Batman Arkham Origins thread

[Carfax83]

I spent the first 2 hours fixing problems, 30 minutes laughing at how pathetic the start of the game was and noticing in game errors, lack of detail on batmans model, and a huge swath of other issues in the singleplayer, then managed to get into the freeroam world where I noticed the lack of detail in the world (despite max settings) and basically the massive step backwards from the first 2 games.

Lack of detail on Batman's model? You have me wondering if we are playing the same game

Batman's model has a ton of detail on it. Something must be wrong with your installation or something.

 

[gorcorps]

Just beat Deathstroke. Was a pretty decent fight. I don't remember any of the previous bosses putting up a challenge like that so that was nice.

I did have a bug after that though... I couldn't leave the building for some reason. Restarted from checkpoint and all was well. Luckily it saves right after you beat him or I would have been pretty pissed. As it stands it was just a weird bug that wasn't repeatable.

 

[Sulaco]

The big screen beauty is possible with computers, too. Just because you don't want to doesn't make it an inherent console advantage.

Who said anything about "inherent advantages" ? Jesus, not everything is some console v. PC debate. But thanks for the non-answer though.

Anyway, both AA and AC had decent, if not great, costume and skin mods that made it fun to play through as different variations of the dark knight, very soon after release. I'm wondering if any such mods are out there right now for AO...or graphical improvements.

 

[Soundmanred]

Who said anything about "inherent advantages" ? Jesus, not everything is some console v. PC debate.

In all fairness, your post basically said playing on a big screen (plasma) was a "perk,etc" of playing on a console.
He was saying that it's not an inherent advantage for consoles due to both PC and console having this capability.

And on that note, I'm so glad it's a possibility these days, with HDMI containing both HD level visuals as well as HD audio and the ease it can be hooked up.
No more sitting at a desk, using a relatively small monitor and nearfield computer speakers, now it's all from the theater seats with a wireless keyboard, mouse and controller, 8 feet from a 65" screen and multichannel surround. I could never go back.
I remember trying to hook up a TV out from a video card in the 90's and it was just horrible. Gave up quickly on that! I'm also glad to toss the multiple cables it took to get multichannel sound as well as the limited capabilities of Toslink. I have a box of 1/8 mini jack to RCA cables and optical cables, I hope they stay there (or I can find someone that has a use for them!)

 

[The-Noid]

Just beat Deathstroke. Was a pretty decent fight. I don't remember any of the previous bosses putting up a challenge like that so that was nice.

I did have a bug after that though... I couldn't leave the building for some reason. Restarted from checkpoint and all was well. Luckily it saves right after you beat him or I would have been pretty pissed. As it stands it was just a weird bug that wasn't repeatable.

I had the same problem. Played for a good a hour thinking there was another exit at the end of the long passage, going back to casino, etc.

Not really happy with the game considering the high bar that was set, all of the battles feel just a bit clunkier than its predecessors. Was considering not coming back as BF4 was out, but family left for the night. Was a lot of fun to figure out the game had simply been frozen and there was a problem with the doors.

 

[WiseUp216]

Just saw somewhere else that the game does have a built-in benchmark.

right click on AO in your steam library, add special parameters "benchmark" in the "set launch options" and voila, start the game, and it will run benchmark with your settings on

Max settings with 8x MSAA

 

[TheSlamma]

Just beat Deathstroke. Was a pretty decent fight. I don't remember any of the previous bosses putting up a challenge like that so that was nice.

I did have a bug after that though... I couldn't leave the building for some reason. Restarted from checkpoint and all was well. Luckily it saves right after you beat him or I would have been pretty pissed. As it stands it was just a weird bug that wasn't repeatable.

I had that same problem.. noticed a few other bugs here and there too.. I miss Rocksteady

 

[sze5003]

I had the freezing glitch as well. Had to exit the game and come back in and I was fine. I should have tried to just reload the checkpoint. I have it maxed with fxaa at the highest settings. For some reason I like AC better.

I didn't realize that to move the story along you have to destroy those comm stations. I had been doing side quests for an hour not realizing why I wasn't getting further.

 

[Soundmanred]

Finally did the Burnley Comm Tower jump glitch to pass the bugged shaft.
Not fun.

 

[plutoclacks]

Arkham Origins is being made by some random Warner Bros. studio right? Do you think they'll be able to pull it off?

 

[Soundmanred]

Arkham Origins is being made by some random Warner Bros. studio right? Do you think they'll be able to pull it off?

Who knows.
I guess we'll find out in sometime in 2012.

 

[sze5003]

Finally did the Burnley Comm Tower jump glitch to pass the bugged shaft.
Not fun.

Ugh what's that? I'm at the police quarters right now. One thing that is tiring is the "ok here's a room full of bad guys, take them all out to continue."

 

[Soundmanred]

Ugh what's that? I'm at the police quarters right now. One thing that is tiring is the "ok here's a room full of bad guys, take them all out to continue."

