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Earlier this month Batman Arkham Knight launched on the PC and just one day later, was taken off of store shelves due to the issues and massive backlash the game faced for having a sub-par PC port.
Now Warner Bros, the small team at Iron Galaxy and a few of Rocksteady's own engineers are taking the PC version back to the drawing board and making sure it actually meets standards before going back up on sale. Unfortunately, all of that takes time, so we won't be seeing the game back up on Steam until the Fall, and that's at the earliest, it is possible that the game may take even longer to fix.
Now not everyone claims to have had such an awful experience with the game on the PC (although I think a few of them are lying to themselves), but due to the amount of attention the re-release of the PC version needs, all DLC has been delayed for the platform.
In the announcement post from Warner Bros, the publisher took the time to once again, apologize for the mess it has created: “Again, we would like to apologize to you, the fans, and let you know that we are taking full responsibility for releasing a product that did not meet our quality standards, which is why we suspended sales of the game as soon as we understood the issues.”
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KitGuru Says: If you are one of the few people who have been able to play Arkham Knight on the PC, then you are going to have to wait for the DLC. For those of you that have the game sitting in your Steam library waiting for updates, you likely won't be playing the game in a satisfactory state for another couple of months.
Out of interest.. what happens to all the codes Nvidia are giving away free for Arkham Knight with their new GPUs?
You can activate the game. You just can’t buy it on steam.
Turn off the interactive smoke and physx paper thing. I haven’t had an FPS drop below 45 fps since doing that (normally sticks at 60 which is where I set the limit). Haven’t had a single crash in that time either. Might just be lucky but it’s worth a shot?
Autumn then?
that is not the only problem you see. We don’t have any effect the console have like raining on batman suit and the batcar. Then there are bug (i have already found 6 of them) and performance dips in various areas.
I think they sorted the rain thing in the first patch that came out last weekend. But yeah, there are still things missing, but nothing that would make the game less enjoyable (imo)
I can get it to run at 50-60 fps without any major dips with all the gameworks off except enhanced rain. This is on a GTX 780 that is factory overclocked. I have to run it in 1080p though, if you run it in 1440p there is a memory leak that causes the pc to blue screen (unless you have a beastly video card and system memory to spare.)
I was able to play it and enjoy it, but it looks nowhere near as good as it should. I’m glad I was able to experience it, but I’m sad that the experience was not as good as it could have been.
PR nightmare. How can a product pass quality control, but when it hits the market, it turns out that it’s so broken that you have to spend another six months to fix it?
Would you go back and play at it’s re-release?
damn they have really fucked it up
I’m sure I will, maybe not right away. I did finish the game 100% and get the knightfall protocol ending, so I don’t think I would want to do all of that again, but I’ll play through the story a second time.
“(although I think a few of them are lying to themselves)”
Perhaps you should leave comments like that aside; you’re calling your readers liars.
It is amazing the amount of people that refuse to believe that others have an experience that differs from their own. I think it is due to the fact that they have been brought up to blink in unison.