Batman: Arkham Knight Gets New Update on Switch, But There's a Problem

A massive update for the Nintendo Switch port of Batman: Arkham Knight has just been dropped, but players have reported that the game still has many issues. Much like the original Windows release, the Switch port of Rocksteady Studios' beloved action-adventure experience suffers from numerous technical problems.

Part of the Batman: Arkham Trilogy bundle that came out last December, the Switch version of Batman: Arkham Knight has been labeled by the community as one of the worst ports ever released on the handheld due to a combination of poor performance and game-breaking bugs. Developer Turn Me Up Games, which worked on a number of decent and well received Switch ports in the past, has tried to address Batman: Arkham Knight's issues with updates, but even the latest patch has seemingly done nothing to fix some of the game's most severe problems.

The changelog forBatman: Arkham Knight's newest 1.0.3 update on the Switch has yet to be published, but many said on Reddit that the game still ran poorly and suffered from stutters, as well as frame drops, even after the 16 GB patch had been applied. Some players noted that the latest update to Batman: Arkham Knight's Switch version at least improved the game's graphics. The 2015 PC release of Batman: Arkham Knight faced similar problems as the handheld port, and the Switch-exclusive Batman: Arkham Trilogy was always expected to run into issues given the system's dated hardware.

Aside from exhibiting unstable performance, Batman: Arkham Knight's Switch version supposedly still encounters freezes and crashes during some parts of the game. As a result of these issues, a number of achievements, specifically those that are connected to major antagonist The Riddler, are impossible to obtain, some players pointed out online. Batman: Arkham Knight features a lot of hard-to-unlock achievements, among them being Riddle Me That, a Riddler-related achievement that only less than 9% of players on Steam have been able to obtain.

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