Month: May 2015

Mortal Kombat X has see its fair share of gameplay issues since its release in April, but the most recent is a doozy.

Similar to Injustice: Gods Among Us, the tenth installment of Mortal Kombat features a wide array of stage interactables, most of which give characters new mobility options to escape corners, get space from their opponents, and more. The newer title, however, allows players to burn meter and put armor on these interactions, making them safer in the process. Though they may be a little too safe.

According to a new discovery by Test Your Might community members Pnut and Zoidberg747, armored interactables can completely blow through blockstun, allowing players to escape or even punish…well, just about anything. In his original video below, Zoidberg shows how D’Vorah’s Pterothorax (f112) string easily succumbs to this tactic despite its lack of frame gaps.

Zoidberg mentions that this can be done with every interactable in the game, leading him to posit that corner pressure is basically a thing of the past in Mortal Kombat X as long as this isn’t fixed. And since they are given multiple hits of armor, these interactables can’t be beat out by an armor-breaking move.

Expanding on this finding, Gilbogz provided a video showing how it can be used in certain situations without armoring the interactable.

Oh, and Kung Jin apparently gets a full combo off one of the punishes this discovery makes possible. Good times.

At this point in time, it may be a little premature to say this is absolutely game-breaking, but it certainly does raise some questions as to whether or not it should be allowed in competitive play. One possibility raised by a poll on Test Your Might mentions turning off interactables entirely, but results show around two-thirds of voters believe that isn’t necessary.

No word has been released by NetherRealm Studios as to the legitimacy of this gameplay quirk, but it’s likely we’ll see a hotfix released in the near future if it wasn’t intended during development.

What do you think? Could this wreck Mortal Kombat X competition without a fix? Feel free to provide your opinion in the comments.

Source: Test Your Might via ZebiaX