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Snark posted:Yeah I was annoyed by the cornhole-a-Cobra combat after a while. I get that they were going for Tank Predator mode to mix up the Batmobile combat. But there really aren't enough tricks to pull to make it satisfying. You either luck out with a tank that is far from his buddies, or you get the Cobra lure to draw one out. That's about it. Oh gently caress me, why did I never clue into that. Also, my favourite was realizing that explosive gel and wall or exploding generators would also insta-takedown minigunners. That, plus voice thing, led to me taking down all four of them on the final watch tower with one generator.
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Toady posted:Well, that could have been part of the hallucination. A running theme of the Arkham games is that hallucinogenic drugs introduce horribly unreliable narratives. Everything from the first dose of Scarecrow toxin in AA to the R'as and Hatter segments of AC. In AK, they telegraph this by using the Joker as a set piece indicating when the narrative is slipping. From the scenes of Joker shooting Babs and Jason to hiding Babs' suicide behind his body to using his face during the first Knight unmasking, the Joker's presence says, "Hey, this isn't exactly right!" If you're watching the thematic hints, then Babs' suicide isn't convincing the second you stop and think about it. It's pretty well-telegraphed. By the time we see Jason's murder, it should be apparent that it wasn't real. I'm a little annoyed that Batman didn't figure it out, because he was pretty effective at detecting unreliable narration in the previous games. I think it would have fit better if he had suspected she was alive and gone to the meet accordingly, instead of being shocked when he learned the truth.
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This thread moves fast and I don't have time to sift it so I'll just ask: anyone having problems redeeming the Flashpoint Skin? Got the others and bought the season pass but when it gives me the prompt to press triangle at the menu nothing happens and it's not in my showcase.
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Jul 7, 2015 23:50
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Snark posted:Yeah I was annoyed by the cornhole-a-Cobra combat after a while. I get that they were going for Tank Predator mode to mix up the Batmobile combat. But there really aren't enough tricks to pull to make it satisfying. You either luck out with a tank that is far from his buddies, or you get the Cobra lure to draw one out. That's about it. Have you done the David and Goliath AR mission yet? That's the only fun cobra encounter in the game.
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Jul 7, 2015 23:57
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The Cobra missions are the only thing keeping me from a second playthrough. I don't want to deal with that poo poo. The one with like 7 cobras and the Arkham Knight cannon tank was an exercise in tedium.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:01
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Snark posted:Yeah I was annoyed by the cornhole-a-Cobra combat after a while. I get that they were going for Tank Predator mode to mix up the Batmobile combat. But there really aren't enough tricks to pull to make it satisfying. You either luck out with a tank that is far from his buddies, or you get the Cobra lure to draw one out. That's about it.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:06
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If I lean too heavily on stealth takedowns from behind, the Arkham Knight orders his guys to buddy up, but if you lean heavily on fear takedowns he does the opposite and orders his men to spread out. Interesting.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:09
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The militia adapt quite often, unfortunately you tend to chew through so quick it doesn't make much difference.  Anyway, I'm ploughing through NG+ with a fully upgraded Batsuit, yum yum. Is there a way to tell the difference between a combat master's regular attacks and their combo though? The latter keeps catching me off-guard as I'm trying to counter, rather than dodge, them. There must be a tell I'm missing.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:16
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I'm too uncreative for predator mode. Mostly I just disrupt the more annoying enemies (medic, detective mode detectors + jammer, maybe the mini gunner), stealth take down some isolated guys, then fear into smoke bomb combat annihilation. The voice commands are a godsend because now I can actually set up traps and stuff without having to wait and hope a thug wanders over.
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Jul 8, 2015 00:39
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SonicRulez posted:The only upgrades I've found to be completely useless are the Glide Gadgets. I saved all of those for last. Same. I've gotten one Gadgets while Gliding upgrade so far and haven't even used it. I went after Batmobile and Combat upgrades first and foremost.
