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Story Mode DLC Long Term NetherRealm Plan

Story Mode DLC a long term goal for NetherRealm Studios

Posted at 12/05/2015 03:20 AM EST by

As fans look ahead to the future for Mortal Kombat and its upcoming Kombat Pack 2 -- series head Ed Boon has commented on the long term possibilities of new downloadable content.

Speaking to Shacknews at The Game Awards; Boon acknowledged the popular request for Story Mode DLC, revealing it has been discussed by the studio: "It's a lot of data, a lot of content, but that's absolutely part of a long-term plan. People really tend to love our story modes, so to be able to give them new content is always something we're hoping to work out."

Editor's Note: This answer should not be confused with a promise of DLC coming in the immediate future. With demands of content high and inconsistent around the world, its unclear if intent is for this game, this hardware generation, or the next.

Mortal Kombat X continued to develop a chapter based, cinematic story experience that weaves playable kombat between advancements of plot. Working from a premise based on Mortal Kombat 4, the game juggled core plots surrounding the fallen elder god Shinnok and the introduction of new powerful players in the war of realms: Kotal Kahn and Mileena.

The demands of the Mortal Kombat X epic left many characters diminished or completely unutilized, sometimes at the expense of greater depth. Cameos by the likes of Kai and Skarlet were cut, while heavily promoted icons such as Goro arrived with no story presence at all. Many classic characters killed in the last game were presented with design updates contradictory to their presence in the story -- a significant disconnect.

Historically, the series has been one of the strongest fighting games when tending to its characters' development. Story Mode DLC could allow the developer to reconnect with the lost art of developing individual characters through their own sub-plots and rivalries. With Kombat Pack 2 set to deliver a new arena, story additions are one of the few frontiers remaining for NetherRealm.

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•12/05/2015 08:52 AM (UTC) •

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NRS does have plans for Kai and Skarlet, that is good news to me.

•12/05/2015 09:02 AM (UTC) •

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Pretty kool..

•12/05/2015 09:03 AM (UTC) •

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So Rain, Sindel, Baraka + Updating the Story Mode cinematics. Great! That's all I wanted to hear.

Although I would say DLC for this has been coming out way slower than Injustice. I'll never be satisfied!

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•12/05/2015 09:21 AM (UTC) •

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Well if its true NRS might redeem themselves big time.

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•12/05/2015 09:35 AM (UTC) •

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Ed Boon should become a politician because he is the master of spin and always fails to give a straight answer. What is this about possible story mode dlc? He hints at it being a real plan but doesn't go far enough to confirm that it is. I would say he is throwing this potential story dlc out there to bait the hook for the shitty KP2 they have made.

Give people false hope that if enough people throw their hard earned money at this shitty shitty KP2 then maybe just maybe some story dlc will happen down the track........ I call bull shit. The amount of time, effort and money that would go into just making a few extra dlc story chapters would hardly be worth it these guys are clearly all about the $$$ and I don't think that extra chapters would appeal to casuals as much as more gimmicky guest charcaters do. So as much as I would love it I don't see it as a reality and I am certainly not throwing my money at this shitty KP2 in the false hope that if their sales are good enough then they will reward us all will story dlc! They should've rewarded us all with a good KP2 without useless guests and non-canon 3 in 1 charcaters!!!!

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•12/05/2015 09:43 AM (UTC) •

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If this sounds like what I think it is then idk it sounds like an empty promise but I'd like to be wrong.

Would be nice though. The possibility of more MK characters is always welcome. Rain, Sindel, Baraka, Fujin of course but the likes of Kai, Sareena, Frost and Li Mei would be worth the wait. But again that could just be an empty promise like MK9 and its future content.

If you want to go SF4 about it then do it because this is your best game ever gameplay wise and its sales on launch are nothing to scoff at. Fuck Injustice 2. But you know exactly how to get our (and my) money. I'm not paying for your guests.

LIKE, ALL I'M ANGRY ABOUT IS THE GUEST CHARACTERS I'M FINE WITH BO RAI CHO AND TEKUNIN BECAUSE THEY ARE FROM MK. FUCK!

...I'm cool. I'd like to believe and see those plans come to fruition but after this I just don't know.

•12/05/2015 10:19 AM (UTC) •

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I kinda am bored with MKX.. Id rather have a remastered Mortal kombat shaolin monks or a MK adventure type game again.. But it's highly not likely sadly ;/

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•12/05/2015 12:28 PM (UTC) •

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It's too vague to mean anything. Long term seems to imply in a future game.

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•12/05/2015 02:34 PM (UTC) •

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Now THIS is what they fucking need to do. If they're going to continue with this stupid guest character shit, at least do something for those of us who don't buy or play them and want something purely MK. I think additional story content would even that out quite nicely, especially if it's in the vague or prologue / epilogue chapters with DLC characters or even chapters that are set during the main story mode just in different locations with different characters.

It most definitely won't be something we see come to fruition this go around but it's almost necessary come time for MK11.

