Yeah... lol
The electro-charge the Batmobile does to KO enemies is one thing, but then you clearly can drive over the KO'd ones without making them go flying, I can't defend that point.
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Batman: Arkham Knight |OT| Protect Gotham Racing
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Yeah... lol
The electro-charge the Batmobile does to KO enemies is one thing, but then you clearly can drive over the KO'd ones without making them go flying, I can't defend that point.
Dufase19089
Banned
I mean at that point, its just a video game. Lest the game is gonna add a little scooper to move the people out the way
bodyofanamerican
Member
Punched by an angry gorilla.(Yes, I've been hunting riddles for quite some time now.)
The electricity thing was hilarious.
I basically became my own villain. The Electrocutioner.
Yeah, they say it's like being punched by a gorilla.
It's pretty flimsy in the actual world it plays out in though, since you can obviously still run over their bodies on the floor, and even if it has that shock measure in place, a bigass vehicle like this boosting into you is still going to kill you. I found it pretty hilarious though. Same with the APC takedowns where you sideswipe people into buildings and flip cars.
Terrible player*
BattleMonkey
Member
Its just funny that they did kinda try and go out of the way to make it that you can't use lethal rounds on bad guys and such, they make a point of it, yet you can mow them down left and right by driving over everyone and often do it in any of the driving missions by accident.
It makes sense story-wise and I totally appreciate that, but it's so damn unsatisfying to see the main story end like one of the side-quests, with no real punch and just a bunch of Riddler trophies to find before you're "worthy" of the true ending.
I get what you mean. It's really neat in-universe wise to add cohesion the whole, but it prevents closure to the primary plot. City of Fear on its own takes up 46% of the whole, so an initial set of credits would have been nice, and then after someone completes 100% Knightfall, the full set. It's weird that people can't even activate the Incomplete version without hitting a certain threshold.
What's especially weird is the incomplete one can kinda screw you over if you actually do TOO MANY side missions beforehand. I thought my game bugged out because I was getting ingame talk about it, and tried to activate it but nothing ingame changed. I actually looked up a video about where to go to see if I could do anything, but it seemed like I needed to capture another most wanted target to even trigger anything, but I already had everyone sans
Deathstroke and Riddler
They definitely could have done it more elegantly.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Did the in-game dialogue mention having to clear up the rest of the enemies first? It's weird that there wasn't better acknowledgement of the possibility people might not activate that protocol after getting 100%.
We're talking past each other, or at least me saying "I get what you're saying, but..." isn't being put clearly enough.
DrGonzo615
Banned
gotta go to the other arkham knight hq on the map. There is an elevator on the roof.
paperspace
Member
The Riddler Trophy outside his mansion. How do you pick it up? I've tried pretty much everything.
Spring-Loaded
Member
That might be a glitch if you've gotten it to fall to that point. It should be accessible there.
CouchMaster
Member
Holy shit I've never seen someone so awful at driving, or videogames in general, except Jimmy Kimmel and I'm pretty sure he does that on purpose.
Cheers, man.
Decided to fire up Arkham City and play around in the combat challenge maps.
Now the Joker Funhouse challenge is an actual challenge. Also I miss kinda having armoured dudes. Maybe not in combat cause brutes work about the same but having armoured dudes in predator maps that can carry different stuff like jammers/DTM scanners and stuff... what a shame they just replaced them with minigun dudes.
Freeflow focus time slow down and batswarm are OP as fuck in City/Origins though. Way too easy to create some breathing room. But then again the AK challenges actually don't give you any room, period.
Now the Joker Funhouse challenge is an actual challenge. Also I miss kinda having armoured dudes. Maybe not in combat cause brutes work about the same but having armoured dudes in predator maps that can carry different stuff like jammers/DTM scanners and stuff... what a shame they just replaced them with minigun dudes.
Freeflow focus time slow down and batswarm are OP as fuck in City/Origins though. Way too easy to create some breathing room. But then again the AK challenges actually don't give you any room, period.
it doesn't fall, you just walk up to it and hit A, from the side.
Spring-Loaded
Member
I'm really looking forward to more challenge maps down the line here. The combat challenges could be more interesting, but the few predator ones are all great.
I'd like to see some combat ones feature the drone turrets from the main game to add some challenge, since that was the hardest fight-related element in the game imo.
Nah, it really seemed bugged when it happened(I think I even posted here about it).
I could activate the protocol and have batman talk to alfred that he's ready to start, which alfred says alright towards(and to go to the GCPD spot, but it's sorta vague). But then it just said to select a mission from the wheel and gave no markers to go anywhere.
After I got deathstroke the cutscene where he's in the cell had Alfred pop up afterwards saying it's ready, which was really weird. So I didn't get the incompletete ending until I had 13/14 which seemed to be due to beating the game at 12/14.
After I got deathstroke the cutscene where he's in the cell had Alfred pop up afterwards saying it's ready, which was really weird. So I didn't get the incompletete ending until I had 13/14 which seemed to be due to beating the game at 12/14.
I can verify that the exact same happened to me.
Was able to tell Alfred to activate the protocol, would get a message to go to the GCPD, and then nothing. Everything was fine after taking down Deathstroke.
