Batman Arkhan Knight thread

[Strange Love]

Fucking huge motherfucking game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT6-EEkm5mg

Last entry in the series promises to deliver all the goods. Cant wait for this one. Hopefully my spot gets this game this weekend so I can cop it early.

[redzero]

I got a copy with my graphics card. Can't wait.

[baseline bum]

That comes out what, the 23rd? I'll probably wait a while, I'm playing the Fallout series right now and will probably jump on Witcher 3 soon in between Fallout games. I hate getting games at launch, they usually perform like crap until a couple of patches have come out.

[DJR210]

Got mine pre-ordered at Kickass

[baseline bum]

Got mine pre-ordered at Kickass

:lol

[Strange Love]

That comes out what, the 23rd? I'll probably wait a while, I'm playing the Fallout series right now and will probably jump on Witcher 3 soon in between Fallout games. I hate getting games at launch, they usually perform like crap until a couple of patches have come out.

The game is coming with a day 1 patch that fixes a bunch of shit. Worth almost 4gbs.



Improved Performance
Stability Fixes
New feature: Rival Points
New feature: Original Batsuit skin available to select
Support for "A Matter Of Family" additional content (this is the preorder-exclusive prequel DLC)
General gameplay, graphical, audio, UI, and localization fixes


http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-3-5gb-day-one-patch-revealed-/1100-6428348/

[baseline bum]

The game is coming with a day 1 patch that fixes a bunch of shit. Worth almost 4gbs.



Improved Performance
Stability Fixes
New feature: Rival Points
New feature: Original Batsuit skin available to select
Support for "A Matter Of Family" additional content (this is the preorder-exclusive prequel DLC)
General gameplay, graphical, audio, UI, and localization fixes


http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-3-5gb-day-one-patch-revealed-/1100-6428348/

Most games come with Day 1 patches, because all games are shipped broken. But it usually takes a few weeks after release before the games are very well optimized. Dying Light for example was horrible the first week, and didn't perform that well until the 1.4 patch.

[DJR210]

Game looks pretty amazing, would buy if I wasn't in process of closing on a house.

[Strange Love]

On my way to picking this bad boy up.

[baseline bum]

On my way to picking this bad boy up.

Shit, I thought it came out tomorrow. Makes sense though since GeForce Experience is pushing me to install a new driver.

[DJR210]

On my way to picking this bad boy up.

:lol physical copies

I haven't been in a Gamestop in like 4 years. Good thing about digital games is I don't have the option to sell em all for pennies every time a new game comes out

[Strange Love]

Shit, I thought it came out tomorrow. Makes sense though since GeForce Experience is pushing me to install a new driver.

It does in fact come out tomorrow but the place where I buy all my gaming gets new games a few days earlier then their official release date.

[Strange Love]

:lol physical copies

I haven't been in a Gamestop in like 4 years. Good thing about digital games is I don't have the option to sell em all for pennies every time a new game comes out

:lol digital games.

I like having physical copies of games. I'm a collector so I like seeing actual shit on my Blue ray/Game shelves.

[DJR210]

:lol digital games.

I like having physical copies of games. I'm a collector so I like seeing actual shit on my Blue ray/Game shelves.

I used to love the smell of a brand new instruction booklet.. 30 pages of everything you need to know.. but then they turned em into one page abominations I can't even shit to anymore.. The good old days of Super Mario World booklets :cry

[Strange Love]

I used to love the smell of a brand new instruction booklet.. 30 pages of everything you need to know.. but then they turned em into one page abominations I can't even shit to anymore.. The good old days of Super Mario World booklets :cry

Agreed with that tbh.

In most of them they are not even bothering to put one in.

And LOL either I'm lucky or the PS4 comes with a bunch of extra shit with the game.

My copy came with the Harley Quinn DLC, Skim pack and the Scarecrow extra missions.

I only paid 60 bucks for it and apparently those are add ons you have to pay for via season pass. :lol

[DJR210]

Agreed with that tbh.

In most of them they are not even bothering to put one in.

