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Mortal Kombat 11 - Reveal Info Thread
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Welcome to video games, where NRS last game has a Harley Quinn that can beat Superman by punching him hard enough and the Ninja Turtles can overpower Darkseid.
Suspension of disbelief is the name of the game. The MK games operate on a violence spectrum of its own level like an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, and they really almost always have. MK2 introduced most of the intentionally goofy violence that you want them to regress from.
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Managed to get a much better shot of Revenant Liu Kang in game
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Why does his outfit look like Havik's? Strange.
I'm not arguing for literal realism. I'm arguing for verisimilitude. The x-rays aren't effective if they're meant to be cinematic. They almost give the fights the air of a sports broadcast. Like "ohh and Sonya does a rib cruncher. That ones gotta hurt!" Again, it takes me out of the universe, and the stakes of the fight. It goes from a fight with "Mortal" stakes, to two crash dummies smashing into each other.
They don't have to 'only' go as far as the movies did. They can go further. But I'm arguing to just frame the violence differently, so it has impact, and isn't just goofy. Like there should be more portent to a fight where your character could get their head blown off, or arm chopped off, etc. To me it should be like a slasher meets a martial arts in tone.
Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike and Bassjackers
And probably not.
Banging tune though I love it. The IJ2 trailer music was also on point back in the day.
Similar outfit from the end of X. He and Kitana became rulers of the Netherrealm...so, armors and pads and stuff. Nothing like Havik though. :p
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Anyway, Scorpion had a Cold War skin too in X. :p
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I understand what you mean, like when a regular attack or x-ray that breaks the skull or arm of a character yet that character shrugs it off like nothing happened and continues going. It does remove you from immersion sure, but then again, games like street fighter and tekken don't follow this realism thing either. They're just less over the top.
Noticed from few of the London event vids that it was affiliated with Xbox. X
Maybe a cross-marketing deal. Makes me wonder if a series of MK fighting pads for the Xbone will come out.
Maybe a cross-marketing deal. Makes me wonder if a series of MK fighting pads for the Xbone will come out.
That Scorpion brutality is one of the sickest things to ever appear in MK. It's so... real. fuck.
I kind of hope Liu has a "fluffy" hair option !
Also... I HATE that the fatal blows don't kill characters, they stand up and you have to "finish them". It makes it look so whack lol. It should be a fatality of its own IMO if you kill with it. Like the finisher just slo mos and they get killed. Instead of : "gets a spear in the brain, gets up, get fatality'd" .
Also... I HATE that the fatal blows don't kill characters, they stand up and you have to "finish them". It makes it look so whack lol. It should be a fatality of its own IMO if you kill with it. Like the finisher just slo mos and they get killed. Instead of : "gets a spear in the brain, gets up, get fatality'd" .
Really like Johnny's design here. He looks a bit young though seeing as this is no doubt his new timeline version where he's SF affiliated.
Those meter bars combined with health bar really bug me. I can't unsee some cheesy crime show computer overlay like I'm looking through a view finder or watching a replay. I half expect to see ANALYZING... pop up lol
I get what you're asking for, but I hard disagree. MK is fun because it's so over the top and its been that way since day 1. Maybe there's a market for the game you want, but that kind of realistic violence is absolutely not something I'd be interested in. The goofy gore is what makes this series palatable for me.
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I honestly thought the same thing when they first showed it, it looked like a stream overlay. But then after watching more and more footage, they grew on me, I barely notice them now. I can totally understand the annoyance though
Has there been any confirmation that the game uses Unreal 4 rather than their previous engine? It doesn't 'look' like Unreal 4 but it's difficult to tell.
Really like Johnny's design here. He looks a bit young though seeing as this is no doubt his new timeline version where he's SF affiliated.
The faces seem to randomly switch back and forth depending on the animation. Sonya's model below is the exact same as the "soldier" Sonya for instance.
(her face doesn't change with the costume)
No. It's probably a custom UE3. But a decade later it's not much like the original UE3 at all so they probably don't feel like getting into details because if casuals hear "ue3" they'll think "outdated".
The faces seem to randomly switch back and forth depending on the animation. Sonya's model below is the exact same as the "soldier" Sonya for instance.
