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Mortal Kombat Patch Incoming to Address Multiplayer Issues

King of the Hill and ranked 1v1 matches to get some fixin'.

As much as folks have blamed consoles for errording the influence of PC games (which, nipping your comments in the bud, clearly isn't true), console players have become accustomed to regular patches.

Mortal Kombat will be on the receiving end of a patch soon, according to a statement released to the official Mortal Kombat boards. News of a patch isn't surprising, considering the patch is meant to address some serious issues players have had with King of the Hill and 1v1 ranked matches.

"Thank you for supporting Mortal Kombat! Due to the overwhelmingly positive reception to the game, Mortal Kombat has millions of online matches being initiated worldwide every day, and we have run into some unanticipated technical issues. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and NetherRealm Studios are aware of the issues with the online gameplay – specifically with 'King of the Hill' and Ranked 1 v. 1 matches - and we want to assure our fans that we are focused on resolving online issues ASAP. We have added a 'Technical Issues' section to our forum so please be sure to let us know what issues you are having so we can address those as soon as possible. Users will begin seeing improvements in online play over the course of the next two weeks. In the meantime please note that none of this will impact the single-player or offline multiplayer experience, and we greatly appreciate your patience!"

 What's been your experience online?     

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Edited By the_hiro_abides

I find entering a room is the only way to go. I quit trying to look for ranked matches after 10 seconds.

 Most of my 1v1 has been largely lag free or at least playable. King of the Hill matches however have been lag fests.

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Edited By manathirst

I'm not sure if it's from PSN just being back on or the MK servers, but I have 2 main gripes for playing online for the first time this weekend on the PS3:

  1. It takes 5+ min or much longer to find a Player or Ranked match
  2. The lag is the worst I have seen in a fighting game.  Blazblue, SF4 and Tekken 6 run silky smooth online.
I hope they fix the above 2 issues, it's unplayable at the moment.
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Edited By Undeadpool

There's so much shit to do in the single-player, I haven't even TRIED to take it online.

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Edited By hockeymask27

Glad to see they are going to support the online at least. 

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Edited By Girth_Brooks

On 1v1 I find it difficult to use basic combos,special moves etc. There is just a massive delay with everything. Hopefully this patch fixes this shit

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Edited By Bakaneko

I just want a patch that has post-morning-coffee Sub-Zero in it. Guy just can't seem to get it together today, man.

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Edited By Tesla

I had some issues with private matches on day one, but it's been fine ever since.  I've only done private 1v1 though...havent tried the other modes.

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Edited By EightBitShik

I think it's funny people complaina bout Smoke and Scorpion  I see them as free wins,. All you do is block their teleport and you have a free counter.
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Edited By lumberingjackal

My experience online? Unexplained inability to connect to mk online at least once a day, lag, Unexplained disconnects when I can get on, de-synchronizations, wtf is with 1000/1000 w/l records, crashes/lock-ups, lag and lag.


Offline? This game is the S**T!!!! Awesome!
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Edited By Adaptor

I understand those marketing types have to give a positive spin on news like this but now the announcement reads like the bugs are caused by too many people wanting to play the game...

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Edited By Vincenzo

I get "MK beachballs" when trying to get into a 1v1 or King of the Hill match. I'm assuming this falls under what they hopefully address. It's a bummer.

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Edited By Bolgirk

Personally love the Mulitplayer, when I was playing with randoms online it would cause my console to freeze up (king of the hill). When I play with friends only not an issue at all.

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Edited By ptys

So they are getting overwhelmed with just the X360 version online? PS3 pre-sold more so they'd better sort it out soon or their problems could get worse!

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yay

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Haven't been able to play online at all yet because of PSN, but cool I guess.

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Edited By Petturi

Online experience has been mostly horrible. Ranked matches are often times laggy  and makes doing combos impossible. Public KOTH has been unplayable, every public match I played was laggy and has even locked up the game 4-5 times. Tried private KOTH yesterday and the matches were surprisingly playable. I hope they fix these problems quickly.

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Edited By Fastshot

Thank god that there sorting out these issues atm can only really play with local friends whenever I want to join a random king of the hill or online match death happens. Glad to here it wasnt gonna take till just before the next game for them to fix it. 


At the same time I think the made the online considering the amount who played  MK V DC no wonder this online dieing lol
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Edited By Reverseface

PS3 get Kratos Xbox 360 gets Online play sounds like a fair deal.

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Edited By ThePhenomenal1

why doesn't capcom ever talk like this? that was brilliant and neatly worded about what NRSp plans to do.

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Edited By Parkingtigers

I hope this means online finally works, because I haven't been able to join a single match.  Not one.  I can get as far as choosing a character when suddenly: 

Game session is no longer available.

I try again, same thing happens.  I try again, same thing happens.  I've tried hosting, I've tried joining, I've tried HotH and regular, I've reset my router and yet always the same message.

Brilliant game, but I sure would like to actually get into the multiplayer part of things.  Fingers crossed for the patch then eh?
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Edited By Semantix

Owning a PS3 I haven't had the chance to play this online yet.

