How Mortal Kombat 11's Custom Variations Will Work In Competitive Play

[DDustiNN]

I guess it’s official?

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04/02/how-mortal-kombat-11s-custom-variations-will-work-in-competitive-play

Not the solution I was hoping for, personally. I was hesitant at first, but after playing the beta, I felt the custom variation idea was such an awesome addition. It wasn’t abkit finding overpowered moves, it was about finding moves that I liked and fit my play style. I could try out a move, and if I didn’t like it, switch it out to something else. I ended up with my favorite versions of each character. Not just the OP moves (some of which I didn’t even like, such as Scorpion’s stance and Baraka’s grab).

So I guess I’ll probably just stick to casual matches, because I really like the custom variations.

I didn’t care for the preset variations in the beta - especially ones that only filled 2 slots instead of all 3 (wtf??). They usually had at least one move I didn’t want.

 

[NothingPersonal]

I don't get it. It's such a bummer. I can literally find a way for every con for custom variations. I'm dissapointed.

 

[STB Sgt Reed]

Well that's a huge bummer for me.

Congrats to all the people campaigning for the shitty presets.

Hopefully they make good on the part where it says they will include all the moves in the variations...

 

[DDustiNN]

I don't get it. It's such a bummer. I can literally find a way for every con for custom variations. I'm dissapointed.

Right? It’s Injustice 2 all over again. No one will use the cool new moves. Huge disappointment.

They really should’ve just done a character select screen UI that lets you quickly choose your moves for tournament play.

 

[Spinky]

Lame as fuck, honestly.

Big selling point of the game is something we'll barely even use. The time they spend talking about their loadouts on Kombat Kasts is almost useless for anything that isn't faffing around in single player now.

Huge bummer.

 

[Law Hero]

It was inevitable if they couldn't manage to allow players to make variations on the character select screen.

Still, what a waste of time and resources for what is essentially a party mode. Just give me one complete character or three "real" variations instead of this.

 

[dribirut]

what a damn waste of a huge opportunity to create something special.. NRS dropped the ball haaaaaaaaaaard on this one

 

[pure.Wasted]

Woow.

The developer has confirmed each character will have at least two pre-built variations using the same three-slot system as custom variations, though the number of variations per character could differ.

Some characters will only have TWO variations for competitive play?

We've seen how bad three variations are from the beta and kombat kasts, they leave about 10 moves on the cutting room floor. That's already fucking awful. But TWO?

 

[DDustiNN]

I hope the community as a whole is disappointed by this preset idea, and NRS changes their plan. Even K&M suggested the select screen idea months ago.

 

[NothingPersonal]

Guys, maybe this time my petition will have more positive feedback. After playing the beta, the custom variations was the best thing to happen to MK. Sign now.
https://www.change.org/p/neatherrealm-studios-let-custom-varion-for-competitive-play-in-mk11-a1fcd29f-375e-46d3-b76b-16f5bbc80cb9?recruiter=56913215&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=6cc68afb66ca415186ea8233df0dba41

 

[dribirut]

All I know is that if special moves are locked away for competitive play, the game will die rapidly like injustice two..

 

[DubiousShenron]

You don’t know what I want NRS. Let me make my variation, you already went through the effort of making them customizable, that was the hard part. Now you wanna choose my “custom variation”?

Gtfo.

 

[JGillette]

I mean, then what's the point of advertising this thing from the start when you won't give players complete access to it? I smell i2 outcome here

 

[DDustiNN]

All I can hope is that this thread gets the attention of NRS somehow. The responses already seem to agree.

 

[JBeezYBabY]

WOW! Thats fucking bullshit. So are they gonna add fill all 3 slots in those variations? Cuz like i mentioned before, Skarlet had a variation with only had 2 moves filled with 1 open for you to place. I think this idea is lazy as fuck to cater to those who were outraged for the sake of being outraged.

Congrats to the lame bums who doin't even fucking compete.

BUT i have faith this can possibly change in the future.

 

[Wetdoba]

If this stays I will certainly be travelling less for tournaments. I want to be able to express myself when I played by fine tuning my character to match my playstyle but if I am going to be forced to use the same set up as everyone else then forget it. Should I even watch the Noob kast this week if I cant use the moves? It will be MKX all over again where only 1 variation is used per character and the other 2 are inferior. Great last minute hype killer.

 

[Killusion]

Not happy about this. Character like Kano has 10 custom moves, so Kano should have at least 4 variations if every move should be usable in competitive mode. And all of them should.

 

[Trini_Bwoi]

I know the beta's over but try to picture how it would be if you could only use those preset variations. It is a beta after all so it should be somewhat representative of the final game.

For me the beta would be largely inferior without kustom variations. Kustom variations not only made Scorpion better, it made him more fun to play and it did not throw off the balance of the game. Like, the beta is worse with those presets only. They almost seemed intentionally bad to encourage you to go kustom.

 

[DarksydeDash]

All I hope is that all the special moves get used in the pre-set variations. That way we have access to all of them, just not some of them together.

This does kinda suck for competitive play, especially in ranked.

 

[PLAYING TO WIN]

Greta news! It would have made the game a competitive joke allowing full customization.

 

[PLAYING TO WIN]

Guys, maybe this time my petition will have more positive feedback. After playing the beta, the custom variations was the best thing to happen to MK. Sign now.
https://www.change.org/p/neatherrealm-studios-let-custom-varion-for-competitive-play-in-mk11-a1fcd29f-375e-46d3-b76b-16f5bbc80cb9?recruiter=56913215&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=6cc68afb66ca415186ea8233df0dba41

No it wasn’t. Most of the people complaining about will not travel anyways.

 

[DFSHINNOK7]

2 words: Missed Opportunity.

 

[Circus]

I'm heart broken. I'm not kidding. Completely fucking devastated.

Because I like to use command grabs, I'll be stuck using ONE variation with a character with other moves tacked on that I can't change?! WHAT?! This variation system is a complete throw away to so many people now.

I HATED having Spine Burst with Baraka's command grab in the beta because I wanted ChopChop to complement it.
Is Command Grab/Spine Burst going to be standard?!
Well I guess I'm not playing Baraka now even as a secondary....

Now to just wait for what SINGLE variation they will have for Kano's command grab build.... I seriously can't describe how sad I am right now. I had so many ideas.

 

[Elias6999]

So when playing ranked, we don’t get to use the custom variations?! What’s the point then, why did they advertise the custom variations as such a huge part of the game if you can’t use it where it would matter most? What’s the point of creating my own variation instead of using the preset ones? This is kinda disappointing.

I was at least hoping we could use the custom variations in ranked! I get not having them in a tournament setting, but having them in ranked doesn’t seem so bad.

 

[IamBatface]

I can only imagine they couldn't figure out a way that would be fair and time efficient to have custom in tournaments and they want ranked have the same rules.