Hard to have fun in this game - your experiences/suggestions for improvement?

[Peck]

Every time I boot this game, it's with the feeling of having a fun 15-30 minutes of KL.
Yet, every time I run into a game, I find myself not enjoying the matches at all, mostly. It doesn't matter if I win or lose, I'm not enjoying the experience. Never had this with MKX or MK11.

The performance on PC is very unreliable, the amount of people with horrible connections is nuts and we can't filter on people with bad connections like we used to. Also, I have seen one Sindel player, one Mileena player, two Shao players and that's about it. The rest consists of Smoke/Sareena, Raiden/Sareena, Kenshi/whatever, Johny/Cyrax and Kung Lao/Goro.

Are there any other players that experience the same, i.e looking forward to playing a new Mortal Kombat, but feeling disappointed as soon as you load in the the first set?

What would like to see differently in order to improve your sentiment? For me it would be a vast improvement on the quality of the PC port (no lags, framedrops and being stuck in Commodore64 processing speed) and I would love to be able to experiment with NO Kameos. The ideas of Kameos might be a fun and novel attempt at changing the formula, but at the moment they are extremely poorly implemented and it allows for way too much stupidity that you cannot punish.

[King of Persia]

You forgot the most noob-combo possible. Baraka-Cyrax

[Peck]

Originally posted by King of Persia:

You forgot the most noob-combo possible. Baraka-Cyrax

I only ran into one of those and he was completely unskilled. Just ran the same flowchart over and over. As soon as he run out of bars for wakeup attacks, he didn't do anything anymore.

[メルクーネオ]

HARD TO HAVE FUN? WHAT? Man i feel sorry for You if You can't have fun with Mk 1, people saying mk 11 or X was better... this Game stomps on mk11 and X like nothing

[ANSEL]

the only issue for me is the performance, the fps drops and crashes are driving me crazy and i can't play KL because of that but i never but of all the games I have had, I have not found one that has a bad connection and the kameos are a good thing for the game they just have to nerf cyrax and sareena because it is annoying just seeing the same kameo in all the games and not being able to counter them because they are broken

[Peck]

Originally posted by Mercuneo:

HARD TO HAVE FUN? WHAT? Man i feel sorry for You if You can't have fun with Mk 1, people saying mk 11 or X was better... this Game stomps on mk11 and X like nothing

Not yet. The game could be fleshed out into something great, but at the moment, for me, the game is not good and hardly enjoyable.

MK11 didn't have the greatest start either, but apart from everyone and their mom playing Fujin, the last year of MK11 was amazing.

[Infinite Retro]

You can get hit by 40% or more combos out of the gate before you even had a chance to build up a combo breaker. This game is BROKEN. I have no idea what NRS were thinking outside of trying to cater to 2% esports klowns but this pile of garbage cant hold a candle to the online play of SF6 or Tekken 7.

Like every NRS game, all they cater to is the combo crowd. they removed even more defensive options from MK11. KL is full of tryhards who spam the same near half health bar over and over again. And the only thing TO DO in MK1 is go online because apart from story this game is lacking so much it makes me think its a beta.

[MonkeyBone]

Yeah I find myself playing for half hour at the most before I lose interest. For me the issue is the grind. Everything is drip-fed to you and some modes don't even give you anything like the towers so that limits what I put my time into even more. To make the grind even worse though is there's nothing decent to work towards. The costumes in this game are terrible, customisation was butchered, the seasonal content does nothing for me visually, and they stole my cryomancer so I have even less motivation than normal (Kuai Liang has been my main since MK3)
I suppose suggested fixes would be to address everything I just mentioned but at that point the game would need a major overhaul.

At the very least give Kuai Liang back.

[dovakhin]

you forgot the 30 minutes loading screen when you launch your game wich just made me force quiting the game cause it's too long

[firstduo93]

Play mk11 still has players for online match .

[Peck]

Originally posted by MonkeyBone:

Yeah I find myself playing for half hour at the most before I lose interest. For me the issue is the grind. Everything is drip-fed to you and some modes don't even give you anything like the towers so that limits what I put my time into even more. To make the grind even worse though is there's nothing decent to work towards. The costumes in this game are terrible, customisation was butchered, the seasonal content does nothing for me visually, and they stole my cryomancer so I have even less motivation than normal (Kuai Liang has been my main since MK3)
I suppose suggested fixes would be to address everything I just mentioned but at that point the game would need a major overhaul.

At the very least give Kuai Liang back.

Man, I went from hating Sub-Zero players for all their 50-50 nonsense in MK11 to not seeing one in this game at all. I labbed him a bit, but boy he sucks in his current state :-(

Your point about the towers is very valid, in MK11 you had to grind for gear, here it gives you nothing, other than achievements. If you're into that kind of thing.

[㉑ Matt]

This game is so boring and unpolished that made me buy SF6 (hadn't played SF in 12 years) and is one step away from making me download MK11 again.

It's absolutely insane how MK11 is a much better game in every aspect, including a more balanced gameplay. The only thing MK11 needed was a slightly faster gameplay and removing KB