So, basically, the DLC's are the only chars. worth playing...

[Shoah Kahn]

Omniman gets:
- instant full-screen overheads
- projectile auto-dodge
- EX omni-dodge
- light speed Shotokan stomp
- all specials work in air
- everything knocks down and just about corner carries
- teleports_behind_you.gif
- his moves are so fast than they are virtually un-reactable, even offling... which would be utterly broken online, if online worked / wasn't a lag fest anyway, and/or MK's gameplay wasn't non-reactive / wholly anticipatory...

Tremor gets:
- three different "Variations" of himself
- projectile boulder, ranged overhead, Shotokan ground-pound, launcher, projectile reflect, armour buff that absorbs (at least) three hits
- an "ambush" tech that allows him to swap Variations mid call-out...

Disclaimer: I'd much rather good and fun-to-play characters than the boring normies that much of the main roster is comprised of; and I know that NRS's DLC characters are always default top tier (forever so, if they are released shortly prior to game abandonment)...

However, if the now infamously toxic player base of MK1 -- players just gravitating towards the most broken and cheap characters, Kameos and combinations thereof -- it's pretty obvious that for the next two months / before the next DLC drops (assuming Quan Chi and whichever Kameo accompanies him, are just as well wrought), the game will be nothing but Omnimen and Tremors spamming their broken cheese like it's Smegma Festival Day in Normandy!

Having said all that, and as alluded to, MK1 online is busted; and if push comes to shove, 90% Omnimen is still 'better' than 90% Cage/Cyrax or Raiden/Serenas... So, yeah 😑

[Kitneko]

would you spend your money in a character worst than vanilla?????

[Kitneko]

the only thing that I would change in the game is to NOT HAVE cheap damage because its a tag team game.

[Skull Admiral Dutch]

Welcome to NRS games.

[AmosReginaldJr.]

they need to sit down and straight up balance the game

[popsicle]

Originally posted by AmosReginaldJr.:

they need to sit down and straight up balance the game

They do. I am in KL and every Subzero seem to have unlimited wake up ice clones. Every Jcage seem to be way high damage with faster frame than everyone. Now a guest char just tops them all.

[Kolumbo]

Way too early to decide he's broken lol. Yeah some of his stuff looks pretty nuts - but we haven't gotten to see the frame data, figure out what's punishable, what has gaps, what kind of combo damage he can get...

[Cpt Obvious]

The game design just feels all over the place that makes it lack a cohesive professional polish. Why does JC randomly have star power on top of his + frames while other chars are bare bones? Why does Tremor randomly get variations or able to turn summons into ambushes when other Kameos are bare bones?

[popsicle]

I am using Nitara who does literally no damage. Her jumpkicks lose to everyone despite being airborne. I even tried to lab this. All her moves to open combos are highly difficult to perform online. My record with her is almost 70% losses. If this char doesn't need serious balance I don't know what to say.

[Shoah Kahn]

The one consistency is that NRS's DLC characters are always better than most, if not all of the base roster.

Even if Omniman isn't "S tier", he simply looks far more unique in how he fights, than the bulk of the rather same-y existent roster does. This both smacks of the game being rushed to a deadline (no time to flesh-out chars.), and the pattern of "rewarding" those who buy the "premium" versions of their products.

[SH41TAN]

So he's basically Smoke. Ok.

[imants.imsmusic]

Netherealm did this on purpose- Paytowin And .. just PaySTAN!!!
I can just imagine what characters we will see in KP 2 and 3- the ones that players want to see the most and are willing to pay for it (Like Noob, Jade, cameos like Batman etc)...sad
"gimme yo monne"