gosoxtim Wrote:
Mortal kombat deadly alience had 11 new characters so it likey we get 12 or more new characters inculding the ones we have now

Lokheit Wrote:


Meh I find Frost or Ashrah ultra boring and paling in comparison to Sareena's already stablished background plus her untapped potential with the powers we know she has but still haven't seen in game. Plus at least Sareena has connections with multiple characters that will probably appear given how she's part of the shadow brotherhood and is linked to sub-zero (she could even be a key player on sub-zero's return from netherealm if this is Kuai Liang).

(Really I can't believe you included Frost on your list, I've always tried to pretend she didn't exist at all, never liked the concept, her story or her looks... not to mention Sub-Zero already has 3 ice based playstyles so we don't have too much left for her).

Anyway I don't think we got too many spots left and there are already multiple characters claiming one for them, so I wouldn't be too high for either of them :/

Cordova21 Wrote:
11? Really? I only counted 8 playable characters. The other 3 are like secret or something right?

kamouniyak Wrote:


Sareena was only for Gameboy Advance and Moloch was not playable. It only had 10 new characters (2 of those were secret, the equivalent of today's DLC) so it actually had 8.

Lokheit Wrote:
Right now we got this:

Confirmed (in order of confirmation):

- Sub-Zero
- Scorpion
- D'Vorah (new)
- Ferra/Torr (new)
- Kotal Kahn (new)
- Cassie Cage (new)
- Raiden
- Kano

Heavily Hinted:

- Quan Chi (MK9 ending)
- Shinnokh (MK9 endind)
- Tanya (voice actress)
- Johnny Cage (article about the age variations)
- Sonya Blade (article about the age variations)
- Liu Kang (article about the age variations)

That's 14 characters if we are ready to count the heavily hinted on the roster (I'm ready).

We've got Ed Boon stating that the game will feature the most new characters in a MK game, which if the statement is correct (it wouldn't be the first time he brings vague info or exagerates a bit). That means the game would have more than 11 new characters (Deadly Alliance included 11 new characters setting the precedent for most new characters in a MK game).

If we take the number as "strictly one more" it's 12 new characters (the ongoing rumor is 14 new), and in the 14 known ones we mentioned we only got 4 of these new characters, which means there could still be 8 more of them if Ed didn't exagerate.

That means that between the confirmed and pseudo confirmed characters plus the new guys we know nothing about, we already got 22 spots occupied.

The ongoing rumor is that the game will feature the same roster size than MK9 (here is hoping we got at least 32 like the extended version selection screen, but for now we have to asume it's 28).

This leaves us with just 6 spots for returning characters.

Judging by Ed Boon twitter rampage, we could assume 2 of those 6 might be Ermac and Reptile, I'm not including these 2 on the "heavily hinted" section as it's just some twitter stuff, thugh I'd say at least Ermac has a shoe in.

If that was real, then we got just 4 more spots to try to guess a character, the mentioned 6 spots if it isn't.

Not much room for imagination to be honest. I think Kotal Kahn is going to shred most outworldian characters opposing him on his way to the throne (like Mileena and Baraka) so they probably won't be playable and we will only learn about their deaths or even see them in a cutscene to show us how badass Kotal is destroying him with no effort or something like that.

This line of though is reinforced by the fact that there is literally no room for too many returning characters.

The cyborgs are in a weird place too. They survived MK9 and the variations style would do wonders for them, but if you have to start cutting characters from the roster you can kill them the same way I described withthe outworldian guys. Though I'd say they have more chances to be in the game.

Personally I'd love to see Sareena returning. At this point seeing how many spots we got left my hopes are a bit down on seeing that, but I still hope she's playable as her dual forms could be great for the variations based gameplay.

In my perfect world the roster would be the same than the previous game plus new characters (like Tekken sequels) and this way you don't have to worry about your fav character making the cut if he's already part of the series.

I also hope that with "most new characters" Ed meant "most characters not present on the previous game" so some of them could be MK4-MKD characters, rising the chances of returning for many of them.

