Official Patch Notes & Hotfix Released!

[M2Dave]

Tom Brady claims that Freddy's glitch is still in. Can someone with an X-Box 360 finally put this to test and make a video, so that the community does not ban characters unnecessarily?

Here is the set up.

To activate the glitch, you interrupt Freddy's teleport with a physical attack (i.e., Sub Zero's 2,2). By "interrupt", I mean that you hit Freddy just as he is about to teleport (i.e., you see the flames, but he does not teleport successfully). Then just check whether any projectile goes through him.

 

[RWDY Nori]

Honestly, He's not even been on my radar since he was so bugged out before and I haven't messed with him since the changes.
And, I mostly agree. Even if everyone did have access to it, it's too soon to be making those types of calls anyway. Some characters may develop completely new strategies to implement that aren't even being showcased, yet.

You have to think the following chars got A LOT better:


Sheeva (she has armor on everything, even the start button. VERY smart of NRS to make her fireballs mid)
Stryker (Vulcan Hades probably sacrificed a small goat when he read the changes)
Jax (no comment, no need to, he's very very strong now)
Sindel (unless Dancock disagrees, which I don't think he will)
Jade (smart Jade players at least notice this)
SZ (I'm not even going to start)
KL (Yeah, that's right, KL. He got better. Think about it)
Raiden (Now he has mixups from EN Teleport)
Scorpion (Is EVERYBODY sleeping on the fact he has a very long range, fast takedown that's safe, or is it just me?)
Noob (overhead tackle is very, very nice. Fixing teleport was great too)
Sektor (no more missiles messing up, and TU is faster, which makes me sad but is great for Sektor players)
Reptile (anybody out there can punish his dash consistently after this patch? Oh yeah, EN slide has ARMOR now lol, silly NRS)
Rain (CDJr says his D3 is better? Cause you know, Rain sucked before right guys?)

Who was already good and received no changes?

Mileena (Who is still a monster in the right hands, I don't care what anybody says)
NW
Ermac
Kenshi
Sonya


Who got small nerfs but are still very good chars?

Cage
Kitana
Cyrax


I could go on, there are chars I'm missing, but the tier list will be very different in about 2 months. People have to rediscover their chars. Matchups will be so different, so I'm not sold on a for sure top 5 or even top 3 right now

To activate the glitch, you interrupt Freddy's teleport with a physical attack (i.e., Sub Zero's 2,2). By "interrupt", I mean that you hit Freddy just as he is about to teleport (i.e., you see the flames, but he does not teleport successfully). Then just check whether any projectile goes through him.

Somebody PLEASE test this out

 

[webreg]

I don't think the input glitch is actually a glitch. To me it seems, that the problem is, that the directional input and the button have a strange and very narrow tolerance for being pressed at the same time or rather not at the same time. If you press the button a frame or maybe even less earlier than the direction, the game is already executing the button action and ignores the direction. Or maybe it is the other way around, the game needs a tiny bit of time to acknowledge the directional input before you press the button which means that perfectly pressing both buttons at the same time won't work. This would also explain why some players don't experience this while others have this problem quite frequently.

 

[aj1701]

Tom Brady claims that Freddy's glitch is still in. Can someone with an X-Box 360 finally put this to test and make a video, so that the community does not ban characters unnecessarily?

I wonder if that was due to stale hotfix data as well. Everyone else is saying its fixed.

 

[AU_IM_DIGIMON]

So does this mean Freddy can now be used in tournaments because if he can I am going out right now to buy Mortal Kombat 9

He should be allowed now as far as I'm concerned. But we'll have to wait til someone confirms the projectile glitch.

I didn't want to ask this but I will now. After reading these changes, anyone care to list top 8-10 in the game? I saw mileena's name getting tossed around and never really considered it.

Somewhat in particular order (based on what I've read so far):

1: Kabal
2: Raiden
3: Kung Lao
4: Mileena
5: Nightwolf
6: Kitana
7: Reptile
8: Cyrax
9: Cage
10: Liu Kang

Sigh. Instead of saying things like this, why don't you visit the Jade forums once in a while? At least you would have known that there is NO unblockable involving EN low and the overhead and you would also have a better understanding of how EN rangs work. Why? Because you cannot touch or hit the opponent before the return hit of En low due to its long recovery. Coupled with the long startup of her overhead and this is far from an unblockable. So where is this "free" launcher and 50/50 mixups that you are talking about? Lets even assume that you try to use En overhead in tandem with EN low (Which I stated is not a 50/50, its a low high) to create this "free" launcher. Guess what? En low creates a very unusual Johnny Cage like stagger effect where the opponent can block immediately after the return hit. So you do en overhead after the en low and the opponent can completely ignore the en low and just block the overhead. No unblockable and you waste 2 meters.

It is baffling to see that people in this thread are supporting false info on Jade. What makes it even more hilarious (or sad) is these same people are nowhere to found on the Jade forums.

