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[Furyous]

I'm frustrated.

I really don't win online ever in ranked. I get matched with 100 wins, 0 losses non stop bull shit. What... am I the only scrub fucking left?

I actually hate chip on block... I try to poke out with my fastest normals and still get gang banged.

Takes forever to get a match.

I feel like I play too smart for my own sake. People mash me stupid, and I try to block and look for openings. Ugh.

I suck at pulling off combos I have practiced 9083908 times offline without issues too. Maybe I just need to face that I'm ass at this game and should stay a spectator only. :/

Have you considered setting the difficulty to hard in practice mode? Set it to hard against the online character that keeps kicking your butt. If you can beat the character in hard mode then it should pose ever decreasing difficulty online. Use rush to move across the screen and take advantage of ***** breakers.

I refuse to go online until I have a stable of four characters I know in and out. Right now I've got three characters that I'm working on with Kenshi glowing eyes version, Cassie Cage Brawler, and Jax standard/wrestler variant.

I love the fact that there's always something to unlock in this game. Every time I log on there's something new in the Krypt. Is it me or does Kenshi need more standard sword attacks? Jax is unfair because he has two projectiles (one hidden in his standard variant). LOL at his fake ass sonic boom, in my opinion.

 

[Drewfonse]

Just got the game. Best way to learn the ropes? Story Mode, I suppose?

 

[Furyous]

Just got the game. Best way to learn the ropes? Story Mode, I suppose?

Nah, spend a good few hours in the training room memorizing attacks. That's the best way to learn because once you have the basics down the game gets easier as you go.

 

[PaulKersey]

Just got the game. Best way to learn the ropes? Story Mode, I suppose?

Story mode and stay far away from online. It is a disgusting mess with the worst netcode I have ever seen in a fighting game.

 

[Papercuts]

Woah, does anyone else see Jason on the character select screen?

I wasn't seeing it at all this whole session but it just showed up when I went online.

 

[Nuke Soda]

Just got the game. Best way to learn the ropes? Story Mode, I suppose?

Training, Story Mode, Tower Mode, Mash buttons until something clicks, all valid ways to learn.

 

[Drewfonse]

I feel about the same bro. I know I'm better than this. I haven't played a ton online but I've yet to win.

We should start a neogaf scrub room.

 

[Nuke Soda]

Is Jason out next week or the one after? Probably been asked enough lol.

 

[sixghost]

Have you considered setting the difficulty to hard in practice mode? Set it to hard against the online character that keeps kicking your butt. If you can beat the character in hard mode then it should pose ever decreasing difficulty online. Use rush to move across the screen and take advantage of ***** breakers.

I refuse to go online until I have a stable of four characters I know in and out. Right now I've got three characters that I'm working on with Kenshi glowing eyes version, Cassie Cage Brawler, and Jax standard/wrestler variant.

I love the fact that there's always something to unlock in this game. Every time I log on there's something new in the Krypt. Is it me or does Kenshi need more standard sword attacks? Jax is unfair because he has two projectiles (one hidden in his standard variant). LOL at his fake ass sonic boom, in my opinion.

A big part of what he's talking about comes down to lag. There are a lot of people out there right now that never try to do a single combo, but are still hard to beat because of the lag. If you are able to knock out a 30% combo every single time to punish their shit they're easy to beat, but that's tough when you are needing to enter the inputs half a second before you are used to for the combo to actually connect. It took me like 8 matches before I could consistently do a fairly easy combo jungle combo with Cassie, and after that I started beating the scorpians who just spam teleport, the ranged grab, and spear.

 

[Arby 'n' the Chief]

Just got the game. Best way to learn the ropes? Story Mode, I suppose?

Story helps but I seriously recommend going to practice mode. Helps a lot with learning character moves.

btw focus on combos

 

[Drewfonse]

Story helps but I seriously recommend going to practice mode. Helps a lot with learning character moves.

btw focus on practicing *****s

I'm new to this, what do the asterisks mean? Will someone have their still beating heart ripped out of their chest if they tell me?

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

Just finished Story mode.
Shit was god awful.

 

[Arby 'n' the Chief]

I'm new to this, what do the asterisks mean? Will someone have their still beating heart ripped out of their chest if they tell me?

it's supposed to be K ombos lol just to go along with the MK theme but I don't know why that's happening

Just finished Story mode.
Shit was god awful.

