A Gotham Knights reveal from not way back confirmed off some gameplay that includes each Nightwing and Red Hood with some attention-grabbing particulars revealed about every of them in the course of the phase. To get round Gotham, every of the playable members of the Bat Household have their very own technique of traversal, and for Nightwing, it was revealed that he’d use one thing known as the “Flying Trapeze.” That software simply occurred to look an entire lot like a glider from Fortnite, and after folks drew comparisons between the 2, the Gotham Knights devs addressed the similarities in a latest Q&A.
However earlier than seeing that response, you’ll be able to take a look at the gameplay video beneath to see the Flying Trapeze in motion. Upon listening to about it for the primary time, it’s possible you’ll suppose that individuals are simply weaponizing Fortnite’s reputation to dumb Nightwing’s traversal methodology all the way down to a merely Fortnite beauty, however when you see him utilizing it, it is onerous to not see Fortnite. Even the way in which Nightwing hangs off of the glider and kicks his legs is paying homage to Fortnite, and one may make the argument that that is simply how gliders work, however once more, when each Fortnite match begins this identical means, it bleeds into different video games.
The Gotham Knights devs just lately held a Q&A inside the sport’s Discord to speak about no matter subjects it noticed match to handle from the numerous questions that the neighborhood requested throughout that occasion. A kind of questions straightforwardly requested “Why does Nightwing have a Fortnite glider?” Gotham Knights inventive director Patrick Redding responded to say the concept was rooted within the character’s comics origins whereas additionally serving as a becoming strategy to praise his gameplay.
“The ‘Flying Trapeze’ was impressed by a pair concepts: First, a number of the basic points within the Nightwing solo ebook the place he extends his aerialist strikes with jet-powered gliders,” Redding mentioned. “Second, we preferred the death-defying angle of him taking a look at all the varied stealth drones in Batman’s arsenal and calculating that he may simply get away with hanging off one of many smaller fashions and nonetheless have the ability to keep or acquire altitude with it. It is designed to really feel a bit improvised, and depending on his excessive athleticism, which inserts Nightwing’s strategy to the whole lot. Flying it has such a distinct really feel from Batgirl’s cape-gliding, and it blends very well together with his greater parkour and leap strikes, in addition to with grappling.”
Gotham Knights launches on October twenty fifth – however not for the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One – so anticipate to see Nightwing, his Fortnite glider, and the remainder of the Bat Household then.