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The side content (aside from the creature tracking one and the murders, until the end) all consist of what are essentially challenge maps/AR challenges, just contextualized with flavor dialogue within the main game.

And it's all optional

Yea I never really did any of the challenge map stuff. It kinda suck that they have the AR challenge stuff, and the Most Wanted ends up being just more challenge map stuff. I will most likely just do the main story and move on.

 

[Scarphace]

You sure they're the same, mind posting a screenshot just to be sure?

Maybe it's a certain overall percentage then...

Sorry for the off screen shot for some reason my ps4 didn't want to upload. I am sitting at 83.2% overall

 

[Cre8]

I had a moment where that happened. I slowed down and took a different street, and it just so happened that the direction the APC was going in was parallel to the one I was heading in, and I boot rammed it in the side.

I wish the PS4 Share feature was working. It was so Batman.

My point being is that you can get some distance from and APC and it might end up driving into you.

Thanks for the head up, I'm found the 4th APC mission and instead of following the arrow I use different routes and its a little easier. Damn, I'm doing like million of dollars in properties damages. LOL.

 

[Zakalwe]

Sorry for the off screen shot for some reason my ps4 didn't want to upload. I am sitting at 83.2% overall

Does that say "apprehend 12 of gotham's most wanted to activate"? I can't remember...

Maybe it's a glitch on PC, the game is a mess after all.

 

[Scarphace]

Does that say "apprehend 12 of gotham's most wanted to activate"? I can't remember...

Maybe it's a glitch on PC, the game is a mess after all.

No it says apprehend 2 so that would make 11 overall. Do those other side missions except the riddler one even have a boss that you arrest?

 

[Zakalwe]

No it says apprehend 2 so that would make 11 overall. Do those other side missions except the riddler one even have a boss that you arrest?

Not a major villain that I'm aware of, no.

I have 7 characters in the lock up:

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Firefly
Two Face
Penguin
Man Bat
Deacon
Pyg
Stagg

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Azrael

chose the good option.

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Ivy

is dead.

Spoiler

Scarcrow, Hush, Harley

have been apprehended.

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Deathstroke, Knight, and Riddler

are still at large.

 

[Ephemeris]

Not a major villain that I'm aware of, no.

I have 7 characters in the lock up:

Spoiler

Firefly
Two Face
Penguin
Man Bat
Deacon
Pyg
Stagg

Spoiler

Azrael

chose the good option.

Spoiler

Ivy

is dead.

Spoiler

Scarcrow, Hush, Harley

have been apprehended.

Spoiler

Deathstroke, Knight, and Riddler

are still at large.

I'm in the same boat.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

Not a major villain that I'm aware of, no.

I have 7 characters in the lock up:

Spoiler

Firefly
Two Face
Penguin
Man Bat
Deacon
Pyg
Stagg

Spoiler

Azrael

chose the good option.

Spoiler

Ivy

is dead.

Spoiler

Scarcrow, Hush, Harley

have been apprehended.

Spoiler

Deathstroke, Knight, and Riddler

are still at large.

Speaking to one of the villains you mentioned, can you visit

Spoiler

---Hush---

anywhere after apprehending him?

 

[Zakalwe]

Speaking to one of the villains you mentioned, can you visit

Spoiler

---Hush---

anywhere after apprehending him?

Jumping in game to check now.

I'm in the same boat.

Do you have the option to activate it yet?

 

[Scarphace]

Not a major villain that I'm aware of, no.

I have 7 characters in the lock up:

Spoiler

Firefly
Two Face
Penguin
Man Bat
Deacon
Pyg
Stagg

Spoiler

Azrael

chose the good option.

Spoiler

Ivy

is dead.

Spoiler

Scarcrow, Hush, Harley

have been apprehended.

Spoiler

Deathstroke, Knight, and Riddler

are still at large.

I have the exact same people/choices. Its just crazy how we have everything 100% similar but I can't activate it

 

[Zakalwe]

Not a major villain that I'm aware of, no.

Scratch that,

Spoiler

Deathtroke

at some point right? He might be at the end of the militia missions. I didn't need him for the first ending though...

I have the exact same people/choices. Its just crazy how we have everything 100% similar but I can't activate it

I'm not sure which two villains it's refering to on your screen...

