 Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the combat cast. What number is it like eight something like that? There's been quite a few of them. I am Tyler Lantdown community specialist here at Netherrealm Studios And I am Derek one of the designers here in Netherrealm. We're very excited about today's stream again like the last year We all seem to really enjoy that one Yeah, so we have a pretty packed stream for you today with a lot of information and a lot of really cool stuff I think you guys are going to enjoy. Yes So let's introduce one more person who's very important to the process of making a stream. That's Jen at the control tower Jen Could happen without her you always woot-woot over her saying hi. Oh, let's do it again. Okay, you know really important We got somebody helping out with the stream Jen at the command tower So we are very excited The whole studio is kind of buzzing the game is coming up so soon We're so ready for you guys to see it So we'd like to come here and give you a chance to see some stuff that you'll be playing and how long they're 18 days 18 days. We're very excited. We have a ton of new information for you today. We're gonna give you some character breakdowns We thought about giving you one character breakdown But that wasn't enough. No, and we thought about giving you two still not enough And then we thought about giving you seven little too many far too many little too many So we're gonna go with three. Yes three character breakdowns for you. Yeah, we have some fatalities Maybe a new fatality. You'll see we have we're maybe discuss some faction stuff. Yes some special guests We have four guests today. We are packed. So very excited about it Again like we always ask you to we love you watching our streams We love you coming out here every time to find out what's new in the MKX world So you could just take a second real quick and go down and hit the follow button on twitch So every time we stream you'll be notified and like I've said before After launch we will be streaming at random times. Yeah, um, I mean we'll be definitely playing with the community So please come and beat up Tyler as we all do And enjoy hanging out with us. Yeah, we'll definitely you know when the DLC comes could we've already announced all of that? Of course, Jason trimmer Tonya Predator there it is. So once those come out will always do variations of those but at the same time Anytime imaginable. We could come on stream and play against you guys. Bam. Here. Yeah. Um, so that's very exciting So I hope you click follow. We want to kind of get started here really shortly with what we have to show you Excited Obviously you guys kind of have an idea where we're gonna go with this but we're gonna make you wait for just a little bit Please get mad at me in the stream chat. I'm sure you are and that's fine We do have something cool to show you right now Um, as you know with there's a thing called WB play and if you sign up for that You're able to kind of follow your stats more easily Link different games to different games things like that. Yes Here's the deal if you've already signed up for WB play, which I'm sure a lot of you have through injustice Yes, we will have a skin ready for you day one Which is a new rain skin that we'll show you in one second Also, if you haven't signed up now's a perfect chance to go look You know look up WB play sign up for it get ready for it because day one you're gonna get this costume That's right What you're looking at ladies and gentlemen is a beautiful future Raiden skin that will be available Only to people using the WB play So please set up your account so you can get this great skin day one And Before we get started and show you anything big we have a special guest And maybe another special guest We got a big one here today. That's gonna be gift. Is that good? You want to do it again? You can do it so we can edit it and make it better for oh no, we're live Yeah, we're live. Oh So yeah, yeah, you know I should mention that to you earlier that happens. We have two great guests today Well for great guests, but this is the first two to work the greater guests. I don't want to create anybody I hope you're not watching yeah, probably not rich Carl Dan Ford and go ahead and introduce yourself You know I already did yeah, my name is rich Carl, and I'm the director of audio here at Netherrealm studio awesome And I'm Dan Ford and I'm also an audio director here at Netherrealm working on mortal combat And for the four people who don't know what Dan did in the camera was of course toast He so I know it's been a part of your life for a long time So we're of course excited to have you both here to discuss sound I get a whole bunch of tweets I'm sure you do too about how awesome the game sounds and we thought yeah, it does So we're just gonna kind of go through a few things and discuss we got a couple cool videos to show Maybe a new fatality that you guys can kind of explain of sound works, but we'll get to that in a second first question just to start We always talk about how the sound is one of those things where you it's so good You almost forget it's there because it makes the characters real it makes them feel like real people environments real and such like that What is is there anything that's integral to the sound that you guys have put in this game? That the fans may not notice but makes the game what it is I think it has a lot to do with a lot of the little sounds and there are things that we put in there that if they weren't there You would you would notice it and it wouldn't feel as real or you would be harder to connect with So I mean just little things like footsteps cloth rustle the whooshes the vocalizations They all kind of add up to give you the the full picture the more human picture of what's actually going on in With the interactions in the game One thing also is that the impact sounds to the impacts of heavier hits versus lighter hits and things like that I mean it really does sell the power of each one of the characters as well Yeah, we spend some time trying to figure out case this impact a bigger one or a small one or Actually, it's no small Medium large and huge right right so yeah and just to figure out based on the animation and the action that's going on What's the most appropriate thing to try to give a sense of proportionality? cool Is there something that like because you know every time like you know starting with every game you work with I'm sure there's one thing You're like I'm so glad we got that into this game. I'm so glad that this is happening Is there something you guys each one of you you can take the several if you'd like Did you just kind of proud of just like wow I'm glad we were able to do that So many things so many things to be proud of one feature that comes to mind for this game in particular that we haven't done before is We've added an additional level