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Mortal Kombat 11 IOTI Rip out your beating heart!
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JimiNutz
Banned
To be honest the only time we drink excessively is when we game.
But yeah we get through a bottle of JD and a bottle of Fireball a week easily.
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Nymphae
Banned
I don't drink very much at all, but occasionally I do enjoy some Fireball. I love the old bottles, had a really hard time tracking one of these down a few years ago for my modest booze shelf.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I feel like if they speed up the kombat, the worse casuals/fans/beginners have it. Speed it up and you're dealing with 10 second matches where the opponent didn't even have a chance to move. It probably happens in MK11, but regardless. Mortal Kombat 2 is what I was thinking about. It isn't limited to 1-2 hit combos, but you can punish someone whose BnB is one huge 18-20 hit combo that takes 75% of your health.
The 90's was when fighting games were the craze at arcades. It brought people to the arcades. Now a days the full bar combo strings and congesting someone into a life draining combo are getting old if you ask me. If you invite someone to participate in a fighting game and you're always rushing them or keeping them in a combo loops. How much fun will they have? I see the bad side to it. Not being able to deliver combos you want to. I see the point in having a faster rush down game too.
The bounce in MK9/10/Injustice looked crazy at times. It was like you sent someone to the "pit" of a combo string.
Street Fighter IV brought players back by bringing the fundamentals of Street Fighter II back. I remember seeing more random people play it at an arcade up here (running on 360 with a coin slot) than I did seeing people play other fighting games. Maybe its a way to bring MK back for players versus giving them something that only skilled, regular players dominate. Who wants to play Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Ultimate with someone who does a full life combo on you the moment you wake up. Don't get me wrong, you have to lose to get better. You have to know defeat to be a pro, but a lot of Mortal Kombat fans are probably not looking to go to EVO or an MK league either.
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888
Member
They did say it is slower this time around, with the differences in the meters and xrays at low health they are trying to encourage more strategy than before. Ive only played one tower with a keyboard, will have to play at home properly.
Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
Ha DF done a video on it yet?
Mista
Banned
Not yet. I’ll post it here as soon as they upload it
Well, this what happens when you bring a UFC fighter to do the voice acting...
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Nikana
Go Go Neo Rangers!
Rousey is a terrible actor. Why do they keep trying to make her act.
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Dev1lXYZ
Member
The combo strings are still very much there. After playing it some more, here is what I have found: when you combo, the game seems to literally speed up for the comboing character. While this is nothing exactly new to fighting games, this game seems to drop animation frames during combos! I really noticed it in a Jax vs Jax match single player. I layed into the CPU with a combo and was thinking that it didn’t look right. I did it again and again very easily and determined that normal type moves give full frames of animation, while during a combo, it drops a few frames and looks pretty funny.
Is this game accessible to total newbies? I guess if you are playing with total newbies and want to jump around pushing buttons then sure-but if the number ‘11’ doesn’t scare them off, then the special move motions probably will. I don’t see MK really drawing in any new fans, it’s mostly catering to fans that have been into it for years.
As someone who has played every MK since the first was released, this game is a disappointment. It’s just nothing really new and exciting is being presented in the package. They just went down the checklist and made a cookie cutter MK game. If you love MK, then great, it’s more of the same. Is it worth $60? Unless you have a cadre of friends to play it with, then no. The single player has already been done in the past two iterations and better in Injustice 2. It’ll be cheap by Thanksgiving.
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VisualFidelity
Member
I've always liked mortal Kombat but it's actually never been my favorite cider do to the simplicity and choppy movements. But I always have had fun with MK games. So far about 3 hours in, this iteration is ranking up there as my favorite. the gameplay feels familiar, yet with so many new moves and mechanics, feels like so much new things to master. Other fighting games should take note, this is how sequels should feel. Take a game like DOA 6 for example, one I really enjoy, but not much has changed in terms of movesets from DOA 5. Mk11 is almost overwhelming and terms of all the customization and new moves and systems to master and obtain. Add on story mode that puts the MK movies to shame with seamless transitions two fights on top of some beautiful graphics on the X One X,,. And I am super happy about my purchase.
