At the end of 2018 Netherrealm Studios announced Mortal Kombat 11. And a few days ago, the official show of gameplay took place, and Moscow became one of the cities where the presentations took place. I visited this event, talked with the developers, and most importantly – studied the demo version of the game.
And the main impression of her ..
Fire!
According to a well-aimed remark, one of the colleagues, it was this word that most often sounded in demo standstands. Indeed, fights in MK11 are beautiful, bloody and incredibly epic. The altered gameplay has yet to get used to it, but the key elements have not gone anywhere. Familiar characters – there is. Cruel battles – there is. Even more cruel fatalities and brutalii – there is. Screams of pain, bone crunch, blood https://sister-site.org/pyramid-spins/ liters … In short, the most folk game on the planet returns.
The plot starts immediately after the final events Mortal Kombat X. After the victory over Shinnok, the raiden is infected by his demonic energy and becomes a much more fierce god. He decides that the potential invaders of the Earth have remained unpunished for too long, and opens a hunt for all the enemies of the earthly kingdom. In contrast to him, Kronika, the keeper of the time, the architect of the fate of the Universe and the first in the history of the Boss-woman, who are already sidelines, are already at the history of the Rayden’s tricks. So we are waiting for traveling into the past, temporary paradoxes with young Liu Kan against the old and the resurrection of Baraki along with other people who have not survived to MK11.
The plot trailer MK11
On the one hand, leaps in time – almost a guarantee that the plot will be illogical and break to hell with all the timeline. A really cool and slender story on this topic is very difficult to do. On the other hand, a meeting with young versions of your favorite heroes and dead characters of past parts can be considered a win -win bet for almost any franchise. In addition, such a move allows you to greatly expand the capabilities for customization.
Take a lot of things!
And the main feature of the new part is just the customization of the characters, developing ideas from Injustice 2. Before the interview with the developers, this decision seemed to me the most problematic in MK11. After all, this is a great occasion to the eyeballs to fill the project with lutboxes and microtransactions to tear off more money from fans. In addition, the publisher of the game is not anyone, but Warner Bros. , which have already been poured into such stories.
Two pleasant news at once. Firstly, in Russia there will be exclusive content for pre-ordering MK11. Secondly, the inappropriate rap, which we heard on the announcement in December did not sound anywhere in the demo version
I asked the developers a direct question and received no less direct answer: No lubboxes and no micallors They don't plan yet. DLC with new characters and costumes – yes, of course, but so it was before. As for customization, certain items can only be obtained for completing tasks, and not for real money. I can’t even believe that the same company published this game that released Middle-Earth: Shadow of War.
MKX already had variable characters: each hero had three preinstalled versions with different special receptions. Now you can add your own to ready -made sets. The developers did not blindly copy the Injustice 2 approach: there each thing directly influenced the characteristics of the character, and the players sometimes had to sacrifice appearance for the sake of advantage in battle. Now these two concepts are divided.
Setting options are full. For example, you can choose what a kunai, katana and a scorpion mask look like, and insert up to three modifiers into each item (and this is only one of the customization screens). In demo, I chose an increase in experience for battle and increasing damage from one of the attacks by five percent.
Different opportunities of this section of the game on the example of Scarlet and Sab-Ziro
On the next screen you can change the rest of the costume, and far from always the hero will adhere to the usual color scheme. My Sab-Ziro, for example, put on a violet armor, and one of the pre-installed versions of Scarlet wore a green cloak. You can also configure the animations of the character of the character on the battlefield and the victorious gesture, as well as the display of fatalics, brutalia and ridicule between rounds. In the next menu, you can choose what three unique special deterches this version of the fighter will own. For example, teach Scarlet to teleport and regenerate, stretching blood from an opponent, as in screenshots above. Finally, the last customization screen allows you to set the character behavior when II controls it. This is probably useful for training before online battles: you can both choose from ready-made presets, and create yourself a manually sparring partner.
Life after "X-Ray"
There are also purely gameplay changes, and two of them are very noticeable. Firstly, the fighters no longer have a single energy strip for all techniques. There were two of them, two divisions in each: for defensive movements like a “Breaker” and for attacking. X-ray as a concept was generally removed, and instead of it they added Fatal Blow-something like Rage mechanics from Tekken 7. The bottom line is the same: this is a super -powerful cruel combination, but now it is activated only at moments when you have less than 30% of health, does not spend a single type of energy and works only once in the entire match. But if you miss you, after a few seconds, the “fatal blow” will be restored, and you can try again. If you do not die by that time, of course ..
This video is almost indecent a lot of cruelty and blood. You were warned!
The second change is much more controversial: there is no run in MK11 (though there is a Dash and a block dash). Because of this, the pace of the game seems to be decreasing, but in fact it is the same as in a tenth, if not faster. The lack of running also means that characters without teleportation can be more difficult to get to an enemy who prefers control over the entire screen. Although something tells me: the main thing is here-to study the possibilities for whom you play. Surely and without teleportation there is something.
