Mortal Kombat 1’s large Conan the Barbarian replace launched this week and with it got here the arrival of a secret combat with Floyd, the pink ninja developer Ed Boon had been teasing for years. Not solely that, but in case you defeat Floyd you unlock cool unique rewards, together with a coveted new stage.

But how precisely do you set off the secret Floyd combat? Gamers are working collectively to strive to crowdsource the reply. This group effort, led by Mortal Kombat modder and dataminer thethiny, has accomplished a lot to unravel the thriller, but the actual course of stays unknown.

Right here’s what followers have labored out: a variety of Floyd challenges should be accomplished earlier than the combat with Floyd triggers. How many, no-one is aware of. Which challenges should be accomplished, and wherein order? No-one is aware of that both. Worse, it seems completely different for every participant. That’s not a lot assist, is it?

What helps is thethiny’s (*1*) that lists the varied challenges gamers have found and the necessities for every. Once you’ve accomplished a problem the Floyd icon will pop up on the left of the display screen and also you’ll hear a guitar riff. Necessities embody taunting 4 instances in a match, profitable with out leaping, and profitable utilizing sweeps solely. A few of these challenges might be accomplished utilizing any character, some with sure characters solely. 37 Floyd clues have been found up to now. Possibly there are extra!

It seems to be the case that you simply would not have to full all 37 Floyd challenges to combat Floyd. It additionally seems to be the case that gamers have completely different “energetic” challenges, so there isn’t a single course of followers can rely on. It is all a bit complicated, but the finest recommendation proper now could be to do as many of those challenges as you possibly can, and ultimately, hopefully, you will combat Floyd.

Often, Floyd himself will seem at the begin of the match to provide you with a clue (klue?) to one in all your energetic challenges. Thethiny’s information suggests it may take tons of of ladder matches to get one in all these clues from Floyd to pop up. Gamers are working by means of all this proper now, and a few are spending a lot of time doing so. Some try to improve their probabilities by restarting matches, but that comes with the threat of lacking the Floyd clue as a result of they solely seem at the finish of the match.

What is obvious is that the Floyd combat has breathed new life into Mortal Kombat 1. The new stage, the area seen in Mortal Kombat 1’s announcement trailer, is attractive, so the reward for all this effort is a good one. And Floyd himself is sparking a deeper dive as modders strive to work out the particulars of his moveset and which characters from the Mortal Kombat video games have impressed it. It’s simply a entire lot of enjoyable to be a a part of and watch unfold.

In the meantime, we’ve acquired the T-1000 visitor character to look ahead to, and probably extra DLC to come, though NetherRealm has but to affirm that. Hopefully no matter occurs, the developer will throw in additional secret fights over time, maybe with Mortal Kombat’s iconic Pit stage as a reward.

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