Khaos Reigns Patch Notes 9/24/2024 (via MK's Discord)

Patch notes being posted in MK's official Discord:

Spoiler: PC Steam & Epic Games Store

• Various fixes to improve game stability
• Added a new [High] value for the existing Motion Blur setting, with the previous [ON] setting now being noted as [Medium]
• Added AMD FSR 3 Image Reconstruction as an additional Upscaling option available
• Added a new graphical setting to disable the Film Grain effect
• Updated Nvidia DLSS Image Reconstruction plugin to version 3.7.1 and changed the Upscaling Preset used to C
• Implemented first pass of Razer RGB peripheral support for certain in-game sequences
• Reworked file structure to optimize future Patch download & install sizes (Note that additional optimization to reduce Patch install & download size is unlikely to be possible)
• Various UI fixes and improvements
• Various Mouse & Keyboard input device related fixes
• Resolved issues that occurred when using Low graphics settings
• Further optimized the PSO Shader Cache boot flow for certain hardware set-ups
• Updated PC Hardware System Spec information to reference more recent hardware and provide additional context for target Resolution & Settings

Spoiler: Khaos Reigns Content Update

• Additional Story Content has been added – Part 2: Khaos Reigns

Spoiler: Free Content Update

• Additionally, all Mortal Kombat 1 owners will have access to new Arenas, new Arena Variants, & Animalities, the fan-favorite finishing moves that haven’t been seen since the ‘90s, allowing fighters to channel their inner animals. These features will be available on September 24 as a FREE content update in conjunction with the Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns release.

Spoiler: General Fixes & Adjustments

Title updated to Khaos Reigns
• Implemented file compression to reduce game size for future patch releases (Note that this will require a larger download than usual for this Patch)
• Move list corrections & Localization fixes
• AI adjustments & improvements
• Improvements to Screen Reader functionality
• Added Cyrax Fighter to Roster
• Added Sektor Fighter to Roster
• Added Noob Saibot Fighter to Roster
• Added Wedding skin for Scorpion, Empress skin for Mileena & UMK3 skin for Sub-Zero
• Added several new Brutalities for players to discover
• Fixed several visual issues during brutalities
• Added Kameo ease of use information shown during Kameo Selection
• Fixed rare situations where a successful Up Block against a vulnerable attack would result in the defender still receiving block pushback
• Adjusted distance that Fighters move when performing a buffered backdash after an attack
• Fixed issue with offline consoles sometimes not retaining hotfix data that has been previously downloaded
• Fixed issue that could cause players in Invasions to not use the latest hotfix data

Spoiler: Invasions

• Added Towers of Time which now resides where the Gateway Mesa was
• You can now also enter Towers of Time from the Main Menu > Towers
• Added Towers of Time Challenges & Leaderboard with placement rewards
• Added Map to Mesa Pause Menu which shows pathways & key locations

Spoiler: Character Specific Adjustments

• Main Fighters
Ashrah
• Fixed Enhanced Light Ascension causing camera to become misaligned in certain situations
• Fixed Dark debuff lingering after Ashrah is defeated during an Endurance fight

Baraka
• (Air) Death Spin final hit now only auto-corrects if one of the previous hits connected

General Shao
• Fixed Reverse Treechopper damage scaling when interrupted using default interrupted damage scaling instead of command grab damage scaling
• Fixed sound effects missing in certain situations when hitting with Haymaker (Away + Front Kick, Back Punch)

Geras
• Factual Force (Towards + Front Kick) now causes a bounce hit reaction instead of a splat knockdown & recovers 8 frames faster on hit
• History Lesson now recovers 17 frames faster on miss

Havik
• Added new Move Nether Snatcher & Enhanced Nether Snatcher
• Added new Move (Air) Nether Stomp & (Air) Enhanced Nether Stomp
• Added new Move Enhanced Corpse Taunt
• Helping Hand & Enhanced Helping Hand now startup in 45 frames (down from 59)
• Helping Hand armor now starts on frame 6 (was frame 10)
• Enhanced Helping Hand now has a different hit reaction if used more than once in a combo
• Crucial Strike (Jump Back Punch, Back Kick) now has a different hit reaction
• Fixed issue with Enhanced Blood Bath visual effects displaying improperly in certain situations where gameplay is paused
• Fixed missing sound effects on Neoplasm when the projectile is parried

