10 Hidden Mechanics in the Batman Arkham Series
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- Today we're taking a look at 10 hidden mechanics in the Batman Arkham Series that you might not know exist. These secret attacks, hidden mechanics, and obscure gameplay features within the Batman Arkham games aren't just cool to know, but will actually help you substantially in areas like combat and predator!
Batman Arkham Knight, Arkham City, Arkham Asylum, and Arkham Origins are all extremely detailed games and home to many different secrets. This series of mine focuses on uncovering hidden mechanics or attacks within the Arkham series that you might not have known about, so subscribe to not miss future videos like these and check out my channel for more secrets I've already uncovered!
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MUSIC USED:
- Regent Hotel (Batman Arkham Origins)
- Weapons Deal (Batman Arkham Origins)
- Insurgency (Batman Arkham Knight)
- Saving Gordon (Batman Arkham Asylum)
- Fear Within (Batman Arkham Knight)
- Stealthy Bat (Batman Arkham Asylum)
- Predator (Batman Arkham Knight)
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0:00 - Mechanic #10
2:14 - Mechanic #9
2:59 - Mechanic #8
3:59 - Mechanic #7
5:15 - Mechanic #6
6:13 - Mechanic #5
7:13 - Mechanic #4
8:14 - Mechanic #3
9:39 - Mechanic #2
12:04 - Mechanic #1
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It's insane that even after all these years and playing all the Batman Arkham games multiple times I'm still learning new things about it. This just proves that the Batman Arkham games are one of if not the best solo games in the world.
For tho
Not sure about best lmao.
RDR2.
@@reaperleviathan1550 w opinion.
@@noth7ing Bro said one of if not, also it's an opinion that is shared by many others that aren't you.
My personal favorite little secret: if you use the special combo batclaw attack on an armored brute, it will take them down instantly even at full health
In Arkham Knight or City/Origins?
You can only do Special Combo Batclaw in AK
@@DarkShadowZX77 It exists in Arkham City and Origins, just without the special animation with it.
What's the combo
@@anthanyd7898 In Arkham Knight, it's Special Batclaw Takedown.
In City and Origins, it doesn't have a name. But the upgrade required for it is Freeflow Focus Gadgets.
Both upgrades involve the same thing, but only Knight has a special animation for it.
Healing Grundy is even useful during the first two phases, as it prevents him activating the machine to heal himself, allowing you easy access to all weak points without having to wait for an opening.
Slamming the knocked out thugs in number 9 may not look useful, but I figured this out on my own while doing AR challenges and it is actually useful for extending your combo and giving you time to think about your next move mid-combat without losing your combo (you can't get hit while doing the slam!)
It also helps if you weren't expecting a strike to knock out an enemy. If you knock them down, that slam move might save you from messing up your combo. Though, in my experience, pressing the pick-up buttons without there being a valid target is usually safe so long as you don't spend too long on it.
Yeah, same. I just assumed it was a safeguard to let you keep your combo if you didn’t realize they hit was already down
Can you hit someone with it?
So like the batclaw where everyone kinda stops attacking the moment you activate it? I wish the slam mechanic worked on my ps4 though. 😢 it just works when it feels like it.
@luisgabrielayala6372 yes, and I believe it works on all platforms you just have to time it (I played on both PC and PS4). You only have around half a second to do it right after knocking out a thug.
Funniest thing is, you think "Yeah, I knew that. " Then Knerd says "no... Theres more... "
Another mechanic that's never really mentioned to my knowledge is that if you hold the grapple button as you grapple you'll hang from the ledge that you grappled to. I've been playing these games for years and never could understand why sometimes id hang and sometimes I would climb up, and so I never utilized the ledge takedowns for that reason.
Damn never knew that
I thought that was triggered by holding crouch or down on the left stick
@RDSC_ I always thought it was hold down on the left stick too, but maybe it's by game. In knight you have to hold the rb/ r1 button. I haven't tested in city or asylum. I just know that holding the grapple button works the most consistently that I've seen. Holding down the left trigger more times than not would still have me climb up.
I think in arkham city its stated
FINALLY I KNOW HOW
One I find incredibly useful in knight is that you can use the forensic batmobile scanner you use to track the Arkham Knight's cobra tank as a detective mode of sorts in the Batmobile, allowing you to see the cobra tanks through the walls when you're hiding from them. Not sure how common this trick was but I never saw anyone use it after they tracked the tires in the main story, so
I used that but I never thought about hacking them! Now with both at my disposal those fights will be nothing!
