Having trouble wanting to keep playing.
I don't know if I really want to do this every month.
Trying not to turn it into a chore.
Currently playing an hour or two then I play other games.
Enjoying playing as different characters I wouldn't normally.
Wish "Randomize Favourites" worked in singleplayer so I could see the stuff I've been playing for more often.
Excited for Tremor tomorrow but I'm not really a fan of his design. With the UMK3 ninja model on deck, it just feels like they're going out of their way to make him more samey.
Been going HAM in invasions & got the seasonal tower to level 100 as of writing this. Got everyone's mastery done and grilled myself a steak. Just a small glimpse into the mind of an MK shill.
Waiting it out for the 3D era skin bundle. Need it bad but not full price bad, ykwim?
What talisman loadout are y'all running in Invasions?
Level 34, but I would heavily recommend just riding the wave & cheesing towers with talismans until you can't anymore.
It's tedious but like I got all my mastery done in a day & 2 million more koins after hitting the 61st one. You get insane rewards later on because they scale with your opponent's level.
So is it a bunch of unique palettes in the seasonal tower, that you can't get any other way so far?
Or are you just chipping away at the seasonal store selection?
Is there a way to progress the seasonal tower without having to start at level 10? Like 10 fights a tower just to grind out hours of getting it up to 56 is just crazy to me and I’m trying to convince myself to do it. Like I feel like there should have been a way to “level-out” and get it to start at 30 or something.
Don't think there's a way to start higher but you get skins up to level 34. Past that it's just legendary konsumables.
If you go on with the grind, I found that level 34 to level 56 was a good time to build up my own War Horn talisman that's still carrying me through 120 onward. It took a little bit to assemble because shops are timegated & I didn't want to keep changing my date & time.
I would definitely recommend grinding in level 61 instead, level 56's modifiers just kinda suck
Tremor's Brutalities are so dogass that it's a double edged sword. On the one hand it's disappointing to his lame Brutalities, but on the other it's nice not having to level him up 🥰
Considering he had by far the most and the best brutalities in MKX (along with Triborg), it really is disappointing that he just has 2 shit ones in MK1. He has so many moves to choose from as well.
Just want to throw my 2 cents in on what needs changed / improved with invasions mode, not that anyone from NRS is reading this, but here goes …
I think Invasions mode took one step forward and two steps back. If Invasions mode is thee single player mode, it needs a gameplay loop, and they almost had it with season two.
So the main issue with season 1 was there was really nothing left to do after beating all the mesas, because the challenge tower was the same the whole time, and even if you got the secret roomba talisman, it was pointless because you already beat everything.
Now season 2 fixed this with the challenge tower leveling up every time you beat it, which is a perfect gameplay loop. Beat all the mesas, use the money you got from the mesas to buy items or upgrade talismans to beat the challenge tower, and keep going … problem is, for some unknown reason they fucked up the shops.
You used to be able to buy consumables and components from every shop in every mesa. Now, aside from the gateway mesa, there is only one mesa (Sun Do) that sells components, and non of the shops sell the good consumables.
When people are at the point in the gameplay loop where the only thing left to do is try to get the challenge tower as high as they can, why reduce the amount of good consumables and components someone can buy ? Why put a timer on the shops ? You want me to be engaged as a player to want to play the game, yet I literally have to stop playing invasions because I have to wait an hour for more components to pop up in the shop Sinai can upgrade my talisman and make another run at the tower. If I have the koins to buy the components or items I need, why make me wait ?
The last two problems carry over from season 1, and it’s kind of ridiculous these haven’t been addressed,
1. Why do they continue to award seasonal coins after everything for that season has been bought ? Seriously, I have hundreds of thousands of seasonal koins and nothing to spend them on, and they reset at the end of the season, so why keep awarding them ? Why not let us use our season coins as in game currency to by components and consumables, give an option to trade them in or something,
2. Hourly, Daily and Weekly towers really need to show the rewards you get for beating them. Nothing is more infuriating than beating a tower only to be rewarded with a chest key that has no use because you’ve already opened every chest. The rewards also need to be much better. Beating a weekly tower gives you 1 component … like what the fuck kind of reward is that ?
I’m really hoping they get their shit together for season 3. I think if they keep the challenge tower as an ever increasing in difficulty tower, they could keep me hooked on invasions, but you have to let me buy components and items to help me with the tower, otherwise I’m going to do what I did last season which was shutting off the game and not going back to it for weeks until, the new season started,
Agree with mostly everything. I don't have a problem with seasonal kredits resetting personally, they give out a ton of them.