Johnny Cage
• Fixed issue with Wowing Out special move limit not being reset if a Kameo Summon is used as a cancel
Kitana
• Fixed visual issue with Fancy Flick causing ground impact effects after it has been parried

Kung Lao
• Added new Move (Air) Buzzsaw & Enhanced (Air) Buzzsaw
• Shaolin Spin can now move forward or backward while holding Front Kick button
• Enhanced Shaolin Spin has increased movement speed forward or backward when holding Front Kick button
• Enhanced Shaolin Shimmy no longer automatically performs follow-up attack on block
• Enhanced Shaolin Shimmy when blocked can perform follow-up attack for 1 bar of meter with Back Kick + Block

Li Mei
• Fixed rare issue with opponent facing incorrect direction briefly if Lion's Pounce (Cancel) (Towards + Front Kick, Hold Front Kick) is performed while they are knocked down
• Fixed issue with Sky Lantern moving to an incorrect location if used immediately before Fatal Blow

Liu Kang
• Added new Kombo Attack Volcanic Palm (Away + Back Punch, Front Punch)

Raiden
• Enhanced Lightning Port has less damage scaling and on hit disables the opponent's ability to Breaker or use a Kameo until they land
• Fixed Enhanced Lightning Port having a stricter input window compared to other special move cancels
• Fixed specific input sequence to execute Uppercut Jump Cancel causing Lightning Port to be performed instead

Scorpion
• Blazing Charge hit animation adjusted, now has 19 more frames of advantage on hit

Sindel
• Fixed incorrect attack coming out when performing a buffered attack after Bodied (Jump Back Punch, Back Kick)
• Fixed Kartwheel having incorrect frame data shown in Practice Mode

Smoke
• Increased hit region on Smoked Out (Up + Front Punch, Front Punch, Back Punch)
• Spin Kicks (Jump Front Kick, Back Kick) and Airing Out (Jump Front Kick, Back Kick, Back Kick) now will auto face
• Invisibility now goes away when hit by a parry attack
• Fixed Vicious Vapors having incorrect frame data generated in Practice Mode
• Fixed issue that could cause the camera to become misaligned if Smoke is interrupted during Everywhere (Back Punch, Front Punch, Back Punch) at certain timing

Shang Tsung
• Added new move Kameo Kopy & Enhanced Kameo Kopy
• Added new Kombo Attack Orthopedic Takedown (Away + Front Punch, Back Kick) (Old Form)
• Pulse Check (Front Punch, Back Punch, Back Kick) recovers 2 frames faster and can be 2in1 cancelled
• Snake Oil (Away + Back Punch in Young Form) starts up 2 frames slower and recovers 1 frame slower
• Operation (Away + Back Punch in Old Form) starts up 2 frames faster and has an adjusted hit reaction
• Bed of Spikes & Enhanced Bed of Spikes now appear faster
• Bed of Spikes recovers 1 frame faster on hit and 3 frames faster on block & miss
• Enhanced Bed of Spikes recovers 4 frames faster on hit and 5 frames faster on block & miss

Tanya
• Spinning Splits Kicks now has a different animation when it is blocked and no longer does follow-up attacks
• Divine Protection now parries projectiles and allows for follow-ups with max charge
• Deity Push now has a different hit reaction with increased damage scaling
• Seeking Guidance now takes 5 frames longer to charge each Guidance level (Enhanced Seeking Guidance is unchanged)
• During Heavenly Hand, holding Front Punch allows you to spend Guidance charge to increase projectile speed and damage
• During Spinning Split Kicks, holding Back Kick allows you to spend Guidance charge to become projectile invulnerable and perform all attacks on block
• During Drill Kick hit reaction, holding Away + Back Kick allows you to spend Guidance charge to perform Deity Push
• During Drill Kick hit reaction, holding Towards + Back Kick allows you to spend Guidance charge to perform Umgadi Evade
• Fixed issues with Guidance lingering in certain situations

