So for the last week or so I've been playing/finishing Batman Arkham Knight, a year since release and its safe to say that most technical problems have been sorted out and the game is now in a playable state. I put about 8 hours into it immediately following release and the problems just wore me out. I gave up and forgot about it. I'm at 37 hours total playtime now, so safe to say they've done something right.
I finished the main story last night and still have more to do which I'm actually motivated to do so as I'm enjoying catching Gotham's Most Wanted, despite some flaws to the execution as well as getting to the real conclusion of the story. Without spoiling, basically Gotham is under siege and the minor villains (at least in respect to the core story) all are doing something and have to be caught, so each one has a set of side missions to complete in order to catch them. The flaws are that the missions are all the same style in the lead up. IE Penguin is running guns and each side mission in the lead up to catch him has B-Man tail a van to a weapons cache, beat up a bunch of dudes and then blow up the guns. Its basically the same for every side mission character in that the missions before the conclusion of that arc is the same with a change in difficulty to some or no change at all in that respect.
Technologically and with this game most importantly given its beginning has been pretty solid for me. I unlocked the FPS early on in this playthrough (its locked to 30 FPS default, to change it requires a quick one line .ini edit) and have been floating at 40-60 FPS throughout the entire game (W10, 970, FX-8350, 12 GB RAM, 1080p). I get drops where I would pre-fix (gliding mostly) but they're not at all game breaking or impeding play like before since they dont go below 40. Batmobile play which is a HUGE component of this game was executed great, and fortunately the fixes allow that to be seen finally. It only took them 9 months or something to get to this point, but the game is on par with Asylum/City in terms of gameplay and its nice to enjoy it on PC now. I have everything on ultra including the NVidia Gameworks crap and have not changed one setting since I began the playthrough. I did experience some texture pop in which was a
huge problem with the initial release, but it was rare and easily overlooked.
I picked up the season pass last week for $6 on the grey market so Im going to play some of the story DLC as well.
At any rate, if you've been waiting to play it, its worth the time going forward and quite enjoyable.