And LOL either I'm lucky or the PS4 comes with a bunch of extra shit with the game.

My copy came with the Harley Quinn DLC, Skim pack and the Scarecrow extra missions.

I only paid 60 bucks for it and apparently those are add ons you have to pay for via season pass. :lol

Pre-order bonuses supposedly.

[DJR210]

Damn, I may wait before downloading a torrent, Steam users are complaining of massive stuttering w/ OP systems, and a 30 FPS lock after the intro..

[baseline bum]

I used to love the smell of a brand new instruction booklet.. 30 pages of everything you need to know.. but then they turned em into one page abominations I can't even shit to anymore.. The good old days of Super Mario World booklets :cry

I loved the big fat manual that came with my copy of Oblivion. It's funny you used to have to read the manual to learn how to play the game. Nowadays games have to have worthless tutorial stages where they show you how to throw a grenade.

[TheGreatYacht]

Is the game good or what, tired of playing FIFA

[baseline bum]

IGN says the campaign is 12 hours?

[baseline bum]

Damn, I may wait before downloading a torrent, Steam users are complaining of massive stuttering w/ OP systems, and a 30 FPS lock after the intro..

LOL you know a game is shit when a Titan X can't get 60 fps at 1080p. Fuck them with all their Gameworks crap, I hope the game never gets fixed.

[baseline bum]

And :lol buying games on launch and preordering. I'll never buy a game at launch again after GTA IV.

[DJR210]

LOL you know a game is shit when a Titan X can't get 60 fps at 1080p. Fuck them with all their Gameworks crap, I hope the game never gets fixed.

It will be fixed. Arkham City was good minus some PhysX stuttering (which G-Sync fixes anyway so I could care less )

[baseline bum]

It will be fixed. Arkham City was good minus some PhysX stuttering (which G-Sync fixes anyway so I could care less )

Or maybe not since they outsourced the PC port to a team of fucking twelve people. :lol



Arkham Knight PC port was outsourced to a console studio (http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/development/matthew-wilson/arkham-knight-pc-port-was-outsourced-to-a-console-studio/)

Earlier today we discussed the poor state of Batman: Arkham Knight on the PC. Now we are starting to get a clearer picture of where things went wrong on the development side as Rocksteady has revealed that it used an “external PC development partner” to make the PC version of the game. Not only did Rocksteady not have a hand in the PC version but development was outsourced to a small studio made up of just twelve people.

The twelve people credited for working on the PC version of Arkham Knight work for Iron Galaxy Studios, a lesser known developer that has primarily developed for the last generation consoles and iOS. This is the team that worked on Destiny for the PS3, the PS Vita version of Borderlands 2 and helped out in the development of Batman: Arkham Origins, which also suffered heavily on the PC at launch.

http://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11390062_10153057185473635_8109886400545156472_n.j pg

Now obviously someone at either Rocksteady or Warner Bros made a huge mistake outsourcing the PC version of Arkham Knight. The team that worked on the PC port was made up of just 12 people and the studio definitely does not have a background in PC development judging by their list of projects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Galaxy_Studios).

As far as we know, the previous Arkham titles from Rocksteady were actually developed by Rocksteady for the PC. Unfortunately though, this time things went quite wrong and its the PC gamers that are suffering for it.

You can see our analysis of the Arkham Knight PC port, HERE (http://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/batman-arkham-knight-needs-some-serious-fixing-on-the-pc/).

KitGuru Says: As a PC gamer and long time fan of the Arkham series, I am hugely disappointed in how Arkham Knight has turned out. However, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. Why was PC development outsourced? Worse yet, why was it outsourced to a studio that specializes in console development? And finally, whose bright idea was this anyway? Could Rocksteady not handle the workload? Or was it Warner Bros decision? Hopefully answers will be made a little clearer over the next few weeks.