Omni-Man
• Around The World (Towards + Back Punch) now causes a bounce hit reaction instead of a splat knockdown

Quan Chi
• Best Foot Backward (Down + Towards + Back Kick) tracking timing adjusted by 8 frames
• Fixed incorrect projectile being used by Psycho Skull after exiting Zone of Power
• Fixed visual issue with Psycho Skull causing ground impact effects after it has been parried
• Fixed visual issue with Zone of Waste lingering during brutalities

Homelander
• Fixed Diabolical Dash > The Seven Slam damage scaling when interrupted using default interrupted damage scaling instead of command grab damage scaling
• Fixed Diabolical Dash > The Seven Slam not doing additional damage against an opponent performing Up Block
• Fixed being able to move outside of the arena constraints briefly after hitting with (Air) Diabolical Dash > Vought Drop
• Fixed (Air) Delay God Complex not being possible when (Air) God Complex is performed at the lowest possible height
• Fixed issue with Flight speed being reduced after performing (Air) God Complex
• Fixed issue with endurance fights being delayed if (Air) Diabolical Dash > Vought Drop is used as the final hit on an opponent
• Fixed camera becoming misaligned during Blast Off when playing online and experiencing connection issues

Takeda
• Twisting Blades (Front Punch, Back Punch) first & second hit do 10 more damage
• Ogre Slayer (Front Punch, Back Punch, Back Punch + Back Kick) does 20 more damage
• Rising Suns (Towards + Front Punch, Back Punch) first hit does 10 more damage
• Ryujin (Towards + Front Punch, Back Punch, Back Punch + Back Kick) does 20 more damage
• Falling Moon (Towards + Front Punch, Back Kick) second hit does 20 more damage
• Gate Splitter (Away + Back Punch) has 1 more active frame and had its hitbox adjusted
• Temple Razer (Away + Back Punch, Front Punch) has 1 more active frame and had its hitbox adjusted
• Serpent's Tail (Towards + Back Punch) has a different hit reaction and can now be special cancelled
• Sparrow Strike (Jump + Back Punch, Back Kick) does 40 less damage
• Shooting Star does 10 more damage
• Smart Shuriken explosion does 10 more damage
• (Air) Rushing Nimbus Attack first attack does no damage scaling
• (Air) Enhanced Rushing Nimbus Attack does 30 more damage
• If an allied Kameo interrupts Takeda after Smart Shuriken has touched the ground, the Shuriken will no longer disappear
• Fixed clipping issues when Enhanced Rushing Nimbus Attack is performed near Frost (Kameo) Ice Wall
• Fixed missing visual effects when more than six Smart Shurikens are used in rapid succession

Spoiler: Kameo Fighters

Cyrax (Kameo)
• Self-Destruct no longer lingers when the round ends
• Fixed Horizontal Kopter Chopper chosen hit direction not working in certain circumstances during juggles

Darrius (Kameo)
• Ground Invitational and Army of Two can now be performed after Volleyballistic
• Fixed Army of Two attack going in the wrong direction under certain circumstances
• Fixed Heelturn being possible for an extended period of time if the opponent remains idle after being knocked down
• Fixed several situations where Darrius would not take damage or cause recharge delay when he is interrupted
• Fixed situation that could cause Volleyballistic to be possible from very far distance from his partner

Frost (Kameo)
• Fixed Ice Krash & Frosty's Revenge not being possible as a reversal
• Fixed visual issues that could occur with Ice Krash when performed on The Pyramid Arena Top Variant

Goro (Kameo)
• Fixed Punch Walk cancelled into Shokan Stomp causing slight damage to Goro's Partner
• Punch Walk can no longer be cancelled into other Kameo moves while Kameos are disabled

