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Mortal Kombat 11 |OT| Krypt-O-Currency
- Thread starter Cerium
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Got up to a 16 win streak on KOTH before the last guy finally left, I was trying to quit out at that point but it doesn't let you lol. Oh well, thankfully they left, now I'm free.
And sure, you can PM your online ID if you want to play. (On PS4 btw).
Yeah, I mean, those KOTH matches felt great, I guess I just needed to get used to the feel of online, I've been playing offline only these last few days, so I wasn't used to it.
And sure, you can PM your online ID if you want to play. (On PS4 btw).
Thought about running the PC version on something a bit lower-end than my normal rig, the dynamic res option in story mode seems a bit fucked on a weaker PC:
E: Actually it's not just story mode it just seems to be for the entire game if you're running it on something weak
E: Actually it's not just story mode it just seems to be for the entire game if you're running it on something weak
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I have a couple of questions, I'm interested but want to get a better idea before I take the plunge.
How technically demanding and complex is it? Will I get smashed online without serious practice and commitment? I like Dead or Alive because its pretty easy to pick up and play.
Hows the online experience?
Seen a little about the Krypt and grind, how intrusive is it? Are they fixing it?
Any responses would be appreciated, thanks.
How technically demanding and complex is it? Will I get smashed online without serious practice and commitment? I like Dead or Alive because its pretty easy to pick up and play.
Hows the online experience?
Seen a little about the Krypt and grind, how intrusive is it? Are they fixing it?
Any responses would be appreciated, thanks.
They have got to be kidding! D: I am in Kotal's second Time Tower and they want 75 additional fatalities and 75 additional brutalites before I can progress. This will take weeks.
Please tell me this will be one of the fixes for next week.
It's incredibly grindy and they don't seem to be fixing anything in the Krypt itself. If you plan to unlock lots of stuff be prepared to grind for weeks and months. Oh, and you need lots of luck, because most chest contents are random. Basically one giant lootbox.
Please tell me this will be one of the fixes for next week.
It's incredibly grindy and they don't seem to be fixing anything in the Krypt itself. If you plan to unlock lots of stuff be prepared to grind for weeks and months. Oh, and you need lots of luck, because most chest contents are random. Basically one giant lootbox.
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MK is one of the more casual fighting games out there, with much wider appeal than something like Street Fighter. You'll do fine online with a bit of practice, even just skills gained from playing towers (arcade mode equivalent). There's also a really in-depth tutorial if you want to go any further. Other than that, combos are real simple stuff. You can just take one simple 3 button string and end it with a special with most characters.
Online, haven't played it much on PC. Got one timeout in ranked trying to connect but played fine with someone in the lobbies over and over for about half an hour, lag free.
The Krypt is a pain in the arse. If you're a casual player, you probably won't unlock much out of it because you won't garner much currency, but they're giving everyone a bunch of free currency and then supposedly rebalancing the requirements for chests. We don't know the details yet. Just remember that the Krypt is all optional content, skins and the like. You can still enjoy the core of the game, the fighting, without even touching it.
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I found out the items you need to trade to Kollector in his shop in the krypt can come from character boxes in
How do you see how many chests you've opened in the krypt?
How do you see how many chests you've opened in the krypt?
Now quoting the right person. ;)
The Krypt is incredibly grindy and they don't seem to be fixing anything in the Krypt itself. If you plan to unlock lots of stuff be prepared to grind for weeks and months. Oh, and you need lots of luck, because most chest contents are random. Basically one giant lootbox.
I'm so bummed with how basically everything outside of the core story is set up. There's so much effort put into all of these skins, intros, etc. but the game fails so fucking bad at making even a remotely competent shell around obtaining it. The entire setup of the Krypt is abysmal. Konsumables are a straight up misfire at their very core design (the amount of towers that restrict the good assists are HILARIOUS), both in obtaining them and what they actually stop, which are basically ridiculous one sided gimmick fights that aren't remotely fun at all.
It's baffling, due to this really not being something pushing MTX. There's not really a way around these random ass hoops. Making towers easier does nothing to alleviate how the modifiers just suck.
There's an achievement for having 5 different character intros on, and another for 5 win poses. Both are at 0.01% right now. Considering that's a small piece of the cast, THAT'S the percent? Not only that, but seeing how many people are basically automating this and using AI battles for towers (ala IJ2), I imagine the small percent used a ton of that. I think you get one guaranteed at the end of a character tower, but the other ones seem to be lost in a flood of garbage konsumable and variation icon drops.