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Edited By fox01313

Hope so, was playing MK during the TNT tonight, winning a few fights in a king of the hill match & early in the 3rd or 4th fight the game had a hard lockup. Eventually got back to the gbtnt lobby, tried fighting someone with the game going at 5-10 fps for me so got slaughtered. Want this to be fixed as the game has so much to it online & it'd be sad to see that part unavailable due to blargh connection/network stuff.

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Edited By KlUMZeE

Online's been alright for me. It definitely feels slower that offline and I've had some pretty laggy matches, but overall it's been pretty solid. Nice to hear them fixing issues though.
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Edited By Recostar

 When i fist got  Mortal Kombat for the PS3 , I was like, "OMG , I can't wait to play online" ,but  because PSN has been  down, all I do is sit and stair at the case all day.....Sometimes..... It will  stair back at me........but its not really looking at me,   it's seeing into my soul.

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Edited By vigorousjammer

YAY! the online was a bit laggy for me, which is really the only sour spot I've had with the game... let's hope this fixes it.

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@m0rdr3d said:
" @Enigma777: Stop wondering and let me tell you...It feels even BETTER than you might imagine. "
You know what feels really good? When you get it by typing in 2 full sentences.
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@FZackM said:
" @Troispoint: I agree with Kung Lao needing to be nerfed, mainly because he has an extremely simple 80% damage combo than anyone can do, and if you get them in the corner you can get it even higher.80% combos really shouldn't exist unless a boss character has one. "
Not sure what you're talking about, only found a 50% wall combo with xray on youtube. Post a link please, would love to see it. Only complaints I've heard about kung lao are pretty much online-only. Offline, you should be able to react enough to not fall into spins and such.

About people wondering why the online sucks, they basically reused the old MK netcode. This used to work because most moves were different when used online (Less of certain types of frames), which made everything run smoothly, though it was pretty much a different game. Online mk9 runs the same as offline, though, which causes the netcode to crap itself. Also, gamespy servers are awful, leading to terrible matchmaking times.
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what about the game being tournament ready?  it has a terrible button config scheme.

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I like it.

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Fix the busted ass single player AI too.

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@Troispoint:

I agree with Kung Lao needing to be nerfed, mainly because he has an extremely simple 80% damage combo than anyone can do, and if you get them in the corner you can get it even higher.

80% combos really shouldn't exist unless a boss character has one.
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@Belonpopo: @Belonpopo said:
" Nerf. Ermac. Nerf. Jung-Lao. "
Someone is too lazy to figure out how to beat them.
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@RedDragon123:  AHAH I GET IT. But yeah, 1v1 was pretty choppy.
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Edited By DJMankiewicz

Halo by far! Halo CE was great for LANs, I mean it was just sheer crap-your-pants awesome. Halo 2 was superior for its online playing! Halo 3, I played at many LANs with my friends, and made friends online. The Halo community is just great, and I hope Bungie can make it happen again with whatever they're doing now!

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Eff you PSN..... EFFFFFFFFFFFF.

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Edited By godzilla_sushi

My experience has been very poor. That said, if it broke because of all the people playing then I'm totally for that! That means more fights! :)


....when I'm able to fight....
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Edited By Serket

Seems like there's a spelling error - "errording the influence" should be... "eroding", I think? Also, are we supposed to report spelling errors? I know some news sites encourage that, but I don't know about the policy here - whether anyone can edit out the error if they're informed of it, etc.

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My experience has been pretty terrible online, anything that was timing based you could forget about because of the lag. Tried out SF4 and MvC3 just make sure it wasn't on my end.

Glad the patch will be here soon, because I intend to play the shit out of this game.

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@somejerk said:
" "Fixed bug that affected 95% of online players, now you will finally be able to play something besides Scorpion""Due to an error, teleport-punch was the only move activated on Smoke. This has been remedied" "
lol nice. Yes, my experience of the online can be broken down into some simple stats. 80% Scorpion, 19% Smoke, 1% Other.

But I am glad that they are going to fix these issues, of course, but I worry that since they specifically mention King of the Hill and Ranked 1v1. But I am not going to get my hopes up before they ever do anything because this is the same team that said their netcode make it so the game would be lag-free...
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Edited By Mikazukinoyaiba

My online experience has been pretty good, only issues have been waiting a bit too long for people to responde to my challenge requests in rooms, it's like they are in the lobby but away from their console.

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@DougQuaid said:
" Any idea when this is actually coming? "
Yeah bumping this question.
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Any idea when this is actually coming?

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Seems like they should fix the random game freeze problem too, a lot of people are seeing that happen...

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When I was able to play it on PSN, I had no troubles and really enjoyed it. I just want to play it some more!!!

But fixing problems is good to hear!

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glad to hear it
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My online experience has been horrendous - it is a good thing the single player in this game is fantastic otherwise I would have been disappointed.  Highly anticipating this patch to get back online!

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Ive been loving the game, but the online is jacked. Nearly impossible to find a game using player matching, half the time when challenging or joining people in lobbies the session is "unavailable", and even when a game does gets going it almost always has significant latency issues and drops more often then it should.

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@FLStyle: I was trying that glitch earlier today. Worked really well against the AI training dummy.
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What problems? I HAVE NOT EVEN PLAYED THIS GAME ONLINE YET /cry


Thank you Sony, i love you