Batman: Arkham City - The Joker's Carnival [as Batman] - Combat Challenge 

"Your momma won't recognise you when I'm done." [5 min later] "..Suspect found unconscious with multiple contusions and bone fractures, 7 broken ribs, dislocated shoulder, dislocated jaw, and cranial trauma. He must have really pissed the Bat off."

This map is pure frustration

The one thing that bothers me about these challenge maps, and indeed the Arkham series combat in general, is that even after the thugs see you pound dozens of their friends and even giants three times their size, they still feel confident enough in their chances to smack talk you. You'd think after a while they'd lose their cool.

Doing this challenge has taught me that Batman LOVES to randomly punch the fucking air and that enemy’s SOMWHOW hit you despite the fact they very clearly punched AIR

Okay so this dude is a beast. Its going to take me forever to get this achievement.

Teach me your ways, Master Batman Arkham Videos

If anyone is struggling with this challenge: Level 1 (normal goons): Strike criticals mostly, just don't forget to counter from time to time. Level 2 (weapons drop): Keep up the criticals, wait for someone to pick up the stun stick and use the Special Combo Disarm and Destroy (Y + X). Use the Special Combo Takedown (Y + B) on the armored thug as soon as possible unless he's armed with a knife, in which case you take him out with the Blade Dodge Takedown. Level 3 (assassins): Take them out with two critical strikes, two counters, or a Blade Dodge Takedown. Level 4 (guns): Wait for a goon to open the weapons crate and use Disarm and Destroy (Y + X) on him when he picks a gun up. If you're quick enough to hit three critical strikes in time, Disarm and Destroy the shield. Level 5 (Mr. Sickle): This is a pretty easy way to cheese him. With a Special Combo available, roll (A, A) on his direction and hit him ONCE so Batman locks onto him and not the upcoming Titan or any other enemy, and THEN mash X. When you see someone attacking you (or Mr. Sickle himself), use the Special Combo Bat Swarm (X + A) and repeat. Again, hit him once and then start mashing X, that's just how Free Flow works. Level 6 (Titan): Gain a good position, evade (A, A + directional) if necessary, and use the Bat Swarm next to the Titan. Then, immediately ultra stun him and attack him continuosly, counterig anyone you see coming (or evade if it's a shield guy). Once you can perform a Special Combo, use the Bat Swarm to gain the last few hits to ride on the Titan. Hit a few thugs and press B for Titan Showckwave, and then immediately A for a Titan Charge. Perform a second Charge as soon as the Titan hits a wall and repeat two more times to knock him out. You will automatically get the three badges (1.000.000 points) upon completing Level 6 I hope this helps.

Okay, so I literally finished the challenges for City today, and I have definitely noticed some things. One, Batman might seem like he would have the easiest time, due to having way more moves than the other three, but I found that his took me the second longest. Catwoman being the only other one that took longer. Two, no matter what character it is, make use of your instant takedowns on the tougher enemies. Enemies like Taser, Shield, Knives, Armored, Armed, or Ninja should be taken down IMMEDIATELY, to avoid anything messing up your combo. Three, when the one armed lieutenant comes out, attack him as soon as possible. If while you're attacking him, an enemy tries to hit you, do NOT counter. The animation will take too long and the lieutenant will most likely end your run before you even get the animation done. This includes Blade Takedowns. The only enemy you should attack during the lieutenant phase is him and any goon that grabs a gun. If you get shot, it clears the ladder and you might as well start over. If you do this correctly, you should knock out the lieutenant right as the TITAN begins his charge, thus causing him to stop right in front of you. Four, as soon as the lieutenaut is down, it's TITAN time. Stun him once but DON"T USE THE SUPER STUNNER RIGHT AWAY. Just once and then counter at the people trying to swing at you(don't worry, there will DEFINITELY be someone attacking you at this time). Repeat this until you think you have a safe distance between you and any punching goons. If you have to, use the Square and X combo move. That'll stun anyone nearby and it should give you plenty of time to do the Super Stunner. At that point, SPAM THE TITAN WAVE. It stuns everyone in your radius and most enemies are taken out by just a few of these. When he kicks you off, repeat this process until he's done. If you haven't gotten hit ONCE by this point, congratulations. You just got 3 medals on the hardest Combat map in the DLC/Return to Arkham bundle. Five, once you beat this with Batman and Catwoman, Robin and Nightwing become superbly easy. In fact, when I got to Nightwing, I was nervous at first, but ended up getting ALL 3 MEDALS FIRST TRY. It was probably luck, but I don't care. I still did it. Six, forget your gadgets. No, really. All they do is build your variation bonus. In this challenge, the amount of points you get for them is not worth the risk of potentially dropping the current combo. Seven(Holy shite this is a lot), despite what you might think. Despite what it genuinely feels like sometimes, YOU DO NOT NEED TO BEAT THIS WITH A PERFECT COMBO. The ladder isn't determined by a single combo. A combo of 20 is worth the same as two 10 hit combos on the ladder. If you mess up your combo, but your ladder is still full, DO NOT RESTART. Keep going. You still can get the ladder bonus. I hope this essay helps some of you guys out in your quest. Happy fighting!

