Krypt in MK11 is Rigged Content Drip and is an Embarrassment for a MK Game

[Gooberking]

what about those Kronika vaults you can get gear/ color/ concept from?

Eventually they tap out as well.

Those, the soul chests, coin chests, pots and hanging bodies, all seem to have a certain amount of stuff they are willing to cough up before the group shuts down.

 

[DDustiNN]

I agree, WB's grasp on the game has to loosen a little, while from game to game it looks like it's getting tighter and tighter. I am afraid they are slowly hijacking the entire franchise to promote films and sell dlc characters, skins and such... Which is greedy, it's up to us the fans to NOT PARTICIPATE in purchasing Krystals, Maybe not buying thr entire Kombat Packs and just the characters we want to make a point, since at the end of the day they only increase their hold of the game because the money we put* into it allows them to.

I will not buy the entire KP even tho you get to play the characters a week early... I can "suffer" not playing the characters a week early. I always bought the KP ahead of time, in INJ2 and in MKX and MK11's KP1.
But I have learned my lesson!

What makes you think this has anything to do with WB or money? You can’t buy your way through the Krypt with real money. At all. Everything you’ve just complained about is completely unrelated. Wtf are you ranting about the Kombat Pack for? Lol

 

[Trini_Bwoi]

The way this game gives out its content is compete garbage. All these koins, souls, and hearts I keep winning in KL have no purpose anymore.

 

[Raider]

Just to report that i refreshed the complete Krypt for 4th time. And opened around 100 chests and 100 soul chests today. Got literally nothing except for augments from soul chests and one consumable per regular chest.

Now we wait for NRS and WB to turn on a faucet, so we can get 10 more items before we go back to augments and consumables only...

 

[Mr.Khen]

What makes you think this has anything to do with WB or money? You can’t buy your way through the Krypt with real money. At all. Everything you’ve just complained about is completely unrelated. Wtf are you ranting about the Kombat Pack for? Lol

I rant about DLC becasue it's all connected.
..WB owns the rights for MK, I know how marketing works. I know for sure that increasing DLC guests from 2 to 6 within 3 games when no one is asking for them guests with minor exceptions*, in a franchise with tons of characters fans wants to see returning in ONE GAME is for the love of CASH. I can't help but feel that there's a growing problem with the way DLC, guests, unlocking gear, currencies are handled. I don't mind being wrong about it and I wish I was. And don't you "what the fuck" me please, I find it gross, how about instead respect my opinion. I am complaining because it's my right. the game comes with 4 currencies and you can't unlock characters (real $$ required and I hope that changes with KP2) if SFV can pull it off I am sure WB/NRS can pull it off as well
The current state of the game forces you to gamble your way unlocking skins and gear in the Krypt, Those are all symptoms of the same sickness. You can use real money in a rotating store, or earn Krystals grinding KL or buy them using real money which I find eeek, The grind belongs to realms of mobile games, the randomness belongs to casino games, and not to a fighting game you pay $100 for and that is annoying to my taste. Some people get what I am saying and some don't, you don't have to agree!

 

[craftycheese]

I liked how they had everything set up the first time they updated the loot drops in the towers, before the current set-up. You could get almost all the skins and gear through just normal towers. I got all but 2 skins (the top 5% one and the reimagined classic skin that they had a special krypt event for) for kano and Jade, and all of Jax's that weren't locked behind his character tower and gauntlet towers. I don't hate the way it is now, I just thought this way was more fun and not as long.

 

[Juxtapose]

..WB owns the rights for MK, I know how marketing works. I know for sure that increasing DLC guests from 2 to 6 within 3 games when no one is asking for them guests with minor expections, in a franchise with tons of characters fans wants to see returning in ONE GAME is for the love of CASH.

The thing is, lots of people do ask for guests. Terminator and Spawn have been heavily requested since Mortal Kombat (2011)! You see people asking for guests all the time, on Boon's Twitter, for example. themortalkombat.com used to be flooded with regular guest requests as well.

The guest characters are also the highest selling DLC charatcers in the franchise, so ofcourse they're going to keep making them, and increasing their presence.

Interestingly, they also listen to requests for returning Mortal Kombat characters, and balance those with guests. Tremor and Tanya, Jason, and Predator were heavily requested during the life of Mortal Kombat (2011), and they appeared in Mortal Kombat X. So was Bo Rai'Cho, oddly and sadly, as well as Alien and even Leatherface. Cyrax and Sektor were after Mortal Kombat X launched. We got them in Kombat Pack 2.

Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel were heavily requested during Mortal Kombat X, we got them in Mortal Kombat 11. As mentioned, Spawn and Terminator have been hugely requested since Mortal Kombat (2011), we got them now. Joker's the only DLC character we got that I haven't seen requested before.

I'm not a fan of guest characters myself outside of rare instances, but I've long accepted it's a thing because the casual fan base, which is much, much larger than the competitive fan base, wants and buys them. Having said that, I prefer guest characters to 3D-era characters. Any character added from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance to Mortal Kombat: Armageddon should remain buried to modifiers, endings, and comic books (where they seem to quickly die) because they're honestly not good characters. It's actually these characters that have the smallest fan-base, and for good reason. The 3D era was the darkest and lowest point of the franchise for a reason.

 

[Mr.Khen]

The thing is, lots of people do ask for guests. Terminator and Spawn have been heavily requested since Mortal Kombat (2011)! You see people asking for guests all the time, on Boon's Twitter, for example. themortalkombat.com used to be flooded with regular guest requests as well.

The guest characters are also the highest selling DLC charatcers in the franchise, so ofcourse they're going to keep making them, and increasing their presence.

Interestingly, they also listen to requests for returning Mortal Kombat characters, and balance those with guests. Tremor and Tanya, Jason, and Predator were heavily requested during the life of Mortal Kombat (2011), and they appeared in Mortal Kombat X. So was Bo Rai'Cho, oddly and sadly, as well as Alien and even Leatherface. Cyrax and Sektor were after Mortal Kombat X launched. We got them in Kombat Pack 2.

Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel were heavily requested during Mortal Kombat X, we got them in Mortal Kombat 11. As mentioned, Spawn and Terminator have been hugely requested since Mortal Kombat (2011), we got them now. Joker's the only DLC character we got that I haven't seen requested before.

I'm not a fan of guest characters myself outside of rare instances, but I've long accepted it's a thing because the casual fan base, which is much, much larger than the competitive fan base, wants and buys them. Having said that, I prefer guest characters to 3D-era characters. Any character added from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance to Mortal Kombat: Armageddon should remain buried to modifiers, endings, and comic books (where they seem to quickly die) because they're honestly not good characters. It's actually these characters that have the smallest fan-base, and for good reason. The 3D era was the darkest and lowest point of the franchise for a reason.

THANK YOU.
I agree! and then I want to add that there's an in-between fanbase that we are failing to mention: those that are nu-fans, they got hooked when MK9 got out, some got hooked when MKX got out and developed love for the franchise and it's characters, lore etc.. and now they themselves want to see returning characters even from the Klassic / 3D ERA, NRS can be good with re-inventing characters i.e Tanya which was one of my favs in MKX.. Tremor? I think he should be base roster no character animates like him and I love what they did with him (even tho he was never playable).

As I do see requests for guest characters, from my perspective only, and in no way to take away from yours, I am mostly encountering requests for returning MK characters over guests, I've personally never seen anyone requesting Joker, but Spawn? yeah, for years now. that's why I said to a certain extent it's ok. two guests per game, yum, 4 mmm ew-ish... but 6? makes me want to explode but ok I'll swallow that frog, Back in the day 6 was an entire base roster** of a game lol.. and it feels too heavy in the mix for me and some hardcore and nufans.
Like, are we ever going to get all fan favorites in one game? ever? I sure hope so. I suuurrree hope so.

 

[craftycheese]

The thing is, lots of people do ask for guests. Terminator and Spawn have been heavily requested since Mortal Kombat (2011)! You see people asking for guests all the time, on Boon's Twitter, for example. themortalkombat.com used to be flooded with regular guest requests as well.

The guest characters are also the highest selling DLC charatcers in the franchise, so ofcourse they're going to keep making them, and increasing their presence.

Interestingly, they also listen to requests for returning Mortal Kombat characters, and balance those with guests. Tremor and Tanya, Jason, and Predator were heavily requested during the life of Mortal Kombat (2011), and they appeared in Mortal Kombat X. So was Bo Rai'Cho, oddly and sadly, as well as Alien and even Leatherface. Cyrax and Sektor were after Mortal Kombat X launched. We got them in Kombat Pack 2.