You only have

Spoiler

Deathstroke, Arkham Knight, and Riddler

to go... and I'm not sure you can apprehend the

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Arkham Knight

, and you definitely don't need

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Riddler

for the first

Spoiler

KF

ending.

Maybe one of us has a bug?

 

[AgentLampshade]

Spoiler

Manbat

Just scared the living shit outta me.

 

[Ephemeris]

Jumping in game to check now.



Do you have the option to activate it yet?

Tell me I need 2 more. :/

 

[Blader]

No it says apprehend 2 so that would make 11 overall. Do those other side missions except the riddler one even have a boss that you arrest?

The watchtowers, bombs and militia compounds all have to be completed to get

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Deathstroke

 

[MegaSackman]

Scratch that,

Spoiler

Deathtroke

at some point right? He might be at the end of the militia missions. I didn't need him for the first ending though...



I'm not sure which two villains it's refering to on your screen...

You only have

Spoiler

Deathstroke, Arkham Knight, and Riddler

to go... and I'm not sure you can apprehend the

Spoiler

Arkham Knight

, and you definitely don't need

Spoiler

Riddler

for the first

Spoiler

KF

ending.

Maybe one of us has a bug?

Spoiler

You're lacking the fireman captain on the list.

 

[kodecraft]

Spoiler

Manbat

Just scared the living shit outta me.

Believe dat.

 

[MacBosse]

Spoiler

Manbat

Just scared the living shit outta me.

Yeah my heart got five years older with that scare. God damnit Rocksteady ... I love it.

 

[Setsuna]

Paid DLC and I bet they'll be in the same AR format as the four garbage maps we have now.

Upgrade everything and there's nothing substantial to use it on. Challenge mode from the previous games needs to return.

I actually enjoy all the batmobile challenges, but I still feel ripped off.

Theres really no difference

 

[Zakalwe]

Spoiler

You're lacking the fireman captain on the list.

Is that some kind of story spoiler?

What about your capacity, guys?

On the right as you enter the GCPD building.

 

[Ephemeris]

The watchtowers, bombs and militia compounds all have to be completed to get

Spoiler

Deathstroke

I figured as much. I just hope to avoid the "you did everything except Riddler, you have to get 100% or bust" 'bug' I heard about

 

[Scarphace]

The watchtowers, bombs and militia compounds all have to be completed to get

Spoiler

Deathstroke

Didn't know that thanks

 

[Scarphace]

Is that some kind of story spoiler?

What about your capacity, guys?

On the right as you enter the GCPD building.

My capacity is at 80% holding cells 79/97 and max security 8/11

 

[Zakalwe]

My capacity is at 80% holding cells 79/97 and max security 8/11

Then I'm stumped. :s

 

[Ephemeris]

What about your capacity, guys?

On the right as you enter the GCPD building.

Justice.

 

[Beelzebufo]

I thought it was serviceable. I'm actually surprised you had a problem with it. I mean, you have a MGS avatar.

The part where he said "I am Batman" was like a comedy line it was so bad.

 

[VE3TRO]

Fuck some of these challenges. So aggravating.

 

[Dany]

How many endings are there?

It says I need to complete

Spoiler

operation knightfall to get another ending?

 

[Scarphace]

How many endings are there?

It says I need to complete

Spoiler

operation knightfall to get another ending?

Theres the main story and

Spoiler

two KF endings

 

[Zakalwe]

How many endings are there?

It says I need to complete

Spoiler

operation knightfall to get another ending?

There's the "ending" that

Spoiler

transitions you to the post story open world, after you defeat Scarecrow.

Then there's the

Spoiler

teaser for KF after apprehending a certain amount of most wanted villains (see the last couple of pages, we're not sure about the exact number).

Lastly there's

Spoiler

the final, full ending when you 100% the game.

 

[RoadHazard]

How hard/easy is it to get enough upgrade points to unlock everything? Is it precisely balanced so that you get just enough to unlock everything by doing all the AR challenges, or can you always get more? The reason I'm asking is that I'm pretty sure I hit some bug where I lost a bunch of suit upgrades, possibly when getting the new suit (unless that's supposed to happen). And if so, I guess I'm simply fucked unless I start over again (I already had to do so once because I hit a game-breaking glitch)?

 

[Korosenai]

My AR Turotials dissapeared from my map.... I was going to use the predator tutorial for the blunt trauma achievement as well. What the heck.