of Dynamic range control for the player. We call it the audio experience The player whether you're playing on a television set or you're playing your you've got your TV hooked up to a stereo system Watch or you've got your TV hooked up to a home theater system Which is how the sound department recommends you play for the best experience You know but each one of those just you can quickly customize it and get your sound to sound as good as it possibly can On whatever speaker system you have so I'm excited for the players to cool Just more like this this game about the world kind of is kind of all about choice for the character We're starting with variations all the way into sound so they can choose how they want world cover to play from start to finish Right anything you're proud of one thing we've we've done this before but kind of took a little step further is is wherever possible where there's a Projectile or some sort of weapon or even the characters when they move across the screen We try to make sure that the sounds actually move with them. So it gives you a more interactive stereo spectrum and certain characters like Takeda and Shinok some of their weapons were able to I was able to attach the sound to the weapon so that it's flying across the screen and Through the stereo spectrum as we're playing it which is really cool And like you know Takeda like you said like has those whiffs that pretty much travel full screen So you'll actually hear them start right and finish to the end right which is really neat You know to just kind of segue into something different You guys are known for to you help make the music you write the music for Mortal Kombat And I think you know that's always been kind of an iconic part of Mortal Kombat just the feel of the music Can you just kind of just talk a little bit about what it takes to create music for a game like Mortal Kombat? Who plays the cowbell? Oh Yeah Yeah, yeah, well, you know one of the things we're excited for with this game is we have different Music for each round so for every level instead of just having level music. We have Round music so every level has three rounds and beyond that there are little bits and pieces of Music that may get smoother to go into an x-ray and come out of an x-ray is smoother to end a particular round So there are all these like for every level. There are probably 13 or 14 little tiny segments of music right that song We cut to like Interactively to provide like most yeah And I've noticed when Tyler and I'll play if it does go into the three rounds of a fight Like even yeah, which is rare gets even more intense during that third round, which is awesome for the play Yeah, yeah, and you also you've we talked about this earlier too when we're kind of prepping is that you like you'll look at a Stage and create a custom soundtrack for the stage itself Yeah, we try to get a sense of the environment where where people are going to be fighting And you know one thing I try to I thought it would be kind of neat was in the emperors courtyard To try a bamboo flute as an instrument in that in that first one, you know with the whole sort of Aztec Mayan or Aztec Religion just something to sort of conjure up that that mood Figured that might be a nice. Oh, it's really well captured. Yeah I would say that that's the first time that bamboo flutes have been mentioned on any sort of more combat combat cast So thank you for that That's really good And you know, I think one of the big things we kind of want to get to which is really important is just our custom I guess you call it gore Yeah, the sound effects are really like, you know, probably the most important part because they follow the action They they're really tightly created crafted to the VFX to the animations and you know, Dan places them in so We have two guys on our team Eric Wiedemeyer and Steven Schapler who have created every single Labored over these guys to make the traits sound different to make each character sound different and then Dan like custom puts them in the game For every movement and you know, you know, things about this frame or that frame or this frame to really should feel super tight And the great thing is because Eric actually and Steven had me come in to the sound booth when they were making the sounds and it's just a Producial in the back with like bone saws and hammers. There's a lot of them. They just go to town on fruits Yeah, and just destroy it. Yeah, and some vegetables and fruits were harmed. Yeah They were they were and I actually at the end of the full segment We do have a fun video with Eric working with some goo and it kind of shows you how they record different sort of foley To make the sounds work. We're gonna show that quite yet We do want to show you something because one of the big things about sound is making the x-rays feel super impactful Yeah, so we would like to show real quick to x-ray not x-rays pardon me fatalities x-rays as well But we're sure to fatalities that kind of show off sort of how the sound is all been integrated into how they work Some of that show the magic All right, so there's we've already seen the air back Well, we had to show that one again because it is awesome pulling out Every piece of his inside from his mouth and then we showed a new sub-zero the bed of spikes Which I lovingly call the skateboard So kind of get it just real briefly kind of explain sort of what goes into the little tiny granule pieces of that Yeah, well again, it's a lot of fruit and vegetables, you know because they won't let us rip real hearts out of people Sure, which is you know, but I'm sure he's playing dead bodies. We can use you know, they frown upon that So we so we've gone to fruit. Yeah, exactly. So so yeah, and you know the sound designers, you know Layer upon layer upon layer They'll take a the squash from this and the watermelon pull out from that and the slice from this papaya And there's a lot of that and then pitch shifting and reversing and you know the inverted walrus cream is What's the best sounding fruit? best sounding fruit for us one of the things we did is we this time we took it a watermelon and We cut a hole in the top of it, and then we would stick our hands in That was a good one. Do you have any green peppers and celery were good. Yeah green for some crunchy stuff bones, right? Linna's bites though that those sound like definitely some sort of crunchy What would you use for those you think? Sticks maybe sometimes that we recorded really high frequency on nuts being cracked Oh, and then we pitch shift those way down to get the big thick bone cracks. Yeah, that's a classic sound designer trick We never thought of that. Yeah, well to actually explain some more of that We're gonna show you a video here in a second, but is there anything else we'd like to talk about or add before we Show that video Well, I guess what you're gonna show something about slime. I