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Mortal Kombat 11 |OT| Krypt-O-Currency
- Thread starter Cerium
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This is good to hear, I'm the same as you offline. Hard for story, had to plug away at Kronka, and was doing Klassic Towers on medium but I'm dropped them down to very easy just to get through asap as Kronika is just not fun to grind against.
Thanks for the reply.
Things I really want to change from this game:
1 - Reward ranked play (and really, all modes that aren't Towers Of Time). I'm fine with Towers of Time being it's own mode that lets you zero in on specific character skins/gear when they pop up, etc., but it sucks when the one mode that distances the game from its actual fighting mechanics is the mode that rewards a player's time).
2 - Make Kustom variations tournament playable (or at the very least, align with the default variations) and more than one kustom skin useable in Ranked play. It's weird that the main new features of the game for Mortal Kombat (customization of moveset and looks) is absent from so many areas of the game that will be played the most.
3 - Towers of Time. Yeah, difficulty is coming down, rewards are going up, some unblockables are becoming blockable, etc. I don't expect larger changes to come to the mode, but in an ideal world they would do a real re-envisioning of it.
Right now, there's not just a huge time sink (you often have to invest a solid 20-30 minutes on a full set of towers to see rewards that are worth your time) and difficulty curve (obviously), but also a weird balance of puzzles to figure out and unfair mechanics to deal while doing that. It's a huge balance they have to deal with. If a Konsumable just fully negates a modifier...then the game selling you on Konsumables isn't "it adds a wrench to the core gameplay," it's "it returns the game to its core gameplay." And that's not more fun than just fighting. If the konsumables give your character a distinct advantage, then it becomes just easier/less strategic than a normal fight, which can be fun if it speeds up rewards for fights. That said, outside of speeding up rewards, I can't think of any consumables or modifiers that make the game more interesting when playing against an AI outside of the co-op tag battles. Also, the number of konsumables is outrageous - so many of them do the exact same thing but for poison/fire/chaos etc. It just all feels like it was designed for as many items as possible, without looking at any single item to see if it made the game fun.
That Challenge Gauntlet is like the MK9 tower most of us had fun with (despite a few frustrating moments)...only it's obvious how poorly tuned it was. The one tower that relies on no randomness, that was actually hand-crafted, is full of just completely unfun fights (the Cassie/Jackie rocket spam fight, the poisonous gas double flawless fight, the Reptile fight, etc.). Granted, I'm only 7 towers in, but so far, there's just not much pushing me to see it through.
5 - Kill the leveling up gear mechanic and let us freely equip/re-equip augments. It's a needless grind on an element of the game no one seems particularly interested in anyway. We don't really feel like we are leveling up our characters as it is, and the differences are often negligible. Either these augments should be about leveling up characters like an RPG, where they are earned, but make hard fights in towers become easy, or they should have minimal impact, but be really to (and not punish you for) swapping out stuff.
6 - Drastically reduce the grind of the end puzzles of the Krypt. I feel like it'd be a stronger mode if there was no artificial gating to finishing the mode, but that you'd still revisit for months afterwards by restocking and opening new chests for additional items. I've put so much time into the Towers and Krypt and I'm still waiting on 7,000 souls and hundreds of fatalities to get to the next part. I mean, there's a lot to want to change about the krypt, it's just...I don't expect anything else to actually be done.
7 - Showcase tournament streams directly on the main menu. It's still strange to me that as fighting games increasingly rely on their competitive scenes to push the longevity of the games, market the games, etc., that they are still so separate. If you bought MK11 but didn't know about esports, the game does nothing to nudge you into seeing these. It seems like a no-brainer for there to be in-game ways to not just watch tournaments, but join them. And then, beyond that, it'd be easy enough to add in a layer of weekly tutorial/strategy videos form the community like Ketchup And Mustard.
8 - Redesigned Menu Screens. NRS have some of the most beautiful models they've ever had. But the menu screen is filled with clunky boxes that have ugly borders on them, containing an art style that isn't seen anywhere in the game outside of the non-cannon tower endings. It just feels really out of whack with the rest of the game at this point.
9 - Despite all of that, it's the best Mortal Kombat I've ever played and my last hope is that they do indeed support the game longer than any other NRS title. Not with never-ending tower additions, but with more Kombat Packs, stages and tournament support. It's a really great game.