If you are into fighting games or mortal Kombat in general this is a must own
If you are into fighting games or mortal Kombat in general this is a must own
Radical Dreamer
Member
Good god the game looks insane on base PS4!
Still I'm overwhelmed by combos and this fighting system but liking it so far. To be honest I'm most excited about the story!
Tutorials are excellent done with these timings icons when to follow up and dualshock button prompts how to do them properly etc
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Mista
Banned
What’s with the combos? They’re easy to execute with a bit of practice. I’m hooked with the story since I started playing. Chapter 6 now
Dev1lXYZ
Member
Mista
Banned
Indeeed. Also it’s so smoooth
TheDuskwalker
Member
Ed Boon slightly further elebarates on yesterdays kombat cast. Towers of time difficulty is going to be addressed.
Cross fingers for honesty!
Cross fingers for honesty!
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tkscz
Member
Man, the story ending was... anti-climatic. Like, really anti-climatic. Also how the hell do you reboot the timeline right after rebooting the timeline?
As for the Switch version, the graphics are honestly passable. They aren't close to the other versions, but they aren't an eyestrain or anything
However there was something weird I noticed. Whenever the prerendered cutscenes ended, the fighting area and characters will be a really low resolution, but right as it says "FIGHT" and flashes, the resolution bumps way up and stays that way. The hell was that all about?
As for the Switch version, the graphics are honestly passable. They aren't close to the other versions, but they aren't an eyestrain or anything
However there was something weird I noticed. Whenever the prerendered cutscenes ended, the fighting area and characters will be a really low resolution, but right as it says "FIGHT" and flashes, the resolution bumps way up and stays that way. The hell was that all about?
Christopher
Member
Story fucking rocks so far.
Liu Kang alive again is just right, stop fucking killing him off.
Liu Kang alive again is just right, stop fucking killing him off.
888
Member
Umm spoilers there bro.
So I will say there are some very strange difficulty spikes in the game. Also TAA support is an awful blurry mess.
Dev1lXYZ
Member
They did a good job on the graphics, The HDR really pops in some stages, like the ship at sea with the sun in the background.
Christopher
Member
How is it spoilers he’s in all the trailers it’s the basic plot point of the game the time line cross
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Yeah. I feel it was unnecessary. 4k is good enough that motion in itself works as a sort of AA. You especially notice the blurry TAA on the character edit screen when you have them stationary them rotate them. Having that kind of AA and certain kinds of motion blur effects just waste the processing power required to make a game run 4k.
888
Member
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tkscz
Member
I had my hopes up and it dashed them quite so. Though MK still has the best fighting game story of all time. It's good, it isn't convoluted as shit, it follows all characters, not just like four characters and tosses the rest around randomly.
Still Completely resetting a timeline that was already reset kind of removes any investment you can have. Like, why should I care for any of the events if you just made them null anyway? A better way would've been to have FGLK stop Khronica and revert time back to when they invade the island and stop Khronica. Then continue from there. Liu Kang exist outside the timeline, but his new found powers will allow him to heal his fallen friends. The current ending leaves you very empty and unfulfilled.
888
Member
I’m going to play with reshade’s sharpening filter to see if I can clean it up like I did re2.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Saw a post on reddit complaining about the switch port because NR said it had the same content of the other versions and people are saying that character lessons along with some other stuff is missing.
The shitshow of switch ports never stops.
The shitshow of switch ports never stops.
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Dev1lXYZ
Member
waylo
Banned
Caved and grabbed this off GMG for $45.
Played for roughly an hour so far and it has crashed to desktop twice. Once while browsing costumes and once while loading into the Krypt.
Also, TAA looks like garbage. It introduces some weird shimmering. Hopefully they get that fixed in a patch.
Played for roughly an hour so far and it has crashed to desktop twice. Once while browsing costumes and once while loading into the Krypt.
