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149-401: Upon release, the console versions of Mortal Kombat 11 received generally favorable reviews, which praised the gameplay, story, graphics, and improved netcode , but it received criticism for the presence of microtransactions and over-reliance on grinding . An expansion was released on May 26, 2020, entitled Aftermath . It includes an additional story mode, three new characters, new stages, and

298-595: A Soulnado. During its construction, Kano is assaulted by Li Mei , but Quan Chi intervenes, as the Alliance had made a deal with the Red Dragon leader Mavado to eliminate the swordsman Kenshi in exchange for the opportunity to fight and defeat Kano. Kano appears in the 2000 spin-off platform game Mortal Kombat: Special Forces , in which he is not playable but is featured in the storyline, freeing fellow Black Dragon cohorts No Face, Tasia, Jarek, and Tremor from

447-499: A Special Forces security facility under the pretense that they would reform the organization, though he really intended to use them as pawns to slow down any Special Forces agents who might pursue him. They kill an entire Special Forces unit during the prison break before Kano heads to Outworld, where he recovers the Eye of Chitian, an artifact through which he would acquire incredible power. While Special Forces Major Jax Briggs gets ahold of

596-524: A Special Forces strike team led by Sonya Blade , Cassie Cage , and Jacqui Briggs attack the Netherrealm, with Raiden providing assistance. The team succeeds in destroying the Netherrealm castle, at the cost of Sonya's life. Kronika forms an alliance with revenants and Netherrealm's rulers, Liu Kang and Kitana , immediately afterwards. Meanwhile, Kotal Kahn , the current emperor of Outworld, attempts to execute Shao Kahn 's loyalist Kollector , but

745-502: A cameo appearance in Mortal Kombat Annihilation , played by J. J. Perry , and in a self-titled episode of Mortal Kombat: Conquest , played by martial artist Kimball Uddin. Noob Saibot has received positive critical reception, and particularly for his "Make a Wish" Fatality from the 2011 reboot game. In July 2011, The Daily Show ' s Jon Stewart played a video of the finisher while explaining

894-433: A certain delay (greater or lesser depending on the physical distance between the players, the quality and speed of the players' network connections, etc.). During an online match, games must receive and process players' input within a certain time for each frame (equal to 16. 66   ms per frame at 60  FPS ), and if a remote player's input of a particular frame (for example, of frame number 10) arrives when another one

1043-799: A character customization system similar to the Gear system in NetherRealm Studios' previous DC Comics fighting game Injustice 2 , improving over the Variation system featured in Mortal Kombat X . Each character has an initial set of skins, gears and moves, which can be further customized by the player. However, unlike Injustice 2 , in Mortal Kombat 11 the characters' appearance does not determine their abilities, allowing players to create custom move lists independently of their character's appearance. Online modes now feature cross-play for

1192-507: A community reveal event was held simultaneously in Los Angeles and London. The reveal event featured, among many others, a filmed interview with Ronda Rousey , the voice actress for Sonya Blade. On March 22, 2019, about a month before the game's release, it was announced at C2E2 that actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa would reprise his role as Shang Tsung from the 1995 film and the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy , while coinciding

1341-468: A construct of Kronika who, like her, has powers that allow him to control the flow of time, and produce sand-based attacks; Cetrion, an Elder Goddess who is Shinnok's sister and Kronika's daughter and has control over elemental forces; and Kollector, a six-armed Naknadan who serves as a tribute collector to the Outworld empire. Non-playable characters appearing in the game include Shinnok , who appears in

1490-519: A cyberized Frost , has reinstated the Cyber Lin Kuei to build an army of cyborgs out of kidnapped Lin Kuei warriors for Kronika. Grandmasters Sub-Zero and Hanzo Hasashi shut down Sektor's factory with Cyrax 's aid, forcing Geras, Black, and both versions of Kano to retreat to Kronika's Keep, where they revive Sektor and rebuild the cybernetic army themselves. Meanwhile, Raiden consults with

1639-507: A cyborg, Kuai Liang is converted in his place before Smoke is killed by Shao Kahn's queen Sindel . Following this, Smoke is resurrected by Quan Chi as an undead revenant, a role he fulfills while making a minor non-playable appearance in Mortal Kombat X ( MKX ). Additionally, the downloadable playable character Triborg possesses a form based on Smoke's cyborg form. In Mortal Kombat 1 ( MK1 ), in which Fire God Liu Kang creates

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1788-399: A delay-based netcode does not allow the simulation to continue until it receives the inputs from all the players in the frame in question. This variable delay causes an inconsistent and unresponsive experience compared to offline play (or to a LAN game), and can negatively affect player performance in timing-sensitive and fast-paced genres such as fighting games . An alternative system to

1937-497: A female incarnation appears as a downloadable playable character via the Khaos Reigns DLC. After Fire God Liu Kang creates another new timeline while stopping Kronika, Cyrax was rewritten once more to become a Nigerien Lin Kuei clanswoman and Sektor's apprentice who wears a powered suit developed by the latter. Initially believing her grandmaster Bi-Han's deception, she later discovers his corrupt nature and defects to

2086-558: A flashback sequence, Baraka serves under then-Outworld ruler Mileena alongside D'Vorah, but during a meeting with the Osh-Tekk Kotal Kahn , Baraka is killed after D'Vorah betrays Mileena. In Mortal Kombat 11 , a past version of Baraka is brought to the present by the keeper of time Kronika . After learning of his death and Kotal Kahn rendering the Tarkatans to near-extinction, he initially allies himself with Kronika and

2235-558: A former Black Dragon member who became a NYPD riot control officer partnered with Kurtis Stryker . Amidst Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm, Kabal is grievously injured by Kintaro and kidnapped by Kano, who nurses him back to health with help from the sorcerer Shang Tsung and outfits him with a respirator due to his lungs being damaged beyond repair. Kabal eventually escapes to join Raiden and his champions in defending Earthrealm, only to be killed by Shao's queen, Sindel and converted by

2384-506: A group of soldiers hostage before being frozen by the cyborg Sub-Zero . However, Kano manages to free himself and informs his ally Noob Saibot that Sub-Zero broke free of his controller, Sektor . In Mortal Kombat X , Kano infiltrates the Shaolin Temple and steals the fallen Elder God Shinnok 's amulet for Shao Kahn's daughter, Mileena , to assist in a civil war against Outworld's new ruler, Kotal Kahn. He attempts to distract

2533-523: A guest character with Keith David reprising the title role from the HBO animated series Todd McFarlane's Spawn . In February 2015, McFarlane had granted NetherRealm a limited window of permission to use Spawn as a guest character for their titles. However, in April 2015, Ed Boon revealed that Spawn had been discussed as a potential guest character early in development, but that he did not know McFarlane had made

2682-400: A large amount of damage, but unlike them, they only become available when a player's health drops below 30%, and can only be performed once per match. Krushing Blows are a critical hit variation of a given special move or combination, triggered when certain requirements are met and cause deadly effect by showing graphic body injuries and draining at most times 30% health in a single hit. New to

2831-575: A minor appearance in the story mode as a member of General Shao's army. Goro's original design was as a two-armed humanoid character named Rokuro , a member of "a race of demon warriors" who would join the tournament "to restore the pride and respect of his race". Series creators Ed Boon and John Tobias drew design inspiration from the stop motion adventure films of Ray Harryhausen , especially his depiction of Kali in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad in redesigning Goro with four arms. He

