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Batman: Arkham Knight |OT| Protect Gotham Racing
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Palette Swap
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After 1-2hours, not a huge fan of the batmobile so far but it's not terrible either. I love the presentation and some of the shots of the city. After 3 minutes of Arkham Knight, it looks like they are a bit obvious about his identity (I'm totally unspoiled and didn't follow the prerelease stuff so I hope I'm wrong).
I checked the challenges part and I'm not feeling what they did with them.
I checked the challenges part and I'm not feeling what they did with them.
Again, it's a shaky workaround at best, but try changing your DNS settings. I did it this morning and downloaded 7GB in 20 minutes, which is pretty much the fastest I can download.
So apparently Harley and Red Hood are not even playable outside of their 10 minute missions and there are a lot less challenge maps than AC. That's very disappointing to hear, the challenges added a great amount of replay value to the previous games and they were perfectly done in AC.
No stuff like (early game spoiler)
Nearly the entire Ace Chemical plant section. The only part I found clever about that section was the elevator thing. Everything else was pretty much just "clear a path for the Batmobile so it can use dat winch."
Scorpion Soldier
Member
I did actually. Tried it before lunch, it's not optimal, but it's better now at least.
How many challenge maps are we talking? Are you sure more don't only appear as you unlock them?
Less than the previous games would make me pretty upset.
It's a mess. Just look at the Steam Reviews: http://store.steampowered.com/app/208650/
Well, according to the trophy list there are 69 medals, so maybe 23 maps (1 less than base game AC) but a good amount of them are batmobile race tracks.
In AC you could play as any character in any map and the objectives would change depending on the character. Seems like this is gone now and you do not get to select a character
aussiedude08
Member
They will do it with DLC and lock more content into the season pass
Idk, I loved that bit. You're forgetting you also had to move a ramp around to land jumps (not exactly cerebral but it was really nice) and manoeuvre the car up onto the secondary platform to pull down that wall and nail the baddies.
That challenge is the worst bit of the game for me so far. Rest is brillo.
I think there might be fewer 'traditional' challenge maps because a lot of them are Batmobile only (races, time trials and battles). Which I'm fairly okay with, personally but I can imagine others wouldn't be.
Really?
Pretty sure that the Harley DLC you got for pre-ordering was supposed to include challenge maps for her to play in. That's what they claimed way back when the announcement went up anyway.
Xzilerate1690
Banned
From what I've been hearing it runs great and looks great as well. People have been seeing it's 900p, but that there's pretty much no difference compared to the PS4 version of the game.
My LE for Xbox One arrives later today as well.
Palette Swap
Member
Yeah, it's 23 but here's the breakdown (going by the menu):
- 6 batmobile hybrid challenges
- 4 batmobile combat challenges
- 5 batmobile race challenges
- 4 predator challenges
- 4 combat challenges
- On PS4, 3 scarecrow nightmare DLC challenges
- 4 batmobile combat challenges
- 5 batmobile race challenges
- 4 predator challenges
- 4 combat challenges
- On PS4, 3 scarecrow nightmare DLC challenges
These are all the available challenges. I don't know what that first category entails.
Got it for the Xbox One because I am inexplicably locked in mortal combat (kombat?) with a local friend over gamerscore. We never mention it, it just exists. I'm at like 76100 he's at 76000. Ridiculous.
So yeah, I bought the 900p version instead of the 1080p version that has the add on Scarecrow missions. Did I miss anything substantial?
*slinks back into corner*
So yeah, I bought the 900p version instead of the 1080p version that has the add on Scarecrow missions. Did I miss anything substantial?
*slinks back into corner*
I would expect 12 for each category. If they add the Batmobile, they should add more maps for it, not reduce the number of combat and predator maps.
It would be real dirty, if they're holding that stuff for the season pass.
Edit:
Yeah, fuck this. Tempted to wait for GOTY edition now.
IIRC, the first challenge category (Hybrid) includes hitting checkpoints ala a race/time trial, while also battling off drones and taking down thugs. Hybrid Batmobile combat and racing.
It seems a bit ridiculous there are only 8 traditional challenges. Surely it takes a very tiny amount of effort to slice out a decent fight/predator encounter from the main campaign and turn that into a challenge. It's resources, but nowhere near as much as designing a race route through a city or a new story mission.
Edit:
Agreed. And I think they are.
Haven't played Harley yet, but Red Hood's pack is basically 3 connected challenges (2 combat and 1 predator) with a little bit of dialogue and barely any story . Don't think you get to play as him outside of that. Willing to bet that the same applies to Harley
So, 15/23 challenges are batmobile related. Did they really think that it was a good idea to shove the batmobile down our throats so much? I hope that the DLC makes up for this...
