At least there was the blu-ray perk of the PS3. Unless there's capabilities I'm unaware of, PS4 ultimately has nothing more to offer to me than feeding my inner MK dork. v.v

The last time I used an Xbox controller was for Tao Feng...

They're so bulky >.>

I know right?! PS-controllers have always been sleek and light, easy to handle. Xbox-controllers have always been these bulky annoying controllers, and the batteries just weigh them even more down.

thanks @Jaded-Raven

I couldn't agree more. I bought an Xbox way back when it first hit the scene, and I might of had it a year. Mind you about 9/12 months of that year it was my DVD player only, lol.

I haven't had an interest in them since. But I give the Xbox players props!

Slowly letting the epiphany sink in...when it's all said and done, I will have dropped $500 or more for this game. Including the lovely Kollector's Editions and all...

Damn you NRS. >.<

You're welcome. ^^

Some additional info on characters;

"Below are some details and information on characters, moves and other miscellaneous tidbits we managed to compile during our time with the game.

SCORPION:

- Universal Moves across all variations: Spear, Teleport and Leg Takedown.
- According to NetherRealm Studios, Scorpion is overall the most damaging character in the Gamescom build. They clarified that this is likely to change with further development, balance tweaks and retail patch updates.

SUB-ZERO:

- Universal Moves across all variations: Ice Ball and Slide.
- The special move 'Frozen Aura' in his Unbreakable variation allows Sub-Zero to absorb one or two hits without stun, etc. Enhanced version increases the amount of hits he can endure before it wears off. Visually the move encases him entirely in a thin layer of jagged ice.
- Victory Pose: He constructs an ornate Kori Blade with his hands which he then forcibly sheathes into the ground. Camera pans in close to his face and he clasps his fist into an open palm.

RAIDEN:

- Updated X-Ray: Raiden begins with the same electrifying move in his previous X-Ray then uppercuts his opponent into the air. As they travel through thundering clouds, Raiden flies up and jams his hands into their chest allowing you to see their skeletal structure become overwhelmed with electricity. He then punches the opponent back to ground level and as they bounce up from impact, he zooms back down and catches them with a rising knee, snapping their spine in half.
- In his 'Thunder God' variation, Raiden can charge the electricity effects In many of his basic combos which will amplify the damage output slightly.
- Raiden has a unique blocking animation. Whilst blocking he teases a column of concentrated electricity between his hands.
- Victory Pose: Raiden begins to discharge and conduct various electricity effects before standing stoic in a solemn close-up pose.
- If Raiden is defeated, his hat will fall from his head when 'Finish Him' appears. This may be to prevent any glitches/issues with Fatalities.

KANO:

- Full Fatality: Kano unsheathes one of his knives and swiftly cuts into the opponent abdomen which causes intestines to spill out onto the ground. As the character begins to drop to their knees, Kano grabs them from behind and hoists them up in front of him as he proceeds to burn through their skull with his eye laser, leaving a huge, smouldering hole through their head.
- Universal moves across all three of his variations are: Kano Ball, Up Ball, Air Ball and Knife Throw.
- Kano Ball (horizontal) and Air Ball (downward diagonal) are performed with Back Forward A / X.
- Up Ball is performed with same command input as MK9.
- In his 'Cutthroat' variation, you can input a command where he will pound his heart implant which will increase his overall damage output for a limited time.
- in his mid-round victory pose, Kano will pummel his head with his fists multiple times whilst sniggering.
- The enhanced choke special (Commando variation) has Kano choking the opponent for a longer duration before finishing by lifting them by the throat and stabbing them multiple times with his knife.
- Victory Pose: Kano utters "Nothing personal mate" then begins to play with his knife before stopping to perform a 'ear to ear' motion on his neck. He then begins to casually shave his beard with the blade.

CASSIE CAGE:

- X-Ray: Cassie begins by twirling her batons at long range at the opponent, upon connecting she then uses an incendiary device that explodes in the opponents face. She then cartwheels into the opponent and slides down into the spits to perform a crotch punch (modelled testicles/cameltoe for females) - after this she crushes the opponents skull at the temples with the butts of her akimbo pistols before firing off two bullets into their eye sockets, throwing them mid-full screen.
- Cassie has a command input taunt in one of her variations where she performs a salute.
- Her D1 is very similar to Mileena's in MK9 which is quite useless. Hopefully she will receive something more useful.
- If you play a Cassie Cage mirror-match, the Player 2 Cassie Cage will have a yellowish-green bodysuit centre colouring instead of her default.
- Cassie's Nut Kracker special move (Hollywood variation) has her drop to her knees before punching the opponent in the crotch with both fists in unison.
- Her tied-up bun hairstyle is her final hair. The cropped bob hairstyle was a previous design experiment.
- Cassie is still being polished and developed further so her posture, animations and character model are still being worked on.
- Her X-Ray hasn't been shown publicly yet due to the graphic depiction of ball busting.