In the Comm Tower in Burnley, if you go in and hack the terminal the way you came in is shut off and you are supposed to grapple through a vent but it doesn't work. You hold the edge and don't climb in, you can even see your hands gripping under where they are supposed to be.
The glitch bypass is a weird "stand on this pipe, crouch and move around" thing. It launches you high into the air for some reason and you can get on top of the tower platform and hack the actual terminal there, bypassing the bugged vent completely.
Thankfully, there is a video that got me through it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HkDLaojdCCw

It's not a gamebreaking bug since the towers are really optional, and I'm sure it will be fixed eventually.

 

[MBrown]

With everything maxed except for high fxaa and no physics my benchmarks were
min = 71
max = 148
avg = 110

 

[BrightCandle]

Saw this appear today on the Nvidia site http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/batman-arkham-origins-graphics-and-performance-guide. Pretty interesting how good the PhysX effects are in this game.

 

[futurefields]

so its not as good as arkham city?

ill wait for a big sale then

 

[boxleitnerb]

For those with slowdowns in SLI in certain indoor locations, try this:

"The INI toggle is called bAllowOQFixForSLI and can be found in BmGame/Config/BmEngine.ini. If you set it to True, you won't need to use the 0x40000 profile bit, but image quality is not guaranteed."

The file is in ...Steam/steamapps/common/Batman Arkham Origins/SinglePlayer/BmGame/Config/BmEngine.ini

Some comparison screenshots (massive fps gains)
http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=9978590&postcount=1211

I also noticed some stuttering in SLI that was present in all configurations I tried (newer and older drivers, newer and older PhysX versions, VSync on and off). This can be solved by using an fps limiter.
Note: With the latest NV drivers due to a bug Nvidia's own fps-limiter doesn't work in conjunction with VSync. If you enable both, VSync is off. Use a third party limiter instead like Dxtory.

 

[PrincessFrosty]

how is the open world aspect?

is this Batman in a GTA sized city free roaming around doing awesome stuff, or more of the hub-style semi open world of Arkham City?

Worse than before. The city design is first of all way more basic, the buildings seem more like basic blocks than anything, there's distinct lack of detail. The placement is pretty bad it often leads to you basically glitching through objects, around them, being dragged along the surface of something, generally just much worse than the first 2 games.

I didn't say I disagreed with your opinion, I just think you should be able to express it without sounding like such a child.

Sorry I'm not interested in your personal attacks on me, I presented my opinion based on how I felt at the time, I'm expressing severe disappointment at a fantastic series becoming mediocre.

I'm hardly the only one that thinks this, the metacritic score of AA and AC are 91 and 91, and this has 74, and I think that's being generous.

 

[Deders]

Lol, was just getting the hang of Pwning Deathstroke and he literally disappeared! nowhere to be seen!

Edit HA!, defeated him in the next round! although I still can't find my way out of the room

 

[sze5003]

Lol, was just getting the hang of Pwning Deathstroke and he literally disappeared! nowhere to be seen!

Edit HA!, defeated him in the next round! although I still can't find my way out of the room

Exit the game and come back in. I had the same problem or just reload your checkpoint. Hopefully it saved correctly.

 

[Deders]

Lol, was just getting the hang of Pwning Deathstroke and he literally disappeared! nowhere to be seen!

Edit HA!, defeated him in the next round! although I still can't find my way out of the room

Found I had to try a different locked door to get a cutscene with the penguin before the initial locked door that I tried opened.

 

[boxleitnerb]

Do enemies inside buildings respawn? I have finished my campaign but have yet to do some challenges on predator maps. Unfortunately, I cannot find any enemies indoors anymore.

 

[Dahak]

Do enemies inside buildings respawn? I have finished my campaign but have yet to do some challenges on predator maps. Unfortunately, I cannot find any enemies indoors anymore.

From what I have read elsewhere no they do not. you would have to either do new game + or i am the night

 

[fixbsod]

Glad I held off (thanks PoE for occupying my time!) -- will be getting this once it's in the bargain bin. Didn't realize rocksteady wasn't working on this.

 

[Deders]

I'm actually really enjoying it, I think more people would have a higher opinion of it if it had been created before Arkham City, but then that wouldn't be possible as a lot of the ideas are come from that game.

When I started playing I thought it was going to be a lot of same old same old but the new elements and plot twists came about it really has started to grip me.

There are parts of it that try to emulate amazing parts of previous games and do fall short slightly but only because we've played those games before.

So far I still believe that Arkham City is the better game but even so there are improvements to some of the game mechanics and learning curve implementations.

Rocksteady did put a lot of effort into getting so much detail into the previous games which obviously these developers hadn't spent as much time on, and the amount of bugs are far more than either of the previous games but even so I'm much happier being able to play a new Batman game that is around the same quality than if it hadn't been released.