 Hello everyone, welcome to combat cast number three showdown Katana versus reptile team reptile baby a lot of trash talk on Twitter There has been a few I see I didn't spend as much time trash talking as you did because I actually wanted to learn my character Oh, oh, you're the babyface now. I really loves you now for saying that that's really cool. Correct I'm Tyler lands down on the special the community specialist at Netherrealm Studios beside me as always Derek Kurtzik. Hello. How are you doing? One of our designers? Yeah, hello stream. Hello stream We also have another special guest. We have two guests today to come we have Spira and Agnostacos Hey, hey, hey Spiro. Hey Spiro is in production here. That's correct And you're going to be talking through some we have some really awesome Concept art to show you of Katana and reptile and maybe I know Spiro Maybe an alt costume or two might be shown So that'd be kind of cool But first as we usually start we want to say that every single thing you see in the game is a work in progress Now, I know we're coming out very soon, but we are still working on everything making everything polish everything look good Damage isn't always going to be said Reactions aren't always going to be the same some of the setups that we might do may not exist when the game comes out So just have to see so if you're posting online and saying that's never gonna work You're insane A couple more things Derek we have a comic book we do as you may know There is a Mortal Kombat X comic book and this one came out yesterday Go to your comic book store pick it up They only had two left when I had my wife go get mine So we had to republish the entire first first ones. Yeah, because they're selling so well It's and obviously we're not talking a lot about story now But if you want to get ready to kind of know where we're going a good place to go is that is the comic book Yep, go pick go pick it up at your local store or download it digitally. I also you know, so we haven't done yet I want to really thank everyone for coming out to watch these like we had some really awesome numbers last time Yes, we're excited that you're excited to see the streams It's super exciting for us to be able to show you all of this and also we gained so many followers last time We like tripled. Yeah, which is great So thank you all for that if you do follow us on twitch You will get a notification every single time we go live So as we usually do take a few seconds if you haven't yet, we'll wait scroll down There you go push the button you pushing it. There you go. I think the last guy. He's waited. Okay. Thank you Thank you. Everyone has pushed the button good. We're good to go. Yeah. Um, so do you want to you want to get started? Um? We don't have to I think we probably okay. All right. Let's go ahead and just get right into it guys So Spiro. Yes, we are going to talk today because we are focusing our energies today on Katana and reptiles Amazing characters from Mortal Kombat who have been around for quite a while. Absolutely. So we kind of want I think a lot of the fans Would like to know sort of how you start And finish a character like where do they come from? Sure. Sure. So yeah, my name is Spiro Nagnostakos I'm the production manager here at another home studios and I work closely with our art director C Brand and a lot of the artists that are super talented and created and I was kind of Lucky enough to kind of be involved in the concept creation of our characters a little backstory about Spiro I'm a super nerd about seeing concept art and all the stuff that's coming out for the game I just love the art design. So Spiro is the guy. He'll be like, hey Tyler Come off for a second. And he'll show me like all the new concept art Which is like for a Mortal Kombat fan at a game fan. I love that you do that for me So Spiro is that guy who kind of funnels everything make sure everything's working shows everybody everything Super exciting to see the stuff that the guys can do and seeing all the different versions of each one of the iconic characters that you guys do is it's so exciting and What's the final ones that get selected are is? I Usually know I usually know so I guess a good good place to start is when you have an artist and you say hey You're gonna work on reptile. Sure. What information will you give them? Do you have a place you wanted to go or things like that? Well, I mean we take kind of varied approaches to it for some of the characters Obviously, they just sit in the franchise since the very beginning So not a lot of background is really needed for them Unless of course somehow story relates to the way they they look or the direction of the characters You know and other instances we'd like to kind of give our like I mentioned our talented crew here Just kind of free reign to kind of come up with a lot of different variations And just kind of explore the designs and see what they can come up with Colors will throw things out that you're like we never thought of that and that is perfect Those happy accidents are awesome and one question I mean one statement you'll probably hear from us a lot today is a lot of things will be like well That has a lot to do with story and we're talking about sure So there will be a little bit of that but the story stuff is coming really soon And we started showing that yes common soon anything so yeah very much so so what's the usual process like start finish What do you do sure? So we first start off with what we call our speeds and they're just that really they're just very quick sketches to kind of Flush out some kind of broad