KOTAL KAHN:

- There is no direct relation to Shao Kahn, 'Kahn' is confirmed to be a title bestowed upon the ruling emperors of Outworld.
- He was never planned to be included in any previous Mortal Kombat game despite Hector Sanchez stating on Twitter that he had waited nearly 20 years to see an 'Aztec God'.
- Kotal Kahn is confirmed to be from Outworld.
- Special Moves in his War God variation: Blood Offering, God Ray, Air Takedown, Saw Blade, Sword Toss, Overhead Sword Strike and Sword Sweep.
- You will see his rise and fall to power as the Emperor of Outworld throughout the story.
- Has some of the most damage-heavy chain combos.
- As you perform specific special moves and chain combos, the inscriptions on his body will begin to glow brighter.
- Victory Pose: Kotal pulls out his short blade, drops to his knees and slices open one of his palms whilst muttering an unknown phrase before slamming his palms together and closing his eyes.

D'VORAH:

- Has some form of relationship with Kotal Kahn.
- Is one of the game designers favourite characters on the roster. He took the liberty to show off with her, demonstrating some long and gnarly combos.
- Her pokes seem to have the longest range out of the right characters present in this build.
- D'Vorah has a lot of 50/50 mix-ups which allows for some crazy pressure and rushdowns.
- Her Venomous variations ovipositor attacks will do slight damage over time.
- Can do standing resets in Venomous if you time her acid spray special right and you get a 50/50 mix-up off that too.

FERRA/TORR:

- When fighting against Cassie Cage, Ferra will shout "Break her face!" in the mid-round victory pose to Torr.
- Victory Pose: Ferra leaps up onto Torr's shoulders whilst acting gleeful and cheering. She then stops to playfully pull and squeeze at Torr's head before resting her head on his."

"MOVES-LIST DETAILS:

- Universal special moves for characters are listed in white text when pressing Start and variation specific special moves appear beneath them in gold text.
-Similar listing style to Injustice (if not more detailed); with move descriptions, enhanced/meter-burn inputs and explanations, etc.
- There are five finishing moves listed as '?????' in this build of the game. Our interview with Ed Boon has confirmed that it won't be that many in the final build.
- Frame Data for moves has the following information: Startup Frames, Active Frames, Recovery Frames, Block Advantage Frames, Hit Advantage Frames and Cancel Frames.
- Basic combo starters and strings again have unique names personalised to the character.

CHARACTER INTRO DIALOGUE:

Out of all the matches we managed to play we have only managed to grab a handful of intro dialogues. Some days the MKX stations were not outputting sound and the other days had them at a very low volume. It doesn't help that Gamescom is a very noisy environment, but we have done our best to extract what we could. Subtitles were unavailable in this build.

Kano Vs. Raiden:
- Kano: "Hmm, the big cheese"
- Raiden: "This day will not end well for you..."
- Kano: "*spits* Get your crystal ball fixed!"

Kano Vs. Cassie Cage:
- Kano: "Over here sweetheart."
- Cassie Cage: "Your grandmother wants her teeth back!"
- Kano: ***Inaudible***

Cassie Cage Vs. Cassie Cage:
- Cassie Cage 1: "Funny."
- Cassie Cage 2: "You know what's funny? Your face."
- Cassie Cage 1: "Dude, you've just insulted yourself..."

D'Vorah Vs. Kotal Kahn:
- D'Vorah: "Kotal..."
- Kotal Kahn: "With which face do you see me?"
- D'Vorah: "There is no power greater than ours!"

Scorpion Vs. Sub-Zero:
- Scorpion: ***Inaudible***
- Sub-Zero: "Prepare to rejoin your clan!"
- Scorpion: ***Inaudible***

Sub-Zero Vs. Raiden:
- Sub-Zero: ***Inaudible***
- Raiden: "I am their protector, not you!"
- Sub-Zero: ***Inaudible***

Ferra/Torr Vs. Cassie Cage:
- Ferra/Torr: "Such pretty eyes!"
- Cassie Cage: "Got a thing for eyes do ya?"
- Ferra/Torr: ***Inaudible*** "both get one." ***Inaudible***

MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS:

- The game is faster-paced than MK9 and marginally faster than Injustice: Gods Among Us.
- The Gamescom build was completed a week prior to the showing.
- Some specific character variations will have a command input taunt. Some may give additional super-meter among other benefits, etc.
- Forward and Backward Throws are still present.
- Throws can now be meter-burned. So you can into a 50/50 from a meter-burned grab.
- All models now have trackable damage. For example if Scorpion slashes his opponent at the chest with his sword, a gash will appear in sync with the slash. Hitting D'Vorah for example in the face with the tree branch in Snow Forest will leave a gaping wound in her cheek.
- Character models will have a wet sheen effect over them and drip slightly when knocked into or splash into the water on the Jungle stage.
- Mud and Dirt will cake and stick to character models when knocked or rolling on the Jungle stage ground.
- Snow will fall onto character models and dissolve during the fight in the Snow Forest.
- Characters develop beads of sweat and a sheen to their exposed skin during intense kombat.
- All Fatalities in this build were performed at mid-screen distance with Down Down X / Square.
- There are EX (enhanced) and meter-burn special moves.
- You can meter-burn some combos.
- Some characters will have unique blocking animations.
- Dash-cancelling is not present in this build and it is not likely it will be included.
- Forward Forward RT / R2 is the command input for running.
- You can begin a combo directly after running and use running to extend combos.
- Running can be cancelled at any time during the animation, even into a dash.
- The Stamina Meter dictates the duration of running.
- Forward and Backward dashing will deplete the Stamina Meter.
- Crossups seem to operate the same as they did in MK9, though this could be subject to change.
- All characters share universal moves such as the uppercut D2 and a sweep, but all have unique animations that reflect the characters personalised styles.
- Characters have unique air jump-in attacks.
- Can still perform a standing neutral jump attack which will allow for pop-ups.
- Environmental interactions can be meter-burned but are still fully blockable.
- X-Rays are currently set at 30-32% damage but if they end or lead into a combo, scaling will still govern the overall damage.
- The main menu consisted of 'Versus' and 'Ladder' only."