Another novelty, slightly less noticeable, but important: the perfect block. If you block the blow in time, you will have the opportunity to carry out a counterattack, and at the same time, apparently, do not get any damage at all. And the list of techniques is now replete with even more detailed data on personnel, damage, a place of strike, and so on – much more than in MKX. All this information will give a lot of food for thought to fans to fight at a serious competitive level. And, according to the developers, it is likely that more e -sports tournaments will take place in the future in MK11.
There will be twenty-five characters on the release, another shao-kana-can be obtained for pre-order. In addition, pre -ordering players from Russia will additionally get an exclusive suit for Scarlet (in the picture closer to the beginning of the material). Seven characters were available in the demo version: Scorpio, Sab-Ziro, Reiden, Sonya Blade, Barack, Scarlet and the new hero-Geras, the faithful servant of Kronika, who will also try to stop Reiden.
In appearance, this is a fairly difficult guy, but his dimensions are compensated by magical abilities: Geras can freeze the enemy and creates various objects on the battlefield, manipulating … Well, the sand of time, you can’t call it differently. As for sensations, most of all this character resembles tremor or cattel-kan from Mortal Kombat X. And he also has one of the most spectacular “fatal strokes” of all that was in demo, and even a long -range! The most powerful uppercott, reinforce the time back, freeze the enemy and sparkle with a sword … wow!
Heymplay's announcement for Geras
Classic heroes are played more or less familiar, except that Sonya Blade began to rely more on various gadgets. But the scarlet fee, which was introduced into Mortal Kombat 2011, processed thoroughly. Previously, it was a quick-quick-ninja character. Now we have a full -fledged blood magician, easy to manage, incredibly effective and also very fast. Only Scorpio was faster than her in demo – and he, as you know, is the favorite of Ed Bun himself and the eternal “IMBA” of the series (one of the built -in customization options is even called Boon’s Main). And many more tricks Scarlet are good aesthetically. If the Fatal Blow Gerase attracts the concept of time management itself, then the bloody witch clearly demonstrates how variable and beautiful her magic is in motion.
Here is the time to remind you that the eleventh part will be even more bloody and cruel than before. In MK11, the brains of the skulls fall out, and the bones break, and the eyes of the eye sockets fall out, and the blood -bloods are poured with liters, and not only in battles with the participation of Scarlet. And, of course, in four years, the game has slightly added in photorealism. In general, keep children and impressive adults away from the screens.
Flags on the towers
There were four buttons in the main demo menu. For Konquer there was a history mode, two options for the towers (ordinary and temporary), as well as a section with a classified name. For Fight – local and online battles, tournaments (perhaps the rating battles will be called) and another “secret” button. Kubomize contained everything related to the creation of its own versions of the characters, and Learn got training, training battles and testing of fatalics.
In addition to the battles, one on one, you could try your hand at the Towers of Time. They look … exactly like "multi -sized" in Injustice 2.
It is in the towers that you will open a fair part of cosmetic objects. And in order to make your task a little, the developers added Konsumables to them – one -time improvements, the activation of which gives you bonuses. For example, restores health. Or gives the special tsatak of one of the heroes of the series: I saw the personalized objects of Rain, Shinnok, Sayrax, as well as the "Urian ball" (in the games of Raso, Zaurian was represented by reptiles and Kamolena). Note, these are characters who have not yet been announced. Perhaps they will appear in MK11, like Shan Tsung, whose nominal location was also in demo. Nevertheless, the developers did not fail to say that the presence of objects of these heroes does not confirm that they themselves will appear in the game.
In addition to the characters available in demo, Cassie Cage, Kitan, Li Kan, Kun Lao and Kronika lit up in trailers. For which of them it will be possible to play is still unknown. In addition, during the announcement of the Netherrealm Studios gameplay, we hinted at the return of bondage, but we will learn the details only on January 30, when they will conduct the next stream.
A video interview where you can see several heroes of the plot regime
Bonus content
I asked the developers if the appearance of guest characters from the DC universe is possible, because in the games of the Injustice series we saw Scorpio and Sab-Ziro. They answered me that it would be very difficult to do, because when creating a guest character, he will be adapted to the universe of the game. And if you make a Sab-Ziro character DC was quite easy, then representing Batman or Superman in the Mortal Kombat universe in the Mortal Kombat universe. Nevertheless, some other guests may well appear.
Even the developers confirmed that there will be secret characters in MK11 – one of the chips of the early games of the series. Typically, secret characters in MK opened only after the fulfillment of certain conditions. As it will be this time, we will see at the end of April.
There is a lot of new MK11, but the main thing remains unchanged: it is amazing to play it amazingly. Demo version gave me several hours of spectacular, bloody and dynamic fights, which did not bring almost any negative emotions, even after defeats. Before the release of a few more months, but the presented content allows us to quite optimistically believe that everything will be fine with the game. Key unknown factors that can still harm her are a script and a network code (well, balance, of course). And if we get to the plot only with the premiere on April 23, then it will be possible to check online on PS4 and Xbox One during the beta test, which starts on March 28. So closer to that time, expect even more details about Mortal Kombat 11 from us.
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