stroke design elements And a silhouette that sort of thing from that point. I think we take We kind of narrowed down to the few that we feel kind of fit the character best And at that time we kind of let the the artists hammer on like details and stuff like that So it almost kind of works like a pyramid like you'll have 12 reptiles they go down to eight reptiles and eventually you get down to the two or three or four We choose and then you find the one right and then you find the main right here like this is it This is who reptiles should be this is who guitar should be and then at that point We introduce just like the color and the materials and all that and we go to kind of like a final polish awesome Have there been challenges in in making some of the characters I mean we always want to create like new and extravagant things with our characters But you know with especially more combat x and the x-ray and fatality tech that's behind it There's kind of always some kind of limitations So instead of kind of trying to go with this Elaborate style we decided to kind of focus like I mentioned earlier the materials So you'll see a lot of characters with stone and metal and leather And that's kind of been the focus of like this next gen is kind of this realistic kind of look Well, yeah, even look at the new the like our reptile character. We have now he has he has the bone V He has leather arms. There's all these different types of material, which is really neat to see for us Yeah, a lot of our characters are so varied that they have to have different kinds of cloth Absolutely, and it's just one of the things of next gen and what we can do now is really push this kind of stuff Another question This is maybe on your side as well. So sometimes obviously gameplay will Tell you or inform you of what you kind of have to do in different directions on a character Especially with like the variation system right like scorpion we have a skull on his belt And you guys kind of have to figure out how to make that work, right? So we've introduced all these visuals just to make sure the players can figure out and easily see what variation that they're in and we Need to make sure that these very these visuals work across all various skins So it sometimes is a challenge like oh, man, we can't use that because of this or there's a prop that's supposed to go Here we can't do that and it's but it's fun. It's it's it's what makes so you wouldn't have put like a neon pink skull on Scorpion you never know. Oh, okay. All right. All right, all right, all it's game guys Let's I think that's probably a good time to maybe look at some of the concepts we have for Reptile and guitar. Yeah, it's rolling so first up let's uh Yeah, so this is some earlier stuff that we saw from Kitana and as you can see it ranges from Something very modern on the right-hand side to potentially even something very Intricate and more delicate even a new look for her where she's hooded And then we have something kind of in the middle. That's more traditional I guess what you'd think Kitana would look like Right, would these be the boat you would call with the bad day of speed that would be probably the speed Okay, and how long on average does it take person to do like a speed drive? It really varies and they're just supposed to be quick iterations It's nothing that we're really supposed to spend too much time on That's what this next step kind of shows us is just the more detailed intricate line drawings that our artists can do So now you've kind of found silhouettes almost and now you're kind of narrowing it down into where you really want to be sure Yeah, absolutely We got next here Okay, so yeah, this is interesting because we also decided to take a look at her dot the dark side of Kitana So on the right hand side, you'll see some kind of more regal looking kind of costumes And on the left maybe even something a bit more aggressive, right? So you see a lot of like metals and again more like ripped and torn Tattered clothing. So again just different approaches different looks gotcha Now here is something very interesting. That's super special spirit. Would you like would you like to make the announcement? Yeah, so absolutely. This is a Kitana's second outfit her alt pal our alt uniform Which is kind of a throwback or at least inspired by a lot of the MK9 stuff that she wore It's a war of a traditional look for her definitely So you see a lot of the cloth and like the long loin that she has very traditional, but yeah, super excited that This one made it into the game. It's it looks really good And then we're gonna move into sort of like you know from the bottom to the top we end up with That's right here. Yeah, this is as we know Kitana here the final concept And as you can see we have a front and a back and the reason obviously why we do that is because these concepts are given to Our character artists who then need to go in and digitally sculpt all these details into the model. Okay No, I'll have to say that in comparison to this game to The last Mortal Kombat the the females seem to be a little more toned down Absolutely, I mean the mantra from this game has kind of always been realism and you know heading towards a more realistic look So, you know same thing kind of applies to the proportions or you try to kind of bring things back in per se To where they should be Women looking more like women do exactly a little less. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna use words, you know I think we're ready to move on to some of reptiles early stuff and sort of where we started there Yeah, so this is a great example of you know, just exploring different looks for reptile And in this particular instance, you will see that he's taken a more of an amphibian and amphibian look We even added a tail. We thought about doing that You know, I mean that stuff starts becoming more complex. So it goes back to what I was saying again earlier There has to be some kind of give and take right especially with gameplay to introducing a tail You know, that's gonna open a bunch of different doors as well. Sure In this particular image, we're seeing a lot of like a take on the more ninja side of Reptile, which is obviously where he's where he originates from Well, they all mean they all it's so funny It's interesting because you look at the early versions of Mortal Kombat and reptile was just a palette swap Yeah, until you get in the higher levels of tech. You're not able to give him that sort of personality that is Lizard almost and we can do that now and really define who they are. So it's it's been it's been great doing so Yeah, I really like the the one that looks kind of like a cobra or it's got the cobra hood. Yeah, it's awesome So here again as we we get into a more detailed versions of the characters that we like or feel more fitting for reptile You'll see stuff on the right hand side of this image where he's kind of has more of an aquatic feel or You know a little bit more armor potentially than than you'd like Because again gameplay you wouldn't I guess think reptile would be so Barked down and you know, right? He's really agile So I mean you got to make sure that there's not too much armor on him and things like that nimble nimble awesome And the next one's kind of more of the just flesh iterations of yeah, absolutely You know out of this here. We felt like the one on the far left Would probably be a better fit the others like we said a little too bulky We need them to be we need them to be fast and we may see that one on the left a little bit later Yeah, so this last step here is again characters. We felt strong enough that we would like to take them to color Again just more iterations. It's it's a constant evolving and iterative process It's not like you know, you sketch one image and that ends up being the final The final right as a big collaboration between everybody to kind of pick what they like and sure Yeah, here's some more kind of Versions of the character right and now Yeah, so this is what we know as the this is reptile as we know him right now. Absolutely. So, you know We felt for this particular skin that we really wanted to kind of go back to like the rawness of Who he is so you'll see a lot of the bone and rock and stone and and you know It just it's just so fitting because you get both of the reptile side and I guess the kind of ninja See that's what I wanted to talk about because you had talked to me We've kind of gone through some of this yesterday and you had mentioned like the the V almost Using the rock is kind of harkens back to his ninja garb. Absolutely. It just kind of gives a touch of what that was Absolutely, which is awesome. Yeah, and Spiro. This is the first time. I think in Combat cast history. Yeah, you're doing two reveals. You already did the katana alt. Yes, what do we have here? Well, this is the other all for reptile This one I'm not going to really say too much about because it kind of relates to story Oh, you'll be seeing more of this version for sure. Awesome a lot more stripped down not as much bone And yeah, we're not going to say anything more. Yes, the more I say the more I get in trouble So anyway, that is sort of I guess how cut characters come to life Yeah, and it's like I said, it's an extremely exciting process. I love being a part of it and Try to make some cool stuff for you guys and it doesn't take seven minutes like that just a little bit longer Now if you look at the screen now, we do have some we have our Mortal Kombat Facebook page You can join a nether realms Twitter follow that to catch up on all the streams got Derrick's Twitter there Oh, I left my Twitter off because you're an idiot by accident at Tyler Lansdown and this is big news Spiro Has Twitter now. How many followers 13? 13 followers now by the time you get back to your desk, you will have 14 you will have 14 or 15 followers So Spiro, thank you so much for coming out. Thanks, man. I was happy to be able to learn and pronounce your last name Yeah, thank you and thanks for the tips on that yesterday Yeah, thank you for showing us from how the character goes from being on paper to in game Like you don't always get to see that and thank you very much I think people are really interested in seeing how the art works. So everybody that's Spiro That's him on Twitter. We'll be right back in about 10 seconds with another guest Booyah I hope you enjoyed our commercial break with no Never had him never will right here. We have mr. Michael Bell potting one of our designers here. Yes. Hello Michael. Hi Derrick Yes, though each other That's crazy Michael tell us just little bullet points about you. I've been at the studio for about I don't want to say seven months now So not very long. I think of the newest member of the design kind of like a noob. I knew one could use that word I wouldn't One could what I were you? And I've been in the industry for a long time. This is my first fighting game to work. I'm excited You do have a bunch of fighting game background. Oh, yeah Somebody's been passionate about it for a long time awesome. So we are glad to have you on the Mortal Kombat team We talk MK a lot and watch a lot of the stuff you're doing Which I can't talk about now. Yeah, so