TBH I think the fatality thing has gotten kind of ridiculous. Like Scorp’s first one in 11, it’s awesome that he immolates and dives through the opponent, but then all the stuff after that, kicking their head and impaling it on his spear is silly to me. Kano’s are pretty good though, the dancing one is really dark and the headbutt one is actually a pretty cool one.
I felt the same way about the ones in X, some of them were pretty cool and some where just either a bit gross or just silly. I guess the addition of a lot of entrails-based ones had something to do with that.
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I’m not squeamish but Kenshi’s gave me pause. It was cool but damn it was brutal as all hell. That said, I prefer brutalities. They have the old school fatalities vibe.
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I gotta say, as stupid as the MK11 grind is and the fact that using an AI Fighter even exists, I’m glad the latter does as it allows me to rack up those towers wins while I work.
For all of the MK games (especially the 1990s ones) I don’t care about fatalities and finishers. I like the lore/story and the secrets (especially the unplayable secret boss characters).
I mean with Jade not having a name in the lifebar and Reptile showing Scorpion in the lifebar made it more mysterious back then.
MK is more of a street fight than SF. I mean you fight in the streets like in street fighting movies and kung-fu movies. You throw objects and can use objects as weapons like in a street fight. SF is more sports karata/taekwondo/boxing/MMA than a street fight (Final Fight is more a street fight).
Going back to comment made by SamSho being just as violent; I think the Japanese players in general believe that MK is not a real fighting game like how Smash is not a real fighting game.
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Some of the XRays/Fatal Blows would have been fatalities back in the day. I’ve been enjoying the brutalities though, I think that’s a cool addition.
That’s pretty cool.
Speaking of AI fighters, what the AI Fights all about? Just another means of unlocking stuff?
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Basically.
You build a team of three fighters (selecting good/suitable AI attributes, augments, etc), and select their order to fight another team of three.
You can do it as much as you want, but you only get rewards for the first 5 matches every day, and get better rewards for wins.
Though, i don’t know how necessary it is. My main is Kitana, so I used her AI fighter in the Towers of Time and character towers, and with the “random skin/gear/kosmetics or augments” you get every few towers, I’ve pretty much got everything for her - other than KL unlocks and some of the “???” things.
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Got it. I just figured out the AI tuning thing, I thought it was for the general AI you fight in the towers, etc. Seems like kind of a silly mode although I wonder if they meant for it to be like that MKXMobile game.
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Yeah, I think it’s dumb that they encourage you to not play the game yourself lol.
Regarding your AI fighters, I have the best luck with combo/damage heavy variations and setting Kombos and Revsersals to full.
My Dark Sabbath (2nd tournament variation) Noob Saibot with these settings destroys these towers.
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Yeah I thought that was a weird choice too, but I guess it’s good for unlocks.
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Gotta say too, my only gripe so far about towers of time are the ones where you have to fight someone with a shitload of assists coming in. It’s not even that the opponent is tough, it’s all the bullshit flying around them that makes it a challenge. Really annoying.
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Hey, was that you on TYM that liked my Kitana post looking for feedback?
And yeah, a lot of these towers are really annoying. That’s why I have my AI fighters tackle them. The only ones I do myself are ones where have to end each match in a fatal blow/brutality/fatality or ones where they just don’t use the Konsumables well enough and I have to intervene.
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So this AI thing is basically making your own AI like Mario Maker style?
If so then has anyone made the MK2 (arcade) AI style for any of the fighters? You know, like sweep+throw, and shit like that!
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You don’t really have that level of control. There’s like 6 attributes you award points to balance the player style (zoner, rushdown, whiff punisher, etc).
I wish you did though, lol. My AI Jade will absolutely not do fatal blows, which made me have to grind some out to finish some of her character towers
MK2 was awesome though. Kitana’s MK2 skin is the weekly high score reward in the towers right now, so i’m grinding them like cray to make sjre i get it. Jade’s should be next week.
Yep that was me! Good looking out on the AI fighter thing, that’s gonna come in handy against some of the dumber tower challenges.
I also just found out you can change the affinity of the slots in your gear so now I’ve actually got some augments assigned.
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Yeah, from what I hear, the augments are pretty good. Sometime recently, they changed them (maybe with aftermath?) and they’re supposed to be much better now.
I haven’t really played any matches since I decked Kano out, but I guess we’ll see how it goes.
Have you been doing Kombat League?
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Yeah, that match on TYM was my 2nd day on KL. I’m going to hop into the next season right when it starts (which I read on Reddit is next Tuesday, but I don’t know for sure).
I enjoyed it a lot. All of the matches were fairly decent as far as matching me up with someone at a similar level, though it was also in like the last day or two of the season… It’s likely going to be a lot worse when a new season starts and everyone (including Sonicfox and NinjaKilla) are starting at the bottom, but I’ll still have fun.
We should play sometime if you’re up for it. My PSN is Mattatsu_ if you have it for PS4
I would be down to play but I bought the Switch version, mainly because I’d figured on playing the single player stuff. If I end up picking up the PS4 version at some point I’d be down though. I’m not usually around my PS4 anyway these days 
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No worries! I have a Switch too and it’s really easy to just lay in the couch or in bed and play
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Yeah I really love it. I got it for Christmas and since we’ve been staying at my mum in law’s place for the quarantine, I haven’t really had access to my PS4, so the switch has been a godsend.
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