Jax (Kameo)
• Added new move Gotcha Grab

Kano (Kameo)
• Eye Laser now has multiple hits when blocked & has a longer recharge delay

Kung Lao (Kameo)
• Added new moves Orbiting Hat & Wobbly Hat
• Spin can no longer sometimes auto face during the first few frames
• Buzz Saw can no longer sometimes auto face during the first few frames

Motaro (Kameo)
• Fixed issue when Reflect parries a non-reflectable projectile that allowed the opponent to block punishes during their recovery
• Fixed rare instances of missing visual & sound effects when Motaro is hit by certain attacks

Sektor (Kameo)
• Added alternate Fatal Blow attack by pressing R1 during startup
• Activate Homing is now performed by holding R1
• Tele-Punch starts up 2 frames faster
• Fixed visual issue with Up Rocket causing ground impact effects after it has been parried

Shujinko (Kameo)
• Added new move Kingdoms Krumble
• Added new move Waterfall Chop
• Fixed interrupting Shujinko during Death's Embrace (Ermac) causing an excessively long recovery for his partner

Sonya (Kameo)
• Added new moves (Air) Ricochet Dive Kick & (Air) Bicycle Kick follow-up attack
• Sonya is now vulnerable for 17 more frames after Leg Grab misses

Sub-Zero (Kameo)
• Added new moves Deep Freeze & Iceball Special
• Fixed visual effects issues when partner misses with their Fatal Blow

Stryker (Kameo)
• Low Grenade Toss & High Grenade Toss have different hit reactions and less damage scaling

Tremor (Kameo)
• Crystal Wall Punch is now mid (was high)

Khameleon (Kameo)
• Added new move Alternate Disguises
• If either of the first two hits during Roll are Up Blocked, the final hit will not come out
• Fan Toss can no longer sometimes auto face during the first few frames
• Fixed issue with Glaive return attack not using correct hit reaction facing if the opponent jumped over

Mavado (Kameo)
• Fixed animation issue with Nomad's Touch when performed near corner while roster fighter has their back to the screen

Ferra (Kameo)
• Torr Stance: Slide! has 2 more recovery frames on block
• Ferra is now considered airborne during Yo-Yo Throw, Swings!, & Potato Sack Toss

 

Tom, you are being toxic.

I remember the, "no noise was made" tweet where you were immediately blown the fuck out for being wrong(again).

Truly, the behavior of a non-toxic person

I was pointing out was that third strike had 10 times the excitement and noise as Mortal Kombat 1 and that was just for third strike pools not grand finals like it was for MK1. I was not blown up, people were trying to say that the noise was somehow suppressed for Mortal Kombat, but then amplified for every other game. Just more excuses. This is the same community who says there is a worldwide conspiracy on the part of the entire planet to keep Mortal Kombat down. And you think I’m the one that’s stupid…

That’s right, people like you always gloss over the fact that the community could not handle their numbers being in the gutter compared to every other fighting game in existence and because they couldn’t handle the truth of why their numbers are so bad they came up with a conspiracy theory that says the entire planet just has it in for Mortal Kombat and has hatched a diabolical plan to keep Mortal Kombat down. And don’t make me pull all the videos from all the content creators who address the point of the Mortal Kombat community was trying to make about this heinous plan at the entire planet has to keep them down.

 

i think of the "Big 3" as Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat. That's the Big 3. Don't minimize MK with some "it's actually good some no name game half the people haven't even heard of got more entrants".

The “big three” thing clearly comes from that astronaut tweet asserting GG sf and Tekken are the big three, right? I get it, MK sells like gang busters. But as far as the FGC is currently constituted it’s not on the line up at weeklies. It is advertised as a game at Boston’s big weekly but they rarely manage to get enough entrants to run a bracket,if it gets run it’s round robin style because there is a lack of interest.

edit: I’m sticking by the premise that it’s good a smaller dev team can outperform a AAA team in tournament entrants if their game is good

 

Yes, but Capcom ended up overhauling the game and earned back a lot of goodwill from the community and they knocked out out of the park with the launch of Street fighter 6. MK11 had people supporting the game, it had 1500+ people at EVO. But NRS ignored what people wanted, and they lost a lot of their goodwill, and they have continued on a downward note ever since. People did show up, but nothing got better and that’s why people are so upset now.

