10 Secret Gameplay Features in the Batman Arkham Series

[@Official_Ardo]

The fact that my panic spamming in an arkham origins predator challenge map caused Knerd and Ice Mage to discover an extremely broken predator mechanic is hilarious

[@TheWaffleEdits]

You’re a legend I wish I would’ve known this before I platinum’d Arkham City a few months back (it was my second time doing it)

[@GojosThedit]

Didn't know I watched knerd lol​@@TheWaffleEdits

[@DatsuKyoraku]

Does this trick work with a keyboard and mouse?

[@Zack-f6p]

Christ saves 🇻🇦✝️

[@Official_Ardo]

@@DatsuKyoraku Yeah just press lmb and rmb at the same time unless u changed ur keyboard layout

[@gargy1585]

Here are 4 more tricks!!!!! 1)When it comes to the brutes in Arkham knight you can also damage them with the special combo explosive gel. I think it even takes 3 hits instead of 5 and you can do it fron a distance!!! 2)If a brute has almost no health left(1 or 2 hits away from a KO) throwing an other thug at him(via the throw counter or robin's throw ) and even nightwing's sticks can knock the brute out. 3)In AK, when fighting along side robin or nightwing and there is a brute, if you freeze it there is a chance the sidekick will attack the brute do a beatdown on him and KO him with you not needing to lift a finger. 4)After doing an ultra cape stun on a brute or after punching him while frozen, you can instantly take him out with the multi-ground takedown.

[@icarusgaming6269]

There's no way to ground pound them, right? Their melee stun state is slightly different from being floored?

[@blazingfire7517]

@@icarusgaming6269They’re referring to the multi ground takedown combo move where Batman jumps in the air and throws batarangs at all grounded thugs K.O.-ing them instantly

[@Arkhambatpro564]

So I tested them all out and they work, but slight correction, 2) doesn't work with nightwing's stun sticks and 4) doesn't work with the freeze blast punch! Nightwings stick throw combo is always blocked by brutes and the last one only works with the ultra stun because when you ultra stun a normal thug they are instantly knocked down so you can use a multi ground takedown, they just forgot to remove that property of the ultra stun for brutes, so this is a glitch, you can tell because if you try an ultra stun on a regular thug and instantly use multi ground takedown it will knock them out in the air!

[@Arkhambatpro564]

Here are two cool hidden features related to the weapon grab mechanic in arkham knight! Firstly, if you do a ground takedown while holding a weapon, batman will take out the thug instantly without having a long animation(plus a little bonus feature is you can use the freeze blast to freeze an enemy who knocked down to keep them knocked down for a ground takedown later!). Secondly, if you grab a weapon and then do a special combo takedown with it, it will instantly takedown armoured militia brutes, this means you don't have to do two special takedowns but instead one and it is useful because this is free unlike the batclaw takedown which you have to buy! On top of that, in both cases, you will keep your weapon without any damage done to it so you can use it to bash more thugs as a follow up attack! Pretty cool right!

[@booki7057]

This video and the comments are actually such an awesome goldmine of tips Thank you very much for this, i'm excited to play the iceberg lounge tomorrow lol

[@Arkhambatpro564]

@@booki7057 Np happy to help

[@aidenr3310]

​@@booki7057 SAME

[@OneDarkKnight]

Note: The brute freeze attacks don’t work on the enemies with the shields or if they have electrified fists, unless you deactivate them first with the REC

[@Arkhambatpro564]

It works on the electric fist ones, I tested it! And yes you are right it doesn't work on the shield ones!

[@Giuseppe_Camole_4073]

I played Arkham Knight SO MUCH That almost every mechanic from it I knew. The Arkham City Drop takedown mechanic is soooo cool, I cant describe how I love this series.

[@edit_hub360]

Does it work on ps5 return to arkham city

[@The-IceMage]

I did not expect that REC Punching method, brilliant. (Also expected seeing my skins even less, glad u r enjoying them)

[@Altf4forfreediamonds]

Wsp

[@TheWaffleEdits]

13:28 So that explains how people have over 2 million points on Blind Justice

[@alphonsus1274]

Fun Fact: You don't need to press the glide kick button to glide kick enemies. You just need to glide into them and it will automatically do the glide kick animation

[@matthewshafer9545]

@@alphonsus1274 right but pressing the kick lets u glide without holding glide allowing you to gadget attack enemies in flight .