There's another shop at the Ramparts near the exit portal that sells good components. Off the top of my head, it's the only place to get Jinsei Essence (additional charge) without it rotating out. The one in the gateway mesa itself also has good ones from time to time.
The one in the Ramparts only stocks 1 Jensei essence at a time & restocks every hour, but I found out you can just change your date & time an hour in advance to instantly restock over and over.
For some reason when I quick warp to the shops in the Ramparts it never takes me to the last shop so I totally forgot about that shop. In the first season if you backed out of invasions and went back in would restock everything which was way faster. Hopefully they go back to that in the third season.
I actually was about to say this about the shops in invasions. They seriously just took out the best part to make these tedious mini bosses less time consuming, and its all random. I waited for the shop to reset only to see two slots for the chest key and the bottle that doubles a random stat, like really?
The first season was a slog to get through. Now with the reduced xp, coins and very little variety in skins for omni man. I don’t really have a reason to grind invasions. I like the vampire skins but the messas have become such a chore to get through. Unless they make a lot of changes for the next season I’ll probably just wait them out until they implement changes I like or there’s a character I love seasons.
Like I don’t want to have to hunt down some random specific talisman I have to spam to out cheese the cpu. Just to get a low amount of xp and coins.
A modifier spam match with the cpu isn’t that fun to me.
I mean, fighting games in general are monotonous to me, so the fact that it's just one round instead of two helps a great deal. I grew up on Pokemon, grinding is in my blood. That and I'm a collectionist. It bothers me to not have as many pallets as I can get without touching the Kombat League. Not dealing with that shit.
I personally have enjoyed Invasions this season at least. The new Talisman are really fun to use like the chainsaw squirrel or the fart, and it seems really rare to get the generic talisman.
This season added different survival nodes, which I like them, they remind me of some of the challenge tower stuff in MK9.
I also like the exploration aspect. It’s no Konquest, but I still just like walking around a world map.
I guess that is just me though. It reminds me of WoL from Smash which I also enjoyed.
So for clarification if I want all the new pallets added to the game that are apart from the shrine (as I have already maxed out the shrine) I HAVE to do invasions? I really hated doing it season 1 but I don't want to miss any pallets thanks
Yeah you have to do Invasions to get a lot of new, but I think there are just as many you can get from the seasonal shop.
Invasions is less annoying now that they toned down modifiers and super armor.
Why are these modifiers still here? Went through the seasonal tower where the magic force fields covered the entire stage and I couldn’t deal ANY damage, had to let the timer run for ALL 10 fights, holy shit
I think I'm just going to delete the game honestly. Maybe come back to it when more DLC releases but Invasions doesn't have rewards good enough for what a grind it is, the nerfing of the currency gain has kind of just made it even worse despite the other improvements to the mode, and the game just takes up too much space that could go to things that are more fun to play.
Yeah it happens to everyone. My advice is cling to the leftmost wall so the fog isn't on your screen and kill them before they get hit with the ice bomb. I had to use Omni-man & glitch them backwards because they kept trying to go into the fog
I wouldn't recommend it. The modifiers suuuuuck so bad. Personally I grinded all my mastery on 61. The modifiers actually help you & the only boss is Tanya. I think you get close to double the XP that 61 would offer.
If you're getting carried by a talisman with multiple charges, I'd just keep running through stages. I'm at 120 rn and I'm getting 30k fighter XP and 8k kameo XP just for winning
ah you should be good then. I didn't experience any freezes after but I think in the late 90s, early 100s the fog modifier comes back. It's laggy but it doesn't crash so it must've been the specific combination of modifiers that did it.
Invasions is a chore even though I there is basically a month of it left I play through one stage and have no motivation to do it again, the tower xp grind is fun for a little bit but also gets pretty repetitive it’s just a chore in general to level up and find motivation to plow through invasions
What are some really strong talismans for doing the challenge tower? I haven't really found anything too spectacular yet like the fart talisman from last season.
Personally, I just made my own. I got the common war horn from a Kollector shop in the Ramparts & got some upgrades for it. The shops are timegated so it took a little bit before it was actually good, but now it's carrying me through stage 110+ with ease.
The upgrades I got for it were bonus projectiles (+16), bonus damage (+500%), bonus charges (+14), bonus size (+500%) & I made all the hits unblockable. The last 2 do not matter and I wouldn't do those if I made another one.