2980-417: A non-playable hidden character and a solid-black palette swap of the game's other male ninja characters, whom players could fight after winning fifty straight matches. Spurred by the positive reaction to the hidden character Reptile from the first game, Boon added Saibot to MKII without Tobias' knowledge, though Tobias would later create the character's initial backstory as a Netherrealm wraith. He makes

3129-415: A packet, or when packets arrive in an incorrect order or duplicated, which can be very detrimental to a real-time online game (this protocol was not designed for this type of software). If the game instead uses a User Datagram Protocol (UDP), the connection between machines will be very fast, because instead of establishing a connection between them the data will be sent and received directly. This protocol

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3278-435: A pair of long metal blades to his forearms. He later kills Jax's undercover operative, Johnny Cage , in a fight. These changes were not carried over into the 2011 web series Mortal Kombat: Legacy , in which he was played by Fraser Aitcheson and was reverted to his original Outworld origins. Baraka makes a brief appearance in the 2021 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge , in which he has no dialogue and

3427-606: A personality." Den of Geek wrote that he "has virtually no story to speak of outside of the [ MK9 ] retcon". His "Reverse Rip" from the reboot was rated 35th by Prima Games in their 2014 list of the series' top fifty Fatalities. Noob Saibot is an undead wraith from the Netherrealm and a member of a cult called the Brotherhood of the Shadow who worships a fallen Elder God, later revealed to be Shinnok . In Mortal Kombat: Deception , he discovers, reactivates, and reprograms

3576-479: A reformed Black Dragon member turned SWAT officer, is severely burned by Kintaro , Kano takes him away to restore his health alongside Shang Tsung and outfit him with a respirator, mask, and hookswords in spite of his former ally's defection. However, Kabal is mortified by his condition and furious at Kano for siding against Earthrealm, so he bests him in combat and forces him to take him to Shao Kahn before knocking Kano out. Kano later joins Goro and Kintaro in holding

3725-434: A set of forearm-implanted retractable blades. He spearheads the attack on Liu Kang 's Shaolin temple following the conclusion of the first Mortal Kombat tournament, which in turn lures Liu Kang into Outworld to seek vengeance. In Mortal Kombat Trilogy , he is a member of Shao Kahn 's forces that takes part in the invasion of Earthrealm. Baraka is not playable in the next fighting installment, Mortal Kombat 4 (1997), but

3874-477: A similarly time-displaced Shao Kahn. However, Kitana convinces him to aid her in rescuing Kotal, and he and the Tarkatans take part in Kitana's battle against Shao Kahn and in the final battle against Kronika. In the new third timeline depicted in 2023 Mortal Kombat 1 , he was once a well-respected Outworld merchant prior to becoming a leader of the Tarkatans, a species of mutated individuals who are exposed to

4023-430: A synchronous and seamless experience between users despite these networking challenges. Unlike a local game where the inputs of all players are executed instantly in the same simulation or instance of the game, in an online game there are several parallel simulations (one for each player) where the inputs from their respective players are received instantly, while the inputs for the same frame from other players arrive with

4172-555: A teaser trailer for an additional DLC pack was uploaded, promising more information on October 8. This was revealed to be Kombat Pack 2, consisting of three playable characters: Mileena , who was last playable in Mortal Kombat X ; Rain , who was last playable in the 2011 reboot via DLC; and an additional guest character, John Rambo from the Rambo franchise , with original actor Sylvester Stallone providing his voice and likeness. Kombat Pack 2, along with all previous downloadable content,

4321-405: A third new timeline, Tomas / Smoke is rewritten once more to become an adoptive brother to Bi-Han / Sub-Zero and Kuai Liang / Scorpion after Smoke's family was killed for accidentally trespassing on Lin Kuei grounds. Though he lacks supernatural abilities, Smoke is skilled in practical magic. After Bi-Han betrays them to join forces with Shang Tsung , Smoke joins Kuai Liang in breaking off to found

4470-403: A very mild criticism of Sheeva's strengths" according to the player. In February 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced during a 2022 fourth-quarter earnings call that a twelfth installment in the series is set to be released later in that year, later to be revealed to be Mortal Kombat 1 . Mortal Kombat 1 's Kollector and Premium editions released on September 14, 2023 and

4619-550: A younger version of Kano. The two Kanos attack the Special Forces base and kidnap younger versions of Johnny and Sonya to force them to fight for the Black Dragon's entertainment before Sonya's daughter Cassie Cage rescues them. Sonya kills the younger Kano, erasing the present version from existence. Kano was the final fighter added to the first game, with his role as the enemy of the female character Sonya. He

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4768-489: Is a mysterious warrior who possesses the abilities of all the franchise' male ninjas. He is distinguished by his partially transparent appearance and an outfit that constantly changes its colors. Chameleon appeared in the PlayStation , Sega Saturn , and PC versions of Mortal Kombat Trilogy with no biography or ending; he is instead only referred to as "one of Shao Kahn's deadliest warriors". His Armageddon ending

4917-402: Is a popular MIT-licensed library named GGPO designed to help implement rollback networking to games (mainly fighting games). Latency is unavoidable in online games, and the quality of the player's experience is strictly tied to this (the more latency there is between players, the greater the feeling that the game is not responsive to their inputs). The latency of the players' network (which

5066-418: Is already running (for example, in frame number 20, 166. 66 ms later), desynchronization between player simulations is produced. There are two main solutions to resolving this conflict and making the game run smoothly: The classic solution to this problem is the use of a delay-based netcode. When the inputs of a remote player arrive late, the game delays the inputs of the local player accordingly to synchronize

5215-514: Is also vague, revealing only that he had sought to become Mortal Kombat champion since the events of the first game. The character was ranked 32nd in UGO 's 2012 selection of the top fifty series characters, who wrote "They say copying is a form of flattery, so Chameleon makes our list." Complex rated him tenth in their 2011 selection of the series' ten "most underrated characters", but IGN ' s Mitchell Saltzman listed Chameleon and Khameleon as two of

5364-414: Is an accepted version of this page This is a list of playable and boss characters from the Mortal Kombat fighting game franchise and the games in which they appear. Created by Ed Boon and John Tobias , the series depicts conflicts between various realms. Most characters fight on behalf of their realm, with the primary heroes defending Earthrealm against conquering villains from Outworld and

5513-663: Is captured by Kuai Liang, who reprograms him to help him defeat Shao. In Mortal Kombat Gold (2000), Cyrax experiences flashbacks of his former life as Sonya Blade and Jax Briggs bring him to the Outer World Investigation Agency (OIA) headquarters to restore his humanity. In return, Cyrax joins the agency as a scout. In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance , Cyrax encounters the vampire Nitara , who offers to help him return to Earthrealm in exchange for his assistance in finding Onaga 's egg. In Mortal Kombat (2011), following Raiden 's alterations to

5662-527: Is destroyed by the Black Dragon gang and Kronika's cybernetic army, with the younger Johnny and Sonya captured, the elder Johnny wounded, and Sektor self-destructing in the process. Due to this and the destruction of Sub-Zero's Lin Kuei Temple and the Wu Shi Academy's Sky Temple, Earthrealm's heroes reconvene at Hasashi's Fire Garden. Cassie leads a strike team to save her parents, where Sonya kills