[@NotMe-vx4vl]

Yeah but you can't insta knockout by holding the dive button

[@matthewshafer9545]

@NotMe-vx4vl ok . But the tradeoff is being able to down an entire mob . Plus you actually use a mechanic you invested a ton of points into . The game has so many underused mechanics because of a few game breakers like Fear that really cheapen the experience . Loved Knight but it was entirely too easy and the reason is a few op combat mechanics that looked good on paper but r just abused over and over again

[@BlueTGM40]

Some of these I was feeling like, “Okay, how the hell did I do that and can I do that again?” It’s great to have this reminder and experience!

[@orangebrot9]

Little addition to the REC-Punching: A similar tactic works with TITANs (in AC), allowing for infinite combos. Tripple-Stun a TITAN with the REC and for some reason they will be immune to damage until your combo (and therefore their stunned status) resets. 13yo me sure loved getting to Global Rank 3 on the Extreme Museum map this way.

[@GOF2013]

You made the Arkham Iceberg, right? I’m a bit late but great work on it!

[@orangebrot9]

@@GOF2013 Thank you, man. Greatly appreciated!

[@realtoken]

Honey wake up! Knerd just posted a new video! 🔥🔥

[@jordanchen23]

Another one for you: in arkham Knight, if you use an ice grenade during a glide kick sequence that grenade has its own counter that behaves separately from a normal ice grenade. With this you can actually keep two enemies frozen at the same time.

[@santanuroy3329]

been playing this game for years, still didn't find some of these... dude how did you find out lmao

[@dojindori]

I don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but in the batmobile you can quickly switch into battle mode for some really sharp turns, and you can add a boost to get some good speed out of it. You need to switch in and out of battle mode really quickly though, cause after around a second the batmobile will automatically slow down

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

I thought everybody did this it's so useful

[@kanushgaba5609]

Wow, I just finished watching the first video. I was off to try them when I saw this one. Thank you!!! You're Awesome keep up the good work

[@gun_violence_gaming]

The real hidden mechanics are the friends we made along the way

[@Hallowpool193]

Correct

[@dontwatchanime8063]

that sounded corny af

[@gun_violence_gaming]

@@dontwatchanime8063 precisely

[@ThatAnimeFan-nt4pu]

Bro really put a one piece reference

[@Senator_Legweak]

THE ONE PIECE! THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!

[@connor000]