(her face doesn't change with the costume)
Hmm, interesting. I know Sub Zero's face changes when you equip the classic look (he loses the beard) so I assumed all of the classic looks would make the characters look somewhat younger. I guess we'll see though.
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I'm pretty sure most characters that will meet their younger selves will have alternate faces to reflect the aging/de-aging. Cassie Cage vs Young Sonya would be dope. If they had recorded custom voice lines for specific interactions like that, that'd be even better
Thanks but this list is completely inaccurate and has no source at all. Injustice 2 certainly wasn't UE4. Far from a confirmation.
... Is it wrong that I think they could have some awkward fun with a young Johnny Cage bumping into Cassie?
I have no idea, but I know that one reason people say a Switch version is even happening is Unreal 4 scales FAR easier to the Switch than Unreal 3 does.
It made perfect sense since the skins are literally skins that you can't even customize whatsoever (just pick a color variant). Maybe it's more evident in gameplay. Not sure. But we saw big close ups of her skins and they looked the same so this is strange.
That being said, in the story mode, Sonya looked significantly older. So maybe the playable one is just 30 yo Sonya and that's about it ?
Yeah, that coupled with the mention of a new engine seems to be why everyone assumed UE4. I agree with the poster above it seems to still be their same heavily modified UE3 engine. Can't help but wonder how it will do on Switch if that is the case.
I used to think UE4 was the obvious choice due to the Switch version but then I find out that NRS still isn't handling the PC version in-house for some reason. Maybe it's because their frankenbranch of UE3 and their own tools don't have PC support for some reason (I don't thin NRS has ever made a PC game). Honestly at this point it's hard to say unless we get confirmation.
Mobile version of Injustice 2 used UE4. Console was UE3.
Funny you should say that, because they came straight out of Blitz: The League.
They confirmed it was on UE4 in the BTS video.
Edit: Also in the article above.
But what does UE4 "look" like?
Street Fighter V is UE4
Tekken 7 is UE4
Dragon Ball FighterZ is UE4
Dragon Quest XI is UE4
Fortnite is UE4
Mother Russia BleedsRussia Exclusive Deluxe Edition skin:
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No mention of it yet, but we haven't seen a full breakdown of modes. We do know about:
- The overall menu is broken down into
1 - Konquer (Modes with Long-Term Goals and Rewards - we know of Story Mode and Towers Of Time, looks to be MKX's take on the Multiverse towers from Injustice 2). I'd assume you earn unlocks just from those, but it is of course possible that the gold you earn is for something like the Krypt that just hasn't been shown yet.
2 - Fight (presumed to be vs. online, including lobbies, etc. and local vs.)
3 - Kustomize (we've seen the character customization screens allowing you to choose 3 x items for your variations as well as cosmetics, shaders, intros, round taunts and victory poses
4 - Train (probably basic tutorial plus character specific tutorials, but maybe more...looks like MK11 has a lot of frame data in the pause menu now)
If it does, it'll probably be more like the Brother Eye Vault in Injustice 2.
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I don't think there's any official confirmation yet, by the looks of this game, it looks like it's using the same engine as Injustice 2 (UE3) with minor modifications.
Krypt was great, honestly I would love to see an open-world adventure mode from Deception make a return, where you go throughout the various realms and explore/fight to get unlockables. That shit was so fun and such a cool way to incorporate unlockables.
You made me waste four minutes of my life rewatching that video. :P They don't mention unreal a single time. And that "article" is a collection of disproven bullshit.
Do you really want more controllers from the P.lease D.on't P.urchase company? They make terrible pads.
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Octopath Traveler is UE4
Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is UE4
I honestly believe Injustice 2 looked better than all of these games, so just because they upgraded to UE4 doesn't mean it's gonna be some massive step up all of a sudden.
I think the lighting for sure looks better though.
Also, I'm assuming the Switch version delay was bunk? I wish they had some footage at the event. At least some handheld displays. It worries me they aren't showing it
I would not be surprised if the first footage we see of it is once it's out in the wild. I'm more puzzled why none of the Nintendo-centric outlets seem to have asked anyone at NRS about it.
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