5811-418: Is dropped in the bottomless Sea of Blood; Frost is shut down, disabling the cyber Lin Kuei; and the present Jax defects to the heroes' side. Once revenant Liu Kang has absorbed his past self's soul, Kronika sends him to attack Raiden, who eventually merges with him to become Fire God Liu Kang. The heroes breach Kronika's Keep, but Kronika rewinds time. With his god-like status making him immune, Liu Kang defeats

5960-473: Is first depicted in the Mortal Kombat canon as a Japanese-born American ( Australian in later games. ) who was the leader of the Black Dragon criminal empire and a wanted man in thirty-five countries. He enters the Shaolin tournament in the original Mortal Kombat Game after hearing rumors that tournament host Shang Tsung 's palace was filled with gold and other riches, with the intention of looting it for

6109-519: Is included as part of the game's enhanced Ultimate re-release. To work around the COVID-19 pandemic , Stallone recorded his dialogue at his home, through Zoom conference calls with the Netherrealm staff. Mileena's inclusion in Kombat Pack 2 was due to high demand from fans in the wake of her absence in the game previously. Ed Boon revealed that the motivation for her exclusion from the base game

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6258-536: Is interrupted by a time storm that brings Shao Kahn, Skarlet , Baraka , and younger versions of Kano , Erron Black , Jade , Raiden, Kitana, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage , Sonya, Jax , Scorpion , Kabal , and Kung Lao from the past and erases Dark Raiden from existence. A battle erupts in Kotal's Koliseum until D'Vorah transports Baraka, Kollector, Skarlet, Shao Kahn, Black, and Kano to her hive, recruiting them into Kronika's fold. Liu Kang, Kung Lao, and Raiden appear at

6407-551: Is killed in a fight against Cage. CJ Bloomfield will play the character in the feature film Mortal Kombat 2 . In 2009, Baraka ranked third on GameDaily 's list of the "top ten ugliest game characters". Dan Ryckert of Game Informer , in 2010, noted him among the characters wanted for the 2011 reboot game, as he felt that "people love Baraka" yet noted his absence in subsequent releases since his series debut. Baraka has otherwise received positive reception from gaming media outlets for his character and Fatalities. Kintaro

6556-400: Is largely out of a game's control) is not the only factor in question, but also the latency inherent in the way the game simulations are run. There are several lag compensation methods used to disguise or cope with latency (especially with high latency values). A single update of a game simulation is known as a tick. The rate at which the simulation is run on a server is often referred to as

6705-562: Is less and less time to react to other players' actions) with a fixed input delay and then rollback being used. Rollback is quite effective at concealing lag spikes or other issues related to inconsistencies in the users' connections, as predictions are often correct and players do not even notice. Nevertheless, this system can be troublesome whenever a client's game slows down (usually due to overheating), since rift problems can be caused leading to an exchange of tickets between machines at unequal rates. This generates visual glitches that interrupt

6854-425: Is much simpler than the previous one, but it lacks its reliability and stability and requires the implementation of own code to handle indispensable functions for the communication between machines that are handled by TCP (such as data division through packets, automatic packet loss detection, etc.); this increases the engine's complexity and might itself lead to issues. List of Mortal Kombat characters This

7003-496: Is not seen again until the 1996 compilation game Mortal Kombat Trilogy , in which all the characters from the first three series games were playable. Goro was initially omitted from Mortal Kombat 4 (1997), but was included as a sub-boss in the home versions of the game. In the training mode of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002), Goro is mortally wounded and presumed dead. In the 2004 follow-up game Mortal Kombat: Deception , he has been saved from death by Shao Kahn, with

7152-399: Is one of eleven Mortal Kombat characters representing the Mortal Kombat franchise in the 2008 crossover fighting game Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe . In the 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot that retells the stories of the first three games, Kano is the Black Dragon leader who tricked the Special Forces by acting as an informant and deliberately feeding them false intelligence that led to

7301-590: Is stated to be a Lin Kuei assassin who works with Kuai Liang / Sub-Zero . After their clan starts turning their best warriors into cyborgs, Smoke attempts to join Kuai Liang in leaving the Lin Kuei. However, the former is captured, converted, and forced to hunt the latter against his will. With Kuai Liang's help, Smoke discovers he still retains his soul and aids him in defeating Lin Kuei cyborgs Cyrax and Sektor , only to be captured by Shao Kahn 's forces. During

7450-419: Is tasked by Havik with restoring the Black Dragon. In pursuit of this, he recruits arms dealer Kira and martial artist turned killer Kobra . In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon , Kabal confronts the demigod Taven and offers the latter membership into the Black Dragon, but is defeated. In Mortal Kombat (2011), after Raiden alters the timeline to avert the events of Armageddon , Kabal is rewritten to become

7599-510: Is the sub-boss for both Mortal Kombat II and also in the 2011 reboot . He is also the penultimate boss of Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks . A Shokan, he shares his species' four arms and imposing size, but is distinguished by his tiger -like stripes. Kintaro participates in Shao Kahn 's attempt to conquer Earthrealm during the second game's tournament, in which he is defeated by Liu Kang . In

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7748-524: Is to resurrect Sindel , so they head to the Netherrealm and capture her revenant. Returning to Outworld, Shang Tsung uses Sheeva's blood debt to Sindel to gain access to the Soul Chamber and restore Sindel despite fierce resistance from Kitana, Jade, Kotal, Black, and Baraka. Sindel accompanies Shang Tsung and the others to his island, where Fujin defeats Kronika's forces and convinces present-day Jax to defect early while Sindel defeats Cetrion and helps

7897-579: The U.S. Supreme Court 's ruling that the ESRB could regulate video games without government intervention. Smoke debuted in Mortal Kombat II ( MKII ) as a non-playable hidden character who emanates smoke from his body and randomly appears at the start of a match to provide vague clues on how to find and fight him, for which specific requirements had to be met by players. Appearing as an unlockable playable character in Mortal Kombat 3 ( MK3 ), he

8046-451: The 1997 feature film Mortal Kombat Annihilation , played by stuntman Dennis Keiffer. He has no dialogue and is killed in a fight scene with Liu Kang, and is only identified by name in the closing credits. In the 2010 short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth , Baraka is played by martial artist Lateef Crowder and depicted in the film's alternate modern setting as a psychotic former plastic surgeon named "Dr. Alan Zane", who surgically attaches

8195-485: The 2011 Mortal Kombat had "gone too far in its sexualization". In 2019, a Mortal Kombat 11 developer revealed to Kotaku that some of the team members were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because of exposure to excess graphic violence. Developers used real gore videos and images as an inspiration for the game's gore imagery. Source material such as beheading videos and pictures of murder victims as well as slaughtered animals were viewed amongst

8344-410: The 2011 reboot , four new fighters were introduced, three of whom are playable. Firstly, Kronika serves as the series's first-ever female boss character , who has powers over the flow of time, and had been supervising the events of the timelines since the very beginning of the events in the overall Mortal Kombat story. She is not among the game's playable characters. New playable fighters include Geras,

