Recent reviews by Storm Shadow

I have been a long time fan of the Mortal Kombat series but having never owned a console, I was never able to play anything past MK4 on PC. After seeing the first trailer during the Games Awards, I was super hyped and pre ordered the game. But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is this game infuriating or what.

The way the pc version has been handled is a complete and utter disgrace. We have been waiting for DAY 1 patch fixes that the consoles got.

PC got a patch on Friday, initially this patch was supposed to have platform specific bug fixes, and the two Var Tweaks released for consoles so far: The Towers of Time and the Moveset.

It has been almost a week now that PC players are still having to deal with towers as they were on the day of release.

And it gets worse.

The Towers of Time server-side patch changes two things: a) Bosses have less HP, usually half (from 4000 to 2000) b) Enemy AI uses Konsumables two to three times less often (so instead of a missile every second, a missile every 3 seconds, etc...)

And now the Playstation 4 patch made the towers even "easier"/"more manageable", AI spams even less Konsumables, Bosses are more fair.

But on PC, we still got the same exact bosses and Konsumables as day one. This means that the towers are now even harder on PC, as they're being tweaked for an AI that will have less health and use less Konsumables.

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If you think I'm just being a whiny ♥♥♥♥♥, Artifact (yes, the game that lost 90%+ of its playerbase and has less than 500 players) made me less angry. ♥♥♥♥, I didn't even write a review for that.

Having done further research, WB and NRS have been atrocious at handling PC ports of MK in the past. Lets hope things change this time

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Update: A lot of problems addressed above have been fixed. The game runs quite well on 60 fps. PC patches are more regular now wrt console patches. Game has a good story mode and the fighting is amazing.

Online fights play at around 200 pings which is a bit annoying but nothing much that can be done about it.

If you want to unlock all the cosmetics its still quite a task to grind the 3 different types of in game currencies. It was horrible at first, but (relatively) much better now.