This isn't really a secret. The game even gives you hints to do this
I've used this, I'm not sure if I learned this from Arkham Videos or just figured it out on my own but it is a life saver
You activate the cinematic glide kick by pressing R3 during it. Didn't know about the grapnels, though. Wonder if it works from other starting positions. Cinematic Batclaw is also compatible with Batclaw Super Stun and Batclaw Kick
You can blind Cobras with the Remote Hacking Device and jam their guns with the Disruptor. I think you can also EMP them with two full bars of secondary weapon energy. What I still need to test is whether destroying them via jamming builds secondary weapon energy
You can disrupt the drone controller's tablet to make it shock him when you hack the drone for a maximum of four simultaneous takedowns
On KBM you can right click on the final thug in a fear chain to transition straight into a Silent Takedown and earn your fear token back. You can activate the Explosive Gel detonator during a fear chain without breaking from it. You can cancel a fear chain by pressing circle or waiting it out to use a different attack against the final target - useful for getting environmental takedowns
You can infinitely stunlock tanky enemies by beating them down to build combo, popping a Special Combo Bat Swarm, Special Combo REC, Special Combo Whip Trip, Special Combo Staff Spin, or Nightwing's electrical shock to clear the surrounding area, then repeating the combo. For Weapon Specialists with shock gloves equipped, try Batarang, Cape Stun, repeat
You can use Nightwing's smash attack to defend against unblockable attacks if you're quick - very useful for shields!
You can interrupt every punch in a Beatdown with a combo gadget for some scary fast tool spam. See Fleaker's video for examples. You can also reset the Triple Batarang combo requirement with an REC for an infinite gadget combo, which is included in my Special Combo Moves guide for Arkham City
Critical Strikes are faster if you don't touch left stick while inputting them, but their range is reduced. They'll automatically target enemies who are about to attack you so you don't have to counter. You can cheese a lot of 3-star requirements by getting a good rhythm going with this
Okay, you can only action cam grapple between dedicated (green reticle) vantage points. However, if you do this in or out of a pass-through grate it looks insanely cool. Make sure to hold right trigger the whole time while going up. Glide kick reversal does not work in Asylum, but it gave me action cam almost every time no matter what I did first
One more you didn't mention is the grapple cancel. If you press B while grappling towards a gargoyle, it will cancel the grapple and send you flying forward like spiderman. It's a much faster way to travel in predator encounters and is actually a thing I found myself.
Plus if you cancel a grapple while holding glide and not holding a direction you can go at insane speeds
You can actually use this to make really unique attacks too
I dont think this is possible in Asylum, but is one of the best mechanics in City, because there isnt a skill to extend glide after grapling.
this is a technique for arkham knight speedruns wihtout the upgrades for the grappler boost
@@gogorecords89 if you do the AR stuff you can get one
Also a cool mechanic for the batclaw is that if you use the batclaw on a brute (with the super combo batclaw upgrade equipped) it can one shot them! Also if you use it on a brute without the upgrade, he will go spinning and knock any thug by him unconscious/stunned!
The cinemamatic camera for glide attacks in asylum uses the same button prompts as the dive attack from Arkham city. and while rotating your camera in city, origins, and knight batman does the pre fight animations from the challenge maps, if playing as Robin in knight do the same thing but you can do a glitch by holding gadget to make him hold the staff forever or until you trigger the holding animation again, was useful for photomode at the studio to get a shot of both Tim and Bruce holding weapons.
Happy Thanksgiving!
so how do you get the cinematic glide kick angle in arkham asylum?
press the middle mouse button and on controller press b or circle@@moonsets-on_you
Sm Eot pfp, cultured man
I've been playing these games for years and I still managed to learn something new from this video. Great Job
Great job and great games☝
One hidden combat feature (unless it isn't lol) not listed in this video is Red Hood's ability to Beatdown from a distance; first stun a medium-long range enemy with your quickfire flashbang grenade, then spamming attack will have him rapid fire his pistols in a really cool animation. The range of this move is actually crazy far too 😅
If anyone is wondering what the the Action shot toggle is on PC (Mechanism #10, see 0:44) it's your cape stun button which by default is the Middle Mouse Button on PC.
For the directed aerial attack (Mechanism #5, see 6:24)
it's Cape stun + Evade (Twice) + Punch (immediately after hitting evade twice).
So by default on PC it's Middle Mouse Button + Space Space + Left Mouse Button.