want to show Eric Recording a bunch of slime. Yes. Well, that's slime figured prominently in the ear Mac fatality. Okay. Good the whole Thank you guys. Thank you. So Jim we're gonna show that video right now. Thank you guys both for coming out You're welcome. Awesome to have you. We also will show your show their Twitter's real quick We're showing that right now. So you can follow both these guys I've followed Dan a little bit and it looks like he just says toasty back to people. So that's good stuff every time someone I will write toasty back. I'd be careful. I'd be careful every time Thank you guys for coming so much. That was a great time. I'll say that video that was Just gonna have gore is built a little funny video there with some Flatulent sounds that was a good time. Did that work moving on so we have here You've seen them both in different streams to now today. They're powered connect combines. That's where it combines John Edwards Paolo, how's it going? So guys, I like to say I like your hat and your shirt. Yeah Looking good. I've been wearing out to I'm wearing a sweater and a news boy cap. Yeah Is this is yeah more about the new boy? So we brought these guys here because we're gonna show you a good deal of variation stuff today with characters and They're the ones to talk to so but I know you guys are dying to see what we are kind of in teasing quite a bit So we're gonna show you that right now ready to eat lead Trying to cut down Well, here come the double helping So there he is yeah, I know you guys have been kind of seeing our tweets and specular I'm the fact that Aaron black is a playable character in Mortal Kombat X You've seen him in the comic now. You've seen him in real life. I am very excited to see this character Yeah, you've been kind of giddy around the studio like oh, it's a black week Black Friday now. He's definitely one of my favorite new characters. So my two for sure. Absolutely So we we're having to show them to you now. We're actually gonna do some gameplay Yeah, John is gonna walk through his variations. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do this. We're starting with this one Yeah marksman marksman sound good. Yeah, so That's probably go over is his his standard set. We'll go standard first sex. We will wait of course for the dialogue, I Don't know if you knew this people get mad. I think they've heard of all of them. I don't think they've heard. I don't know They've heard. Well, this is a new character Paula. I don't think they've heard on so we should be quite there If you want or we could sing a song. Okay, something wrong Emperor Negotiate our agreement Fight Alright, there's intro. Cool. So yeah, so Aaron black Obviously he's kind of pattern after like a classic, you know kind of Wild West, you know partial a gunslinger bounty hunter His primary weapon set are the two revolvers. He has on his way So he utilizes those a lot in his fight style. So he's a lot of stream that Reasons him to pistol whip people or one of my favorite ones right there We're like he kicks the hammer and fires a shot and Some kind of unique about him is a lot of his fight style attacks that utilize the revolvers I'm actually have much more range than a normal punch would have So I think maybe it's going to some of his specials and standard special set So besides the revolvers one of the things he has access to is you know, he's been kind of wandering the outworld You know for all these years, you know, you know killed some, you know crazy monsters and taking some of their magic It's one of the things he has is a like a sand field like glass globes are made that he can roll across the floor Kind of a slow-moving low projectile Those are always pretty good anything. It's the, you know, projectile full screen low, right? He can actually enhance that one to control its speed and it'll also fire off a shot and break it And that will lead to pop-up. So that can be used as combo extenders or Good openers you can roll behind the guy roll it in front of him Set him up, you know roll when the guy's trying to get up things like that, right? In addition, he can break the globes over his head For like a like a good anti-air. It was kind of a fast You know, it's a whole lot of damage, but it's really good for stopping jump ends, right? You can also use the start commas and continue commas. War meter, there we go So he also has a pretty powerful low special the slide has a pretty good range on it Does a decent damage And then that one also he can enhance and he will rifle off a couple of shots with revolvers And that's great for combo enders also, you know, creating some some some close-up situations In addition to that What else he has he has like a medium-range tackle. It's a pretty good can command grab tackle You know rifle also shots in the face and it also can be meter-burned and It will do a little bit more damage and separate the characters quite a bit more That's the example of this throw again is in the revolvers and a lot of a lot of different situations I'm not getting it today. Well, it's all right. Stream jitters I'm not quitting till we get this Do it in combos create some distance, you know push people into corners away from corners things like that But then probably my favorite speciality has he has these cow drops Which if you know everyone knows what cal trap is it's got this spiked nail He throws a handful of mud on the ground and he can do that at different ranges, you know close me you're more far And when you're standing at home, it does some damage over time But the cool thing about it is it will also Force your opponent to stop running so if they're running at you it actually stops their run So you can kind of set it up as a little trap to keep on the player for being a two offensive These are also good to throw down when you've knocked someone down or we get someone trapped in the corner Reinforce and try to jump out you can create some combo opportunities over that And I believe that's his yes, that's a common his common set so in marksman he has this rifle like a long rifle on his back and he gains access to a few new special moves with it So maybe we'd like to walk back So pretty unique special where he actually walks and creates range at the same time He's firing off three very quick projectiles I'm kind of an office favorite because it creates distance and Most kind of like a defensive kind of a style, but also offensive at the same time And you can enhance that version and he'll actually switch up the shots to the low medium to high Leads to these good combo opportunities if you can get in fast enough You know to close that gap that you created from the walk back So it's actually really powerful in the corner because you won't be spread so far away that you'll be able to get some combos in Additionally he has like a sniper shot where you can like kind of charge up a Turn the blast on the