One of my all-time favorite games, but I don’t think I’ve ever hated ANYTHING more than this ‘challenge’

well I finally did it.. 335x nonstop and not a single hit! damn I feel great lol

This is the only challenge map that I still haven't completed 3/3, it's super frustrating! I wish I was a master like you Batman Arkham Videos.

I lost my hair while i playing this map

To be honest, this is one challenge map that I'll probably never get 3 medals on. Nice work.

People should get some real reward for completing this challenge, like really free DLC or the whole fuken free game ffs.

That my friend was the mona lisa of batman fighting, you could analyze every part of that fight and I'd know exactly what you were doing and why, but just bloody brilliant man, just bloody brilliant.

U are vengence! U are the knight! U are the COMBO MASTER!

I love playing this challenge map as batman. He's the only one of the lot who can do a disarm and destroy while the others can't, even though the move is technically one of the most useful ones in combat.

This is what happens if Batman plays a videogame...

ARGH!!! OMFG I'm so pissed!! I got to exactly x218, the only time I got close in at least 30 attempts, and Batman punched air instead of the stunned Titan in the last set of attacks to take it out. I fucking HATE Joker's Carnival and it's ridiculous system: get a super huge 1-in-a-million combo and automatically get enough points to win! But you have only exactly enough time to possibly do that, and if your combo breaks for any reason at any time it was all a huge waste of time! Fun! This is the ONLY challenge map I haven't finished for Batman out of ALL Arkham games; almost 2 hours into one fucking map, it looks like it ain't happening.

"You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred."

In the face of fear your average man will lose his ability to think rationally. Men with overwhelming power instinctively strike fear into the hearts of others he is violence personified it's what he lives and breathes simply put he is the very definition of violence.

Thank you sir or mam for putting up these videos! I found them extremely helpful. I just Got the bat and the cat through this very difficult challenge. I followed some of your methods and added few of my own, I also thank you for putting up the freight train videos as well, for a long time i couldn't get all three achievements.They were challenging. You are a legend, and I thank you.

Years later and it's only more emphasized how broken the games controls are when demanding you get this high a score. Everything is fine until random thugs cha-cha slide across the room. Or you try to use a combo attack but it auto locks to knife dodging, AND uses up your combo attack. Or trying to party an enemy but the game deciding you're too far away, so you drop combo. 10/10 bullshit in a 10/10 game.

You are Batman The legend of Batman Arkham series

I'll be honest: I just watch this to hear Joker talk.

Made it! Took a week of practice but made the mark with all four characters! Feels pretty good to make it!

3:11 Ip Man

X287. ...What the hell are you?!

WHY IS IT SO FKING HARD TO COUNTER EVERY MOVE

Holy freakin' crap that was awesome!! I don't know if I could ever match this!!

I suck at this challenge. So much thinking to do

From the bottom of my heart, I despise the people responsible for these types of „challenges“ Games are meant to be fun not tedious

Build your combo up to eight, free flow batterang then special combo multi-takedown. Repeat. You’ll get to level five in about thirty seconds not three minutes.

After playing this game from the 360 to return to Arkham, I decided to replay this game but not for the story but for the challenges to see if I could actually finish them all like I did with Arkham Asylum. Now, this is the one challenge maps which I struggle with and I am thinking of coming back to this one and just do a different challenge maps as a different character. At first I said wow, shit, this challenge is fun. But after a while I got hit outta nowhere and I realized the longer you play it, the harder it gets just like the challenge map in Arkham Asylum.

