Cool! Anything special, since it's a premier tower? Or are you just fighting characters that appeared in MK1? Are they in classic costumes?

Only thing different so far is it contains a Test Your Might, Goro's at the top and they are missing variations. I'm trying to play through it multiple times in the hopes a secret fight pops.

There are reports coming in all over gamefaqs that there's a Reptile secret fight to be unlocked in it. (Not surprisingly)

One guy posted this screenshot...

https://dl.pushbulletusercontent.com/mZ0ppAKMgLe5whfti52Ny1xdcsf3LzAM/IMG_20150421_013040.jpg

Don't think anyone is completely clear on how to achieve it yet, but then, it's only been live for about 40 min.

He's reportedly hella hard.

Based on that screenshot, and the overall generic phrasing of the achievement, I'm guessing this won't be the last tower with a secret fight.

are they including the classic stages in this tower? how about the music? are they making the classic fatalities executable in this tower?

I hope someone can make a video out of this tower so that I can check it out. Don't think i will be able to play the game until a few weeks from now.

No, everything is still MKX, including their costumes. They don't have variations, I ASSUME to keep them more true to their original MK1 movesets, but that's about it.

No Shang Tsung. No DLC stages. No classic costumes.

I did notice one neat quirk: Without a variation, Kano's lights are green during Kombat (as they are on the select screen before you pick a variation for him). So apparently all four of his colors appear fightable in a roundabout fashion.

Yep, just saw it on Twitter. Pretty cool none-the-less. Bet Baraka will be a secret fight if they do an MK2 tower.

Someone on Twitter is claiming it's obtained by performing Brutalities all the way up the ladder and getting a flawless victory. Haven't tried it yet for myself.

Thanks for the clarification. I'm glad that I'm not missing anything classic or nostalgic. So why the hell even call it the "mortal kombat 1" tower? All they did was take away the variations.

It would have been really cool if the original fighters could have their classic skins and fatalities, and the tower exclusively featured the classic arenas and music.

Because it's all Mortal Kombat 1 characters? Just like I'm sure that an MK2 Tower is coming soon that will feature; Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Johnny Cage, Reptile, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Jax, Kitana, Mileena & Raiden.

It's disappointing when they call it "premiere", when there is no new content to it.

Just the same characters without variations and then having the anticipated secret fight not really being a secret.

I'd shit a brick if they patched Goro's Tigrar Fury variation to use a Kintaro skin for that, but I know it's a lot to hope for. (Patched Mournful Kitana to use a Jade skin for the secret fight too, for that matter. Or threw in Smoke and/or Noob. Smoke's model is there already, Noob can be easily created from any other Ninja) ... I feel like all four are doable... but low expectations make me assume they won't.

Huh?

The Premier Tower is just special events. They'll likely do MK1 and MK2 towers, they'll feature the DLC characters the week they're released and will likely do other themed weeks as well. They don't actually "premier" things all the time, that's not the point of them.



You said "What's the point in calling it an MK1 tower?" I said because it only has characters who were in MK1 plus a secret Reptile fight, hence MK1 Tower.

Then I said I wouldn't be surprised if an MK2 tower is next featuring only character who were in MK2.

Exactly my point. I mean, they could have at least included upgraded versions of stages and such. Why call it MK1 tower if they made no effort in bringing the nostalgia back. If they released the classic subzero skin, one would think that they would follow up by releasing classic skins and fatalities to commemorate the MK1 premiere stage.

I mean, didn't they make a big deal about how different their towers were going to be in this game, and how they were going to use the towers to promote replayability by updating them with different challenges and themes?

okay. Then what I am saying is that if you are going to announce the next premier tower as being "MK 1 themed", then you better deliver the freaking goods. From what I see, alot of people are being disappointed because there's not much to it. This announcement brings to mind the much rumoured and teased about Mk1-3 remake that was supposedly in the works when MK9 was announced.

So, I feel it would have been an awesome tower if it surprised as with it's exclusive inclusion of the original stages, as well as skins and fatalities for the original fighters. The music would have been the cherry on top. I mean, what fan wouldn't want to see the original MK game with next generation graphics?

That's my entire point. They promote alot of things in the game, but they tend the miss the mark here and there.

Let me get this straight. The game has been out exactly one week and for the second ever tower out of literally a 2-3 year long plan they have you already expected classic skins, music, fatalities and stages? Just for a short one week long Living Tower?



Talk about unreal expectations..... If that's what you expect from these things, you might just wanna walk away right now. You even have any idea how much work that would require JUST for a week long event?

Yeah like we all waited in anticipation for them to fix the netcode in MK9 after being out for months and never happening. Or that dumb crap like the tower costume award.
If they aren't going to go full throttle into their features and proving they are going to provide the experience they have been advertising, this game is going to die quickly.
The story mode was disappointing, the entire faction war feature is a joke, these special weekly events are not special.
...at least the online gameplay is better than MK9 but not as good as Street Fighter 4 or Killer Instinct's.

