Wishlist: make tower of time fights less blatantly one-sided
make kronika in towers less ridiculous
I'd never thought I would say the word "world building" in conjunction with an NRS game, but here we are. This is also the best looking game ever, currently. It's a damn shame those two things are mired in rng lootbacteria and as usual, heehaw batshit broken character balance. On the first day of the game you shouldn't be able to divine the potential meta and basic tiering of a fighting game, yet here we are.
But goddamn this game looks good.
My only complaint about it so far is story/roster relevant. I'm not even sure if this is really spoilery but
How does Sektor contribute to the story way more than Noob does and not be playable?
cause it's noob's turn on the ride
There are some... blatantly missing characters that aren't even in the leaked DLC stuff that confuses the shit out of me
Boon Edbot
Oh shit, Takeda married Jacqui
Should’ve been dlc
Man, I really liked this game's story. Looking back, the whole multiple timeline Raiden vs Liu Kang scene was easily the best part of it. It was great, full of references, and made so much sense when looking at the big picture.
The biggest difference this time around is that even the side-characters got really well modeled outfits and stuff. Sheeva, Cyrax, Sektor (gets two in story even). I suppose with 30 parts per slot and three slots to fill as well as abilities, skins, and gems and such adding a character meant putting a lot more time in.
Interestingly it seems like the krypt has some places just devoted to history or explaining where certain characters ended up (like drahmin, kenji)
I wasn't as mad with the cyborgs when I just realised they were Triborg with a different model. Shame, awesome models though.
I noticed the lighting in the Switch version tends to break right when the "Finish Him" message appears. Weirdly this only started happening after fully installing the game
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D45AaufUYAAdknP.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D45AaupUcAE02jN.jpg
Is there any way to at least mitigate this or am I stuck waiting for a patch? I already disabled Match Recording to get the visual boost from that.
I wish I could change the character select icons. Having an entire row of Revenant icons being the same colour sucks
I'm sp tired of this shit. I, for some unknown reason, have issues connecting to the server. I don't have this issue in other games, mind you. What this means is that:
-I get kicked out of the krypt after about 15 seconds
-After I complete a match, the reward just disappears and isn't given to me
-What happens in the match isn't recorded in the server, so I can't do dailys (although I can actually watch match recordings in my records)
-Trying to enter a match online gives me an error
-When I complete a tower in Towers of Time, it says there's an error connecting to the server, and it doesn't get completed
-I can't create a new variation, or save changes to existing ones
Mind you, all those problems happen 95% of the time (except for the krypt thing, this always kicks me out). This means that once every blue moon, the reward is given, the tower completes, the variation changes, etc. But that's after 10-20 tries of this shit. Getting through the tutorial towers, I got 40 wins with Baraka. This means that for the 10 or so matches to actually count, I had to redo some towers what feels like 10 times.
This isn't playable. This isn't fun. The game is hell of a lot of fun, but this shit sucks all the joy from me.
I've tried restarting the game, restarting my ps4, reinstalling the game, power-cycling my ps4, changing internet connection, moving my console to another room. Same. Fucking. Problem. Sorry if this is ranty, but I've just been kicked out of the krypt for the zillionth time after a good 30 second of play, and I'm just really pissed.
Just tried playing. Crashed 3 times in 10 minutes.
AWESOME.
Yeah the game crashes randomly
Is it just the PC version that's having the crash issues?
Ive noticed it happens a lot in the customizer screen when it tries to load in new character models.
Interestingly enough the switch version has flat images for that screen instead of full models so maybe they know about it.
Man the graphics look p rough on the Switch.
Well yeah. It's the Switch.
The gameplay loop and grind of towers of time is bad but if anyone tells you it’s because of pressuring micro transactions/loot boxes etc they’re flat out lying to you
The krypt’s minor chest locations are procedurally generated, but the rewards are fixed. You can’t buy any currency used in it, either.
The time crystals are only usable on 5 random things a day in a menu practically hidden by the DLC page link. 90% of the time you’re better off earning it manually because they’re easy to get compared to the cost. Never have I seen anything there worth spending even my freebies.
Consumables are crafted/earned as well are augments. You cannot buy any of these. The different currencies just represent different rewards.
You get coins from everything, you get 10 souls per win, you get a heart for fatality/brutality.
The grind is BAD and I almost feel like putting the game down til the patch is out, but it honest to god has nothing to do with monetization. Anyone who plays can see that what the Reddit threads and articles that cite them are saying is a flat out lie.
this grind is just pure bad game design. I have a theory, and since the stream about the patch said they’re giving us 500k to catch up to how it was intended I think it’s right.
in all the test games and dev gameplay we’ve seen most of the stuff was unlocked and they had obscene amounts of currency and consumables. I think they failed to factor their dev cheats into the testing and didn’t notice how bad the loop was because they were already playing with a full deck.
Much easier for people outside of the game to latch on and go "WOW MICROTRANSACTIONS BAD" and get outraged over something they don't really know anything about
Which, don't get me wrong, microtransaction bad, absolutely, but it's definitely not the case here after we've actually had time to look at how the krypt and shit works. I still don't think I'm comfortable with the fact that an MK game has four different currencies, but all I can do right now is shrug
I'm bummed about the Krypt, but I'm equally if not more bummed about Ronda Rousey suddenly being Sonya. I loved the story to death, but kept getting taken out of it by her Wiseau level fuckin line delivery
I was a bit annoyed with the krypt at first but soon realized it’s got several fixed chests and that the chests are shuffled but what’s in them is set. 100%ing the krypt everyone will have opened the same stuff at the same chest, just in different spawn locations.
i think the kronika dial might also re-shuffle them..
for now I have programmed AI fighters win time towers for me, it works till they fix this awful difficulty. I really hope a wiki pops up with all the fixed chest locations (certain ones spawn in the same spot in all games) and the recipes for the forge.
https://twitter.com/noobde/status/1121243237388357632
A small observation from simmons from yo videogames
https://twitter.com/DoomAssistMe/status/1121342081530613760
Oh... the PC version won't get the DAY 1 PATCH for some time.
I hope the bot I’m sending into towers is having fun hopefully I’ll get a turn soon
They fucking banned the word PC in the Twitch Chat.
Adults.
See I actually like the whole "send an AI to do battle" thing. It's a neat little idea; dress up a fighter, customize their moves and behaviors, then send them into the sugar mines to farm currency for you while you're not actively playing. The thing that bugs me is there's no turbo feature. Like, I've got finals to prep for, so this is perfect; I should just send AI Noob to go have a blast in the Endless Tower and reap all the hearts and souls and koins he gets for me once I'm done with my work.
But I have to keep hitting X after every single fight, preventing this automatic farming feature from being automatic. So now I've either gotta keep the controller nearby so I can hammer X every 2 minutes, drop money on a third party controller that has a turbo button I can put some books on top of, or rig up a little drinking bird to poke my controller like that one Simpsons episode.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/241798/d10180ed-398c-4c60-a829-d3ea6aaa44c6/image.png
Like, they clearly put it in there in the first place to reduce the grind, but why do I have to babysit this robot instead of just letting it play the game when I'm not around?
It’s been banned for nearly five years. It’s because NRS doesn’t do the pc versions even in so chat about it when taking questions was basically useless spam throughout MKX/IJ2
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