I thought it would be kinda cool if we had a thread that we could post the tricks and stuff that we find to improve our times.

I'll go first :) I found that when the game forces you to walk you can use cape stun (throwing dirt if you're matches) to move faster than intended. If you cape stun over and over again while you're being forced to walk you will be pushed forward a small amount and still maintain the speed from walking. There are some times that the game dosnt allow you to cape stun while walking though, for example, when you're sneaking up on the cop having a confrontation with a rat in the first level.

The new update changed a lot of things, some of my old tricks don’t work anymore but the cape moving trick still works in some spots. I’ve now had two runs ruined by new bugs, so seems like they fixed a lot of stuff but maybe also broke some other stuff too.

I still have a lot of problems with grappling into the grates sometimes. I pull down the grates then duck before launching up now which seems to help. Anyone else have problems with it?

One of the best tricks I’ve found that still works in some places after the update is that you can skip some of the fights, but it’s risky and can bug in some spots. Still trying it for different places and my latest run is pending approval and shows some of the skips I’ve found so far.

Might be worth it to call out the bugs you ran into in the Arkham discord in case the devs aren't aware of them yet. And I found grappling into grates less consistent when I was strafing but I haven't played much on the most recent patch so that might've changed

Grappling the grates is one of the most bugged things for me. I pull the grate, then duck, then push forward on right thumbstick. If I get stuck in the air I usually can hold down the meta home button while moving my head around to escape it. I don’t use discord all that much, but we could post some on a thread here maybe. There’s run-ending bugs with some of the dream cutscenes (sitting on stairs) and with Turner in commissary not giving over the earpiece, for example.

Found a new trick, with the blaster gun you can shoot it at your feet to move during scenes where you otherwise cannot move. Waiting to punch Falcone is where I found it but haven’t found any good uses for it yet.

Found another useful trick, if you get into combat before the annoying map auto-popup it skips the map opening. Only found one place it works after the chapel so far.