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I AM J0HN RAMBO

Noob
Seriously, how hard can it be? I've read it wasn't popular enough, but honestly tag in MK9 was the most fun I've had playing an MK game since the arcade era.

Now before you simply reply saying "no", please hear me out.

I love tag for this reason - social experience. Tag allowed my brother and I to sit side by side and battle against two (or sometimes one, which was fine) player(s) online. It NEVER got old. I still remember him and I picking up our copies of MK9 for the midnight. It was the most fun we had playing a game since Halo 2. We sat side by side until 10 a.m. slamming down dew and sour patch kids, all while talking a massive amount of shit to everyone we faced (all in good fun).

I guess we are the minority, but in this day and age I prefer playing games with friends with what little free time I have. My friend came over to check out MKX and the first thing he said was "let's hop on tag mode and kick some ass." He was shocked when I told him this feature was absent from MKX.

It doesn't have to be technical (ability to chain combos between fighters). Hell, I don't even care if you can tag your teammate in. It could be as simple as when player 1 dies, player 2 enters.

I've loved this series and have played since the original. I bought the $150 edition. I'm enjoying MKX, but fighting opponents online alone is only fun for me for so long.

Surely others out there share this opinion with me? I wish I knew a way to stay up to date on if this feature will ever possibly return. I searched and searched and saw that Boon and the team "loved" tag team, but it didn't receive the popularity they were hoping for. In the past several years my brother and I have never had an issue finding matches, so obviously we aren't the only ones searching it.

Lastly, team battle is a joke. I really thought for a moment I truly could invite two or four other friends and battle it out online. Nope. Once my match completed I was transitioned to a 16 bit style background to watch my other teammates health meters. Lame.

Again, big fan.. just looking to see if anyone can shed some light on how to get this feature back in, or your opinion.

Thanks.
 
J

JMFitzy85

Noob
I'm with you here 100%, but apparently they had focus groups and no one admitted to ever using tag team.

I was like you with my friend, we used it a ton online, long hours of tag ladder. I can see why the bulk of the tourney community would want development time spent on 1v1 smoothness, but I was crushed when it was excluded.

There's just a thing in gaming in general where people are kind of rallying against multiplayer and co op in general, I think this is one of the symptoms.

You're right though, team battle is kind a disgrace, seems like a last minute concession. There's just no good ways to play with a friend other than 1v1. Sucks.
 
RoyMustang

RoyMustang

Noob
I have three brothers, and even though none of them are into fighting games like I am, even they enjoyed playing tag battle and it was always a blast. We were all dissapointed to see it gone. Hope they bring it back through an update or through free DLC. Not paid DLC, that'd be annoying and dumb.
 
J

JMFitzy85

Noob
Yeah, we are the minority.

I love the game anyway, and I love competing, but it's a social experience for me too.

Its probably more of a question of our personalities but being forced to play KOTH and VS with the one friend I have that is an avid fighting game learner, causes us to be pretty adversarial and ball busting, it gets exhausting.

Not to mention we don't prefer playing each other over a variety of opponents because the game becomes an oversaturated match up.

We just start to know habits and it becomes less about skill and more about predicting those habits so even that can get boring.

Theres not enough demand for it to make a come back. Still bummed about it and could complain on this thread about the same points for the rest of the games life and not get over it. Lol.

Here's hoping though I guess.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I bet if they made Tag like it worked in SF Tekken or DOA, as in you're able to play tag with four people online rather than only local they might see an increase in people using it, particularly casuals.

Local only was a big hamstring. Unless I'm remembering it wrong, it was local only right?
 
Saint Op Omen

Saint Op Omen

Savagely beating his super-ego with his id...
Lol I love the "how hard can it be"...
We'll really fn hard really... Not to mention that loading in 2 more characters would take a lot longer... Who knows if the load can even handle it... They could have reached the limit of available assets and did not want to compromise the effects and graphics that much just to shoehorn tag in....
 
Lumpymoomilk

Lumpymoomilk

Online Punching Bag
I've never tried it but what is the team battle option for online, its not tag team I'm assuming just taking turns?

Online tag team would be amazing except imagine how terribly laggy it would be if we can't even do 1 vs 1's without many problems.
 
K

kunglaogod

www.Twitch.tv/drunkenshotgg
playing with semi-pro players trying train for combo breaker twitch.tv/drunkenshotgg im using kunglao and maybe ermac? i am a guru with kunglao i know him from top to bottom safe strings and combos
 
Lt. Boxy Angelman

Lt. Boxy Angelman

I WILL EAT THIS GAME
The only thing that doomed Tag for me was the special assists and all the resulting stupidity. If they had widdled it down to the Tekken Tag style tagging in off of string into combo extenders, it would've been a completely different story.

I would've loved to at least seen an old school 2V2 or 3V3 mode. Diversity = <3.
 
Nymesis

Nymesis

Noob
I always thought Injustice was going to have 2v2. Always thought it was weird that online it would say 1v1 Ranked. Felt like they had planned a 2v2, or maybe I'm just stupid haha
 
Apex Kano

Apex Kano

Kano Commando main MKX
I don't know tbw thpe of focus group thwy had. I loved it! My avatar was my tag team for MK9 and i miss using tag mode.
 
getoverhere--->

getoverhere--->

Apprentice
I miss tag too, wish it was in the game instead of those annoying assistant / test your luck battles. Would have loved to see tag team fatalities
 
J

JMFitzy855

Noob
Yeah, I'm sure it was definitely a lot of work to put it in and that's why it's missing from the game.

Weird comparison, but when NHL 15 came out for the next gen consoles they scrapped nearly every mode that involved co-op or league play because they simply couldn't make it work in time. I know it's a yearly franchise, but obviously it's a task.

lol, I do love the people that get super heated about people wanting tag in. I never understood that mind set.
 
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