Any way to unlock Darkest Night challenge campaign?

[Max Realname]

I've read up that this campaign is massively bugged, and some people get it randomly, while others never naturally unlock it, I'v heard that somewhere there is a patch you can find and download to fix it, but I haven't been able to find it.
I'm about to start my IATK playthrough, which might unlock it, but I am wondering if the patch is still available, or if there is another way to force the campaign to unlock.

Also, slightly unrelated, does anyone know if now that multiplayer servers are disabled, if you can still get the Robin character trophy.

[JonoAMano]

My Darkest Night map usually unlocks during gameplay, but have you played the previous 3 maps to try and unlock it?
01. Siege
02. Legacy (unlocks Cataclysm)
03. Cowardly and Superstitious

As for the Robin trophy, mine unlocks whenever I begin a new game. Then again I had an account with WBID and visited the online game at least once, before actually 100%ing those achievements. If you haven't done so, start a WBID account and simply sign into the game normally. Then check your Character Trophy page.

If it still doesn't work after repeated game logins, add me and send me a save of your current progress. I'll do nothing other than log into the game on my account, see if the Robin trophy appears, then return the save to you. Add me if you're interested, but try a WBID account first.

[Max Realname]

Originally posted by JonoAMano:

My Darkest Night map usually unlocks during gameplay, but have you played the previous 3 maps to try and unlock it?
01. Siege
02. Legacy (unlocks Cataclysm)
03. Cowardly and Superstitious

As for the Robin trophy, mine unlocks whenever I begin a new game. Then again I had an account with WBID and visited the online game at least once, before actually 100%ing those achievements.

If it still doesn't work after repeated game logins, add me and send me a save of your current progress. I'll do nothing other than log into the game on my account, see if the Robin trophy appears, then return the save to you. Add me if you're interested, but try a WBID account first.

I've finished all the other challenge campaigns, and I have 100% completeion on everything but a few singular challenge maps in custom, and have yet to play IATK mode.

According to online wikis, the Robin trophy only unlockes after playing an online match, and then unlocks for all profiles, so since you played online before the servers were shut down, that will be why you have, annoyed they didn't add a patch to give players that trophy now that is impossible to get without hacks, though personally, I don't want to unlock anything through hacks, I only am willing for this challenge because it's an unpatched bug, if Robin can not be gained anymore legitimately, I'll settle for not getting it.

[JonoAMano]

I do have an empty save with no progress on it other than login, but the Batman and Robin trophies are both unlocked. Let me know if you're interested.

As for the missing map, have you completed all side missions alongside the main story on your primary and NG+ playthroughs? Did you patch and verify the game?
1. Select game in Steam Library, right-click Properties, then Updates to choose Automatic Updating and to Allow Background Downloads.
2. Select game in Steam Library, right-click Properties, then Local Files and Verify Integrity of Game Cache.

[Max Realname]

Yes, all of those things have been done, the only campaign completiong I haven't finished is IATK, which I am part way through now.

[JonoAMano]

Did some checking on the internet. The Darkest Knight map normally unlocks during first-run completion of the swimming pool predator room:
https://www.trueachievements.com/forum/viewthread.aspx?tid=807915

There is a recurring bug in which if you rush through or quit the game during on-screen confirmations before they expire, the rewards they describe -- character trophies, challenge maps, concept art, sometimes even in-game character profiles or updated profiles -- don't have a chance to unlock properly. This can happen during speedruns, checkpoint exits or quitting the game before establishing a new checkpoint, in this case perhaps from hacking the elevator too soon or quitting the game before entering the elevator.

Next time you see an on-screen confirmation, wait until it expires before making a next move. After a confirmation appears and expires, don't quit the game from that checkpoint but instead move to the next checkpoint before quitting.

[Max Realname]

That explains it, my first run through that map, my game crashed as I went through the exit door, and upon restart I was put past that point, which disabled a Worst nightmare challenge I had finished in that room.

[JonoAMano]

You nailed it, a game crash prior to a new checkpoint would invalidate a confirmation. From what I read in other threads, you might still be able to unlock the map in IATN mode.

Make a copy of your save after the Royal Hotel Panorama fight and before the Swimming Pool predator room. Just in case the game crashes again in that same room, you can drop in the saved copy and play forward from that point. Your .sgd saves found here:
Steam \ userdata \ Steam User Number \ 209000 \ remote \ SpSave_v2_0.sgd

Has it been repeatedly crashing in the Swimming Pool predator room, and if so was there any error message?

[Max Realname]

No error message, and that was the only game crash I've experienced.

[JonoAMano]

Just to be on the safe side, disable PhysX from inside the Graphic Options menu. I'd hate to see you get to that predator room only to miss out on the challenge map yet again. Don't hack the elevator until after the confirmation for the map unlock goes away.

[Max Realname]

Alright, I will do that, and once I get to that point again, we'll see if I get the map, will report back either way

[JonoAMano]

Make a copy of your save from inside the previous entry corridor after the Panorama rooftop fight.

[MrEniena]

You can always mod the game to unlock the in-game commander console via downloading modded files or by using a Cheat Engine table.

Once you do just type in the command "unlockchallengemode" which will unlock every non-DLC challenge including Darkest Night.

There we go. Bug conquered.

[Sakurajii]

Originally posted by MrEniena:

You can always mod the game to unlock the in-game commander console via downloading modded files or by using a Cheat Engine table.

Once you do just type in the command "unlockchallengemode" which will unlock every non-DLC challenge including Darkest Night.

There we go. Bug conquered.

I tried doing that but it didn't work. Should I do it in the menu or somewhere specific?