ground so you can hold that and you can hold that hold that You can hold that and dash cancel out of it and one of the things that Paul likes to do with this You can actually two and one into it and then dash cancel it But in the middle of streams and stuff to create like some new set opportunities And Then he also has a pop-up uppercut With the rifle, so this is good again for you know combo injures things like that You can sneak in some some gentle hits after that one, but you enhance it then he actually fires a shot after that one You can get in Yeah, and I think you've got all your meter, so it may be a good time to Show off maybe a zectra. Oh, I can fake it. Oh, there it is. What did you do that tricks? That is a magic bullet right there He comes from period of matches He writes the opponent's name to probably use as a sharpie before me just in case yeah, whoever came up that is a genius Who was that there I think it was you wasn't it? Don't give me That's cool, so the other kind of unique thing about his His x-rays it leaves the opponent standing at the end so can be used for all kind of you know crazy mix-up opportunities, right? And that's pretty much marksman. Okay, awesome. Maybe go to Go to another one sounds good keep the keep the air black train rolling Choo-choo with air black. Let's do outlaw that we're doing. Yeah, let's do outlaw. What to to earn blacks to Aaron black on Aaron black Mind blowing. Are we prepared for this? I don't know. I don't know which one did you do? You go I did I did that loss you should have gone slinger. Okay, absolutely We probably should be quiet for the intro. We haven't gotten there yet, but all right. I'm just I'm just prepping Yeah, I'm just prepping. Okay. All right. We prepped for a long time. Yeah, we did. Yeah, that was my bad too much Mine games don't work on me There's an obvious insult there You'd best shut up and draw round one fight. So cool. All right Let's go through I guess outlaw. So outlaw has probably my favorite weapon in the game He has a broken off Tarkotten Warriors arm And his size the sword blade attached to it. So that's pretty pretty unique conceptual weapon And of course this variation kind of revolves around that so he gains access to Some new fight style attacks with it. So he gets some new strings the combo strings rate, you know Uses it poach just you know pretty good damage good range eyes to I mean it has one where just a little comming grabby kind of attack after it And he also was throwing sand in combos as well too, right? Yeah. Yes Someone does that with his fight style stuff. He actually like, you know, picks a handful of sand up off and ran and throws it in the opponent's face a little bit of the stud There you go. So another example So probably his biggest asset in this variation is his stab like the impale There we go. And so this will actually break the blade off in the opponent's chest and that will add a damage over time Bleed component and while that's active. He doesn't have access to any of his sword attacks Then of course if you do the you know an enhanced version of it It'll the bleed will last longer to do more damage, but it'll be more time where your sword is gone And so you can't you have access almost extra extra attacks and then I believe this we also get say a modified version of the sand burst Where actually picks up a huge handful of sand off the ground goes in the face It actually creates stun situation like a true stun Which can be two and one didn't do that can do things like setup Obviously set a combo and we're set up a free impale, right? You also notice the different palettes to that. There's the green and black along Rematch here now we'll go through the final Aaron don't slinger. Yeah, I think actually man all of his variations are really good Might be my favorite. That's what you said about the last one. I know it's just the weapon. Okay. All right, John Who doesn't want stamps about it with a broken off forearm? I mean, yeah, I've always wanted but you may or may not be Brock I don't know. Oh So gunslinger revolves more around his revolvers So the big thing for this one is that he has a standoff stance He gives this little standoff kind of like a you know Wild West, you know gunslinger standoff stance and from that He has access to some additional specials. So he has like a low kind of like Dance The closer you are the more the more hits it does and you know, it's a low. So that's that's all it's good You know mix up. He has this anti hair. It's like super fast like quick draw with both revolvers Princess jump ends really well and that means the end of juggles and he also has like a retreating shot Where he fires two shots while walking backwards, which none of those are that There we go, and now it's good because again, it can kind of like a modified version of the the rifle where you can kind of create some distance But fire off by two really fast projectiles And then oh, he also has my favorite special coin toss Coin tosses is cool. He flipped the coin up in the air and he can ricochet a gunshot off of it And you can actually change the trajectory of that based on which direction you hold and then for the enhanced version It does a whole handful up and just you know fires off a bunch of shots Money, yeah, and that could be done, you know in combos and be done to you know kind of you know the long range mid-range pokes Be comboed into in some situations from, you know, mid-screens off of what the other way, too It's really cool stuff. Now if he overdraws his bank account and fill through points as he has he apparently has an unlimited supply Okay There's been a bounty hunter pays it pays well. So, you know, it just gets all this So that that is that's so that's air black and I'm sure we'll be showing you know more gameplay stuff Yeah, I'm like cool gameplay stuff, you know, whether or not the game is closer to release But that is mr. Aaron black Very exciting take that for me. I certainly will so we're done, right? That's the only character. Yeah. No, no, no We promised more How come his has way too long your guys that's my house pretty cool like you guys has pretty cool But his hat's like wake his head is way cooler. I like my greats hats way cooler, too We are now going to show What we saw in the trailer. We just were launched Lou Kang Lou Kang is in Mortal Kombat X brand new character Brand more combat franchise, right? So we're gonna go and start with him and kind of see how his variations work out And I like to watch her make it beat up. So I'm gonna go with her All right, we will prepare so early this time Yeah, we continue to talk through this one. Yeah, just like an adventure that no one cares about Lou Kang has a kind of different Variations are very different from each other. We're gonna go through those now and we're pretty much done. Yeah It's not as pretty much it. Yeah some fireballs a kick. Ask my forbearance We