I have some other tips 1. Similar to the first mechanic, it also works when you drop from the vantage point. B+Y(Xbox controls) is a bit easier to hit than X+Y. It also works in other instances in City and Origins, with similar glitchy results. However, this (B+Y) also works in Arkham Knight. From a vantage point, it will default to a silent takedown instead of the ceiling takedown like in City and Origins. It will teleport you down to the thug just like in City/Origins. This doesn't work in Asylum, I tried. 2/2.5. While hanging from a ledge you can silent takedown enemies below where you are hanging similar to if you were standing on the ledge. However, while hanging you have a boosted range downwards, as your player character has moved downwards. For some reason, Catwoman gets a noticeably bigger boost than all the other characters. This also for some reason also increases her range laterally in addition to vertically. The boost is more than you think it would be. If you B+Y while a thug is in takedown range below you it will default to a drop attack where you instantly teleport to the thug. (When limit testing characters to find weird interactions and glitches it is a general theme that Catwoman is the most broken character code-wise.) 3/3.5. While hanging from a ledge when you can perform a ledge takedown on a thug above you it will default to a drop attack and teleport you to the thug. This B+Y ledge combo even works with Harley Quin, even though her takedown button is different. This can be used with a ground pound to fill half her mayhem meter with one thug. The B+Y ledge combo is super glitchy with Catwoman and won't teleport you up when the ledge has a railing. 3.6. when hanging from a ledge that connects to a ceiling Catwoman can crawl on you can crawl to the ceiling(Rt on Xbox) and perform a ledge takedown at the same time causing you to teleport to the thug and do a silent takedown. The animation is faster, puts you on top of the ledge, and doesn't cause thugs to check railings. 4/4.5 While crawling on a ceiling while performing a ceiling takedown on a thug above you if you B+Y it will teleport the thug to you, and you will instantly do a silent takedown. You will both fall down to the floor below where you were crawling. Alternatively, you can throw a bola at the same time as the ceiling takedown. It will perform a loud takedown on the thug, but his body will stay up on top of the railing, and that's where all the other thugs will look. You will not be moved at all and will stay on the ceiling. This also works if the thug is floored when the takedown starts. This all works the same in Arkham City 5/5.5 While crawling on a ceiling while performing a silent takedown on a thug below you B+Y will teleport you down defaulting to a silent takedown with a faster animation. In City, it will be a loud ceiling takedown similar to B+Y from a vantage point. If you throw a bola at the same time as you do the silent takedown the normal animation will play but your character won't go down to the thug. Meaning you are effectively invisible while the animation plays. This won't save you from dropping down once the animation is over though. 6. There are several ways to animation cancel normal silent takedowns, smoke pellet, quickfire explosive gel, REC, Red Hood's grenades, Harley Quin's snare, All of Catwoman's gadgets, and there's probably more. Some work best while standing still and others while moving. Tip for controllers, if a gadget has a right Bumper action, it is likely better than using the right trigger action. Note: Harley Quin's animation cancels are still loud. 7. triple stun into an areal juggle will instantly ko an armed thug as long as you aren't shot during the attack animation. Catwoman's range on her stun move while running forward is very long and much longer than any other characters in the game. 8. B+Y on a corner takedown will cause all characters(except harley) to teleport to the thug and it won't "Consume" the corner, so you can perform multiple takedowns from that corner. 9. To perform a corner takedown you only need to be crouched near the corner, not actually snapped in place to the corner. If you aren't snapped to the corner you have increased rage outward away from the corner, but less range around the corner. it also won't consume the corner(on catwoman and harley), allowing for multiple takedowns. You can also not be as close to the corner's edge when not snapped to it and still perform the takedown. allowing you to still get the takedown and be seen from fewer angles. 10. When you pop out of cover or enter thug vision cones while near them they will be startled allowing for a takedown without attracting the whole room. The startle animation will attract nearby thugs though. This is surprisingly useful with corners that you can't snap to and grates that thugs are actively looking at, as you can just pop out and take them down anyway.

[@icarusgaming6269]

