It unlocks your ultimate ability – for Batgirl, that's the drone – and it unlocks the Knighthood ability tree where you can start to add additional, very powerful mechanics to your hero that are otherwise not available to you until that point in the story." So if you're Batgirl, suddenly you can glide. "It unlocks the hero traversal for that hero. "Unlocking the Knighthood tree gives you a couple of things," says Ellenor. It will begin to unlock after a specific point in the story, but every character will have to complete a set of unique challenges to begin earning the abilities inside. Perhaps the most interesting of all the ability options, Knighthood is available for every character, and represents a moment of self-actualization where your hero has worked out how they can become their own Dark Knight, rather than just a new Batman. You may have noticed that we talked about four skill trees earlier, and there is one more unique set of options – Knighthood. He can be an intimidating character, so it's about leveraging parts of his personality and embodying them as abilities that allow him to be more frightening and to deal more damage against certain types of enemies that he is truly angry inside about." "The Vengeance tree is essentially reflecting Red Hood's rage in different ways. So if you're into that style of play, it's a great place to invest early, to get the most out of Red Hood. And that's a really brutal hand to hand focused skill tree. "The Brawler skill tree is about melee combat, but more importantly, it's about powering up the fact that Red Hood is our largest character and he's got the best grab and throw mechanics in Gotham Knights. That skill tree focuses mostly on damage per second and rewards for shooting and rewards for taking the time to use precisioning. "It's really about dealing more damage at range. "So the Marksman tree is self-explanatory," says game director Geoff Ellenor. We got a more in-depth look at the trees for the final hero, Red Hood (which you can see in the slideshow above) – Marksman, Brawler, and Vengeance. Robin can build on his preternatural talents for stealth, but could equally work on tech that helps provide decoys, or enhance elemental effects. Nightwing can build on his acrobatics, but can also offer massive buffs for co-op play. The skill trees themselves are made up of a mix of ability or stat-changing upgrades – but the paths they can take you down are purposely varied, allowing you to build different versions of the same hero.īatgirl can specialise in 1-on-1 melee combat, but she can also focus on hacking abilities, or survivability. You can decide what you want to have access to." "So then what happens is, if you decide to switch characters, basically, you now have a surplus of ability points that you can go into the menu and spend. I want to play that character for a long time.' That said, there's three other heroes that you may decide at some point, it would be interesting for you to try, and that you want to be able to jump into playing without feeling like you're being penalized or need to go back and redo a whole bunch of work in order to get them advanced.
I'm invested in their progression and in their evolution. "So, obviously," assures Redding, "we're a multi protagonist game and we expect that a lot of players are going to identify, fairly quickly that, 'Okay, I like this hero. Of course, with four heroes, you’ll likely want to experiment, and the game accounts for that, without feeling like you’re leaving anyone behind while not playing with them. You're spending points, you're deciding where you want to spend them." And there's dependencies and prerequisites like you would normally see in an action-RPG, but that is the gating mechanism for those abilities. "You get XP, you level up, you get some ability points. "The main abilities that you see on the ability tree are abilities that you unlock after you've earned ability points, and that's something that's a natural functional leveling up in this standard RPG way," Redding explains.
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