1 - Reward ranked play (and really, all modes that aren't Towers Of Time). I'm fine with Towers of Time being it's own mode that lets you zero in on specific character skins/gear when they pop up, etc., but it sucks when the one mode that distances the game from its actual fighting mechanics is the mode that rewards a player's time).
2 - Make Kustom variations tournament playable (or at the very least, align with the default variations) and more than one kustom skin useable in Ranked play. It's weird that the main new features of the game for Mortal Kombat (customization of moveset and looks) is absent from so many areas of the game that will be played the most.
3 - Towers of Time. Yeah, difficulty is coming down, rewards are going up, some unblockables are becoming blockable, etc. I don't expect larger changes to come to the mode, but in an ideal world they would do a real re-envisioning of it.
Right now, there's not just a huge time sink (you often have to invest a solid 20-30 minutes on a full set of towers to see rewards that are worth your time) and difficulty curve (obviously), but also a weird balance of puzzles to figure out and unfair mechanics to deal while doing that. It's a huge balance they have to deal with. If a Konsumable just fully negates a modifier...then the game selling you on Konsumables isn't "it adds a wrench to the core gameplay," it's "it returns the game to its core gameplay." And that's not more fun than just fighting. If the konsumables give your character a distinct advantage, then it becomes just easier/less strategic than a normal fight, which can be fun if it speeds up rewards for fights. That said, outside of speeding up rewards, I can't think of any consumables or modifiers that make the game more interesting when playing against an AI outside of the co-op tag battles. Also, the number of konsumables is outrageous - so many of them do the exact same thing but for poison/fire/chaos etc. It just all feels like it was designed for as many items as possible, without looking at any single item to see if it made the game fun.
That Challenge Gauntlet is like the MK9 tower most of us had fun with (despite a few frustrating moments)...only it's obvious how poorly tuned it was. The one tower that relies on no randomness, that was actually hand-crafted, is full of just completely unfun fights (the Cassie/Jackie rocket spam fight, the poisonous gas double flawless fight, the Reptile fight, etc.). Granted, I'm only 7 towers in, but so far, there's just not much pushing me to see it through.
5 - Kill the leveling up gear mechanic and let us freely equip/re-equip augments. It's a needless grind on an element of the game no one seems particularly interested in anyway. We don't really feel like we are leveling up our characters as it is, and the differences are often negligible. Either these augments should be about leveling up characters like an RPG, where they are earned, but make hard fights in towers become easy, or they should have minimal impact, but be really to (and not punish you for) swapping out stuff.
6 - Drastically reduce the grind of the end puzzles of the Krypt. I feel like it'd be a stronger mode if there was no artificial gating to finishing the mode, but that you'd still revisit for months afterwards by restocking and opening new chests for additional items. I've put so much time into the Towers and Krypt and I'm still waiting on 7,000 souls and hundreds of fatalities to get to the next part. I mean, there's a lot to want to change about the krypt, it's just...I don't expect anything else to actually be done.
7 - Showcase tournament streams directly on the main menu. It's still strange to me that as fighting games increasingly rely on their competitive scenes to push the longevity of the games, market the games, etc., that they are still so separate. If you bought MK11 but didn't know about esports, the game does nothing to nudge you into seeing these. It seems like a no-brainer for there to be in-game ways to not just watch tournaments, but join them. And then, beyond that, it'd be easy enough to add in a layer of weekly tutorial/strategy videos form the community like Ketchup And Mustard.
8 - Redesigned Menu Screens. NRS have some of the most beautiful models they've ever had. But the menu screen is filled with clunky boxes that have ugly borders on them, containing an art style that isn't seen anywhere in the game outside of the non-cannon tower endings. It just feels really out of whack with the rest of the game at this point.
9 - Despite all of that, it's the best Mortal Kombat I've ever played and my last hope is that they do indeed support the game longer than any other NRS title. Not with never-ending tower additions, but with more Kombat Packs, stages and tournament support. It's a really great game.
This one was still giving me trouble. It's just so long to chip away without messing up. Got any character an/or battle tips for it?
yes to the shortcut stuff. Amplify is just interact.
1 block 2
3 stance 4
Looks weird but works well because each button has its own dedicated button . 1+2 is interact/amplify 1+3 is throw, 3+4 is also stance switch
YouTube honestly. Just search for "mortal Kombat 11 lui Kang combos/guide"
Sub to channels like PNDK&M and Rooflemonger
Getting high scores on the towers of time seems to be the best way to get them. There was one the other day where I got 75 hearts. Sadly the AI generally doesn't get the scores needed to get the hearts so you'll need to play them yourself.
