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Machiavellian on 26 April 2019
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Neodegenerate said:
RaptorChrist said:
I haven't had a whole lot of time with MK11 yet, but I've finished all the main tutorials, tower tutorials, and a couple character specific tutorials, as well as finished up through Chapter 4 of the main story.

It definitely seems like unlocking everything would take an enormous amount of time, but I don't know that I would call it "grindy", as it doesn't seem like something you'd really "grind" for. The rewards you get in the Krypt seem to be random, but I could be wrong.

The amount of Kosmetic items in the game is absolutely insane. Each character has close to 100 unique, unlockable character details, split between costumes, weapons, masks, etcetera. Scorpion, for example, has a category of spear heads.

In addition to these costume pieces, there are also unlockable fatalities and brutalities for each character, as well as between-round taunts, the animation that plays at the beginning of a match, and the victory pose.

There's also a ton of koncept art for each character (roughly 8 per character), and you can unlock maybe 20 music tracks, and another 50 to 100 main story concept art pieces.

And that's not all. Each player has their unique "Kombat Kard", which shows your level, icon, background picture, etcetera. There seems to be hundreds of kustomizable art assets that you can unlock to show off your achievements.

I'm probably forgetting something, as there are truly a mega crap ton of unlockables.

I haven't played enough yet to notice any sort of "scam", or incentive to spend money.

I haven't seen anything scandalous or anything that would lead me to believe the microtransactions are causing things to be pay to win.  Also, Netherrealm has already come out and confirmed that they are putting out a patch, early next week at the latest, to make the towers of time more fair and worthwhile to farm.  All the crying about microtransactions and such on this one appears to just be the standard "microtransactions are the devil I don't care" type of response.

There is no pay to win for the grind, its all cosmetic stuff.  It really isn't that much different from InJustice 2 where they had a ton of little customization you can play the single player for.  For people who only want to play the MP, it could be a bore which is understandable but then again you can just cheese these towers by creating an AI and have it mine for you while you sleep.  I will say, anytime you give people the option to pay real money to unlock stuff, the developers put themselves into this situation but there is nothing nefarious going on as far as the game goes.