8493-484: The 2011 reboot. The character featured the voice and likeness of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , who portrayed him in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film and the second season of Mortal Kombat: Legacy . On May 31, 2019, five additional fighters were announced to be released under the first Kombat Pack with Shang Tsung. Three of the confirmed characters were Nightwolf and Sindel , both returning from the 2011 Mortal Kombat game, and Spawn from Image Comics by Todd McFarlane , as

8642-449: The 2015 DC Comics Mortal Kombat X prequel series, he is featured in a subplot that shows him fighting and being maimed by Kotal Kahn in a battle for the Outworld throne. Goro is the reigning champion in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat that follows the events of the original game, and was a life-sized animatronic model that cost over $ 1 million to construct and required over a dozen puppeteers to operate. Goro again reprised his role as

8791-417: The 2021 film, have been negatively received. Michael Kennedy of Screen Rant commented in 2021, "While the puppetry used to bring Goro to life [in the 1995 film] had its limitations, Goro played a vital role in the story, serving as a major roadblock to thunder god Raiden's defense of Earthrealm. While he returned in Mortal Kombat 2021, his inclusion felt more like an afterthought than anything." Kano

8940-422: The Black Dragon. However, he is fervently pursued by U.S. Special Forces officer Sonya Blade , who holds a personal grudge against Kano that was left unspecified in the game's storyline. He evades capture by leaping onto Shang Tsung's junk bound for the tournament. When Sonya tracks him onto the private island, she is captured and forced to compete. She and Kano are among the competition's few survivors, and during

9089-542: The Cage family, defeating Kitana, Liu Kang, and Jade, throwing Kung Lao into the Sea of Blood, and killing Kotal. It is revealed that Sindel was never brainwashed and had willingly married Shao Kahn after he conquered her realm by killing her former husband and Kitana's biological father. While Fujin spearheads the offensive on Kronika's Keep, Raiden discovers Shang Tsung's plot and Sindel's betrayal while fighting revenant Liu Kang when

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9238-514: The Earthrealm's Special Forces HQ after forging an alliance with Kotal while Jade and Kitana aid Kotal in protecting Outworld from Kronika's forces. Liu Kang and Kung Lao investigate the Wu Shi Academy and encounter Kronika's right-hand man, Geras. Their battle ends with Geras using his chronokinetic powers to escape with powerful energy capsules containing Earthrealm's life force. The Special Forces learn that Sektor , backed by Noob Saibot and

9387-559: The Elder Gods. They cannot intervene as the time storm is draining their power, but Shinnok's twin sister Cetrion gives him a clue on how to defeat Kronika. During a later attempt, Raiden discovers Cetrion had betrayed and killed the Elder Gods to serve her mother: Kronika. Kotal and Jade go to a Tarkatan camp to ask for their help fighting against Shao Kahn, but Kotal's hatred towards the Tarkatans causes Jade to battle him before Shao Khan appears and captures him. The Special Forces base

9536-502: The Fire Garden to honor Hasashi's dying wish. Refusing to believe him, Raiden attacks him on sight using Shinnok's amulet. Liu Kang intervenes, causing Raiden to realize how they have fought before across multiple timelines and that Kronika had orchestrated them all because she fears their combined strength. Anticipating this, Kronika kidnaps Liu Kang. With Kharon recruited, a joint Earthrealm-Outworld army assaults Kronika's Keep. Geras

9685-758: The Hourglass cannot be used to change history without destroying it. He convinces Liu Kang to send him, Fujin, and Nightwolf back in time to retrieve the Crown of Souls before Cetrion does. Despite Raiden's suspicions of Shang Tsung, Liu Kang agrees and sends the trio back, staying behind to protect the Hourglass. Shang Tsung, Fujin, and Nightwolf are transported to the Koliseum just as Kitana confronted Shao Kahn. They attempt to flee undetected, but news spreads of their arrival, prompting Kronika to retaliate. To face Cetrion on his island, Shang Tsung determines their best option

9834-511: The Joker had a redesign due to the initial backlash back in August. The redesign for the Joker was later well-received, citing improvement on his facial features as opposed to the initial reveal. Ed Boon initially described the presence of the Joker as "Vicious", in contrast to his previous appearances that were toned down in both Injustice games and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe in order to secure

9983-424: The Joker's new moveset and gruesome Fatality. Like Mortal Kombat X , Mortal Kombat 11 received skin packs included in the Kombat Pack, normally consisting of three character skins per pack, with a total of eighteen skins all together. A small number of single skins were released for free such as a Harley Quinn -inspired skin for Cassie Cage and a Dimitri Vegas skin for Sub-Zero, featuring Vegas himself providing

10132-422: The Netherrealm. Early installments feature the characters participating in the eponymous Mortal Kombat tournament to decide their realm's fate. In later installments, Earthrealm is often invaded by force. A total of 77 playable fighters have been featured in the series, in addition to unplayable bosses and guest characters. Much of the franchise's mainstays were introduced during the first three games. Nearly all of

10281-520: The Shaolin Tournament from the first game, and is again defeated by Liu Kang in the story mode. He is playable in the 2015 title Mortal Kombat X (2015) as a bonus pre-order character, again serving as a sub-boss in the game's arcade-ladder mode. In Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), Goro's corpse appears in the story mode and in his "Lair" stage during gameplay. Goro appears in Mortal Kombat 1 as an assist character, or "Kameo Fighter", and via

10430-612: The Shirai Ryu clan to oppose him. Smoke, based on his MK3 portrayal, appears in the Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm episode "Old Friends Never Die". He appears in Mortal Kombat Annihilation , in which he is killed in battle by Liu Kang. Smoke has received mostly positive reception, while his "Earth Detonation" Fatality from MK3 has been noted by critics for its outlandish nature. Chameleon

10579-635: The Shirai Ryu. The original Cyrax appears in the Mortal Kombat: Legacy episode "Cyrax & Sektor", played by Shane Warren Jones . According to John Tobias, Cyrax and the cyber ninjas were inspired by the Predator and Boba Fett . The original Cyrax was included in GamesRadar 's 2011 list of "gaming's most malicious machines", and Complex ranked him the fourth-coolest robot in video games in 2012. His episode of Legacy

10728-527: The Soulnado. In Mortal Kombat 11 , Saibot resurfaces as a servant of Kronika , having gained increased power. In the new timeline depicted in Mortal Kombat 1 ' s DLC expansion Khaos Reigns (2024), Bi-Han is captured by Titan Havik, who converts him into Saibot. The character's name comes from the last names of Mortal Kombat ' s creators, Ed Boon and John Tobias , spelled backwards. Saibot first appeared in Mortal Kombat II ( MKII ) as

10877-515: The Special Forces' clutches once again, and convinces Shao Kahn to spare his soul at the outset of the tyrant's invasion of Earth on the grounds that he can teach his armies how to use Earthrealm weaponry. Kano was omitted from Mortal Kombat 4 in favor of new character Jarek , but returns in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (2002). He and Sheeva hatch a plan to assassinate Shao Kahn, but Kano turns on her by preventing

11026-844: The Standard edition released on September 19 of the same year. The sequel received very positive reviews (with the exception of the Switch version, which was received negatively). Netcode Netcode is a blanket term most commonly used by gamers relating to networking in online games , often referring to synchronization issues between clients and servers. Players often infer "bad netcodes" when they experience lag or when their inputs are dropped. Common causes of such issues include high latency between server and client, packet loss , network congestion , and external factors independent to network quality such as frame rendering time or inconsistent frame rates . Netcodes may be designed to uphold

