Big Fresh Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Day 1 DLC was not necessarily "withheld". There's a lot of time between when the game has to be locked until release day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I normally do so anyway but I am seeing lots of folks saying that you will want to turn on subtitles and raise the brightness at least a little Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 3.8 gig day one patch on xbone Patches on the very first day of release like DLC and day one withheld DLC. I remember the days when you got everything on disc when you handed money over. Idealist! How can they already have a 3.8 gig path on the first day of release? What the hell is this nonsense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 I'm watching a video of all the glitches in the PC version and realized Jonathan Banks voices Commissioner Gordon. That is fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Just completed the first Riddler course. Wow. I'm pretty sure there's no way I'm going to be able to finish all of these. That was presumably the easiest one, and I was on the verge of some property damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) I'm watching a video of all the glitches in the PC version and realized Jonathan Banks voices Commissioner Gordon. That is fucking awesome. He's 100x better than the generic person they had play Gordon in Origins. Man, I did not like that game. As a whole, the voice acting is superb so far. Another great thing that they clearly learned from previous iterations: AR Challenges are integrated so much better into story mode. They earn you Wayne Industry points which you use to unlock attacks/gadget/batmobile/suit upgrades. And they're located within the game world too. I never touched the challenges previously but now that they're integrated have an impact on your campaign, fuck yes. And they're pretty damn fun too. I feel Ligerbusa's pain on that initial batmobile on the rooftop mission. They could have made it clearer that you're supposed to use the winch to get across the gulf. I must've dropped 3 times before even getting there and then I tried just making the jump the old fashioned way about 4 or 5 times. Still, it helped me get used to the car controls, as pressing square/x for brake wasn't something I'm used to. The mapping makes sense in the end because using the shoulder buttons for battle mode is way more sensible. Just completed the first Riddler course. Wow. I'm pretty sure there's no way I'm going to be able to finish all of these. That was presumably the easiest one, and I was on the verge of some property damage. I went from being stuck on the last lap for a good while to completing the AR challenge at 40 seconds pretty quickly. I feel like there's a frustrating learning curve but once you get over it, it's not too bad. Yet another nice touch: all of the challenges have leaderboards, so you can see how much better 90% of your friends are than you at this game. Edited June 23, 2015 by Oyaji 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 God damn that jump scare when you meet... Man-Bat. And now he's howling above the city and it's distracting me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 http://acutegaming.net/batman-arkham-knight-warner-bros-executive-pc-gamers-a-bunch-of-babies/2015/ WB says its not Ryan Moore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 How do I change the controls to toggle Battle Mode in the Batmobile, instead of holding it? I don't see it in the options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 So, I earned my first ever XBone trophy! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 If I only have one minor gripe about the game in my playing today, it's that the game is almost TOO big. Like, overwhelmingly so. I'm sure I'll feel better about it as I play it more though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I felt that way when I first looked at the upgrade tree... Woah boy, am I glad I got a 4-day break coming. Batman just talked to Robin for the first time.... Batman is a real dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 The "One Warrior Nation Man Army" challenge is a jerk and I don't like its face. I can't get more than 6800 points after about 30 attempts. How do you string together criticals in the batmobile? Is it just using the vulcan gun and aiming for the li'l purple lights on the tank drones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 What is with all the rain indoors??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 This story is insane! I need to go to sleep, but I can't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 PC launch has been a complete mess. Really doesn't seem optimized for PC hardware at all at this time. Even people with high end systems complaining about dropping framerates and stutter. That's unfortunate, given that I don't recall the other games in the series having these problems. Hopefully it's fixed within a week or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I've found a lot of current gen ports to PC have been disappointing in one way or another. And that Rocksteady didn't work on the PC port isn't surprising as that's been a thing studios do as of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 At least now with the new Steam refund policy, if people choose not to wait for fixes they at least have an option and developers can't just hold people's money hostage, so overall it's not like it's crying time really. These are the golden days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I played about 60% of AA, really liked it but my save got corrupted (what year is this?) and I never went back to it. Also never played Arkham City. Is this a linear trilogy like Gears of War or Halo or is Arkham Knight a standalone where I could pick it up and not feel like I'm out of place by not finishing AA or playing AC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I played about 60% of AA, really liked it but my save got corrupted (what year is this?) and I never went back to it. Also never played Arkham City. Is this a linear trilogy like Gears of War or Halo or is Arkham Knight a standalone where I could pick it up and not feel like I'm out of place by not finishing AA or playing AC? You gotta get caught up first. If you don't have time to play the games, then watch these. They're long, but not as long as playing the games: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Figures. I might play them on PC since I finally have a computer capable of running them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ligerbusa Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 PC launch has been a complete mess. Really doesn't seem optimized for PC hardware at all at this time. Even people with high end systems complaining about dropping framerates and stutter. That's unfortunate, given that I don't recall the other games in the series having these problems. Hopefully it's fixed within a week or two. There isn't even an option for high or ultra textures. Right now, everything but smoke from the Batmobile is superior on PS4 but even the smoke is an NVidia thing and not working properly. At least now with the new Steam refund policy, if people choose not to wait for fixes they at least have an option and developers can't just hold people's money hostage, so overall it's not like it's crying time really. These are the golden days. Thing is, a lot of people (myself included) purchased the game from Green Man Gaming because they had a VIP sale which was the game and season pass for 40% off. You can't get a refund if you buy third party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 So about the PC port. Some sleuths out there have uncovered information that suggests that the devs porting it to PC only had about a month and a half. To quickly break it down, what you're looking at is steam's back end information as to what packages on all steam servers include access to Batman Arkham Knight. The ones with the globes are available to the store, and the others are for backend use (think press copies). From that, you can see that Warner Bros and Rocksteady have access to the steam build starting April 2014. Iron Galaxy (a studio known mainly for working on games that are "coming in hot" to their releases) only gets access on May 1st, 2015. This is a pretty good answer to "how did this happen," and it shows some really unfortunate planning as well as a superhuman effort on Iron Galaxy's behalf showing how close they came anyways. Anyways. I hate these games so this'll be my only post in here, so I might as well say that under a friend's advisement I checked out the ending on youtube and this thread is going to be awesome in two to three weeks. It's a kind of ending that I would've wrote (regardless of my feelings on batman). I'm genuinely excited for you guys to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I picked up my PS4 copy from Best Buy yesterday. It's already the best looking game I've ever seen. Although I sorta think the M rating is a bit of a misnomer. It's no more violent thus far than Arkham City. I still want to Platinum Arkham Asylum, City, Origins and Blackgate Vita & PS3 before this though. Yes I'm nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 24, 2015 Author Share Posted June 24, 2015 The gaming website I tend to use the most, GameCentral has finally put their Batman: Arkham Knight review up today. The review is very criticial of the story and the Batmobile is overused. "Awful" boss battles and "the worst of the Arkham titles". The game scored 7/10. I believe Arkham Asylum got 8/10, I do know Arkham City got 9/10 and Arkham Origins 7/10. Expected them not to like the Batmobile but never thought they would say its the weakest Arkham game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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