Other ways to humiliate Brutes: Beat them down to half health (militia) or until meter is charged (thug), takedown Projectile, stun attack, repeat Basically any combination of stun attacks, gadgets, and punches. Just make sure to think through the melee phase because punches only work after certain gadgets and two gadgets in a row will drop your combo. You can go a little combo mad with this Stun attack, beatdown until meter is charged, multi-REC/whip trip/electric combo/staff spin/etc, repeat. Even disarm can work if you're careful with the targeting When you freeze the last enemy recognized in a combat encounter, the fight is considered to be over and your combo complete. We can tell because it gives you perfect freeflow no matter how far you have to walk to ice smash him. The immediate result is that you're considered undetected, allowing you to get off a silent takedown or knockout smash before the freeze blast detonates if you're quick. But the same is also true of enemies a medic has just finished reviving and have yet to regain their footing, but unless the medic is frozen at exactly the right time stealth moves are disallowed because the medic is still considered an active threat. But if you freeze the medic right as his patient gets up, then you've got *two* inactive hostiles and therefore qualify for a fear takedown. *In combat.* Note that special combo freeze blast does not seem to have the same encounter ending special properties If you throw down a smoke bomb at the very beginning of the map Wildcat you can sometimes qualify for a fear takedown if enemies are lined up at the right angle. There's even a pretty long grace period while the smoke is active if you want to get off a special combo move first. Make sure to wait until the button prompt at the bottom of the screen appears, because the yellow outlines will be popping in and out like crazy. This is a glitch that works on this map and only this map. I also did it on Newton Fairgrounds one time by using a contextual quickfire smoke, resetting, and then throwing down another smoke on top of that because the effect didn't clear through the reset, but I could never manage to reproduce it Ground punching with Harley has a quirk that causes her to do a special variation of the ground pound with a different animation if you're too slow. Be very careful, it's even possible to induce this without crouching when enemies are separated Okay, finally did some testing against Cobra tanks. A direct frontal assault is very possible. Secondary weapons need to be charged to at least level 2 to have any effect. Missile barrage can instantly destroy one Cobra at level 2 and two Cobras at level 4. This is useful for planning long term ambushes against mutiple targets. EMP stuns them like you'd expect, giving you time to line up a critical shot. This is effective to save yourself from near or minor detections at close range. Hack is the most efficient use of your energy because the hacked Cobra will almost always destroy at least one other tank in the infighting before being blown up itself, allowing you to get two Cobras with only two bars of energy. You don't have to worry about how long they take to hack because once you establish a connection, there are no line of sight or range limitations, allowing you to back off or hide behind a piece of concealment, or even hack them through multiple walls. This trick is also useful against Diamondbacks, which are valuable allies for their tanky HP pools. But by far the best way to fight Cobras is to not fight them at all. Buy the assault drone upgrade for the disruptor, drive the Batmobile outside the red encounter area on your minimap, dismount, and grapple up into the skyscrapers where they can't get you. From here you can disrupt four Cobras and blind one with the RHD, which will probably account for every tank on the map. Aim for the sensor array on top of the turret. Then drop down to street level and let them blow themselves up. Remember to reset the timer on the blinded one before calling the car back in. I also found the Cloudburst AI to be very stupid - it can't hit you if you hide in a tunnel and pop out to take potshots at it, and it's too fat to fit in the tunnel. I have now trivialized this boss fight for you

[@darkAwesome100]

I like that the fact that batman is a lot more aggressive in this game (attacking downed thugs, more brutal animations, everything about the bat-mobile) is actually explained as the joker's influence on him.

[@SpideySansGoku2517]

Learned some things from this video I like how these videos actually have hidden mechanics good job :)

[@BrandonGavin_EDC]

Finally a video with useful information I didn’t know! No clickbait.

[@wesjanson7073]

I've played these games so many times each and there's still so many things in this video I didn't know! Arkham Knight's combat in particular has so many new little features in it like picking up downed enemies that the game never really explains. Also, I've done that first drop takedown many times on accident. I always thought it was because the normal inverted takedown animation didn't have room to play out for some reason, but I guess maybe I was just hitting both buttons on accident. Also the REC punching is crazy, I wonder why the shield hurts you on the ground? Really enjoy these videos!

[@joaovitorferreiralima5559]

Imagine the guy smoking on his balcony and suddenly being hit by an random flying electric charge

[@enzooooooooooo4119]

yooo awesome transition at 1:04

[@HydraKittten]

I recently learned about delayed batarangs while doing new game plus in Arkham Knight, ive been taking more precautions to avoid damage, like dodging charging thugs before using the batarang

[@Chrono-and-Co]

Thank you so much for telling me about rec punching,I've been struggling to get medals on all the combat maps in city.

[@scottybreuer]

REC punching sounds nice but I would hate for the shield glitches Knerd mentioned to break my combo. The thing that usually hurts your score if you do it normally is getting overly fancy. I generally start every round with a slide kick to knock down 1-2 thugs, focus on getting my combo up, use Bat Swarm and Disarm to increase the combo without doing damage and try to save combo gadgets for the end of the fight. Certain gadgets can be unpredictable if you use them too much. Batclaw and Baterang are the most reliable but the clothesline attack leaves you vulnerable to attack so be wise in its usage, especially with Robin's zipkick which only works if the thug is in the sweet spot medium range.

[@comicfan1324]

I noticed that Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing can catch the remote battering during my last play through of Arkham Knight. Something I think would’ve been really cool would be if you performed this Game of bat-catch with Ally, then in that save file, your ally would be able to use the remote control battering since they never gave it back

[@Fcabb]

This video was so interesting! Good job man

[@JoeyMulvaney]

I love when games have been out for years and STILL have secrets, glitches, etc that are being found.