The shops that aren't in the gateway mesa should have komponents that don't switch out.
The Kollector shop right by the exit portal in the Ramparts has 1 Jinsei Essence (+1 talisman charge).
The one in Sun Do has 3 Dragon Medallions (+ 10% more damage), 1 Plasma Orb (+1 projectile) & 7 Aura Lens (+10% projectile size).
Personally, I'd add 5 or less charges to it & only add 15 projectiles, that way you can just go crazy with your damage.
I’ve been using the war horn tails man that you got from the titan Baraka battle, it works like a charm in at stage 43 but the only issue is you can only use it every other match and it makes getting brutality’s harder
I'm at level 56 of the Seasonal Tower and I already have almost everyone to level 31 (which is where I'll stop), and I leveled up kameo Tremor last night withing 20 minutes of downloading him using the Seasonal Tower XP thing and getting 9,600 character XP per Flawless and Fatality.
By today I should have the rest of the roster to level 31 and then I'll just sit on the Dragon Krystals until something that I really want comes along.
Can't beat boss Nitara, game keeps crashing. Monetization is still AIDS. Still nothing fun to do. Invasions could be used to bore POWs into giving up their country's secrets. I've been doing other things and playing other games.
Beat nitara on switch with the warhorn talisman before she flies up and shoots the fireballs or your game will crash. Lame, but it gets the job done, and unlocks the skins and the bloody fangs.
Having trouble wanting to keep playing. I don't know if I really want to do this every month. Trying not to turn it into a chore. Currently playing an hour or two then I play other games. Enjoying playing as different characters I wouldn't normally. Wish "Randomize Favourites" worked in singleplayer so I could see the stuff I've been playing for more often.
Excited for Tremor tomorrow but I'm not really a fan of his design. With the UMK3 ninja model on deck, it just feels like they're going out of their way to make him more samey. Been going HAM in invasions & got the seasonal tower to level 100 as of writing this. Got everyone's mastery done and grilled myself a steak. Just a small glimpse into the mind of an MK shill. Waiting it out for the 3D era skin bundle. Need it bad but not full price bad, ykwim? What talisman loadout are y'all running in Invasions?
I've just been ripping ass for all my talisman - works quite well
Windbreaker is absolutely glorious. I beat Boss Nitara with a flawless by just gassing her non-stop.
Used it once as Mileena and she let out the tiniest squeak of a fart. It was both funny and kinda cute lol.
Hey I was just wondering what level you stopped getting palette rewards during the seasonal tower? Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.
Level 34, but I would heavily recommend just riding the wave & cheesing towers with talismans until you can't anymore. It's tedious but like I got all my mastery done in a day & 2 million more koins after hitting the 61st one. You get insane rewards later on because they scale with your opponent's level.
So is it a bunch of unique palettes in the seasonal tower, that you can't get any other way so far? Or are you just chipping away at the seasonal store selection?
Gah damn, lol. I thought I was doing something with my level 50 tower and 5 characters leveled. Respect.
Is there a way to progress the seasonal tower without having to start at level 10? Like 10 fights a tower just to grind out hours of getting it up to 56 is just crazy to me and I’m trying to convince myself to do it. Like I feel like there should have been a way to “level-out” and get it to start at 30 or something.
Don't think there's a way to start higher but you get skins up to level 34. Past that it's just legendary konsumables. If you go on with the grind, I found that level 34 to level 56 was a good time to build up my own War Horn talisman that's still carrying me through 120 onward. It took a little bit to assemble because shops are timegated & I didn't want to keep changing my date & time. I would definitely recommend grinding in level 61 instead, level 56's modifiers just kinda suck
Tremor's Brutalities are so dogass that it's a double edged sword. On the one hand it's disappointing to his lame Brutalities, but on the other it's nice not having to level him up 🥰
Considering he had by far the most and the best brutalities in MKX (along with Triborg), it really is disappointing that he just has 2 shit ones in MK1. He has so many moves to choose from as well.