do not cover Then you will end Follow so this variation Lou Kang is called dragons fire This one is probably the one that's the most similar to the Lou Kang you you played in the previous game He's got some of his attorney specials. He got his fireball low fireball. You throw a fireball in the air Of course can enhance fireball And that's basically like the common specials and then he can also still has his fight kick In dragons fire happens to be where his fly kick actually does two hits So if somebody's trying to knows you're gonna do a fly kick You know, you're trying to do it in this variation. You can't And of course Lost over the bicycle kick, you know, everyone's freaking out now In a dragon's fire he gets the ability to enhance it to a bicycle kick after it hits So that that actually gets you to hit confirm bicycle kicks in the combos And the normal bicycle kick leaves opponent standing so similar like in Ultimate MK3 where after you took a bicycle kick You were sort of the stagger state and then from there you can go into high lows throws and pretty much continues off Take a look at the throw. I Like it throw a lot. He did gain one new universal special move, which is this big spinning backhand When you when you block this move, it's it's not safe, but it's it's punishable I mean, it's not punishable, but it is safe so you can use it to finish combos and like to your pressure Of course it has an enhancement And then Liu Kang of course has a lot of Like you see generally more more combo heavy And a little a little tidbit for the artwork there's his up towards one is actually the fastest normal it's happening again We're it's a bi-frame normal where he can punish things that Right, so what all do we have I suppose we drag fire also is be able to charge this fireball So you can use that to sort of like Got Twitter and another thing because variation is he can actually he can actually enhance the enhanced ground fireball so if your opponent It's there, you know, they're gonna come in and that fireball is gonna hit you can enhance the normal enhance fireball Since it's Ways to two bars a meter, but it'll let you like hit confirm into something that's not breakable It's wasting then who knows yeah, it's yes what wasting it He's a wrong situation right right start a match with it. Yes. Yes. Yes starting opening a match with it bad idea Well, I move on to the next variation They were one time like a father. They're kind of like frenemies, I guess right front of me. Yeah You're loaded today. I know right that's good. I had some tea before I came in here. Oh, yeah, they'll get you go I'm amped up No, Luke. I Give you no choice rated so be it So this variation Luke hangs called flame fist and if you notice on his His projectile in the nations change in all three variations. So I'll predict what that's like Black advantage into vanish. So they're all slightly different all three of his variations He still has an enhanced version of this one, but it's not too far ball just one single Another thing is where this variation gets is the bicycle kick it's replaced with these multi punches bicycle punches bicycle punches Bicycle Is this why you guys don't ask me to name moves there's a lot of reasons this is an example, okay? Not the only old bicycle And also in this variation he can activate the flame fists And then when he has this sign if your opponent's blocking he actually does a lot more block damage normal for punches and Then like a knee trick to do is do the windmill fist punches when your opponent's blocking And that's only on block It does some additional damage on hit also it also makes his fireballs do a lot more black damage Really enhances pressure guy. Yeah, it's awesome And that's pretty much it for that one. Yep, and then finally next one is awesome. We missed the Perry Oh, yeah, the Perry actually just did look angriest looking Do we the fans do always ask for mirror match dialogue? Oh wait, do we double fire fists? I Got dualists, which is probably his most unique variation in the outworld marketplace. I'll try and pull off the Perry as well Good luck with that. Yeah, I'm sure I can do it. I don't know what it is Illusions are petty magic This is no illusion That will reveal the truth Almost talked to that you see that. Oh, I was so bad There is And you can actually enhance the Perry right before the last hit and do some additional damage. Yeah, I don't know if I'm gonna try that But I'll try it Yeah, I'm asking you Machine will not work. Have a barrel. Can I carry the barrel? So when do list he can actually switch Essentially switch stances inside of this variation so we can go between the light and dark And when when he's in life he has a different fireballs But you're a little faster than the other ones so you can use these sort of zone out your opponent He's got great low kicks When you go into dark his fireballs get replaced with these little traveling Like plasma warp things and with these you can actually stop them after you throw them out and they stay out there And then they explode after a certain amount of time. Yeah So the thing about this they don't actually they don't actually hit They don't have collision on them as they're traveling so you can stop them and like leave these you know The landmines out you know all over the screen and create all kind of like good pressure and like any combo situations He also gets like a damage charge this one as well Yeah, and depending on this the state of your damage charge the fireballs will explode faster So we put as the no no on how much of a damage charge you have And you can you can do these comp on the side of block strings so you can like throw a fireball Quit pressure on your opponent I Think you know Somebody has like a Helm move we get a There we go, and that can be held down and as you're holding it you're gaining health And then when you let go it releases and you're a little extra burst. I'm just doing an x-ray We need to see anyway. Yep. Luke hang on Luke hang violence. Here we go. Are you gonna move on to our Final or get doing this. Let's move on then. This is it though, right? No, we got there's two characters We're doing three characters today three characters. Yes Also before we before we continue before I forget I have been notified that I may have put up the wrong Twitter information for Dan Fordon So like a hundred people just tweeted the wrong person. Yeah, yeah the Dan Fordon you're tweeting is not the right one It's at D. Fordon So please if you followed him just now go back and follow him with the right one at D. Fordon It's not a combat cast without me making a really big mistake So I hope he's a Mortal Kombat fan. I hope so too. Oh, here's big news. We're gonna show you Shinok So this is a we're very excited like we today was I was been looking forward to if we got Aaron black Luke hang and Shinok You guys you can probably use that because he's in