[DJR210]

Or maybe not since they outsourced the PC port to a team of fucking twelve people. :lol

:lmao Rocksteady

:lmao more disastrous than AC Unity

:lmao Steam refunds on red alert

:lmao will pirate it anyway

[baseline bum]

:lmao Rocksteady

:lmao more disastrous than AC Unity

:lmao Steam refunds on red alert

:lmao will pirate it anyway

:lol And I thought we were going to have to wait for Syndicate to get Unity 2015

[DJR210]

:lmao :cry We fucked up, and we hear you :cry

http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/PC-Performance-issues-we-hear-you/m-p/571341

[redzero]

Well, I'm liking the game so far. There is a lot of shit to do.

[baseline bum]

:lmao :cry We fucked up, and we hear you :cry

http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/PC-Performance-issues-we-hear-you/m-p/571341

:lol

http://store.steampowered.com/app/208650

http://i.imgur.com/FHCZWI3.png

[baseline bum]

Wow, that game must really be shit to be ranked below AC Unity

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289650/

http://i.imgur.com/LNZi5HK.png

[DJR210]

Steam refunds came at the perfect time.

[ElNono]

:lmao PC master race getting cucked per par

[DJR210]

Well, I'm liking the game so far. There is a lot of shit to do.

Did you get it on PC? If so, is it on that 980Ti build you posted?

[DJR210]

:lmao PC master race getting cucked per par

:lol Xbox 360..you're on peasants butler status

[baseline bum]

:lmao PC master race getting cucked per par

PS4 outperforming Titan X :lol

This is the only recent release I can think of that's totally fucked on PC without being even worse on console (eg AC Unity, Watchdogs).

[baseline bum]

Oops, NBA 2k14 was way better on PS4 than PC also, thankfully PC got the next-gen engine this year and I can run 2k15 at 4k on my 970 now.

[DJR210]

Oops, NBA 2k14 was way better on PS4 than PC also, thankfully PC got the next-gen engine this year and I can run 2k15 at 4k on my 970 now.

That ain't true, 2k14 on PC was the old school engine and had no issues

[redzero]

Did you get it on PC? If so, is it on that 980Ti build you posted?

Yes and yes.

[ElNono]

:lol Xbox 360..you're on peasants butler status

I'm getting a free GTX 970 + PS4 if next gig pans out, tbh... :hat

Main reason I haven't bought anything yet...

[baseline bum]

I'm getting a free GTX 970 + PS4 if next gig pans out, tbh... :hat

Main reason I haven't bought anything yet...

Even if you could plug that 970 into your Poorstation 4, the shitty AMD CPUs would bottleneck it to hell tbh

[ElNono]

Even if you could plug that 970 into your Poorstation 4, the shitty AMD CPUs would bottleneck it to hell tbh

But I could trim my beard and make faggy YouTubes though

[baseline bum]

But I could trim my beard and make faggy YouTubes though

Bigger beards allow more chins though. Just remember to breathe heavily into the camera.

[Strange Love]

This game is pretty bad ass.

It makes you use the batmobile a lot early on.

[ElNono]

Bigger beards allow more chins though. Just remember to breathe heavily into the camera.

I already ordered some local brews to use as props...

[baseline bum]

I already ordered some local brews to use as props...

What's your youtube channel going to be called? MexiTech?

[ElNono]

What's your youtube channel going to be called? MexiTech?

Si se puede

[baseline bum]

:lol Xbox 360..you're on peasants butler status

But there's still hope for his PC.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2v5by7_lowspecgamer-running-the-witcher-3-under-the-minimum-specs-the-first-attemp_videogames

[Strange Love]

But there's still hope for his PC.


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2v5by7_lowspecgamer-running-the-witcher-3-under-the-minimum-specs-the-first-attemp_videogames

Why would anyone want to run a game below standard quality? That looks like a lot of work for making a game look like complete shit. :lol

[redzero]

Oh, and the game is running fine for me. I changed the max fps in the ini file, and the game looks good and runs well.

[DJR210]

Why would anyone want to run a game below standard quality? That looks like a lot of work for making a game look like complete shit. :lol

If you're running a game on console you're running it below standard.

[Strange Love]

If you're running a game on console you're running it below standard.

That's inaccurate.

