Roster Size is final.

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it may be old news, but Boon tweeted today "confirming" that the roster size we see on NetherRealm's streams is final.

"“@Bpmarshall12: [MENTION=633]noob[/MENTION]de is the size of the character roster final? EB: We will be adding DLC characters as well."


A month ago, i think lover_of_tacos (not so sure if it was him) answered a fan's question saying that the roster's apperance was not final, and some people started to speculate about the possibility of expanding it and adding some new spots. Looks like this is not going to happen.
 
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He didn't say it is final.

Another misleading title.

The only thing he said is that the roster we get on launch is not the final roster because they will add DLC, he didn't sat the size of the roster we've seen on the streams is the final one.
 
Im not arguing whether it is or isn't. But that doesn't confirm or deny anything.

Is the size of the roster final? That makes no reference of the character select screen. He replies that DLC is coming...meaning nothing more than "no, however many characters are on the roster, more are going to be added through DLC."
 
Cryo said:
He didn't say it is final.

Another misleading title.
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Well, he answered this specific question and didn't denied it, and didn't use irony either... For me at least, he basically said that is not going to change. Like: "That's It, but there will be more than 24 because of DLC"

I may be wrong, but that's what i understood anyway =/
 
asears08 said:
Im not arguing whether it is or isn't. But that doesn't confirm or deny anything.

Is the size of the roster final? That makes no reference of the character select screen. He replies that DLC is coming...meaning nothing more than "no, however many characters are on the roster, more are going to be added through DLC."
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IDK. I understood it as a "Yes". like, "If there's more than what u see, it will be DLC" I Could be wrong, though.
 
Shouldn't be news to anyone. They said the select screen isn't final for MK9 and Injustice and those never changed beyond their original numbers.

25 is a fine number, though. We'll have more than 30 with DLC.
 
JinCA said:
I wish there were more arenas, MK9 seemed to have a lot more.
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Im positive they are just withholding most because it would give away too much about story mode.

Mk9 has something like 26 stages. Injustice had 15 but there were multiple stages within the stages.
 
Lord Greyjoy said:
Shouldn't be news to anyone. They said the select screen isn't final for MK9 and Injustice and those never changed beyond their original numbers.

25 is a fine number, though. We'll have more than 30 with DLC.
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this. And if we had so many more characters like people claimed that would mean more than half the roster is unknown which we know nrs wouldn't do at this point. Thats why they try to act as if mileena, jax, kenshi, shinnok, erron black and liu kang arent confirmed already in the streams. To try to milk out the roster as much until release.
 
25 is fine. Yes, any fan of the series would've wanted more, but with DLC, it'll be a decent size roster.

Sadly, a lot of my favorites are sitting out of this game.
 
RaiNaz said:
25 is fine. Yes, any fan of the series would've wanted more, but with DLC, it'll be a decent size roster.

Sadly, a lot of my favorites are sitting out of this game.
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It is definely a good number. with 4 DLC in Kombat Pack + Possible future DLC pack the number could get up to 33. Some of my favorites have not been announced yet for the main roster, and probably won't. But i hope they get to be DLC at least.
 
RaiNaz said:
25 is fine. Yes, any fan of the series would've wanted more, but with DLC, it'll be a decent size roster.

Sadly, a lot of my favorites are sitting out of this game.
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Sadly thats usually the case for every game unless all your favs are from mk1 and mk2 you will usually have most of your favs left out. Too bad i won't see fujin, kai, havik, hotaru, drahmin, and reiko playable unless dlc.
 
JinCA said:
I wish there were more arenas, MK9 seemed to have a lot more.
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Yeah this is something im worried about. While I like some of the MKX stages, It seems like there is only a handful of them and I really wish there were some stages with obvious stage fatalities. A Pit like stage or so
 
FlawlessVictor said:
Honestly, I didn't think the roster will get that big, especially when characters are getting 3 variations each.
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Agree. Variations is the best thing in MKX. but it must had been insanely hard to achieve such great results. tons of more work. It's actually already impressive that the roster number + DLC will get to be more than 30 Characters.
 
There's still room for this guy, though.

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They add one or two moves and change a little thing on the outfits, I don't know how that's "tones of work".
 
Cryo said:
They add one or two moves and change a little thing on the outfits, I don't know how that's "tones of work".
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It's not quite as much work as some say (they are not creating 75 characters), but it's something. All the extra design brainstorming + concepts + execution for the variations probably amounts to as much man hours as it would take to fully create several characters.
 
The select screen for the main roster has been shown to be the same since MK vs. DCU back in 2008. Not counting Goro, I see us getting 6-7 DLC in total assuming that they do more after the Kombat Pass.
 
squirt007nc said:
Sadly thats usually the case for every game unless all your favs are from mk1 and mk2 you will usually have most of your favs left out. Too bad i won't see fujin, kai, havik, hotaru, drahmin, and reiko playable unless dlc.
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I understand the favorites cant be left out but I am just so disappointed that we arent seeing a few more post MK3 characters. This would have been a perfect game to bring back some of the MK4 cast
 
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