Gotham Knights adds new Raid and gear with latest update

More than half a year after release, Gotham Knights continues to receive content updates. The latest addition is the ‘Kelvin Incident‘ a 15-floor raid that promises great new gear. One of the most notable additions is a new transmog suit that players can equip. To get through the raid, players will have to battle much tougher enemies across the gauntlet. Initial playthroughs are putting the length of the gauntlet at around three hours for just the first five levels. Here’s everything new in the update.

Gotham Knights update 5 Patch Notes

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 that only drops in the raid.
    • New material will drop from the raid as well.
  • A new suit transmog can be unlocked
  • 4 new batcycle transmogs can be unlocked
  • New stronger enemies

Accessibility

• Control remapping
  • Gameplay Controls can be remapped
  • Supports mouse, keyboard, and gamepad
  • 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

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 for 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