Mortal Kombat's Brutal New Trailer Highlights More Returning Characters

I had lots of fun with the stress test beta; I think people are going to pleasantly surprised with how fun the Kameo fighters are — and how much depth they have.

Yesterday’s Kombat Kast (featuring this trailer and tons of gameplay videos and info) is worth looking up if anyone hasn’t seen it yet. What a year for fighting games.

Favourite character is Cyrax so happy to see they have brought back his original design.

@Kaloudz They’ve been allies far longer than enemies. They were only enemies in the first (and events leading up to it); since MK2 in 1992 they’ve been on good terms. Once Scorpion killed the first Sub-Zero (who was a horribly awful villain), he bonded with the new Sub-Zero, who is the younger brother who took up the mantle.

But further, this game is a canonical reboot and playing with everything in the lore. Here, they’re both members of the Lin Kuei clan, rather than competing gangs (they may also be brothers).

@Kaloudz Ha, well there are actually a few cannons already. Besides some multiverse stories, the series rebooted in 2009 with “Mortal Kombat.” They ended everything with MK Armaggeddon in the game before; 2009 was a time-travel story that turned into an alternate universe when certain events changed.

So we’ll see where this new timeline fits in. Without spoiling the end of 11 that led into this, I have a gut feeling 1 is going to end with all of the realities/MK universes converging.

As for places to catch up on lore, check out Behind the Warrior on YouTube. Honestly YT is in general is great for lots of recap videos but BtW is really a deep dive. On the podcast side, check out The Realm Kast. And on the MK wiki is always a great resource.

But if you ever have a Q, hit me up! I’d be happy to chat about it/shed any light I can. Have to put this useless knowledge to use somehow

@Zochmenos I didn’t see anything about it in the video. The long combo (ahem, kombo) strings are definitely going to be an issue for some. It’s totally a throwback to older MKs and MKX. But the kameos can’t be spammed as much as assists in MK11; they have a limited burn meter. It fills pretty fast but you still need to be judicious.

Each Kameo has multiple moves though you can use in the heat of battle, including combo extensions, cancels, and reversals. So for every potential misuse there’s a way to use them for breaking long combos.

My biggest concern after the stress test is the unbalanced damage. At this point all 4 fighters could take off 3/4ths of a health bar in one kombo string with a special; Kenshi didn’t even need the special. But this has historically been part of early stress tests and betas for MK and they’ll presumably (hopefully) fix it, because a long combo string at this point can end a match in seconds.