Mortal Kombat 1 Poll Reveals Cross-play As Most Requested Online Feature

PC will dominate, PS5/Xbox owners will even out, and all three will team up against Switch players.

Honestly cross-play is probably a fever dream in the eyes of the Switch version considering the improvements that still need to be made to make MK1 Switch worthy of the price its at, not to mention that MK11 on Switch, which although a great version, has no cross-play functionality

@GoshJosh You're forgetting the fact that the PC version of the game was broken at launch for almost an entire month

@Fighting_Game_Loser Hah, im joking honestly. Im so used to PC games coming broken out of the package, that it doesn't even faze me.

I know a few games have had cross-play, but do any of them work well with the Switch?

im already sick of this game and i havent even played it yet. Kasual fan, speaking.

1v1 cross play could work, tho probably a pipe dream.

There would have to be some work tho, like frame locking both sides to the same fps, and better/more optimized net code. I haven’t played online, always been a single player/couch vs MK fan post arcade days. Nothing beats having a match against someone right next to you. That said I’ve browsed MK Reddit and forums, and last I heard there was still priority issues to work out. Aka host / p1 priority.

Instead of asking for some bonus content, game modes, or dubs, people asked for cross-play multiplayer... Okay...
«Cross-play is considered to be an important aspect of a lot of fighting games nowadays...»
I'm happy that I don't care about multiplayer in fighting games. I play them for the stories, characters, and, single-player content.

@Vyacheslav333 Well most play fighting games for the competitive angle and its why most fighting games lean hard on the MP side.

@Vyacheslav333 That's nice and all, but fighting games were always a multiplayer experience. Single player is just an added bonus feature. So it kinda makes sense people want crossplay.

I mean if you enjoy fighting games for the SP that's cool, but MP has been the core of fighting games since it's 16 bit era days.

@Waluigi451

Warframe does it well imo.

We've had cross-play for a year now and though there are some issues, mostly coming from the Switch not being nearly as fast at loading times as the rest, it works well and really revitalized the game and it's no wonder it's always the #1 requested feature of multiplayer games now.

I don’t think Switch will ever get crossplay. The game on other consoles doesn’t have any loading screens and plays very smoothly, with hardly any dips below 60fps. Switch would mean slowing down the opponent. I think crossplay will be implemented, but only between PS5 and Xbox.

I don't have much of a stake in this one because I'm not much into fighting games, but I think crossplay should be a standard feature across games with online multiplayer.

@Waluigi451 Quite a few actually. My main game I mention is Them's Fightin' Herds. Has amazing netcode and seamless crossplay in the pixel lobbies. Power Rangers Battle for the Grid have full crossplay as well. And of course not to mention lots of the major live service games like Fortnite, Rocket League, Fall Guys, and other major paid games like Minecraft and Among Us

If this game gets a MASSIVE improvement to run good on Switch 2, will buy it in a heartbeat

@DennisReynolds And that sucks, imo.

@Vexx234 «but fighting games were always a multiplayer experience. Single player is just an added bonus feature.»
«but MP has been the core of fighting games since it's 16 bit era days.»
I strongly disagree. Some fighting games franchises has a quite rich lore – The King of Fighters, BLAZBLUE, UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH, Guilty Gear... Also, story modes in fighting games were evolved, you know? It takes ±35 hours to complete Story Mode in BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION. In UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r], it takes ±70-75(!) hours to complete BOTH game's story modes – Chronicle Mode and Arcade Mode. Usually, dialogues in fighting games are fully-voiced. And... Most of fighting games has a quite rich SINGLE-PLAYER ORIENTED CONTENT.

@Vyacheslav333 Why? The idea of MP is rooted in the design, fighting a broken AI that reads your inputs just isn't what the majority want in a fighting game and we should be thankful NRS even bother to offer a single player side.

@DennisReynolds Because multiplayer oriented and/or online only games are hollow. And when servers will be down, there will be almost nothing to do. Look at Fighting EX Layer: Another Dash. This fighting game is bad. And it's a multiplayer oriented one. When it first launched on PS4, this game was almost abysmal. No Arcade Mode, no Story Mode. Only Training Mode and Kumite(Survival) Mode. Bare-bones voice-overs. Ridiculous price tag. No Gallery Mode nor CGs. Why modern fighting games don't became so bad like this one, huh? Maybe, because single-player content matters? And not only single-player content, but story modes as well!
«...fighting a broken AI that reads your inputs just isn't what the majority want in a fighting game and we should be thankful NRS even bother to offer a single player side.»
Well, who forces you to play fighting games on hard or normal difficulty?

@Vyacheslav333 Why would i play on easy? I want some kind of challenge.

I play the MK1 story mode once, dabble in the lackluster Invansion mode and then put 100's of hours into Kombat League why? Because i want the challenge, i want the thrill of interacting with a real person and not a predictable AI, i want that rush of a good game where both of us are so close to beating each other where every blow and combo matters.

Yes fighters having loads of single player content is fantastic but the playerbase will always side with things that are MP focused first because its where the majority of their time is spent with the games. Finally your idea of single player "content" doesn't sound exciting, a 30 hour visual novel with a small handful of boring fights is not really content and i wouldn't even class that as a real fighting game. Don't get me wrong if you like that sort of thing then more power to you but there's a reason NRS prefer a 6-7 cinematic story over 30 hours of text and pretty artwork and its because most players would hardly touch it.

@Vyacheslav333 I did say ADDED bonus. At their core, fighting games are a multiplayer experience.

It's great that more studios are enriching their games with content that expands their universes. But, at it's heart, it's designed with competition in mind. The vast majority play these games because they like to compete with each other.

Nintendo systems struggle to have decent online matches. I'm pretty sure Switch'll be the one kid left out of this one.