Additionally you can use your movement keys (W,A,S,D) to direct in which direction Batman will aerial attack into.
thank you
As probably noted below (but just in case not): the directed aerial attack is required to beat the Riddler in ArkCity. Which I can rarely do properly, I just end up try-harding and do it by accident. (It helps that with the Catwoman add-on, you'll get a buffer of 20 extra requirements thanks to Selina -- only some of which are feasible, but still you can sub hers out to help reach the 400 needed to defeat Eddie. So I never have to do the direct aerial to win. But I do still try!)
Another secret mechanic is the drop attack takedown from arkham origins (maybe arkham city) which when pressing inverted takedown and drop attack at the same time, you're able to do a cinematic drop attack which instantly renders them unconcious and enemy's aren't notified. Great video btw
How does that work by pressing both inverted takedown button and the drop attack button???
Now, that's truly something unknown.
You can't just mention that and not tell us how to do it. Don't leave us hanging man.
@@HOTD108_I think it happens when you hang upside down from a vantage point by pressing the middle mouse button,and then do the inverted takedown,don't remember much tho
I doubt any game or series of games will ever be better than this for me. This is truly the peak. From lore/story (omg, the story) and the voice-acting, over the gameplay to the smallest details 95% of the players will never even encounter, even in multiple play-throughs, put in there for the mega fanatics and just because. It is insane how great this series is.
Amazing stuff, man. Actually never knew about some of these. Great to see niche mechanics like these being documented in such a well-edited video!
I refuses to believe this team has made Suicide squad
It wasn’t the same creative team. Completely different Creative Director, different writers, etc.
You’re right it has been a whole decade majority of the team aren’t the same
Excellent detective work. Rocksteady is much more thoughtful about these games than I ever realized. 👏👏👏👏👏
The mechanic to not have your main character brutally murdered in a future game was definitely missing…
Another cool thing about the punch drop attack is that its the pose Batman pulls on the cover of the Dark Knight Returns. Making for some hard af photo opps
You just gave me a video idea lmao
I was playing Arkham City earlier today and got the cinematic mode to happen while using a grapple in the museum. I remembered thinking I’d never seen that before. This explains everything. Awesome!
Fun fact, using the freeze blast quick fire in Arkham Knight makes Brutes vulnerable to be attacked meaning you can chain hits with Brutes without having to stun them and go into a beatdown so long as you freeze them first. Have fun!
Didn't know about this one
After all these years and you can still find amazing details. Great job highlighting this hidden mechanics. The Arkham series is truly the best!
Great video Knerd! It’s almost surprising how many “hidden” mechanics there are in the Arkham series lol.
Dude I’ve seen dozens of videos about arkhams and they’re all the same but you actually found new things!
Instant subscribe
#5 really ought to have been highlighted more by the game itself. The system needed more freedom like this and cancels like the batclaw with ground takedown.
Great video man, thank you. Also shows the level of creativity these guys have gone while making the game. They could just leave the normal attacks on, the game would still be fine, but they did pushed the bar and added the details that show their passion for what their project.
Man I wish I knew about the ground takedown cancel mechanic sooner 😂 Years of playing the Arkham games over and over again, and getting hit while doing a ground takedown was always annoying 😂
Subbed! What a great video!
The Arkham games have been one of my favorite game series/franchises ever since I first played the damn Arkham Asylum demo on xbox 360 😆 I hold them in super high regard, like, up there next to Witcher and Red Dead. I replay them year or two but even then I had no idea about most of this list. I just never really expected these games to be so full of details this small. The sheer confidence of a studio to put in IMPORTANT and VIABLE mechanics without having them displayed on a tutorial or skill tree is... Something else.
I'm fresh off of playing Spider-Man 2, finished it a couple of weeks ago, I was hoping this would be the one that would dethrone Batman Arkham from its #1 super-hero genre game, but it just hasn't reached that spot just yet. Now that I know that there's even more little details and hidden mechanics in these games that I had no clue about, that bar has only increased.
I know a cool mechanic with the ice grenade! First, if you use it on a brute, you can hit them normally without it being blocked! You have to do freeze grenade, strike, freeze grenade, strike, then after you could do an instant takedown to finish them off! You can also do this to shield and stun sticks enemies without getting hurt! Also if you freeze a thug, then use the batclaw or rec gun to get them unfrozen, they will fall down like a statue lol!