practice. Oh, we oh, that's right. I forgot We're also going to discuss how practice mode. Yes, we're filled with a lot of things today. So we have a There's a nice little training room that you can use. It's gonna be really nice Good one. That's a really nice training room. It's gonna be really nice. I Didn't know what to say They will not speak to each other. So this is imposter Shinok the one that I use the most Yes, I'm gonna go over his basic boots first. He's got a he's got an amulet blast where he grabs his amulet Does a little short ring blash with it And then the answer is just a bigger blast this move actually if I can go and make the sub-zero How good get there If you shoot a nice ball, you can actually stop the jackdolls I'll take their controls. That's actually you make one mistake Paul has a low tolerance He also has this triple ground blast Which is which hits on three from ages it always does all three blasts and it's more mental like And you can enhance this move after Just sort of the common strength and you can enhance it on each And then his other universal moves this big Which wizards are known for So some of the big things to practice is you can set like your Positions of the where you're gonna reset the game to so like I'm gonna set it to the left here real quick And then like a if you're playing online and like sub-zeros are are playing against you in like a And the ice most sub-zeros are pressing in the corner and like putting you in actual situations You can actually use practice mode to figure out how to get out of some these situations so you can Set the recording and you can actually record with the other sub-zero Your zero point it's gonna do against you and you can set whether or not you're blocking or not blocking it So I'm gonna set it to block and duck And then do like a little ice ball set up your sub-zeros. I was doing you can figure out how what I can do to stop this Here if I do this one reversal I can actually If I do that I can't get them And then I think if I'm a person with this I'm sort of still in the corner And I'm trapped in that situation with a reversal with that enhanced shoulder. I actually get myself out of the corner Yeah, so you can set up little situations like hey These things are like beating me in matches and you can like find a way to get around It's really good like for me when I first started playing these kind of games. I was super I'm still you know, I can't go away Yes, I would definitely find a move that I couldn't quite be Record it and just try every single thing to get out of it and like you know You do that enough then you get into a real match and you you do it on reaction at the dojo. Yep Another cool thing I did we have it in here where you can actually put on the different backgrounds and such Yeah, yeah, we should talk about the training from the background. Yeah, so right now the training room back on doesn't have any Interactive objects loaded, but you can set it to load different ones So you can you can set it to low cove and it'll quickly load the cove interactables inside a train room, right? So now that everything is in the cove So if you want to kind of try you know interactive specific combos, which can't exist you can change these out all for practice mode They all just become holograms. Can you make a hologram blanche? That could be the greatest thing. Don't you don't don't spoil me. Don't spoil. I'm gonna see if that works I'm sure it does There it is We all know Blanche and she has a holographic counterpart. She'll live forever. Blanche 2.0. Does she have a Twitter account? If she has a Twitter account, I'll probably write it down. She's gonna have a Twitter account now I bet that's so poor grandmother somewhere named Blanche. It's just right now. It's gonna hold bunch of followers, right? Let's try to go through some of the imposters Stuff he does to it. Yep. What's special to him? So imposters should not gain the ability to steal moves from his opponents So against up zero finally this move you notice that my my ruins change color on my outfit So that means that I now have a stored a stolen special move So with this one you actually steal the ice ball from sub-zero. And then every character he steals a different move, right? So if you play as imposters should not gonna be best for you to learn you can learn different combos for every single character you play And it's gonna be very match-up dependent where sometimes imposters will be very good in some match-ups And in other matches it might not be as good, but for like sub-zero example you can combo into the move steal and now I have a stolen ice ball And then you can actually combo So there's some I think you can probably freeze like you're gonna just go right back into a posture again Maybe you know you can either combo accurate or just use it Yeah, you can steal a lot of ice ball again to keep pressure. Yeah, so it's gonna be a lot of set ups these And then you can use practice mode of course to figure out the set ups. Cool All right, so what's the next one? Another little bonus practice mode. You can quickly switch out variations So right now we're gonna go to bone shaper and we'll switch out sub-zero and breakable That's just a quick load, and then you're back with the new variations. No players selecting on that. Yep So I feel like this practice mode like every single game we do we learn a little bit more about how to make the practice mode a little bit Better and this sheet this is like by far the best practice mode we've done Yeah, we talked to some of the competitive players to see what it is that they really want to help them get better in Our game and figure out better setups and whatnot So we definitely listen to them and put some of that stuff in too Yeah, like one of the tough things with fighting games I think is like bridging that gap between like, you know, not quite casual, but not quite like, you know tournament level and this is a great place to kind of go in and Now bone shaper shenok obviously uses you can summon you can summon you can summon different weapons So he's got this little sick Bonesicle Next to you He also has this this little this little low poke is a very good low poke And then bone shaker he can Slam the my sickle in the ground, which is actually down, which it's a new on the screen And he also has the scoop Yes, I know that he actually uses the little Handled he has it that forms any other weapon. He actually Maybe we could see an x-ray. Oh, I don't know if they're ready for that. I don't know. Let's do it. Let's do it All right First of all, I'm gonna show you guys the miss animation for the x-ray just because it's awesome There's someone's a little bone cage with traps your opponent and that actually tracks to where the opponent's currently located So the bonus like running away from your clothes Back and I was done now. No, I'm not done. Let's go to this third