Black Myth: Wukong was a highly anticipated game since its first appearance 4 years ago, but no one knew the game would take the video gaming industry by storm upon its release; breaking tons of records and being loved by video game enthusiasts worldwide, Black Myth: Wukong is on a record-breaking spree.
Powered by Unreal Engine, the game excels in the visual department as it takes players on a breathtaking journey full of fantasy elements. The dynamic lighting, detailed shadows, and attention to detail in environments elevate the gaming experience, making each scene truly immersive.
The modding community of Black Myth: Wukong is relatively new, yet the game has an extensive range of mods that make changes to the game in different segments. From making changes to the gameplay to adding new features or working around the game settings, players can utilize any of these mods to alter the game to their liking.
In the wide variety of available mods, numerous graphics mods go beyond simply changing the visuals—they enhance and optimize them based on the player’s preferences. Here’s a list of mods that players should explore if they want to customize the game’s appearance to match their own style.
10 Simple Realistic For Black Myth Wukong
Subtle But Noticable Improvement
Simple Realistic for Black Myth: Wukong is a simple custom shader mod that makes the game look slightly sharper than the base game. The mod provides a decent improvement to the lighting and shading, making the game look a tad bit brighter.
The mod also improves the details through post-processing effects and, by enhancing the global lighting, it makes the game look more vibrant without losing any performance. Players can customize various settings with this mod, making it player-friendly.
However, the mod has a catch that it might not work well with other mods, so players are advised to clean up all the previous reshade files and configurations before installing this mod to enjoy the game.
9 Better Volumetric Fog
Enjoy The Foggy Environment
Black Myth: Wukong focuses heavily on the fantasy elements, and it is clearly reflected in the game’s atmosphere. Volumetric fog stimulates light transmission through a scene that contains fog and this rendering feature is used in places that have dust, particles, smoke, or steam as well.
Better Volumetric Fog mod is a mod that focuses on this feature, which enhances the game’s fog effects. It makes foggy areas misty, enhancing the visual beauty. The mod refines the foggy effect and adds depth and clarity to it, which makes the game world more immersive and realistic.
The mod, however, is not well-built for low-end PCs as it increases the performance cost slightly, but if one can afford to utilize it, the mod is worth upgrading the overall ambiance of the game.
8 Better Shadows Tweak
Reshaping Shadows
Virtual Shadow Maps is the new shadow mapping method in UE5 which is used to deliver consistent, high-resolution shadows in games, and it is the same method utilized by this mod on the list to improve the shadow quality when compared with the base game.
Replacing the shadows with a more detailed and cleaner version, this mod brings noticeable changes to the game. However, there is a catch to this mod as this tweak is only needed if players are not using ray tracing in the game.
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The mod also drops performance slightly, but it can be changed by reducing the quality by a notch. Using this mod in-game is a quick procedure as it only requires drag and drop the file in the correct folder and is the perfect solution for players looking to improve the shadows in the game without utilizing Ray tracing.
7 Journey to the West (ReShade)
Get Rid Of The Washed-Out Look
The mod is designed in a way to get rid of the washed-out look of the game and bring out the sharper details of Black Myth: Wukong. The reshade preset can improve the game’s beauty by improving the vibrancy and clarity of the game.
Journey to the West (ReShade) is also a lightweight mod, which means that players do not have to worry about the performance of the game, which makes this mod readily accessible for a wider range of PCs.
6 Enhanced Wukong Visuals
Enhance The Visual Delite
Enhanced Wukong Visuals is a mod that focuses on enhancing the graphics of the game by disabling and enabling different post-processing effects. Effects like fog, bloom, depth of field, and lens flare can make the visuals of the game dull and by disabling these effects, the mod achieves a more detailed and clean optical experience.
The mod has an epic preset as well, which is designed specifically for powerful systems as it can severely impact the performance of the game. The preset increases the draw distance, shadow resolution, and environmental details to make the world of Black Myth: Wukong look more realistic, vivid, and clear.
5 Downgraded Wukong Visuals
Step Back Graphics, Step Up Performance
This mod on the list does the exact opposite of most of the mods from the list, as it downgrades the graphics deliberately. Working in contrast to the Enhanced Wukong Visuals mod, this mod prioritizes performance over visuals and can come out to be pretty useful for players with a low-end PC.
The mod has the ability to spike the FPS by almost 50 frames if the player is ready to sacrifice the beauty of the game to some extent. Coming with 3 presets, players can choose one according to their system to see which one works the best for them, and if players add the optional files from Enhanced Wukong Visuals mod, they can use the fog to hide the imperfections caused by this mod.
4 Simple HDR Mode
The Monkey King Comes To HDR
The HDR technology, in simple terms, can improve the brightness and the color of content and the Simple HDR Mode mod does the exact same thing as it forces the game to enter the HDR mode.
Making the colors more vivid and shadows sharper, this mod unlocks new options for players to enhance the visual allure of the game. The mod is more precisely aimed for players that have a setup utilizing an HDR compatible monitor.
The darker areas of the game receive more details thanks to the mod, which in return makes the surroundings feel richer. It is pretty simple to install and get rid of the mod. So, players can check it out anytime they want to see if it fits their taste or not.
3 BMWK – SPF Redux
Performance Is Crucial
Another graphics mod designed with low-end systems in mind, BMWK – SPF Redux, provides a solid solution for poor performance of the game without compromising the visual quality of the game. The mod offers more than just graphical enhancements as it reduces the loading screen time.
It also optimizes the CPU and GPU utilization, allowing the game to use the full potential of the modern components. The mod comes as a blessing for players with weaker PCs as it goes around optimizing the memory allocation, improving the efficiency of streaming assets, and tweaking multicore rendering to provide an ample amount of benefits that result in faster load screens, stable gameplay, and increased FPS without compromising with the looks of the game.
2 Vibrant Reshade
Bright And Sharp Colors
Players looking for a mod to make the game more vibrant and colorful will find their answers in the Vibrant Reshade – Black Myth: Wukong mod. The mod adds color vibrancy and improves the clarity, which makes the world of Wukong feel more active.
The vanilla game tones the color down to some extent and the mod alters it, making the greenery more lush and vibrant. The improved lighting from this mod helps in settling the contrast between lighter and darker areas. Vibrant Reshade removes the foggy tint from the game, which makes the game more vivid. If players do not mind the sharp and bright visuals that come along with this mod, then Vibrant Reshade is worth checking out when looking for graphical mods for Black Myth: Wukong.
1 Fix Tint and Exposure
Getting Rid Of The Ugly Tint
Players looking for a way to get rid of the washed-out look of the game without impacting the performance of the game can use the Fix Tint and Exposure mod. The mod removes the tint on the game, which reduces the clarity and messes up the color palette of the game.
Giving more natural colors, this mod has a small issue but nothing big that can not be fixed. The mod reduces the brightness of the game, making darker areas too dark, but by fine-tuning the adjustments and turning up the brightness, players can find a comfortable spot where the game looks bright and crisp.
