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These Babalities are better than I expected, though Kano is one of the ugliest babies I've ever seen... but Kabal would be horrifying. I wonder if using an alt matters? For example if you Babality human Cyrax I wonder if he turns to a tiny robot...

Here is a question for some of you MK9 fans. Would anybody be willing to trade me my Scorpion classic skin for reptile? I like both sub-zero and scorpion how they currently are. But reptile just doesn't feel ninja enough for me >.<

Scorpion is the best out of them all.

asimo77 wrote:These Babalities are better than I expected, though Kano is one of the ugliest babies I've ever seen... but Kabal would be horrifying. I wonder if using an alt matters? For example if you Babality human Cyrax I wonder if he turns to a tiny robot...

I would say "No", solely going by the fact that they completely changed the in fight animations for those two when they are Humans over when they are Robots. Cyrax puffs green flames when he teleports, for instance. I don't know for certain, though.

xlightscreen wrote:Here is a question for some of you MK9 fans. Would anybody be willing to trade me my Scorpion classic skin for reptile? I like both sub-zero and scorpion how they currently are. But reptile just doesn't feel ninja enough for me >.<

I would if I had a Reptile Code. If you have a TRMK account, they are currently having a Pre-Order Code swap going on, where you can ask people for pre-order codes.

Though we are 85% certain they are in the Krypt.

black templar wrote:Scorpion is the best out of them all.

His Babality, or just in general?

Personally, I like Cyrax's Babality. It's cute and it's in character.

In General, though, Scorpion is eclipsed by Kabal in being the best. This is my opinion, and my opinion is law.


MOAR BABALITIES!

Ok, this is the last thing I post for spoilers, since the game is almost out and yeah....

ALL X-ray attacks from None Boss Characters:




I rather like Cyber Subs. I like just thinking about his apparant ability to call up an Ice Sword.

Awesome vid. Just one question, what exactly does Shang Tsung do in his X-Ray? Does he just force his hands through his opponents chest O_o if so that's gnarly.

I would have much preferred an animality or a brutality, but I can handle babalities I guess. They're a lot better than they were, but I still prefer the other two types I think. Yes, a babality is insulting to your opponent, but the other two are a lot more badass.

asimo77 wrote:Awesome vid. Just one question, what exactly does Shang Tsung do in his X-Ray? Does he just force his hands through his opponents chest O_o if so that's gnarly.

I think he stole their soul. Not sure though...

As for Brutalities, I really hope they incorperate X-Ray attacks into them. Like Punch-Punch-Punch-XRAY KICK TO THE CHEST!-Punch-Punch-Punch-X-RAY LEG BREAK!

With it going into Slowmo for the X-rays, like normal X-rays.

Considering how fast everything else got discovered I would imagine that if there were Brutalities we would have seen them by now. I think the audio-files pulled from the demo might have been a red herring.

asimo77 wrote:Considering how fast everything else got discovered I would imagine that if there were Brutalities we would have seen them by now. I think the audio-files pulled from the demo might have been a red herring.

Not necessarily; people are mostly going by previous games as to how to pull things off (secret fights and stuff), not to mention that the Krypt has only been unlocked 15% of the way by most people.

I know I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I have been waiting for a long time to see Cyber Sub Zero in action, and I finally got a Combo Vid, and I figured I would share the love:

Slarg232 wrote:

asimo77 wrote:Considering how fast everything else got discovered I would imagine that if there were Brutalities we would have seen them by now. I think the audio-files pulled from the demo might have been a red herring.

Not necessarily; people are mostly going by previous games as to how to pull things off (secret fights and stuff), not to mention that the Krypt has only been unlocked 15% of the way by most people.

I heard that several people already 100% the Krypt. I haven't heard of anyone who has beaten every Challenge Tower mission though (but 300 has been beaten)

Slarg232 wrote:

asimo77 wrote:Considering how fast everything else got discovered I would imagine that if there were Brutalities we would have seen them by now. I think the audio-files pulled from the demo might have been a red herring.

Not necessarily; people are mostly going by previous games as to how to pull things off (secret fights and stuff), not to mention that the Krypt has only been unlocked 15% of the way by most people.

I know I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but I have been waiting for a long time to see Cyber Sub Zero in action, and I finally got a Combo Vid, and I figured I would share the love:

That X-Ray move is made of win!

I'm not a 'gamer' and suck royally at any console based games, heck even pc games i'm rubbish, but this game looked sooo good and had such a history that I had even convinced my gf to let me buy a ps3 just so i could play it, and then...... I find out it;s BANNED IN AUSTRALIA! I am so sad right now :-( so sad I couldn't even be bothered using the Orkmoticon with the tears......:-(

Well I got it last night at 12:00. Me and some of my friends were drinking a little so I didn't feel like playing it last night. I started it up this morning though and I am halfway through the story mode. Pretty good game so far.

Damn you!.......so jealous right about now, even though i'd struggle getting off the main screen.....damn you!....in the nicest way possible of course!

Have you thought about getting the game through Ebay or something to bypass the ban?

Hmmm could work, is there any inherent differences that would stop me from playing a copy from the US in a Aus PS3? like dvd regions?

Yeah, most North American games are NTSC. For the rest of the world, it's PAL. However, this region encoding is up to the publisher to do so, you *may* get lucky.

Are you willing to spend the $$ to find out? Probably not.

Maybe someone could film themselves playing a game with their friends and randomly cry out "oh wow Damo that move you did was sick!" and other such comments made when playing games with their bro's and then email it to me so i feel like i'm part of the action and actually playing it? :-)

Well I tell you all what...Shao Khan is a cheater. His x-ray does 52% damage where yours does 17%. About half of your attacks do not connect because of some yellow flash that makes him invulnerable. Man he is worse than M. Bison. I have played the story mode for about 10 hours and I finally gave up on Khan. I fought him about 20 times and never even beat him once out of three rounds. My thumb is pretty sore too. I am right at the end of the MK 3 story so I now the story mode is about over, but I am calling it quits for today. Shao Khan cheats bad...