[@huangjun_art]

Do you know about the hidden camera angle? When you're on a ledge, and you got a Glide Kick target, just rotate the L3 (or just rotate your camera) counter clockwise a couple of times until Batman does a subtle hand or head animation, then execute the glide kick. But instead of a Batman 3rd person view, the glide kick will be seen from the target's 3rd person view.

[@Seven-Seas-of-Baba-O-Riley]

There's also this weird grapnel boost roll thing that Batman Arkham Videos did in their first playthrough of Arkham Knight. I've never been able to figure how they did it.

[@scottybreuer]

Push forward on the joystick while holding the Run button.

[@GOF2013]

Let's hope this video doesn't get stolen... btw, here's which ones I knew and didn't know: 10. I knew that, bc I tried button mashing when Batman was somehow stuck on the gargoyle and couldn't move, so I accidentally did the drop takedown glitch 9. Had no idea about that one 8. Knew about that one 7. I knew about the Nora statues because I tried to quickfire a batarang at Mr Freeze the first time I played it, only to have it hit the Nora statue near him 6. Knew about it bc I looked up ways to get the batmobile across to the other island early to finish the Pyg side mission (but it broke my save) 5. Knew the second two bc I speedrun city 4. Didn't know this one 3. Didn't know this either 2. Knew this one 1. Didn't know this

[@GojosThedit]

It can't really get stolen anymore. Because if U didn't notice he has a mark of his channel name so the video can't get stolen. And also nmp has already apologised for this.

[@dyyynamicentry]

Cool to see freeze punches on the list. Since this has become a place to leave tips I’ll add they work on all brutes except shield brutes. They also work on regular shield and baton enemies. Special freeze blast works like you'd expect. Freeze everyone, punch everyone. The amount of punches it takes to KO a brute differs. There's standard differences like difficulty (enemies on NG+ have more health), strikes vs critical strikes (critical strikes do more damage), and whether or not you have special during combo (attacks with special do more damage). There's also armored vs non armored brutes and some brutes just have more/less HP. Most brutes will KO with 2-3 freeze punches when you use critical strikes with special.

[@danser_theplayer01]

Quick fire gel is useful as an endless smoke bomb in fights where you need to stun a group of dudes and move away separating the crowd into smaller pieces.

[@Maclues]

The irony of a lot of these hidden mechnaics is in retrospect they're rather intuitive. Like punching downed enemies by holding r2 and pressing attack builds off the knowledge that holding r2 and counter does ground takedowns. It makes sense r2 and attack does ground beatdowns.

[@Harry-fw7ge]

16:27 in return to arkham if you just press R2 triangle (or whatever the ground knockout combo is) it automatically makes you jump over to them and knock them out

[@octane9966]

Wow

[@DETHREAPER11]

It's always done that if you use it in freeflow

[@supahthebest1057]

Thank you so much for still doing Arkham Batman content

[@Arkhambatpro564]

So i was just trying out the freeze blast strategy on brutes and discovered something, using the freeze blast on shield enemies and then hitting them will actually knock them down, they won't block your attacks, this is so much better than doing aerial attacks every time!

[@justahumbledude]

I smile as I look upon all of the additional mechanics I never knew about, with everyone nerding out. I love i!

[@Simply_Mystiic]

you can also do a batclaw ultra stun and pull thugs back to the ground, used it a lot as i love beatdowns

[@ShagthePoker]

8:15 If you do break one of your saves in Knight, you can hold down a button (it should say which one on the bottom of the screen) at the save menu and backups of earlier saves in your run will popup that you can use instead.

[@arottingclown]

Another cool thing I found about charging thugs/militant is that instead of throwing a batarang you can hop over them and launch them into enemies. It's useful for breathing space if you're dealing with a crowd or just if you're look for some giggles because of how goofy it looks.

