WB Games Montréal has stayed mostly quiet on Gotham Knights since its messy October 2022 launch, only dropping a four-player co-op mode the following month alongside a few patches. But the studio is not done with the cooperative brawler, as it just revealed (and released) some more free Gotham Knights DLC.
The Gotham Knights Twitter account announced this update right as it went live. It is called The Kelvin Incident and is a 15-floor raid that unlocks during New Game Plus or when the player defeats all the villains in the side missions. It seems like it’s meant to be a tougher challenge, as enemies are “supercharged” and the mode contains a new higher tier of gear. There’s also a new suit transmog and four new Batcycle transmogs, but the team didn’t show or detail these cosmetics.
This DLC drop is sudden, but WB Games Montréal did hint that something was coming in a tweet from April 26 that had some villains from the game coupled with a vague caption.
Twitter user Batman Arkham Videos spotted this Gotham Knights DLC just before the official announcement, as the PC version of the game had been updated with six more achievements on the achievement-tracking site Exophase. These achievements are centered around Clayface, Harley Quinn, and Mr. Freeze, all of whom were in the base game.
The full patch notes aren’t filled with many more features and certainly don’t include the performance mode on consoles that players have been begging for. However, they do have button remapping and some changes to the text-to-speech functions.
New Content/Features
- The Kelvin Incident is now available! This is a new 15 floor raid available in new game plus or after unlocking the raid area and defeating all the side villain missions.
- Mythic gear.
- This is a new tier of stronger gear which only drops in the raid.
- New material will drop from raid as well.
- A new suit transmog can be unlocked
- 4 new batcycle transmogs can be unlocked
- New stronger enemies
- Mythic gear.
Accessiblity
- Controller Remapping
- Controller remapping implemented
- Gameplay Controls can be remapped
- Buttons that need to be held down can be changed to a toggle
- Text-to-Speech
- The game supports your device’s built-in screen reader for all text and certain menus
- Improved screen reader support in areas where it existed previously
- Text-to-Speech is available in English only
The PC version also got its own changes that differ from the above console notes.
General
- Implementing support for the Steam Deck keyboard and dynamic cloud saves
- Fixes to draw distance and shadow casting when using higher FOV values
- Texture streaming fix for objects in the Heroic Assault levels
- The XeSS has been upgraded to version 1.1
- Red Hood Mystical Leap should now behave properly while playing at higher FPS
- Fixes for some rare refresh rate problems
- Fix for kicking user in STEAM-EPIC crossplay matches
Stability & Optimization
- Crash fix for a rare scenario when the PS5 controller is set as a default audio device
- Fix for crash while using keyboard input for camera roll in Photo Mode
- Several smaller optimizations for the performance of both GPU & CPU
UI
- Fix to the Text Chat behavior when using PageUp/PageDown keys
- Several fixes to the Text To Speech feature in PC-specific menus
- Fix to Activity notifications conflicts with other on-screen actions
- Fix to Photo Mode being improperly displayed while starting a cinematic in co-op
- Analog sticks icons for Nintendo Switch and Direct Input controllers have been updated