we are going to go through now Katanas we're gonna start with Katana, of course go through her variations We're gonna move on to reptile Michael is here to kind of fill in some of the blanks about how they work And as usual we're gonna go to them and not talk through their interest great We will try not to talk through their intros Okay We got a little time. We got a bit of a low skin. Let's do it on the do snow for us That's all you buddy. That is all me. All right my bad everybody and it's actually the dead woods. Thank you Oh, thank you. Like we said before not everything is final. No, no living forest dead wood makes sense. Yeah, there we go No All right now Let's go ahead and start with Like we've talked about before every single Mortal Kombat character You still have that flavor that's always been there with characters and each variation adds a little touch to it So let's talk about the stuff they share with it. Exactly. So Common moves with Katana are probably most signature movies. The series are phantoms. There we go. Yeah That one's really effective EX version you get to double phantoms And you can also do an air version of that The air version is one of her core moves especially for combos because it spends characters in the air for a while Absolutely. Yeah, it's kind of classic Combo building right if you will. You also got your fan lift Big combo starter for Katana. Yeah, exactly, you know It's visually changed too from like the MK9 and the classic fan lift actually looks more like a tornado Yeah, I really like the style of that. Yeah, so that one's really effective We're we are in Royal Storm. Royal Storm right now. Yeah, that one actually has a little bit different variation Exactly, but it's this one will look a little bit different if you see and like we talked with Spiro as well When it comes to telling characters apart this version has the glowing sticks in her hair and that's maskless. Yeah Let's go through some other shared moves. She's got her. She's got her. Oh, we got the That move is deceptively complex and really useful because not only can you use it to dodge projectiles when you're across the screen from someone But you can also follow up with hacks afterwards. So you can do things like jump in so I can do like yeah Exactly, or you know, you can attack and then throw and then attack if there's a ton of possibilities So yeah, it definitely can kind of trick the opponent into thinking you're going to land You don't land exactly exactly. So yeah, a lot of utility in that one. We also have the Yeah, that move is very tight air. You can meter burner force to get the you know extra dana down as well I like to use it when I get knocked down. I like to use it. Good way to attack. Yeah Sorry about that. So I make sure everybody saw is actually yeah. Yeah. So this is what happens. Yeah This is one of your contribution. Well, you know, I didn't have much to say there for a second So I just impose that. Oh, let me mention something real quickly before I forget all that concept art You just saw on the stream if you look at Netherrealms Twitter right now Our community manager Rigo has put up a link to our tumblr page so you can tear apart the stuff even more Which we're excited about There's one more that's new a little new we got a oh, yeah, the first slice. Yeah, that moves really fast It's a really good combo. Yeah, you can either burn for a little bit more damage Yeah, it's that was a good all-around like, you know, I'm finishing off our juggle I want to threaten space kind of a mid-screen. It comes out so fast that you kind of always have to watch So yeah, you can definitely like I like to use the enders and such like this Which I missed so what I don't show off all your goods. Sorry But we also talk, you know those who don't play fighting games a lot There's a there's a term we use called footsies and footsies is kind of a way to always be sort of like in the range Where your best move is right near them. So this move her That that this move right there is great and you're just at mid-screen trying to fake him out a little bit If you can predict where they're gonna be that's a very dangerous move You can throw and they're trying to back dash on you. You can easily catch there Lot of utility for that move now. Let's kind of go into row storms Differences. Yeah, well some is probably my favorite trait of all three of hers, which I think is funny because oh, yeah Everyone's always like, oh, well, they'll just be one trait everybody likes. Yeah, absolutely untrue Because you're like you like a real story. You like one of the other one My favorite is assassin like that because that's sort of how I like to play Although I've found match-ups where I like using her on the store. Exactly So it's I think the reason I like this one so much. It has so much utility And there's all of her new moves in this one kind of have a lot of really different functions And so I guess the first one you can show is the new family. So that one has additional range Right. I can get regular. I can get about mid-screen. Mm-hmm, but if I'm full screen Exit. Yeah, it is a full screen and then from across the screen. You can be throwing fans and air fans follow-up on combos all sorts of options That's super effective. Then you have the square wave, right? Yeah, square wave Great for getting in or also getting away. Yep I say this this version of her has the most airborne moves. Yeah, the flow. She's got the square wave in the air She's got the fan cause in the lock combos that way. I would say this move really controls the controls everything above you Exactly. She's very