 

[erawsd]

How hard/easy is it to get enough upgrade points to unlock everything? Is it precisely balanced so that you get just enough to unlock everything by doing all the AR challenges, or can you always get more? The reason I'm asking is that I'm pretty sure I hit some bug where I lost a bunch of suit upgrades, possibly when getting the new suit (unless that's supposed to happen). And if so, I guess I'm simply fucked unless I start over again (I already had to do so once because I hit a game-breaking glitch)?

You dont get enough points to buy everything in a single playthrough.

 

[Spring-Loaded]

You dont get enough points to buy everything in a single playthrough.

What all upgrades do you absolutely need for Riddler trophies?

They should've made knocking out goons post-game a way to farm XP, even if it's really minimal.

 

[erawsd]

What all upgrades do you absolutely need for Riddler trophies?

They should've made knocking out goons post-game a way to farm XP, even if it's really minimal.

I think the only one that is needed is the Mine Disruptor. At least, thats the only one I had to go out of my way to buy.

 

[Marc]

Welp, after fully giving it a chance and finishing the game I can safely say that was one of the worst gaming experiences I have had for 5 or so years. Mostly because I stupidly carried on with the hope things would change for the better. I cheered when the bat

Spoiler

mobile blows up

, but wait there's more... NOOOO!!!

I'll give it a 4/10 for

Spoiler

Mark Hamill

and the graphics, everything else was shite. So many cop outs, nonsensical decisions, gameplay buffoonery and all around poor game design. Even

Spoiler

Mark Hamill

, shouldn't be there and just completely undermines the other villains who have never got the spotlight in this series. I think I had like 10 minutes of fun out of several hours of gameplay.

For reference I would give Asylum a 9.2, City a 9.1 and Origins a 9.4 (best story by a mile).

A few random thoughts:

Spoiler

- Oh Oracle got captured?
- Oh, Jim got captured?
- Oh, Robin got captured?
- Oh, Batman got captured?
- Oh, Lucious got captured? (how fucking lame was that btw after the build up in city)
- Basically only Alfred got away with it, would have been awesome to go back to the Batcave like Origins. But no, all effort spent on more Batmobile content is the better option.
- Fuck the batmobile and every forced usage of it, worst gaming mechanic I have experienced. I really don't say that lightly either, I tried thinking about it during the shitty load times after having to fight 50 billion tanks for the 4th time in a row. I couldn't remember anything else being quite so obnoxious, maybe Ninja Gaiden camera's... but I got used to them eventually. Not this. Never this. I basically spent 80% of my upgrade points on the batmobile just to try and make things go quicker.
- Hey hey, its really a Joker story after all.
- Robin gets shot? Oh well, back to patrolling the city I guess. Get out of the building yourselves, bye!
- "Bruce", "Bruce", "Bruce"... yes thanks Oracle for saying my name in the middle of the sodding police station. May as well fucking reveal my identity to the world now anyway.
- Every twist was visible from a mile away and a cop out at every turn. I even spent a while with Oracles "corpse" with detective mode on to try and work out some kind of trick. Oh yeah, fear toxin makes sense as the get out except it doesn't. When has it ever worked like that specifically. And you what, just leave the body in a room to rot? Makes no damn sense, and Gordon doesn't even ask about her body? Just takes his word for it, doesn't ask for details or ANYTHING?! Really! No father would do that.
- Crap boss battles, if you call them that... non-existent really. Big miss since it broke up the traversing in previous games.
- Completed the Riddle missions, nope got to get all the trophies as well to face him. Well fuck that because there are so many stupid races (!! Makes no damn sense!) and annoying to get trophies where you have to wait at the end of the game to go back and get them with new gadgets. Nah.
- Lame threats basically amounted to Batmans allies being in danger, everything else was easy and straight forward to beat the bad guys. No real threat at all from the villains. I could go on and on, much shorter to describe the positives but spent enough time on this game I think.

Will trade it in this weekend, for reference again I very rarely do that. Watch Dogs, a few FIFA's, AC3 and maybe a couple of others I got as presents that I didn't really want.

 

[Papercuts]

I think the only one that is needed is the Mine Disruptor. At least, thats the only one I had to go out of my way to buy.

I believe you also need the multibatarang to get 3 at once.

 

[antitrop]

If you pay attention to the front on the APC there are arrows showing you which way it will be turning.

