What is Scarecrow actually gasing? The city is empty...?

[Hexagoros]

I just realized something. Gotham is empty except for the street criminals and Arkham Knight's army...so what, actually, is Scarecrow trying/threatening to gas?

If Scarecrow did manage to set off the gas, the already-crazy thugs on the street and a relative handful of remaining police are the only ones whose would get hit.

So really...what was all the fuss about?

The dude was threatening to 'gas' an empty city?

[hellscream]

it tells you in the game as a major point in the plot ?

[H.E.]

Supposedly he was going to gas or atleast able to gas the entire Eastern seaboard then Batman foild him at ACE.

Then he said doesn't matter I have the cloudburst which amplifies his toxin even in small doses.

When it got destoryed, he goes like doesn't matter I'll just force Batman to unveil himself, that'll will sure destroy all hope.

Now here's the kicker, he then says it's all about destroying hope but what didn't occur to this moron was that Batman has already destroyed all chances of him releasing the fear toxin on a massive scale, unmasking him is pointless, you're just making a matyr out of him.

Let's not forget how he conveniently forgets about Jason when he was discovered by Batman.

[Cross]

Yup. It was supposed to be the entire eastern seaboard. But you gas the thugs left and they could spread into neighboring cities and attack others.

[Stormspark]

I got the impression that Gotham City was a "test" of the Cloudburst and that he was planning to deploy it in basically every other major city in the DC universe. Bludhaven and Keystone are both mentioned. (Metropolis isn't, but I guess even Scarecrow probably isn't dumb enough to try to take on Superman - I doubt the fear toxin would affect him and he could just use his super breath to clear it instantly).

Also, Scarecrow never knew the Arkham Knight's identity. Jason didn't tell him who he was.

[H.E.]

Originally posted by shifthawke:

Yup. It was supposed to be the entire eastern seaboard. But you gas the thugs left and they could spread into neighboring cities and attack others.

No they can't, Gotham is like Manhattan everyone outside got that ♥♥♥♥ locked down.It's quite laugable though that there's no outside government help when a foreign army invades with hundreds of tanks. Plus the toxin doesn't seem to work after the gas dissipates and the infected eventually comes back to sanity.

Originally posted by Saerydoth:

I got the impression that Gotham City was a "test" of the Cloudburst and that he was planning to deploy it in basically every other major city in the DC universe. Bludhaven and Keystone are both mentioned. (Metropolis isn't, but I guess even Scarecrow probably isn't dumb enough to try to take on Superman - I doubt the fear toxin would affect him and he could just use his super breath to clear it instantly).

Also, Scarecrow never knew the Arkham Knight's identity. Jason didn't tell him who he was.

I think he did Scarecrow and Jason kept arguing back and forth over how Batman should die. And they did work far closer with each other the rest of the villains who supposedly funded the op.

[genesis9361]

It's a f****** game

[Terran Ghost]

The original plan was to have the gas spread across the entire east coast.

Activating the cloudburst and leaving the city gassed meant the displaced Gotham residents couldn't return home.

Edit: It was east coast. Not sure where I got western hemisphere from.