Shang Tsung, Nightwolf, and Sindel were heavily requested during Mortal Kombat X, we got them in Mortal Kombat 11. As mentioned, Spawn and Terminator have been hugely requested since Mortal Kombat (2011), we got them now. Joker's the only DLC character we got that I haven't seen requested before.

I'm not a fan of guest characters myself outside of rare instances, but I've long accepted it's a thing because the casual fan base, which is much, much larger than the competitive fan base, wants and buys them. Having said that, I prefer guest characters to 3D-era characters. Any character added from Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance to Mortal Kombat: Armageddon should remain buried to modifiers, endings, and comic books (where they seem to quickly die) because they're honestly not good characters. It's actually these characters that have the smallest fan-base, and for good reason. The 3D era was the darkest and lowest point of the franchise for a reason.

The only good thing it brought us was fujin, kenshi, and Bo

 

[Juxtapose]

The only good thing it brought us was fujin, kenshi, and Bo

Fujin isn't announced/confirmed yet, though he's certainly heavily requested. Kenshi is pretty much the only good 3D era character, and it's great he was in two of the reboot trilogy games. Bo Rai'Cho was a waste of a character slot.

 

[craftycheese]

Fujin isn't announced/confirmed yet, though he's certainly heavily requested. Kenshi is pretty much the only good 3D era character, and it's great he was in two of the reboot trilogy games. Bo Rai'Cho was a waste of a character slot.

Fujin is a good 3d era character, that's why I mentioned him. I like Bo. Wasn't a waste for me. Sorry you didn't like him. Only other 3d character I thought was good was sareena, but I don't know why I like her. Probably because she was given some sorta story in mythologies.

 

[Gojira Prime]

I agree, WB's grasp on the game has to loosen a little, while from game to game it looks like it's getting tighter and tighter. I am afraid they are slowly hijacking the entire franchise to promote films and sell dlc characters, skins and such... Which is greedy, it's up to us the fans to NOT PARTICIPATE in purchasing Krystals, Maybe not buying thr entire Kombat Packs and just the characters we want to make a point, since at the end of the day they only increase their hold of the game because the money we put* into it allows them to.

I will not buy the entire KP even tho you get to play the characters a week early... I can "suffer" not playing the characters a week early. I always bought the KP ahead of time, in INJ2 and in MKX and MK11's KP1.
But I have learned my lesson!

WB is not the only one to blame here NRS be going right along with them. Wish people would understand that.

 

[DDustiNN]

I rant about DLC becasue it's all connected.
..WB owns the rights for MK, I know how marketing works. I know for sure that increasing DLC guests from 2 to 6 within 3 games when no one is asking for them guests with minor exceptions*, in a franchise with tons of characters fans wants to see returning in ONE GAME is for the love of CASH. I can't help but feel that there's a growing problem with the way DLC, guests, unlocking gear, currencies are handled. I don't mind being wrong about it and I wish I was. And don't you "what the fuck" me please, I find it gross, how about instead respect my opinion. I am complaining because it's my right. the game comes with 4 currencies and you can't unlock characters (real $$ required and I hope that changes with KP2) if SFV can pull it off I am sure WB/NRS can pull it off as well
The current state of the game forces you to gamble your way unlocking skins and gear in the Krypt, Those are all symptoms of the same sickness. You can use real money in a rotating store, or earn Krystals grinding KL or buy them using real money which I find eeek, The grind belongs to realms of mobile games, the randomness belongs to casino games, and not to a fighting game you pay $100 for and that is annoying to my taste. Some people get what I am saying and some don't, you don't have to agree!

Right. You can’t use money to progress the Krypt. You can’t use money to buy augments. You can’t use money to win anything. You can’t even use money to directly purchase specific gear (which does piss me off) unless it’s in the random daily selection.

As much as I hate the Krypt loot trickle, DLC is completely irrelevant to that.

So I raise this question again: wtf are you complaining in this thread for? This thread is about the Krypt, not the DLC.

 

[ShepherdOfFire]

After seeing this thread I went in the Krypt for the first time in months, I opened like 30 chests, I had music, characters and arenas concept arts for the first 10 chests and then I only got consummables, forge items and augments...

I'm not even surprised.

