Batman: Arkham Knight Guide AR Challenges Predator Challenges
[12] Terminal Velocity
Analyze the enemy threat, then plan your attacks to stay ahead of these well-equipped armed enemies at Grand Avenue Station. Complete all three mission objectives to earn 3 stars.
| Unlock Requirements | After Chapter 5 progress, subdue a Brute or Minigunner with an Environment Takedown. |
| Objective 1 | Objective 2 | Objective 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Use a Remote Hacking Device Takedown point to K.O. a militia thug | Perform a Fear Takedown through a weak wooden wall | Take out the militia Minigunner with an Environment Takedown |
Grand Avenue Station is a complex multi-tiered structure. The enclosed Riverside Lounge is situated alongside an outdoor triple-deck. A sentry gun is already set up outside the lounge. It can be blinded with the RHD. Eight sentries patrol the area, including a Minigunner and a guard with a portable Detective Mode scanner. There are many vantage points above the structure, which are safe places to observe and traverse the area as long as you don’t attract attention.
The varied terrain here allows for many different approaches.
It’s possible (and probably wisest) to just avoid the sentry gun’s scanning area rather than attempting to sneak up behind it to physically disable it.
If you do want to attract attention, you can hang a patrolling foe from one of these perches with an Inverted Takedown. This leaves him dangling by his feet and screaming, which naturally attracts the attention of several other guards. This is not automatically negative—string up a distraction with an Inverted Takedown, then immediately Grapple across several other perches to another part of the area. Half the enemy force will leave their normal routes to congregate around their hanging comrade, which gives you an opportunity to pursue targets or set traps elsewhere. Act quickly and you can take out the Minigunner across the stage, or lure the two guards by the Portable Generator here, which can be overloaded into an explosion by the Remote Hacking Device. The Voice Synthesizer, once acquired, makes it much easier to coax patrols into going wherever you want them to.
The Detective Mode monitor usually stays inside the Riverside Lounge, and is a prime candidate for elimination by Fear Takedown through weak wall.
As you remain in Detective Mode during this challenge, a bar slowly fills up in the middle of the screen, indicating the scanner’s progress in pinning down Batman’s location. You’ll also hear the audio comms of the guard with his accomplices as he scans. To thwart the scanning attempts, don’t leave Detective Mode on needlessly. It’s fine to activate Detective Mode to scan quickly for enemies or environment features, but turn it back off after acquiring intel. This way, this monitor will never detect Batman.
To take out half their force at once, hang one adversary, relocate to avoid being spotted during their initial alert panic, and then Grapple back above and drop down with a Fear Multi-Takedown.