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QuantumNinja posted:A running theme of the Arkham games is that hallucinogenic drugs introduce horribly unreliable narratives. Everything from the first dose of Scarecrow toxin in AA to the R'as and Hatter segments of AC. In AK, they telegraph this by using the Joker as a set piece indicating when the narrative is slipping. From the scenes of Joker shooting Babs and Jason to hiding Babs' suicide behind his body to using his face during the first Knight unmasking, the Joker's presence says, "Hey, this isn't exactly right!" If you're watching the thematic hints, then Babs' suicide isn't convincing the second you stop and think about it. It's pretty well-telegraphed. By the time we see Jason's murder, it should be apparent that it wasn't real. My problem with it is they do a great job actually of making it more obvious she isn't dead when Scarecrow says to Batman right after it "What happened in there is your fault.". He doesn't mention Barbera or anything, he doesn't actually know what happened in the room. Then a little while later they ruin it by Arkham Knight saying "She's dead because of you!"
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TheRedEye posted:This game sure hates Robin. Especially if you talk to him immediately after the cutscene where he gets put in the cell instead of Bruce. Doubt this won't lead to him snapping in the future.
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Jul 8, 2015 02:13
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I like using traps to take out minigunners, much less of a hassle. Disrupt a weapons crate and use the voice module to order one of them to investigate it, or blow up a wall on one of them, etc... trying to punch them out is a sucker's game.
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Speedball posted:If I lean too heavily on stealth takedowns from behind, the Arkham Knight orders his guys to buddy up, but if you lean heavily on fear takedowns he does the opposite and orders his men to spread out. Interesting. This was pretty cool, and it shows Rocksteady understood what made the Mr. Freeze fight so good - it was basically a test of every Predator skill at your disposal against an enemy who doesn't allow you to favor one approach. Every Predator encounter with militia is basically the Mr. Freeze fight. I've consciously avoided the disruptor upgrades just so I don't make them too easy, but it wouldn't surprise me if Arkham Knight has a contingency for those. There are a ton of approaches in Predator rooms, to the point of it almost being overwhelming due to the variety of enemies. TheRedEye posted:This game sure hates Robin. Yeah, but it's Chris O'Donnell Robin so who cares?
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TheRedEye posted:This Yep. I like the options and creativity in predator, but I absolutely hate how much of it takes place in outside environments. I might be beating a dead horse with this point, but it makes things significantly less fun. Not just because I get spotted. I don't mind difficulty and I'm pretty great at predator after 4 games of it. It's that I don't get spotted and think "Oh poo poo, it's over.' I just think "Ugh, now I have to grapple away and come up the other side." Even in the banks, I get spotted and have so many options to run or just fight my way out that it's comical.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:I've consciously avoided the disruptor upgrades just so I don't make them too easy, but it wouldn't surprise me if Arkham Knight has a contingency for those. lol he doesn't. The disruptor kinda saps some fun from the predator sections.
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Was there any truth to those rumours about a remastering of Asylum/City?
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Jul 8, 2015 03:26
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What was the Goon concensus on the Mr Freeze DLC for Origins?
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CJacobs posted:Man, going back to Arkham Asylum is such a refresher from this game. Arkham Asylum has, I think, four enemy types. This game has twelve. I really really like this game but they went super batshit overboard with how many gadgets/moves Batman has and how many types of enemies there are and the tactics they require. I replayed Asylum recently and I don't remember any Shield guys. There were the charging lunatics though. MeatwadIsGod posted:Same. I've gotten one Gadgets while Gliding upgrade so far and haven't even used it. I went after Batmobile and Combat upgrades first and foremost. Gadgets while Gliding suffers from a little bit of poor controls and a little bit of it not explaining how it works properly. You need to use one finger to hold down W or S while you're gliding, then you have to aim the camera at the person you want to target and then use another finger to actually use the quickfire gadget, but it's hard to tell when it worked because it doesn't happen instantly, or if you do it too close to the end of the glide, and the results aren't generally worth the effort. Aquasnake fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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ghouldaddy07 posted:What was the Goon concensus on the Mr Freeze DLC for Origins? Pretty good. Way better than Harley Quinn's Revenge, at least.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:What was the Goon consensus on the Mr Freeze DLC for Origins?