threatening if you jump. You don't necessarily want to jump mindlessly. She also has this which Derek, I believe I picked a character without a projectile. We can kind of... Don't worry. We'll see it later. This is one of the best reflects I've ever seen in a fighting game. Yeah, so you guys should hold it down So if like you were talking earlier to me about Cassie Cage. Yeah, Cassie Cage has EX gunshot moves Has multiple projectiles. You don't just reflect one. You can reflect all three back. You keep holding it or timing correctly and Yeah, it's any character that is throwing multiple attacks at you that are projectiles. You can be incredibly dangerous So it's across the screen. So this whole build could be kind of effective as a zoning build, right? If you're, you know, throwing different kinds of projectiles out and Bouncing stuff back. I like to use it as like an anti-zoning build. So if someone's trying to just stay away from me Build you mean variation. Yeah Yeah, so I can use a variation this variation to say no, you can't just stay away from me and then I'm controlling the game Excellent. Yeah, let's move on to the next one. Oh and as you can see in the corner. We have Goro We are not going to select him today. I know that will disappoint some people Oh, we at least put him on screen for you. We did. There is his character. Yeah We'll be showing Goro really soon. I get I get so many tweets about Goro. Hashtag punch mark hashtag Yeah So we won't do the things you need to do in a fighting game, but you can do them together punch and walk. Yeah Genius. Let's go to let's do some outworld marketplace for this Now this is a what this is the one that I actually as you know for the Twitter if you've been following me and Derrick's Beef I've been doing a lot of practicing. I stay late practice. I've been practicing a lot with the assassin very You mean you wasted a lot of time. No, I do my work during the day and I stay late to practice. Okay So, thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. So the assassin now we got some You did not see the face Eventually people are gonna have to be able to occasionally that I will keep talking. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I know right So this one the visual indicator as she has some black again across her eyes, and she has a mask on I love the look it's it's sort of it's it's dark very assassinate very assassinate a tough word to spell So this we add a couple neat things. She has a Perry Which you can hold down. Yeah, that's not a projectile Perry like no It also like if you if you'll do a low she won't hit that Yeah, exactly. So you have to you have to read your opponent really well You have to kind of know what's coming, but if you can predict that move is a great way to limit Someone who's just throwing stuff out willy-nilly because you know, there's a lot of people out there Love puts a lot of buttons get on top of you really quick now and you throw that out there They're gonna start thinking twice about exactly wake up option a couple things which let's show sharpen real quick Yeah, sharpen gives you additional damage On your fans on your all of your fan-based attacks. That's it. It's time-based. Yes, exactly And also additional property once we show the next right So I'm gonna do right now my the thing that makes me really love the assassin variations Kind of one of my favorite moves in the game. I just say and like let's say you're there she can run Hit him right in the head So if they if they with a move full screen or you duck something it's so fast that it can really punish your opponents in that way I'm gonna take out your eyes real quick every single time, but in conjunction with sharpens Now when you do this, you don't need a bar of meter to do that Yeah, normally usually I should have shown that first. Yeah, so this is the meter reversion right here. Yeah, or EX While your blades are sharpened You don't get that for free it's for free and you can also do things like as you finish a combo Instead of netting a damage you can actually do a sharpen as your last one thing. I love to do is after this I generally will get since he's down for long. I need a sharpen So you gotta really take your time. It takes time to do So that those are her variations. They really change up the way she plays. Yeah, this one She's can be very rushed down. You can use that assassinate move to kind of push someone across the screen If we're just kind of doing something stupid out there You can also probably net the most damage So yeah, if you're offensive you want to get big damaging combos You want to keep the pressure of this right and the EX version also has armor on it when it first on start up too Yeah, if you're trying to get through like a projection, I don't know what's not just the EX run right through Absolutely, I think we got one more to show. Yep showing off the swaggy combos. It's not that swaggy, but Yeah Now we've got a lot of tweets Real quick. I just got to say something We're doing something. We know we've never really done before we're doing a character unreveal We're taking there be we're gonna tell you a character now that will not show up in the game Can't say anything about that. I mean, I mean did yeah, you just did so maybe maybe not Jade will not be in Mortal Kombat X. We have a moment of silence I Think we're good there So the mournful variation takes special attacks from Jade and Kitana uses them It's because you know, she's she's sad She has lost her friend and now she's taken up her mantle and uses her weapons to kind of help her live on yeah, so really Jade's spirits in