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Mortal Kombat X |OT| This is NOT a Brutality. This is a FATALITY
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BabyFaceKillah
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Trying to get 2 flawless victories on Johnny cage to fight the secret fight in the MK1 tower is irritating me anybody got tips??
The attacking and blocking system is paramount in all fighting games. Knowing what hits where and how to stop it from hitting you is way more important than 20 hit combos and such.
Mortal Kombat X has five basic ways of hitting an opponent:
High attacks hit high and can be blocked by holding the block button while standing. If you crouch or hold block and crouch, the attack will not hit you at all. You typically cannot jump over a high attack.
Low attacks hit low and can ONLY be blocked by by crouching and holding the block button at the same time. Standing blocks will not prevent the hit. You can usually jump over low attacks.
Mid attacks hit mid and can EITHER be blocked by holding the block button or by crouching and holding the block button at the same time. You can also crouch and the attack will not hit you. You can sometimes jump over a mid attack.
Overhead attacks hit high and can ONLY be blocked by holding block while standing. If you crouch and hold block. the attack will connect. You can still just crouch and the attach will not hit you. You typically cannot jump over an overhead attack. Note: jump attacks are considered Overheads.
Throws grab mid and require close proximity and are unblockable. You can escape a throw by hitting the throw button(s) immediately after being grabbed. There are special throws called Command Throws that require directional inputs and a button(s) to perform and cannot be escaped once the grab is initiated.
Now that you know this, research. And by research, I mean hit the practice mode. Learn the normal attacks, special attacks, and combos and see how and where they hit (the display will tell you the type of each attack when it connects). This is useful to recognize what will be coming your way when you are fighting an opponent, and also to learn mixing up attacks so that your opponent won't know what to expect.
Looking at the basic attacks, we find that:
Blocking high will stop high attacks, mid attacks, and overheads.
Blocking low will stop mid attacks and low attacks, and completely avoid high attacks.
Crouching will completely avoid high attacks, mid attacks, and overheads.
Use this knowledge to plan your attacks. Most combos that are listed on the character profile start high or mid, so they are useful more as counters rather than simply launching strings at blocking opponents. Use lows to get them blocking low and then mix in some throws. Also, many normals moves can be canceled into specials (doing a move while starting another move to string them together), so you can make up a lot of combos that start low and launch your opponents to set up a juggle. But that's more advanced stuff, so stick with the basics and go from there.
If you know how to properly attack and block, you will be better off than over half of your potential opponents.
RelentlessRolento
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BadAss2961
Member
PS4 users are having the same problem. Booting the game while offline, then signing back in once it loads works.
Mechanized
Member
Holy shit, same thing is happening with my 970, I RMA'd it once, got a new one back and the new one has the same issue. I'm not RMA'ing it again. I just figured I'd be done with PC gaming. I still have a 560ti that has never had an issue outside of a noisy fan.
Mine was doing that yesterday. A hard reset fixed it.
Hard reset worked on mine too, cheers for the advice.
I would just replace Jason with dummy files to fuck with people until release in that case. I want the damned patch.
Fuck me, now I can't even play Killing Floor 2, I was in the beta for it and played for 40 hours with 0 problems, then I try playing MKX in the break between Beta and Early Access and now I can't get past the title screen without crashing my PC.
Fuck your shit Netherrealm and HVS.
Fuck your shit Netherrealm and HVS.
stn
Member
Anyone else using Kotal Kahn (War God)? I picked him up last night, have been using Kano (Cybernetic) and Kenshi (Balanced) up until now. I've never used a mixup-heavy character in any fighter, though his mixups seem very easy to pull off. I'm just rarely a fan of characters that have too many possibilities and options to learn.
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Deleted member 325805
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Yeah, it's up and down all the time.
Beelzebufo
Banned
He has like a billion things to do in war God, but you can also keep it pretty simple if you want. I never really had trouble against any character in particular with him (Kung Jin maybe? Funnily enough) because there's sp much you can do, just actually doing it right is the hard part. Really solid character.
I would definitely say War God is the best though, if only because you can add df2 to the end of any b14 to make it safe, which is my favorite combo starter with him. Plus that db3 works well on overly defensive people online.