Not sure if you are on PS4, but you might want to check your controller. (I'm sure this isn't the case) but I actually found out while playing the game that my R2 button was slightly broken. When I would hold it all the way down the car would stay at half speed. I swapped it out with a different one and saw that the batmobile was going at it's proper speed.

Yes. I have two DualShocks 4s, and I noticed that the R2 button on one of them was fucked up, but only for driving the Batmobile in this game.

 

[Anung]

Riddler trophy collecting is some serious tedium. This ending better be worth it.

 

[antitrop]

Riddler trophy collecting is some serious tedium. This ending better be worth it.

All I've heard about it was "Thank God for YouTube".

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I believe you also need the multibatarang to get 3 at once.

This might be the case, but the one time I thought I needed it, it turned out I could just throw three in quick succession (in

Spoiler

Stagg's airship

).

 

[DukeBobby]

Riddler trophy collecting is some serious tedium. This ending better be worth it.

Arkham City had over 400 trophies, but I don't remember them being as tedious as this.

Maybe we're just burnt out.

 

[Anung]

Arkham City had over 400 trophies, but I don't remember them being as tedious as this.

Maybe we're just burnt out.

This is actually the first time I've ever bothered with collecting them (because the true ending yadda yadda) I can only imagine how boring collecting 400 Riddler trophies is D: I'm about half way through the second island now.

 

[malfcn]

I'm about 60% through the story. I love driving the mobile around, but some of the forced tanks gets old. Mostly enjoyable though.

Drifting around corners is so good.

 

[VNZ]

The game glitched out rather beautifully yesterday so I hit the 'share' button and dove into SHAREfactory for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQS5CwASNLc

 

[Alienous]

Welp, after fully giving it a chance and finishing the game I can safely say that was one of the worst gaming experiences I have had for 5 or so years. Mostly because I stupidly carried on with the hope things would change for the better. I cheered when the bat

Spoiler

mobile blows up

, but wait there's more... NOOOO!!!

I'll give it a 4/10 for

Spoiler

Mark Hamill

and the graphics, everything else was shite. So many cop outs, nonsensical decisions, gameplay buffoonery and all around poor game design. Even

Spoiler

Mark Hamill

, shouldn't be there and just completely undermines the other villains who have never got the spotlight in this series. I think I had like 10 minutes of fun out of several hours of gameplay.

For reference I would give Asylum a 9.2, City a 9.1 and Origins a 9.4 (best story by a mile).

...

Will trade it in this weekend, for reference again I very rarely do that. Watch Dogs, a few FIFA's, AC3 and maybe a couple of others I got as presents that I didn't really want.

I think I agree with all of your points, but 4/10 seems harsh. For me it's a 7.5/10 in terms of the fun I had with it.

I just didn't fall in love with this game like the others. If City was Assassin's Creed 2 this is Assassin's Creed Revelations.

I was enamoured with it for the first two hours, then began the decline from perfection that got faster and faster until about 2 hours before the end of the game. There's a whole middle part of the game that I really only remember vaguely, whereas I haven't played Asylum or City in years and can mentally chart my progress through it.

It kept me entertained for about a dozen hours so I don't think too harshly of it, but I had the same reaction as you of wanting to trade it in as soon as I was done. Like I picked up my copy ready to go and trade it in and only stopped myself because I own the entire series and don't want to break it up.

I don't know what it is. I enjoyed it, I didn't love it.

 

[Shaanyboi]

Spoiler

Manbat

Just scared the living shit outta me.

YUP

 

[bargeparty]

Don't have time to search through the thread, maybe someone can answer this quickly.

I have a missing spot on the quest radial screen thing. Is that supposed to be there or am I missing something?

 

[ta155]

Zipping around doing the less story-centric side missions (towers, command points, etc) with this on in the background - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLL9TSXZ-eM - is fucking awesome.

Spotify on PS4 justified by one track.

 

[Alienous]

Don't have time to search through the thread, maybe someone can answer this quickly.

I have a missing spot on the quest radial screen thing. Is that supposed to be there or am I missing something?

They'll all appear as you progress through the main story.

 

[Anung]

The game glitched out rather beautifully yesterday so I hit the 'share' button and dove into SHAREfactory for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQS5CwASNLc

Scarecrow chucked some LSD into this batch of fear toxin for good measure.