Batman Arkham Knight PC issues were known for ‘months’, report says

Following a disastrous launch, the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight is completely M.I.A., now that Warner Bros. has pulled the port from both digital and retail outlets. This led to just ten out of roughly one hundred QA testers being assigned to report on the PC version.

If you are player Arkham Knight on PC and having issues with performance, you can try these optimization tricks to get the most out of your graphics card. Rocksteady focused exclusively on the console versions of Arkham Knight, and only became involved in the PC release after it went off the rails. According to the tester, the game had “been like this for months” and “all the problems we see now were the exact same, unchanged, nearly a year ago.”

Two sources, requesting anonymity, told Kotaku that problems with the PC version had been raised months prior, and that Warner Bros. decided to ship the game anyway – not in an effort to screw over customers, but because they believed the game was good enough. According to the article, one source explained to them that the eighth-gen consoles were the priority because they were harder to optimize for than the studios anticipated. The entire city it seems is always there and always alive with things like auto chases and thugs attacking people happening all over the place all the time. Interactive Entertainment, knew these bugs were present in the PC version of the game “for months” before the game was to be released.

To make matters worse, for some unknown reason QA testers were specifically looking for PC bugs at 720p resolutions, despite the majority of PC gamers playing at 1080p or greater. They will, however, get furious if the game they bought at full price doesn’t work as promised. If they had pushed it back any further the game could have gotten lost in the fall game release madness.

What is obvious is that, apparently, no one at Warner Bros. or Rocksteady actually started the game’s PC version on a regular computer. Warner Bros naturally followed up with a public apology and a promise to make things right, but some recent reports reveal the publisher may not be as innocent as it portrays itself.

There’s a lot going on in Arkham Knight, and nearly all of it works on a level of mastery that shows just how skilled the developers at Rocksteady are.