region Necromancer versus cryomancer Oh You'll notice he's got these skeleton arms now, too, which is a visual variation. Yeah, right and then in necromancer you can summon Some bones Oh like So dirty so it's all tips in a way Yeah, but he's got this slam move which would also tracks for the opponent is it doesn't block over It's pretty slow to come out. So you can figure out ways to get out of it Which is like classic shin up, too Nice Cool, is there anything else really? No, I'm bone chamber. That's pretty much it. This is game C of the bonus pressure moves So those are our three characters for today We're gonna put you know you with social up again for you guys You're free to stick around if you'd like yeah, we're gonna go there's a few more things and then I call it a day So, yeah, we're gonna talk a little bit Derek. This is kind of your your feature Well, I have a feature. Yeah, you do great news. Oh Okay, so So We're gonna talk about the factions and we're actually when you first start the game you are asked to select a faction So we're actually gonna show you that screen and we're gonna show you a couple of what we'd like to call Recruitment videos for a few of the factions. So Jen hit it This is the Mortal Kombat faction war You will now join one of five factions Comprised of Mortal Kombat X players from around the world in a persistent online battle for earth realm supremacy By simply playing Mortal Kombat X you contribute points to your faction After each war the faction with the highest score is crowned faction champion earning rewards for all of its members And so we showed you one of the faction kills in the video each faction has Multiple faction kills that you can unlock as you rank up within the faction Yeah, just just to be a little more specific each faction has a certain amount of their own Yes, so you can only use theirs if you're in that faction now if you happen to want to switch Which you can always do that like we've said before you can always switch factions and also no characters are locked to a Specific faction you can play any character in any faction. I know white load is fine Yeah, we don't mind. We don't mind but speaking of Kano We're gonna show a couple of recruitment videos one being black dragon and the other being special forces And this is what you'll see before you actually select the factions Jen The special forces is a military group formed to defend the United States from its most dangerous enemies After the outworld invasion they expanded their influence to encompass the entire world Utilizing state-of-the-art technology They protect earth realm from threats beyond our reality a cutthroat criminal organization The black dragon perpetrates the most violent and brutal crimes imaginable Assassination robbery and black market weapons trafficking are among their known offenses All members of the black dragon clan are currently wanted by the special forces for crimes against humanity So if you're not completely a Lower-heavy fan, we're at least gonna give you a little breakdown of what each one of these factions are and Explain it so it was some of our newer fans, right? And you'll be able to you know picky any one of those and like we said switch again. Let's down down the aisle John what are you gonna go with first? I'm probably going with Brotherhood. Okay, Paula quick. Okay black dragon link way brotherhood. I got two brotherhoods in here That's great. Well, we like you know winners And we will be showing some more of those videos in the future There's some stuff coming up that you'll be able to see more in depth of what kind of faction you want You know what I'd like right now. I want you to tweet at Netherrealm with the hashtag of what faction you want Oh, that's good. I like to see what everybody's gonna go with what we got white lotus right lotus We have special forces Lin Kuan. Yes, brotherhood of shadow black dragon. That's it. All right So hashtag at Netherrealm what you're going to choose. All right Excellent. Yeah, so now We're gonna answer some questions. Oh, we always get questions from you And every time people get super mad at me for not answering their questions can't answer them all man There are a lot of questions. We just can't answer. I think you guys know it when you tweet. Yeah. Yes, so Anyway, will Goro be available if I don't pre-order will he yes, he will be bam But why not pre-order per order right now and get Goro you get him for free when you pre-order otherwise Not so free. I had pre-order. Yeah Happy birthdays. Thank you. Not to you Fred Soltani Patrick Kendrick good friends of ours on the twitters Oh, happy birthday you guys from the Netherrealm team There was a guy in the Dutch collector way back when he also had a birthday towards David Albert. Yeah. Well, hey My mom's birthday was a couple weeks ago. Okay I should love that people are starting to get really excited about the fact that we have announced we have Mortal Kombat X Mobile coming out and they want to know when can we see more about Mortal Kombat mobile? Well, usually I make you guys wait and tweet and ask when the next cast will be the next cast is next Thursday at three o'clock central and our Made one of our main points will be talking about the mobile is Mortal Kombat mobile So come back next time to be able to see what happens with mobile. Maybe what you can cross unlock for mobile There's some really cool stuff. We'll be showing you all of that This is a question DLC characters. Will they have brutalities? Yes. Well, they have more than one brutality. Yes Well, they have fatalities. Yes, who didn't see that one. So will they have very Special moves we get a lot of questions people like will the DLC characters be just like what we have now They have variations and yet DLC characters will be fully fleshed out playable characters. Absolutely A couple eagle-eyed viewers recently have noticed a little symbol down at the bottom that Has a skull on it and they've kind of figured out that that's easy fatalities now We've learned through years and years of study that there are a lot of people who just can't pull off fatalities Right, or they get freaked out and they can't figure out the timing So when the game launches, you'll have a couple of those maybe three of them Day one, you'll have those just to use and do easy fatalities on there are certain places And you can unlock those and things like that So you'll always have your access to easy fatalities if you want to use them A Question for all of you Injustice have online practice. You can go in with the buddy and train. Can you do that in Mortal Kombat X? Yep I Don't want to give away any spoilers, but I'm thinking that you can you do online practice while you're waiting for the people to Play in some other mode maybe or something. Hmm. I don't know That's that's what's about that earlier. That's not like a pretty awesome feature You may there Derek hi