What is your day 1 hot take?

[Edmund]

I love the gameplay, hate the grinding that’s aimed at me spending money :/

But the Kombat really saves it

 

[ErmacMKX]

They need to let go of the variation restrictions, so much potential wasted by them forcing us to use set ones.

 

[Jdizzle31]

Initial Impression : Best MK I have played since the arcade. Absolutely love it.
Hot Take : Jax is a beast of mega proportions. I predict he will be a regular combatant in top 8s.

Shhhhhhhh let 'em swarm to Devorah and Noob

 

[MrMiketastic]

Hot take: I should've called in sick today so I can play the game. (I live in Asia)

 

[BarakaTile]

My hot take is Hot Takes on gameplay and begging for buff/nerfs on day 1 week 1 month 1 is what led to the patching nightmare of MKX and MK9.

 

[x TeeJay o]

I hate the presets for the most part. Was to be expected but watevs

 

[ColdBoreMK23]

It's a clusterfuck to be honest. Can you not lab with a tournament variation without making it?

Also, Noob is boring to play. I went back to Skarlet for the time being until I lab Kollector.

I played 65 games online and the net code is horrible. I played people with wired internet and good ping and I have 1 gig internet and was getting lag spikes galore.

Otherwise it's ok so far. Not as happy with it as I was with MKX when it launched but I'll give it time.

 

[mastermalone]

Everything moves at such a slow pace, combo execution is only slightly tricky with timing so theres no advantage to be had there

The storymode had some great moments but overall was so bad and cheesy storywise, sonya looks and sounds terrible, I want a run button, the roster has some great choices but frost/cassie/jacquie took away from so many better options. fatal blows should take away all meters after and shouldnt return after trying them

I waited for so long, but literally got bored and shut it off, make this game move faster and give me Smoke/Motaro/Cybernetic Lin Kieui

You're in luck because I have just the game for you. UMK3.

 

[mastermalone]

My hot take:
This is the most responsive MK regarding button inputs. The controls are nice and tight. The game is visually stunning. The best graphics for a fighting game in my opinion. I like that the roster is not stale with the same UMK3 cast that people here keep begging for. For all the Jacqui hate, I'm going to "git gud" with her soley for the purpose of making delicious hater-aid for haters to drink.

Shao Khan seems fun, I'll be playing him as well. Nice long range attacks but lacks a good combo starter.

Lastly, we might as well accept custom variations for tournaments because the set variations are hot garbage. Besides, do we really want to waste all those unused moves? I see the moves akin to choosing your Super Art in SF. Yes there are more moves here, but at least NRS was clever enough to put limits on how you create variations. Learn what each move does and you've learned potential match-ups.

 

[DragonofDadashov24]

Everyone already plays online? I envy your ability to memorize everyone’s moves and specials. Not gonna play online for a month or so

 

[JDM]

Noob is actual garbage 100 percent idk how much of a hot take it is though lol

 

[kcd117]

Kano’s vege-mighty is extremely good.

 

[NothingPersonal]

Cassie is amazing and Elder Dumbass is Hsu Hao levels of trash and waste of slot. Krypt is fun, Towers seems convoluted as fuck and the grind is real.

Spoiler

also, goddammit every single skin looks the fricking same, I'm so disappointed by this system, I can't believe I'm saying this but Injustice 2 did it better

Talk to the chief designer. He doesn't regret one bit

 

[Evil Canadian]

My day 1 hot take is im mad salty other characters have awesome footsies strings into safe stuff but Kotal got hosed hardcore.

Yeah yeah tick grab command throw don't care I was a war god player!!!!

Oh yeah I think raiden is probably super good.

 

[ShaolinGunFu]

Noob is actual garbage 100 percent idk how much of a hot take it is though lol

When I saw that the tackle is a mid i had a moment of silence. He has some long combos but unless youre punishing someone how are you going to open him up? Even if you use him a zoner why would anything land

 

[UsedForGlue]

Sub isn't as bad as the sub Kommunity says he is.
Infact, id say he's pretty good as far as the rest of the cast goes.

My hot take.

 

[JDM]

When I saw that the tackle is a mid i had a moment of silence. He has some long combos but unless youre punishing someone how are you going to open him up? Even if you use him a zoner why would anything land

Yeah it should probably be an overhead. His B3 krushing blow string only works if they block high but you have literally no reason to? It makes no sense. Not to mention the frame data on the projectile itself is just trash.

He does good damage but that's about it. Definitely relegated to a "fun" character for me after playing him for only 3 hours.

 

[SaltShaker]

Hot Take: Zoning is once again massively overrated, and will be no different than zoning in MKX. Situational and MU dependent at best. The offensive pressure and weapons are significantly better than what the traditional zoning characters offer, and Top 16 in tournaments will be filled with offensive characters like they were in MKX.

 

[colby4898]

Kung Lao 21212 string being 3 highs is ass. Orbital hat needs a few more frames of hit advantage

 

[DragonofDadashov24]

Liu Kang’s shaolin stance cancel is useless. Works only against those who don’t know it exists. Flying kick isn’t full screen, iafb krushing blow works only fullscreen. His uppercut though has a huge pushback, lol

 

[Hitoshura]

My hot take?

Noob Saibot is underwhelming.

 

[RYX]

just popping in to remind u guys that I predicted noob would need buffs so ur day 1 hot take is actually just repeating my day -20 prophecy

 

[Jeremy KO]

That M2Dave promoting this kind of obnoxious reactionary behavior instead of allowing nuanced discussion is fucking ugly.

 

[klabuster]

day1 verdict?
for a game that wants to be competitive, without an competitive matchmaking for RANKED there will not be any verdict at all

LUL

 

[KCJ506]

At the moment, I can't even do very much because the game keeps freezing.