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A while back, the Epic Games Store gave away Batman Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight.
I had yet to play ‘Knight at all, meaning I had not yet completed the trilogy.
My original idea was to stream this playthrough, I am actually glad I chose not to. The reasoning behind this is because Arkham City and Arkham Knight take a while to actually get going. Arkham City took about one hour and a half to actually get good.
It took me two separate tries to finally get into it. Arkham Knight, assumes you have played the previous games and drops you right in.
The main reason for this post is something that happened to me last night actually. For those unaware, Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight have sections where Batman has to scan crime scenes in “Detective Mode” to re-create the scene and solve the current mystery.
Well, while I was trying to solve what I am guessing is a very important mission, there was a bug. I am playing on PC with a Logitech Controller, Detective Mode requires you to use the L2 and R2 triggers in order to scrub through the timeline. Well, this bug causes the timeline to jump from the first frame of the scene to the last frame of the scene, completely cutting the moments that happen in-between.
I tried for a good thirty minutes to solve it, I thought I had done something wrong on my end. I ended up doing a Google search to see if this was a bug and a few things happened.
- First, all the top suggestions ruined the outcome of that mission for me.
- Second, I think the actual ending of the game was also spoiled for me.
- And finally, third, it turns out that the bug [which by this point is a few years old already] requires me to use my mouse to be able to scrub through the timeline, thus, breaking my immersion in the game.
THE MISSION
>> CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ARKHAM KNIGHT <<
The main lesson here is that for GAME_001 and all [ LIGHTMACHINE ] games for that matter, I have to be extremely vigilant in categorizing and resolving bugs.
Because game bugs can be fixed, all they take is a little bit of time and an update to the game’s executable.
The scourge of AAA titles, especially this one, has been perfectly cataloged by Mark Brown from Game Maker’s Toolkit:
GAME MAKER’S TOOLKIT