I Tried Beating Arkham Origins I Am the Night Without ANY Upgrades 

Honestly, typing in the suicide command in a permadeath run is such a power move.

The concussion detonator actually becomes useful exacty two times in the game: Copperhead and Firefly. The concussion detonator will kill all of Copperhead's clones during the hallucination instantly, making that boss fight much easier. For Firefly, the detonator will stun Firefly completely, making him unable to attack you for 5-10 seconds, allowing you to safely throw batarangs at Firefly until you're prompted to grapple him.

This dude could probably lie about something and I would believe him due to how calm he talks

this channel is all an arkham fan could wish for

It's okay bro nobody is going to judge you for accidentally completing challenges 😭

You are truly now an Arkham Origins player of all time

20:50 is such perfect comedic timing, literally laughed irl at that, what cruel fate

you might not be able to finish without ANY upgrades, but you can do it without any OPTIONAL upgrades. And honestly. That's damn impressive.

15:20 That's fire. 16:05 Why doesn't Batman just call the Justice League for help? Is he stupid?

In my opinion, I don’t think unlocking gear from challenges should’ve disqualified an attempt as long as it was a completely active feature that you didn’t use. As long as none of the challenges gave passive features that apply automatically and you didn’t use the unlocked gear I see no reason as to why that would invalidate the attempt.

13:42 Holy shit this happened to me in Arkham City’s boiler room fight, I took out one of the armored Joker thugs with a beatdown attack, but he didn’t fall to the ground and just stood there around me, not taking or dealing damage and following me around the room as I completed the quest. Funniest shit ever I swear.

4:22 Your upgrade problem at the GCR tower can be easily overcome by just not taking down most of the thugs in the way the game promps. The inverted takedown can be avoided by just gliding down behind the thug and then performing a silent takedown, the vent takedown can be avoided by just opening the vent normally and then performing a silent takedown, and the wall smash takedown can be avoided by detonating explosive gel on the wall instead. These aren't glitches so there's no reason to not do them in order to get around the problem of automatic upgrades. Edit: I just got to the part of the video where you figure this out some of this for yourself anyway lol. Glad you figured it out! Although my advice about avoiding the wall smash takedown with explosive gel should still be new help for your runs.

20:02 WATCH DOGS 1 MENTIONED RAAAAH also great video i love the deadpan delivery of your jokes it's so fucking funny

literally such a nightmare, props to you man😭

Hello, great run btw, I did a similar run in The Batman Arkham Series (No Damage, No Upgrades, No Takedowns, No Quickfire Gadgets, No Gliding, No Detective Vision during Predator sections, No Combo Drop during Combat Sections) which includes BAO and I noticed that you had a hard time against Firefly Basically instead of using Glue grenades and Batarangs followed by a Batclaw during a Stun stage, I would use the Concussion Detonator as it sends him directly into the Stun stage (just like you did later) and _then_ fire a Batclaw at him to deal some hefty damage without doing the time-consuming Glue grenades and Batarangs tactic, now I just needed to perfectly dodge his attacks and time my Concussion Detonator Throws, so it was a nice Boss Fight and took generally less resets than calculated also you can just Ultra Stun the second guy in the GCR Tower instead of silent/vent takedown and then break the wooden wall normally by a punch or such after throwing a Remote Controlled Batarang through a very small gap in the window (top right in front of your face), hope this helps later

After a long wait, i can say this video was worth it! I really hope this vid blows up, i love your content

man, this is truly amazing, congratulations for the effort and love that you put in the challange and in the video

22:57 AH HELL NAH JONKLER, BATMAN WENT CRAZY 😭 (rip to the random guy)

While I love the commitment. I feel like no one would have held it against you if upgrades like sonic batarang unlocked as long as you didn’t use them

Another great video, good stuff bro

Bro these batman challenge vids are so good, also the commentary and editing is exquisite.

I don't usually comment on videos, but this one had a lot of gems in the narration. I was watching on 2x speed because of the length but still caught some ones that made me laugh: 22:50 "In this hallway of the GCDP, I added an extra decoration to this poster!" - I don't know why, but that one made me actually laugh out loud. 32:15 "Even Slade Wilson with one eye closed would be able to get through the Jezebel Plaza fight!" 40:31 - This one was a "What the heck?!" moment that was also hilarious to me for whatever reason. I had never heard of "Squidward Community College" before but the sheer unexpectedness of the line had me stuttering through chortles. 42:34 "I was just ONE Logan Paul, *also known as a mistake,* away from death."

Put this on for something to watch while I was eating and ended up watching the whole thing. Good stuff brother

Not just an impressive feat, but such an awesome video! I really enjoyed watching, and I can't wait to see what else you make!

You have such big potential to blow up dude your videos are so entertaining!!!

glad this video blew up for you, im watching to get some tips on my playthrough for my channel, wish me luck...

Wow... hats off to you for completing it!!