the game. Yep, and right here in my heart. Right my heart So maybe I didn't be revealed at all. Yeah, I mean, but she's not that's how you start it Yeah, right Yes That's now So here she has Some jade-esque moves now. Yeah, we talked about the fans. Yeah, exactly. We said she had some projectile variations This one uses the glaive And you can throw that straight you can also tilt the move up and down Right and get and hit the targets above the targets So you can throw that low for that high But you can also do an airborne version as well So you can kind of you control space a little bit differently. You don't have as much horizontal control But you control a significant portion of the screen with that Airplay right you also have a very effective Version of that in the meterboard version that is active for a really long time They Right back to you exactly So far away you can get combos when they will be closer people to deal with that for a long time It's on the screen for a long time So great way to control space and keep the person locked down that you're trying to basically that a lot of the same property It's jade from MP9. So if you were familiar with her MP9 There's not a lot of differences here. Yeah, and the air version of that also has the boomerang effect Which is I think also story Yeah, I don't have meter right now. It's a dual trick here. There we go Buttons Not That's down to knock. I'm not very good at that either. Yeah, you learned that I'm not either We also have We have this. Yeah, that the grab from her step. Oh, what's that called a grab from the walk? Oh, there we go We want to show off everything Even the x-ray When you least expect it my bad everybody So that's a really good another good combo in dirt you also. Yeah, yeah She also has a shadow kick here, which is also Pressure up now. So if you're a fan of jade and some of her playstyle There we go, so that is those are all the sort of variations of katana You'll be seeing them a little bit later because Derek and I have our battle coming very soon I'm excited before then though. We'd like to go and show you some Reptiles some red. Yeah, you're gonna do some of the talking. Yeah. Yeah a little team reptile here. So We'll start off with The deceptive version of reptile, but of course we're gonna go through all of his common moves that are shared Each variation you gotta pick the level there sure will this one sans mask Yes, yes, yes, we're just not even talking anymore. Yeah, it's the glare of Jen So, let me tell you about my day All right, it's worse when you talk about not talking great. You're not supposed to talk That was that was hard. All right, so with reptile You'll notice a lot of his Returning moves. He's got the force ball which he has a fast one and he has He also which is pretty pretty cool with this is Sorry He's got the slide when he's returning and he has an EX slide which is a lot faster full screen and has armor He's got his spit, of course that returns But he can EX it and make actually a pool of Assets it which does like damage over time while you're in it He has a new overhead claw and the return of the dash the the zippy speedy run, right? He also has that other and he also has That yeah He has that across all variations And what's also great about it is the EX versions Stay back, so I don't do like an x-ray accident All right, there we go is EX versions do pop up so you can extend the combos off of those as well. So you can do Follow-up with slide or whatnot But regardless is that he can pretty much add that two and one into almost anything near burn it and Not do a really useful a lot of his pokes and things like right and then You can actually stop the ball that Tyler just walked in sorry to create a just cage your opponent, right? What are you gonna do Tyler? What are you gonna do? Jump oh, yeah, that's what he's gonna do And that's that's across all variations and then he actually has EX versions of each one of them So I'm so bad ball on this and the slow ball is super slow, right? Awesome, yeah, and so that's pretty much a lot of his common moves what's great about reptile is his Combos for the most part don't change across all variations So if you learn his main combo strings it carries over across all variations and his main change What you want to utilize so with deceptive He can oh, no, I can't do it Yes, right button So if you hold the button down He'll go completely invisible if you just do the the normal attack You'll actually just see like the silhouette of him just like that And if you hold it down, he'll go completely invisible or if you do the EX version He'll go invisible And then it's where am I Tyler where am I you are? And so well should I know we'll wait till later you want to be able to do later I will I'm pretty sure I will so that's basically what he has for deceptive. All right, so we'll move on to What I like to call the stinky variation And you'll notice even on the players like that he has a gas clouds around him the little bugs Little quick meal if he gets hungry during battle. Just always traveling with food always food Because the reptilian Boy Scout always prepared. Mm-hmm. All right So now you'll notice that he has this gas around him as you're standing right next to me you're taking damage instantly Right, so if I'm doing combos and you're close to me or I do a throw You're gonna take that additional damage just because of this variation never goes away never goes away, right? He's always get Then of course he you can do That a normal command for which creates a larger cloud that does more damage and you can do All right, EX version, which