00:18ARKHAM INSIDER
00:32And once again we are couchside and we're going to be taking a good close look at the upcoming DLC,
00:38Catwoman's Revenge.
00:39I'm joined by Andy Stewart, the lead environment artist, Craig Owens, the senior script writer, and we're going to be
00:44diving deep.
00:44Andy, why don't you drive and Craig can give us the lowdown. What's the objective here, mate?
00:49Right now, Catwoman is sneaking around a toy shop trying to grab key cards off guards.
00:55And she's doing that because this is in the immediate aftermath of Arkham Knight.
00:59Like the next day.
01:01Well, the next night.
01:01The next night.
01:02And Catwoman, after spending the entire game as Riddler's Pawn, basically, is out for revenge.
01:09So she's found the location of Riddler's Robot Factory, where all those robots came from in the main game.
01:15One down.
01:15And she's going to rob him blind and destroy the place while he rots in a GCPD jail cell.
01:21Sweet! Because it's like a toy shop environment, isn't it? So that's like a front for the robot manufacturing factory
01:28out the back.
01:29Yeah. Down below. Down below.
01:31So, I mean, it's been a lot of fun to write.
01:35It's great to give her a story that is kind of motivated by her desire for revenge and a story
01:40that I think just captures something about her character, that cat burglar nature.
01:44That's two.
01:44I've got to say, Max Fanning and the whole animation team have done an awesome job with Catwoman's animations yet
01:49again.
01:50So, Andy, an environment like this, it's not the rainy, gritty, smoky rooftops of Gotham.
01:56It's a very playful environment.
01:58I mean, that must have been a hell of a change for you and your team building out an environment
02:02like this.
02:03It was nice to make something that's slightly different and a bit more colourful and a bit more vibrant and
02:07something a bit different that, you know, Batman wouldn't necessarily fit in so well.
02:10So, it's very sort of built around Catwoman and the sort of suitability of Catwoman.
02:15It's a bit sort of spookier, it's a bit grittier and it's all about kind of her navigation abilities.
02:20But it's sudden death. I mean, you have already been sprung and this adds some serious tension to the environment,
02:27right?
02:27It was all about trying to create a slightly creepy vibe.
02:30If you have a look around all the toys, a lot of them have got a slightly kind of creepy
02:33doll, scary clown kind of feel to them.
02:36But again, we also want to play around with some of the playfulness, so it feels, you know, light and
02:40airy, but there's a slightly sinister undertone to it.
02:43And it sort of ties in quite well with the kind of front.
02:46We're stealing these key cards, we're infiltrating this environment.
02:49Please tell me we can then clear house and take these guys down.
02:52Yeah, after a Catwoman gets the cards and hacks the security, she takes it upon herself to ensure that there's
02:59no one behind her as she breaks into the factory.
03:01So, you take out all that frustration you worked up sneaking around out on the thugs afterwards.
03:07Alright. Well, Andy, if you grab the third and final card, we can then hack into that system, shut this
03:13place down and then move on with the mission.
03:15Bam! There it is!
03:16Oh, sweet work!
03:17Easy.
03:18Guys, you have earned your Sorcerer of Milk today. Andy, Craig, thank you so much for your time.
03:22Let's not pussyfoot around. Catwoman, we out of here. That was Catwoman DLC, Catwoman's Revenge.
03:32November is a mega month for Season Pass holders.
03:34In the next update, you'll get to play Robin's Arkham episode, Flip a Coin, which sees him picking up the
03:40pieces after his mentor's disappearance and taking on Two-Face.
03:43We're updating our Arkham episodes to add new challenge modes, so you can test yourself in custom-built environments.
03:50We've also got two new skins for the Batman Arkham Knight Batmobile, so you can kick the car out with
03:55sweet decals inspired by Robin and Riddler.
04:00Welcome back to the world's most comfortable carriage.
04:02We have got something super exclusive and super awesome to show you right now.
04:07I am joined once again by Mark Kevin.
04:09Hi, guys.
04:09Thanks, Mark.
04:10And also Pete Loveridge, our senior QA.
