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Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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What are the odds of Bat-Mite ending up in this game?

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Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
I only found out today that Black Mask is at the beginning of City... I already knew about Deadshot, Az, and Hush, but wtf.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Nothing short of perfection. I want to be this Batman.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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iGestalt posted:

Why can't we get this? This is the best version of Azrael :(

I'm still holding on to the hope that this is the post story free roam mode, and has to do with the 'knightfall protocol' that the strategy guide scan's spoiled. I'm sure it won't be that cool in reality though...

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Saint Freak posted:

Arkham Knight is imaginary, as is the entire series. It all exists in the mind of autistic 8 year old Bruce Wayne staring at a snow globe of Gotham.

Edit: All of this is revealed to be a dream of Bob Newhart

In this imaginary universe, Howie Mandel still has hair.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
Arkham Knight is confirmed to be The Rainbow Creature.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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CharlestonJew posted:

im the arkham knight, ama

When and why did you stop being Ace the Bat-Hound, to start being Arkham Knight?

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Phylodox posted:

The whole game is based on Batman mishearing some guy named Mark M. Knight's name.

It's even more awkward when it turns out this has been happening weekly since Joker died. Batman, get with it.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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net cafe scandal posted:

So I guess depending on which of the four ways you interpret that tweet, there's a 25% chance I've made good on my threat.

What tweet?

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
Honestly, none of that is surprising. :shrug: That's what we've all been (seriously) saying for a while.

Thanks for the rundown!

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
All the spoilers and reviews are just increasing my hype for this game. It's going to be a long few days.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
Carl Kent is Bat Man's newest Robin. He can turn Red Electric or Blue Electric.

E: I also enjoy Spiderman.
VVV

Mogomra fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jun 20, 2015

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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JFC posted:

Holy poo poo, Man-Bat just scared the gently caress out of me!

Right? I knew he was coming at some point, but drat. What an entrance.

I've got an i5-4590 with a GTX 770, and it's running pretty lovely, but I figured it was my machine's fault. If I put everything at low, it's definitely playable and still looks good when the textures stream properly. At least it's only day one, and there's still a faint hope for a patch. I'm still really enjoying it. :shrug:

Mogomra fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Jun 24, 2015

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time

Petri posted:

I have i5 3570k CPU and GTX 770 (2gb). Am I screwed?

This is essentially what I've got. I have all the settings on low, except AA is on, vsync is on, and the resolution is 1080p. The game runs fine. There is an occasional stutter that apparently everyone is experiencing, and a lot of texture streaming issues that again everyone seems to have, but it's totally playable.

I'm noticing some sound issues now too. Like, in the airship, people were supposed to be talking, and I could see the subtitles, but there were no voices. Also when Babs was an hero there was no music until after everyone was done talking. It sounded like good bgm for that scene, and I feel like it was sort of ruined without it. :(

There's always next playthrough. I still need to finish my first though.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Oh yeah, how the gently caress do you play the DLC stuff?

I preordered the game and the season pass (lol) and I can't find the option to play anything but the main story.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Peewi posted:

Having the season pass does not give you the Harley Quinn pack until some point in the future. To get it now, you need a code specifically for it.

I bought from cdkeys.com and didn't get my code for the Harley Quinn pack until this morning.

Interesting. I got two keys from Amazon. One unlocked "Batman: Arkham Knight" and the other unlocked "Giraffe" whatever the gently caress that is...

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Peewi posted:

I have textures on low and it looks fine, so there's probably also something else going on.

Yeah, same here. When the textures work, everything looks pretty good, but there are times when they only load at a hilariously low resolution.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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MinibarMatchman posted:

I'd love to replace the batmobile with a giraffe

I know, right?

True story, as soon as I made that post, I got another code from Amazon that unlocked "Harley Quinn Story Pack." Talk about timing.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Utnayan posted:

Ambient Occulsion on Player characters and water textures on Batman isn't even loving working. So, no, it doesn't look fine.

There's so much other poo poo to look at that I don't even notice those things. It's still doesn't look bad. v:shobon:v

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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frodnonnag posted:

so the required specs and general mess of the PC release actually has me pretty concerned about my computer being able to run this game.

I've got:
i7 2600k 3.4
16 gb ram
dual 560ti cards with 2 gb each.

the ~minimum~ recommended specs are a 660 (2gb) card. Am i even gonna be able to run this game at all?

Only one way to find out! :v:

This game really fucks with your head. It's so cool. The Hush part was nuts. Again, I knew he was going to show up somewhere, but I didn't expect that at all. The Jason Todd flashbacks, along with entering the quarantine chamber, then putting Tim in it was nuts too.

Yeah, the PC version is a mess, but I'm not gonna buy a PS4 dammit. I'm still really loving enjoying this game.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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CuwiKhons posted:

I did so badly at one Riddler challenge that he took pity on me and gave me a shortcut :negative: Riddler felt bad for me, that's how loving badly I'm doing at this game.

The first Riddler racetrack was super poo poo. Especially when you're still getting used to the Batmobile controls. The next challenge is platforming, and way better.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Norns posted:

Doors. The ultimate bane of a dude who can beat up loving Superman.

For a guy who regularly rips metal plates off poo poo like they were orange peels, it's pretty funny that he doesn't just kick down doors and bust through walls like the beginning of Casino Royale. How is anything an obstacle for this dude?

