{"id":11870,"date":"2011-05-23T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mortal-kombat-stealth-hotfix-deployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11870-mortal-kombat-stealth-hotfix-deployed","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat stealth hotfix deployed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetherRealm Studios has dropped a pretty significant hotfix on Mortal Kombat, ahead of the Skarlet DLC launch and a major game patch due in a couple of weeks. Using some kind of wizardry, mind you, this update is happening behind the scenes, and won&rsquo;t require any downloading on the other side.<\/p>\n<p>According to the guys over at Test Your Might, the current update includes the following tweaks and changes:<\/p>\n<p>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reduced some of Kung Lao&#8217;s combo and overall damage.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reduced the damage on some special moves.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Increased the damage scaling after Kitana&#8217;s Enhanced ground fan toss.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Adjusted some juggle&#8217;s damage scaling.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reduced the damage on some basic combos that were doing too much damage without using any meter.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Increased Sheeva&#8217;s damage output for several of her moves and attacks.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Temporarily Changed around some of Sonya&#8217;s fighting style properties to reduce her ability to lock someone down in block stun.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Changed Kano&#8217;s Forward Front Kick to a low block.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reduced the recovery on Kano&#8217;s Upball to be closer to Johnny Cage&#8217;s Flip Kick recovery.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Increased the damage of some of Baraka&#8217;s special moves and attacks.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is easier to juggle combo after hitting someone with Baraka&#8217;s chopchop on the ground.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Increased the damage scaling on a frozen opponent.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Baraka&#8217;s Back Front Kick, Front Punch combo is now a true popup.<br \/>&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reduced some of Reptile&#8217;s combo damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13654-Mortal-Kombat-hotfix-released?p=424926#post424926\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Mortal Kombat hotfix<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nerfs, buffs, controversy, more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}