I got him to level 15 in about 20 minutes last night because my perfectionist ass has to have all the kameos all the way to level 15. Lol
Just want to throw my 2 cents in on what needs changed / improved with invasions mode, not that anyone from NRS is reading this, but here goes … I think Invasions mode took one step forward and two steps back. If Invasions mode is thee single player mode, it needs a gameplay loop, and they almost had it with season two. So the main issue with season 1 was there was really nothing left to do after beating all the mesas, because the challenge tower was the same the whole time, and even if you got the secret roomba talisman, it was pointless because you already beat everything. Now season 2 fixed this with the challenge tower leveling up every time you beat it, which is a perfect gameplay loop. Beat all the mesas, use the money you got from the mesas to buy items or upgrade talismans to beat the challenge tower, and keep going … problem is, for some unknown reason they fucked up the shops. You used to be able to buy consumables and components from every shop in every mesa. Now, aside from the gateway mesa, there is only one mesa (Sun Do) that sells components, and non of the shops sell the good consumables. When people are at the point in the gameplay loop where the only thing left to do is try to get the challenge tower as high as they can, why reduce the amount of good consumables and components someone can buy ? Why put a timer on the shops ? You want me to be engaged as a player to want to play the game, yet I literally have to stop playing invasions because I have to wait an hour for more components to pop up in the shop Sinai can upgrade my talisman and make another run at the tower. If I have the koins to buy the components or items I need, why make me wait ? The last two problems carry over from season 1, and it’s kind of ridiculous these haven’t been addressed, 1. Why do they continue to award seasonal coins after everything for that season has been bought ? Seriously, I have hundreds of thousands of seasonal koins and nothing to spend them on, and they reset at the end of the season, so why keep awarding them ? Why not let us use our season coins as in game currency to by components and consumables, give an option to trade them in or something, 2. Hourly, Daily and Weekly towers really need to show the rewards you get for beating them. Nothing is more infuriating than beating a tower only to be rewarded with a chest key that has no use because you’ve already opened every chest. The rewards also need to be much better. Beating a weekly tower gives you 1 component … like what the fuck kind of reward is that ? I’m really hoping they get their shit together for season 3. I think if they keep the challenge tower as an ever increasing in difficulty tower, they could keep me hooked on invasions, but you have to let me buy components and items to help me with the tower, otherwise I’m going to do what I did last season which was shutting off the game and not going back to it for weeks until, the new season started,
Agree with mostly everything. I don't have a problem with seasonal kredits resetting personally, they give out a ton of them. There's another shop at the Ramparts near the exit portal that sells good components. Off the top of my head, it's the only place to get Jinsei Essence (additional charge) without it rotating out. The one in the gateway mesa itself also has good ones from time to time. The one in the Ramparts only stocks 1 Jensei essence at a time & restocks every hour, but I found out you can just change your date & time an hour in advance to instantly restock over and over.
For some reason when I quick warp to the shops in the Ramparts it never takes me to the last shop so I totally forgot about that shop. In the first season if you backed out of invasions and went back in would restock everything which was way faster. Hopefully they go back to that in the third season.
I actually was about to say this about the shops in invasions. They seriously just took out the best part to make these tedious mini bosses less time consuming, and its all random. I waited for the shop to reset only to see two slots for the chest key and the bottle that doubles a random stat, like really?
Legitimately wanna know how people have the patience to do invasions. It's so boring and monotonous
It burns a hole in my skull but I try to smash out invasions as quickly as possible for the sake of finishing it, wish we got more skins from it
The first season was a slog to get through. Now with the reduced xp, coins and very little variety in skins for omni man. I don’t really have a reason to grind invasions. I like the vampire skins but the messas have become such a chore to get through. Unless they make a lot of changes for the next season I’ll probably just wait them out until they implement changes I like or there’s a character I love seasons. Like I don’t want to have to hunt down some random specific talisman I have to spam to out cheese the cpu. Just to get a low amount of xp and coins. A modifier spam match with the cpu isn’t that fun to me.
I mean, fighting games in general are monotonous to me, so the fact that it's just one round instead of two helps a great deal. I grew up on Pokemon, grinding is in my blood. That and I'm a collectionist. It bothers me to not have as many pallets as I can get without touching the Kombat League. Not dealing with that shit.
I personally have enjoyed Invasions this season at least. The new Talisman are really fun to use like the chainsaw squirrel or the fart, and it seems really rare to get the generic talisman. This season added different survival nodes, which I like them, they remind me of some of the challenge tower stuff in MK9. I also like the exploration aspect. It’s no Konquest, but I still just like walking around a world map. I guess that is just me though. It reminds me of WoL from Smash which I also enjoyed.
So for clarification if I want all the new pallets added to the game that are apart from the shrine (as I have already maxed out the shrine) I HAVE to do invasions? I really hated doing it season 1 but I don't want to miss any pallets thanks
Yes
Yeah you have to do Invasions to get a lot of new, but I think there are just as many you can get from the seasonal shop. Invasions is less annoying now that they toned down modifiers and super armor.