Where have you been in my life? You're becoming one of my favorite creators ever, your commentary is funny and engaging, really hope to see grow in the future

you deserve to have millions of views. great video

Youre actually amazing dude holy crap, you remind me of senza. You have great talents lying within. Good luck friend :)) hope you blow up in subs like you deserve

Damn made me wanna replay this game for the thousand time

fire gameplay, great video, see you're a man of shiken as well

u made it so much harder than it needed to be dawg. respect fr

Finally, a channel giving Origin the love it deserves. Don't know why it's hated on so much

This run is insanely impressive. I don’t think you should have had to count the given “upgrades” (which are more just a forced increase in gadgets, rather than a normal upgrade tree one you’d buy with XP), but the fact that you did, and you stuck so incredibly steadfast to it, is remarkably admirable. You’re very skilled and very very knowledgeable about the series, but it’s the dedication to something, and something creative and interesting for Arkham that impresses me. Job well done

Honestly I don't think the mandated upgrades received through story-progression should count in this challenge. Like you said, it automatically fails because of them but only on the technicality that they are considered "upgrades" The challenge though is whether or not you can beat the game without manually upgrading your gadgets/abilities. Regardless, this was pretty entertaining even if it was a chore for you towards the end.

20:30 fun fact you can counter that attack and jump away

I have never played an Arkham Batman game (my only console is the Nintendo switch, and in no way would I EVER play a cloud game with my internet). Still, it’s fun to see this videos! Keep it upb

Well done mate

Btw you can use the chest console to change suits while in a loading screen (ie pressing reload checkpoint) it’s just invisible as you type it in

It's so funny how this run truly uncovers some of the jank this game has. I got so frustrated with the amount of bugs when I first played through it.

Dude, what a challenge, I didnt even understand at first you were really restarting because you got an upgrade. You must really love these games, or challenges, watching the whole video right now. No matter the result, congrats!

You really love to see it. This game is almost as good for challenge runs as the Soulsborne games are. What i really want to see is an "I am Batman" challenge run. Rules; -Perfect freeflow for every combat encounter (or perfect counters, using the exact counters needed like blade dodge takedowns on ninjas, beatdowns on armored thugs, aerial attacks for shield enemies, etc.,) -Remain unseen for all traversal and predator encounters. -NO damage. -Anything else that would make it more like a definitive run AS Batman. Basically playing perfectly. -Resets allowed. Unless you think anybody could pull this off in one go.

Nice... I have a full Hard Mode No Upgrades run of this game from last year on my channel, but I definitely wouldn't have wanted to go through Firefly with permadeath enabled. The Dark Knight System made it so annoying. You found some tricks I didn't but you missed an early one. In the first Predator Encounter, you can use X (or whatever, if PC) to open the grate and not do the tutorial Grate Takedown. This lets you do Silent Takedowns throughout the rest of the run. EDIT: oh I see I'm not the first to point this out. Apparently there are still a few of us out there doing these Origins runs =)

I'm always a bit astonished by how glitchy Origins is when compared to the rest. None of them are bug free, but I swear Origins is made of cheese.

When I did "I Am The Knight" first loss against TN-1 Bane i made a mistake that costed me second and third time the game crashed and finally got it on the 4th attempt

The only way I was ever able to beat this twice was with that Deathstroke claw shooter. It literally made the whole mode A TOTAL JOKE! Admittedly though, I had to reset twice in both playthroughs (Xbox 360 & PS3) in the same two sections: - Towards the end of that collapsing bridge section in one of the harder Predator sections - Bane (w/ the overdose of Venom) final boss fight Great Video!

Congrats on Point Counter Point

The amount of meta, topical and Batman centric jokes that you have to have prior knowledge about is amazing one of my favourite Arkham content creators

I was about to beat I am the night mode last night, I died at the firefly fight where you are supposed to counter after you deplete his health bar

24:25 after hitting enter: "GASP! OH NOOO!"

I am glad I was able to witness history here

Dude this is just so fucking funny to watch

"I was just a Logan Paul, also known as a mistake, to death" Bro that got me so hard LOL Great video dude, I just love those Arkham challenges. Greetings from Brazil

This takes me back to when I attempted the I Am The Night difficulty, once I got it unlocked. Granted I was not restricting myself as hard, but I felt confident in my gaming skills at the time. It took me 3 retries, but on my 4th run, I eventually got it. Was it frustrating? Yes. Was it satisfying? Also yes, but I was still feeling a bit salty from all that retrying. The first fail was when going to interrogate Black Mask, right before Cooperhead boss fight. I got reckless, stood still for a second too long, and got served a sniper bullet to the face. Yes, when I got back there, I broke that sniper's every single bone with a beatdown. Second failiure was on Bane's boss fight. I had a hard time dodging his charging attack at first, which caused me to lose a lot of HP. When panicking, I only then learned that running around like a headless chicken does the job. Unfortunately, one of the goons that joins later in the fight, literally walked up to me and went "I like ye cut, G" and smacked me in the back, resulting in a stun lock long enough, to get run over by the Bane pain train. And the last failiure, the most heartbreaking one, was right at the very end! I was at the "beat up Joker one last time" section. After Batman threw the Joker against the window and breaks it, Joker grabs two broken glass shards and holds them like daggers. At that point, you are supposed to dodge them, and commence the final beatdown. Right? Well, for some reason, the dodge button decided to not work anymore for me, so while I desperately tried to dodge incoming attacks, Batman instead stood there, taking L after L to the face, eventually dying like an absolute loser, right at the very last stretch. That nearly made me quit and got so mad, I didn't touched the game for 2 days.