I was actually gonna include that in my next hidden mechanics video lol
Great cheese combo
@@Knerddretard
I discovered the last one by accident while goofing around with the random encounters- turning thugs into fainting goats is hilarious
this is a speedrun tactic for brutes in arkham knight by speedrunners without using the takedowns
Man, this video is insane! I have played these games a lot and seen a million clips on CZcams, but never have I seen other creators implement any of these tactics.
This is amazing. About to replay this game. Great video bro!
i really didnt think thered be anything new here. but i was super suprised that i only knew 2 of these. great video
One of my favourites is to start a fight using the running slide. You can usually knock down a handful of thugs and do combo attacks directly out of it.
I consider myself a pro/expert at these games and even I learned a thing or two from this video! Well done!
Bro, the tips and tricks here are insane! I knew maybe like 1 or 2 but so many of these were new to me and sorta shocked me that I never found these out sooner. Absolutely fantastic video!
I didn't know about the Dropped Charged Attack and the different Batmobile calls despite the fact that, for the latter, I noticed different interactions that didn't stop the momentum of the car when engaging different sections or challenges.
It's the little stuff... ;-)
Wow he really did use all your footage. I watched your video a week ago and was watching his video and had this Deja vu I couldn’t explain. Then I saw your post and came back to watch this one again. Incredible. That’s gotta be frustrating as hell.
Thanks for the tips. The cobra tanks tip is really helpful 😊
I came into this video thinking I'd hear mechanics I'm already aware of. Little did I know I was about to get stunned 😅. Thank you!
After all these years I'm still discovering stuff about the arkham series that shows how these games were ahead of their time amazing video knerd
This video was great. I love all of these different mechanics and think it's so cool when they put stuff like this into a game. I haven't playedany of the Arkham games a while but they're among my favourites and this makes me feel like I missed stuff from my previous playthroughs
My favorite game series of all time. By far. I recently came back to the Arkham trilogy for probably my 6-7th playthrough. Man they just don’t make games like these anymore and it’s a shame.
Great video too, I didn’t know about a handful of these useful tips
Really glad u talked about mechanic #9 cause I found it the first time I played the game years ago and felt like a crazy person when I tried searching everywhere for a video that talks about it but to no success
Bro I didn’t know about a single one of these. Appreciate you!
In knight, hitting an enemy with a freeze grenade will give you a very short window for a free silent takedown from the front, don't think it alerts enemies either
That is amazing. Aside from the REC gun on cars thing, I didn't know any of these even after over a decade of playing these games
Wow! Arkham is my favourite game franchise but I didn’t know about a lot of these like the action shots!
entertaining video, also thank you kindly for the shout out on mechanic 2 👍
Outstanding... great work
Excellent video Knerd! I need to go dust this off again!!
Awesome video, thank you very much for sharing!
You can target downed enemies with regular melee attacks in Arkham Knight by holding crouch and using the regular attack button. You can also pull enemies out of the air after a super stun launch by using the ground pickup input, they get snatched down into a stunned state. The batarang throw for batman and azrael can be used to dodge. Throwing freeze pellets at big enemies allows you to hit them normally without having to stun them first. Just a few things I've discovered
I have 240%, the platinum, and only knew about the hacking Cobra drones, this series is just too good, great video you earned a sub
i have finished this game 12 times over the years all 100% and never knew some of this, you my dear sir got yourself a like
Thanks for sharing these 🫡
Another mechanic that people don't know about in AK, is that you can use the Batmobile's scanner to reveal Cobra tanks behind walls, making these stealth sections incredibly easy. You don't even have to press it manually all the time, you press it once and it'll scan continuously.
By the way, the redirected aerial attack is worse in Arkham Origins for some reason. After this attack, Batman will stay on the ground for like 2 more seconds to slam an enemy with his fists, which makes him extra vulnerable.
Lol, the AO one actually makes sense. He's younger and inexperienced.
Awesome vid thanks! REC gunning a brute or melee weapon enemy makes them attack enemies around them. I like to Freeze Grenade the Riddler informants to keep ‘em on ice ‘til the fight’s done. Also, if I'm on foot sometimes I'll grapple but drop before perching to cover ground quickly.
The secret drop attack is actually a reference to The Dark Knight Returns! It's also actually based on distance, meaning it can be done without ever going into a glide kick or drop if the thug is at the right distance.
Your secrets remind me of the days I'd read something interesting in a gaming magazine and be excited to get home to try it myself. 😊
That secret drop punch has Batman in the same pose as his silhouette on the cover of The Dark Knight Returns. Very cool catch!
