Last night, NeverRealm Studios ran a live stream where-in they showed off two new characters for the first time, as well as a ton of new gameplay.
I thought I'd sum things up for folks who ain't willing to sit through the 30 minutes. The stream itself can be found here. There's additional new videos on the same channel.
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Two new characters - Ermac and Reptile. Both characters seem fairly similar to their MK 9 counter-parts with a couple of noticeable changes. The first of course being the inclusion of the variation system. This seems to affect Ermac in particular, as a lot of his signature moves, such as the telekinetic grab, now are part of a single variation. The other two allowing him free flight and longer distance projectiles respectively. Overall, he seems a lot weaker than he did in MK9 with weaker attacks and less range, but considering how overpowered he was at the time, it's for the better. He's still very much a zoning/trap character.
They unfortunately didn't show off Reptile to a great extent so I'm unable to speak about his variations at any length. Overall, it seems like he's still a mix-up character, with a good balance of ranged set-ups and charge moves that allow him to close the distance quickly.
They revealed a new stage if you're into that kind of thing, which was a ruined down-town area which a jet had crashed into. It's going to create some controversy, let's leave it at that. Looked like a neat stage, though.
Finally, a couple of smaller announcements were made, such as that alternate costumes will be returning on top of the cosmetic changes stemming from the variations. The biggest annoucement of the stream was, by far, the inclusion of a brand new type of "-ality". I honestly don't know where you go after brutalities, animalities, babalities and Hara-Kiri(s), but we're going to find out next month. (I really want to see the speculation on this.) Normal-ass fatalities and stage fatalities have already been confirmed.
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If you're into the lore side of things, I gleaned a few things from the character conversations at the beginning of each match. Spoiler blocks in case someone actually cares.
And that's about it. Mortal Kombat, what a weird thing to so hyped about.
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