Ordynans: Arkham City GOTY Beginner’s Guide and Tips

Wstęp

You’ve probably read the description on what this guide is about, by the time i’ve typed this out it must’ve been a good couple weeks. Im going to be discussing on the various points

– Podstęp

– Uaktualnienia

– Combat Guide

I’m going to discuss them in most important to less important in my opinion.

Uaktualnienia

Upgrades are incredibly crucial to the game no matter on any difficulty, ballistic upgrades, special takedowns, combat upgrades, itp.

Tam są 5 important upgrades you should consistently upgrade when you get a chance (from least important to most)

Armour Upgrades:

These are overseen in most batman games and usually early in the game you gain upgrades fast, I suggest either ballistic or combat since you encounter two types of enemies, armed and unarmed, either way you need it, I personally suggest ballistic because usually I die very early on the hardest difficulty due to guards shooting at me while trying to lose them going gargoyle to gargoyle.

Grapnel Boost:

Most Arkham veterans know that this is perfect to manoeuver out of sticky situations and to travel faster, 99% of the time you are travelling/gliding through Arkham city and it wastes time especially if you are doing a speedrun glitch-less luckily this is easy to get very early on in the game, its on joker’s island you can watch this on how to get it.

Freeze Cluster:

Mr Freeze’s Cluster Grenade is obtainable by Mr. Freeze’s side-missions, you can see a on how to get it. The cluster grenade incapacitates enemies or keep a few thugs occupied while ambushing a large group of armed gunmen it also allows you how to get many riddler trophies and since this is a 100% guide I kept it pretty decently high on the list.

Batclaw Disarm:

It’s pretty self-explanatory, it can disarm a thug by throwing at him from broken bottles to high caliber rifles it can disarm pretty much anything, it can be used in many ways, you can disarm the enemy before he even sees you alternatively, you can quick-fire it mid-fight to disarm some thugs with knives and much, znacznie więcej.

Sonic Shock Batarang:

Now for those of you that don’t know, while enemies are searching for you or you entered an area filled to the brim with enemies if you throw a batarang it reveals your position and then it gets really difficult to get out unless you have the grapnel boost but still, enemies on harder difficulties will spot you easier but, what if you could manipulate that batarang and give your enemies a false location and lure them under a gargoyle and do an inverted takedown, the possibilities are endless, its not only good at that, other enemies will group at the shocked enemy’s body and you can jump on them together and you can also get enemies out of the way by navigating them out of your way, helps in later missions where you have to track something or get into somewhere like the enemies in the sewers.

Podstęp

To be honest this is a batman game after all and batman’s main core feature is stealth, he is the night, he isn’t simply hiding in the shadows, he is the shadows.

Stealth is complicated to explain, its mechanics are simple but can be hard if not done properly, i’m going to talk about main stealth mechanics and how to exploit them to become your enemies’ worst nightmare.

Numer 1: Vantage Points:

This is a staple stealth mechanic in every batman game, they usually are gargoyles stationed in the corners and random places in an area where you can get a nice, crisp, clear view of the room with detective vision and do inverted takedowns, its a known fact you can cheese the game by simply doing inverted takedowns, use a batarang to cut the rope the thug is hanging by, wait for someone to investigate, invert take down them, cięcie, płukanie, powtarzać.

Numer 2: Floor Grates

Batman can go into floor grates and takedown people, they cant see you in the floor grates unless they see you enter it, dumb feature, I know but it makes stealth a lot easier and makes this part of the guide short but keep in mind a core detail of stealth, noise, if you do a “takedown” not a “silent takedown” enemies can hear it and run towards you, and while you are doing a silent takedown you have an option to left-click again and perform a “knockout smash” which is loud as hell since you are slamming a 140 pound armed thug into steel flooring

Numer 3: Explosive Gel:

Explosive Gel, ironic, isn’t this a silent “stealthy” segment of the guide but believe me, it does help. It can serve as a distraction, I usually go to an unoccupied area of the area and quick fire explosive gel and rappel to a vantage point, detonate and watch enemies enter the area, seeing them confused is insanely funny and can serve as a temporary substitution for the sonic shock batarang.

Numer 4: Hostage Takers:

Usually if there’s a hostages/hostage the last remaining few thugs, sometimes at least one of them they take a hostage and they rotate consistently if they see you or hear you they will kill the hostage and you will have to restart, how to deal with this is make sure you navigate the other thugs to somewhere else and wait for the hostage taker to make an other rotation (he will do a good 5-15 second interval between rotations), glide behind him and perform a silent takedown.

Numer 5: Smoke Pellets:

Smoke pellets is like giving a toddler a 20 gauge mossberg 280, its a mistake, they don’t know how to use it and somehow, someway it will backfire not only on you but the kid. Smoke pellets have a cooldown between uses maybe a minute or more, it is a literal smoke bomb that stuns enemies and they cant see ♥♥♥♥, you can perform silent takedowns in smoke. Usually when enemies spot you and you are on the ground and not on a vantage point it will give you a prompt to drop a smoke pellet if they see you. The best way to use a smoke pellet is either in two ways, distraction or as a concealment when you are trying to takedown someone, this is obvious however it purely is best used in certain situations like a hostage taker, itp. My favourite way to use the smoke pellet is give the thugs a false sense of my position using the sonic shock batarang, throw a smoke pellet, knockdown smash all of them and leave to a vantage point and keep in mind the smoke does clear out so do this quick.

Walka

Dobrze, Dobrze, well you’ve finally reached the jelly of this tart and you deserve it. Combat is a main feature of the batman games and there are many ways you can engage into it and finish it. Firstly you need to know basic mechanics of it.

Gliding Combat:

While you are gliding you can engage into combat by doing various things like shockwave dive bomb, glide kick, break through glass, itp.

Strajk krytyczny:

This is a combat upgrade that’s not really necessary but it shaves time during stealth if you want to attempt a drop attack and finish the job quickly or if the enemy sees you and you quickly take them out with a couple blows.

Countering And Combat Tactics:

Countering is an essential part of combat but you can just hit the enemy before they hit you and if you have critical strike it might take them out, if you want me to weigh in my take, honestly countering isn’t necessary unless there’s two at a time, usually you can take them out by punching them before they punch you and get a chance to get a crit strike.

Combat tactics practically means strategy during combat, you might think what strategy is there, its practically mashing LMB and RMB again and again during free flow and hoping to get a high combo well its more than that, you need to know what type of enemies are there, usually they will be introduced throughout the story as it progresses (i.e titan thug is introduced in the museum)

Here’s how to beat every different type of special thug in the game

Titan Thug – Z,Z,Z , Beatdown

Shield Thug – Z, Z, Przestrzeń

Mr Hammer/Hammer Thug – Przestrzeń, Przestrzeń, Beatdown (evade them and beatdown while their hammer is down)

Thats not much to combat, besides saving time and punching the person before they impact you