Mortal Kombat 1 Is Getting Cross-Platform “Krossplay”
NetherRealm Studios has revealed that they are bringing crossplay to Mortal Kombat 1, or as they call it, Krossplay.
In a recent tweet on the official Mortal Kombat Twitter account, they said:
“With peace, comes Krossplay. The feature will be included in next week’s patch and supported between PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store). More details coming early next week.”
Unfortunately, NetherRealm Studios is playing catch up here, as their colleagues and competitors in the fighting game genre, such as Street Fighter 6, and Tekken 8, had crossplay as far back as when those games were launched. This very common feature turned out to be a system update for Mortal Kombat 1 that took five months to arrive.
In fact, Mortal Kombat 1 has a real delayed updates problem in general. NetherRealm did promise a steady stream of updates, but has failed to consistently deliver such within these past five months. For example, the stream of playable and Kameo characters did not arrive monthly as they had promised.
Similarly, may issues that the game had across multiple platforms did not get addressed for a long time. Mortal Kombat 1 on Switch may never get a graphics upgrade, but it was also not a stable, playable experience, until very recently.
The big issue that the FGC had with Mortal Kombat 1 was desyncing during online play. The issue had become so persistent that competitive players gave up on the game. Other gamers did have Invasions, a first party mode that allowed them to collect costumes in the pretext that they were fighting alternate universe versions of the same characters.
Like everything else, NetherRealm failed to properly update Invasions, with Season 4 also getting delayed. The desyncing issue was not fixed for a long time, though it seems to have mostly been fixed now.
NetherRealm is apparently planning Season 4 of Invasions to come alongside the pending release of their next DLC character, DC Comics’ Peacemaker. However, if NetherRealm
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