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Mortal Kombat X |OT| This is NOT a Brutality. This is a FATALITY
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AwakenedCloud
Member
PC version performing a Quitality on all of us Day 1 buyers.
Absoludacrous
Member
There's nothing I love more in this world than day 1 fighting games. Got my 10 ranked in a row trophy in my first 10 matches thanks to no one knowing there's a block button.
kriskrosbbk
Member
Where u from mate?
Online is still locked out for me guess its still downloading.
twozerotwo
Member
Marvel
could never
lol, lovely.
Same here, online works pretty good.
Even had a long King of the Hill game which went fine too, also viewing the others play was without any lag.
Troubled Bat
Member
Argentina. And stuck with a shitty 1 MB connection to boot.
Blooddimond
Member
11/10 menu, rest of the game doesn't work though
KainXVIII
Member
It has average 50% of positive reviews on steam, what the hell?
Troubled Bat
Member
Is it the Shoryuken? Because that's my favorite. Lol
Omega Ultimus
Member
Everyone.
SolarKnight
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Lord Phol
Member
NOooOOOoooOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Could the problems have something to do with the news steam stream technology? Considering that everyone are having problems and it's just not small things but the game outright not working. I'm hoping this is just something gone terribly wrong that can be easily fixed, and not just a crappy port job.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I'm a natural with Sub Zero.
Methos#1975
Member
Steam performed a brutality on themselves here trying to initialize a new unproven download method on a fricking AAA title launch on the same day as GTAV also being released. In all the history of bone headed decisions in gaming, this ranks up there.
ScottSullivan
Member
Loving the story mode so far just like MK9. Johhny Cage continues to be solid comic relief.
Brian_FETO
Banned
When it works online is good, when it doesn't it's pretty rough.
Mileena's Ethereal form is so good!
Mileena's Ethereal form is so good!
I woke up about an hour ago (9 AM here) and I haven't had time to process exactly what's happening here, but from what I've read, the problem is that NetherRealm is using a new feature of Steam that allows players to download a smallish batch of files (less than 4 GB) and start the game with that, then stream the rest of the game as they are playing it. I think it's a thing on consoles, right?
Well, it seems to be working just as smooth as it does on consoles... which is very poorly. People can only get to the menus, but not to the actual game (i.e. fighting). Hence, the mixed reviews, the "best menu simulator" jokes, etc.
toastyToast
Member
I don't even know why they did it. People could have pre-loaded the whole game before release. This makes more sense for after release where people buy a game and just wanna play it as fast as possible.
Jaded Alyx
Member
NetherRealm? Or High Voltage Software?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
oh lord
blankempathy
Member
Agreed. What a bone headed move. Instead of just allowing people to preload they force us to use their broken play while download in progress system. Thanks for making us the guinea pigs.
Absoludacrous
Member
I've been using this combo with Ermac online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKwAMzkc1cc
38% with one bar.
38% with one bar.
The last two NetherRealm games they ported to PC didn't exactly give me vote of confidence.
Lord Phol
Member
The more I read about this the more I believe it to be the stream thing being the source of the problem. The port could still turn out well. Not that I high any high regards for High Voltage but Injustice seemed to run fine on my PC.
Wether it works out or goes to shit I at least hope Netherrealm learns a valuable lesson from all this.
Wether it works out or goes to shit I at least hope Netherrealm learns a valuable lesson from all this.
Omega Ultimus
Member
Fatality performed on me at Kiefer Sutherland, EA, and Ed Boon.oh lord
Nabs
Member
I'd put money on that. I'm sure Valve will turn it off sometime tomorrow, but it must really suck for people with crappy connections. Who thought a fighting game would be a good test for this?
I honestly don't know whose decision it was. I said NetherRealm because they are the developers and the "face" of the franchise. But it could have been the porting house (which I doubt, since they don't usually manage such matters) or the publishers, WB (more likely).
Be as it may, someone fucked up by trying to use an experimental feature with a major, "AAA" release.
What genre of game would it be better for?
Linear games.
Visual Novels. Stream each letter as the text scrolls. Fastforwarding and instant text are locked until your second playthrough.
Gunslinger
Member
really liking the cyromancer sub and commando kano. Especially commando kano. The range on those command grabs are even worse (longer reach) than zangief lol.
Nabs
Member
Story focused games where you can start playing once you have the first few chapters downloaded.
toastyToast
Member
Usually with these stream things there's something to do in the meantime while the rest of the game downloads and I'm sure there was supposed to be with the non-blanked out menu entries. Even if its Steam the devs fucked up on there end too not being able to even hit the character menu.
What were people supposed to do with the 3GB of data?
What were people supposed to do with the 3GB of data?