[baseline bum]

If you're running a game on console you're running it below standard.

:lol

[Strange Love]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho9Jh7T9hng

:lmao Steamed pile of shit port for the master race.

[ElNono]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2015/06/22/pc-version-of-batman-arkham-knight-is-hot-garbage-amd-and-nvidia-users-both-unhappy/

[ElNono]

Apparently the PS4 version has some rain textures and FX the PC version doesn't have...

http://i.imgur.com/Aj6MwPK.gif

This neogaf thread has all sorts of comments about it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1068628&page=38

[Strange Love]

Apparently the PS4 version has some rain textures and FX the PC version doesn't have...

http://i.imgur.com/Aj6MwPK.gif

This neogaf thread has all sorts of comments about it:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1068628&page=38

:lmao

105 pages in less than a day? Fuck me. :lmao

[DJR210]

Sick effects IMO.. really easy to see them running in slow mo at 30 FPS

[apalisoc_9]

Damn, guess the PC port ruins this games chances of winning Game of the Year...Witcher vs Metal Gear..

Lol I'm actually buying a PS4 thanks to freaking Metal Gear..:lol

[DJR210]

Damn, guess the PC port ruins this games chances of winning Game of the Year...

Nah, nobody gives a shit about what goes on with the PC versions. This is why Rocksteady would outsource a AAA highly anticipated release to a team of 12 idiots.

[ElNono]

Picture of the team that ported to PC

https://missionsharingknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/il0ogsmwamr0.jpg

:lol

[DJR210]

Picture of the team that ported to PC

https://missionsharingknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/il0ogsmwamr0.jpg

:lol

Fuccccccccccck me, is this serious? :lol They should be handling the fucking customer service calls.

[apalisoc_9]

Nah, nobody gives a shit about what goes on with the PC versions. This is why Rocksteady would outsource a AAA highly anticipated release to a team of 12 idiots.

Mainstream consumers outside of PC ( Majority of the market) sure, but if you're competing against The Witcher and Metal Gear Solid ( If I remember, every numbered Metal Gear Game has won game of the year), you can't have blemishes like this...

[ElNono]

Fuccccccccccck me, is this serious? :lol They should be handling the fucking customer service calls.

Wouldn't put it past them, tbh :lol

[DJR210]

Mainstream consumers outside of PC ( Majority of the market) sure, but if you're competing against The Witcher and Metal Gear Solid ( If I remember, every numbered Metal Gear Game has won game of the year), you can't have blemishes like this...

Witcher was a lock for game of the year anyway. It sold a shitload of copies, I can't see either beating it

[apalisoc_9]

Witcher was a lock for game of the year anyway. It sold a shitload of copies, I can't see either beating it

MGS has every bit of a chance.

MGS will sell shitload of copies too..

[Strange Love]

Wasn't the Witcher 3 a mess on PC too when it launched?

This will have no impact when it comes to who will get game of the year.

There are so many game of the year awards that that shit doesn't mean anything.

[DJR210]

Wasn't the Witcher 3 a mess on PC too when it launched?


Not really a mess, just not optimized fully yet. It's too hard to hard to expect games to launch on PC w/o issues minus a public beta. Too many system configurations to test.

[redzero]

Spoke too soon. I am experiencing noticeable framerate drops, even though I have a top of the line card. It's not game breaking, but it does make me wonder.

[baseline bum]

Wasn't the Witcher 3 a mess on PC too when it launched?

This will have no impact when it comes to who will get game of the year.

There are so many game of the year awards that that shit doesn't mean anything.

The only recent launches anywhere near this bad were AC Unity and Battlefield 4. BF4 was worse though.

[DJR210]

Spoke too soon. I am experiencing noticeable framerate drops, even though I have a top of the line card. It's not game breaking, but it does make me wonder.

On an Unreal 3 game at that.. pretty apparent that these 12 idiots didn't try the game once before giving it back to Rocksteady for release.

[DJR210]

The only recent launches anywhere near this bad were AC Unity and Battlefield 4. BF4 was worse though.