I mean, it took multiple years to get SF5 to a respectable place, and the community criticized both the game and Capcom the entire time. There was no goodwill. But they recognized that the community is not the game, and they still supported their competitive players and scene.

They have leaders who are mature enough to recognize the importance of shining a positive light on their scene even when the game isn't popular. But that takes people stepping outside of themselves and working to build others up, instead of trolling for views by trying to torch their own scene to the ground.

Right now Rewind and Sonic are playing an extended set. Instead of retweeting it or bringing positive attention to it, the same people who complain about numbers show zero support because they can't get over their own egos. It's crazily hypocritical.

 

I mean, it took multiple years to get SF5 to a respectable place, and the community criticized both the game and Capcom the entire time. There was no goodwill. But they recognized that the community is not the game, and they still supported their competitive players and scene.

They have leaders who are mature enough to recognize the importance of shining a positive light on their scene even when the game isn't popular. But that takes people stepping outside of themselves and working to build others up, instead of trolling for views by trying to torch their own scene to the ground.

Right now Rewind and Sonic are playing an extended set. Instead of retweeting it or bringing positive attention to it, the same people who complain about numbers show zero support because they can't get over their own egos. It's crazily hypocritical.

In every patch people like Rewind and Sonic talk about how great the game is and how much of a better state it is and how they’re excited to play. Then one month later they talked about how they have no desire to play and they’re done. This happens every single time.

The fact that the matter is the de-powering of Mortal Kombat characters is no longer acceptable. if they severely powered up the cast to a very strong level, you would be amazed how many people start playing Mortal Kombat competitively

 

In every patch people like One and Sonic talk about how great the game is and how much of a better state it is and how they’re excited to play. Then one month later they talked about how they have no desire to play and they’re done. This happens every single time.

Sonic competed at EVO, Final Kombat, Combo Breaker, through the entire Pro Kombat, and ECT. You can look at his video uploads and they were as consistent 2-4 weeks ago as they are now postpatch. All positive content.

To claim he doesn't support the game takes some really wild mental gymnastics.

 

Sonic competed at EVO, Final Kombat, Combo Breaker, through the entire Pro Kombat, and ECT. You can look at his video uploads and they were as consistent 2-4 weeks ago as they are now postpatch. All positive content.

To claim he doesn't support the game takes some really wild mental gymnastics.

The tournament numbers speak for themselves. To claim that suddenly the game is alive and kicking or that it was ever in that state seems to be a very dubious claim.

To be blind to the obvious point that people just want a significantly higher power level. That’s all it would take and literally everything would change almost overnight

 

Right now Rewind and Sonic are playing an extended set. Instead of retweeting it or bringing positive attention to it, the same people who complain about numbers show zero support because they can't get over their own egos. It's crazily hypocritical.

The tournament numbers speak for themselves. Declaim that suddenly the game is alive and kicking or that it was ever in that state seems to be a very dubious claim.

Lol, it's like clockwork. Thanks for proving the point.

I'm off to enjoy the set and see two of our best players having fun with the other 1000+ people watching.

 

I was pointing out was that third strike had 10 times the excitement and noise as Mortal Kombat 1 and that was just for third strike pools not grand finals like it was for MK1. I was not blown up, people were trying to say that the noise was somehow suppressed for Mortal Kombat, but then amplified for every other game. Just more excuses. This is the same community who says there is a worldwide conspiracy on the part of the entire planet to keep Mortal Kombat down. And you think I’m the one that’s stupid…

That’s right, people like you always gloss over the fact that the community could not handle their numbers being in the gutter compared to every other fighting game in existence and because they couldn’t handle the truth of why their numbers are so bad they came up with a conspiracy theory that says the entire planet just has it in for Mortal Kombat and has hatched a diabolical plan to keep Mortal Kombat down. And don’t make me pull all the videos from all the content creators who address the point of the Mortal Kombat community was trying to make about this heinous plan at the entire planet has to keep them down.