11175-455: The T rating. Another teaser was uploaded on New Year's Day 2020, featuring the character's trademark graffiti and smiling on the walls of Arkham Asylum during fireworks, followed by laughter. Two weeks later, Boon later posted a gameplay image of the Joker covered in blood through his Twitter account, promising a taste of things to come for the character's inclusion. The gameplay trailer was released two days later on January 16, 2020, showcasing

11324-470: The aesthetics department". In North America, Mortal Kombat 11 was the best-selling video game software for the month of April. This, along with Fortnite , contributed to digital game sales reaching over $ 8.8 billion in April. In June 2019, Mortal Kombat 11 surpassed the sales of Kingdom Hearts III . Mortal Kombat 11 proceeded to be the best-selling video game software in North America for

11473-414: The announcement of the character as downloadable content . A public stress test of the game's online mode took place between March 15 and 17. Also, a closed beta was available between March 27 and April 1, 2019, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One pre-order buyers. During the 2019 Brasil Game Show , Ed Boon announced that the story mode of Mortal Kombat 11 served as a conclusion to the saga that started since

11622-526: The arisen Dragon King Onaga, and recruits the mutant clone Mileena into Onaga's ranks in order to pose as Kitana. While Baraka is playable along with the entire series roster in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006), he was not among the seventeen characters therein who received an official biography by Midway and he played no part in the game's storyline. Baraka is a recurring foe in the story mode of 2011 Mortal Kombat reboot, in which

11771-401: The attack. As a reward, he is promoted to general of Outworld's reduced army and manages to repel Princess Kitana and her Edenian-Shokan army. However, after a weakened Kahn is killed by the titular Deadly Alliance of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi , Kano declares his allegiance to them. He is assigned to oversee the enslavement of a small village that constructs a temple over Onaga 's tomb to house

11920-424: The battle, the epilogue will show one of the following: Following Kronika's defeat, Fire God Liu Kang and Raiden attempt to utilize Kronika's Hourglass to restore history, but are interrupted by Shang Tsung , Fujin , and Nightwolf , who were all imprisoned in a timeless void by Kronika for refusing to join her. Shang Tsung elaborates that, due to the destruction of the Crown of Souls when Liu Kang defeated Kronika,

12069-545: The battle, the story ends in one of the following outcomes: The game's roster consists of a total of 37 playable characters; 25 characters in the base game (2 of which are unlockable) and 12 characters available via DLC (5 of which are guest characters). The characters in bold are new to the series, while the italicized ones are guest characters. Kombat Pack 1 Aftermath Kombat Pack 2 Along with series veterans including Kano, Raiden, Scorpion, Sonya Blade and Sub-Zero, and others such as Skarlet, who returns from

12218-469: The bonus costume of character Skarlet, which was also part of the MK11 Premium ;Edition. Mortal Kombat 11 also received heavy backlash from members of the Mortal Kombat fanbase for drastically cutting back on the sex appeal of its female characters. Creator Ed Boon , in an interview with Playboy , claimed it was "unrealistic" for female fighters to be scantily clad and thought that

12367-484: The character voiced by Chris Cox , who was appointed by Schwarzenegger himself. In a December 2015 interview, Ed Boon revealed that like Spawn, the Terminator had been considered as a guest character for Mortal Kombat X . The reveal for the Joker's design was met with negative reception, generating a wave of online fans comparing it to a poor cosplay . A teaser trailer later debuted on December 12, 2019, revealed that

12516-563: The characters have been killed at a point in the story, but have rarely stayed dead. Goro is the sub-boss of the first Mortal Kombat game. He is a Shokan, a half-human, half-dragon race distinguished by his four arms and enormous size. He became Grand Champion of the Mortal Kombat tournament after defeating the Great Kung Lao , and held the title for the next 500 years as part of evil sorcerer Shang Tsung 's plan to manipulate

12665-470: The concept was scrapped due to the difficulty of creating such a complicated outfit. According to series co-creator John Tobias , Kintaro was redesigned as a "Goro spinoff" who was possibly a Shokan general, but not royalty. Kintaro appears in the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms , voiced by Dave B. Mitchell . Kintaro has received a middling reception due to his minor role in

12814-593: The corporate rebrand of Warner Bros. in 2019. Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate , released the same year as the Aftermath DLC, was published under the Warner Bros. Games label, and used the shield logo designed by Pentagram , first introduced in 2019, replacing the WB Games logo used since 2010. At C2E2 on March 22, 2019, Shang Tsung was announced as the first downloadable character, who was returning from

12963-460: The cyborg ninja Smoke , intending to use his body as the basis for an undead cyborg army. In his ending, he is revealed to be a resurrected Bi-Han , who previously operated as Sub-Zero before he was killed by Scorpion . In Mortal Kombat (2011), Saibot is resurrected off-screen by Quan Chi and Shao Kahn. While defending the former's "Soulnado", Saibot is defeated by his brother and new Sub-Zero Kuai Liang and presumed dead after being pulled into

13112-526: The deaths of many of Sonya and Jax's comrades, establishing their vendetta against him. During the events of the first Shaolin tournament, Kano battles Sonya following her fight with the pompous actor Johnny Cage , but he is defeated. While Kano is later beaten by Sonya again after Shang Tsung presents him to her as a challenge, the tournament host forbids her from arresting him. Following this, Kano becomes Shao Kahn's arms supplier, giving his armies Earthrealm weaponry for his impending invasion. After Kabal ,

13261-427: The defending tournament champion in the 2020 animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge that retold the events of the original game, but was a supporting villain in the 2021 live-action reboot film Mortal Kombat , in which he was computer-generated. Goro has received positive critical reception for his formidableness as a boss character in the games, but his cinematic portrayals, particularly in

13410-555: The delay-based netcode model) or more ingenious solutions as the one currently used in Skullgirls , which consists of the systematic omission of one frame every seven so that when the game encounters the problem in question it can recover the skipped frames in order to gradually synchronize the instances of the games on the various machines. Rollback netcode requires the game engine to be able to turn back its state, which requires modifications to many existing engines, and therefore,

13559-535: The desynchronization may compound and be unrecoverable. A game's choice of transport layer protocol (and its management and coding) can also affect perceived networking issues. If a game uses a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), there will be increased latency between players. This protocol is based on the connection between two machines, in which they can exchange data and read it. These types of connections are very reliable, stable, ordered and easy to implement. These connections, however, are not quite suited to

13708-461: The events of Mortal Kombat: Deception , Smoke is reactivated and reprogrammed by Noob Saibot into serving him as his ally and template for an army of cyber-demons. In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon , Smoke helps Saibot stage an assault on a Lin Kuei temple in Arctika until he is defeated by Taven . In Mortal Kombat (2011), during which Raiden creates a new timeline while attempting to avert

13857-420: The events of Armageddon , Smoke is rewritten to become Tomas Vrbada , a Czech member of the Lin Kuei who can transform into his namesake. As a child, he was kidnapped by a cult who sought to sacrifice him to a demon, only for Smoke to become an enenra and slay the cultists. In the present, Smoke is chosen by Raiden to help him stop Shao Kahn from taking over Earthrealm. Though Raiden saves Smoke from becoming