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ghouldaddy07 posted:What was the Goon concensus on the Mr Freeze DLC for Origins? It's good.
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There's an Honest Trailer for Arkham Knight, now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMys_6t9N4
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Jul 8, 2015 04:16
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The Bat Hat is a phrase I need to use in conversation more often.
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ghouldaddy07 posted:What was the Goon concensus on the Mr Freeze DLC for Origins? It's better than Origins itself. Ice ray thugs are ffffffucking dumb though.
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Does this game work for PC yet? I have it in my Steam inventory but am afraid to download it.
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With all the discussions about the thugs, I am so glad the martial artists from Origins didn't return. I mean they were a interesting new gimmick, but I always forget about their counter and get hit.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Does this game work for PC yet? I have it in my Steam inventory but am afraid to download it. Not well.
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Rirse posted:With all the discussions about the thugs, I am so glad the martial artists from Origins didn't return. I mean they were a interesting new gimmick, but I always forget about their counter and get hit. I was hoping the combat masters would be this but they're just reskinned Assassins.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Does this game work for PC yet? I have it in my Steam inventory but am afraid to download it. The first patch (and some tweaks) helped a bit, but not enough.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:There's an Honest Trailer for Arkham Knight, now. He's a superhero with the most unfair advantage of all: money.
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The toddlers challenges are basically the opposite of what makes a good puzzle platformer. 10% of the difficulty comes from the actual puzzles and 90% is fighting the games loosey goosey controls. I was actually excited for them at first but this is trash. E: that was suppose to say riddler but I'll leave it because it made me laugh. Phone postin
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Pirate Jet posted:It's better than Origins itself. This was my assessment.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Does this game work for PC yet? I have it in my Steam inventory but am afraid to download it. If you have: A sandy bridge or newer i5 or better A gtx 780 or better (taking into account you'll want 3GB of VRAM) An SSD You can futz with a few lines in the ini files and play the game without much issue. Only thing I have a lot of trouble with is the game works smoke when I do burnouts/drifting in the batmobile. Might work well for other configs, that's just an approximation of the hardware I ran it ok on. The key tweaks are to set the max frames to 60 (or whatever your monitor refresh is I guess) then there is another one where you set I think desiredmaxframes(? Not sure I remember) to 58-62. Something about that makes the textures load a lot better. When all I did was bump the frame rate the textures still wouldn't load on a lot of poo poo.
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Does this game work for PC yet? I have it in my Steam inventory but am afraid to download it. vvvv No, not without turning off like every post effect, which makes it look like green butt. redbackground fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Is there a way to turn off this game's chromatic aberration? It makes everything look blurry including batman, the focus point of the camera (where there should be no chromatic aberration in the first place if we're pretending the game's camera works like a real-life one) and though it's I guess cinematic that way, it looks like crap. edit: Looked it up myself and no, there is not. Unfortunate. redbackground posted:vvvv Darn. CJacobs fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Jul 8, 2015 |
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Holy hell the tank fights in this game are becoming such a slog. I'm at 89% of the main quest and I've committed that I won't be getting all the riddler trophies, is there any point to finishing the other sidequests or is it an all-or-nothing deal with them in relation to the ending?
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Kleen_TheRowdyDog posted:Does this game work for PC yet? Just keep waiting. All the first patch did was fix a few showstopper crashes and toggle some missing graphic effects back on. There were no performance fixes or patches for the memory leaks.
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Emron posted:Some of these trophies are going to be a pain in the butt--5 perfect critical shots in a row without taking damage? That is going to be really hard. Apparently they don't have to be five perfect consecutive shots, just five perfect consecutive kills. Load up the AR mission outside the movie studio and do it there. It won't matter if you miss a couple shots before you land the one the blows the drone up. Just don't get hit at all when you're doing it.
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