No one has any conspiracy theories, I certainly don't. Multiple people,including Molly Bee, told you that noise was made, to which you said, "Thanks, Molly!"

Honestly, this is just sad.

 

In every patch people like Rewind and Sonic talk about how great the game is and how much of a better state it is and how they’re excited to play. Then one month later they talked about how they have no desire to play and they’re done. This happens every single time.

The fact that the matter is the de-powering of Mortal Kombat characters is no longer acceptable. if they severely powered up the cast to a very strong level, you would be amazed how many people start playing Mortal Kombat competitively

Sir, low tier Geras would mop up roughly 80% of MK9's cast.

If you look at stuff like Geras' clone, Cyrax set ups, Havik ToD's, Sento Stance, and think "low power" you might just be retarded.

 

Lol, it's like clockwork. Thanks for proving the point.

I'm off to enjoy the set and see two of our best players having fun with the other 1000+ people watching.

Fair enough.. don’t forget to watch the next 59 man major with 95% of the top players not there because they AGAIN say “Not worth my time” and for you to say the event must not have been marketed properly.

I have supported mk and the scene for FAR longer than anyone here. Do not pretend like I never supported the scene. Its a difference of opinion.. you love low power levels and find it acceptable. I cannot support (nor can many others) a game with an extremely low power level.

 

Fair enough.. don’t forget to watch the next 59 man major with 95% of the top players not there because they AGAIN say “Not worth my time” and for you to say the event must not have been marketed properly

EVO was stacked with top NRS players and that was the last big MK tournament.


Dude, in MK9's heyday Y'all could barely crack 60 people for MLG.

Shut the fuck up.

 

Fair enough.. don’t forget to watch the next 59 man major with 95% of the top players not there because they AGAIN say “Not worth my time” and for you to say the event must not have been marketed properly

EVO was stacked with top NRS players and that was the last big MK tournament.


Dude, in MK9's heyday Y'all could barely crack 60 people for MLG.

Shut the fuck up.

128 at MLG i’m that’s only because they kept it and they actually had to turn people away at the door. That would never happen in Mortal Kombat today, they’re baking people to walk in the door rather than having to turn them away because the bracket is full.

both MK9 and MKX head numbers that were very competitive with the other fighting games. Now you guys are getting beat by anime games that no one’s even heard of so how about you shut the fuck up. In 2015 at CB MKX had the same entrants as MK1 in 2024. The difference is that in 2015 those numbers were acceptable, certainly not acceptable for 2024.

 

Let us never forget the Tanya vs Tanya Grand Finals.

Or the many Grand Finals taken up by Alien and Demolition Sonya.

First thing I thought of was Alien having 3 variations where the 3 "least used" variation was better than 80% of the cast lol.

 

128.. both MK nine and MKX head numbers that were very competitive with the other fighting games. Now you guys are getting beat by anime games that no one’s even heard of so how about you shut the fuck up. You don’t know anything about fighting games and I haven’t done anything in a while, but you’ve never done anything ever because you don’t know anything.

No, he remembered accurately. MLG Anaheim had 84 entrants. MLG Winter 2012 in Raleigh had 62 entrants (with a $16k pot bonus). Which is why afterward, we had to do a big campaign to boost the Dallas attendance to try to keep MLG from dropping the game.

That inolved a big effort here, keeping track of signups for each scene, as well as Pig running his own tournament to try to get a winner from overseas (Madzin), and me having to front Madzin the money after it was stolen so he could fly to Dallas. We eventually capped at 96, not 128.