I don't know.. BF4 got a lot of people pissed w/ crashing and shit, but I personally didn't have a problem and a ton of people who were playing multi were saying the same shit when people were crying in the game chat. By far, Unity and Batman FTW.

[baseline bum]

On an Unreal 3 game at that.. pretty apparent that these 12 idiots didn't try the game once before giving it back to Rocksteady for release.

LOL no shit, Unreal 3 is like 11 fucking years old and a studio can't make it work well today on fucking 900 series cards?

[baseline bum]

CROFL, this fucking piece of shit just got pulled from sale. Too bad people who got this with their GPU can't trade it in for Witcher 3.



https://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight/m-p/575332#U575332

Dear Batman: Arkham Knight PC owners,

We want to apologize to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC. We take these issues very seriously and have therefore decided to suspend future game sales of the PC version while we work to address these issues to satisfy our quality standards. We greatly value our customers and know that while there are a significant amount of players who are enjoying the game on PC, we want to do whatever we can to make the experience better for PC players overall.

Thank you to those players who have already given valuable feedback. We are continuously monitoring all threads posted in the Official Batman: Arkham Knight Community and Steam forums, as well as any issues logged with our Customer Support (support.wbgames.com). If you purchased your copy of the game and are not satisfied with your experience, then we ask for your patience while these issues are resolved. If desired, you can request a refund at help.steampowered.com (Steam refund policies can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds) or the retail location where you purchased the game.

The Batman: Arkham fans have continually supported the franchise to its current height of success, and we want to thank you for your patience as we work to deliver an updated version of Batman: Arkham Knight on PC so you can all enjoy the final chapter of the Batman: Arkham series as it was meant to be played.

[Strange Love]

Damn Rocksteady really fucked up hiring those basement dwellers at mom's house.

What a fuck up.

[baseline bum]

Damn Rocksteady really fucked up hiring those basement dwellers at mom's house.

What a fuck up.

They also only gave them two months to do the port.

[vander]

CROFL, this fucking piece of shit just got pulled from sale. Too bad people who got this with their GPU can't trade it in for Witcher 3.

that would be great. I wish I would have bought earlier and got witcher 3, porting issues aside I'm just not getting into it.

and I thought it was a pretty cheap move to bus all the civilized people out of gotham so now all the street-walking NPC's are just thugs

[AlexJones]

:lmao :lmao :lmao

Master Race blown the fuck out!!!

[Strange Love]

and I thought it was a pretty cheap move to bus all the civilized people out of gotham so now all the street-walking NPC's are just thugs

Helps with Batman Moral code of not killing people.

He's like a bull dozer with the batmobile.

I cant drive for shit with it so I destroy pretty much everything I see. :lol

[Useruser666]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBngocx0DhI

[Trainwreck2100]

Damn Rocksteady really fucked up hiring those basement dwellers at mom's house.

What a fuck up.

no they fucked up deciding to port it to pc

[redzero]

I am thinking about just getting this for the PS4 if Rocks ready doesn't fix this.

Actually, I really feel like plating Arkham City again. That game was great.

[DJR210]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBngocx0DhI

:rollin

[baseline bum]

:rollin

That meme is old as shit tbh. The first time I saw it was as an interview with an Nvidia engineer when everyone found out the GTX 970 was a 3.5 GB card.

hhQWwOhtT14

[Strange Love]

http://i59.tinypic.com/2lurqx1.jpg

Hot damn this game looks beautiful.

Well the site is kind of lame scaling the image down.

http://i59.tinypic.com/2lurqx1.jpg

[baseline bum]

Yeah, it looks great

http://i.imgur.com/53dOVLx.jpg

[DJR210]

Yeah, it looks great

http://i.imgur.com/53dOVLx.jpg

:lmao add another to the win column for the almighty Master Race

[Strange Love]

:lmao add another to the win column for the almighty Master Race

:lol You guys complaining when you pirate the shit out of these PC games. :lol

[DJR210]

:lol You guys complaining when you pirate the shit out of these PC games. :lol

I have never pirated a game in my life. It's wrong.

