During Sony State of Play new trailer for MK11 was shown with new gamplay and story bits. It was confirmed, that Liu Kang, Kung Lao and Jax are playable in MK11.

https://youtu.be/4zeAFp3TR0Y

To save you all a little time, in the link above the relevant trailer starts at 29:57

alternatively, here's a link to just the trailer. You're not missing anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njfi22yYOjE

cool to see more confirmations but a little surprised we didn't really hear about this in advance. Jax and Kung Lao are looking good, seem to have made the graphical jump in style. The brief glimpse of Jax's alternate costume is even better.

Hopefully these two play as good as they look. Jax especially needs some gameplay with interesting distinctions from Jacqui's

Leaked roster is looking ever real-er

Ugh... yet another human characters confirmed -.-

Kano definitely ain't having a son now, lol

Also liked the brief glimpse of living Kitana

Just found that trailer too. That Liu Kangs dragon fatality looked nice... very nice. And that seemed Jax very young version. And young Kitana, ... lots to see in this trailer.
Not liking Jax face, too different from his previous iteration. You can only recognize him because of the arms.

More to the end, who is that character that Cassie is fighting against? (Nvm, I think it's Erron Black)

Trailer music... sorry, but the music with the trailers are more miss than hit this time.

Good find on the video. Thanks for the links.

Jax's new face is way worse than Sonya's. Looks like a fat Kayne West. Not only the worst design in MK11 so far, but the worst Jax design ever.

I think the dragon may be a part of Liu Kang's fatal blow rather than his fatality. this is just a guess but the lighting seems much more in line with the "dimmed lights" of fatal blows compared to the "lights off" of fatalities we have seen so far. Unless something in the background is significantly brightening the scene. I could be wrong.

Cassie is fighting Erron Black I believe but it is a bit odd to see him without his mask

This one is less a direct answer to you but more a general comment but I didn't mind Jax's face. At the very least im giving his face the benefit of the doubt that were still a ways from release and the trailer may not have done it justice.

I believe that's Erron, just lost the hat and mask for whatever reason (more than likely to be a customization of some sort as well)

Original Kitana from trailer

Didn't notice upon first viewing, but if you take a closer look at Old Jax's attire, he seems to be sporting a Team Kronika uniform similar to Geras & Frost.

This may explain why (like Frost) we've seen and heard so little about Jax thus far. Frost has always been a jerk, but I'm guessing Jax is going to play the role of the dejected hero, unhappy with the way things turned out, who's actually swayed by the villain's vision for an alternative path.

Which would also explain why Jacqui seems sided with Young Jax... who looks ready to punch Old Jax.

You know what I notice now? Seems like everybody/most is/are wearing leather.

They are looking great. Revanant Liu Kang is fighting Raiden with past timeline Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Jax watching. Is that near the end of the story mode? Scorpion was hostile to Liu Kang and Kung Lao in one scene and was fighting Hanzo in another trailer. In this scene he is with Sub-Zero, Jax and Raiden. We can also see cyborgs apprehending past timeline Sonya, I think the cyborgs will be working with Kronika.

Pretty sure the guy Cassie's fighting is Erron Black. He's wearing the bandolier. Man, that facial detail. And I think Kabal is the one getting eaten by the dragon.

I don't think Jax has ever had the same face twice in a row, haha. I have to get used to his new look in every single game he appears in.

I thought the trailer music was fine for the theme they were going for. It's straight out of 1992.

I do wonder what the context is for that first scene, where young(?) Sonya is being held by robots. Are those borgs with Kano?

But Older Jax in Team Kronika attire is also seen together with (Good) Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero on the ship. The part were revenant Liu Kang is attacking Raiden.

Cassie is fighting young Shang Tsung.

This is one very weird trailer :D

Seems like all the characters from MK2 that are confirmed for the roster gets a younger version.

In some cases -- like Baraka and Shao -- the young version might be the only version.

The fuck is this trailer music. Look I like some rap but this is so off the mark when it comes to Mortal Kombat. You want to generate hype this odd funky track is not the way to do it. Not when it comes to MK. Can we please get some hard rock or metal back? At this point I would take Adema again.

I also do not like Jaxs' face model in this game. He looks to, I don't know soft and fresh faced. John Parrish and Jaxs' incarnations after gangsta commando Jax in MKDA always illustrated him to be a wise stoic tough man. Here he just doesn't have it.He's just too fresh faced, even when they have him as older Jax. Couldn't they have just gone with Perrish or Carl Weathers?

And that is just such a drab basic design for him. It's just so hard to come down from the design heights of Noob Saibot right back down to the mundanity of the Earthrealm characters.

Can we also address the issue of the human clothing in this game? How most of it all looks like it comes from the same fashion line. Skarlet, and Outworld character, looks like she shopped from the same catalog as Liu Kang and Kung Lao.

I fucking love this trailer, and a large part of it's appeal is the music choice. It is VERY 90's, and it's just perfect for the humorous tone of old characters interacting with their young selves they were going for here. Mortal Kombat is a very 1990's pop culture phenomenon so using music that strongly evokes the 90's makes a ton of sense.

We don't necessarily know that they're WITH Raiden, Raiden almost looks to be squaring off with them before Liu Kang jumps in. That said, Old Sub-Zero, Young Scorpion & Old Jax do appear fairly grouped which is still an odd mixup, so who the hell knows... I'm sure there will be more than a few "who's side are you really on?" allegiances questioned in this game.

The Cyborgs do seem to be sporting Kronika colors as well. So. I'm guessing she bumps off Triborg (no big loss) and takes the Tekunin as footsoldiers? *Shrug*

I notice there's a scene where Young Johnny is being reckless and Old Johnny says something like, "He's gonna get us both killed" but the interesting part is, Young Johnny appears to have a fresh cut on his cheek, and Old Johnny appears to have a matching scar on his cheek. So I'm guessing they're going to play an angle where the actions of the young characters have potentially dangerous ramifications on the old characters.

Finally I note a scene where Young Jax is beating up undead monks on what appears to be the ruins of Shang Tsung's island. These monks look similar to the ones we saw with the green soul glow in earlier trailers. I continue to have to wonder if Shang Tsung will play any sort of role in the story... we know about the Krypt and the DLC sure... but... how does he play into the story? (If at all)... I'm dying to see his character bio...

Jax your boring as fuck. This guy needs to sit out a game. Waste of a roster spot. Same goes with Kung Lao and Kitana. They need a break too imo.

Does anyone else think it strange that Young Jax looks younger than Jacqui?

Yeah and Scorpion and Sub-Zero are just the most compelling characters in the whole series. Give me a break dude. The guy (generally) looks cool, he's got metal arms that alone justifies him being a mainstay on the roster next to spear and ice boy. (One of those two is my favorite character.)

For me, the music only really fits young Johnny and his very 90's attire. Otherwise, it just doesn't sit well with other characters or the overall game.

@Gillbob316

I think it would be weird if Shang wasn't in the story, considering everything else we know.

Almost all other MK2 characters are back, and NRS clearly aren't afraid to put other DLC characters in the story. I wouldn't be surprised if Mileena and Reptile made appearances too, while remaining unplayable / become later DLC.