Gotham Knights tips: 13 things to know before starting

Gotham Knights lets you take control of four members of the Bat-family — Batgirl, Red Hood, Robin, and Nightwing — to fight crime and solve Batman’s last case. But patrolling Gotham City’s grimy streets isn’t easy. This guide will make it easier to transition into a crime fighting lifestyle.

You can play any character that you like

Every member of Bat-family is unique. But the game is designed so that every mission — even the optional objectives — can be completed no matter which character you choose to play as. Sure, it’s fun to swap now and then and experience character-specific story beats, but from a gameplay perspective, you can choose whatever hero suits you best.

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Take it easy and you’ll be able to reduce your boredom

Gotham KnightsThis is all about playing the role of a DC superhero and fighting crime, while also experiencing Gotham’s unique story. There’s nothing wrong with turning the difficulty down to Easy. This can even make the game more entertaining, except if it is part of your power fantasies to be able to beat the same dumb bad guys fifty or sixty times.

Make your outfit unique

Even before you start crafting new gear and upgrading your loadout, you can seriously customize each hero’s armor. You can customize each hero’s armor starting at the workbench in the Belfry, your main base of operations, you can “transmog” the armor you’re wearing. That way, it keeps its stats but looks like any other set, even ones you haven’t unlocked yet. The color can be changed by changing the actual armor that you have, but each palette must first be unlocked.

Participate in the training

Gotham KnightsYou will find that he does an excellent job of teaching you how you can play. You must finish the task. Basic, CapabilitiesAnd AdvancedYou will get XP from training, and, even more important for completeists, you can remove them form your activities tracker. Training with other characters will help you understand their fighting styles and can be very helpful.

All characters are equal

You can level up in any character you choose, and the others will follow suit. It keeps your progress in sync. You should note that every character has an ability tree and a different pool of skills points. So it’s a good idea to check out the ability tree every time you swap characters to unlock some new powers.

After every patrol, craft new gear

Even if you don’t level up during a night of patrolling, you’ll almost certainly find new gear blueprints while you’re out beating up criminals. When you return to the Belfry, use the workbench to see if you can craft anything that’s better than your existing equipment.

Remove obsolete equipment

The game doesn’t do a great job communicating this to you, but there’s no reason at all to keep armor or weapons in your inventory after crafting something better, since you can transmog any suit to look like any other. Mark an item on your list. loadoutClick the menu and then click on the stick to insert. Craft materials.

Use Modifications to gears

Gotham Knights’ gear customization options don’t stop at armor and weapons. There’s a whole system of gear modsHidden in the Equipment menu. You can equip “mod chips” to items with open slots, and even fuse mods together to make new ones. You get a ton of them through the course of normal gameplay, so don’t be afraid to apply them willy-nilly.

Be on the lookout for chests

While on patrol, you should be a good habit to look for chests. Whether you’re in the middle of a story mission or simply scouring the streets for random crimes to thwart, there’s usually a chest full of materials nearby. It’s easy to overlook them, but it is possible to spot them by pressing or holding down the AR mode button (dpad) on a controller.

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Lucius Fox: Meet Lucius Fox wherever and whenever it is convenient

After a certain point in the story, you’ll receive a message from Lucius FoxBatman’s tech wizard, he is known as “Tech Wizard”. Begin your task by meeting up with him. He’ll help you unlock fast travel, and that’s just a start.

To unlock additional abilities, complete Knighthood challenges

From the start of the game, you’ll have an item in your activity tracker that refers to “Knighthood.” It’s a pretty basic set of tasks, but following through on it unlocks a unique set of abilities, including new traversal powers, for each hero.

Don’t fret over optional objectives

Pre-meditated crime and mission objectives often include combat objectives, such as defeating enemy using specific moves or perfect evades. Although these can net you more XP or other rewards than usual, they usually only mean more crafting material. Completing optional objectives can be fun and add extra challenge, but sometimes they’re just a pain in the neck, and the rewards aren’t worth stressing out too much over them.

Read your emails

Every character has a separate inbox you can use to check between patrols. These can be accessed on the rightmost tab. Computers. These contain many cool DC Universe Easter eggs and story nuggets.

Also, the Batcomputer’s database is a massive repository of information about the game, as well as Gotham City and the larger Batman universe in general. You can find out more information about each element in the game. Gotham Knights, chances are good that there’s a database entry for it. Every now and again, flip through to learn more.