offline ladders they exist. Yes. All right They're good. You offline players ladders for you to play plenty of content for every type of player. Oh, absolutely. Yes I believe that for now is all the questions we have So as usual If you would have grabbed the controller away, yeah, it's just it's time Okay, I want to first of all thank all of the Twitter people out there who keep sending me good wishes It's like I'm sick or something. They're like you'll get it next time you got this you can win this This morning. I woke up to like ten tweets of you're gonna win Tyler You're gonna win like that's all I read this morning and Being your head being your head. No, no, I don't know. It sounds like they're in his head He's getting in my head. Yeah, it's true. I mean he brought a coach last time so maybe this time Paula you can coach me and John You just keep looking good. I'm out. I had we had practice mode is built So he could have been practicing for like the last 48 hours. Oh, yeah. Well to be totally honest I have practiced quite a bit in the last couple of days I you know, it's funny like everyone. I feel really nice that everyone wants me to win That I don't I continually let every single person down every week. Yeah, so Let's watch this intro and Here we go. Can we talk over the intro? No Best of three So far so good You guys can commentate all you want to have a terrible coat. It's fine. You can commentate. I feel I will not speak during this Yeah, it just kind of goes silent. It seems pretty intense Thanks, man Paulo you're supposed to be on my side. Oh Damn it. Damn it. That's an overhead. This is You just give away a lot of free damage man Great coaching. There's a lot of punish, you know, yeah, I know. Thank you. You're not doing it. Derek Do I beat you at your desk? More at your desk, but yeah, that's true. Yeah So I'm not I mean, I'm gonna Know I mean you definitely you definitely win matches time Right, I seem like we're going for like a strange reset there They look cool. Yeah No, no, it was real. There's a real drop combo. Can I do it? No, no Do what do you want to do? Can I jump in the line as the worst face quality I've ever seen? Ah If I would have used it easy fatality, it would have been no problem at all What happened to Kano last time either you're repping Kano for a while now everyone on stream keep saying I want to see Erma because they know that's what don't blame your don't blame your loss Wanting to see a particular character. Well, I but it's my favorite characters. I feel like I have to okay Well, I'm behind you dude. No, you're obviously not. I'm behind you. Are you are you my senior time? I'm on team Tyler. That's a good team Tyler. Sorry Derek I will for you. Well, listen, I know we'll be on brothers to shadow together. Oh, that's fine But in this room, I'm on team Tyler. Oh, yeah, Jen team Oh, yeah underdog man. This is crap. I tried to be in bias. Thank you. Although you gave him tips last week He's gonna you serve Chow Khan well No, no, that is true I think paul is part of the side of the strategy was more important Yeah, true. Well, it's getting intense. See the wake up rule. What is it? We'll just start counting on Well, first he's gonna knock him down Oh, I missed it. No. Oh, okay. Oh Some sick resets on accident No, I missed it missed it missed it and it has a roll not do something Was your controller broken? Yeah, I was sick Well, you didn't wake up roll. So oh, yeah, yeah, good call. Well, I gotta change. What is In the x I wasted all three bars just to do that cool thing I learned after that No, that's 40% that's that's definitely No, no, just just go to push You're in his head now. He doesn't know what to do It's perfect. I'll be there dude. Yeah, we'll keep running keep running You got it. Oh chip chip chip. It's not working. Uh-oh Don't let him just drop. What is wrong with when do you get to get cocky? Like that doesn't make sense Do it. You're gonna. Yeah Rub it in One one. Oh, it's one. Okay. I need to chill out. I need to chill out because I need to relax My combos are really bad at the time. Well, you did do the uber combo. That was impressive Yeah, I wasted all my meter for it, but yeah, which made it a little less impressive But that's fine. This is this is pretty tense. Yeah, it's I'm nervous All right, Derek, I'm not ready to press that button. I'm taking a minute I just got a texture. I'm collected like it was almost flawless. That's embarrassing Are you like running scared? Do you want to switch variations now or? Yeah, I should Okay, are you running scared? He's got your own rules. I just got a texture where everybody said come on do it So I got one other guy behind me too. That's that's four people. Derek's crumbling. I've stopped it Derek's crumbling I hate you Can I switch variations too? No, you have to stick. Why would you change from what you wanted with? It doesn't make well, should you be a variation lack of your winner now? That's a great question That's not a question for me. That's a question for the community to decide. I agree with that. Hi, Derek Oh, man. I'm so nervous. I'm gonna drop. Uh, this is so hard for me I want to pause you on any logic and any knowledge you can drop in the middle of this intro Or if he's gonna let this one, uh, both of us play out. Um, I don't know yet. We'll figure it out All right, let's see what happens I was born to rule out world All creatures must die Round one fight It's like super serious to be champion for a week until next week Yes, you don't seem to know a lot of black people. Yes, I would just do that Oh Weirdly something would have helped in that one Derek wake up old. Yeah, thanks, John Just gotta be the pressure It's almost like switch sides. Well the whole the whole impenetion is against him right now I hope a bunch of people want me to win next time Look at that. He's already said he lost. He's already said he's already conceding. He's conceding Tyler. Get in there. No I missed it though. No They're just calling reset. It's a reset Meter he has no meter. You don't have to be scared. You don't have to do there I mean instead of just going for the links and doing the full damage and killing them you decided to Be a little fancy. I just want to stop hanging upside down. It makes me so mad Ever it makes me so mad This is crap. I knew it's coming Get punished Give me the bell Give me the bell Today we learned on combat cast that a blind squirrel finds a nut That erin black is playable chinock is playable Luke hang is playable and I am the champion of mortal combat Can you guys get a picture of this and tweet it to me, please? Um, thank you, John. Thank you. Yes. Thank you guys. Thank you, Jim Thank you mortal combat gods. Thanks team tylers So guys we're gonna see you next Thursday at three o'clock. We'll have another match. I'll hand the belt right back over to Derek Thank you all for coming. We'll see you next week. Thank you. Thanks