14006-449: The events of the first three games are retold, and he is defeated by Johnny Cage , Cyrax , Jax , and Jade . In the retold storyline of Mortal Kombat II , he leads his Tarkatan armies in an invasion of Earthrealm. He is not playable in Mortal Kombat X , but appears in the game's story mode when his fellow Tarkatans aid D'Vorah in loading captive Shaolin monks before they are confronted and defeated by Raiden, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao. In

14155-568: The final battle between Shang Tsung and Shaolin monk Liu Kang , Sonya reluctantly teams up with Kano to fight off the Shokan Prince Goro . During their battle, the island immediately self-destructs following Shang Tsung's defeat, trapping Kano and Sonya in the otherworldly dimension Outworld. Kano is unplayable in Mortal Kombat II (1993), in which he and Sonya are both captured and chained on display in Outworld emperor Shao Kahn 's arena. In Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), Kano escapes

14304-523: The first Mortal Kombat title and the storyline that was established in the 2011 reboot . It used the Unreal Engine 3 . The Nintendo Switch version was developed by Shiver Entertainment while the Windows version was developed by QLOC. The game was released on April 23, 2019, across Microsoft Windows , Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , and Xbox One , with a Stadia port releasing later in

14453-424: The first time in the series. However, the feature is in beta and this excludes Nintendo Switch, PC and Stadia. Following Shinnok 's defeat , Dark Raiden plans to protect Earthrealm by destroying all of its enemies and making an example of Shinnok, decapitating him. This latter act inspires Kronika , the keeper of time, to rewrite history to undo Raiden's interference and erase him from existence. Two years later,

14602-693: The following month of May, for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4, the sales of the game is nearly doubled comparably to previous entries of the series. In May 2019, the game reached number 1 in Australia, and number 2 in New Zealand. It reached number 2 in Switzerland. It was the 4th most downloaded game on the European PlayStation Store charts in April 2019. Overall, Mortal Kombat 11 was the fifth best selling game of 2019 and

14751-533: The fourth best selling PS4 game of 2019. By 2022, the game had sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, making it the best-selling game in the Mortal Kombat franchise. Due to its violence and gore, Mortal Kombat 11 is banned in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, and China. It was also banned in Ukraine because of the laws banning Communist symbols . Some of these symbols are present on the "Kollection" images and on

14900-456: The game a 9, praising the fighting system calling it "accessible, deep and exciting" as well praising the story mode. However, they criticized the "always-online requirement for progression" as well as the randomization of rewards in the Krypt. The Nintendo Switch version of the game was also well received. Pure Nintendo gave the game a 9, praising the game's story mode, customization mode, and

15049-463: The game can act in two ways: if the prediction is correct, the game continues as-is, in a totally continuous way; if the prediction was incorrect, the game state is reverted and gameplay continues from the corrected state, seen as a "jump" to the other player or players (equivalent to 45 ms, following the example). Some games utilize a hybrid solution in order to disguise these "jumps" (which can become problematic as latency between players grows, as there

15198-572: The game simulation between the server and clients. Tickrate for games like first-person shooters is often between 128 ticks per second (such is Valorant 's case) , 64 ticks per second (in games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch ), 30 ticks per second (like in Fortnite and Battlefield V 's console edition) and 20 ticks per second (such are the controversial cases of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare , Call of Duty: Warzone and Apex Legends ). A lower tickrate also naturally reduces

15347-466: The game's tutorials, though stated that the online features are where the Nintendo Switch version "falls short". Nintendo Life gave the game an 8 out of 10, praising the game on its features, though it was critical on the game's graphics, stating that "it's a performance-first experience that nails 60fps, and boasts every mode and mechanic from other versions, only with a noticeable downgrade in

15496-424: The gameplay of those players that receive inputs at a slower pace, while the player whose game is slowed down will have an advantage over the rest by receiving inputs from others at a normal rate (this is known as one-sided rollback). To address this uneven input flow (and consequently, an uneven frame flow as well), there are standard solutions such as waiting for the late entries to arrive to all machines (similar to

15645-481: The group capture the Crown. Fujin and Shang Tsung travel to the Fire Garden to convince Raiden of Shang Tsung's alliance. When Kronika attempts to intervene, Raiden, Fujin, and Shang Tsung fend her off, though she reveals the sorcerer was the one who designed the Crown. As the offensive on Kronika's Keep is about to commence, Shang Tsung signals Sindel to heal Shao Kahn. The pair then betray and defeat Sheeva, gaining control of her army before destroying Geras, imprisoning

15794-629: The implementation of this system can be problematic and expensive in AAA type games (which usually have a solid engine and a high-traffic network), as commented by Dragon Ball FighterZ producer Tomoko Hiroki, among others. Although this system is often associated with a peer-to-peer architecture and fighting games, there are forms of rollback networking that are also commonly used in client-server architectures (for instance, aggressive schedulers found in database management systems include rollback functionality) and in other video game genres . There

15943-466: The intro to the story mode and in one of the stages (albeit only his head); Sektor and Cyrax , who also appear in the story mode as NPC opponents; Ermac , Reptile and Smoke , who all appear in the gameplay as part of Shang Tsung's moveset, as well as one of Rain's fatalities; and Kintaro , who appears in one of Shang Tsung's fatalities. Mortal Kombat 11 was developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment ,

16092-411: The last of her power. As he starts approaching the Hourglass to mold his New Era, Fire God Liu Kang appears, revealing he was aware of Shang Tsung's intentions and, knowing he was the only one strong enough to defeat Kronika, allowed Shang Tsung to stay alive to protect the Crown. From this point, the player can choose their "final destiny" and fight as Shang Tsung or Liu Kang. Depending on the outcome of

16241-535: The latter receives injuries from his past self. Raiden arrives too late to stop Shang Tsung from tricking Fujin into giving him the Crown. The sorcerer gains Kronika's full power, revealing he had planned everything after Kronika imprisoned him. He overpowers and drains Raiden and Fujin's souls before using Sindel and Shao Kahn to reach the Hourglass. Once Kronika's remaining revenants are killed, Shang Tsung betrays Sindel and Shao Kahn and takes their souls as well before defeating and erasing Kronika from existence, gaining

16390-449: The latter. Mortal Kombat 11 received generally favorable reviews according to the review aggregator website Metacritic . IGN praised the more slow-paced combat compared to the previous game in the series , as well as the expanded tutorial, story mode and improved netcode. However, it condemned the game's drawn-out progression and customization unlock system, which was described as "frustratingly gimmicky and grindy". GameSpot gave

16539-404: The mobile game that had originally been launched as Mortal Kombat X for iOS and Android, was renamed to Mortal Kombat Mobile as it received its 2.0 update, incorporating Mortal Kombat 11 content in the process. Among these changes, the graphics engine was transitioned from Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 4 . The app is available on App Store and Google Play, with 50 million downloads in

16688-472: The mysterious Tarkat virus and outcast to a disarrayed Outworld colony. The character was first conceived by Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias as a "savage barbarian demon warrior" who was initially planned to be in the first Mortal Kombat game. He was visualized for MKII with a Nosferatu mask adorned with silver-painted false fingernails serving as his teeth, while his arm blades were constructed from silver cardboard. Baraka appears briefly in