What's baffling is how much you run your mouth and the way you post (especially seeing you and Husteen go back and forth), as if your some arrogant egotistical asshole. -__-

Well I was under the impression that the cooldown window to MOVE after the EX Rang was shortened or removed all together (I mean why would they give her a return rang on block if she can't move immediately after...kinda pointless imo =/ ). Because if it was, then I'd be 100% correct on what I suggested...the guaranteed low off a blocked "EX Rang". I don't have a 360 to test shit in the patch so yeah...

...my bad.

mk9 isn't about mixups so much as frametraps and zoning.

I don't 100% agree on this.

Sheeva, Quan Chi and Johnny Cage, Lao, Mileena, Raiden, Jade, Kang, Jax (all who can/have to mix it up and RTSD)...and I'm sure there's other characters I'm forgetting.

ll have to get in the opponents face and mix that shit up to be 100% effective.

Zoning isn't all that it's cut out to be, especially with over 40% of the cast having a teleport of some kind. Frametraps are pretty strong in this game, but with the recent patches, looks like NRS is trying to give opponents more breathing room imo.

probably not till after the hotfix as MK2 noob costume is banned from the next 2 majors and will stay banned till the hotfix gives all of noob's costumes the overhead shadow tackle.

Mind as well Ban Noob then entirely, cause NO NOOB MAIN is gonna NOT want to be able to use his buffs. =/

 

[iam_ct]

He should be allowed now as far as I'm concerned. But we'll have to wait til someone confirms the projectile glitch.



Somewhat in particular order (based on what I've read so far):

1: Kabal
2: Raiden
3: Kung Lao
4: Mileena
5: Nightwolf
6: Kitana
7: Reptile
8: Cyrax
9: Cage
10: Liu Kang



What's baffling is how much you run your mouth and the way you post (especially seeing you and Husteen go back and forth), as if your some arrogant egotistical asshole. -__-

Well I was under the impression that the cooldown window to MOVE after the EX Rang was shortened or removed all together (I mean why would they give her a return rang on block if she can't move immediately after...kinda pointless imo =/ ). Because if it was, then I'd be 100% correct on what I suggested...the guaranteed low off a blocked "EX Rang". I don't have a 360 to test shit in the patch so yeah...

...my bad.




I don't 100% agree on this.

Sheeva, Quan Chi and Johnny Cage, Lao, Mileena, Raiden, Jade, Kang, Jax (all who can/have to mix it up and RTSD)...and I'm sure there's other characters I'm forgetting.

ll have to get in the opponents face and mix that shit up to be 100% effective.

Zoning isn't all that it's cut out to be, especially with over 40% of the cast having a teleport of some kind. Frametraps are pretty strong in this game, but with the recent patches, looks like NRS is trying to give opponents more breathing room imo.



Mind as well Ban Noob then entirely, cause NO NOOB MAIN is gonna NOT want to be able to use his buffs. =/

hell yeah you mind as well though

 

[RWDY Nori]

Somewhat in particular order (based on what I've read so far):

1: Kabal
2: Raiden
3: Kung Lao
4: Mileena
5: Nightwolf
6: Kitana
7: Reptile
8: Cyrax
9: Cage
10: Liu Kang

Wowza. No SZ in there anywhere? Or Rain? Or Freddy?

 

[CY MasterHavik]

Shoot hurry up with the hotfix NRs. Hell, since you're hotfixing give Jax a dmg buff and make f413 a launcher. Im' joking guys. I bet a lot of people will rage if they did that as well to Jax.

 

[Bildslash]

You have to think the following chars got A LOT better:


Sheeva (she has armor on everything, even the start button. VERY smart of NRS to make her fireballs mid)
Stryker (Vulcan Hades probably sacrificed a small goat when he read the changes)
Jax (no comment, no need to, he's very very strong now)
Sindel (unless Dancock disagrees, which I don't think he will)
Jade (smart Jade players at least notice this)
SZ (I'm not even going to start)
KL (Yeah, that's right, KL. He got better. Think about it)
Raiden (Now he has mixups from EN Teleport)
Scorpion (Is EVERYBODY sleeping on the fact he has a very long range, fast takedown that's safe, or is it just me?)
Noob (overhead tackle is very, very nice. Fixing teleport was great too)
Sektor (no more missiles messing up, and TU is faster, which makes me sad but is great for Sektor players)
Reptile (anybody out there can punish his dash consistently after this patch? Oh yeah, EN slide has ARMOR now lol, silly NRS)
Rain (CDJr says his D3 is better? Cause you know, Rain sucked before right guys?)

Sektor (no more missiles messing up, and TU is faster, which makes me sad but is great for Sektor players)

TU is faster

Are you 100% sure of that??!! ance:

 

[Husteen]

after reading these patch notes and seeing a little bit of them on youtube from xbox players, the game doesn't seem as fun because i don't have them.
first they said ps3 will get the patch "next week."
then they said "soon."
then they said a "matter of days."
i want the patch =[

 

[A F0xy Grampa]

After reading this for the first time, I wanted to do this:

Then I ALMOST did this:

But I just ended up doing this:

Seriously, this is stupid. My rushdown character not being able to rushdown my opponent with a consistent blockstring = WTF???