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•12/05/2015 03:19 PM (UTC) •

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That would be awesome, it would also be really cool if they could give us the other 3 NPCs somehow too, I would really like to have Baraka and Sindel playable...but after seeing Barakamorph,it isn't looking good for Sir Baraka lol

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•12/05/2015 03:20 PM (UTC) •

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I would be very much in favour of more story content post launch. This far in the lifecycle of MKX though I do not think it will happen but if they are thinking about it, they can try to implement the idea in future titles. I would hope they test it out in their next game probably, Injustice 2, and see how it works. When MK11 rolls around they would have a solid grasp of the concept. Story mode content would be awesome. I know it would take a lot of work but I would definately be willing to pay for it providing it is on the same level as the content in the base game.

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•12/05/2015 03:42 PM (UTC) •

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I might just be damage control, but at least they're TRYING to damage control.

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•12/05/2015 03:50 PM (UTC) •

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Considering how juvenile and sophomoric the writing has been for the past two games, I couldn't care less for having extra story mode chapters for DLC. Besides, Boon is just trying to dull the uproar over that hellacious Kombat pack NRS/WB shat out. Nothing to read here, move along people.

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•12/05/2015 04:24 PM (UTC) •

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Noob-Smoke-3333 Wrote:
Ed Boon should become a politician because he is the master of spin and always fails to give a straight answer. What is this about possible story mode dlc? He hints at it being a real plan but doesn't go far enough to confirm that it is. I would say he is throwing this potential story dlc out there to bait the hook for the shitty KP2 they have made.

Give people false hope that if enough people throw their hard earned money at this shitty shitty KP2 then maybe just maybe some story dlc will happen down the track........ I call bull shit. The amount of time, effort and money that would go into just making a few extra dlc story chapters would hardly be worth it these guys are clearly all about the $$$ and I don't think that extra chapters would appeal to casuals as much as more gimmicky guest charcaters do. So as much as I would love it I don't see it as a reality and I am certainly not throwing my money at this shitty KP2 in the false hope that if their sales are good enough then they will reward us all will story dlc! They should've rewarded us all with a good KP2 without useless guests and non-canon 3 in 1 charcaters!!!!

Agreed. This is damage control. They're trying to bait us into buying KP2 on the hope that there maybe more dlc. They pulled that with Freddy in MK9. I hope nobody falls for it this time.

They're putting out a crap DLC pack. They're just going to have to own it and put out a DLC pack that people actually want.

•12/05/2015 04:43 PM (UTC) •

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Other than balance patches, after kombat pack 2, I hope NRS drops support for MKX. I'd rather have the most requested characters appear in MK11, rather than DLC for MKX.

•12/05/2015 04:47 PM (UTC) •

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Wrong thread:

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•12/05/2015 04:52 PM (UTC) •

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Human-Smoke-4-ever Wrote:
They're trying to bait us into buying KP2 on the hope that there maybe more dlc. They pulled that with Freddy in MK9. I hope nobody falls for it this time.

This also needs to be said.

I hope no one is stupid enough to give them money for the fucking KP2 in hopes that it'll convince them to give us the Story Pack. Again, it's nice to see WB at least trying to do damage control instead of going "lol fuck you nerds" like they did with Bam Ham Origins, but I'll believe it when I see it.

In the meantime, buy Bo Rai Cho. Vote with your wallets. The only reason they keep putting those fucking guest characters in is because they keep selling.

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•12/05/2015 05:13 PM (UTC) •

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T-Rex is right of course. I haven't bought any DLC characters so far, but I'll probably get Bo as I did want him and/or Fujin.

I'll maybe get 'Tri-Borg' depending on how Smoke looks, as I was never that big a Sektor or Cyrax fan but I did play a lot of (cyber) Smoke in UMK3.

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•12/05/2015 05:21 PM (UTC) •

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I read this as: we'd like to release story DLCs, but we won't do it.

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•12/05/2015 05:33 PM (UTC) •

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In Cassie Cage's chapter, why didn't she interact with Liu Kang in kombat due to his parents and him once friends?

•12/05/2015 05:43 PM (UTC) •

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Ed: That is definitely a thing that can probably possibly maybe not happen in the most unlikely future of yesteryear....

•12/05/2015 07:12 PM (UTC) •

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LOL @ fans liking story mode. Definitely not for MKX. So lazy and simplistic with many loose ends, inconsistencies and rushing of important parts with a dumb character based chapter setup to make it even worse.

Who's waiting on another Cage vs. a might god and beating him easily? Yeah I can't see it. Even if they do it, it's going to be messed up. What are they going to do, just expand upon the existing plot? More money that's what this is and personally, I don't see it happening.

•12/05/2015 07:32 PM (UTC) •

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This isn't gonna happen for MKX, I guarantee it. I bet KP2 will sell under their expectations and WB will scrap that shit, or they'll save it for MK11. I seriously doubt they will continue support after KP2, they've never continued support after the initial DLC so I'm pretty surprised they even did it this time.

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•12/05/2015 07:41 PM (UTC) •

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LoL, 98% hated story mode in MKx. It is poorly written, executed, it sucked balls. NRS CANT DO GOOD WRITTING, nor do they CARE/ KNOW what we want. wtf would you be exited for? Sure this wont even come, just to kool of the hate they recieved

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