It seems some of you people care more about genitalia than the characters. If the character is well written and makes sense in the context of their world, then why would a gender/sex swap matter? Is this an American thing?
You said it man "well written" Something NRS hasn't done even since MK9
This expansion pack it's Mid
NRS yet again proves that they can't bank without guests, they occupy half of the DLC slots now, i'd still prefer a movie fighter or terrordome game where they can slam all these DLC guests which at this point they already have a full roster, everyone qualifies now which is over saturation of the formula, Kratos, Freddy and Predator were fine
Gender Swap characters who are already estabilished as male for the past 30 years, and the iron man esque i'm not really feeling it, they could've just make new characters for it, like Madam Bo added in would be far more interesting than this
Multiverse BS (I Hated the directio story mode and when it went the second it became a multiverse copycat of anything else, doesn't seem like its going to change either)
The only good character in this roster is Saibot, which has a weird design, but looks like MK9 noob design overall which is a good thing as MK11 noob was weird, still to be seen.
Characters can't be purchased separately, so i can't filter guests out of my roster
and finally, there is no guarantee this will play online in africa yet again, a problem that has been haunting this game since the first Beta and hasn't been solved ever since, and to top it all off the expansion costs 49.99 depending on which PS Store you purchsase from and it's being baited ass again through a pre-order trap.
The last one it's a deal breaker for me, but i'm conviced to sit it out and see how it goes, for those that purchase good luck, games are already super expensive as they are and every purchase needs to be worth the time i spent accquiring the money to buy games, that's called being a responsible adult
Positives and hopes
New content is a good thing, hopefully they don't announce they're done like they did after ultimate
Revision of the game overall on how it plays and let a few things run wilde, the uppercut unbreakable damage combo it's something i'd do earlier if i worked for NRS, that was definitely needed, hopefully more changes that promote this type of mentality are in, like adding new moves to the roster, and let it be more ergonomic, revision of the kameo system, and overall neutral of the game.
Not breaking combos without full Kameo bar like it was supposed to be would do wonders to this game as well
A good writting in the story for once, they started great with this one before they go multiverse again, the only direction they know off ever since armaggedon.
And finally, just hope they stop this mentality of shielding themselves from criticisms, like antagonizing ppl who are genuinely concerned witth the direction they take the games, turning off comments and live inside a bubble, and understand that construtive criticism overall means that whoever does it means they're genuinelly concerned for the franchise they love, these ppl in general will tell things NRS might not like, but that's what the world is about, not eveyrthing is chocolate and roses, adjustments have to be made, attending demands and retain your audience so your overall rating grows with it, i can see the potential, but gotta work more, listen more, there was a time QA team worked directly with character specialists it was great.
And also to the community, start making more guides, more essays on things you understand about the game, these things may be long and annoying for some, but a well written one gives devs huge information about how characters and game operates in a system they may not have an idea of what will turn out, the only problem is their habit of scrapping it up everytime which deletes progress of good ideas
but you guys got the point, carry on.