I see someone posted these details already, missed it somehow lol. Anyway, lots of useful info

So many informations. I love it. Especially the intro dialogues :D Everyone is talking about the Variation System (which i also really like) but i love the intros. It just adds so much personality to the fight and give it a Special note. Awesome!

PS4 added Blu-Ray support through an update.

Xbone controller has a terrible D-pad. Which makes it shit for fighting games. Can't tell you how many times I messed up doing Jago's Tiger Fury because the D-pad buttons are so close together.

I'm getting MKX on PS4 for sure.

I wanna hear Cassie vs Cage intro now XDDD

I like D'Vorahs design too, but her stance looks so awful that it ruins it.

So my country Bulgaria was part of the Outworld because in the past was ruled by kahns

yes, yes, yes, Yes. Yes, YES, YES, YES, YES!!!! This quote was supposed to contain the info about taunts. I'm excited about taunts! Can this crazy site get some updates?

I hope this doesn't mean Noob ended up in front of the elder gods after the soulnado thing and they purged him to make him the new protector of Earthrealm or something like that. I still want Bi Han as Noob Saibot and Kuai Liang as Sub-Zero.

I'm loving all the info about the game except the news that "Kahn" is a title for ruler of Outworld. Fucking stupid.

Everything else sounds amazing though. Ah well..guess I'll just go play MK9 again for now and beat the arcade final boss "Shao".

Well that's a plus, I suppose.

I can only imagine the annoyance. Especially if I was trying to get into a new MK.

The news of faster-paced Kombat is rather exciting. It seems faster in the gameplay vids, but it's hard to say for sure without playing it.

I wish I understood a lot of this gameplay jargon. 50/50? Meter-burned?

I'd also like to say I'm so happy Cassie's Nut Kracker is different from Johnny's. I remember seeing she had it but was kind of worried it'd be Johnny's Nut Punch.

But instead of doing the splits and just doing an uppercut, she drops to her knees and punches with both hands together. That's awesome.

Words cannot describe how F'ing horrible.

Weird, I prefer the Xbox One in every aspect, especially the controller.

Got to say, I though I wouldn't try "Unbreakable" Sub-Zero too much, as I'm not used to play parries, but the ability to get armor to ignore the stun effect of the first few hits you get sounds awesome.

I mean, you can punish opponents even if you aren't blocking them. They hit you first, but they can't complete the combo because you hit you then and you're stuning them with your first strike, getting the combo chance yourself.

Depending on the time it takes for this ice armor to pop, if there is something similar to MK9's 22-Iceball (without the sword as that's now a variation exclusive) you could use it, pop the ice armor for the next one while the opponent is frozen and then perform your combo on him. Next time he tries to hit you you're ignoring the stun, you 22-iceball him again, pop the next armor and combo. Repeat until he's finished.

If they start a projectile war, if you manage to get the armour you can still get close to him even if he hits you with some projectiles.

Probably Cryomancer's will have vastly superior combo output (and that overhead hammer is priceless), but this strategy has a lot of potential and I guess I could always learn to use the parry too.

Now if they make the cryo-mask less white and shiny...

I think fanboyism is skewing their observations, really the xbox one controller is the one thing they got right, it's perfect. Stating otherwise is blatant trolling. Take that talk to IGN and Gamespot, it's rampant there. MKO doesn't need it.
Anyway, back to MK...

It's atleast better than the 360's. I can't wait to finally play a fighting game on the PS4 after playing multiple on the 360 and fucking up so many commands. I feel like it held back potential. Even though i'm very mediocre and play for fun.

The hell are you taking about? We're referring to the D-PAD, not the controller as a whole. I own both a PS4 and Xbone and can honestly say PS4's D-pad is better. No contest.

Try doing a Shoryuken on an Xbone controller, then try on a PS4 controller. Guarantee you'll never mess up that execution on PS4.

Seriously sick of being called a fanboy. A lot of people have problems with the D-Pad, it doesn't take fanboyism to notice it...

I actually suspected "Kahn" would be a title when I first read Kotal Kahn's name. It would be far stupider to make him a relative of Shao Kahn when there is little potential backstory to draw them together like that.