[baseline bum]

I have never pirated a game in my life. It's wrong.

Especially pirating this one, not worth the bandwidth.

[DJR210]

Especially pirating this one, not worth the bandwidth.

If Rocksteady knows what's good for them they better add in the extra rain textures on Batman's suit, or I'm not gonna pirate this shit, thus they lose valuable word of mouth advertising.

[redzero]

If Rocksteady knows what's good for them they better add in the extra rain textures on Batman's suit, or I'm not gonna pirate this shit, thus they lose valuable word of mouth advertising.

The patch fix that. The games runs better now.

[Strange Love]

The patch fix that. The games runs better now.

That was fast.

What did the 12 village idiots do that was so bad..that turned out to be a quick fix by the Rocksteady group?

[baseline bum]

That was fast.

What did the 12 village idiots do that was so bad..that turned out to be a quick fix by the Rocksteady group?

Supposedly the game stutters like hell when you get in the batmobile, and uses insane amounts of VRAM even at 1080p. People have been reporting it using 5.5 GB at 1080p which is nuts, most games don't come anywhere near that even at 4k when running high levels of MSAA. Even really VRAM hungry games like Dying Light, Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor, and GTA V use about 3GB at 1080p with most settings maxed. Cracks me up that WB is telling people running $650-$1000 video cards to play the game at 1920x1080 30fps when those cards will do 2560x1440 60 fps in most other games.

[DJR210]

That was fast.

What did the 12 village idiots do that was so bad..that turned out to be a quick fix by the Rocksteady group?

The patch notes list like 5 minor things they improved, the main performance patch is still to come.

[Strange Love]

The Batmobile blows.

They make you use it so fucking much.

I'm digging the twists and turns of the story so far though. Good shit.

[redzero]

Yeah, the Batmobile is forced as fuck. It would have been great if it was used in certain situations, but it is shoved down our throats.

It is not essential to the Batman experience.

[Reck]

Whoever came up with the idea of using the batmobile so much should be hanged.

I'm stuck fighting the Dark Knight in the tunnel with the scavator. Wow what a shitty way to fight a boss.

[chunticakes]

I agree. For most of the game I feel like I'm playing fucking twisted metal black.

[vander]

That is not cool, NOT COOL!

I see no reason why Batman couldn't have broken that glass and grappled the gun away. instead he just stood there like a retard

[baseline bum]

LOL this piece of shit isn't being released on PC until fall now.

[vander]

LOL, for some reason this game ran without problem for me when it came out, but now after the 2 patches it crashes. :lol

oh well there's too much going on anyways, to much to do, to much you CAN do, and it all ends up just :rolleyes boring. I prefer wandering the vast wastelands of fallout.

[baseline bum]

What a piece of shit. After the re-release you still need a 4GB card just to get a console level experience.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiHnM6mMbEc

[DJR210]

:lol this was probably the biggest PC fail of at least the last 5 years.. WB really fucked themselves w/ this one. They already threw in the towel.. confirmed they will "continue to work on it" (lie) and to understand that "some issues will never be fixed" and has started issuing refunds themselves.

[Reck]

LOL is not like either of you paid a cent to play this shit. Quit complaining assholes. :lol

[baseline bum]

LOL is not like either of you paid a cent to play this shit. Quit complaining assholes. :lol

I wouldn't even pirate this bullshit son.

[DJR210]

I buy games that I play a lot and run well.. I use torrents to check how it runs, then I go back and get it off Steam.

But with this.. Wouldnt even waste my time or bandwidth.

[ElNono]

I buy games that I play a lot and run well.. I use torrents to check how it runs, then I go back and get it off Steam.

But with this.. Wouldnt even waste my time or bandwidth.

Yeah, I was waiting to hear about this patch but it seems it didn't fix shit. Gonna save my bandwidth for something else.

[ElNono]

Actually, I installed this (without the latest patch) and it runs pretty well, tbh... no complains so far, and it's a pretty decent game...