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Oh yeah, I definitely activated the Harley Quinn Story Pack on Steam, but I still can't find the option to play it anywhere. If I go to Downloadable Content in the main menu, it just says I purchased the Season Pass and gives me a link to the store page for it. I must be missing something.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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CharlestonJew posted:

It's under "Arkham Stories" or something like that

Yeah that's still grayed out... What the heck.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Steam page says "Fall 2015."

This is loving hilarious. :allears:



Harley Quinn Story Pack Saga complete. It showed up the second time I opened the game after activating and downloading it.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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AlmightyPants posted:

I've put 3 hours into it on PC and it runs so-so. Should I wait for a patch or fix or whatever to continue playing or what?

Just play it. :getin:

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

simply having a wonderful time
I finally beat the main story. Game was good. Now to 100% it and watch Knightfall Protocol somehow ruin it.

E: Also, it's about loving time they let you go back to the not-messed-up Batsuit after the main story is over. God drat.

Mogomra fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jun 25, 2015

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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net cafe scandal posted:

Unless I'm being fed wrong info, the refund process Valve uses is incredible. Basically devs get all their Steam sales placed in a coffer, the contents of which are sent every month, while valve gets immediate access to 30% of every sale. But when a refund is approved, Valve keeps their 30% and the full price of the refund comes out of the developers/publishers total earnings for that month. So getting a successful refund on a game owns devs harder than just pirating the game. WB must be feeling an incredible amount of heat right now.

Valve makes so much money, but the wont drop HL3. smh

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Nah man, that's always been the deal. :frogc00l:

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Funky Valentine posted:

Why are people so bad at driving lol. It's actually hard to lose your tail on Firefly.

I never had any issues following Firefly. Except when this happened...



The Batmobile would go forward, but I couldn't turn or use the afterburner. Then it started bugging me to flip it over even though it was on all four tires. I tried to get out and get back in, but I fell right through the ground. At least it didn't autosave with me down there. :downs:

Firefly was still way easier than Arkham Knights troop transport dudes, which still weren't that bad. If they gave me 100 more missions to chase after dudes in the Batmobile, I'd be happy.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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redbackground posted:

I just saw one before I put it up for the night and I spent way too long trying to decipher if it was upside down l33t speak or something internet warrior Riddler would use.

Also, killing AA is definitely a good idea as during gameplay it's not really noticeable that it's off and everything is so much more colorful. I still miss my gd ambient occlusion :argh:

edit:
These tweaks to the ini file seem to have helped quite a lot of people acc. to Reddit and NeoGAF.

The tweaks definitely made the textures stream more consistently on my machine, but still not perfect. Definitely more stuttering now too.

E: I skipped over the texture quality improvements, because I'm not swimming in untapped GPU potential.

E2: For anyone who didn't notice it was an option (like me) you should really turn on borderless window instead of full screen. Why is full screen even an option in the year 2015? Ridiculous.

Mogomra fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Jun 26, 2015

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Feenix posted:

These loving APC chases are awful. Sometimes the APC can just stay at range despite amazing maneuvering on my behalf and the slight angle change and the Immobilator loses lock and they just last for like 10 minutes of me trying to get in range.

I actually enjoyed that a lot. I want more chases that last a while. It's the best part of using the Batmobile.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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drat, the last Riddler race was so freaking hard... Until I tried the first person mode. Then it was super easy.

Wtf Batman, why didn't you do that before?

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Pirate Jet posted:

Did we ever find out what the big secret hint towards their next project was in City? Rocksteady said that the "City of Fear" boat apparently wasn't the only one.

What? Really?

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Knormal posted:

On a related note, was there any trick to knowing where the drill tank was in the bossfight right after that one? I died in that fight a bunch because I'd come around a corner and drive right into the front of that thing. Unless I was missing something, they really needed to make it show up on the mini-map.

I literally parked myself in front of the bomb tunnels, and waited for him to show up. Usually I'd have to shoot him to get his attention.

I hated that boss fight. The predator section after that was only a tiny bit better. I wanna chase people in the batmobile, being chased ruins the magic.

Mogomra fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 27, 2015

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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I thought that the Arkham Knight non-batmobile fight was an interesting idea, and I could see they were trying to top Mr. Freeze from City, but really Mr. Freeze was still better. The Arkham Knight fight was more tedious than anything.

For me at least.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Yvonmukluk posted:

I don't get that Bruce saw Jason apparently get fake-killed by the Joker...and never even tried to recover his body, since he knows a guy who possesses a Lazarus Pit. Or that he was missing for 6 months in Arkham without the Word's Greatest Detective finding him, and Batman instead apparently replaced him with Tim without confirming he was even dead. Or why the Joker didn't kill him for real, instead leaving him to go off and be angsty.

It honestly makes a metric-gently caress-ton more sense than why he came back in the comics.

Either way, the reason is "comic book writing."

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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I. AM. BATMAN.


I beat that dude so hard that he just froze, mid-air, forever.

Also, check out the sick character textures. In all fairness, the patch did help. A little bit.

Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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I was really hoping to find Zur-En-Arrh graffitied somewhere in this game. The skin will do nicely.

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Mogomra
Nov 5, 2005

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Funky Valentine posted:

AzBats, Final Form: Peak 90s Comic Book Design



The problem is that Az in this game is Michael Lane, and not Jean-Paul Valley. (He'll never be that level of 90s comic book cool)

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