Mortal Kombat X is coming next week, and then, finally, we’ll start the slow process of shutting the hell up about it. For now though, it’s the in the news, and as that’s what we’re in the habit of delivering, we’ll continue to write about it. Mostly positively, too. But there’s a bit of bad news for those of you hoping to jump in to a few online matches as soon as you have the game. Like just about every other game, there’s a day one patch for the fighter – and it clocks in at just under 2GB.
That’s according to a redditor, who’s lucky enough to be playing already. He’s been hit with a 1.85GB patch on the PS4, which has been confirmed by other sources. The patch offers bug fixes, difficulty adjustments, and preps the game for online adversarial multiplayer.
The game’s single player story campaign is also apparently rather short, with unverified reports coming in that game clocks in at just around 4 hours of play – nearly half the time Mortal Kombat 9 took to play. Of course, that game ret-conned the first 3 games, so it has quite a bit more story to work with. The game’s living towers, arcade mode, renewed and lengthy Krypt and online multiplayer will add a healthy dose of longevity.
Of course, that’s still longer than a Street Fighter campaign and a Tekken one put together. Mortal Kombat X is out in less than week
Last Updated: April 8, 2015
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:35
A 2GB day one patch? Did they forget to include the game on the disc?
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:41
Nope. they added Afrikaans to the game. Now Scorpion yells “Kom Hier!!!”
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:45
Haha! I can only imagine Johnny Cage with an American accent: “Deenkey fiir jau diens…”
DrKiller
April 8, 2015 at 17:05
hahahaha! I’d buy that
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:47
Jiggle fizzix
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 08:47
Of what? The guts spilling out?
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:48
Duh, what did you think I meant?
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:50
Guy hanging by his liver being punched sideways really needs those jiggle fizzix…
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:50
YES!
skadow
April 8, 2015 at 18:03
Lol right
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 08:37
And so it starts…
Umar
April 8, 2015 at 08:39
I really Hope SF V at least offers us some more content than most of the other Capcom fighters last gen. It was clear that the games were tourney focused, but damn…Doesn’t mean it has to be that bare bones. Remember Tekken 3? Had a Volley Ball mode, tons of secrets, story mode, hell it even had a freaking 2D beat em up thing going on…
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:40
Yeah, but those were in the days you did not have interwebz on your console. Nowadays, fighting games are going the way of CoD. Barely there SP with tons of effort thrown into the multiplayer.
Umar
April 8, 2015 at 08:44
Correct yes, sad though as I believe the genre doesn’t have to be tied down to MP and Tournaments
RinceThis
April 8, 2015 at 08:41
LOL!
Ranting Raptor
April 8, 2015 at 08:41
Lol. 2GB day 1 patch. Fail.
WitWolfy
April 8, 2015 at 08:43
4 Hours… So I take it this game was mostly meant to be MP then?
Sk3tz0
April 8, 2015 at 09:36
It’s a fighting game NOONE buys a fighting game for story mode
Dutch Matrix
April 8, 2015 at 08:44
I do hope that when the download starts, we see an animation of Scorpion spearing a zipped file and yelling “install here!”
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 08:44
hahaha brilliant!
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:00
Or Shang Tsung yelling
Elenora Tazia
April 8, 2015 at 15:34
And when the download fails, Shao Kahn comes out of no where saying, “You Suck”.
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 08:45
my question is do i have to install the day one patch to get Goro ?
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 08:47
Yes! you’ll undoubtedly have to, didn’t you know, the game only comes out with half of a character and three moves? The rest is DLC which you’ll probably have to donate a kidney for…
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 09:00
But i use that kidney for my coffee…
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 09:06
Muhaha!! Muhahahahaha!!! Not any more…
Elenora Tazia
April 8, 2015 at 15:36
Goro will have 6 arms without the patch. So installing the patch will demode him to have just 4.