Also, TAA looks like garbage. It introduces some weird shimmering. Hopefully they get that fixed in a patch.
Saw a post on reddit complaining about the switch port because NR said it had the same content of the other versions and people are saying that character lessons along with some other stuff is missing.
The shitshow of switch ports never stops.
just picked up the switch version....... 16 GB patch still waiting oh its $49.99 at walmart
Soltype
Member
Runs fine, 3770K /1080Ti.No DSR for some reason, and hair is super dithered.
waylo
Banned
Aside from two crashes, it's running fine completely maxed out at 1440p with a 4790k/2060/16GB setup (using only FXAA though without TAA as TAA has some weird artifacting/shimmering). I do hope they fix that though as just FXAA doesn't do the best job of removing aliasing.
Running around in the Krypt at 30FPS is headache inducing however.
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waylo
Banned
I'll have to try this. I turned off TAA but kept FXAA on. Are you using a combo of the in-game FXAA and SMAA, or just SMAA?
888
Member
I did leave fxaa on since it’s cheap. Adding smaa and the sharpening filter made a big difference just like it did in RE2 recently.
888
Member
Man the towers of time have some crazy weird difficulty spikes. I haven’t used any modifiers short of the forced ones in the tutorial. I’ve been able to overcome all of the fights so far but the AI goes from not doing anything to massively punishing you. All for some measly koins. I really hope they even things out a bit more.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
waylo
Banned
So I did the Reshade thing to add SMAA and Adaptive Sharpening. Game looks much better. Still not perfect, but during gameplay edges look a lot better. Think I may take it a step further and try playing at 4K to really smooth out the image.
Anyone know if PC has the new patch they mentioned adjusting the earn rate of currency and the difficulty of towers? I saw some posts online earlier saying that PC hadn't received the update yet.
Anyone know if PC has the new patch they mentioned adjusting the earn rate of currency and the difficulty of towers? I saw some posts online earlier saying that PC hadn't received the update yet.
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888
Member
They have not released that update yet that I have seen. Was just looking it up and I don’t see any announcement on it.
AeonGaidenRaiden
Member
Got mine
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DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Finally played it on my Switch... I LOVE IT!
Yeah, it's not as detailed as the other versions but I played online against someone (first time), played some of the story mode... It looks GREAT for a Switch game! I knew what I was getting into by getting a Switch and this game exceeds my expectations!
I'm glad I bought it!
Yeah, it's not as detailed as the other versions but I played online against someone (first time), played some of the story mode... It looks GREAT for a Switch game! I knew what I was getting into by getting a Switch and this game exceeds my expectations!
I'm glad I bought it!
VisualFidelity
Member
Some pics from X1X version
Cr1ptkeeper
Member
Do you guys also feel the fatal moves are a bit dark, like literally dark. It's difficult to clearly see what's happening. It's like you take a picture of someone thats standing in front of a bright light source, that person will also be dark.
I'm playing with HDR on, I turnid it of to see the difference but it's still dark withouth HDR.
I'm playing with HDR on, I turnid it of to see the difference but it's still dark withouth HDR.
888
Member
Not at all. Sounds like you need to check brightness levels etc on your monitor and software. There’s been some awesome shadowing and dark areas but I never felt they were too dark to see.
DR2K
Banned
They added some fixes to towers to remove a lot of the unfair bullshit. No more enemy HP sponges, less bs with assists. I’m saying less, but these problems are still here and likely to remerge if left neglected.
Some challenges are still fucking stupid and busted, the AI is legit still reading your inputs and reacting within the first frame of disadvantage. With zero variance in so logic or variety. Keeping in mind this is the “normal” mode.
Progression and rewards are still trash.
Some challenges are still fucking stupid and busted, the AI is legit still reading your inputs and reacting within the first frame of disadvantage. With zero variance in so logic or variety. Keeping in mind this is the “normal” mode.
Progression and rewards are still trash.