: Wukong's, however.

Posted on Reddit, one player s♉hared a video clip of one of the most egregious invisible walls in video g꧃ames.

Approaching a valley, which is almost as wide as the player's screen and that looks like a walkway to a new area, the player is suddenly and abruptly hit by an invisible barrier, preventing them from going any further. Despite their best efforts to circumnavigate it, they found it's truly a dead end and just one of the many examples of this issue within the game.

This sparked a major discussion among players, many of whom share the same frustrations. Usually, games will use some environmental objects to indicate a path is blocked — a rock, a tree, a fence — but not Wukong, which allows you to think you've discovered a new area, only to block you off randomly.

"Why would they make it look so clearly like a path you can go down?", in response to the original video, with , "The problem is that SOMETIMES you can go down, which means you no📖w have to check every single walls and cliff because it might lead to a big optional area or important item."

The environment and level design was called the game's "". The area in question could have just had a full "cliff face, instead of a path with an invisible wall," it was suggested, with the fact that there are "steep rock faces on either side of the path," making the decision even stranger.

The complaints weren't limited to Reddit either. In Black Myth: Wukong's , players were quick to point out that one of the biggest cons is that "invisible walls are especially noticeable in the first chapter," and that it's "Annoying to see something that looks like a cave, but has an invisible wall five feet in front of it."

A lack of a mini-map or compass was lamented by players and suggested as a simple solution to this issue🐼. As was having the barriers glow a particular color when approached to make it clear the area was a no-go zone. Whatever the reason for it, though, this design choice is an odd one.