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Mortal Kombat 1game director Ed Boon has teased some new features that will be added to the popular fighting game in future updates.Mortal Kombat 1earned mostly positive reviews when it launched earlier this year, with a great deal of praise for its visuals and hard-hitting action, though criticism for its story and monetization. Future updates and DLC releases should only improve theMortal Kombat 1experience.
Mortal Kombat 1fans have a lot to look forward to in the near future. Most notably,Invincible’s Omni-Man will be joining the rosteron November 9. Omni-Man will be the firstMortal Kombat 1DLC character and the game’s first guest fighter. Later in the month, Tremor is joining theMK1roster as a Kameo fighter.
WhileMortal Kombat 1DLC charactersmay be what fans are most concerned with when it comes to the fighting game, others may be more interested in new features that are on the way. Ed Boon recently teased some of the new features that are in the works forMortal Kombat 1, all of which pertain to the game’s online experience. Boon didn’t reveal dates for when these online features will be available, but posted a poll asking fans which they’d like to see added toMortal Kombat 1first. The options were crossplay, ranked play switching to best two out of three, a ping filter, and a Wi-Fi filter.
Upcoming Mortal Kombat 1 Online Features
Mortal Kombat 1fans overwhelmingly voted in favor of crossplay being added first.Mortal Kombat 1crossplay would presumably let PC, PlayStation, and Xbox gamers go head-to-head, but one has to wonder if Switch players will be left out of the mix. After all, theMortal Kombat 1Switch experience is a significant downgradecompared to the versions of the game on other platforms, and it’s hard to imagine exactly how that would work.
Future updates forMortal Kombat 1are expected to address the lackluster Switch version of the game as well.Mortal Kombat 1’s Switch port has been heavily criticizedfor its lackluster performance and poor graphics, so any improvements will definitely be appreciated by fans on the platform. Even so, it’s unlikely that any updates could significantly improveMK1on Switch.
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