Mortal Kombat 1 General Discussion Media Thread

Wooooo!!! Three 3D era characters are revealed!!! I was very emotional and I cried when I saw the "Banished" fantastic reveal trailer. Ashrah, Havik and Sareena look phenomenal. I always love Ashrah's new look. She's perfectly looking with her eyes and scars. I love the feather anesthetic, the white and golden outfit, her combo-crazy moves! Her Kriss sword - angelic and demonic features is so great, but I don't see her special moves in that trailer. She literally says she's a demon and appears nearly human. She's not fully human yet. That's what she became fully human in Deception and Armageddon, which really did make sense to me. Now that she looks like those demon women in Chinese mythologies, it makes a whole lot of sense. It would be great to see if she gets fully purified by the end of the story and looks more human. She has her hat in the cut scene where Reptile turns invisible you can see her wearing her hat on the right side. I read her Bio and it doesn't change her bio from Deception. I'm glad they keep the lore intact. I can't wait to spend hours and hours with her!

I absolutely love Havik's redesign and he looks too young. He literally beats Ashrah's face in so hard that it tears his arms apart, then he stabs her in the skull with his exposed bones...what a brute and awesome! Seeing him again sold it for me as the best. He’s been in my 3D era favorite characters for a long long time.

Showcasing Sareena is amazing too. I love her being a demon transformation. Bummer she is not playable on the base roster, instead she's a Kameo.

Li Mei, Ashrah, Havik, Reiko and Kameo Darriou got reveamped! Now 3D era characters we have 10: Kenshi, Li Mei, Tanya, Reiko, Havik, Ashrah, Quan Chi, Nitara, (Kameo) Darrius and (Kameo) Frost. It's a breath and flesh air seeing all the 3D era characters that haven't playable since Armageddon in a modern MK game.

The Banished trailer is definitely my favorite and the best followed by the Umgadi trailer. It’s what got me to preorder.
 
Holy fuck @Xenon ultimate theory fighting right now, but I was just thinking about Reptile's command run. Remember how you would use it in MKX to cross sides on their wakeup? Bruv imagine using that now with Kameos. You do your combo, end it with a cute little knockdown, call your Kameo (one with a bit of windup like Kano Knives) and then command dash on their wakeup to corpsehop to the other side. Now they're forced to wake up in your direction while the Kameo forces them to block unchallenged. They can't armor through and hit your assist because your Kameo hits them from the other side as you apply meaty pressure at the same time.

Holy shit I cannot wait for this fucking game.
 
BBBLP said:
Holy fuck @Xenon ultimate theory fighting right now, but I was just thinking about Reptile's command run. Remember how you would use it in MKX to cross sides on their wakeup? Bruv imagine using that now with Kameos. You do your combo, end it with a cute little knockdown, call your Kameo (one with a bit of windup like Kano Knives) and then command dash on their wakeup to corpsehop to the other side. Now they're forced to wake up in your direction while the Kameo forces them to block unchallenged. They can't armor through and hit your assist because your Kameo hits them from the other side as you apply meaty pressure at the same time.

Holy shit I cannot wait for this fucking game.
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I don't remember much about MKX, but in MK9 Reptile has an Oki that can screw up some wakeups. It's kinda useless against top tier braindead characters used by pro-level players, but in many cases it basically nullifies all wakeups. Here's what I mean:

4:39 for the wakeup trick
Interesting theory nonetheless.
 
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Well it looks like we have our new game mode.. A seasonal schedule which has to mean battlepass..

Hyped up a new game mode and its probably Mk11 Krypt 2.0
 

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Yeah it got confirmed. So a top down, "adventure" map. Most likely a battle pass indeed. Especially as it will include Seasonal challenges. So the Dragon Krystals will be used to purchase a premium edition or skip the grind. Got it. So another grindy mode. I mean... one would have been foolish to expect anything different.

I told my buddy and he didn't believe they would keep going down this route. Ignorance is indeed a bliss... for those that take advantage of it, that is. Welp. Gonna go collect my bet money.

For the rest of you... have fun..? That is if the game works without issues and nobody was stupid enough here to buy a PC version. If everything goes well, then yeah. Have fun, lads. May you get your money's worth. I myself got what I wanted, so I am out of this thread, as I won't have anything to contribute to this topic, past this point.
 
So it's basically a Battle Pass Tower posing as poor man's Deception Konquest?.... No wonder they've tried to keep it hidden for so long.

By the way getting hyped for Battle Pass..... a Free To Play mechanic.... after paying top dollar..... $70+..... I just.........

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Rumble21 said:
Well it looks like we have our new game mode.. A seasonal schedule which has to mean battlepass..