What? They've made 314 COMPLETELY uncancellable just to prevent a brainless infinite while all they needed to do was to reduce the hitstun frames of the last hit, destroying the only viable WallCombo she had???

LAME.

114 MS hitconfirm, that is all

 

[Past]

What's baffling is how much you run your mouth and the way you post (especially seeing you and Husteen go back and forth), as if your some arrogant egotistical asshole. -__-

Well I was under the impression that the cooldown window to MOVE after the EX Rang was shortened or removed all together (I mean why would they give her a return rang on block if she can't move immediately after...kinda pointless imo =/ ). Because if it was, then I'd be 100% correct on what I suggested...the guaranteed low off a blocked "EX Rang". I don't have a 360 to test shit in the patch so yeah...

...my bad.

Correcting inane comments about Jade's gameplay = Running my mouth and being an arrogant egotistical asshole


I'm done here. If you want to spread more ignorance about Jade, go ahead. I won't stop you. Because that would mean that I'm antagonizing you and that's not how to become a productive member of TYM.

 

[AU_IM_DIGIMON]

Wowza. No SZ in there anywhere? Or Rain? Or Freddy?

ROFLMFAO! I KNEW I was forgetting someone. =/

1: Kabal
2: Raiden
3: Kung Lao
4: Sub - Zero
5: Mileena
6: Nightwolf
7: Kitana
8: Reptile
9: Cyrax
10: Liu Kang

Okay list edited.

I realized that Kang might be a lil more LAME than Cage. And has a much better mixup and spacing tools than Cage imo.

As for Rain and Freddy:

Rain: sure CDjr is a gdlk player. But I really don't see Rain, as the character, being better than the characters listed above. Don't tell me you guys think Jax...is better than any of the characters listed above do u (just because CDjr is gdlk with him)?

Freddy: Freddy would probably be right under Cage IMO. Has pretty nice spacing tools.

 

[DanCock]

I think one could argue now that every character is a tier but quan chi. There isn't a "low tier" but weaker characters. Pretty much like most tekken games where every character can win a tournament. (I could be wrong about tekken, but from playing it the 2 years I did it seemed very balanced)


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[ETC AdmiralAugustus]

I think one could argue now that every character is a tier but quan chi. There isn't a "low tier" but weaker characters. Pretty much like most tekken games where every character can win a tournament. (I could be wrong about tekken, but from playing it the 2 years I did it seemed very balanced)


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You leave Quan outta this............ >:[

 

[DanCock]

You leave Quan outta this............ >:[

I think he needs a second wake up attack I feel bad for him.


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[Saint]

I think one could argue now that every character is a tier but quan chi. There isn't a "low tier" but weaker characters. Pretty much like most tekken games where every character can win a tournament. (I could be wrong about tekken, but from playing it the 2 years I did it seemed very balanced)


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Doesn't Tekken have the same bunch of characters in finals every single time?

 

[Raidenwins]

You want broken? Raiden. Reptile. Lao. Seriously scuff off of Kitana, she's barely up to par.

Wow, is it just me or the whiners are at it again. Dude, seriously, give Raiden a freaking brake. He just got nerfed, yet again.

 

[Saint]

Wow, is it just me or the whiners are at it again. Dude, seriously, give Raiden a freaking brake. He just got nerfed, yet again.

Will OEM do?

 

[DanCock]

Doesn't Tekken have the same bunch of characters in finals every single time?

Could it be the players? Same players in final? I honestly don't know 100% for sure but it always seemed every character had the tools to compete unlike mk games until this patch.


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[Supernova]

Sektor... and TU is faster, which makes me sad but is great for Sektor players)

Are you 100% sure of that??!! ance:

Yeah, I'm curious because I haven't seen that either, though I only read the patch notes on this site.

 

[Saint]

Could it be the players? Same players in final? I honestly don't know 100% for sure but it always seemed every character had the tools to compete unlike mk games until this patch.


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I'm not sure either it was a genuine question, I'm uninformed on that matter.

Just recall some past tournaments I've watched bits and pieces from.

 

[Shadowfire]

I continue to be amazed people are calling Jax top tier...

1. Before everyone has the patch
2. Without playing against Jax
3. Without playing as Jax post-patch
4. Probably without playing as Jax pre-patch
5. While managing to not put him in any top 10 lists (which are meaningless right now anyway)

 

[DanCock]

I continue to be amazed people are calling Jax top tier...

1. Before everyone has the patch
2. Without playing against Jax
3. Without playing as Jax post-patch
4. Probably without playing as Jax pre-patch
5. While managing to not put him in any top 10 lists (which are meaningless right now anyway)

Play reo and watch cd jr use him. That's how he's played and other should view and learn jax is a monster. And now with a faster projectile he can zone a little like cage.


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[ETC AdmiralAugustus]

I think he needs a second wake up attack I feel bad for him.


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Armored EX Rune???????????