On the leaked roster image there are 9 spots left. Do you think it's 25 confirmed (28 plus 6 DLC) making it 34 in total? Would that mean the other three are unlockable Shang, Mileena and Shinnok? Shinnok is rumored to be in as well.
Well, if this is the case then I am not very satisfied, tbh. First of all, there are ALL playable characters from MK1 and MK2 but Reptile is missing. He is probably going to be DLC though.
Second complain - general lack of male ninjas. With Kitana, Mileena, Jade and Skarlet we get more female ninjas than males. I'm glad at least Noob made the cut. No Smoke, no Rain, no Ermac and no Reptile. No cyber ninjas. They won't repeat DLC, so if none of them is going to appear on the main roster, they won't be DLC because of Triborg in MKX. Same for Human Smoke and Rain. Ermac could be DLC.
Third complain: NO freakin' Fujin, AGAIN. Why? He is Raiden's legacy, he has/had so much promise. I am sure he will be DLC if he doesn't magically appear on the main roster, but why isn't he playable from the start? Same for Havik... Two of the best 3D era characters that haven't been playable in this timeline are ignored.
Fourth and biggest complain: Considering all three complains above there are following characters on the main roster:
- Frost: a (now bold) female Sub-Zero clone instead of another interesting females like Sindel, Tanya or even Sareena or Ashrah
- Jacqui AND Jax: This one is pain in the a**. Would rather have none or at least one of them but not both, AGAIN. Give these two slots to someone like Nightwolf or Fujin and Havik and we would have a soild roster. Same thing with the Cages. At least two of them instead of all three again would have been enough.
Yes, I know that there are going to be Kombat Packs with maybe 12 more characters. At this moment such characters like
Reptile, Ermac, Rain, Smoke, Fujin, Havik, Cyrax, Sektor, Sindel, Nightwolf are NOT in the game, making it 10 MK characters. Now comes the overdiscussed guest problem. Right now I am 100% against them because of taking away spots from iconic MK characters. I mentioned 10 fighters with at least 4 of them not being able to be DLC because of guests (if we assume two guests per KP). And it's the developer's fault because of their dumb choices for the main roster.
I don't hate any of the new characters so far. They are not the problem for me, as you can see.