 

[Mr.Khen]

Right. You can’t use money to progress the Krypt. You can’t use money to buy augments. You can’t use money to win anything. You can’t even use money to directly purchase specific gear (which does piss me off) unless it’s in the random daily selection.

As much as I hate the Krypt loot trickle, DLC is completely irrelevant to that.

So I raise this question again: wtf are you complaining in this thread for? This thread is about the Krypt, not the DLC.

Just because you don't see my analogy and the connection, doesn't mean you have to be a brick about it... and definitely doesn't put you in position to repeat the question as if I owe you something just let it go and move on, some people see the connection some don't. you clearly don't.

 

[Pizza]

I wish they bring back MK9's Krypt instead of this Kasino, which is truly shameful. I thought it couldn't get worse than MKX, and yet...

 

[MKF30]

Indeed. Honestly, they could easily 1. Do more krypt events more often 2. Combine the original krypt events with the KL krypt events thus giving us multiple skins instead of a piece of gear most of us already have and one skin. To me this is lazy given the insane amount of skins they have in this game. Also, that 200 token skeleton key requirement for certain towers is so stupid and insane. I'm pretty sure NRS had a meeting on how to piss off the fans that play this game more than any other title in MK and NRS history.

Like others have said, bring back MK 9, give us alternate ways to unlock shit again or do like MK X where give the player the option to BUY everything with real money, I will bet you a finger that most people would rather pay a one time 20 or 30 bucks fee than wait, grind for all this bs in KL, the krypt and tot.

 

[trufenix]

And yet you and millions of others are still talking about unlocking stuff in the game and refreshing their social media for time release costumes almost a full year after release?

It truly is a mystery why they did it this way.

 

[Testurmight19]

They ruined the krypt and they don’t even care to fix it. We know they read these forums but they still do nothing to fix it. It’s been a year, they need to stop making it so hard to unlock gear

 

[Morgan the pilgrim]

When i think about it i always had a feeling that they add new content in with updates . For example : Il spend around 1 mil gold and/or 10k souls and for it il prolly get consumables or augments maybe one or two cosmetisc. Suddenly when the new patch comes out i go to krypt and litteraly 20 or so chests in a row had anything sept augments and consumables.So to sum it up i would say its time gated.

 

[MK Dragon]

The Krypt is a disgusting piece of garbage, unforgivable how NRS bent to the greed of WB. Especially because they lied and had Himmerick come on the KK and make it sound all awesome.

 

[Strike80]

The more you have the worse are drops in Krypt. If you open 15000 chest with nearly nothing unlocked on your account it will give you good loot.
If you have half the items availiable in the game it will replace half of skins / cosmetic gear with artworks,upgrades and consumables.
If chest would double your costume/gear instead of rerolling costumes/gear system replaces it with upgrades/consumables/artworks if you have given upgrade/consumable/artwork it gets replaced by nothing.

 

[MKF30]

I'm pretty convinced those defending the way they went about the krypt, unlocking shit in this game are on NRS's payroll. Between the overly done covered female skins(which the request for classics and those selling well proves was a dumb idea and they could have to easily just put the klassics in say a second gauntlet or something but no, the fact that some of the best skins, gear is hidden behind the kl which is beyond toxic and not worth the stress, timely ToT, the Krypt, beyond time consuming and 99% of the time you won't get what you want this includes the krypt token shrine and the fact that skins like the classics like LK's Young Justice literally released TWICE in a years time which is pathetic. We shouldn't have to wait that long, like wtf? I got it the first time, I was lucky but a lot missed it and they finally have their second chance tomorrow...when was that actually up last? 6, 7 months ago? lol give me a break. Whether this was WB's or NRS's idea, I don't really care they botched the shit out of this game.

 

[Juxtapose]

The Krypt is a disgusting piece of garbage, unforgivable how NRS bent to the greed of WB. Especially because they lied and had Himmerick come on the KK and make it sound all awesome.

I'm not sure you properly understand the publisher/developer relationship here. To clarify, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment owns NetherRealm Studios. So if Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment instructs them to develop the Krypt in this way, and won't change their mind, NetherRealm Studios has no choice but to do so. That's not "bending to the greed," as you put it, that's doing their jobs based on what the owners and parent corporation wants.

 

[Pizza]

I think I never managed to unlock everything in MKX because I was expected to spend time gambling koins in the Shrine slot machine, and this time looks like it's gonna be the same (though this is now a komplete Kasino on its own)