 

The “big three” thing clearly comes from that astronaut tweet asserting GG sf and Tekken are the big three, right? I get it, MK sells like gang busters. But as far as the FGC is currently constituted it’s not on the line up at weeklies. It is advertised as a game at Boston’s big weekly but they rarely manage to get enough entrants to run a bracket,if it gets run it’s round robin style because there is a lack of interest.

edit: I’m sticking by the premise that it’s good a smaller dev team can outperform a AAA team in tournament entrants if their game is good

No, I don't know anything about a "tweet" lol. I call them the Big 3 because they clearly are, by far, the 3 biggest and well known fighting games for decades. Millions have been buying these games for decades, it's not even close. Some random new game or some old game like Killer Instinct or Samurai Showdown can't hold a candle to the Big 3 FGs. So my expectations for games that people who don't even play FGs know of and have even watched their TV shows or movies, is that they'd be the most popular. They obviously have no issues vastly outselling everyone. The Big 3 probably outsell all the other FGs combined. Which is great, that's why they're the Big 3.

However my standards are high, I expect the players to be as high as everything else too. If any of the big 3 gets outperformed by some game I don't even think people play it disappoints me. Do YOU play UNISYS? I'm sure you don't. I don't know who does. MK shouldn't get beat by games like this, ever, in any setting. They're too sold and too iconic alone.

 

Sir, low tier Geras would mop up roughly 80% of MK9's cast.

Spoken like someone who has obviously never played Mortal Kombat 9 yet talks as though he were REO. LOL.

You have become this forum's fool.

Keep up the solid work, jester.

Uniel had over 1100 entrants at EVO 2019. This year, they had 785.

The difference is, they aren't bashing their own community over it. People being deliberately toxic and then throwing their hands up and saying "But no one wants to join our community!" is strange behavior.

You want a bigger community, try building it up instead of trying to tear the competitive community down every time you post. Stop trying to discourage people from competing and encourage them to come out.

Which top creators are bashing the game, much less the NRS community?

They are essentially expressing mild criticism while apologizing in the process.

While I personally believe that Tom speaks the truth, he has like 25K subscribers.

Players do not join the NRS community or play Mortal Kombat 1 because they dislike the game.

If they considered the game to be good, they would come out and play regardless of what anyone says.

However my standards are high, I expect the players to be as high as everything else too. If any of the big 3 gets outperformed by some game I don't even think people play it disappoints me. Do YOU play UNISYS? I'm sure you don't. I don't know who does. MK shouldn't get beat by games like this, ever, in any setting. They're too sold and too iconic alone.

By making this claim, you are clearly a hater and an egomaniac who is preventing players from joining the NRS community and playing the golden nugget known as Mortal Kombat 1.

 

128 at MLG i’m that’s only because they kept it and they actually had to turn people away at the door. That would never happen in Mortal Kombat today, they’re baking people to walk in the door rather than having to turn them away because the bracket is full.

both MK9 and MKX head numbers that were very competitive with the other fighting games. Now you guys are getting beat by anime games that no one’s even heard of so how about you shut the fuck up. In 2015 at CB MKX had the same entrants as MK1 in 2024. The difference is that in 2015 those numbers were acceptable, certainly not acceptable for 2024.

As Crimson pointed out, I remembered correctly. Suck my balls.

 

Spoken like someone who has obviously never played Mortal Kombat 9 yet talks as though he were REO. LOL.

You have become this forum's fool.

Keep up the solid work, jester.



Which top creators are bashing the game, much less the NRS community?

They are essentially expressing mild criticism while apologizing in the process.

While I personally believe that Tom speaks the truth, he has like 25K subscribers.

Players do not join the NRS community or play Mortal Kombat 1 because they dislike the game.

If they considered the game to be good, they would come out and play regardless of what anyone says.



By making this claim, you are clearly a hater and an egomaniac who is preventing players from joining the NRS community and playing the golden nugget known as Mortal Kombat 1.

I played MK9 and traveled to UFGT8.

Here's some FACTS for you: There were a bunch of characters that had negative ON HIT pokes.

Several characters with no armor to speak of.

There is no character in MK1 that suffers from those issues, whereas MK9 had them in abundance.

Fool.

 

Sir, low tier Geras would mop up roughly 80% of MK9's cast.