So in other words he's exactly like his old 2D self. At least Motaro didn't make it in, I hated fighting him the most.

I agree that Shao Kahn was made ridiculously annoying to beat.

All of your moves do a little less if not equal to half damage against him. His moves do 200% of the damage you would see from a standard attack. He throws a hammer that you cannot duck under or block, as it breaks the block. On top of that it stuns you for a few seconds, which is plenty of time for him to throw another or run up to you and throw a mere 3 hit combo that eats 30% of your health. Honestly, this wouldn't be a bad thing, if it weren't for the flinch resistance. As it was mentioned, when you hit him, kintaro, and goro (?) from anywhere but the back, there's like a 10% chance of it making them react to the hit. The attack will always do damage, but remember as mentioned earlier the half strength attacks means that if he resists the impact, which they almost always do, they will immediately hit you with something that takes off a ludicrous amount of your life bar while you've taken off next to nothing.

I think it's a glaring fault in the game they need to fix. The only way to beat the boss characters is to sit there and spam projectiles and keep them away from you in melee, or use a character with teleport, run away from them and wait for them to do certain moves, port behind them, do a single uppercut, then rinse and repeat.

Boss characters can be hard without being insanely frustrating to beat.

I beat Shao Khan with Liu Kang, but he is harder with Raiden it seems. I think spamming teleports behind him will do the trick. I've noticed he is mostly immune to the first attacks, so hit him with a low punch then an uppercut-the low punch will absorb the stun-resistance, then hit him with an uppercut. The teleport for Raiden should enable us to beat him easily. I gave up after seven rounds last night, but I'll finish the bastard this evening. He is a lot harder, but bosses should be. Besides, he cheats in the story anyway-did you expect his fight to be any different? Even though I'm having trouble beating him, this game wins in every single way and the story mode, going through the first three games was amazing (yes, there were a few crappy lines, but on a whole it was great).


Well, just beat story mode, which is how you unlock Quan Chi. Man, Shao Khan was rough, but beatable. Teleport+X-ray is your friend, as well as jump kick/trip and jump punch/uppercut combos from behind. They work well to beat him, but not much luck with anything else. Good luck guys, if you haven't taken him out already. Also, if anyone has X-box live and wants to play online, my xbox SN is the same as my dakka one.

I played the story to unlock CSZ, found out I didn't like him, and then went for some Challenge Tower.

Name's Slarg232, but go easy on me; I'm a real Noob (in more ways than one).

Sounds good Slarg-if we're going with witty quips, I'll let you know that I "fight dirty" and wear $500 dollar sunglasses. Did you beat Khan yet? The strategy I mentioned above helped, but it's not a fight I ever want to do again. He's a lot harder in story mode than he is in arcade mode. Anyone else tossing XBOX names out to play online?

Finally got to play the game today huzzah!

Just a couple of questions for you guys:

Does Sub-Zero seem really slow, almost to the point of being bad? There seems to be a lot of frames of animation in his specials. Also his ground freeze seems useless as well as all of his EX moves except maybe the super slide and super clone.

Next question have you guys encountered odd stretching of character models? Things like sashes, hanging pieces of cloth, hair, and...um...even breasts stretch all over the screen. If you got any info on that I'd appreciate it.

Oh yes, I' am so looking forward to it.

X-Ray moves look amazing, the characters are the classic awesome bunch, and, there are decent, no, let me rephrase that: awesome fatalities, unlike Armageddon and DC Universe.

asimo77 wrote:Finally got to play the game today huzzah!

Just a couple of questions for you guys:

Does Sub-Zero seem really slow, almost to the point of being bad? There seems to be a lot of frames of animation in his specials. Also his ground freeze seems useless as well as all of his EX moves except maybe the super slide and super clone.

Next question have you guys encountered odd stretching of character models? Things like sashes, hanging pieces of cloth, hair, and...um...even breasts stretch all over the screen. If you got any info on that I'd appreciate it.

Sub Zero is really slow, yes. I've heard that once you break his learning curve he becomes an animal, but that he's a "Wait for them to screw up and then punish accordingly" sort of character. I personally prefer Cyber Sub Zero; he has all of his important moves and a few extras. Also, the Ground Freeze..... I think I have seen it used 100 times, and only seen it connect once.

As for the glitch, I haven't had that happen. I have had it freeze up on me four times, twice loading the krypt and twice online, though.

I haven't had any glitches with my copy, and Sub Zero has a couple nice combos, but they have to be perfectly timed and he is a little on the slow side (like a moving glacier ) Cyber Sub Zero is much better, as I prefer the uniqueness of his X-ray. Actually, his and Johnny Cages X-rays are my two favorites because they aren't the basic "stand on the ground and hit two buttons"-Sub's requires you to be in the air and Cage's requires your opponent to hit you while you're in the stance. Having Shao Khan beat me with a hammer only to have it result in his genitalia being smashed for his efforts. Does anyone know how to unlock the third fatality? I bought the ones in the Krypt, and have the starting ones, but there is still the section that says "Locked" in my moves list. How do those become unlocked? Still waiting for X-Box friend requests from here too. Slaarg, I'll add you on later today, and I found out you can do two-player teams against the computer too! One of my friends came over last night to play for the first time so I set him up with that option so I didn't encourage him to hate the game. So I'm up for team kombat, regular stuff...just send friend requests.

The Achievement Hunter guys made a video
presenting some of the achievements in the game.

Enjoy: