 Welcome! Hello! Take the combat cast. Excited? Yeah, I think this is like eight? Nine? We've had quite a few combat cast. Again, thank you everybody for coming out today. As you can see, it's been a pretty good week for me. If you remember last Thursday, I won the championship belt from Derek Kurtzik. He has worn it everywhere. Since then, I have not taken this belt off. My girlfriend finds it weird. No, it's cool. But she's happy to be living with a champion. How's your wife doing? It's kind of pissed. Okay, fair enough. Yeah. Well, I'm the champion. We will have a match today. And guess what? We're not going to use Ermac and Molina there. No. No. We listen to the people. Not everybody wants to see Ermac and Molina every time. Actually, it's just really Tyler. Yeah. I feel like one. I'm totally sad. Right. So anyway, we are happy to be here. Let's do some introductions. As usual, I am Tyler Lansdowne. I've touched my belt. It feels good. This is my belt. Tyler Lansdowne Community Specialist at Netherrealm Studios. Pardon. Right here we got... Derek. Derek. I thought you were going to mess up my name. Derek. One of the designers. And of course, control deck. We got Jen. Hello guys. Hi, Jen. So we're excited today. We have two awesome guests, good friends of ours. And they're going to talk about Mortal Kombat Mobile. We have some cool videos to show. And some kind of, some stuff you haven't seen yet. Nope. That I think you'll be pretty excited about. Yeah. I think we're going to kick the hype up from 10 to like at least 15. Oh, the hype is big. Oh, the hype is huge. A couple of things to talk about again. Still a work in progress. I mean, obviously the game is out in win. It's 12 days. 12 days. But you know, we are using your builds for a while back. So you know, but pretty soon we'll be using a disc. And we'll be playing you online. I can't wait for that. So just so you know, there will be things of course that will change. Same with the mobile videos we have. They are from an event we did a while back. So a lot of that stuff will change too. Yep. There may be some things on screen that aren't ready then, but are now. Things like that. Just so you know. A couple of things to talk about. I don't know if you guys all saw ESL and Mortal Kombat. We are doing some tournaments stuff. And we're very excited about that. We love the tournament scene. Come and win some money. Yes. And starting in the 11th. The 11th. Of April. We have the Fatal 8 tournament. Invitational tournament, which I'll be there. Yes. Next week, we'll probably kind of, we'll break down who the players are. We're going to pick my personal top picks and Tyler's top picks of who we think is going to kind of win and take it. And might hurt some feelings. We'll try not to, then, guys. What else do we got? I think that's about it. Oh, follow us on Twitch. Absolutely. If you haven't hit that like button, please. Take a second. Scroll down. And press it. Yes. Are you pressing it? We're waiting. Okay, good. All right. So you've pressed it. Last week we got, I think, 5,000 new followers. Thank you. Can we beat that? We should. We should be able to. Well, I think it's time to put the belt down for now. That's like the first time it's left your body. It feels weird. Is it dusty under there? I've changed my clothes. Oh, okay. All right. Let's get our guests out today. Yep. With that. I'm waiting to use that. Get over here. All right. Let's go on over. All right. All right. Welcome. So today we're going to talk about some more about mobile. Sound good? Sounds good. Let's do some introductions. Starting. I'm Ray McCaffrey. I'm an assistant producer here on our mobile team. Also known as the Denim Warrior. Denim Warrior. Denim Warrior. Fantastic. Hashtag Denim Warrior. That's right. And I'm Aaron Pipagirdis, a.k.a. Peeps, one of the producers for the mobile team. So we're here to talk to them kind of about what Mortal Kombat Mobile is. We discussed it a few weeks back at GDC. And now it's time to let you guys know what's happening with Mortal Kombat Mobile. So I'm going to give you the easiest question you've probably ever gotten before. What's Mortal Kombat Mobile? Mortal Kombat X Mobile. Pardon me. Mortal Kombat X Mobile is a free to play card battler. It's a tag team game featuring teams of three versus three. You work your way up through towers. It's a really awesome collectible card game. Awesome. Yeah. And we should point out this is a custom tailored Mortal Kombat experience for mobile platforms. Yeah. So all the inputs, everything about the game is designed around touch screen based inputs. Right. Okay, excellent. And we've also talked too that there is a team devoted to mobile in this building. So we have a console team, a mobile team. They work together. But you guys have been toiling away on mobile for quite a while. Oh yeah, quite a while. We've been making all the mobile games here at Netherrealm for, you know, the last couple years. Excellent, excellent. So let's talk about Mortal Kombat Mobile. What sort of things do Mortal Kombat fans want to see in Mortal Kombat Mobile? What do you bring into us? Well, I think right away this wouldn't be a Mortal Kombat game if we didn't have fatalities. Absolutely. So you're going to see fatalities. And it's the same over-the-top presentation as the console game with a slight twist, though. There is a twist. We will have a video about fatalities in a moment. We also want to talk about a little thing that I think is new to both games, obviously. Factions. Yep. So Mortal Kombat X Mobile, like the console, will feature factions. This is a way, rather, this is an opportunity for players to contribute to their faction while at home and also while on the go. So you will pick your faction on mobile, you will pick your faction on console, and you will earn points while you're riding the bus. And then when you get home and you're playing on your couch. Awesome. So it's a really important thing because like if you want to contribute the most to your faction, like for me, Black Dragon, hashtag Black Dragon. If you want to contribute to them, when I'm on the way to work, I'll play. When I get here, I'll play console. When I go home, I'll play mobile and console and continue contributing all the time. One thing that I think is also really cool is that if you reach your cap on console and on mobile, you get a bonus on mobile. Yeah, you get bonuses. Bonuses. What? Amazing. You know, while we're talking about factions, have we talked about what you're choosing for your faction? Well, I'm honestly on the fence. Okay. I'm torn between White Lotus and Brotherhood of Shadow. Brotherhood of Shadow over here, I'd like to tell you that it's a great organization, amazing benefits, and the warriors within Brotherhood of Shadow are top-notch, so I would come join us. It's a selling point. Yes. Black Dragon here, I would like to first say we're all huge decks. So you want to come in? Think about it. Yeah, I'll think about it. I was leaning Black Dragon until I found out you're going to be in Black Dragon. Now I'm rethinking that. I'm afraid that all of the Twitter fans who watch this and follow up on the show are now all going to stay away from Black Dragon because I will be your de facto leader. But you are the champion right now. Oh, that's true. That's true. If they're going to have a leader, they may as well have the champion. That's true. Thanks for that. Just saying. So, you know, let's kind of show a video now that kind of shows the landscape of how the game works and gets into factions a little bit. Sure. So here you'll see our battleground map. So one of the themes in console was towers. I mean, there's so many different towers that people can play up that we decided to take that same idea and theme and put it into motion. So these are towers that are essentially ladders that you can battle your way up and they have varying degrees of difficulty and modifiers and characters. So a lot of fun stuff there. You go from tower to tower. So here we're actually going to go ahead and show off our faction select a little bit. So this is the main menu of Mortal Kombat X Mobile. You'll see our nav bar up top there. You can go ahead and change your factions. So this is from my account, Prince Coral, and I'm right now on Brotherhood of Shadows. You can see we've got Black Dragon, Lin Kuei, Special Forces, White Lotus. I was going to pick something else, but let's be serious. I'm pretty sure the Brotherhood of Shadows is where it's at. It's where it's at, Ray. So another feature we're going to show very quickly, and we'll talk about it a little bit more later, is I'm actually going to go ahead and change my champion. So champion is a new feature that we have in MKX Mobile. It's a character that you choose, and you'll see right now my champion is Sub-Zero. Well, I don't know necessarily that he's who I want as my champion, so I'm going to go ahead and switch him to Infernal Scorpion, and you'll see there that he is now my champion on the main menu. Awesome. Very cool. And you can change factions at any time? Yes, you can change factions at any time. Very good. Let's get into the champion's ally system here in a little bit, but let's go back to what you talked about, something that all Mortal Kombat fans want, and that is fatalities. We have fatalities, yes? Absolutely. Absolutely. We have a lot of fatalities, so let's actually give that a little taste of what they look like. Finish him. So the first thing you'll notice, little swipe arrows, is what we did is we added the interactivity into our fatalities with the swipe controls that you have in mobile. So you have to do these in order to perform the fatality. That's really gross. There we go. We've got Katana. Her mini-game is a little special. You've got the two taps. The family's go in. She pops them out. Then with two swipes, it's like you're there. It's like you're there. Awesome. It is probably that easy to really do that to somebody. Oh, yeah, yeah. That's great. So that is sort of how fatalities work in the game. And they're in the game, so if you like Mortal Kombat, you like fatalities, there you are. And they kind of have a little mini-game twist to them, too, which is super cool as well. Right now. I just mentioned the touch controls. We want to take advantage of them everywhere possible. And this was a fantastic opportunity to do that. Awesome. Also, if you're a fan of Mortal Kombat, especially Mortal Kombat 2011, we had X-rays. We did. We'll show those here in a little bit. In our next video, you'll see some of those as well. So there's X-rays. There's fatalities. There's everything from mobile to console. It's there. All the quick visceral action that Mortal Kombat's known for, you'll see in the mobile version. Awesome. So let's get back to the ally system. And you're picking your champion. How does that exactly work? So everybody's got their main character, the one that they play with the most. Mine's Sub-Zero. Anytime I'm playing the console version, I'm almost always playing Sub-Zero. So same with mobile. There's probably going to be that character that you play the most. You've leveled him up. You've upgraded his stats and his abilities and these sorts of things. You want to show the world, right? Right. I mean, you spend a lot of time on this character. So as Ray was showing a minute ago, you can actually select him as your champion. Now what that does for you, when you go into a fight, you'll have a list of these champion characters, these allies that you can actually pick from. These are other real-world players' characters. Could you use mine? I could use yours. If you're playing the game and I see your ally in my list, I can select your character. And then when I go into a fight, one time during that fight, I can actually summon that ally in. He'll do one big hit and then teleport back out. So it can really help change the tide of battle if you find yourself getting into it. So it's like the fight's really close and you're like, oh man, I need this killing blow. Exactly. You just call in that ally. That's awesome. Could I be a huge jerk and never level the character that I have as champion so you have nothing you can do? Well, that's the thing is you don't level up your characters and you don't have a strong champion. No one's going to want to use your champion. And when people use your champion, you get alliance points. And with these points, you can pick up other cards in the game, like cards that you otherwise couldn't get. Awesome. Very cool. Now, I think a big question to the people who are watching this, because I know y'all really love the Mortal Kombat console and now we're going to get you into the Mortal Kombat mobile. Why do the people out there, why do you want them playing Mortal Kombat mobile? Well, one of the things that we introduced with Injustice Gods among us was the idea of cross-platform play. So if you played on the mobile version, you had to actually unlock content on the console version and vice versa. So there were some rewards for playing both versions of the game. People seem to really like that. They embraced it quite a bit. So we brought that back from Mortal Kombat X. But this time around, we've got some pretty awesome rewards. I'm sure you learned a lot. We're going to show this in a second. I'm sure you learned a lot from how ravenous people were about that because I'll be always totally honest. I was never a big mobile game player. And then I was a huge Injustice player. So I got the mobile game and I played the hell out of it because I wanted my points. I wanted my costumes. You got to get the skins. And then once I got all the costumes, I was already in. I was deep. So I kept going. So that's the same kind of experience you're going to have here with probably some extra stuff that may not have ever you've never seen before. So that's good. Now would be a really good time to kind of show you two new skins that you can get from Mortal Kombat X mobile. And I will say they are two of my favorite skins in the game. Yeah, they're great. Go to your collection here so you can see some of the characters will be featured. Yep, so here you'll see we've got right there Ninja Mime Johnny Cage. He's one of the characters that you can unlock when you connect your WB Play account on console and mobile. Yeah, Johnny Cage, Mime Johnny Cage is silent, but deadly. One of my, I was so excited when I knew this character was going to be in the game because if you play Johnny Cage or if you don't and you're a huge troll that you use. Oh yeah. So another one we're pretty excited about you guys can see on the screen right now this is Farmer Jax. Farmer Jax. And full disclosure growing up on a farm in Missouri I'm pretty sure I own this outfit. Yeah, right. Nice. So that's that. You can get Farmer Jax and Mime Johnny Cage plus a ton of other stuff just from playing Mortal Kombat X mobile. And is that, do you only get those skins in mobile? That's an interesting question, Derek. Well, I come up with the big ones. You really do. Uh, Jennifer, we could maybe show the game screen real quick. Go ahead, Derek. Well, it's not some of that rust off. Round one. Fight. Alright. So, So they're also in-game? Yep. What? And just like mobile you unlock these skins by connecting your mobile experience and your console experience. And there is nothing like Johnny Cage Mime versus Farmer Jax. Absolutely not. Let's talk about your social feeds here real quickly so we can, maybe finish off this segment. So we're going to show on the screen now you can see where you can follow both Ray and Peeps. Peeps did tell me before in the stream that he does not tweet and he loses Twitter followers because he never tweets. Yeah. Ray, though, you'll tweet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm on there. Maybe they'll throw up some information at the game at some point so you can definitely follow them. Follow the Super Squad with Gin as a part of our IT crew. Me and Derek. Noobdy. Of course, Ed Boone's Twitter. Yeah. And Netherrealm Twitter. Always follow at Netherrealm for the most up-to-date information. Yeah. Yep. And keep in mind, guys, to get these skins you just need to connect or sign up to WB Play. Yeah. So go to WB Play, set up your account so you can link the mobile and the console and you can get these amazing skins. Plus you get Rayden. And you get Rayden. That's three skins. So I want to say thank you, guys. Thank you to Ray. Thank you. Thank you, Peeps. Guys, that was a lot of great information. We're not going to tell you the release date quite yet. The game is free. It is. How much is it? It's free. It's free. So pick it up. Play it. Thank you guys so much for being here. Yeah. Right now, we're going to show up a little picture here of the Prince Goro. Now, as you see, there's a timer there. What is that timer stand for, Derek? It's a game stream. Oh. But what that is, is how long until the Amazon Twitch stream that we the first show of Goro gameplay? I'll be heading to San Francisco tomorrow to play Goro on stream and talk about it. And that's the first time people are going to get to see Goro gameplay. Yes. Will they get to see a Goro Fatality maybe? I think you can see a lot of Goro. Woo! Awesome. I know everyone's been asking where's Goro? Where's Goro? We wanted to make a huge opportunity to show him. A more long Twitch stream. You're going to take a lot of water. I don't want you to dehydrate it. All right. We're going to have Goro. We're going to have a ton of gameplay, different modes. I'll be playing against people who have hopefully never played before. Awesome. You're going to win. If you want, you can borrow the belt. I'm not saying I'm going to win, but I'm probably going to win. And if you want to take the belt, you can. I don't think they can leave the building. It did all week. I know. Hey guys, we've got another guest today. We're going to show you a trailer. As you guys know, we have a trailer out for Jax and Jackie Briggs. Now, we're not going to show those till next Thursday. Next Thursday. We're doing another stream next Thursday. We're doing another stream next Thursday. There's announcements everywhere. And that will close out the last variations. Oh, wow. It's sad, but it's awesome because we're close to release. Yeah, it is. So today we have Pete. Pete, say hello to the stream. Hi, everybody. How are you guys doing? Pete, who are you? I'm one of the designers on MKX. With another album for about a year now, a little bit over a year. Been in the industry for over 15 years, but it's exciting being on MK. It's a project I've always wanted to work on. I think we all are. It's pretty awesome. So go ahead, Derby, if you want to move on. All right. First, I want to take a moment because we can actually finally show off the entire character roster. There it is. There it is. There are all the people that had their little clip art pasted in there. You can actually now use the screen. So today, Pete, you had a big, a big hand in working on two characters with the design team. Yes. That being Kenshi. Yes, Kenshi's back. Kenshi's back. And Sonya Blade. That's right. Now, Kenshi's been very much rumored to be in the game. We haven't, we've kind of alluded to and got a lot of screen shots from the mobile game. Today, we're going to show you how Kenshi works. Luckily, we have Ray here. Yeah. He's one of the guys we play with every day at work. Ray's a Kenshi main, would you say? Yeah, absolutely. And I asked, what did my Ray lay lay? And I'm trying, guys. So we're going to start with Kenshi. Excellent. And Pete, as we tell everyone, what's rule number one? Don't talk during the stream. During the intro. The intro. The intro. I thought it was. No talking at all during the stream. Never lose the belt. Never lose the belt once you win it. Well, we'll see what happens there. And people do want to see a Kenshi-Taketa matchup so they can see how they interact. So let's go ahead and do that. No. We'll hold off on that. We'll hold off on that. All right. Think your skills surpass mine? I know so, dad. Prove it. Round one. Find. In this variation, balanced, Kenshi is a little bit of a different character as far as his common special goes. He's got five common specials that are themes slightly different in each variant. So we'll look at the balance first. Right away you can see that if you're familiar with MK9, the spirit is back for a lot of his specials here. So the big plus for this variation is you can do some really big damage from stringing together with large combos. So his first special that we'll look at is the Rising Karma. So this is a really good close range anti-air attack, and the EX does an extra hit on connect. It's also a great move you can actually strike after a combo too. Absolutely. Which raises you with six or seven hundred times. Just block guys, that's what I gotta do. This next one is a spirit push in this variation. It's really good for close to mid range. It has a pretty big hitbox and you cannot duck it. And it's a rex too, right? Yeah, absolutely. Awesome. This one doesn't track. No, this. No. Yeah, you're right. You got an extra hit on connect on this one. The next one up is the teleflurry. This one's the tracking move. It is duckable however. And if you miss it or you block it, it has a pretty long delay. So it is kind of semi punishable. But it is very good for anti-air depending on how close it is to the screen. Can we hold on for one second? That moves duckable. That's right. Why have I not been ducking that move? I was wondering the same thing. I didn't know. Alright, keep going Pete. Everybody's learning. Yeah. He also has the TK slice. Now this one you must block high. And you can control the position on this one so you can do three different ranges close, medium, far. So you can dictate where you put it. The EX has an extra hit on connect and the next they point it down. So also like some good zoning tools from Kenshin. Absolutely. He's really good at far and then when you get up close, also. And in this variant he gets the blade reflect. So this reflects projectiles and the EX1 absorbs it. Which we'll have to show later. Yeah. I didn't take somebody to actually throw a projectile in my bag. Throw your whip. Yeah. Reflect that, sir. Awesome. Move on to it. We're ready to go to the next one. Yeah. When I see a throw or do you want to move on? Yeah. Let's do a throw. Alright. Just kind of do some of your fun stuff. There we go. Alright. There we go. It's like you've been practicing. Alright. So let's go on to the next one. Yeah. The next one is going to be the possessed variation. So in this one Kenshi's sword, Cento, has been broken and as a result the spirits that have been trapped within the sword have been released and kind of possessed Kenshi. And so he doesn't have any attacks with the sword in this variation at all. All of them, all of his ranged attacks and that sort of thing come through these demons that kind of come out from him. And as you can see the sword on his back is actually cracked into pieces. Yeah. So it shows the variation as well. The visual difference. You're a scoundrel. Since you did beat Dad. Even for you, that was low. Round one. Fine. No clue what they said. So the thing about this trade is it's all about chunked damage, right? So, you know, it doesn't have as big strings as he did in the balance trade, let's say, but in this one it's all about just big hits, big hits. So, you know, the spin, the rising karma in the previous variation is the sickle lift. So, again, it's a kind of a close range move. It's a multi-hit on connect. Excellent, just a little bit different but it's got its roots and some barriers from the variation. He had something in real quickly too. You talked about how it's chunked damage and less combo heavy. I get a lot of tweets where people are like, is Mortal Kombat X a game that I can play as a casual fan? And one of the things that I've kind of started learning about the variations is there are some variations that might be easier for a casual fan to get used to if they're not a combo heavy type of person. Absolutely. You can learn that one and then kind of move forward as you get better. Yeah, absolutely. The next move is the soul push. Again, it's similar to the spirit push. This is short to mid-range attack. It's pretty safe if you're from max range. The cool thing about this move is you gain a lot of distance to push the guy back. The EX version though, if you choose to kind of keep a mid-range, that's really great for that move. The next one up is the demon assault. It does more damage than a soul push, but it can be definitely punished easily when you block or miss it. Okay. Next up is the demon slam. This one is a little bit different than the TK size because this one you must block a lot. You can also control positioning on this one back forward or close to you in the fly. Actually, one of my favorite things about this particular move is that when you EX it in combo, like here, I get a little lift while I miss it, but you do actually get an additional chance to juggle which is pretty cool. Hey, Ray. You dropped something on stream? I did drop a combo. Joy in the club. Joy in the club. So the blind reflect is gone in this variant, but he has an alternate move in here which is pretty awesome. I love this move. It's the demon beam. So this move is, you know, teleport and it tracks in front of the opponent. And the cool thing about it is once you kind of teleport, you can, you have control of your character to form another attack right there. So it's great for streaming combos together. Right. Also here, he's got a new special in this variant. It's called the demonic strike. So this is an overhead special that's close range. I'll show it to you right here. And the EX does a knockdown instead and it's got armor. He also has a new string in this one which is overriding on his attack four towards. So this one reaches a little bit further and it, you must block it a little. Does Kenshi have, does he have an X-Reg? I don't know. Let's find out. Go! So with this variation he also gets additional combos along with the special attacks. He gets the new the new strings. That's why the attack four towards. Cool. Alright, so let's go on to the next one. Alright, let's do it. Kenshi looks awesome. He does. If you like them in those variations just wait till you see them in this one. Kenshi. The Kenshi. Jitsu. So this one is the sword master Kenshi missing his headband. Right? So it's pretty crazy. This variation we brought some of the TK specials from MKDA as well as we added some some new ones. This variation you can punish a lot but the range is it's a lot shorter in general than the other two variations. Gotcha. What is the secret of your powers? My secrets are my own. Share them with me. Round 1 Fight. So the twist on the short range anti-air move in this one is the rising sword. It is, you know, basically kind of like a sword uppercut type of thing. The EX does a multi hit as well. It's a little bit of a twist on the other ones that the variations have. Next up is the tele push. This is a pretty short to mid range attack. It's fairly safe except when you're up close and the EX is not as armor. The tele toss is up next. That's a tracking move. It's heard this move in this variation but it is very unsafe. What's really great about this move is it switches sides with your opponent and the EX version has multi-claw and it has armor. Finally, I'm not finally I should say the other variant here is a move from this variant is a tele slam. This is a pretty close to mid range attack. It's very unsafe and the really cool thing about this move is when you perform the EX version of this because it brings the opponent down stunned so you can go ahead and continue. Alright, why don't you you also have the blade reflect in this one. Can we throw the work against the shield? We'll find out. No! That's too many hits I wouldn't do. Yep. So what we did today is show you how the blade reflect works. You're going to have to find that one out. But there's more. There's more? There's more. Yes. In this variation he has a spinning blade which is I love this move. Probably one of my favorite specials which is an overhead move which is pretty cool and it's pretty quick too. The EX does an extra hit and it also slightly juggles the move. Let me read you some meaning there you go. You can do the EX. Don't get swayed. Oh! Oh! Is it time for a fatality? It could be. I guess. Let's see if we can do it. Yeah! This one is awesome. And that's pretty much it for Kenshi, right? Yep. So who are we going to show next, Tyler? Well, I'm going to take over here for now. We're going to show the lovely and talented Sony Blade. Ooh! That's people have been asking for. We've got a lot about Sonya. So we're going to show some Sonya. I've been practicing a little bit, Pete. You'd better do a proud here. Yeah, okay. I will say this, Pete. I've been watching Hermit Creator the entire process. I was like, I really wanted Sonya, but I found my Ermac. But in my practice of Sonya, I've decided I'm going to start playing her a little bit. It's a good call. I'm bringing out the mind. Oh, bring out the mind. All right, here we go. What are we doing first here? Which one? We got covert ops. Oh, nice choice. Do you think they're going to have cute dialogue with one another? There's some history there. There is. There is. There's a child. There's that. Yeah. Talk to me. That would mean you'd have to keep quiet. You're right. Never mind. All right, here we go. All right, so common specials for Sonya. She's got her energy rings back. Yeah, and she E-Xed that one as well. She's got armor. She has an air drop. There you go. And that one's great because you can do combos right off right after that one. Oh yeah, you can do. There you go. She has a harp kick. And this is pretty slick for a couple different reasons. So this one closes distance from afar, right? And if you close and you want to gain some distance between the two, it also goes over projectiles, which is pretty slick. And the E-X does multi-hit. She also has her leg grab. The classic move is back. That's right. You can't have Sonya without a leg grab. So those are her shared common specials. And so now we'll go into the very pictures here, right? So in the covert ops, this one is really all about parrying and countermoves. And, you know, to use this for this variant is all about like sobbing rush downs or keeping opponent mid to close range. You want them to tag you. So you knock them out. So she has this new ability. This is the rope parry move here. So this one can counter, you know, any sort of like punch attack. And here you can branch out into four different executions and all with different things that they do. So one of them is the freedom strike. And the purpose to do that is it switches directions of the opponent and gains distance. Then there's the evil strike. Keeps the opponent on the same side and kind of keeps him in distance. I did the wrong one. There we go. There you go. So if you do the E-X into the counter there you can get a stiff neck. So the stiff neck switches sides of the opponent and keeps him standing up. And then I like this one the best because nothing in it just keeps the opponent on the same side and then it does pop up. I'll get there in a second. There we go. Bam! Yep. But that's not all. That's not all. But wait, there's more. She also has an air throw. What? That's right. I missed it. There it is. Do it again. Nope. I win. Can we show her actually real quick? We're ready for that ready. We're ready for that ready. Maybe the next one. But wait. There's more? Military stance. Awesome. So you enter military stance and you can do a variety of moves right off that. So you can grab opponent. Fancy. Yep. You can do a low poke. Create some distance. I've done that one, yes. All right. You can do a cartwheel and a double kick. Oh. Nice. And you can also exit on the stance at any time. Oh. Just cancel out. Of course. I'm going to try the combo that I worked on. All right. I want to see it. Oh man. I'm going to jump so bad. Tyler lands no combos. Here he goes. There we go. You're wrong. All right. You got this one. All right. You've embarrassed yourself enough. One more time. One more time. How many times yesterday? That's so good. All right. So let's just see. Let's see your throw. Oh, okay. There's one. No one was watching that. The stream was. All right. There's a throw. There's a throw. I love this throw. The crucifix and the flip. Nice. Woo. All right. So let's go into the next variation. That's right. Or do you want to kill me with an x-ray? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yep. Go ahead. I want to kill Peter. Oh, magically. I did. Oh, okay. Now we can. Ready? Yep. So it's an homage to the kiss. All right. So. No wonder they're doing this. Oh, what just happened? Well, that. Why is that intended? Right, baby. Write that down. Write that down. Woo. All right. Which one next, Pete? How about some demolition? Demolition. Ooh. Let's do Kano. Kano, yeah. They've got a history, those two. They do have a history. And maybe we can finish Kano off for Kannon. All right. All right. All right. May. Yeah. You won't escape this time. Escape. And it's all a fun. This won't be fun. Round one. So the demolition variant. The cool thing about this one is, you can see she's got grenade strap to her side of the leg there. So this variation is all about kind of grenade management. Mm-hmm. You know, you start out with three and you use one already. Yes. So you do have an inventory that you have. And you can see on the leg there, there's two grenades there. The blue spot is where one is missing. That's right. So as you've shown, she has kind of a grenade throw. And the cool thing about her grenades is she has two different types of grenades that you can choose between. She has a stun grenade and a frag grenade, kind of depending on how you, you know, which it puts you next to. You're out of grenades. What do you do? You call back the drone. Nice. Here you go. What's really interesting about the grenades are, you can detonate them early if you want to. You just double press the button. Exactly. Right. Awesome. And if you get into a situation where you don't have any grenades and... Tyler's ruined that situation. Thank you. So right here. Yep. Someone's pressuring you, right? Well, I'm coming. I'm coming. Why don't you EX the drone? Instead of getting drone, grenades from the drone are like, but it does use all my grenades. So I have to grab them back again. Awesome. You can also EX throw here and it will throw the remaining grenades that you have there. So if you have two, it will just drop two. Yep. And you can combo it together with mine. She also has a wake-up attack. My favorite wake-up in the game right now. You have to have at least two grenades to do it. Which I do. All right? Oh, Tyler's won. So she'll throw the grenades out. So if they're trying to pressure you, you'll throw the grenades out real quick as a wake-up attack. That's right. That's no problem. All right. She also has one new combo string in this one if she has a grenade. Why don't you do a stun grenade? I will. All right. That's right. Let's go on to the next variation. Do you go? Tyler's putting some combos in. Bring it on strong at the end. I like that. I warm up very, very slowly. About 35 minutes into a stream, I might hit a combo. It's a marathon. Yeah, it really is. So let's go to the final version. Special forces. Special forces. Oh, you know what we forgot to do? What? We forgot to finish Kano. Yeah. Well, I guess we're going to have to do it here. You're going to have to kill Liu Kang. No. Sorry, everybody. So there's a lot of really different ways to play Sonya. All the variations are very different in how you can use the utility, of course. Yes. And they're going to see that especially here. Yeah, this is one of my favorite ones. So it begins. Looks that way. It will end soon enough. Round one, fight. I love this variation because it's all about, like, being a strategist, right? Mm-hmm. So this one, you can see her visual difference here as she has these arm bands, these reiner bands. And what she does is she can call in a drone. It doesn't bring in grenades. It actually is there for you to use kind of at your disposal. Kind of an assist during the fight, right? Yep. So this drone is timed out for, I don't know how much time, but like it will go away and you have to, you know, call it back. Resummit. Exactly right. This variation is really used for mix ups. You know, you have to keep your opponents guessing. There's a lot of different things that Sonya can do out here. So there's four drone attacks that drone can do. We'll show it real quickly, too, before we show those. You can actually park the drone. That's right. You can put it down. Yep. And I love you, Matt, for, you know, letting it go off screen kind of or tapping a guy in the corner. There's like a lot of different reasons to use. Well, like there's, it can be drone, your enemy, then you. Like you can, you can like book in them. So that's cool. So, all right. So the first attack is the heavy blast. This is a short range quick shot. It's great for anti air. Oh, there it is. Okay, for anti air and a rush down defense. The next one is the holding distance. It's at like a pulse blast. It's great for setting up a rush or against guys who like to jump around a lot. So go ahead and do that. Right. So it will track you. It will hold me for a certain amount of time before it kind of just gives up and just fades away. Right. You can definitely get in on that while that's happening. Yeah. The next one is the kamikaze. So there's two different kamikaze attacks. One of them like is a more horizontal, like straight on attack. That's low. That's the low one, right? Right. So you have to block it low. And that one you have. So you keep the guy guessing. You don't know what's coming. And what I really like to do with this is you can have the drone out. You can do, you know, the heavy blast with the homing missile or just kind of just keep pressure on them. Right. The drone starts to blink. The lights on it blink. The colors will match on the radar band with what the drone is doing. So it's like you know if you can attack or not attack. Gotcha. If it's about to go, you can actually just, you know... Kamikaze. One last shot. Kamikaze. Awesome. Yeah. It's really fun. Homing is so much fun because then, you know, you're moving towards... Yeah. So much stuff to do there. You know what it's time for? Let's just have a bit of a match here. Oh, okay. Well, not a real match. Oh, okay. You can play Liu Kang because you don't. Oh, I am so good at Liu Kang. Give you my Kang Tang. What will happen? Oh, hey, you're so good. Plastic lands down. What happened? What are we going to do about this? Well, the game comes out in a few days. In like, what, 12? How many days do you need? 12 days. You'll be seeing that soon. All right. Yeah. They can't see it. Well, you know, that's what happens. It's live. It's live TV. It's live TV, everybody. Yeah. So now we're going to do something kind of fun. First of all, thank you. Thank you for being here. That was awesome. Sorry we need the fatality off. You'll see it soon. Maybe we'll put it on something in social media. We'll see what happens. Yeah, it happens. So now, we're going to have a little match. Yeah. Between Ray and Derek. And Derek. Okay. And they're going to have a match between your favorite Kenshi. Yeah. Do you want to play us? I'm going to bring back my lovely Milena. I've seen you play this match a lot. It's a lot of fun to watch. It gives you more of a sense of this. There's an Irmak this time. You can see her hair fights against Milena. Yes. Let's go. Oh, yeah. Let's do that. All right. We might have a chance to see the new level. The sky temple. You doing balanced? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So this is balanced version versus. Piercing. Piercing. You will feel Centos bite. The anticipation is killing me. No. That would be me. Round one. Fight. All right. Here we go. Starting with some pretty heavy zoning from Ray. Early breaker. Nice. Run up. No punish there. Derek is really going to knock you out of the air and do a ball though. That's for sure. What a cool throw. Round one goes to Derek. Just around. Just around. Just around. One round. Yep. Well, I'll go for Ray too there. Well, that's a surprise. Yeah, I'll go for you, Derek. I am team Derek for the next few minutes. Jen, who are you going for? She's been with us for so long. You know. Really nearly, Derek. That's how I roll, man. How you roll? Well, once in a time. Yeah. I do the same thing with Kato's parry. Every single thing needs to help me. No! What? Ray, are you feeling streamer? I think it's a little bit. Yeah, they happen. They're real. They come back to just a true master victory. Oh. Oh! Derek misses the uppercut. Is he going to troll you? You're getting trolled. What, are you two out of three? Nope, that's it. Winner's a winner. Good day. See you later, Ray. Oh, come on. Two out of three is only fair. Well, you have other fights to get to, don't you? I know. I went in no place else to be. All right, fine. This is turned into... Now, Ray, as usual, turn the rules. You can change character or variations. I can. I think possessed is my second favorite variation. And swordsmanship. Two ways to die. Take your pick. I'll pick your flesh from my teeth. Yeah, I don't want to talk to you more about it if the intro's hadn't started, but... So, you guys can't hear that on stream, but outside of the door, we heard a bunch of laughing because Ray broke the cardinal rule of stream. Yeah, there you go. Ray's coming up blazing this time. Oh! That early got such a Derek move. Mm-hmm. And that's why I'm going for you. Yeah, I don't mess around. They do the same stupid thing all the time. Yep. I fall for it every time. I thought he was going to throw it, too. He's just doing throws. He's afraid to roll. Did I miss input? Yeah, I thought so, too. Like, let's reflect as close as possible to them. Ray is so awesome in this. Ray is a blocking juggernaut right now. Well, I am kind of all offense. That's true. I want to tell the stream before this fight started, Derek is kind of leaning back in his chair. He's totally about two feet from the screen. There we go. There it is. Now, I'm like, I can't let this happen. 1-1. 1-1. It's the last time he's on the stream. Yeah. You don't come into our house. I'll beat us. Wait a minute. I thought you were 4A. Yeah. What? I thought it was for Derek. No, no, no. Jim was Jim. Malina. Do you see into my head. I'll will once I cut it off. We'll review the film afterwards. I'll tell you who I'm for after the first round. So far for Derek right now. I'm back to Ray. You throw, Punish. It's getting pretty tense in this room. Do you feel that, Pete? Oh, yeah. She got money on this? Yes. This is a really good series. It's really exciting. It's deflating when they have it. Isn't it? It's a good block on that. A definite comeback factor is real. So that happened. Oh, Jim. Hey, while we're in this background, let's do a background breakdown, shall we? Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. I hope that's not an actual song. Oh. You will feel Centos bite. The anticipation is killing me. No. That would be me. Round one. Fight. All right. So you'll notice these poor innocent praying monks can be thrown. And then lightning strikes. And they're all like, oh, no. And then over here, this fire pit that I threw at Ray earlier. You remember that right? He did. He did block it. I did block it. Right. But you can throw that. All right. And then over in the corner. I'm going to add real quick. Sure. So this is like, it's probably, for lighting, it's probably my favorite, like the ambiance is really cool. Yeah. I would say this might be my favorite stage. Sure. And as the level, or the game progresses too, like tornadoes start swirling in the background. Like it's really cool and very alive. And then over here, you've got your corner bell to run up and get out of a corner. And we're not done yet. And we got a tornado, maybe. Yeah. And they don't like you throwing the lamp. Maybe. So the storm keeps getting bigger and bigger. It's called Sky Temple. Yep. You'll be playing it very soon. Yes. And I think, is it time? Birthday shout outs. Questions first. Oh, questions. Birthday. Okay. Let's do those. Let's do those first. All right. So right now, we have some questions from the community. And as I always say before we do these, we get a lot of questions. There's a lot of stuff we can't answer. Don't worry. I try to read as much as I can. You are being noticed. I do see what you write, but this is just no time. Sometimes they get everything answered. Yeah. There's lots. There's a lot of tweets to both Netherrealm, our personal accounts, but again, can't get to everything. Nope. And also we're getting close to the game. So a lot of your questions are going to be answered very soon. Yes. Question one. Will those who buy the combat pack be able to buy, to play all four characters at once? That is from Ben Barker. Just like the other games we've done, the releases of the characters will be staggered. Yes. So. We don't have all the characters done. Nope. And we're just holding on to recording them or something. No, it's not how it works. This is a process right now. He'll be the first one. I'm not going to give a date for you yet, but they will be staggered throughout the campaign. They'll be coming. Yep. 88Aman asks, will we need the combat pack to play online? No. No. No. You just need an online connection. Yeah. And we'll actually, in the next stream, go over some of the things that you can play online without being gold or PSN+. Excellent. Awesome. MattMonday asks, I haven't mentioned this before, but we want to just reiterate, because we do get this question a lot. Will rank reset when switching factions? Yes. Yes, so will your faction rank? Yes. Not your personal rank? No. Your personal rank will continue to go up, but your faction rank will go down to zero any time you switch a faction. So make sure you max it, then move. Yep. Max and move. Max and move. Part two of his question is, also, will Predator be absolutely kickass? Oh. A wipe? No. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. He will absolutely be badass. Kickass. Sorry. Don't change his words. I misquoted him. Premium pack asks, can you purchase the combat DLC after the game is released? Yes. It'll be in the store. You can buy it whenever you want to. Perfect. Teresa asks, that's how it's spelled. There's a bunch of Ls. Can you pause story mode? Yes. You can pause story mode. If you need a bathroom break, need to get a drink. Yep. You can pause story mode. Good question, though. Oh, yeah, very good. Blanche. Okay, this is my favorite. Okay. So a Twitter account has popped online called at Blanche MKF. I love that. I think I follow Blanche, actually. I do, too. So Blanche is now tweeting. The other day, Blanche tweeted something like, will you guys quit throwing? No, absolutely not. No, we will not. That's why you're their old lady. So Blanche asked, when can I be a playable character as DLC? They saw right through us. Obviously, we cannot talk about any future DLC right now. We can't say if Blanche is going to be a playable character. She's pretty important to us. But let me say she's on the shortlist. Yeah, definitely. Finally, we have a couple more things. Raccoon Survivor. Do you think you got attacked at some point? If anything, he made it through. Yeah, it all matters. So Raccoon Survivor asks, do we keep our faction fatality unlocked if we switch factions? No, because each faction has different faction kills. So if you love them and you don't want to switch, then don't switch. That was a bad way of setting it up. If you love your faction fatalities, you might want to stick with it. We're not going to tell you how much, how many there are, but there are more than one. More than one. Yeah. But wait, we're not getting even flat numbers. No, we're not getting even numbers. Yeah, so finally, before we get into the match, I'd love you to stay Pete and kind of help commentate because I know that I probably annoyed Ray and Derek. Well, oh, Derek has something. I have birthday shoutouts. Thank you very much. You'll always be in charge of birthday shoutouts from now on. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So just tweet them to me. So we got Gotti at DST093. Happy birthday. We got Leroy. Happy birthday. TJ from Cody. Sure, whatever. Happy birthday. And Ray. His birthday is on Saturday. Happy birthday, Ray. Thank you. Oh, wait for it. What did you miss? You can give that high five and tweet it to Ray. Thank you. So really, I want to thank everybody first of all for coming out. Thank you, Pete. I want to thank Ray and Pete who have already left for showing us mobile. I do want to say about the mobile game that when I first saw it, I was super surprised with how it is the best-looking mobile game I've ever seen. Absolutely. Graphically. And I know I sound like a shill because I work here, but I'm not because I think it's a beautiful-looking game. And I think you guys did an awesome job and I can't personally wait to play it at my house. Yeah. So thank you guys for coming out. Well, you can play it on your phone, on the bus. Oh, right. I forgot. Okay, I'm about to play this. Anytime. Anytime. So it is time now. Pete, will you please hand me the belts? Excuse me. I have to get ready myself. I got to swag up. Here we go. Okay. Ready? So, Ray, I want to put this in your hands for now. I'm honored to hold it. It smells like you. Hey, I'm getting ready. Okay. So it's a championship match. Again, next week, we'll have a stream and then after that, we'll have some big plans for streams coming up, some really cool stuff we're going to be showing you after launch. Of course, all the DLC, we will play on stream for you. Anything we've come out with will play against the community. We also have some other special surprises that we're working on and we hope to get those out, too. And sometimes, Tyler and I may just pop online to start playing. We'll send out tweets, but, you know, we'll also have some streams dedicated to playing with the community as well. Absolutely. So today, we've played Malina and Irmak a lot. And I don't think it's fair to the players who like other characters, even though we love our characters so much. Everybody has their main. But we also have characters we also like to play. Yes. I do enjoy playing Devorah and Blind Ducky tweeted, hey, let's see some Devorah. And absolutely, let's do it. And I'm a big... You're a big Bigs fan. I like big characters. Yes. So I, you know, from a Justice was Bane and Grundy and Moving on a Fair Tour. And Bane. I said Bane and Grundy. Oh, I thought you said Bane and Grundy. No, no, no. Okay. So we're trying this out. Yep. More of the belts. Do you want to wear the belt during this? No, it's going to get in my way. You're already losing. I like to go on record that I'm on Team Tyler for this one. Whoa! I really don't care what Ray says. That's nuts. Pete? Man. Don't mess this up. You sit across from me. Don't make the worst mistake ever. I will go Derek just because you switched your vote halfway through the match. I did. What's that about? I thank you for your vote. No, but no, take Derek. Bug ladies place. Never. Never. Now. What about you, Jen? Fight. Let's mess it up, Jen. Oh, man. Okay. And just follow her on Twitter. It's really cool for Deborah because she does like damage on time. It's a quick slap. How can she slap? Okay. Just like that, Tyler. It's just like that. Hey, can you put the belt a little closer? No. It is still my belt. I don't want to be a part of this. I'm sorry that you are. All right. Round two. Round two. Round two. What are you doing? I'm stepping the lock. No. Go Blanche. I didn't watch for the wake up, so. I did arm through it. Yes. Thank you. That's right. It's back. I want to thank everybody for, you know, keeping me happy this last week, telling me how happy they were. I had the belt. There was a lot of team we did like. I was really surprised. It was a really good week for me. This week will not be. No. No, no, no. Because my happiness is directly related to if I have the belt or if I do not. So, I'll take a picture of you so I can tweet it out of how happy you are. Oh, look at that face. I'm going to send that to your mantu. My mom is not a Twitter lover. So, again, thank you, Pete, for coming out and doing some commentary and showing us the characters. Ray, thank you very much. Thank you, Ray. Thank you. Well, that's great. What's the matter? Jim, thank you so much for helping out today. Thanks, Jim. Next Thursday, we have a big combat cast. It's going to be Jackie and Jack. We're going to show you the variations. Another big thing is we're going to play some games and have fun. And we're going to go over some online stuff, some new online features. It's going to be really good. Maybe we'll have a special guest. We don't know there could be anything, any guest in the building. We might have some people come out. We're also going to do some online stuff. We'll be embarrassing. So, guys, thank you so much for joining us today. Please come back next week. It's the final combat cast next week before MKX launches 12 days. There will be a next week. Is the championship of the stream. Like championship, championship. So, yeah. So, thank you, guys. We'll see you next time. Thank you. Thanks.