Played for a couple of hours:
If the Arkham Knight turns out to be
, then fuck this game has some
and I would be thoroughly disappointed. I'm really hoping I'm just being
.
Batmobile feels like a dumb hinderance. So far two hours in I've spent most of my time assisting the batmobile around obstacles like it's some sort of senior citizen.
If the Arkham Knight turns out to be
Robin (as in the sidekick, not the bird)
shitty ass obvious writing
led astray buy obvious red herrings
Batmobile feels like a dumb hinderance. So far two hours in I've spent most of my time assisting the batmobile around obstacles like it's some sort of senior citizen.
Yeah, it does seem a bit obvious. I hope that's not the case. Someone above mentioned that they got the AK's identity spoiled for them and that they hoped the game had other story megatons – so I hope it's a megaton and not just
Robin
I love the Batmobile though. Whenever it gets stuck on obstacles pop on to Battle Mode. Then back into Car mode and zoom away.
If Arkham Knight is
basically Jason Todd/Red Hood with a different helmet on,
Wtf I didn't even know there was more than one ending. I consider this entire concept a spoiler. And makes me far less excited about the game's climax. Why dilute your story by tacking multiple endings on the end of a narratively linear series?
Edit: Oh, oh wait. The 'second ending' is just like a 'bonus ending' isn't it? It's not like an alternate ending where things conclude differently. It's just more info. Didn't Asylum have one of these, with Bane? Phew, I feel better now.
It not worth losing sleep over if you have not got time to 100% it pretty terrible in IMO
Alligatorjandro
Banned
How is the Xbox One version?
There's only one 'ending' to the game. But there's like an extra bit, like the 'sting' at the end of a movie's credits, which you only get if you 100% the game.
neoism
Member
yeah holy shit the batmoblie is just meh.... they reallllllllllllllllllllllyyy should have let you toggle the shoulder button controls..and not have to hold them down... -_-its really cumbersome to have to hold done 3 fucking shoulder buttons....
thinking about switching the 1s with the 2s i really dislike the ps4 r2 and l2 buttons i feel like im going to break them if i use them to much....
thinking about switching the 1s with the 2s i really dislike the ps4 r2 and l2 buttons i feel like im going to break them if i use them to much....
Dude there's a setting in the options menu.
You can swap it to a toggle so you just tap L2 once to put on Battle Mode.
I like it as a hold but the option's there, for god's sake.
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
30 minutes left until mine unlocks. Well I hope..
Some videos and analysis here.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_batman_ak_under_the_microscope-16779_en.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_xb1_videos_of_batman_ak-16773_en.html
Some videos and analysis here.
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_batman_ak_under_the_microscope-16779_en.html
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_our_xb1_videos_of_batman_ak-16773_en.html
I'm surprised I'm liking the Batmobile more than most here since I generally hate driving vehicles. I suck at the race stuff but using it as a tank and in conjunction with Batman's other gadgets as a puzzle/progression aid has added a lot of variety and lead to some clever design.
Well I entered the first DLC code on PS4 which worked but the second is stuck on a loading bar for 10 minutes now. Should you leave it loading or can you back out of it and retry without messing it up?
Edit 1: No you can't back out, its stuck loading.
Edit 2: Can go back to dash then back to store to retry but just stuck on a loading bar yet again.
Edit 3: I can't even purchase those free skins just loads forever; giving up!
If the codes had worked yesterday I could have done it then and been playing the actual game today. Annoying.
Edit 1: No you can't back out, its stuck loading.
Edit 2: Can go back to dash then back to store to retry but just stuck on a loading bar yet again.
Edit 3: I can't even purchase those free skins just loads forever; giving up!
If the codes had worked yesterday I could have done it then and been playing the actual game today. Annoying.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Thanks
Palette Swap
Member
Honestly, within two minutes of hearing him I thought
"he does sound like that whiny cunt Jason". I hope this is a red herring but so far, it could totally be him.
He would be a new character to the Arkhamverse I guess.
He would be a new character to the Arkhamverse I guess.
I feel the same.
I like the races/time trials when they're not the Riddlers daft ones with sliding walls and shit. The straight up street races are pretty badass.
And the general integration with the world and puzzles is great, really immersive and often emergent. Whenever I do get tired of the Batmobile I just stop using it and do some on-foot work.
To be fair, the first thing I did after the batmobile combat tutorial was look in the settings for a toggle switch. I couldn't find it, either in the gamepad section or gameplay (on PC).