Mortal Kombat 1 Removed Teabagging But Players Are Doing It Anyway
Mortal Kombat 1 might have purposefully replaced teabagging with taunts, but that hasn't stopped some players from figuring out a way to do it while moving.
One surprising detail to come out about Mortal Kombat 1 while it was playable at Summer Game Fest Play Days was that NetherRealm Studio has introduced a taunt button for each character. Rather than having a dedicated button to taunt, players activate it by crouching four times in a row. If you haven't figured it out by now, this is essentially ensuring that players can no longer teabag their opponent, but it seems that wasn't enough.
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Over the past few days, Mortal Kombat 1's online stress test has gone live, letting a select number of lucky players get their hands on the game for the first time to try out four of the characters in online battles. While most of us aren't able to play the game right now, lots of gameplay videos have been shared around, giving us a better look at combos, character interactions, and, sadly, some creative players finding a workaround for the lack of teabagging.
As showcased by Twitter user TQT1995, there's a smart way of getting around the new taunt button and dunking on the other fighter. Instead of just crouching over and over again, it seems that players can now teabag by quickly swapping between crouching and moving forward, essentially causing them to shuffle forward while they teabag. Sure, it looks a little stupid and is more like wavedashing than teabagging, but you have to respect the fact that players have already found a workaround in less than 24 hours of playtime.
It's also pretty funny that NetherRealm's attempts to remove teabagging from Mortal
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