Mortal Kombat 1 growth chief Ed Boon has taken to social media to disclose a glimpse at upcoming visitor character T-1000 Terminator’s Fatality, and tease “future DLC.”
To mark the discharge of visitor character Conan the Barbarian, Boon tweeted to say Mortal Kombat 1 has now bought over 5 million copies, up from the 4 million beforehand reported. Boon then tweeted a brief clip displaying one of many T-1000’s Fatalities, which Terminator 2 followers are certain to get a kick out of.
We see the T-1000 drive a smashed up truck straight into his hapless opponent, rekindling reminiscences of the long-lasting chase scene in Terminator 2 the place the T-1000 drives the identical truck in pursuit of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator and Edward Furlong’s John Connor.
(5 of seven) With Conan entering into participant’s palms, we’re excited to maintain trucking ahead with future DLC ! pic.twitter.com/eC3Aqj5KDc
— Ed Boon (@noobde) (*1*)
Nevertheless it’s Boon’s remark accompanying the clip that set tongues wagging throughout the Mortal Kombat neighborhood: “With Conan entering into participant’s palms, we’re excited to maintain trucking ahead with future DLC!”
Whereas the road “maintain trucking ahead with future DLC” could relate to the upcoming launch of the T-1000, some are hoping it’s a tease that extra DLC characters are set to hit the sport as soon as the present set is rounded out.
T-1000 Terminator is the ultimate DLC character set to be added to the gory combating sport as a part of the Khaos Reigns growth, and follows playable fighters Cyrax, Sektor, Noob Saibot, Ghostface, and Conan the Barbarian. Followers have puzzled for a while now whether or not developer NetherRealm plans a 3rd set of DLC characters, or a Kombat Pack 3, amid questions on Mortal Kombat 1’s gross sales success.
Dad or mum firm Warner Bros. Discovery has indicated, nonetheless, that it nonetheless believes within the Mortal Kombat franchise. In November, CEO David Zaslav stated that on the video games aspect of issues, the corporate plans to double down on simply 4 titles, one among which is Mortal Kombat.
In September, Boon stated NetherRealm had selected its subsequent sport three years prior, however promised to assist Mortal Kombat 1 “for a very long time to return.”
Most followers of the studio’s work count on it to launch a 3rd sport in its DC combating sport franchise, Injustice, though neither NetherRealm nor Warner Bros. has but to verify that. The primary sport within the collection, Injustice: Gods Amongst Us, launched in 2013, with its sequel, Injustice 2, popping out in 2017. NetherRealm launched Mortal Kombat 11 in 2019 and for a time it appeared just like the studio would alternate between Mortal Kombat and Injustice video games, but it surely went on to launch one other Mortal Kombat, the delicate reboot that’s Mortal Kombat 1, in 2023 as an alternative.
In an interview with IGN in June 2023, Boon spoke in obscure phrases about this determination. “There have been quite a lot of components, a few of which I can speak about, a few of which I in all probability should not,” Boon stated.
Two causes Boon was keen to debate have been the unlucky onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the workforce’s selection to change to a more recent model of the Unreal sport engine (Mortal Kombat 11 runs on Unreal Engine 3, whereas Mortal Kombat 1 runs on Unreal Engine 4).
“However we did go to a brand new graphics engine, Unreal,” Boon stated. “We actually needed to watch out with COVID and all that stuff and all people staying secure. So there have been a bunch of variables concerned that ultimately we realized, ‘Okay, let’s do one other Mortal Kombat sport and hopefully we’ll get again to the Injustice video games.’ “
Simply to make sure, we needed to verify with him straight that the door was not closed on the Injustice franchise.
“Under no circumstances,” Boon answered.
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