 All right, and we're back. There we go. We're getting there. We're getting very close. It's exciting. It's upon us Very exciting and more exciting things to talk about Derek and a mode that you worked a lot on. Oh, yeah I want to talk a little bit. Some people have seen a little little bits and pieces of it We sure want to go more into depth. We have some questions We we found off the internet one out about invasions. Yes, and what what are invasions who? Invasions is another additional single-player mode for Mortal Kombat 1 What we've done is we've kind of taken what we did with the Towers of Time and the Crypt in previous games and we combine them into invasions and invasions is an RPG like Experience going through the different realms or Mesa's it was we like to call them of Mortal Kombat 1 2 Defeat the invading force. All right Each each season is about an invading force coming into Liu Kang's timeline and season 1 is about Hanzo hasashi And he has come be oh, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna spoil it We're gonna show a video afterwards about that and so every Every season you'll have new Mesa You'll have new content and a new story and a new invading boss. Awesome And we're getting some of that too as well. Yes, we do have we have some wouldn't start with some videos now Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. So you talked about the Mesa selects. Yes. Let's take a look at that So this is this is where it all this is where it all happens You see you got scorpion looming over that one there at the end that one would be the final Mesa And as you progress You will unlock each one of these Mesa's we don't want people to get into content that might be too hard for them So we've also added a level of progression to the system You'll start off in the tea house Mesa and make your way all the way to scorpion and then that center Mesa that we have Highlighted there that's called the gateway And so if you were to finish all the content of Of the season, but you still want to play fights and you still want to you know do one thing or another You can through the gateway Mesa which has constant rotating content similar to what we had in Towers of Time where there's new daily new hourly new weekly and A seasonal tower which you should be like max level before you even start that and there's warnings I was playing that the other day and a very high-level gear is yeah, body to me. Yes We named it Lanny, wow, that's super cool So so just what we're talking about here at the Mesa's there is always something to do always and when you finish doing That stuff you can go do more stuff. Yes. Yes. Yes, there's there's always something to do in Invasions and like I kind of touched on earlier It definitely has RPG elements where you can allocate stats So you can kind of like have your fighters be as strong in one Category or another and yeah, and there's elements and there's there's a lot It's neat like in the QA lab. You'll hear like all the hot takes like one person's like Oh, I dump all my stats into attack. That's what I do. That's absolutely what I know I know I know have a more balanced approach. There's also you can have your stats be automatic. Mm-hmm, which is what I do, right? It just kind of bounces it out and what people start to do is they start forming like teams, right? Depending upon what kind of challenges they're coming up to so it really encourages you to change your characters or change your cameos Frequently as well and learn characters and it helps to learn characters Yeah, and so choosing one character could give you an advantage in a fight You're not necessarily required to do that But once you engage more with the systems, you'll be like, ooh, I know if I pick Raiden against Sub-Zero I'm gonna win because Sub-Zero is weak to electricity Yeah, the min-maxers out there are gonna fit find exactly what needs to be done switching out every time doing all Exactly exactly and then like I said each season We'll wipe all that content and we'll make brand new content with a brand new invading force Dig it speaking of these the places you play. Yeah, almost the play board. Yeah. Yeah We want to take a look one of those. Um, so they're huge and they are beautiful And so I think one we haven't shown yet is the Tarkotan colony and so yeah, let's do it So he goes through this portal He goes through the portal and he goes into the Tarkotan colony And it's very neat because normally in a fighting game you're seeing these environments But on the 2d plane you get kind of a limited view And with this you can just see like This expansive version of these levels huge These are all nodes and chests you can climb. There's secrets everywhere and speaking of secrets Every node has a secret fight which you have to figure out. Yes. Yes. So yes There is a lot of content to be had There are also just a million like easter eggs in jokes References little lore things. Um, just A whole the whole 30 years of Mortal Kombat's right There are characters who might not be in the game, but they'll get a little shout out invasion modes that Some of the the names of nodes are really fun Like uh, just a simple example early on there's a reptile fight and the node is called look to la luna Little fun things like that. There we go. Fans will appreciate Yeah, it's it's been a lot of fun to to work on this uh to work on this mode And it was just really important for us to like have progression Right to have something where you can you can finish it and you can feel a level of completion Each season and you're unlocking a bunch of cool stuff along the way Right on, uh beautiful stage, uh cool. And then you just go over there and you're like I need to get to that. I need oh I need to open that later Like as you even fly over you're seeing that. I think you talked about RPGs earlier. Yes. Yes. Um, a lot of RPGs have ways to Build and craft. Mm-hmm. Yes. Um, and we have that too So we have a forging system and a crafting system Um where you have these items which we call talisman And as you're going through your journey of invasions you're collecting things called components And what you can do is go into a forge, which is a show con warrior named bob He's he's everywhere. We're gonna show that now or we're showing it. We're showing it. Go there we go. There's bob and so um There's a the show con warrior and he can be found in each one of the maces and there's sometimes multiples of them as well And you take these components you collect and you combine them with talisman to make them stronger Or you can even change the element types with them So if something starts off as fire and you're like actually I need I need to turn this into ice You can do that stuff and there's some very wacky talisman Also, and so I'm not going to really spoil too much of it But um, I'm excited to see what people are able to do with this forging system qa's been Really hype about it about like yes There's some that will get really really powerful and they'll actually have to come to you and be like Is this by design and it'll be like absolutely. Yes Um, if it's broken and fun. Yeah, we we most likely did that intentionally And then we we had we were actually creating a better a better skull here Which I would like to say we should maybe show some of how that you want to show that now Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's do it. We're successfully going through the