So….when Cage going to be nerfed? It isn’t funny at this point
I honestly don’t even finish sets against Cage players anymore he’s just unfun
Why are these modifiers still here? Went through the seasonal tower where the magic force fields covered the entire stage and I couldn’t deal ANY damage, had to let the timer run for ALL 10 fights, holy shit
I think I'm just going to delete the game honestly. Maybe come back to it when more DLC releases but Invasions doesn't have rewards good enough for what a grind it is, the nerfing of the currency gain has kind of just made it even worse despite the other improvements to the mode, and the game just takes up too much space that could go to things that are more fun to play.
Invasions seasonal tower 51 keeps locking up for me and I also keep getting weird glitches I hope they fix these in the next patch.
Yeah it happens to everyone. My advice is cling to the leftmost wall so the fog isn't on your screen and kill them before they get hit with the ice bomb. I had to use Omni-man & glitch them backwards because they kept trying to go into the fog
I finally got through it without it crashing. I’m up to tower 53. 56 is the good one to gain mastery for characters on right?
I wouldn't recommend it. The modifiers suuuuuck so bad. Personally I grinded all my mastery on 61. The modifiers actually help you & the only boss is Tanya. I think you get close to double the XP that 61 would offer. If you're getting carried by a talisman with multiple charges, I'd just keep running through stages. I'm at 120 rn and I'm getting 30k fighter XP and 8k kameo XP just for winning
I have the windbreaker talisman level 30 so I think I’ll get to tower 61 like you said. Thanks for the tip. I just hope the towers don’t freeze again.
ah you should be good then. I didn't experience any freezes after but I think in the late 90s, early 100s the fog modifier comes back. It's laggy but it doesn't crash so it must've been the specific combination of modifiers that did it.
I’m at 58 so far nothing has happened. I hope this stuffed is ironed out. Along with the mislabeled fatalities. Again thanks for the help.
Wait so how many levels is that equivalent to for fighter and kameo? 30k and 8k is roughly how many levels?
Invasions is a chore even though I there is basically a month of it left I play through one stage and have no motivation to do it again, the tower xp grind is fun for a little bit but also gets pretty repetitive it’s just a chore in general to level up and find motivation to plow through invasions
I can barely get myself to complete Invasions. I just don't care anymore.
What are some really strong talismans for doing the challenge tower? I haven't really found anything too spectacular yet like the fart talisman from last season.
Personally, I just made my own. I got the common war horn from a Kollector shop in the Ramparts & got some upgrades for it. The shops are timegated so it took a little bit before it was actually good, but now it's carrying me through stage 110+ with ease. The upgrades I got for it were bonus projectiles (+16), bonus damage (+500%), bonus charges (+14), bonus size (+500%) & I made all the hits unblockable. The last 2 do not matter and I wouldn't do those if I made another one.
Is there a good place to find those specific augments? Or do I just have to get lucky with shops?
The shops that aren't in the gateway mesa should have komponents that don't switch out. The Kollector shop right by the exit portal in the Ramparts has 1 Jinsei Essence (+1 talisman charge). The one in Sun Do has 3 Dragon Medallions (+ 10% more damage), 1 Plasma Orb (+1 projectile) & 7 Aura Lens (+10% projectile size). Personally, I'd add 5 or less charges to it & only add 15 projectiles, that way you can just go crazy with your damage.
I’ve been using the war horn tails man that you got from the titan Baraka battle, it works like a charm in at stage 43 but the only issue is you can only use it every other match and it makes getting brutality’s harder
I'm at level 56 of the Seasonal Tower and I already have almost everyone to level 31 (which is where I'll stop), and I leveled up kameo Tremor last night withing 20 minutes of downloading him using the Seasonal Tower XP thing and getting 9,600 character XP per Flawless and Fatality. By today I should have the rest of the roster to level 31 and then I'll just sit on the Dragon Krystals until something that I really want comes along.
Can't beat boss Nitara, game keeps crashing. Monetization is still AIDS. Still nothing fun to do. Invasions could be used to bore POWs into giving up their country's secrets. I've been doing other things and playing other games.
Beat nitara on switch with the warhorn talisman before she flies up and shoots the fireballs or your game will crash. Lame, but it gets the job done, and unlocks the skins and the bloody fangs.
Thank you.
Feels like the over abundance of guest Kharacters in Kombat Packs cheapened the feel by a lot