04:13Pete, let's kick this right off.
04:15We are going to show you the exclusive 2016 movie Batmobile right now on the track Proving Ground.
04:23Mark, how did it feel now that we're able to finally show that we've been working with the 2016 movie
04:27Batmobile?
04:28What was your reaction when you realised we were going to get the chance to work with this?
04:30Oh, we went crazy.
04:31We were just so excited to see this car.
04:33We were all gathering around that one screen when we first got, you know, told we were going to work
04:37on it.
04:38And, you know, it's just such a privilege to get the opportunity to work on such a trusted property.
04:42It was kind of a long time ago that we received the models for this, well before any of the
04:47artwork or trailers came out.
04:48So I think every fanboy in the studio went wild.
04:51Let's talk a little bit about the track then, Mark.
04:53What's the background to Proving Ground?
04:54Well, we were thinking about where Bruce Wayne create these cars.
04:58He needs a secret base to build these, really.
05:00And it needs to be big, right?
05:02Oh, it needs to be huge.
05:03So we thought, you know, we're somewhere where people wouldn't come, you know, to stay out.
05:06So we thought, you know, what better than a disused nuclear cooling tower?
05:10Oh, wow.
05:10So he's built this track here just to put the car through its paces.
05:14He's got Lucius monitoring every move he does.
05:16We've got a figure eight track here.
05:18You can really drift the car.
05:20You can see if you can hold that around the entire length of the circuit.
05:23He's got, you know, ramps and jumps and the floor can move up and down and stuff.
05:27So it's adaptable space for him to just basically go for it with all his new gadgets.
05:32So, Pete, will you pass the control across to Mark?
05:34And we can talk a little bit about how the 2016 Batmobile controls.
05:38Well, it's got a really low profile.
05:40It's got the open wheelbase.
05:41It feels really, really good to drive.
05:43It's, as I say, it's low to the ground.
05:44So the drifting feels really solid.
05:45It's just, yeah, it's a real, real nice car to drive.
05:48And, Mark, what are you doing now?
05:49I'm just having to explore, you know, seeing what's around.
05:51You're hitting the loop-the-loop.
05:53Pete, what's going on?
05:54So it's dotted around the outside of the tracks.
05:56There's various different obstacles that are in there.
05:58So you've got little jumps, you've got a loop-the-loop, you've got some wall riding sections.
06:02It doesn't actually have any effect on the challenge.
06:05At this point, Mark's failed.
06:06So he's totally failed it.
06:08Pete, so you can drive this around Gotham as well?
06:10Yep.
06:10All of the DLC Batmobiles are available actually inside the game, which is a certain point.
06:15When you get to that point in the game, you can drive them around the city.
06:17You can take part in certain race challenges and things like that.
06:20All of the Batmobiles are integrated.
06:21So the Batmobile is awesome, but it is only half of the story with the 2016 movie pack.
06:35And here is the skin.
06:38This is one of the closest looks that anyone is going to get at the 2016 movie Batsuit before
06:43the film comes out next year.
06:45But not only that, we're going to use it in gameplay right now.
06:48So Gaz, this is Divine Intervention, New Invisible Predator map for the November challenge pack.
06:54You designed this for Azrael, right?
06:55But thanks to the magic of multiple character selection, we can play it in the 2016 movie
06:59Batsuit.
07:00Yeah, what better way to show it off?
07:02So tell us a little bit about the setting, Mark.
07:04So this is the Penguin cache from the main game.
07:06We've got the militia in here now, so they've taken over it.
07:09They've ramped up, you know, we've got all the different Thug types.
07:11And we've made the challenge as hard as we can.
07:14Awesome.
07:14Pete, let's see a fear multi-takedown to wrap this up.
07:18Oh, there's the swing kick!
07:20We do not want to show any more spoilers.
07:22Because we want to leave you wanting more here on Arkham Insider.
07:28That's it for another royal flush of a show.
07:30But when you've got to go, you've got to go.
07:32And I've got to go.
07:34Until next time, be the Batman.
07:46We'll be right back.
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