# Batman Arkham asylum. What the hell?! Can't do 'ground takedown' with a keyboard and mouse??

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 20, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-arkham-asylum-what-the-hell-cant-do-ground-takedown-with-a-keyboard-and-mouse/518237 "2009-11-20T01:46:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-arkham-asylum-what-the-hell-cant-do-ground-takedown-with-a-keyboard-and-mouse/518237/1 "2009-11-20T01:46:44Z")

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‘Ground takedown’ does not appear in the key binding menu anywhere.

When I google it - a lot of forums tell you how to do it with an x-box controller.

I’ve assigned ‘combat takedown’ to ‘ctrl’ and I can do the silent takedown with the right mouse button. But when an enemy is down it says ‘ground takedown - unassigned’ and I can’t do anything but hit him when he gets back up again.

Any ideas???

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**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-arkham-asylum-what-the-hell-cant-do-ground-takedown-with-a-keyboard-and-mouse/518237/2 "2009-11-20T02:46:06Z")

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I did it fine here. I believe it’s cntl + right mouse button.

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-arkham-asylum-what-the-hell-cant-do-ground-takedown-with-a-keyboard-and-mouse/518237/3 "2009-11-21T19:36:44Z")

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So, how do I drop down when hangign off something? I’ve just had to come out of the game because batman was unable to drop two feet off a wire fence after me pressing every single key on the keyboard.

I came out, and sure enough there’s no ‘drop down’ on the key binding screen.

And by the way - it’s dumb to have to completely exit the game just to bind or re-bind a key!!!

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**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/batman-arkham-asylum-what-the-hell-cant-do-ground-takedown-with-a-keyboard-and-mouse/518237/4 "2009-11-21T19:45:21Z")

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Right, both problems solved in one go…

I had binded ‘toggle crouch’ but not ‘crouch’.

Turns out the crouch key is needed for both actions (drop down, and ground takedown)