Hyped up a new game mode and its probably Mk11 Krypt 2.0
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It could also be like Kombat League but for single-player mode, and IF that's the case where it's like a SP Kombat League or World of Light in Smash Bros., then I wouldn't mind that as much.
Ed himself said that Mortal Kombat 1 won't feature battle passes, so who knows?
Maybe since Kill The Justice League got torched for having a Battle Pass (and rightfully so) WB told them to rework it so that it doesn't function in the same predator way and that's what's taken them so long to talk about it.

It it's any thing like this, it should be fine.
I haven't messed around too much in World of Light, but from the little time I spent with it I don't recall it having a Battle Pass.

 
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Dude . . . . . Geras. Holy fucking shit. If there was ever a better example of how terrible the variation system in 11 was, Geras is the shining jewel. He is a COMPLETE character.
 
I did like how Sub-Zero KaMeO makes you projectile immune by giving you ice armor. That's nice and creative. Ashrah's mechanics are interesting too. She looks like a Cerberus Reject but at least looks like fun to play.

What I couldn't stand is the 20 minute cutscenes aka KrUsHiNg BlOwS, and even though they buffed the movement speed a bit, the strings take forever. Like Smoke does 5 hit string, that's probably 10 minutes long..... Just why?..... Also what's up with the random SlOw Mo when you throw...
 
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Well the way I see it is this game looks straight broken lol. The first month of this games release is going to be hilarious before the knee jerk ''why would NRS do this?'' nerf hammers come down. People are going to be pissed lol.
 
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I did like how Sub-Zero KaMeO makes you projectile immune by giving you ice armor. That's nice and creative. Ashrah's mechanics are interesting too. She looks like a Cerberus Reject but at least looks like fun to play.

What I couldn't stand is the 20 minute cutscenes aka KrUsHiNg BlOwS, and even though they buffed the movement speed a bit, the strings take forever. Like Smoke does 5 hit string, that's probably 10 minutes long..... Just why?..... Also what's up with the random SlOw Mo when you throw...
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Yeah Smoke is really weird in that regard. His shit takes forever for some reason.
 
Bradley Abbott Turner said:
It's a rushed project even they they say they had 4 years to work on it. I mean...4 years for them to figure out we want dash block. We want faster movement. They shoulda put the stress test open to all and a year ago so they have time to get solid feedback and implement the changes. All these last min changes to the so called 4 year build is gonna break the game. If mortal Kombat 12 has proven anything...it's that you apparently CAN shine shit. Bc the game looks beautiful the roster is the best since mk9 but the system and modes are a huge pile of shit. This game is going to fall flat.when you have conquest and shujinko and more options as well as 1v1 in SF6 and tekken is always is tekken. NRS look like straight clowns in the fighting game wars this year. .if you buy this game you are the problem. Straight up. Have some pride and dignity and stop supporting this shit.
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I pre-ordered 1 Kollector's Edition, 1 premium edition. I'm gonna buy the Switch version just to check it out, and I'm probably gonna buy my friends some more PS5 copies.

Let the problems roll, baby. This game is super fucking fun.
 
I feel like I missed a lot of stuff here. Lol

Anyways, I just hope that the next thing that they reveal is the fucking game modes for this game.
5 weeks out until this game releases and all that we have is Towers and online mode (thanks to the stress test) and this Invasion mode which we just learned about thanks to the Brazilians but otherwise we know 0 about........and all that we have at the moment is just baseless speculation about it.

Could "Invasion" end up being like a Battle Pass? Perhaps
Could "Invasion" end up being like a SP version of Kombat League? Perhaps
Could "Invasion" end up being like a mix of Krypt and Konquest mode? Perhaps
We don't know jack shit about what this whole mode entails. 🤷‍♂️


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Well the way I see it is this game looks straight broken lol. The first month of this games release is going to be hilarious before the knee jerk ''why would NRS do this?'' nerf hammers come down. People are going to be pissed lol.
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Sub-Zero with kameo Sub-Zero or even Johnny Cage with kameo Sub-Zero giving them ice armor is for sure going to get nerfed to hell.
I can just see the rage going on about it now.
Yeah, kameo Sub-Zero and kameo Frost are definitely going to get nerfed to shit because people don't know how to react or counter the ice armor or floating / anti-air ice ball, so then in comes the crying about it. :ROFLMAO:
 
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I've brought this up before but the reason we're still in the dark about game modes is because most likely it's got some questionable grindy stuff NRS doesn't want to reveal before the embargo lifts. It's a given WB forced something related to pay to skip the grind in MK1 that no ones going to like. The same thing happened with MK11 when it originally launched with the krypt. I'm not at all surprised why they've been so quiet about it. It's always get your money first then fake apologize about it later. I'm sure the game itself will be fun but let’s not be a blind sheep to all the other BS that comes with it.
 
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