TOP TEN MK9 Mistakes

Post what you feel are the top ten mistakes Netherrealm has made involving MK9. Hopefully this will serve as a guide to Netherrealm as what NOT to do in the upcoming games.


1. Nerfing Subzero in one of the latest patches
2. Giving Kenshi armor on everything
3. Giving PS3 Kratos and not giving Xbox 360 Masterchief
4. Player 1 advantage
5. Allowing a tournament to happen with Kabal having an infinite.
6. Not being able to have someone from online on your team in a tag match
7. The music in MK9 sucks
8. Not making more DLCs
9. No Hara-Kiris
10. Giving us Scarlett as a DLC instead of Ashrah!

Not buffing mil... oh wait i dont want to start it.

1. Making online too godlike. Who would even leave their house when the netcode is this good?

I'll give you a top 5 tbh.
5. Rushed development
4. Poor design choices
3. Horrible resource management
2. Doing it in the console industry instead of making a contract with Valve and launching it over steam
1. And thus fucking their own business over by not being able to patch due to absolutely prehistoric business confines.

The biggest mistake NRS made was:

1. Listening to people who are dumb and don't know anything about this game....

You all have no idea what goes on in NRS studio so stop crying....IT IS STUPID AND YOU SOUND ANNOYING

skarlet > ashrah

training mode was the biggest mistake

Even with all their screw ups this is the best MK since Mk2 for me personally. My major complaints are online lag, input bug, player one advantage, these invincible glitches, unbreakable resets, block infinites and a little bit more balance. But the character roster, stages, story mode are the best from any MK games I've seen. There's no gimmicks like stage traps, falling kombat ect. This one is leagues above anything NRS has done in the last 15 years for a worthy fighter.

Here's what I think:
1) Calling in 5-6 UMK3 players at the last minute expecting them to sieve everything out in less than a week
2) Using a modified version of MKDC's Unreal engine
3) Using Unreal Engine for a fighting game to begin with.
4) Lead developing the game on Xbox 360 dev kits.
5) Random winner for what should be a draw or a double K.O. (it's one thing for a fighting game not to have physical trades, but this is unacceptable, even MK1 had draws, dafuq?)
6) MK3 section of the story mode. Sheer cop-out.
7) Too much buffing/nerfing in patches, not enough bug fixing
8) Completely removing tools from Scorpion because he's a poster boy and thus scrubs will use him yet somehow that didn't matter for Liu Kang, Sub-Zero or Raiden.
9) Turning Sub-Zero into a pure turtle character with gimmicks that got figured out in less than 3 months.
10) Online. Nuff said.

moves that are negative on hit

balancing too much too early via online complaining.

promising good netcode lol

not keeping a closer eye on the testers

unreal/2.5d models

put hot fixing in place without true frame data

Sheeva is a grappler with no grab priority lol

Jade is fucking bad.

P1 advantage

Training mode needed a record function.

Corner properties are verrrry strange.


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This is definitely the BEST mk so far, it's not my favorite, but it's a big improvement from the previous installments. Obviously the good out weighs the bad in this game, that's why I play it. And again this isn't an attack, just suggestions of improvement.

I think that would be too difficult to come up with. For each person to think of 10 mistakes.

One thing I would like to add that is that when you search for a Ranked Match, it should pair you up with someone that is of similar fighting skill. I think right now, searching for an opponent in Ranked Match is completely random.

"Teleporting against Dizzy" was another one. Punished every single time and PL *still* refused to respect it.

1. Kitana's face
2. Killing Motaro offscreen
3. Making Kahn and the Shokans unplayable
4. Blockstun
5. Being able to cancel into military stance
6. Not giving Freddy some one liners
7. Not being able to record moves for the dummy in training
8. Making ex ghost linebacker +7 on fucking block
9. Making SZ's ice blast look completely gimped and full of ass compared to Cyrax net
10. The shitastic online code

No particular order:

1. Giving everyone armor so they could compete with Sub Zero.
2. Making Kabal retardedly good.
3. Making Kenshi retardedly good.
4. Online(wow, compared to TTT2, it's obvious Nrs didn't give this any importance.)
5. Glitches

...No Mokap...

10. Kabal
9. Kabal
8. Kabal
7. Kabal
6. Kabal
5. Kabal
4. Kabal
3. Kabal
2. Kabal
1. Sheeva

Not hiring @Bleed (not that I know if he applied to work for them or not) to be one of their modelers/animators. Seriously, have you seen his work? It's...well, it's the Sub-Zero on the logo for this website. How does that man not work at NRS? I don't consider other things mistakes because we don't necessarily know their time restrictions, but they could certainly hire some very talented people from this website among other MK websites, and still be financially ok. So I would say not maximizing their talent pool.