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MKXL PC "Patch" (June 2020)

ismael4790

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The official patch notes are here:


15 gb.

Supposedly to unlock all WBPlay unlocks. What the notes don't tell you is that they added mk11 advertisements in the menu. Yes. They came to a 5 years old game the support of which was over almost 4 years ago to throw spam into our faces. Nice. Thx for the bullshit, nrs.

Patch is not in the console versions. Maybe it was too expensive, or maybe Sony and Microsoft just told them to spam advertisements elsewhere.

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Popegina

Hymen Holocaust
I noticed this the other day. It's only in the main menu so nbd. If only the update was for something useful like ultrawide support but I guess not
 

Jynks

some heroes are born, some made, some wondrous
I'd assume it's like undercover Cassie which required you to link accounts to get.
Oh.. like the skins you needed the mobile app for?

Honestly I have zero issues with it. Advertising was already in the game and what they were selling was stale. I almost appreciate making the content relevant.
exactly. MKx has always had notifications about NRS stuff and even Majors.. Why wouldn't those adds reflect the latest news from NRS? What are they expecting.. big black boxes?
 

ismael4790

Stay focused or get Caged
I noticed this the other day. It's only in the main menu so nbd. If only the update was for something useful like ultrawide support but I guess not
If they wanted to force people to download a 15gb patch to basically throw ads into their face, at least they could have had the decency of adding some functionality as you say, or even including some small new content to justify it. Even a simple skin for a character would have been a nice touch and would have made the insult more tolerable lol.
 

Immortal

Blind justice....
It will be released to every platform. Also nothing to do with NRS. WB say, NRS must. Not like im supporting something like this but like most it doesn't really bother me. I just skip / remove / disable / dont pay attention to ads and do what i want to do.
 

Darth-Nero

Come Thunder! Come Lightning!
Maybe it’s a sign that there are plans to remove MKX from steam if they are telling everyone to move on to Mk11. They already removed mk 9.
It'll be peak pathetic if they did that, ppl were often told to stop blowing up mk11 and if they don't like it they can just continue playing mkx until mk12 drops. By shoving a game they don't like down their throats they will make it worse for those who do, terrible call if they actually decided to do that. it'll backfire 100%.
 
Thx for the bullshit, nrs.
NetherRealm Studios has nothing to do with the PC versions of the Mortal Kombat franchise. People need to stop blaming them for things they are not involved with. Something like this would come from the publisher, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment.

And 15 GB for unlocks and ads makes no sense. There's likely something else here that has not been said yet, though that's of course my own speculation.

Maybe it’s a sign that there are plans to remove MKX from steam if they are telling everyone to move on to Mk11. They already removed mk 9.
While not impossible, it's doubtful. You don't spend resources on a patch to update something just to remove it a short time later. Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition was a game from last generation, it used inferior delay based netcode, had a really small player base, and was apparently not compatible with server changes they did. Mortal Kombat XL still has a player base, it uses rollback netcode, etc.

If anything, I'd speculate given what the patch is stated to be for, and what the size of the patch is, that it's WBPlay that's going to be retired soon. This then allows people to have access to their mobile unlocked skins or whatever without the need for that service.

Ugh. WB really has a stranglehold over NRS. Never used to be this way.
They always have: they literally own them. You don't get much more of a stranglehold than that.