[@thefunnyweegman]

Punching enemies on the ground reminds me of the batman from youtube shorts that just beats the crap out of anyone for any technical crime

[@diegopansini3152]

9:39 I learned this one by myself by trying to work around the fact that Robin doesn’t have a grapple boost. (I glitched him into the open world). It works with Batgirl too, changed everything

[@BobMoloan]

Let’s hope Who’s Chaos doesn’t take this one to

[@Knerd-YT]

💀

[@GOF2013]

Or NeedlMouse

[@darkstock5103]

Also another thing to note, only militia brutes require two takedowns to knock out. However if you hit them enough you’ll notice that their chest armour sorta looks like TV static, and that means you only need one takedown to finish them off

[@DainRiffgin89]

Most of these I didn’t even know about, except the grapple ledge stop, which I actually figured out fairly quickly (and it immensely useful!). So fascinating how many different hidden mechanics that are in these games. Oh Rocksteady, what happened to you…?

[@lawlietgeekworld2218]

IMPORTANT DETAIL: ice granade mechanic only works on enemies who doesn't use shields. If they do, they will break your combo.

[@VishalTrivediB]

You are simply awesome! Thanks for all the research and sharing this.

[@tintilinic105]

One cool mechanic in Batman Arkham Knight is the pickup animation which you do after the final blow on an enemy. It basically grabs a body and slams an enemy in the floor. It can stun enemies around and it can easily be pulled off if you beaatdown an enemy and do the pickup command after final blow

[@okiedouk]

The cape stun takedown is one of the most badass moves ive seen

[@augyrobo2k3]

10:19 there is another one "kinda" when grappling and you want to go faster but don't want the boost just hold A or X and it will increase the speed of the grapple and once batman reaches the top if there is no bars or obstacles that needs to be climbed, he does a roll straight into a sprint

[@therealsilverking4802]

"The Drop Takedown" should be shortened to "The Dropdown". Kinda like how the "The Ground takedown" sometimes gets shortened to "Ground Pound".

[@Druski_1]

This is the first Arkham video I’ve seen in months where I actually learned stuff I didn’t know

[@diegoalejandrojustinianiro540]

8:50 Sorry but pasing to Play Station, which is the bomb botton? Well, wich are the bottons that you need to press to do that animation of the “busted” glide?

[@DOOMSlayer6476]

Getting to Founders Island early is cool and all but I tried to beat riddler early on a new plus and I glitched my save. Yes you are able to beat him super early in the game but once Batman puts him in his car, he's stuck in the car and there's no bat symbol on the ground in GCPD.

[@thepanthion]

I knew about the second mechanic. Actually, I thought it was obvious. My brother plays and he did it too. To be fair though, we have been playing and replaying the games for years.

[@TorturedMongoose2003]

I hate how long it takes you to release these videos but they're worth the wait

[@vector0504]

I discovered REC punching on accident when I was trying to cancel a shield guy’s attack with the REC, which I then followed up with a punch meant for another enemy but hit the shield dude instead. The shield attack animation glitch you mentioned has been happening ever since and I never figured it was because of REC punching.

[@huitzisalazar4666]

Ok I have 2. Idk if the first one is patched, but it was a thing up to 2018. 1. Infinite beatdown. This glitch allow you to extend the beatdown infinitely. It works in city, origins and knight. When you're using the beatdown (stun+attack buttons) and thugs keep atacking you, you can counter them, and continue with your beatdown thats something we all know, horewer if you keep to counter them, batman will slow down the beatdown, and if you dont counter them again (with the counter button) batman will keep on beating the thug infinetly and it will build your combo endless, until you counter again a thug with the counter button. How keep this beatdown without counter the enemies that atacks you? Easy, use your gadgets as an alternative to the normal counter (batarangs, batclaw, freeze grenades and REC gun) batarangs for normal and stun thugs, freeze and REC gun for armored, shield, brutes and batclaw for electric charged thugs (don' t use batslam batclaw + attack button, that will cancel your beatdown). Strategies: Choose an enemy with full life, use beatdown on him, and allow the enemies to attack you without finishing him off, until batman "slows down" the beatdown. After that exclusively counter the enemies using your gadgets until you boost your meter to the point of using the special move of the freeze grenade (the one that can freeze multiple enemies) if you manage to freeze all the remaining enemies you will only have to worry to repeat the freeze attack periodicaly, insted of constantly use your other gadgets to counter the thugs. With this strategy you can get world records. With that being said, Idk if this was patched, last time I tried was 2018 it worked just fine. 2. Rare Grundy counter. This a rare counter, when Grundy jumps at you and tries to grab batman you can counter him. Batman will jump above his head all across the area. It's useful because allows you to reposition without running across the area.