16837-485: The necromancer Quan Chi into one of his undead revenant slaves. In this state, Kabal makes minor appearances in Mortal Kombat X , in which he appears as an NPC, and Mortal Kombat 11 , which additionally features a young time-displaced Kabal who had yet to leave the Black Dragon. Kabal appears in the Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm episode "Amends", which is based on his MK3 backstory;

16986-487: The network speeds that fast-action games require, as this type of protocol ( Real Time Streaming Protocols ) automatically groups data into packets (which will not be sent until a certain volume of information is reached, unless this algorithm — Nagle's algorithm — is disabled) which will be sent through the connection established between the machines, rather than directly (sacrificing speed for security). This type of protocol also tends to respond very slowly whenever they lose

17135-437: The new Kahn while Mileena sets up an ambush, but Kotal realizes Kano is going to betray him and defeats the criminal. After he defeats Mileena, Kano retreats to Earthrealm. He infiltrates an Outworld refugee camp but is caught by Kenshi and Sonya, who take him into custody. In Mortal Kombat 11 (2019), Kano aligns himself with the keeper of time Kronika . To assist her further by fixing and mass-producing Sektor, she brings in

17284-439: The number of times that updates (of a simulation) are sent to a particular client and/or particular objects in the game's world in addition to reducing the precision of some values sent over the network to help with bandwidth use. This lack of precision may in some instances be noticeable. Various simulation synchronization errors between machines can also fall under the "netcode issues" blanket. These may include bugs which cause

17433-564: The object first and transports himself and Kano back to Earthrealm, the latter soon escapes custody. Kano joins the then-entire playable roster in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (2006). In the game's training mode, the demigod Taven finds him being held prisoner by the Red Dragon Clan. Before escaping their facilities, Kano explains to Taven that the Red Dragon had been experimenting on him and their clansmen in an effort to create genetically engineered dragons and human-dragon hybrids. He

17582-500: The offer until after the release of Mortal Kombat X . Leading up to a Reddit AMA in December 2018 where McFarlane hinted that Spawn would be in Mortal Kombat 11 . The gameplay trailer featuring Spawn was released on March 8, 2020, during the "Final Kombat" tournament, where David attended the event as a guest alongside the debut of the red band trailer for the animated film Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge . On August 21,

17731-467: The pair are thwarted by Cetrion, who eventually escapes with the Crown, and present-day Jax, who had been deceived by Kronika into helping her in exchange for averting his time as a revenant. Hasashi is tasked with convincing Kharon, the ferryman of Netherrealm's souls, to join their side so they can travel to Kronika's fortress. Hasashi fights Scorpion and persuades him to join his side, but is fatally wounded by D'Vorah. Scorpion drives her away and returns to

17880-555: The precision of the simulation, which itself might cause problems if taken too far, or if the client and server simulations are running at significantly different rates. Because of limitations in the amount of available bandwidth and the CPU time that's taken by network communication, some games prioritize certain vital communications while limiting the frequency and priority of less important information. As with tickrate, this effectively increases synchronization latency. Game engines may limit

18029-412: The previous netcode is rollback netcode. This system immediately runs the inputs of the local player (so that they are not delayed as with delay-based netcode), as if it were an offline game, and predicts the inputs of the remote player or players instead of waiting for them (assuming they will make the same input as the one in the previous tick). Once these remote inputs arrive (suppose, e.g., 45 ms later),

18178-489: The previous three games in the series, including Mortal Kombat Mobile , Mortal Kombat 11 is a 2.5D fighting game . Alongside the returning Fatalities , Brutalities, Stage Fatalities, Friendships and Quitalities, new gameplay features are introduced, such as Fatal Blows and Krushing Blows. Fatal Blows are special moves similar to the X-ray moves in the 2011 reboot and Mortal Kombat X . Like X-ray moves, Fatal Blows deal

18327-463: The promise of returning his fellow Shokan to their former glory and the banishment of their archenemies, the Centaurs, in exchange for his allegiance, and resumes his place at Shao Kahn's side. Goro was not playable in either game. He is a boss character in the 2005 beat 'em up title Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks . In the 2011 Mortal Kombat series reboot, Goro resumes his role as the sub-boss of

18476-524: The reboot, he is defeated by Kung Lao during the tournament. The reboot also establishes him as being responsible for Kabal's injuries. In the 2015 Mortal Kombat X prequel comic, Kintaro is killed by Sonya Blade while she is under Havik's control. The character was a stop-motion clay figure whose design was inspired by the Japanese mythological character Kintarō . He was initially conceived for MKII as an anthropomorphic fur-lined bipedal tiger, but

18625-460: The remaining revenants and Cetrion. Kronika then absorbs Cetrion's essence to strengthen herself enough to reverse time back to the primordial state of the universe, erasing all the events in the franchise from existence. Fire God Liu Kang is left unaffected due to his godly status. Kronika and Fire God Liu Kang fight one final time to determine the fate of the New Era. Depending on the outcome of

18774-636: The remaining two guest characters were revealed as the T-800 model from the Terminator franchise and the Joker from DC Comics , marking his return to the series since Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe after being a playable character in the Injustice series, with voice actor Richard Epcar reprising the role from both. As a tie-in release to Terminator: Dark Fate , the Terminator's facial likeness and capture were provided by Arnold Schwarzenegger , with

18923-414: The respective voices and likenesses of Linden Ashby , Bridgette Wilson , and Christopher Lambert , who portrayed them in the 1995 Mortal Kombat film. On July 2, 2021, NetherRealm Studios announced that Mortal Kombat 11 would no longer receive DLC and update support, and that they would instead be focusing on their next projects, Mortal Kombat 1 and Mortal Kombat: Onslaught . In February 2019,

19072-413: The return of stage fatalities and the friendship finishing move. An enhanced version of the game containing all downloadable content up to that point, titled Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate , was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 , Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on November 17, 2020. A sequel, and series reboot , Mortal Kombat 1 , was released on September 19, 2023. Like

19221-432: The script for Mortal Kombat Annihilation before he was cut during production; Mortal Kombat (2021) as one of Shang Tsung's champions before he is killed by Liu Kang ; and Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind as a member of the Black Dragon. Kabal was originally nicknamed "Sandman" during production of MK3 before his name was determined. According to Mortal Kombat co-creator John Tobias , Kabal's overall design

19370-591: The series and is often unfavorably compared to Goro; UGO Networks opined in 2012 that Kintaro "serves no real purpose except for being a reskinned Goro whose sole purpose is to avenge the aforementioned's death" in the conclusion of the original game. Game Informer , in 2021, rated him 56th among the series' 76 playable characters: "Kintaro’s arrival wasn’t as impactful as Goro's since the Shokan boss thing had already been done before. NetherRealm also seems content with giving him more and more feline attributes in place of

19519-487: The series is a Flawless Block mechanic, which allows for a comeback window after blocking an attack with precise timing. Another returning finisher is Mercy, last seen in Mortal Kombat Trilogy , where the winning player can opt to revive their opponent after the "Finish Him/Her" prompt, causing the opponent to gain a small amount of life. Mortal Kombat 11 introduces a Kustom Variation feature which offers