It's baffling, due to this really not being something pushing MTX. There's not really a way around these random ass hoops. Making towers easier does nothing to alleviate how the modifiers just suck.
There's an achievement for having 5 different character intros on, and another for 5 win poses. Both are at 0.01% right now. Considering that's a small piece of the cast, THAT'S the percent? Not only that, but seeing how many people are basically automating this and using AI battles for towers (ala IJ2), I imagine the small percent used a ton of that. I think you get one guaranteed at the end of a character tower, but the other ones seem to be lost in a flood of garbage konsumable and variation icon drops.
They're meaning at character select like any other fighting game. Its dumb that they don't have the ability to pick a costume on the default variations via character select.
That will require a massive UI change to allow custom presets being changed on the fly. It won't come any sooner with them wasting time fixing the Towers.
I just think they should have kept the two basic variations uneditable, with some standard costumes to pick from, to allow for use of some of the different customisation items. Also makes tournament play a bit of a pain in the arse, considering we have no true standard baked into the game that can't be touched.
Frost needs to be unlocked through either single-player (clear chapter 4. Took me about an hour) or store purchase. Shao kahn is a pre order character, don't know if he is available for purchase right now
It's got a good tutorial mode (glitches aside) that describes its systems and fighting game concepts well enough.
If you've got your 2D basics down, you can go ahead and pick a character you like, do some training to learn their specials and some combo strings, then see how you fare against others. It's the first week of a new fighting game release, and a large mix of casual and experienced players are going to do the same. Like Dead or Alive, some characters are initially easier to feel comfortable with than others. You can have some fun without spending hours in the lab practicing, if that's what you're concerned about.
That said, NetherRealm Studios (NRS) games have a different "feel" to them compared to Capcom and SNK fighting games. They click with some, and not so well with others.
As for the grind... The grind is very real.
It's not exactly a F2P mobile game that tries to nickel-and-dime you for real money. Instead, you will pay with your time. This wouldn't be so bad if the things designed to keep you engaged weren't so convoluted and in a broken state.
Going beyond the fighting core of the game, to get the most reward out of the other modes, you're going to need a variety of in-game currency. This currency will unlock things that might give you what you want (beyond what's already available at the start).
For example: Let's say you fight in a Tower of Time (a series of fights, many of which are overtuned a bit too hard or are near-impossible). You'll want to do this if you want more "stuff". If you beat the tower, you'll get a variety of in-game currency, consumables, and things for one or more of the game's 25 characters. These might not be for the character you're using.
Upon doing a few tower fights, you're going to want to take your hard-earned currency and spend it in the Krypt. The Krypt is where the
The contents of the chests in the Krypt are supposedly fixed, but their placement is not. This prevents someone from mapping out the Krypt, sharing its contents, and saving you time, though there are thankfully some chests that don't follow this type of RNG.
After your initial Krypt trip, you'll come to realize that you don't have enough currency to unlock everything. That's by design, of course. Also, many times you will open up a chest to find that it has crap you don't care for, whether it's concept art, an icon, or stuff for a character you don't even play as.
Now do this process many times over. Fight. Loot. Repeat.
Better yet, use the in-game AI function to grind towers for you (as money of us have been doing), go watch Netflix, post on Era or something while your AI farms for gold. You can't fast forward AI fights, though the function does exist, as that would optimize your grinding time, but not be as engaging.
Mind you, if you don't care about character cosmetics (costumes and gear), flourishes (intros, taunts), and some in-game moves (brutalities), then this won't affect you at all. If you play story mode and complete up to the fourth chapter, you should have all 25 characters available to play with in local and online versus modes. Each character comes with 2 costumes by default, and completing all of the training and story modes will unlock a few more.
edit: 24 characters; Shao Kahn was a pre-order character and is $5.99.
Even without the grind, there's at least 20+ hours of fighting entertainment to be had here, more if you play with friends.
So this isn't quite a $60+ game with mobile game F2P microtransactions. It is, however, a $60+ game with mobile game F2P player engagement design. If that's a turnoff to you, you're not alone.
As to whether NRS is going to fix the grind? No. They've stated they're going to fix the difficulty of some of the more troubling tower modifiers that make them hard, and that they're going to increase the rewards you get from them, but the overall design of keeping you "engaged" for as much time as they can will remain.
I'll note that even if you were able to unlock every single chest in the Krypt right now, there's still a fair amount of stuff to grind for in the Towers of Time. Yay for player engagement.
He is, for $6. Frost can also be purchased in case someone doesn't want to play the story.