Francois Knoetze
April 8, 2015 at 08:46
Never really played it for the story. MK was always a good reason to just enjoy beating the crap out of my sister, friends, random people visiting the house, hobo outside my window, person in trunk(all thrust into a little dark room with a very big tv)…ok I lie get my ass kicked 50% of the time.
hairyknees
April 8, 2015 at 08:46
50% win rate sounds decent at least 😛
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 11:02
I suppose you’re using your dota win rate as reference? Is that really fair? I mean most people have higher win rates you know? 😛
*RUNS
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:46
4 hours is fine for MK. It’s rather long for a fighting game, and nobody plays a fighter for its story. Nobody.
hairyknees
April 8, 2015 at 08:48
I dono, I really enjoyed playing through the MK9 story 😛 CUT SCENE FIGHT CUT SCENE FIGHT FIGHT CUT SCENE OOOH FIGHT! It was fun 🙂
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 08:50
I’m currently doing that, it is kinda fun
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 08:52
Honestly, the cut scenes just annoy me. I play a fighting game to punch things (and hurt my thumbs from randomly pressing buttons as fast as I can). The “story” just gets in the way of that.
Everyone I know (besides yourself and the Admiral) feels the same way.
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 08:54
It’s like watching a bad movie that you can actually partake in moering things to get the frustration of the bad movie out of your system
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 09:00
hahahahaha wp 😀
Admiral Chief
April 8, 2015 at 09:18
Instead of facepalming about the cheese factor, you can klap someones face with your fist
hairyknees
April 8, 2015 at 10:40
Johnny Cage for president xD
Umar
April 8, 2015 at 08:48
Really? A ton of people do, ask any BlazBlue or P4U player. Hell P4U as at leat 30 hours of story.
ReaperOfSquirrels
April 8, 2015 at 08:57
2GB day one patch? That’s tiny compared to the other ones of late.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:01
Hopefully it has an arcade mode as well, so that you can play through every characters story.
Koos
April 8, 2015 at 09:04
Super misleading and sensationalistic headline…. You do mention a couple of the other features, but seriously, this game will end up getting you probably 100 hours+ of playtime. The story is around 4 hours (And its awesome, like another Mortal Kombat movie essentially – be grateful for it at all, especially when looking at the rubbish ways Soulcalibur 5 or Dead or alive 5 tried to imitate it – idiotically), but then there’s arcade mode, where you fight 10 battles with unique endings for each character, let’s not forget 3 variations per character to play around with/learn, essentially the character roster x 3, then challenge towers of all sorts of varieties, even “living towers” which update daily/weekly/monthly, test your might and test your luck towers, then the Krypt which is for all intents and purposes a first person exploration/puzzle game where you unlock various things. Test your luck alone adds super re-playability (Adding all sorts of stack-able modifiers to matches). Then theres multiplayer. Gosh, I got an insane amount of hours from MK9 and this looks to be similar, expect its longevity to actually be around 2 years+ worth of fun and uncovering new moves and strategies against your friends over beer, online multiplayer matches, gosh… Badly phrased and misleading headline much….
GooseZA
April 8, 2015 at 09:16
“The game’s living towers, arcade mode, renewed and lengthy Krypt and online multiplayer will add a healthy dose of longevity.”
Koos
April 8, 2015 at 09:17
Hence I said he did mention it… I just added more emphasis and detail…
Lord Chaos
April 8, 2015 at 09:25
Honestly, I kinda took the heading as the story mode.
Fighting games are made for hours of fun with friends as well as online. Not like the game stops working after 4 hours.
Lardus-Resident Perve
April 8, 2015 at 09:30
I also immediately connected the 4 hours to the story mode. Especially with all the press short stories have been getting this year. Nothing wrong with the headline…more like sensationalist complaint-posting haha
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 09:30
Imagine that, this little timer on the side of the screen with a prompt that goes: “Finish it!” 30 seconds before the game just shuts down…
Koos
April 8, 2015 at 09:32
Pity the headline isn’t “Mortal Kombat X STORY MODE is 4 hours
long, has 2GB day one patch”, is my problem with it… They should change it, I reckon… But anyhoo, super hyped for this, 6 days!
