Mortal Kombat 1 Gets A New Update For The Nintendo Switch

Does this actually fix anything or is it just for the Halloween fatality thing?

I would think that if there were major graphics updates, they'd be quite upfront and excited to share that instead of "eh, there's an update."

I hope it doesn't take too long for Netherrealm to add crossplay, at least for the good versions.

“Just in time for the spooky season“

It was more than spooky enough already

I'm hoping they made a DLC continuation of the Story Mode similar to Aftermath in MK11 not that I like to see what Titan Havik is going to do but I just want to have contents for MK1.

Some argue that fighting games are better nowadays because they're paying for DLC instead of buying multiple iterations.

When you bought multiple iterations in the past, you had multiple full games in your hands, no software updates, you could take them to a friend's house to use on their console, and if you deemed the various iterations to be too "samey", you could just sell/gift those you no longer want.

With modern fighting games, you're paying full price plus just as much for console locked DLC. The season pass + DLC for MK1 is already almost AU$80, which is the standard price for most AAA games.

And to say nothing of how sloppy/broken the Switch version is.

Why do people reward this sort of contempt?

Absolutely shocking the version they released on switch. A lazy port, I wouldn't bother purchasing.

I tried the game on PS5 ... and is bad... not bad graphics or bad performances... it's a bad game imho, the worst story ever on a mk game, characters are meh, gameplay is the same as mk11... fatalities and gore it's no more "wow" nowadays ... imho mk is dead

I think this update actually made the game worse. Character models look slightly better, but loading times increased and fatalities now perform in slow motion and out of sync with the audio. Also, battle xp and currency gains seem to have been reduced.

@DogDetective Uh... what game are YOU playing? The latest patch from 10/26 VASTLY improves the experience. Fatalities prior to this patch were "slow motion and out of sync with the audio". Now it is like they turbo-charged the fatalities; those things are FAST. And Cyrax's world-detonating fatality finally works.

@GEKGanon I saw that Cyrax’s fatalities finally works, but it was extremely sluggish when I used it. So was Johnny Cage’s car fatality. Loading time is also worse. I was playing in Invasions mode, so maybe different modes now perform better. But I definitely saw an increase in loading times and sluggish fatalities.

@DogDetective Oh, yeah, I didn't have time to try out invasions last night. I was just doing "Local" matches. That ***** was FLYING fast.

Now runs at 2 fps!

@NeonPizza MK Trilogy is absolutely awful.

@Serpenterror way to spoil it for those who haven’t played. I’ve played it but had I not you’d be on my $&?!list right now.

@Sourcecode Mentioning Titan Havik is not spoiling the game dude, you don't even know who he even is.

@NeonPizza I was around back then. MK 2 is a fave. I meant the MK Trilogy on PS1, specifically.

@Serpenterror you’re literally giving away the credit scene regarding Havik. Yeah sure, we have no clue who THIS Havik is but the character has been around since Deception. Anyway I digress. I was just pointing out your folly. I’m not trying to ignite some meaningless online argument so good day sir.

@NeonPizza I think we are reading the same book in different libraries. I'm talking about the MK Trilogy singular release, which was different from the first three MK games. It was like Capcom Fighting Evolution, with disparate assets from the first three games thrown together with zero effort given to smoothing over the aesthetic to fit all three games together. And Johnny Cage looks like he is in Tattoo Assassins in MK Trilogy...which is kind of ironic. A b grade version of a b grade actor that looks like a character from a b grade MK clone.