Tazer_Gunshot Wrote:
All the ones considering Cyrax, you will be let down. Remember in MK9 story-mode...prior to Sindel killing all them good guys, Kitana sliced off Cyrax's head
So in the other threads about MKX rosters, that is why Sektor is more wanted. I am one of the users that say Sektor has more of a chance, because Cyrax had his head decapitated.

Cordova21 Wrote:


Really I looked online and nobody mentioned Cyrax's death. Let me look it up. If so then Sektor is in.

EDIT: lol that wasn't Cyrax. That was a random robot. Night Wolf defeated Cyrax but he didn't kill him.

Tazer_Gunshot Wrote:
All the ones considering Cyrax, you will be let down. Remember in MK9 story-mode...prior to Sindel killing all them good guys, Kitana sliced off Cyrax's head
So in the other threads about MKX rosters, that is why Sektor is more wanted. I am one of the users that say Sektor has more of a chance, because Cyrax had his head decapitated.

Dellombie Wrote:
Im quite surprised that you put Li mei and Frost in your list, but no Fujin and Kenshi.

BADASS6669 Wrote:
SELECT SCREEN
3 Rows of 12 (36 Total)
14 Returning (9 from MK-MK3 5 from MK4-MKA)
10 NEW
4 Unlockable
8 DLC
RETURNING CHARACTERS
• Scorpion
• Sub Zero
• Ermac
• Reptile (Can play as Lizard)
• Mileena
• Raiden
• Quan Chi
• Tanya
• Fujin
• Havik
• Bo Rai Cho
• Cyrax
• Sektor
• Kano
NEW CHARACTERS
• Kotal Kahn
• Cassie Cage
• D'Varrah
• Farr/Torr
• Shadow Wolf (Night Wolf’s Brother fully evolved Wolf plays similar to Sabrewulf)
• NEW Female Medusa type
• NEW Male Vampire
• NEW Male Demon
• NEW Female with Flaming kicks Kobra’s moves
• NEW Female that can levitate
UNLOCKABLE
• Liu Kang (Evil Boss) Unlocked after Beating Arcade Mode with Everybody)
• Kitana (Unlocked during Story Mode)
• Shao Kahn/Cyber Kahn (Unlocked after beating Story Mode)
• Shinnock (Unlocked after Beating Arcade Mode)
DLC CHARACTERS
• Kung Lao
• Johnny Cage
• Jade
• Noob Saibot
• Smoke (Can play as Robot)
• Sonya Blade
• Jax Briggs
• Rain/Baraka/Kenshi/Sareena/Drahmin/Taven/Shujinko/Skarlet
DLC ARENAS
• Pit
• Deadpool
• NeatherRelm Hell
• Goro’s Lair
• Armory
• NEW
• NEW
• NEW

MikeyRu Wrote:
Injustice had 29, so I'll round it up to 30. I'm including the characters that the German magazine said that ED BOON said were in the game with variations (Johnny, Sonya, and Liu Kang). Here's my guess:

CONFIRMED:
1. Johnny Cage
2. Sonya
3. Liu Kang
4. Scorpion
5. Sub-Zero
6. Raiden
7. Kano

PROBABLY RETURNING:
8. Shinnok
9. Fujin
10. Tanya
11. Mileena
12. Skarlet
13. Reptile
14. Rain
15. Sareena
16. Quan Chi

NEW:
17. Cassie Cage
18. D'Vorah
19. Ferra/Torr
20. Kotal Kahn
21. New Kombatant
22. New Kombatant
23. New Kombatant
24. New Kombatant
25. New Kombatant
26. New Kombatant
27. New Kombatant
28. New Kombatant
29. New Kombatant
30. New Kombatant

Tazer_Gunshot Wrote:


When you are Nightwolf (chapter 15), where do you fight Cyrax? I doubt it's in the palace where Sindel killed most of the good...? Cyrax could have teleported there and went for the attack on Kitana, but, she sliced off his (?) head.
I believe it was Cyrax because the cyborg was yellow.

Tazer_Gunshot Wrote:
When you are Nightwolf (chapter 15), where do you fight Cyrax? I doubt it's in the palace where Sindel killed most of the good...? Cyrax could have teleported there and went for the attack on Kitana, but, she sliced off his (?) head.
I believe it was Cyrax because the cyborg was yellow.