Exploring Gotham City in Batman: Arkham Knight offers players a sprawling open world filled with dangerous supervillains and complex side quests known as Most Wanted missions. Tracking down every rogue criminal requires a mix of detective skills, aerial exploration, and Batmobile combat across Bleake Island, Magani Island, and Founders' Island. Understanding how to trigger these encounters ensures you reach 100% completion and unlock the true Knightfall protocol ending.
Uncovering Crime Scenes and Serial Murders
The Perfect Crime side mission introduces a dark investigation involving bodies left hanging across Gotham's three main islands. Listening for classical opera music playing in the distance while gliding overhead is the most effective way to pinpoint these locations. Using the Deep Tissue Scanner on the corpses allows Batman to identify key clues and trace the killer back to the Pretty Person Parlor in Ryker Heights.
Investigating these crime scenes early rewards players with vital upgrades for Batman's tactical suit. Paying attention to environmental audio cues often saves time when searching without active GCPD dispatch alerts.
Disarming Militia Checkpoints and Watchtowers
Occupied Gotham requires players to dismantle the Arkham Knight's military infrastructure scattered across rooftops and street level. Militia Watchtowers are identified by red security forcefields on rooftops, which can be neutralized by disabling the central command console. Street Checkpoints are blocked off by heavy barricades and sentry turrets, requiring strategic use of the Batmobile or aerial disruptor strikes to clear.
Clearing these military zones opens up safer flight paths across the city and weakens the overall militia presence. Systematic destruction of these red zones is necessary to draw out Deathstroke for a final confrontation.
Rescuing Firefighters Across the Islands
The Line of Duty quest line tasks Batman with saving missing members of Station 17 who are being held hostage by armed thugs. These locations are scattered throughout all three islands, often hidden inside alleyways or underground construction zones. Intercepting militia radio chatter or interrogating informants will reveal the exact positions of the trapped crew members.
Rescuing every firefighter eventually unlocks the location of Chief Underhill on Founders' Island. Completing this storyline reveals the heartbreaking narrative behind the outbreak of fires across Gotham City.
Tracking Down Firefly and Man-Bat
Dynamic encounters like Creature of the Night and Gotham on Fire require active patrolling rather than fixed map coordinates. Man-Bat can be spotted soaring around the skyscrapers of Miagani Island, where Batman must dive-bomb onto the creature to synthesize a cure. Firefly targets burning fire stations across the city, forcing players to pursue him using the Batmobile's afterburners to drain his fuel cell.
Both missions test your mobility and mastery over Batman's gear in fast-paced chase scenarios. Returning these villainous threats to GCPD lockup brings Gotham one step closer to ultimate peace.
