Please help, game ruining bug stopped my progress

[Sardonicus]

For some reason one I got to the point right before I go to the party the game decided I no longer can do instant takedowns on anyone causing this group of lunatics to fight me forever and ever and no one ever dies. Please someone tell me a fix for this bug I really want to finish the game but I can't without the ability to take down enemies on the ground. I tried resetting and rebinding my keys but it seems to be unrelated to that as it still lets me use that button for everything but the instant takedown.

Seriously any fix to my problem would be seriously appreciated. I'm extremely bummed about not being about to progress further.

[Buck]

this isn't a bug, you don't have to fight the thugs at the party unless you want the "Party Pooper" Achievement. I otherwise don't recall not being able to use takendowns, but you can certainly complete the fight without them. Leverage evade and just keep using strikes.

[Sardonicus]

Originally posted by Buck:

this isn't a bug, you don't have to fight the thugs at the party unless you want the "Party Pooper" Achievement. I otherwise don't recall not being able to use takendowns, but you can certainly complete the fight without them. Leverage evade and just keep using strikes.

But I'm not talking about at the party where no one was attacking me. I'm specifically talking about all the lunitics running around in the world on the main grounds who attack you and can only be decapacitated by an instant takedown cause they are incapable of dying otherwise. Even when running past them and just going to the party, after a cut scene where he talks to the puppet scarface there's a boss fight where they are most certainly attacking you, and I found it pretty much impossible to beat both giant enemies, and all the smaller ones without the ability during the fight to clear out the room a bit by taking down some of the thugs. This most certainly cannot be intentional since every single boss fight, and normal fight I've ever had allows me to takedown enemies. It's a major combat tactic and without it more enemies just keep piling up until during that boss fight there were so many enemies piling up in that room that it was impossible to dodge one without running into another because it wouldn't let me incapacitate any of them. I couldn't see a way to get passed that point in the game without the ability to take down enemies. How does one complete a fight when the enemies literally refuse to die, and just keep getting up over and over and over no mattter how many times you knock them down?

[JonoAMano]

Not certain if you resolved this yet. Instant Combo Takedowns don't work on the lunatics. There was a brief prompt inside the Penitentiary about using Ground Takedowns on them, the only takedown that works on lunatics.

[Sardonicus]

Originally posted by JonoAMano:

Not certain if you resolved this yet. Instant Combo Takedowns don't work on the lunatics. There was a brief prompt inside the Penitentiary about using Ground Takedowns on them, the only takedown that works on lunatics.

Oh I think I might have mis said my problem then as I wasn't sure the word for the kind of takedown. What I mean is that I am no longer capable of taking down any enemies who are on the ground. They just infinitely get back up again without me being able to take down those who are on the ground. I don't know what an instant combo takedown is. I just mean the standard takedown when the people are on the ground to make them stop being a threat. I can no longer do that action with ANY enemy making fighting impossible as they just get back up over and over and over again. They don't stay knocked out for me unless I do that on the ground takedown thing, whatever it's called.

[EbonHawk]

Originally posted by Sardonicus:

Originally posted by JonoAMano:

Not certain if you resolved this yet. Instant Combo Takedowns don't work on the lunatics. There was a brief prompt inside the Penitentiary about using Ground Takedowns on them, the only takedown that works on lunatics.

Oh I think I might have mis said my problem then as I wasn't sure the word for the kind of takedown. What I mean is that I am no longer capable of taking down any enemies who are on the ground. They just infinitely get back up again without me being able to take down those who are on the ground. I don't know what an instant combo takedown is. I just mean the standard takedown when the people are on the ground to make them stop being a threat. I can no longer do that action with ANY enemy making fighting impossible as they just get back up over and over and over again. They don't stay knocked out for me unless I do that on the ground takedown thing, whatever it's called.

It's the crouch button, followed immediately by a right mouse-click for me, so it's whatever crouch is set to (not crouch TOGGLE) but regular hold-crouch, and then the right mouse button.

It was in Arkham City I think it was, that my ground finisher got broken. I had to delete my settings file and let the game create another one when I launched the game again. I would try that. You can always copy your settings file somewhere safe, and then try it. Sadly, I can't recall the name of the file, or its location, because there seem to be multiple places where the game stores stuff... If I had to guess, I'd say it's in Documents > WBGames > Arkham Asylum and I think it's a file named something like bminput.ini