Well aren't you a bundle of happiness. We're getting 4 characters, 21 skins and 2 batches of Klassic Fatalities, probably 6 of them. And that's just the Kombat Pack. We're still likely getting stuff after that.

Add to that, it's only been one week and people are already whining about a Living Tower not being 'special' enough? Is it April Fools again already cause this surely has to be a joke. I'm legit confused right now. This game literally has probably the most content in it and coming for it that any MK game has ever had before and people still aren't happy. Go figure.

if you check the card backs thingies it says that mk I mkII mk III and mk iv will come as towers .

Well i tried the tower, but i didn't get a secret fight.

How are these expectations unreal? They need to be careful on what they promote.

Everything about this game has surpassed many expectations. the level of detail in the fatalities is incredible. So, when you set the bar up really, really high, don't you feel that would have to to continue delivering on those expectations? Every interview and promotional piece about this game had them lauding about how much content the game was packing.

And you made another good point for me: they had, by your estimate, as long as 3 freaking years to plan out and make this game. You don't think that's enough time to plan out POST DLC and Tower challenges/theme changes to the fullest? Doesn't NRS and WB know what we expect?

They promoted this game as the NEXT GENERATION MK, thus the "X" in MKX. and you can't understand why alot of us are so frustrated and disappointed with this tower?

Oh, and your little analogy picture about wanting to see batman in the avengers...sorry buddy, doesn't apply here, you need to get your analogies right. By your post, you are saying that batman is to the avengers as our high expectations is to the MK1 tower, right? For starters, batman will NEVER be in the avengers. Two very different comic book universes. But you are saying that are EXPECTATIONS will NEVER be reasonable...is that right? So, we can't expect to have or see classic MK 1 skins, stages, and fatalities in an "MK 1" themed tower? That they don't belong together? because that's what the little picture is implying.

So, again, while you are content and easily pleased with the stupid tower, we demand what we paid shitloads of money for.

Now, don't get me wrong. I love MK. And I gladly paid for this copy. I full support NRS. But please, if you are going to promote things, especially nostalgic things, make sure you fully deliver.

Well first off, this game is MKX, not MK1. As someone else stated, they have throwback towers planned for 1, 2, 3 & 4.

As to your points, there is meeting expectations and then there is unrealistic expectations. They have all the content planned out and have for months. They're not going to roll all the content out JUST for a Living Tower of all things that only lasts 7 days. Also not to mention, do you even realize how long it would take just for these 7 days to incorporate MK1, MK2, MK3 and MK4 arenas, music, fatalities, ect. for these 4 themed towers they have planned? That's months of work and for what? People to then in return whine and bitch that those things aren't in the actual game and selectable? Because we all know that is exactly what would happen.

The point being, it's a glorified Easter Egg for die-hard fans. Just something fun to do. Think of it as a side quest. It's miniscule in the scheme of things. As for the Next Generation of MK, you answered your own statement. It IS the Next Generation, hence why these things aren't all shoved in the game. This is not another MK remake so why would they bother spending all that time and money making arenas or importing them just for a measly 7 days? Exactly, they wouldn't.

As for the meme, the meme isn't comparing or implying that. It's saying you expecting them to shove a bunch of content into a Living Tower that lasts only 7 days is just as dumb as someone expecting a DC character to show up in a Marvel movie I'm a nerd, I know my stuff, so don't attempt to school me on it. I'm well aware of what the meme was saying, as I've been saying it this whole time.

Expecting them to add in skins and arenas just for a 7 day long tower is literally the most insane thing I've read in a while. I'm guessing you have no idea what all goes into making a game then because it's literally asinine. As for content, like I stated above, you're getting 4-6 characters, 21 skins that we know of, 3-6 Klassic Fatalities are on the way and you're complaining about a freakin' Living Tower that is literally ONLY a themed tower because of who you fight in it?

*walks off, shaking head*

Just completed the tower for a first time with a brutality every fight and flawless vic. here and there but no secret fight.

I just got the secret fight, I was just going through with Sub-Zero with his Klassic skin trying out the Dragon King Set you get from getting all factions to lvl 50, so I was doing faction kills on each fight and when I got to Sonya I got Double Flawless and did a faction kill for the bonus coins and the secret fight appeared. So hopefully this helps people trying to find it out :)

I actually had the secret fight with Reptile the second day I had the game (15th). I dont recall which tower I was playing but as soon as I defeated one of the opponents the screen flashed in thunder like four times and I fought Reptile and got that exact same secret fight message. It didn't unlock anything, it was a simple fight with regular Reptile.