it's good to see that all Arkham Origins bugs and glitches have been patched and the game runs perfectly with no issues

I remember playing this mode and FINALLY beating it on my 6th try. Its only cuz i would be impatient and would get sloppy after being overconfident that i could beat every fight on the first try

I love This Game so much Bro it s my favorite

I dare you to try Arkham City Insane Difficulty Mod (on nexus mods) by GPUnity without resetting, if you die you delete your save and restart, no upgrades and on NG+. Then compare the two. Also I'm subbed and love your channel. Have you by any chance heard of the Arkham youtuber ClownPuncher139? He makes videos pretty similar to yours, so I wouldn't be surprised if you have.

36:13 I guess the door does gain collision until a bit after it closes

There were UPGRADES!?

We need some arkham knight challenges for sure

You probably went into the sniper’s sight line laser , which can be seen OUT of detective mode so no he doesn’t have spider sense

I thought I was amazing when I beat I am the night and I would mostly cheese the cooldowns on the remote claw and disrupt or so I could finish most predator things without leaving my gargoyle

I wish I could play this game.

17:26 “Batman doesn’t kill 🤓☝️”

“Was as easy a……” DEAD 😂😂😂😂

Bro reminds me of clownpuncher139 your awesome bro

bro has the patience of a monk

Okay but can you do the same in arkham knight Knightmate difficutly? Love the vids keep it up ❤

38:29 how did Man escape from the Aslume? Is he Houdini?

10:24 i still cant beat up all those men there or in the server room to this day. So good choice. Anyways im gonna attempt this challenge now. Ill let you know how it goes

I ironically enough played most of the game the first time without even knowing about the upgrades and only figured it out when I got to the Bane fight.

24:20 the hardest I've ever laughed at any youtube video ever

You can screw yourself out of the first Worst Nightmare level by spraying explosive gel on the wall, it's tricky tho with two things on the same button

That level up indicator must get obnoxious after a while

I wish they had this mode for Arkham Knight.

I’ll be honest I wish they’d had brought this into Arkham Knight because it would have been brutal but an ultimate challenge

21:28 how did a concussion detonator count as three of them? Or had you already used your allotted two batarangs earlier?

I camt get over how many glitches there are in this game lmao

I still haven’t beaten it to this day

3:14 so you have to not accidentally earn any achievements? That’s kind of hilarious, and makes this challenge way more interesting.

is there a guide to do unlock I am the night early through cheat engine? I would like to try this challenge myself.

Man is friend jonlker?!

27:57 why does restarting from checkpoint restore a little bit of health instead of none or all of it?

Yeah this is without a doubt impossible, even with accidentally unlocking the upgrades from the menu, there’s just no way to pull it off WITHOUT restarting from the latest checkpoint at least once since batman’s health gets obliterated in 3-4 hits at the most. Plus, once you reach the end and your health is low, the temptation to just restart so you don’t have to is almost impossible to resist since you’ve made it so far, so without a few exploits it’s impossible unless you have an extreme amount of patience and skill.

8:27 progress saves? So it isn’t permadeath by default, you have to force it to be?

You must’ve been stressed as hell that entire game

idk I would've just ignored the upgrades you would've gotten with the dark knight challenges, and just not using them

44:23 why does reloading from checkpoint restore a small amount of health?

You really gotta do can you beat Arkham city cuffed

my bowery fast travel is locked too in my current save file and due to it being locked i cant complete the engima side mission smh

#respect

I am the only BMW driver to use their blinker, and I take pride in that

I'm also a challenge runner, for soulsgames though, it's nice to see we can mention cheatengine without getting accusations lol

OK I AM SUBSCRIBING JEEZ 51:09

32:50 I still don’t understand what doing a new run on the same save file does Edit: oh, it preserves you upgrade progress. I guess that sort of makes it like a non-randomized rogue-lite.

You are evil to remind me that Batgirl and Batman thing Happened.

i think, personally, it'd be easier to not make the rules too strict because as you said gadgets count as upgrades, so technically this is a run-fail. but it really isn't, because it's a scripted upgrade/ the game forces you to do it regardless e.g. a tutorial, it doesn't count as you have no way to avoid the upgrade or no way to progress without it.

10:38 the game just lets you explode the police?