forge, right? So again, like Even the sequence just looks awesome, right? Like forging sequence Mad props to the ui team for getting that going and there's bob's back to work. Thank you, bob So we have And so you can forge it so that they become really little And actually one of the hardest things to avoid is something that is moving slow and staggers and staggers, right? But you can also make them really big And and that's just skulls. That's just skulls. There's different kind of fireballs meteors Armor armor. There's one. I just really can't wait for people to see I think I know the one you're talking about But we'll we're gonna hold it and wait till people make videos. We'll hold that one in Yes, yes, but pretty much a lot of the modifiers that you'll see throughout invasions can also be turned into A talisman and so it gives you this additional Power outlet or that you can use during fights and you can actually even two and one into talismans as well So it's it's a lot of fun. It's an additional level of power to help you advance through This adventure that we call invasions. Awesome and say it like that every time Invasions awesome. So, um, we do have some questions. Oh from that. We've kind of scoured Defined someone's gonna give you some rapid fire. Let's do it as much information as you can or will okay. You got it You got it. Does my level reset each season? Yes, your invasions level will reset each season. You will start back at level one the cap for a season is level 30 Cool. Yep, um our invasions how I unlock cameos skins and gear and stuff. Yes, but not exclusively how you unlock them Um, just playing the game you're unlocking cameos So you're not required to just go and do invasions to unlock it You can unlock them through playing online matches We want to make sure that players were being rewarded for playing the modes They want to be playing and also playing as the characters. They want to be playing. We have two reward structures Okay, we have more than that but two passive ones We have what's called profile mastery, which is your level profile going up no matter what you do And you're unlocking items through that and then you also have character mastery Where you're playing a sub zero you want stuff for sub zero you're getting stuff for sub zero for playing Sub zero. I'm giving it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and so um each character has a mastery reward Mastery reward system and so do cameos. So whatever cameos you want to play as guess what you're getting rewards for them As you're just playing with it. So online warriors. You can get your stuff. Yep You love doing the offline stuff. You get your stuff. Yeah, you would do both you get your stuff. Yeah, awesome Um, just play the game. That's all you need to do. Uh, what happens when a season ends? Oh when you vanquish I know or not So, um, what happens is we lock the content or we make it kind of go away for a week We want to have a down period between seasons. So people can be like Whoo, I can relax for a little bit. I can I can I can relax And then what will happen is there will be two maces that are still available to you One is the gateway mace again the constant changing content things like that So if you still want something to play during the downtime, that's there But then there's also the wushi academy the wushi academy is a practice mesa where you can Respec your points you can cut and try different loadouts and things like that and that'll be available to you as well Dig it. Cool. Um I mean we kind of already touched on this. Do you have to play as one character in the invasion? No, you can switch characters at any point Um, you have one global invasion level and all your characters are leveling at the same time So you might reach like a level 15 content. Guess what all your characters are that level? So it's not like oh, I have to level this character up to even beat this. Nope. That's super helpful Yes, you can switch at any point Yeah, like um, what I did when I was playing this weekend is I had katana is my roster character And I would switch my cameos constantly and you can also have different loadouts. So like If I wanted to switch to sundal, she can have a different talisman And that kind of stuff. So you can if you want to you also could stick to one character. It's really up to you Yeah, uh Is invasions an online feature always? Yes, it is an online feature gotta be connected Um, because you're getting rewards, right? And so we need to make sure and validate that you're getting those rewards in that content. Yes Uh Is there a match for each stage in invasions? Is there a match for each map? Oh a map a mesa So we are only showing six mesas for um, or well technically eight uh for season one And again, we'll each season. We'll try to bring in a new mesa or a new map and then uh, we'll shuffle them around change things up So it's a new content. Sure. Uh Do I have to pay for invasions each season? No, it's seasonal content I know when people hear the word seasonal they think that there's something to pay for no, of course It's free content. Um, you you don't pay for invasions Um, is there a battle pass kind of already taught? No, we do not have a battle pass There's no other ways of we have passive reward structures. No battle pass Is there mtx and invasions? There is no mtx in invasions So you cannot pay your way through it. You cannot pay to get rewards or things like that Um, no Exclusive seasonal items. Yes There are exclusive seasonal items like people have been asking or I've seen on the twitters If I if if getting that scorpion skin is how or is if invasions is how I get that scorpion skin I'm gonna play it and it is and there's a lot of other cool ones in there, too Um, if I miss something during a season, can I still get it? You're gonna have to wait till that season comes back Got it. That's all the questions I have. That's it. I have one thing to add that I've seen a lot of people mention Classic just classic towers where you unlock your arcade ladder ending and all that are still in the game, too We have that too, right, which I will do every single one of them. Yeah, as I always do awesome, um Anything else you'd like to add? I mean, I think that was a that was a pretty good rundown I think I think we covered a lot. Um, no, I think I'm good But let's let's maybe show the season opener. Let's do those for the season opener season one The scorpion invading our timeline also lost his wife and son to kuang chi's murderous machinations Consumed by grief He searched them all to find another harumi with whom he could rebuild his family But in timeline after timeline, he arrived too late Harumi was already dead But scorpion reached ours. He was crushed to find that they were alive. Harumi was wedded to choir yang Sworted yet again scorpion's frustration exploded into rage He has vowed to burn this entire timeline If he cannot have harumi no one will Okay, spooky, huh? Terrifying so so spooky scorpion. He's really angry. It's ominous. You know, it's so that's super cool. Yeah Have a nice opening to the season. Yes. And uh, each season will have an opening of the invading force, right? Um, and there are no jumping spiders. There's no jumping spiders. So good to know Yes, if you manage to reach the boss and defeat them, you get a cinematic ending to go with it Which is really cool. We like to give you a conclusion. Super awesome. Yeah. Yeah