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Injustice's online modes were a slight improvement from MK9, but they were still pretty barebones.
Ok lets get the obvious one out of the way first, because it's kind of implied already, but better netcode. What everyone wants is GGPO style rollback netcode, it's usually only used for old ports of 2D games, but recently SFxT has used something similar, and the upcoming Killing Instinct is also using rollback netcode. So maybe that's a thing NRS can look into.
Ranked Matches
I think NRS should follow the way Tekken does it, to avoid counter picking you simply choose your character before you enter the search, then when you find someone, it just goes straight to the fight. And it also drops you into training mode well it searches for opponents. It is fantastic.
They also need to add actual search parameters, by locations, P1/P2, how many rounds, things like that.
Player Match
For starters remove having any kind of win/loss statistics, don't even keep them, have no way for anyone to ever be able to check it, yourself included. All it does is encourages people to run when they start losing.
Need an EXP multiplier for fighting the same person over and over again, it keeps increasing the more matches you play, win or lose it doesn't matter, just reward players for playing longer sets. This also means they need to make EXP more worthwhile in general though, maybe have like 5 times as many background/player icon type stuff.
King of the Hill
There needs to be some kind of challenge pop up when its your turn, if you do not hit a button with in 5 seconds, it skips your turn. I swear to god, every time I enter PJS winning, its always someone beating up on Joker. But honestly, this was a huge problem for MK9 as well, trying to run online tournaments was a nightmare, I can't believe NRS didn't do something to fix this, people complained like crazy.
Lobbies
When creating a lobby, it gives you a huge list of options that includes all the kombat kodes and other things like rounds. So if I could create a lobby where every match lasted 4 rounds, with no blood, armless kombat, and psycho kombat, every match started there would follow those rules.
Have a built in spectator mode, so when clicking on a player, if they are already in a match, you could choose to spectate them, maybe have a max of 4 spots for this.
Maybe add in test your luck and competitive test your might as weird things you could challenge people too I guess. Along with keeping survivor from Injustice, and training mode obviously.
Online replays
Just like SF4, saves matches, you can watch them later, or upload them for other people to see, maybe even give an option to upload them directly to youtube. Maybe you could have some of your favorite matches saved to your profile and when people are looking at it, they can choose to DL the videos from there.
Most of these are just very obvious things other games already do, but I am making this just to have a conversation about it, and maybe remind NRS these are things we want.
Outside of this stuff, what kind of features would you guys like to see NRS implement for MK10?
Ok lets get the obvious one out of the way first, because it's kind of implied already, but better netcode. What everyone wants is GGPO style rollback netcode, it's usually only used for old ports of 2D games, but recently SFxT has used something similar, and the upcoming Killing Instinct is also using rollback netcode. So maybe that's a thing NRS can look into.
Ranked Matches
I think NRS should follow the way Tekken does it, to avoid counter picking you simply choose your character before you enter the search, then when you find someone, it just goes straight to the fight. And it also drops you into training mode well it searches for opponents. It is fantastic.
They also need to add actual search parameters, by locations, P1/P2, how many rounds, things like that.
Player Match
For starters remove having any kind of win/loss statistics, don't even keep them, have no way for anyone to ever be able to check it, yourself included. All it does is encourages people to run when they start losing.
Need an EXP multiplier for fighting the same person over and over again, it keeps increasing the more matches you play, win or lose it doesn't matter, just reward players for playing longer sets. This also means they need to make EXP more worthwhile in general though, maybe have like 5 times as many background/player icon type stuff.
King of the Hill
There needs to be some kind of challenge pop up when its your turn, if you do not hit a button with in 5 seconds, it skips your turn. I swear to god, every time I enter PJS winning, its always someone beating up on Joker. But honestly, this was a huge problem for MK9 as well, trying to run online tournaments was a nightmare, I can't believe NRS didn't do something to fix this, people complained like crazy.
Lobbies
When creating a lobby, it gives you a huge list of options that includes all the kombat kodes and other things like rounds. So if I could create a lobby where every match lasted 4 rounds, with no blood, armless kombat, and psycho kombat, every match started there would follow those rules.
Have a built in spectator mode, so when clicking on a player, if they are already in a match, you could choose to spectate them, maybe have a max of 4 spots for this.
Maybe add in test your luck and competitive test your might as weird things you could challenge people too I guess. Along with keeping survivor from Injustice, and training mode obviously.
Online replays
Just like SF4, saves matches, you can watch them later, or upload them for other people to see, maybe even give an option to upload them directly to youtube. Maybe you could have some of your favorite matches saved to your profile and when people are looking at it, they can choose to DL the videos from there.
Most of these are just very obvious things other games already do, but I am making this just to have a conversation about it, and maybe remind NRS these are things we want.
Outside of this stuff, what kind of features would you guys like to see NRS implement for MK10?
