Mortal Kombat 1 Fans Have Made Quan Chi Playable
Ermac and Quan Chi are not playable in Mortal Kombat 1, despite featuring heavily in the story mode. You even fight them several times. We'll have to wait for paid DLC for them to join the roster, but modders have already been hard at work accessing their story versions. At the end of September, ermaccer fittingly made Ermac playable, and now, they have Quan Chi working too.
This was shown in a video by tgtkai in which they not only play as Quan Chi, but other story characters like the Tarkatan experiments. Getting to play them hands-on shows that they aren't finished, which is why they weren't included on the roster at launch. Ermac uses a variation of Noob's stance and kombos from MK11, while Quan Chi appears to be based on Shang Tsung.
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This is made possible by ermaccer's MK1Hook mod, a plugin that removes the 30fps lock from supermoves, intros, and menus, introduces a speed modifier, and lets you freely control the camera. While a lot of these tools are incredibly useful, it's the "character modifier" part of MK1Hook that stands out, as it lets you play as NPCs, AKA the unplayable characters from other modes.
As the two are clearly unfinished, there are no fatal blows. Quan Chi and Ermac's story mode versions were not designed to be playable, made abundantly clear by modders, but a new version of them will be part of the first Kombat Pack. As revealed before MK1 had even launched in July of this year, Homelander, Takeda, Quan Chi, Omni-Man, Ermac, and Peacemaker will round out the first expansion.
In previous games, each character has been sold individually, so we can likely expect the same here. However, we don't know what they'll cost. In MK11, characters
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