19668-407: The server's tickrate; this is essentially the server equivalent of a client's frame rate , absent any rendering system. Tickrate is limited by the length of time it takes to run the simulation, and is often intentionally limited further to reduce instability introduced by a fluctuating tickrate, and to reduce CPU and data transmission costs. A lower tickrate increases latency in the synchronization of

19817-432: The simulation to proceed differently on one machine than on another, or which cause some things to not be communicated when the user perceives that they ought to be. Traditionally, real-time strategy games (such as Age of Empires ) have used lockstep protocol peer-to-peer networking models where it is assumed the simulation will run exactly the same on all clients; if, however, one client falls out of step for any reason,

19966-415: The staff and some members of the team were said to suffer nightmares as a result. The studio was also accused of instituting "crunch culture" , with employees regularly working 80 to 100 hours a week to meet submission deadlines. In January 2021, a Mortal Kombat 11 Pro Kompetition finalist, Titaniumtigerzz, was disqualified for naming his Sheeva variation 'WhyDidNRSdoThis'. The name "was supposed to be

20115-922: The timeline, Cyrax is rewritten to become a human Tswana member of the Lin Kuei who relies on his chi and opposes the "Cyber Initiative". Nonetheless, he is captured and forcibly converted off-screen. He and Sektor later capture Kuai Liang and take him to be converted as well before aligning themselves with Shao Kahn and assisting him in his invasion of Earthrealm, only to be defeated by Nightwolf . As of Mortal Kombat 11 , Cyrax joined forces with Kronika to help Sektor bolster her forces with more cyborgs. However, Kuai Liang and Hanzo Hasashi defeat Cyrax, causing him to realize what happened to him, then convince him to help them stop her instead. Though Kuai Liang promises to help restore him, Cyrax chooses to sacrifice himself to destroy Sektor's cyber factory. Two incarnations of Cyrax appear in Mortal Kombat 1 . The original appears as an assist character, or "Kameo Fighter", while

20264-411: The tournament in order to achieve Outworld emperor Shao Kahn 's goal of dominance of Earthrealm. However, these plans were thwarted when the Earthrealm warrior Liu Kang defeated both Goro and Shang Tsung, allowing Earthrealm to regain control of the tournament. Goro disappeared thereafter and was believed to be dead. In Mortal Kombat II , Goro is succeeded by another member of his race, Kintaro , and

20413-428: The two inputs and run them simultaneously. This added delay can be disruptive for players (especially when latency is high), but overall the change is not very noticeable. However, these delays can be inconsistent due to sudden fluctuations in current latency. Should the latency between players exceed an established buffer window for the remote player, the game must wait, causing the screens to "freeze". This occurs because

20562-490: The two parties also involved with the game's predecessor, Mortal Kombat X . The game was announced by series co-creator Ed Boon in December 2018, at The Game Awards 2018 , with a trailer showcasing Dark Raiden and Scorpion fighting against each other. At the end of the announcement trailer it was announced that pre-order buyers would have Shao Kahn available as a playable character. The trailer featured " Immortal ", an original song by artist 21 Savage . On January 17, 2019,

20711-549: The voice for the skin as Sub-Zero. During the Summer of 2019, two Klassic skin packs were released in a period of two months, consisting of a Klassic Ninja skin pack in June and a Klassic Arcade Fighter skin pack in August 2019. In October 2019, a Double Feature skin pack was released while a Halloween skin pack was released for free. In November 2019, a Gothic horror skin pack was released. In January 2020, an Elseworlds -themed skin pack

20860-505: The worst Mortal Kombat characters. "Unlike all of the other ninja palette swaps that eventually gained their own identity and playstyle, both Chameleons ... feel more like gimmicks than anything." Cyrax is an assassin and Botswanan member of the Lin Kuei clan who agreed to become a cyborg. First appearing in Mortal Kombat 3 , he and fellow cyborg Sektor are tasked with finding and killing former member Kuai Liang . Amidst Outworld emperor Shao Kahn 's invasion of Earthrealm however, Cyrax

21009-538: The year on November 19, 2019. On March 22, 2022, almost three years after the game's release, a patch was released for the PC version, removing the Denuvo Anti-Tamper from it, among other minor changes. McFarlane Toys produced a line of action figures to promote the game. The physical release of Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath , released in June 2020, was the final game published under the WB Games label, following

21158-402: The younger Kano to erase his present self from existence. Meanwhile, Kitana, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao battle Baraka to secure an alliance between him and Sheeva . With their aid, Kitana successfully defeats and blinds Shao Kahn, uniting the Outworld factions and inheriting the throne from Kotal. Raiden sends Jax and Jacqui to Shang Tsung 's now-abandoned island to retrieve the Crown of Souls, but

21307-427: Was added to the roster of the 2000 Sega Dreamcast -exclusive upgrade Mortal Kombat Gold , in which Quan Chi offers him a chance to rule the Outworld realm of Edenia by his side if he agrees to join the fallen Elder God Shinnok's army. While Baraka accepts, he secretly plans to betray his new masters. In Mortal Kombat: Deception , Baraka and the remainder of his Tarkatan (formerly "Nomad") race ally themselves with

21456-399: Was announced to be released with the Joker alongside a Darkseid skin for Geras. In March 2020, a Matinee skin pack was released with Spawn including a "Hellspawn" themed skin for Jacqui Briggs. On May 5, 2020, a new story mode DLC was teased, to be announced the following day. This DLC was revealed to be titled Aftermath and together with new story mode content, it consists of Fujin , who

21605-512: Was initially named Kao , and his faceplate came from being shot while escaping Sonya in an early planned Special Forces game . Kano's bionic metal faceplate was inspired by Arnold Schwarzenegger 's character in The Terminator , with the infrared eye added digitally. Baraka is a member of a lowly Outworld race called the Tarkatans, who are known for their violent and unpredictable behavior and characterized by long gnashing teeth and

21754-535: Was last playable in Armageddon ; Sheeva , who previously appeared as a non playable character in the game's story mode; and an additional guest character, RoboCop , with actor Peter Weller reprising his role for the first time since RoboCop 2 . Three additional skin packs were announced in July 2020 as part of the post Aftermath launch, which were released between August and September 2020. On October 6, 2020,

21903-469: Was originally named "Gongoro" before his final name was determined, and was constructed as a stop-motion clay figurine that eventually fell apart after excessive use in capturing its movements for the game. Goro has a prominent role in Malibu Comics ' Mortal Kombat series that followed the events of the first game, and was the subject of the 1994 three-issue miniseries Goro: Prince of Pain . In

22052-555: Was that the team wanted to "create an appreciation" for the character, after getting constant replies from fans on social media demanding her return. An enhanced version of the game with all downloadable content included, titled Mortal Kombat 11: Ultimate , was released on November 17, 2020 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 , Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S . A "Klassic MK Movie" skin pack was released on November 24, 2020, adding new skins for Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Raiden using

22201-599: Was well received, but critical reaction to his Fatalities has been mixed. Kabal is a former member of Kano 's Black Dragon crime syndicate and one of Raiden 's champions in defending Earthrealm who was attacked, maimed, and scarred by Shao Kahn 's extermination squads. As a result, Kabal was forced to wear a respirator to survive and left the Black Dragon. Following an appearance as a non-playable character (NPC) in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance , Kabal returns in Mortal Kombat: Deception , in which he

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