The directed Aerial attack can be a curse in Arkham Origins if you're playing as Batman.
Interesting tricks indeed
Well done finding them, and making this video as well.
Random bonus fact I found: you can actually use the disruptor on cobra tanks if you have the drone sabotage upgrade; meaning that when they spot the Batmobile, they’ll just self-destruct. This is only really useful during the founder’s island encounter as that’s the only time the tanks are spawned in before you enter the Batmobile but it’s interesting nonetheless
I knew about half of these. Still cool to see the others though. Great vid
Idk if the algorithm found this video or what, but man what a great video. Informative and I've never heard of any of these, i can see speedrunners using this to their advantage. I gotta play the arkham games again lol
Ok have to say, that air attack is definitely clutch. So damn helpful for the big guys, am gonna for sure try and remember that one thank you!
i love this franchise. i literally just discovered that you can use the batclaw combo to knock down a brute
I love when there’s actually one or two of these that I still didn’t know, or at least fully understand until now.
The gadget cinematic in Origins with the remote grapple is always fun. For Batman and Slade.
Even after 10 years of playing these games I am still, STILL finding new little hidden details that give me an exscuse to replay these games. God do I love the Arkham series.
Yo my mind is blown 🤯🤣 I appreciate you seriously 💯
Awsome video
Just a question, the mechanic #9 would be in the ps with the R2 trigger?
Electricity mechanics is amazing. There is a quest of riddler. You need to use batarang through electricity, but you simply can use reg gun or smash by batmibile
This is a very good video you have earned a subscriber🎉🎉🎉
One more: You can actually KO the brutes, like you do the normal enemies, who are weilding knives or who have no weapons using the freeze grenade. Just use them to freeze the brutes and attack them like you do the normal enemies.
I only knew one of these. The one when Bats picks up the KO'd enemies and throws them over his head. Thank you for showing all these unknown features.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I'm loving arkham knight on my first play through and learning about the REC gun is sooo usefulll it's my favorite quick stun move, after the batclaw slam, which is combo city broken XD
thumbnail a bit click bait'y,,, I fought for sanity on the airship, and wanted to see what would happen if i didn't without starting a new save....
In asylum u can do the cinematic attack if u hold the left button
Great video. I’ve played all of these games multiple times over, and I only knew a handful of these mechanics. Rocksteady (and WB Montréal) poured so much into these games
Accidentally discovered the Action Shots while doing Predator Challenges in Asylum a couple of days ago. Immediately booted up City and noticed it also worked! Little stuff like that is why I still love these games
Dude I've been back on AK for about 2 weeks now and omg you just made my knight!!! I NEVER KNEW ABOUT A FEW OF THESE WOW!!! YOUR AWESOME THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDE!!!!❤❤❤❤
By Knight I definitely lost track of just how many ridiculous combos you could pull off and definitely hadn't heard of some of these! Makes me want to play them again just to try them!
I love finally learning that after all these years, I was using the hidden action shot feature on accident because I have fat fingers and would also spam RB for no reason (especially when swinging to different gargoyles in stealth sections)
Love these videos.
BROOOOO i play this games once every year since release and I didnt knew have of that, thank you so much
That was entertaining to watch ill subscribe 👍
Yo fire video bro the only one I knew was the hacking the tanks
I have hundreds of hours with these games and had NO clue about any of these. Really cool. PLUS the comments with all the extra tips and tricks.
Thank You for sharing all these secret mechanics, is really helpful 👍. I just started playing this old game, even though is old but the fighting mechanics of the game is so wonderfully design & cool. Better than even some of the newer games! Hope they will come out with more series in future, taking advantage of PS5 capability
Fantastic video thank you. Playing through Arkham Knight for the first time after 100%ing Arkham City
The directed aerial attack is actually mentioned in Arkham origins, if you go to your moveset.
I'm aware of hacking cobra tanks but didn't know about the decoy aspect. Thanks for sharing.
Learning the aerial attack switch up was SO useful for crowd control and keeping my combos going. I felt like a GOD when I discovered it on complete accident. Aside from the quick fire gadgets, that attack is soooo damn useful in tough crowded fights
I've learned a few new things. Thank you.
Wow amazing, I didn’t even know this stuffs, great video 👏🇧🇷
The arkham games were way ahead of their time. Just when I thought knew everything about these games i still end up learning new things about them.
Most of these I had no idea about, i'm gonna replay the series now