Batman Arkham City
70 Achievements
1,500
40-50h
Gotham Base Jumper
Jump off the tallest building in Arkham City and glide for 1 minute without touching the ground.
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How to unlock the Gotham Base Jumper achievement in Batman Arkham City - Definitive Guide
While you're on the way up the Wonder Tower toward the end of the game, go to the large ledge just before you grapnel up to the maintenance hatch and jump. If you can't get it during this part, try going back up after the end of the game.
The key is to hold back on your left thumbstick (or forward, if you're weird and don't invert your y-axis) from the very beginning of the jump. I didn't do this the first two times, and I failed. The problem is that the game won't let you go all the way to the ground. At some point, Batman will shoot his Grapnel and pull himself back up. So jump, pull back, and in the moments where the game makes you fly up, circle back to the left until you're facing the city again.
One more thing... get it on the way up, especially if you know where the collectibles in the tower are. Otherwise, since the game won't let you glide to ground, once you've climbed up just to get this one cheeve you have to climb back down manually, down the elevator, through the subway, etc. Kinda annoying. Save yourself the hassle and only climb the tower once. (I ended up climbing it 3 times. Grrr.)
Here's a video that I didn't make but shows how it works.
Climb to the top of the Wonder Tower (the end of the game). You can do this on your way up the first time or when you're collecting the Riddler's trophies like an idiot a dozen hours after the game is over.
Get maximum height (right before the caged maintenance shaft, and right after the two protruding poles with the connecting tightrope), and jump from the ledge. Hold BACK on the thumbstick as you glide to descend slowly. Instead of doing that "fly into the distance" garbage (that is a pain in the ass), grapple boost repeatedly off of those two aforementioned poles in a continuous glide when you need more air. This is 100x easier than the other methods—after I switched methods, I did it on my first try.
Climb to the top of the central tower just before advancing to the boss fight (from inside, you have to grapple pull a ladder or something to advance - don't do that just yet). Jump off and glide. Do the "dive bomb and recover" mechanism to continually regain lost altitude. If you have made it through the AR Training exercises, then you must know how to do this (while gliding, RT to dive, pull up with LS while releasing RT). Circle the tower while diving and recovering and the achievement will be yours.
I used this method after repeatedly failing the "fly into the distance" method shown in the videos. I also tried using the grapple hook to keep me in the air, but I always ended up grappling the wrong object and it would break my flight. I tried a dive and recover in frustration and 60 seconds later, the achievement unlocked.
2)Fly as far away from the tower as you can (because you can't grapple anything you will instantly be turned around)
3) repeat step 2 until your minute is up
You will need to access Wonder Tower from the elevator in Wonder City in order to earn this trophy. You will also need to climb some way up the tower in order to earn this trophy, as jumping from the elevator platform will cause Batman to fall and save himself with the batclaw.
After climbing some way up the tower, glide off and head away from it. Eventually you will hit an invisible wall, and Batman will turn back automatically. After he does so, rotate around and hit the wall again. Each of these animations will not cause Batman to lose elevation or be registered as having stopped gliding, and the time spent in these animations does count for this trophy. The trophy will unlock as soon as you spend 60 seconds while gliding.
The below video by PowerPyx demonstrates this.
You must climb the Wonder Tower during the main story, but you can return post-game to do this as well. Climb on top of the Wonder Tower, jump off and glide around for one minute. Power Grappling does not stop the glide, but you can simply hit the edge of the Restricted Zone to be turned around and push back up in the air to glide indefinitely.
You must climb the Wonder Tower during the main story, but you can return post-game to do this as well. Climb on top of the Wonder Tower, jump off and glide around for one minute. Power Grappling does not stop the glide, but you can simply hit the edge of the Restricted Zone to be turned around and push back up in the air to glide indefinitely.