Woa woa woa woa let's not go that far hahaha! MK9 was a broken mess of characters. Other than the bottom turds the top half would look like Zod vs Lex against current rosters of MK1 or MK11 lol.

 

Woa woa woa woa let's not go that far hahaha! MK9 was a broken mess of characters. Other than the bottom turds the top half would look like Zod vs Lex against current rosters of MK1 or MK11 lol.

I'm gonna have to disagree. Characters like Mileena or Ermac didn't even have armor in MK9, unlike their MK1 counterparts.

Characters such as Scorpion and Rain had negative on hit downpokes, unlike their MK1 counterparts.

 

I mean, it took multiple years to get SF5 to a respectable place, and the community criticized both the game and Capcom the entire time. There was no goodwill. But they recognized that the community is not the game, and they still supported their competitive players and scene.

They have leaders who are mature enough to recognize the importance of shining a positive light on their scene even when the game isn't popular. But that takes people stepping outside of themselves and working to build others up, instead of trolling for views by trying to torch their own scene to the ground.

Right now Rewind and Sonic are playing an extended set. Instead of retweeting it or bringing positive attention to it, the same people who complain about numbers show zero support because they can't get over their own egos. It's crazily hypocritical.

SF5 Was probably the single worst modern FG the first couple of years. I believe it was that bad due to expectations vs reality. By season 4 and 5 it ended up pretty good, I played it a lot S5 and thought I'd never play SF again because of how disgusted I was at launch lol. I think MK1 could end up doing something similar. Where it had a rough launch, but as the game continues improving people who were out on it but stuck/stick around monitoring it will eventually pick it back up in a random S3 and like it, bringing back more optimistic takes like late season SF5. Feel like the SF5-SF6 arc is what we'll see for MK1-MK2.

 

I'm gonna have to disagree. Characters like Mileena or Ermac didn't even have armor in MK9, unlike their MK1 counterparts.

Characters such as Scorpion and Rain had negative on hit downpokes, unlike their MK1 counterparts.

It's been a while but I'm gonna spitball some characters off the top of my head that I think would straight up break MK11 or MK1 lol:

Kabal (lol)
Kenshi
Cyrax
Johnny
Freddy
Sonya
Skarlet
Smoke
Scumbag Lao

And I feel like I'm forgetting a couple. Characters like your boy Quan were on the lower end of the meta and were capable of doing things that wouldn't even be allowed into MK1 without modern games having a nerfbat rage seizure. The MK9 characters were a group of like "the most broken guys win" with Kabal reigning supreme but Quan types still being broken just not broken enough to matter.

 

It's been a while but I'm gonna spitball some characters off the top of my head that I think would straight up break MK11 or MK1 lol:

Kabal (lol)
Kenshi
Cyrax
Johnny
Freddy
Sonya
Skarlet
Smoke
Scumbag Lao

And I feel like I'm forgetting a couple. Characters like your boy Quan were on the lower end of the meta and were capable of doing things that wouldn't even be allowed into MK1 without modern games having a nerfbat rage seizure. The MK9 characters were a group of like "the most broken guys win" with Kabal reigning supreme but Quan types still being broken just not broken enough to matter.

Man. MK9 Quan was fun as hell.

 

Man. MK9 Quan was fun as hell.

MK9 Quan is easilyyy my favorite Quan from any of the games.

 

SF5 Was probably the single worst modern FG the first couple of years.

The game was bad, indeed, but the power levels were very high and the archetypes were equally represented in the tier list (i.e., Chun Li as the versatile character, Ryu as the footsies character, Nash as the zoning character, Rashid as the rush down character, R. Mika as the command grab character, etc.) There was a charm to the gameplay in vanilla Street Fighter 5 despite the inexcusable lack of content and the embarrassing online gameplay.

In my humble opinion, the worse modern fighting games are easily Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat 1. These games are essentially trash. I would play vanilla Street Fighter 5 over them any day of the week.

MK9 Quan is easilyyy my favorite Quan from any of the games.

Back when NRS had creativity...