Cunning Stunts
April 8, 2015 at 09:15
I gave up my PS4 and took up Backgammon and sex instead.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:17
Your name……I see what you did there 😛
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 09:18
much easier to play PS4 and have sex,then to trow dies and have sex…
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:18
Strip chess is where it’s at.
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 09:20
Gives a whole new meaning to knight takes queen!
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 09:24
Shame boet, I’m the King. If you know what I mean. 😉
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 09:28
and the king gets checked by a mate! O_o
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 09:33
She can check my mate any time. 😀
Loftus
April 8, 2015 at 09:50
As long as it isn’t the bishop that checks you, i hear they have a tendency to do such things.
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 10:03
Eish. I suppose we all knew bishops weren’t quite straight. Still, I’d hate to be pawned off on one of them.
Brendon Bosch
April 8, 2015 at 09:17
Saw this koming a mile away. Every kurrent gen konsole has day one patches.
Tbone187
April 8, 2015 at 09:19
Gameplay looks like much of the same from MK9 tbh.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:24
More like Injustice, especially the use of environments and the combo system
Tbone187
April 8, 2015 at 09:31
Yup, but is that enough change/innovation? Same developers involved as Injustice so it’s not entirely unexpected.Played Killer Instinct the other day and that was very button bashing-esque and uninspiring. New Gen should include new gameplay aspects, not just shiny graphics imo. Fighters need innovation coz they all seem to be stuck in a rut…Same ol’ , same ol’…rince and repeat.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:39
There’s three variations for each character as well as new finishers. Plus the living towers and factions are new additions. Pick one of the five and fight for supremacy. Not sure how it works but I am intrigued
Tbone187
April 8, 2015 at 09:42
That does sound intriguing indeed! Wait for the review from you guys to get a better understanding.
Hammersteyn
April 8, 2015 at 09:49
I don’t have the cash this month and the DLC is irritating but I truly believe that it will be bigger and better than MK9
Tbone187
April 8, 2015 at 10:00
To be fair, they had to get something out the public for the Predator character but I hear you on DLC content being an annoyance.My cash is going to The Witcher 1st and foremost! Even MK takes back seat, I’m afraid.
Sk3tz0
April 8, 2015 at 09:34
2Gigs nothing.. Actually if you think about it.. Play the Story mode get use to the Characters/moves and by time you’re done the patch should be finished aswell.. see No Problem
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 09:42
I still want a spoof version called Mortal Wombat…
Ali G
April 8, 2015 at 09:44
Iz gonna still be betta dan witcha 3
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 09:46
Kill it!! Kill it with fire!! My eyes are bleeding!!
Pariah
April 8, 2015 at 11:00
Ay, show sum respec. Recognyz!
Ali G
April 8, 2015 at 12:12
Yous betta go an’ as da doctor chek hat dat, hit might be serious medical condishun, Maybe da little bit hof da greenz iz gonna cure hit up
Greylingad
April 8, 2015 at 20:18
A question to you dear sir…
Geoffrey Tim
April 8, 2015 at 10:38
AAAAAIGHT
Nikola
April 8, 2015 at 10:16
Usually I would complain about day one patch buuuuut I don’t care I just want this game now!!
Her Highness the Hipster
April 8, 2015 at 10:49
At least it won’t take long to FINISH HIM….
that’s what she said…
i’m leaving now.
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DrKiller
April 8, 2015 at 17:06
I wish my games’ patches was this small
Gr8_Balls_o_KFM_Fire
April 8, 2015 at 20:55
What’s up with all this day 1 patching??
PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR POOR PLANNING!
Fucking get the game right before rushing to release. And SET A REALISTIC RELEASE DATE!
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Stronger, o Forte
April 9, 2015 at 15:53
But Mk 9 has 4/5 hours too ‘-‘, I din’t understand this argument
Treezle
April 10, 2015 at 15:08
I’ll wait a month till this game is being sold for peanuts by people who rushed to buy it for no apparent reason.