His fataliy is also too cool.
You only need one round flawless victory
took me like 30 tries to get it by chance
and then loosing reptile =(
Long combo or spaming special is the way to go for me
I guess that makes sense. But I definitely see them just making a few adjustments to him and making him DLC. His MK9 moveset can just be one of his styles.
Also quoting this to see if I can get some help...
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Deleted member 325805
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Just had some GGs against a Takada, a rare smooth game where we were almost equal, think I won the series like 9 - 1 but they were always close. If online worked like that all the time I'd be hooked, sadly KOTH still crashes to desktop and ping bars don't update so it's hard to challenge people near you. I created an EU West room last night and I was happy to see it back when I logged in today.
A good Grandmaster Sub-Zero is a nightmare situation tbh.
I'm like 140ish/7 with him and honestly, I don't think he has too much going for him in the long run, he feels mid-lowish tier to me.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
ooooooh man I thought we needed 2 rounds flawless I've been restarting fights like crazy just to get it
The perfect Dark
Banned
Does the netcode and matchmaking get worse every day? I could play online two days ago but now I'm waiting five minutes for a fight against a pro gamer 250/10 with a bad connection. Seriously, this is more than awful.
PS4 btw.
PS4 btw.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Hmm, yeah that seems to be the case for a lot of characters. What's a good counter to that? A character with a teleport?
Deified Data
Banned
Great summary, thanks for taking the time to write it. When I get the game tomorrow I'll keep everyone updated with my progress.
Any character with a good projectile is fine, Kotal just has no answer to him but extreme patience. His projectile and War God db3 are way too slow and will get blown up quick.
Demoskinos
Member
Kotal is really good in close range. Downright scary even. But yeah he is way slow and he has no real tools for dealing with zoners except being patient.
RelentlessRolento
Member
Do you get anything for beating secret reptile in the living tower? I lost to him 
For others new to the game, James Chen and Ultradavid did a great job of going over the basic mechanics and half the character variations last night:
http://www.twitch.tv/ultrachentv/v/4214524
Would definitely recommend checking it out if you're confused about how the game works and want to learn it competitively.
http://www.twitch.tv/ultrachentv/v/4214524
Would definitely recommend checking it out if you're confused about how the game works and want to learn it competitively.
Troubled Bat
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The assumption was that you change your factions every week, to keep all your stuff.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Doesn't that lose all your stuff?
Mattamus-Prime
Member
I haven't had this match up yet so I'm super curious to see it and try to figure out a way to handle it. I went online yesterday to do my faction challenges, playing 3 player matches. One was a Mileena who kept spamming Ball, which I would block, then punish with an uppercut. Never learned. The next two were Scorpions and I just blocked the teleport, then punished with Cassie's 2,4,2, followed by f2,1,1. After a few times of that, I could sense the fear through the screen.
Awesome, thanks for posting.
Tokubetsu
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Also my favorite scorpion teleport punish. You land it twice in a round and you can just feel their panic. Sometimes I'll switch it up and do df1 into bck-fw3 grapple.
Troubled Bat
Member
I don't know. I never switched. I would think once the week is over, you could switch over safely. Kind of like Heroes & Heralds in UMvC3.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Is Reptile a beginner char? His attacks seem pretty strong (nimble style).
He's probably one of the hardest characters in the game to use properly. Especially combo'ing into his ex nimble. Though if you do put work into him it really pays off. I'd also say using him online would just be an awful idea.
The perfect Dark
Banned
Akiyama_AE
Member
Jason is out today right?
Use DDU and reinstall your drivers. Check your GPU temps.
Dang. He's who I want to use once I finish with the single player stuff.
Almost none of timing-based stuff I do in training mode works online due to the input delay. I feel like playing a lot of matches online is the only way you can train for online.
Beelzebufo
Banned
Yeah, it's usually best to stay away from really tricky combos online, especially ones where you have to jump at like a certain frame or whatever.
I'm gonna have to. Easily my favorite design. I do like Ermac's moveset though coming from Green Lantern in Injustice. Love that pickup.
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Deleted member 325805
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This. It's rare an online match is smooth enough to pull off the same *****s you can do in training. That's why people who pick Scorpion and spam his shit do better than they should.