That I can agree with, Shinnok is a joke compared to Shao Kahn

 

[Freezasaurus]

Just finished Story mode.
Shit was god awful.

It was pretty bad, yeah. I only enjoyed playing as a few of those characters. Cassie and D'vorah, mostly.

 

[Sou Da]

It was pretty bad, yeah. I only enjoyed playing as a few of those characters. Cassie and D'vorah, mostly.

Eh given who you are.

 

[oneida]

Jacqui is so cooooool

 

[double jump]

played threw story a bit and found that kung jin is that dude.
But I hate both his costumes so I'll doubt I use him much.

 

[Absoludacrous]

I guess one of Jason's variations is called 'Unstoppable'.

In the bottom left of the online menu, where they run stats, one of them said total wins with JASON (UNSTOPPABLE): 40.

 

[Majestad]

Just finished Story mode.
Shit was god awful.

Have you played games like Persona Arena? That's some god awful story mode. MKX is not. Lmao

 

[Gleethor]

I guess one of Jason's variations is called 'Unstoppable'.

In the bottom left of the online menu, where they run stats, one of them said total wins with JASON (UNSTOPPABLE): 40.

according to reddit, his variations are unstoppable, relentless and slasher.

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

Have you played games like Persona Arena? That's some god awful story mode. MKX is not. Lmao

Yeah I have. Its a bit too wordy but I still enjoyed it.
I like MK but this was bad. Pointless QTEs and an awful story.

 

[Manu]

Someone commented on one of my combo videos to ask me the inputs. Small thing, but it made my day.

 

[drotahorror]

according to reddit, his variations are unstoppable, relentless and slasher.

If you look through the backgrounds/icons/borders they're listed in there too.

Woah, does anyone else see Jason on the character select screen?

I wasn't seeing it at all this whole session but it just showed up when I went online.

Still haven't seen him yet. Also Living Towers just don't work at all right now. Says there are no Living Towers available.

 

[Onemic]

Damn man, the online on PC is KOFXIII for consoles level of bad.

Also, for one of the most popular fighters for casuals, MK sure is strict as fuck when it comes to getting the most out of your combos. I want to side Johnny Cage, but his execution is way too much for me(reverse qcf motions are my downfall) not to mention that the game doesnt register my correct input for his nut kracker half the time.

 

[Majestad]

Yeah I have. Its a bit too wordy but I still enjoyed it.
I like MK but this was bad. Pointless QTEs and an awful story.

Assume the QTEs didn't exist as they are not even required. That takes one of your two complains. "Awful" story is quite the exaggeration.

This story mode is leaps and bounds ahead of other fighting games.

 

[malfcn]

I am fairly committed at this point to just do Takeda.

You get a fair amount of the same tools as Smoke does. Fairly simple combos.

Highly recommend him. Find the YT video of Chris G combos as Shin variant for him.

Do you use shin?
After F1,2,2+4 and Db3

How well can you land the neutral jump bounce to do some 11 or other hits?

 

[MrCookiepants]

Story mode didn't really add anything to the game. I'd prefer if they spent those resources on the netcode and other more important things.

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

"Awful" story is quite the exaggeration.
This story mode is leaps and bounds ahead of other fighting games.

It really isn't imo.
It has cutscenes and regular fights in between. That's it.
Most of the characters are underdeveloped and pointless. The story just jumps around all over the place and the conclusion felt extremely rushed.

 

[Nuke Soda]

Someone commented on one of my combo videos to ask me the inputs. Small thing, but it made my day.

There ya go.

 

[Majestad]

Story mode didn't really add anything to the game. I'd prefer if they spent those resources on the netcode and other more important things.

People who want to have quality single player content and don't care much about competitive (which is a shitload of people) would completely disagree with you. Story mode adds a lot to the game, and makes it feel like a complete package.

 

[Indignate]

It really isn't imo.
It has cutscenes and regular fights in between. That's it.
Most of the characters are underdeveloped and pointless. The story just jumps around all over the place and the conclusion felt extremely rushed.

What did you expect? For it to turn into a FPS with hacking minigames?

When most other fighting games don't even bother to deliver a story mode, NS goes far and above with their games.

Yeah, that doesn't excuse the faults of this games story (boring and rushed), but hell do they at least try.

 

[Nuke Soda]

What is everybody's favorite character costume so far? Mine is Tournament Jax for sure.

 

[Spiritreaver]

Do you use shin?
After F1,2,2+4 and Db3

How well can you land the neutral jump bounce to do some 11 or other hits?

