Gotham Knights

Gotham Knights

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The Man-Bat Family

The Man-Bat Family

Defeat 10 Man-Bats in Gotham City

15 XP

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How to unlock the The Man-Bat Family achievement in Gotham Knights - Definitive Guide

As others have already stated, you will beat five Man-Bats in the course of completing the story, so there's no need to go for this achievement until the post-game. One crucial detail seems to be missing from the other solutions, though:

Man-Bats are not limited to spawning on the three roofs where they spawn in the story missions. They can spawn on any flat roof big enough to house a fight, all across Gotham. To find the spawn locations, you need to check the map to find the League of Assassins faction icon (a circular shape formed by overlapping curved blades).

Go to the district with the League faction presence, and do an IR scan. This will let you see the white – not yellow, that's only in the story missions – crime triangles overlaid on the environment. Any triangle appearing on top of a building is likely to be a man-bat encounter. The man-bat roof locations will have some corpses (white outlines) lying about, as well as some black fog billowing across the rooftop (not visible from afar).

You might not get all 5 man-bats in one night, so when you've rinsed the districts with League faction presence (the League icon will disappear from the map), just pop back to the Belfry and start another night. This will reset and refresh the faction presences.

Edited to add: I haven't confirmed this myself, but several commenters have stated that you can do some light save-scumming to help speed along your post-game Man-Bat hunt. According to Mr SpinelesS, you engage with the Man-Bat "until it scream summons some assassins, then kill it and return to main menu. (leave assassins alive so you don't finish the event)."
You then continue your game from the main menu, and return back to the spot on the map where you just killed the Man-Bat. A new one should then have spawned in its place. This means you'll only need to find one Assassin district on the map, and one Man-Bat building, thus saving you quite a bit of time.
Big thanks to Mr SpinelesS, as well as rhmdy, Crinkle Crisps and AllysonDuck for posting confirmations!
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16 Nov 2022 15:24

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A little info for those playing post story:
After reading the guide & comments I naturally decided to do this post game but when you do, one of the mails you get congratulates you on running the league of shadows out of town so when I afterwards couldn't find any manbats & realized that some of the territories previously shadow marked now was owl marked I got a bit worried but after a few nights some shadow territories started to appear again & found a manbat of Wayne tech so ...
TL,DR: it can be done post game smile
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By EverStoned77 on 28 Mar 2024 01:56
I can confirm that you can find Man-Bat anywhere in the map as long as there is enough room on the roof of a building, and the faction is there.
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By FluxB0x on 21 Nov 2022 21:33
Yep can confirm save scumming does work as of 18th October 23
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By rhmdy on 18 Oct 2023 11:37
Also worth mentioning, if like myself you went to new game + without finishing this achievement there is a single man bat at the end of level 30 starro heroic assault.
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By Crinkle Crisps on 06 Nov 2023 12:22
Just finished the game.
On my first night, I got 2 on top of buildings.
Second night, same thing, but tried the Save/Load and still works.
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By AllysonDuck on 10 Nov 2023 12:38
Thanks a bunch, folks; I've now updated the solution to include the method suggested by Mr SpinelesS'
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By Garnitoro on 01 Dec 2023 11:57
as Mr SpinelesS said, farming one over and over works. I hammered out those 10 before "officially" beating the first in the story laugh
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By I Like Drinkin on 22 Feb 2024 05:30
This is my last achievement. If anyone can let me join their game to get this done I will happily help with anything. M3W3SY
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By M3W3SY on 23 Feb 2024 14:36
I got it going to the hospital. I went on 7 different nights to get it.
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By Noiax on 20 Mar 2024 20:59
You can save scum this achievement.

Find a Man Bat in the city (either the first ones you find during the main story, or at night post game)

Play with it until it scream summons some assassins, and then kill it and return to main menu. (leave assassins alive so you don't finish the event)

Continue your game and return back to where you fought the previous Man bat and a new one should have spawned.
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By Mr SpinelesS on 11 Apr 2023 14:34
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You beat 5 by completing the story. Don’t start New Game Plus and instead roam the city. Each night you start has a chance to spawn one at each of the roofs of the locations you fought them in the Story: Gotham City General Hospital, Elliot Center, and Waynetech. It took me about 10 nights to get the remaining 5 I needed post story.
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25 Oct 2022 23:50

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Of the 5 I defeated in the post game all were located at the top of Gotham City General Hospital.
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By Boogie on 29 Oct 2022 06:43
As of the latest update on my new game + after completing the main story ,the man bats seem to be spawning more often, that is I encountered five of them on one patrol night without returning to the Belfry.I allready had my 10 before starting NG + .
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By xSAMMY the SEAL on 30 Oct 2022 14:58
The bats spawn on many different buildings, not just the three.

They appear as crimes on top of big buildings so if you're walking around the city you can check when you see a new triangle appear.
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By TheProwlerKing on 31 Oct 2022 21:53
They haven’t appeared on any nights for me since completing the main storyline. Started NG+ to go the long route.
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By LeopardGamer on 24 Dec 2022 14:50
At least one appeared for me every night at 8.1 in the story. That might me the time to farm them. You can tell if one's spawned by scanning before you get there or by seeing black smoke on the ground once you're up there.
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By exactor it on 06 Jan 2023 00:25
Thankfully it does carry over on new game plus.
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By Noble Wolf on 08 Apr 2023 05:10
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You'll have to defeat five Man-Bats as part of the main story, so that only leaves five more for the achievement. Once you've defeated the story related ones, you can roam around Gotham looking for the remaining five. Their spawns aren't limited to the three story related spawns, and in fact might not spawn in those places again. It entirely depends on where the League is active. Just scroll through your map and go to any district that has League of Shadows activity. You'll know the League are active in a district if their icon appears under Faction Presence. Simply go to these districts and search any of the high rooftops. If there are some dead bodies on top, hang around for a few seconds and a Man-Bat will appear.
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03 Dec 2022 11:11

After unlocking Seeking Asylum (15G), Man-Bats will begin appearing randomly on rooftops in Gotham City. Find and defeat ten of them to unlock the achievement.
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Quick farming of bats, in Chapter 7 based on the plot in Arkham Asylum, there will be a first skirmish with a bat, we kill it, then a splash screen will appear, during the splash screen we go to the main menu and click continue, the loading will be before the fight with the mouse and so on 10 times repeat, the achievement will immediately open
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24 Nov 2023 23:27

According to the plot, you automatically win 5 pieces. The remaining 5 appear on the roofs, at the place where the plot ones were killed.
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26 Oct 2022 01:52

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In the locations described above, mice appear randomly and only in those areas in which the League of Shadows is present that night. If there are no mice, you need to restart the night. Locations are indicated by small white triangles (like regular random crimes). Another sign of the presence of mice: corpses on the roofs of buildings, if there are any, the mouse will arrive soon
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By Nekobit on 30 Nov 2022 15:19
Video guide (en) with 3 locations with bats.
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By Dersonwill on 28 Oct 2022 10:30