is like his entire body is a giant watch the health bar So if you like you knock me down stand above me with that going Or get you into a corner and just do some corner combo is like and that stacks on top of the the acid pool So what can be getting damage? You know Time with additional damage over time double the damage double the fun. Yeah double very dangerous in the corner Yes, definitely. So that that's the main difference for this variation Mm-hmm because he has so many special moves that carry all variations, right? And so many of them launch it set up combos and so many options. So let's go up to our final variation It's actually something I like about him if you are a little intimidated by the all the variations that these characters have It's like, oh, I'm gonna learn combos for each one tells a good character. So I'm gonna learn this one character I'm gonna have a stable Tools that I have access to they will but what character is the same and I can still you know get really Exactly And you'll notice that I have a nice little snake belt I like to dress up in my nimble stance or variation Hashtag snake belt has tags. Does that already exist? They're snake First I test your strength. I know your weaknesses And reptile want to work together interesting interesting thing. I just have in there. So with the nimble This is I'm gonna say is probably my favorite one Is Just oh no Here I am naturally just dropping Yeah, so he can continue bouncing you about the right break and he gets faster The opponent gets slower. It's like he's using his heightened agility and enhanced senses to control the battle Yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah. Yeah, exactly So with that naturally you can do a whole bunch of different setups and combos that normally would not connect Yeah, and that variation and when you have that active will yeah, that was it like for example Yeah, that guy so that one normally can't combo off of it But if you have the heightens agility You can actually, you know, continue a combo off of that So that that for the most part is the main differences in each of reptiles variations I gave kind of the accelerated versions there sure I know and you know, I'll play very differently. Yes, you know, there'll be some that might be tech to technical Some some that are easy for others It's a very there's a lot of variation there for how you play as a player or even your skill level Like I think reptiles a character that can be played by a lot of players regardless of skill level But for some reason you didn't want to play that's why I chose guitar because that 16-bit was my teacher Okay, I wanted to learn it from him And you learned you're fine. We want to take a little time now if we could answer a few questions From the stream People I mean we took some questions on Twitter Now I know that everyone they tweet us all the time I want to know this and this and this and there's just a lot of things we can't talk about and I Hate disappointing you guys without me going to answer questions, but there's a lot of stuff We can't say yet, but the game is coming out in two months. Yeah, it's all coming anything. We don't answer We'll be on disc. Yeah, you'll see it. So a couple things. We had a question from a Emile Fruin At Emile Fruin on Twitter. Is there an enhanced grab? Yes, I was gonna say yes. Is this a trick question? It doesn't enhance the grab as much is what it does we can show the game screen real quick if we are already cool You can actually leave your opponent standing to be able to be able to do 50-50 now 50-50 in a fighting game If you don't know is making the choice to go with an overhead attack or a low attack So but it costs a bar of meter though to restand your opponent like that, right? But you can you can grab your opponent out of a combo and put him into a standing 50-50 like that So that's awesome. But again, it's not free. No, no, everything has a price It has a bar of meter and even if you use that meter the person guesses, right? You lost a bar of meter, right? so Another question from one of our old friends more current friends 995 Phil. Oh, yeah. Have you considered a watch mode for stream online tournaments? Now we're not gonna say a lot about all that sort of stuff But I will say that that and several other kind of quality of life online things are in the works and are in the game So those of you who want to do a king of the hill and stream it Maybe there'll be ways to get around some things. So not gonna say a lot about it right now But there are things in the works. Well, I mean, they're kind of done We're all pretty much That's that's kind of all the questions right now. I know we didn't answer a whole bunch today We'll definitely start answering more questions as we get closer to the game like and I know there's a ton of questions about story Real quick, let's do a we've tried to do this every once in a while. We've got everybody to put in this build a new Stage for a background break down Haven't shown this one yet. Let's pick. I'll just pick this where we're gonna fight, but we're gonna fight real soon Yes That belt is mine go ahead and pick right in there. I am I'm just Okay, the new stage is called the crossroads Does it have a role to play in story mode? Who knows maybe maybe not? I think she just flicked him off look like it. That is rude. Mm-hmm. That's her dad's side. I'll tell you what Help me conjure green energy. Okay You have not your father's gift Just for that I just want to throw this body over here. Okay, I mean don't talk to the Thunder God like that As you'll notice there is a body that you can