I've been practicing Takeda combos for the past couple of hours.

I can get the njp follow-ups fine, it's just a step forward.

The one I'm having issues with is one of Chris G's easier combos.

njp, 33 xx EX bf1, b22 xx bf1. For some reason you are just a tad too far to hit the bf1 and you need to take another step forward (like when you do njp to 33) but it just isn't clicking in my head. Timing seems really strict.

Just need more practice I guess. I'm not very good at execution in general though. Haven't even tried his harder shit.

 

[Demoskinos]

I really liked the story. I mean I'm not going to hold it up as a great example of storytelling but its fun in the same way dumb popcorn action movies are fun. I'm glad they are still doing them.

 

[AEREC]

What is everybody's favorite character costume so far? Mine is Tournament Jax for sure.

At this moment it's probably Tournament Johnny Cage.

 

[『Inaba Resident』]

What did you expect? For it to turn into a FPS with hacking minigames?

When most other fighting games don't even bother to deliver a story mode, NS goes far and above with their games.

Yeah, that doesn't excuse the faults of this games story (boring and rushed), but hell do they at least try.

I expected at least a halfway decent story. Its fine for it to be just cut-scenes and normal matches but its nothing special at all. I'd rather that time spent on story go to something else more important if its gonna be as bad as this was. IMO, Story mode really didn't add all that much to this game. Pretty forgettable.

 

[Majestad]

Before MKX came out, I watched the DC vs Mortal Kombat and MK9 story modes on YouTube. The jump in quality between each game is insane. MKX feels like it has the budget of a regular, although short, AAA adventure game.

 

[PaulKersey]

What is everybody's favorite character costume so far? Mine is Tournament Jax for sure.

I like that one a lot. So glad the story forced me to play as Jax because I never thought I'd enjoy playing as him, but I really do.

 

[Absoludacrous]

The matchmaking really is ridiculous. I'm on the other side of it, and it's still stupid. I have a pretty good record and it's only matching me with like 0-12 records who I curb stomp and it's no fun for either of us.

 

[Majestad]

The matchmaking really is ridiculous. I'm on the other side of it, and it's still stupid. I have a pretty good record and it's only matching me with like 0-12 records who I curb stomp and it's no fun for either of us.

Play in rooms. Much better a d you get to pick who you play with.

 

[Nuke Soda]

I like that one a lot. So glad the story forced me to play as Jax because I never thought I'd enjoy playing as him, but I really do.

Yeah, I was not an MK9 Jax player, but new Jax is pretty great.

 

[Freezasaurus]

Yeah, I was not an MK9 Jax player, but new Jax is pretty great.

Yeah, I was surprised. He's a lot more fun to play than I remember. Jacqui is pretty good, too.

 

[-MD-]

Takeda is so fun to play, I'm definitely gonna practice with him when I'm not playing Mileena.

 

[Nuke Soda]

Yeah, I was surprised. He's a lot more fun to play than I remember. Jacqui is pretty good, too.

I really want to get decent with Jaqui.

 

[Recovering_Jedi]

Takeda is so fun to play, I'm definitely gonna practice with him when I'm not playing Mileena.

I've tried that guy and I keep sucking with him.

Can someone please help me?

I cannot even figure out how to do his XRay attack. I press the triggers, but he seems to just change his stance. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[robotrock]

I've tried that guy and I keep sucking with him.

Can someone please help me?

I cannot even figure out how to do his XRay attack. I press the triggers, but he seems to just change his stance. What am I doing wrong here?

iirc i think you have to do it in the air? I may be thinking of Cyber Subzero from MK9 though.

 

[Nuke Soda]

I've tried that guy and I keep sucking with him.

Can someone please help me?

I cannot even figure out how to do his XRay attack. I press the triggers, but he seems to just change his stance. What am I doing wrong here?

Jump X-ray.

 

[Freezasaurus]

I really want to get decent with Jaqui.

I haven't spent a lot of time playing her yet, but she doesn't feel too difficult to pick up. She has some easy combos that don't take much practice.

 

[BabyFaceKillah]

How do we unlock liu kangs revenant costumes?

 

[Beepos]

I've tried that guy and I keep sucking with him.

Can someone please help me?

I cannot even figure out how to do his XRay attack. I press the triggers, but he seems to just change his stance. What am I doing wrong here?

His Xray can only be triggered while in the air. Try pressing the triggers when jumping.