What I hate about the hearts thing is it punishes you for not doing one, so you're always gonna see one online, which gets super old, especially if you want to run sets.
In the beta it was so refreshing to match up with someone where you both sped past that part to just get the next match in the set going.
Hearts are not that bad to get. I almost have every heart chest in the krypt and they do not refill so hearts gonna be useless to me soon.
You get a bunch as tower rewards or refilled chests.
You get a bunch as tower rewards or refilled chests.
Okay, good to hear hearts are more plentiful in the towers.
Does difficulty add more to the score? And is Kronika the boss of every tower?
I've not really delved into ToT much...
Does difficulty add more to the score? And is Kronika the boss of every tower?
I try to go for a brutality instead, I get bored watching my own fatalities.... I kind of wish they weren't final hit as I'm compelled to Fatality every time the opportunity arises as you say.
Towers have a fixed difficulty to start with but if you get a high enough score you unlock a brutal difficulty of said. The final matches of towers are just regular fights. There are specific boss towers but said bosses are just supped up versions of normal characters so you can still combo them, do fatal blows, grab them, and so on.
Yup this too. Each lockpick is essentially a free heart chest.
Wow, awesome. I'm gonna use one one the 250k chest and another for a heart chest thief. Got 2.
Need to find an item to use them. Just keep exploring unless you want spoilers.
Are there chests that are good to go for first aside from specific ones for the characters you like?
I was Sub-Zero in this tower. I found that it wasn't so bad with a decent teammate:
1 - having a few combos to switch through (ideally ones that vary lows/overheads etc). If you knock her down, just get in her face and do combos as she gets up, every once in awhile crossing her up to start another combo, etc. You can do a lot of damage if you're keeping the pressure up
2 - tag out before you're in trouble health-wise. You regenerate health when you're on the sidelines. If someone is on the sidelines with 100% health they are just wasting one of the resources of the fight. It's better to tag in and out so someone is always getting health back than taking her down to 40% on one fighter and hoping the second fighter can finish her off starting at full (as that's when the fight gets harder anyway).
3 - I found iceball and the enhanced slide were nice for when the fight gets tricky at the end with the gravity/magnet kind of thing happening. Also, save fatal blows for this portion of the fight. Basically, it's the portion of the fight where it's nice to get some "free" damage in when she's low.
Keep progressing through the Krypt until you find the most tragic cutscene ever.
Are there any other super expensive chests like the 250k one?
Wait, how do you unlock Box Office Champ Johnny?
I have him on Xbox, but went to Switch to see how as I don't have him on Switch and it says in requirements "???".
I have him on Xbox, but went to Switch to see how as I don't have him on Switch and it says in requirements "???".
What/where is the 250k one and what does it have?
Also intereted in the answer to your question...
There's a soul in the lake in the woods that costs 3k, when you raise it, you get a chest that costs 250,000 koins.
If I remember correctly, it was costumes for Sub-Zero, Scorpion and Noob Saibot and some augments. That's what I got, anyhow
That chest gives you a bunch of skins 9like 5 or so) and a key to a special tower fo time. This tower gives you a ton of koins every time you beat it as well as more keys letting you summon the tower again once the time runs out. It;s a great way to farm koins (sometimes you can get 100k from one run). Said tower is an endurance fight where you need to fight against 5 Kollectors.
2 Scorp skins, 1 Noob skin, 1 Kitana Skin, 1 Jade skin and a Kollector chain ball.
Anyone know what the deal with augments is? I have at least one of each type for Liu Kang and I can look at them when I look at the Manage Augments screen, but when I try to actually equip them in an empty slot on his gear none of them show up. Is there something else I have to do first?
edit: never mind i figured it out seconds after posting, each augment apparently also only fits into a specific type of gear and coincidentally none of them match up with the slots in that particular piece of gear.
edit: never mind i figured it out seconds after posting, each augment apparently also only fits into a specific type of gear and coincidentally none of them match up with the slots in that particular piece of gear.
You need to beat the character towers. I got one for Frost for beating the first set of her towers.
They're all RNG. It's just one of the many items you get in the Krypt that give Krypt Man a temporary buff of some kind.
Hi, would you mind sharing your script? I tried setting it up but for some reason it works with everything BUT MK11.
Bler. Okay. Holding off on spending my resources for now, was hoping I could just grab one for that chest. :(
Just found that out myself. I only had one item he wanted, yet he had a couple costumes I wanted that I couldn't trade for.