This fooking mission is IMPOSIBLE..........LOL

"Hey Bats, go easy on him, hmmm? For me...? Oh hell, why do I care? Do your worst! HA HA HA HA" -Joker-

the bonus just refers to the increased reflex time you get at 12 hits without using a special combo. so basically just go around punching dudes all over the map without hitting one of the special moves, that way your score can get really high

my personal crowning achievement in this game will always be having gotten 3 medals somehow with the one hand tied modifier

When you have a high af combo , it's always worth to perform Blade Dodge Takedown because it gives you x100 points. His max combo being 288 (last hit being that last one when the screen blacked out , assuming it's a critical strike , which it is , he gets x2 more from x286.) 288x100= 28800 points ;)

Ok I suck

Easiest way to do this is at the top level you get 75 seconds and 500k points, but if you don't manually bank it And keep taking out guys, it will reach its "max" and bank automatically. When it banks automatically you get 1 million points and 150 seconds, I think. You Just have to be perfect until then.

I see you're going for 12x variation combo and 5x gadget combo. The combined bonus from those scores is only 9,000, which is insignificant compared to the 1,000,000 points earned by maxing out your score gauge. Since the level increases by number of blows dealt, not by points scored, you're better off spending your time doing quick strikes rather than spending time at the start using every move. If you stick to this method, you'll max out the gauge without running out of time like you did.

I like how detailed this map is with mr sickle and even the joker stepping into the fight. I should really play the arkham series again.

They should have given joker a gun for this fight, maybe some of his moves from the asylum challenge maps, that would have made him stand out in the crowd of goons, and made him a unique threat

*Finally, a video where I outperform this madman.* (Max level bonus twice, got hit after the first one, score 1.3M)

I was up all night cause this was killing me to beat and I finally did it

2:05 I love this part... YOUR MOMMY WON'T RECOGNIZE YOU WHEN I'M DONE!

Batman must've been eating punks for breakfast while playing this...

"Did that surprise anyone? We're at Level One."

This is... I don't know anymore, been restarting this challenge for last few days... some knife always gets me or i break the combo myself. Too much frustration on shit like this...

Variety isn't important in this map. It just makes it complicated and in general just a lot harder. Keep it simple and attack swiftly, you want to make sure you are landing criticals left and right by tapping the strike button only once for each enemy. When you get your free flow, you can counter less as batman moves faster. Aside from the criticals and the free flow, there will always be a time where you'll have to break it. You want to use a takedown on the armored ones to get rid of them quick, and dismantle knives, stun batons, and guns in order to make the game easier and have a lesser chance of the thugs being able to land a hit. And you want to try not to lose your combo. When you get into the flow and start noticing patterns in the AI of this game, kicking their ass is as easy as breathing. I scored 8,000,000 something with this tactic 😁🤧

“no one is perfect” this guy aka batman:

I wonder how many hours, no, years, has this great player been recording the Iceberg Hall challenge?

For DLC they should've done each villain with their own challenge map. If not every villain, the lesser villains without a main story part in BAC(scarecrow, killer croc, etc) Especially "Ivy's Lair" where she has some people/heroes under her control. And a "Harley Quinn's Revenge Challenge" to commemorate her newfound villain independency+status. She would be so cool to fight. It would SELL! Right?!

Essa missão é muito foda, me estressou um bocado,agora do me falta fazer com a mulher gato,o asa noturna e o Robin.kkkkk.

He won? him?! I'm very disappointed boys.

I've learned a lot from u. Dude I scored 3,719,785(+ ×600 combo)

I like how the flawless freeflow bonus is still only 1000 lol

he best and easiest way to get a high score on this is to get the freeflow bonus and just keep puching everything with critical strikes. Use combo takedowns on the armoured guys and destroy riot shields and stun batons. I got 2.8 million within the first hour of owning this DLC using this method its way easier and way more reliable than going for the variation bonus

its so funny and validating that this entire comments section is just like 'this challenge actively took years off my lifespan'💀💀💀

Just got back to playing return to arkham and I'm now trying this map. You got really lucky on two of those ultra stuns on the titan where someone almost hit you

Finally I got it. His strategy worked fine for me ( after a month of misery trying it)

Awesome video man fair play was class! even watching it wants to me to play it now

Oh my god. I got more points in the most frustrating and difficult Arkham City challenge than this guy (in this particular video). I can't belive it and still don't know how i did it. The game somehow automatically banked my level progress at the end of the timer and granted me 1,000,000 points, three medals and over 2 additional minutes. I tried not to bank before and wait for the game to cash my points automatically but the timer had always gone down to 0:00 and the game was over with a very low score. Under what circumstances does the game bank automatically and doesn't let the time end your fight?

People say they try this thing for hours and idk if they saying the truth or not but i kid you not, I've been at this for 2 hours and my best score is sub 700k even after getting to level 8 bonus.

Yeah, i am PC player, games and consoles are pretty expensive in my country. The biggest catch in this game is to not bank, after you reach level 6, fight for a little longer and you will gain 1 million points and 2:45 minutes. And you can lose combo, just not get hit.

