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The MKXL patch is out and everyone's got an opinion. Love it or hate it, what has it got you wanting to see more - or less - of in the next NRS game? What wheels of gameplay couch design has this latest Paulo offering gotten turning inside your heads regarding Injustice 2's impending release? I'll kick things off: here's hoping to all hell they go back to well-defined character/gameplay archetypes.
Grundy was a grappler. Grundy was everything a grappler is supposed to be. Cryomancer Sub-Zero is a rushdown character with a fucking command grab. Cryomancer Sub-Zero is wtf-is-that-even-omg. If they slap a command grab on the Flash in Injustice 2 I quit.
Zod was a zoner. Zod was everything a zoner is supposed to be. Kitana was a zoner too. Now Kitana also has some of the best pressure, mix-ups and armor around and who knows, maybe with a hotfix they can give her the command grab she's missing too because wtf why, NRS, what are you even doing?
So yeah, MKX/XL was and is a regression from Injustice in terms of offering well-defined character/gameplay archetypes, in large part due to limitations the variation system forces on that sort of diversity to begin with, but also because they're on this psychotic downward spiral of going more and more ham giving characters shit they don't need with every patch. If Bane makes it back for the sequel and has a spammable fucking projectile just because NRS has lost their damn minds and everyone needs to have all the things to them, I'm going to blow my brains out. So here's hoping they tone that shit down and return to form.
Who else wants what? Who thinks NRS is on the right track and who hopes they turn tf back around? Let's hear it all.
Grundy was a grappler. Grundy was everything a grappler is supposed to be. Cryomancer Sub-Zero is a rushdown character with a fucking command grab. Cryomancer Sub-Zero is wtf-is-that-even-omg. If they slap a command grab on the Flash in Injustice 2 I quit.
Zod was a zoner. Zod was everything a zoner is supposed to be. Kitana was a zoner too. Now Kitana also has some of the best pressure, mix-ups and armor around and who knows, maybe with a hotfix they can give her the command grab she's missing too because wtf why, NRS, what are you even doing?
So yeah, MKX/XL was and is a regression from Injustice in terms of offering well-defined character/gameplay archetypes, in large part due to limitations the variation system forces on that sort of diversity to begin with, but also because they're on this psychotic downward spiral of going more and more ham giving characters shit they don't need with every patch. If Bane makes it back for the sequel and has a spammable fucking projectile just because NRS has lost their damn minds and everyone needs to have all the things to them, I'm going to blow my brains out. So here's hoping they tone that shit down and return to form.
Who else wants what? Who thinks NRS is on the right track and who hopes they turn tf back around? Let's hear it all.