I can't do anything with Kabal I've spent like 5 hours in the lab and I'm just not seeing how to connect any of his moves into combos.
Yep. My success rate with back-forward motions is abysmal.
Even toggling every control option makes no difference. Negative Edge on/off, long/short timing, alt control scheme for half-circle motions... it feels downright impossible to reliably pull off when necessary.
There is a particular Raiden strategy tutorial that demands doing two EX motions back to back in one juggle. I think it took me 30 min to accomplish. By the end after finally connecting it proper, I nearly wanted to torch my PS4. The timing for registering the motion is too tight. It's not an enjoyable motion to use and this game feels like it is nothing but this motion across all fighters. I'll never successfully do anything like that again, or even want to attempt again! I was nothing but a ball of rage after that "tutorial" step.
Again I both appreciate and loathe playing this game.
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Are character towers retro active? I'm thinking of getting noobs second one but I don't wanna spend 10 years working on it.
Went out and bought a PowerA wired Switch controller after playing with my daughter for about an hour. I let her use my Pro controller and I was stuck using split joycons. I figured they'd let you use a single joycon on its side, but no dice. Wasn't a fun experience but I just played my first like 10 online matches with the PowerA and I'm really enjoying it. Seems like a better D-pad than the official Pro because it doesn't have the mushiness.
I haven't loved a fighter in a long-ass time but, despite how grindy that Noob Saibot tower is, I am really loving this game.
I haven't loved a fighter in a long-ass time but, despite how grindy that Noob Saibot tower is, I am really loving this game.
Good question. What happens if someone picks the same variation for the same character? I guess it'd just pick a random available colour for that variation for that costume, but I ain't sure.
Don't buy it whatever you do.
You will unlock it in story mode with like an hour or so if play.
Oh. What I'm trying to avoid though is to go through that for each user on my PS4. We have a lot of users here. :(
Ahh, I see. I don't know the answer to your question, but if you put it on easy and focus you can unlock her even faster.
The tournament variations for alot of the characters feel really bad to me compared to what you can cook up in customization. I don't expect them to let people customize loadouts for tournies but I would have expected more characters to feel complete.
The only skin I have is the one from the heart chest, Punisher. It's nice.
LOL
The brutalities trophy is at 0.2%
Considering that this is just ONE of the requirements of character towers, I can't imagine how many people are rocking the intros and outros locked in this trash.
Pretty sure I'm one of the only ones that got Johnny's fandemonium (which should have been his default outro instead of green fart) so far.
The brutalities trophy is at 0.2%
Considering that this is just ONE of the requirements of character towers, I can't imagine how many people are rocking the intros and outros locked in this trash.
Pretty sure I'm one of the only ones that got Johnny's fandemonium (which should have been his default outro instead of green fart) so far.
I think I'm sick of the Krypt now;
The non-stop gimmicks and bullshit requirements just to move on have finally caught up to me. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long tbh.
So I found Reptile in the Krypt and the game told me that I need to find and hit him with the hammer to get something. Looked up online where he is and it turns out that not only is Reptile invisible, but he appears in certain spots throughout the Krypt and switches between those spots RANDOMLY. Not only THAT, but you also need the blindfold to see him.
I also found out that I need to do this 50 brutals and fatals shit to get the heads for the Warrior Shrine which is also how you get Cetrion's amulet for the three amulet puzzle.
I also found out that I need to do this 50 brutals and fatals shit to get the heads for the Warrior Shrine which is also how you get Cetrion's amulet for the three amulet puzzle.
The non-stop gimmicks and bullshit requirements just to move on have finally caught up to me. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long tbh.
So I just figured out the default variations are NOT the ranked/tournament ones. That kinda blows because some of them are not my thing. E.g. I lost Noob's chain sickle so that cuts my BNB in half, so that's boring. Scorpion also has no variation that includes his demon rush etc.
I hate the gear/augmrnt shit (aside from visuals) but kinda wish I could run my own variation anywhere. If I want to play my own, I have to deal with all the extra bullshit on top.
Also, did they already drop the 500k compensations? Cause I don't have anything.
I hate the gear/augmrnt shit (aside from visuals) but kinda wish I could run my own variation anywhere. If I want to play my own, I have to deal with all the extra bullshit on top.
Also, did they already drop the 500k compensations? Cause I don't have anything.
If you're on PC, we're still behind. I believe Switch is too.
Does anyone know where the Scorpion lantern is in The Courtyard near the entrance to Goros lair?
I thought that was out already... I'm probably mistaken though.