Levels 1,and 2 are basic bad guys.What you'll want to do on levels 1 and 2 is keep striking from enemy to enemy,and avoid the urge to use counters (Unless necessary) and take downs.You get more points off critical attacks (punches,kicks,batarangs) for some reason.Level 3,simple do the same as levels 1 and 2,but youll want to dodge this time by pressing AA or Square square.Dodge,strike,dodge,strike.Keep doing this and only use take downs on enemies with armor,and you'll be good.Hope I helped

I got almost an 800 combo with Catwoman. I will say that I turned on the modification that allows you to punch body armor and stun sticks.

And this is the very video where Batman Arkham Videos proves to the world that he is a god at these games. Truly.

10 years later and I fucking did it, I beat the hardest challenge in the Arkham Franchise.

I got 112 once with Catwoman...but don't be sad man,this guy is awesome,I wasn't expecting less...

Just placed 849 on the world Xbox leaderboard today. Abuse the freeflow focus and never use specials. Beat downs, blade dodge takedowns, ground takedowns, and aerial redirects to get extra points. I don’t have the FF focus gadget upgrade so I was able to use my gadgets without losing focus. Could’ve done better so I’ll try again but this is definitely the strategy for me.

disarm and destroy. press the square and triangle buttons at the same time if you have a ps3, x and y if you have xbox

I always mess up when the titan monster comes out

The x286 combo 😩

You absolute Monster !! Your awesome aha, I've forgotten how to do all the special moves, I do them by mistake some times, So all I can do is beat them down and hope I get enough score, sucks to be me :/

How did you not get hut when you were ultra stunning that titan? Everytime I do it I get hit even when the enemies are further away than they were from you.

Whoever u r u are amazing at combat

Can you turn on detective mode in this challenge? I would like to know if the Joker that comes down to fight you is the real joker or clayface.

yeah me too but i get mad when the thugs our out of your view and hit you

Jak się uwiesić na Tytanie i nie dać mu się szybko zrzucić z pleców?

You're extraordinary.

The one flaw in Arkham city is this

It is a dlc challenge map so you have to buy it or get game of the year.

something seems fishy with the points system...he's getting more than double points than due for a hit..for ex. at 4:20 at 235th strike his score is 871960...score he earned with next strike is 236 x 10 as written after the strike = 2360 which should make the total 874320..but you will see the score jumps to 876680..that is true for about every strike around that time

3:25, that was the highest combo I made before I screwed up T.T This guy is a BEAST! D:

Noob question: How do you unlock some of the riddler revenge challenges? I have collected every riddler trophies but there are some maps that aren't unlocked yet. Do I have to collect a certain number of medals in the other challenges first?

There should be an achievement just for this guy in Batman Arkham Knight; Don't get hit once while playing on Hard or above.

Wow, joker takes a lot of punches to beat down! I had assumed it was impossible to take him out.

when someone hits you before you press the extra time in lvl 6............ oh in my opinion the hardest challenge is the train.....THIS IS FRAUSTRATING

Awsome, my best was 220000. how did you do the thing in 3:48 to stay on the Joker's titan Thug?

He can't get out of that Arena and kick Killer Croc ass, he can defeat 6 hundred of bandits.

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity

Love How He Handled Joker.

He isn't being thrown off. He's using the Titan Shockwave move.

You mean like this one?Joker's Carnival and Iceberg Lounge are DLC's,just like Robin's(Black Mask's Hideout) and Nightwing's(Wayne Manor) and the Batcave.

Been trying this challenge since its release some decades ago and I always get hit by "Magnetism" (Goon attacks with a counter-able attack and simply gets drawn to you, like a rubber band, hoovering on the ground to close the distance until the animation is done, even when you jump away and you are 10-15 meters apart). I can not see this because they are out of view beyond the camera. Best I ever done is 800k

Excuse my language, but I FUCKING HATE THIS CHALLENGE SO MUCH. I tried it way over 100 times now in the past few weeks, but still haven't got 3 medals. I had multiples times already 700k, 800k or over 900k, but at the end there is always a little mistake or bad luck that ends my combo. My best result is over 980k, so I was extremely close which actually makes all of this even more frustrating. The sad thing is that I actually LOVE this game, but this "challenge" makes me hate it...I got platinum on all other arkham games and this is the only thing that keeps me away from finishing AC at 100%, that's the only reason I'll continue, but I'm really pissed at this game right now.

Dude, you are amazing. My hat is off to you.

how do you do this combo? 3:46 while on the titan