There were drone turrets in the fights? I don't remember this.
Also I wouldn't be surprised if some of the maps were some of the larger arenas like the Stagg Airship fight, which is the only big arena I can think of ATM. I thought even the Briefing Room fight felt a little tight, though it probably was at least as big as the courthouse if not a little more. Maybe the Chinatown square? There weren't a lot of good fight arenas period. The Missile Command Room was disappointing too.
Wow, there really weren't a lot of big arena fights. Plenty of good indoor predator ones though. And some of the Founder's Island watchtowers were really good too, those could easily be cordoned off as challenge maps. Now I wish I could just hit a button (other than NG+) to respawn all the Militia stuff.
The QBComics
Member
Holy SHIT I hate the Batman Tank Combat side missions. 48 enemies. 48! For only one part of the mission! Why did they think this would be fun?!
SuperEpicMan
Banned
Would I miss out in any way by just finishing the story now, and the rest of the side content post story? Or should I do the side stuff before finishing the last story mission.
Nothing you miss becomes inaccessible to you after finishing the main story.
Shin Johnpv
Member
I'm at about 3/4 done overall with the game (like 85 - 90% or something on the story, and most of the most wanted stuff done). At this point I can easily say that for me this is the worst of the Arkham games, and I would attribute a huge chunk of that to the Batmobile, and some story choices. For me, Rocksteady really jumped the shark on this one. This was my most anticipated game for the year, and it has been such a disappointment. Such wasted boss battle possibilities, why do I have a fist fight against
but
Pyg
Deathstroke, the one person close to Batman's skill in combat is a fucking tank battle. A terrible awful one at that too.
Gemüsepizza
Member
Is this on PC and do you have unlocked the framerate? Try it with the 30 fps lock enabled.
Shin Johnpv
Member
No idea, these tank battles really push the enjoyment right out of the game for me.
ubersticky
Member
The "A Leap of Faith" trophy. Fuck it, and fuck it haaaaard.
Spring-Loaded
Member
That's weird. It probably happened for me too, but I just went ahead and did everything before going to the roof.
I was partially mistaken I was thinking of the checkpoints with armed enemies, but they weren't really like predator sequences. Some of them had those massive turrets around that you could disable and cause them to blow up, knocking out surrounding enemies.
Though there were some that had wall mounted turrets. i liked having to really plan out an attack, and would love more challenge maps of just different types of checkpoints.
Oh right, I remember those now. Hence why I would love a button to just undo checkpoints and watchtowers, because those are different from discrete challenge maps in that you can run the fuck away if you need to. And that you have to finish a fight before the thing comes back up or you have to run away and set it up again.
In fact I also wouldn't mind challenge maps or campaigns or something that gave me an island or something with 3-5 towers/checkpoints, patrols, etc. and just told me to clear it as fast as I could. Like a really large mixed room with traversal involved.
It is true.
Go to YouTube, as someone who 100'd and got the Plat trophy... I recommend YouTube.
pots555
Member
Thanks for the answer. Their is no way I am going after all those trophies.
That one wasnt too bad for me. About 30 minutes to get it to pop. 12 different jumps. That 15 move freeflow trophy though, wtf. Took me like 2 hours. Pretty sure i got lucky on that one.
Spring-Loaded
Member
That would be good. It would better take advantage of the open world.
WordsintheWater
Member
Dude maybe to you it's the worst, but there's different opinions, I for one put this one only behind Asylum. Plus come on bro you went through most of the game not knowing you throw a batarang at a charging enemy to take them down despite the tutorial being plastered everywhere. And if your posts are anything to go by it definitely hindered your enjoyment of the game, can only blame yourself for that part.
Just got 100%, watched the true ending.
Kinda lame that they locked it behind the full completion, because it's really not the 'good' ending, but the only ending. You need to watch it on yt if you're not going for the Riddler stuff.
Platinum, man I don't know... 69 stars is a lot, and I'm not ready for more tank stuff or riddler races. Probably time for a break.
Doing the 'Run through the Jungle' trophy felt great, so tense when you have to make a low glide under a bridge.
I actually liked it. Ripped from DKR, but still a pretty good conclusion.
Platinum, man I don't know... 69 stars is a lot, and I'm not ready for more tank stuff or riddler races. Probably time for a break.
Doing the 'Run through the Jungle' trophy felt great, so tense when you have to make a low glide under a bridge.
Septimus Prime
Member
You can zoom!? I wonder if one of the problems with the Bat Tank segments is that that game never really tells you what you can do or how you should play them.
WordsintheWater
Member
What case? I know 100 percent that the tutorial for charging enemies is plastered everywhere, it even appears after you get tackled by them and fail to stop them.
"plastered everywhere". Go on...
No dude, red enemy counters are explicitly shown to you.
No excuse aside from not paying attention.
WordsintheWater
Member
It's fine man, that hint never pops up throughout the whole game, I was wrong, it's the games fault.
WordsintheWater
Member
Roll on batgirl DLC.
Really excited for that DLC especially after they mentioned they took inspiration from Asylums level design.