[@lucaventura4594]

One of the best Arkham channels out there ❤❤❤❤ love you so much

[@CatGuy969]

9:40 when you're swinging from gargoyle to gargoyle however, instead of pressing Q for cape stun, you need to press CTRL. This is useful to skip the entire goon fight in Arkham HQ when taking down the Arkham Knight, to fly directly under him and take him down!

[@tykeson5231]

The dive boom really cool😮 I didn’t even thinking of it before

[@васяпупкин-х2з7о]

also about number 5 i discovered this like a week before this video but how far you will fly until you go into dive bomb depends on grapnle boost with 2 you will just dive instantly with 5 you can go around the whole building

[@BATStealth326]

Here are 2 other hidden mechanics you may not be familiar with 1. Double quickshot with the disruptor - yes, you can actually fire 2 disruptor rounds within a second. Your character needs to be completely ready with his aim, then once they're ready shoot then zoom then shoot again. 2. Thugs with disrupted guns can be taken out simply by noticing an explosive gel - some of you guys who have been playing Arkham Knight for a while may have experienced this. First disrupt the armed thug with two rounds (obviously), then make sure that another thug is taken out by your explosive gel (that way they know that there are explosive gels somewhere in the area). Thugs tend to shoot an explosive gel from a distance when they know that there are explosive gels on the floor, wall etc. and since their gun is disrupted while trying to shoot, they will be taken out.

[@MataNui.]

If I remember right Arkham City tells you how to stop him from automatically climbing in the move list. So this isn't really hidden, more so people just didn't bother reading that given how simple grappling is.

[@comicfan1324]

Regardless of how much of this is intentional and how much is a glitch? This really shows you how varied Batman abilities are in the Arkham games to really let you decide how you want to be Batman. It also makes me even more depressed with repetitive suicide squad gameplay is

[@maleniabeardofmiquella]

I don't think it really counts as a hidden feature but the first time I played arkham knight I completely glitched the riddler informant system. Essentially, after apprehending the corrupt riddler cop and putting him in jail, I decided to see what happened when I tried to grab one of the other cops standing there. For whatever reason, when walking forward slowly and using the grab so that it just barely clips the cop that was talking to the riddler plant before I caught him, I was able to infinitely prompt the interaction of finding an informant and slowly get every single riddle location marked on my map. Not sure if this is documented or if it's even useful at all, but it was definitely an interesting experience my first time through. Now I use it so that I don't have to painstakingly pan through the video guide every time I play.

[@neph6098]

I'm so glad I found this, I'm trying my best to get all the Batman Arkham Series achievements, I just got the last one for Arkham City, all of this wll b very useful, thank you!

[@YourFavoriteMrJ]

You can also use the Ultra Stun secret mechanic during a beatdown to kinda flip that thug and slam them into the ground for a little more brutality. Kinda fits when you use the Batfleck skin. Lol.

[@charliewelch4301]

I know I'm late but I want to share what I found years ago and thought was common knowledge Only in Arhkham knight as batman with his line launcher. While gliding anywhere and you're between 2 wall within 100 meters from each other, press R3 (idk what R3 would be for mouse and keyboard players) and you'll be able to use the line launcher and be above enemies. Very useful for predator modes

[@Dorkley_Arts]

Cool vid, nice that people always notice the smallest details you can do with combat and stealth.👍

[@Dorkley_Arts]

I also remember doing the last hidden combat that you said when I first started playing, I actually didn’t know Batman can’t do that.