rip off of this giant pillar and throw at your opponent You can see the stage goes way back to the back. It's just kind of a giant It really is like the depth of field in this is pretty amazing. There's something floating back there There is Yeah, then we got foods for traversal here in the middle and of course if you're stuck in the corner Booyah, there we go out of it. Have a hellscape. We have a hellscape. Yes. Yes Got some good lava pits skull scattering across the ground. I mean So this is one of the new stages of Mortal Kombat X which we know you'll be seeing a lot more Yes, we keep adding new stages to show you mean they're all hidden away right now But every week we're gonna try to show her every other week where we're however often we do these We're gonna try to show you a new stage and there's a lot of bodies just hanging everywhere hanging around. Oh my goodness I love the lighting in this little bit. You really see the lighting, you know react off of the characters The teams were really hard on how they're lighting these things. They look really real. It's nice I you know what Derek? I think it's time Is it time? It's time. Michael. Can you hand me my belt? Oh your belt? Have you been in this belt yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I was about last week. All right, you gotta stay on top of your game Just want to put it on real quick. There it is That feels right. That feels right. All right. So does that actually get in the way when you're playing? It doesn't matter. I hope it does. I love it So we're now going to have the katana versus reptile feud we've been talking about it's the best of three One of our employees John one of the guys who works here one of the Producers John Anderson. Yes, put five dollars on our stream table Well, originally he said it was he was putting it on me to win, but then told you a different story Oh, that's a great way to win five dollars either way And Tyler and I normally play matches throughout the week and we have Intentionally not play these two characters until right now. So one of two things will happen We're gonna do awesome and make them look really good or we're gonna drop a lot of combos I get so many tweets like can you get somebody who doesn't drop combos? I'm like, no, yeah, we could man But I'm gonna do yeah So hopefully I get realistic experience. Yeah, I'm sure the people who are tweeting me drop a few combos No, no, no one ever never just the only person drops combos. I never drop combos. I could show you but oh, why right? Yeah, so here's the five dollars. I'm going to get can you hold this place? So much build up is a real money match. Yeah five dollars now Let's fight in destroy city straight city sounds good I'm actually really excited about this because we have no idea what's gonna happen. No not at all Earlier this week. Oh, they all think he's gonna be me now. Yeah, well, I mean they're probably all right And you know he isn't designed. No, thank you. I like making it We are no longer friends And you saw it coming see that variation really good for kind of walking down a lot of the options Oh, you never showed the I Give yourself more help. No Now he's trying to beat you you're you're pushing the time limit on that sure one that reflects out thinking your fingers All of us are captivated. I am $2 and 50 cents closer to winning or That's not how it works. Can I get the $5 build now? Oh, man gruesome Did you want to pick a different one or you just want to go with this Go back to assassin. Yeah, it's always the tough challenges Play the matchup or do you play yourself? I don't I'm yeah, I thought I was gonna win that I did really well Yeah, go for it. I have to root for design. Thank you. Also. I want to keep it competitive, you know I like to see I like a close match. Do you have to root for your design? Yeah? Yeah, you really don't have a choice scoot over. No We get to see that little reptile Tongue poke. Oh, man You got to convert though. You're officially has a tactic. Be careful with that assassin guy Branch not blanching right you gotta be careful being up on them though. That's not a thousand damage Just you pressure on now. You got to keep your distance. Who is this going to now? Stay in the design department. That's right. What's that? I think you played very well I let me be honest. I didn't think Derek had practiced very much and by watching him It didn't look like he did A lot of spammy yeah, whatever doesn't matter. I'm not mad. I'm not salty at all. Do you want the five dollars? Nah, I think it's not really a lot of you want to touch the belt. You don't touch the belt That's my belt. You give him five dollars. You wouldn't let him touch the belt. Correct. Yeah, well, it's for winners I see where the priority. I think that might be the end of showdown Katana verse reptile. I was Yeah, you were into you trained with with 16 bit. Do you think he's like just popped off at like his desk? He's mad at me right? Yeah, I know he is and PPJ did amazing training We spent a good five minutes together and we came out with a big old W. There will be another showdown And it will be excellent. Yeah, we can't say anything more than all right. We get to play our character So let's thank everybody. Jen. Thank you again for using the old stream box there. Thanks, Jen Michael thanks for coming back. Of course. Thanks for talking to three characters. It's awesome. Thanks Derek for beating me again. Yeah, oh That's awesome. Oh man We do have another stream coming up really soon probably sooner than you think can't give you a date right now But let me tell you this it's going to be brutal