[@AllisterBergfield]

In case you didn't know, the Batman models he uses sometimes in his videos are Skyrim characters using armor from a Batsuit mod

[@quenty_]

Also Batman has secret slow, but powerful blow which (i think?) deals more damage, you need to crouch and hold the attack button and after attck immediatly release the crouch button, then Batman will do an uppercut, or a rising knee strike, so this strike can be combined with regular strikes

[@flamesthedummy]

Lets go another Knerd video, love this guy :D

[@DeterTaK]

If you do a beat down until the end, as soon as Batman starts the finisher you can just pickup the enemy and slam them onto the ground. In Arkham Knight.

[@rayvintankerson6818]

I love tht sum of these thing I already knew just from putting 1000hours into the game growing up. It’s always cool to still find new stuff tho fr

[@MonikaAsanoDokiDoki]

Your rec strike can be turned in to a beatdown on regular enemies in arkham knight by getting the strike in you can immediately pick them back to turn it in to a regular beatdown

[@Panchho]

If anyone doesn’t know theres also a mechanic or glitch if you will. There is an instant siltent takedown. This is most commonly used with the freeze blast as you have too quickfire the freeze blast then press the silent takedown button and hold LT/L2/Right mouse button this will automatically take the thug down. I use this repeatedly in all of my stealth videos so check them out if you want.

[@greyarcher2099]

I've seen a lot of suit mods over time, but I had never seen the Injustice suit mod... I must say it looks phenomenal

[@itsplug1681]

Fun fact, if you knock an enemy out then immediately spam the right bumper and circle/B, Batman will pick the enemy up by the legs, do a flip, and slam him into the ground

[@Estaticcz]

I've been playing these games so much why did I already know these 😭😭😭

[@thegamingcook785]

Grapple cancel was the only thing i found on my own since i thought about. If he's traveling so fast when grappling won't he glide faster if he drops mid air lol

[@haarisajmeri9811]

This is why the OG team members were genius

[@UndertaleFan-cx2mc]

Now that first one is the REAL drop attack I was looking for in the Arkham games

[@FunnyRedemption]

There's also one where right after you knock out an enemy, you can slam that enemy into the ground if you press the crouch button and cspe stun button at the same time.

[@Its_FluffMC]

8:41 i knew about this when i was just gliding one day and have been using it ever since so thx for sharing it so i dont have to

[@brunovsky_]

I've just discovered today a feature in Batman Arkham Knight on skin showcase mode Select a skin that you like and showcase it, then hold X on the Xbox or Square in PS, and it will turn everything black and white! And if you hold triangle the idle animations will be played at normal speed instead of slow mo Silly, but cool

[@Frazzey09]

I find boom gel and use full for making ground take downs ezer because it has a stun radeeus wich is use for stunning multiple thugs at once

[@jaquan323]

I discovered the 2nd one in my first play through. You can combo it with the granpel Pull and do the stun and then do the grab

[@nikopogo1]

You know a game series is amazing when you continue to learn new hidden mechanics even after hundreds of hours in all games. The Arkham games are just something else.

[@danser_theplayer01]

While you're gliding in the city and even in stelath with high ceilings, you can perch on a cable line if you press cape stun/climb down button (for me it's Q). Even though the game is hard coded to show me middle mouse click...

[@annecoolite]

That one broken glitch where it knockout thugs with cancelled strike thin could be possible when spamming the quickfire bataragn

[@arkham_hylian]

Fun fact: in Arkham Knight, using the Prototype Batmobile skin is the only one gives you a double evade without purchasing an upgrade

[@lanceny77]

I've been using the drop takedown in the riddlers campaigns for city and it's my new fave👍 great tips

[@excable1319]

You can also jump over charging thugs and knock them out instead of using a quick batarang

[@The_Batman0]

You can also grab a bat/pipe and take out the brutes that way. You don’t even have to stun them.

[@arkhamtony4469]

If you’re planning to make a part 3 , I have one I found, I was doing one of the stealth watch tower missions, when a Serpent drone spotted me , and it actually hit a militia soldier ( a mini gunner for that matter) and it took him down .

[@chandlersleziak6416]

Funny enough I knew about the ledge grapple mechanic already. I've been using that for years since Arkham City. Lol

[@dzbanek4971]

I've known 4 out of these 10 just by playing the game. Arkham Knight to be exact. For the first time... Btw, the game literally tells you, that you can target grounded thugs by holding crouch button.