sweep is a fair distance away. They say two steps, but that doesn't exactly justify it. Think of it in terms as, close, middle and far, middle being sweep, obviously. Far, is I believe 6-8 stes away. but it's best to just go to the other end of the screen. Close is pretty obvious as well.

Hes right...or you could try getting all the way up to you victum and jumping back ONE TIME! works for me...but see its stupid cause they are no sweep fatalitys int his game...they are close jump and far...but people still say its sweep distance!! ....so anyone that you see that says sweep...try jump distance and i betcha it'll work!
hope this helps!
p.s. some times when it says close...you gotta take like a half a step away form them or they wont work somtimes...just that you might wanna know! thats the main thing i had trouble with!

thanks. both of u. i'll try that right away.
about close fatalities: i never had trouble with them- i just keep walking into my victim, and then i switch the style to fatality and i take it from there.
in the far fatality i tried being at the other end of the screen, but it still didn;t work. weird. i'll give it couple more shots.
i didn;t try what u told me about sweep, but i will.
thanks again. i'll let u know if they work

sweep works like a charm, but FAR- doesn;t
i only got it right once ( with raiden) and that was probably pure luck. can u tell me exaclly how hard u have to be, or tell me how far u are ( personally) when you do it.

Far seems to be about two jumps back, and further.

I always get right up close to the opponent and then jump back three times to perform a "far" fatality. Works every time.
And yeah, "sweep" = one jump back.

kano fan hit the nail right on the head!....
sweep= 1 jump
far= 2 or 3 jumps

well that does make sense. the one time the far fatality works i remember jumping back after being like 2 steps away.
i donno why they just try to make MK shittier everyday. why can't fatalities just be like the use to? fast, ORIGINAL and not depending on distance.
from what i've heard so far , to do a far fatality u pretty much need all the time they give you for a fatality just to find the right position, not to mention that u might not get it right in the first try and sometimes it happens that u actually punch it in too fast.
long live MK4. STILL THE BEST MK EVER!
anyway thanks for all your help.
alright ~CROW, u can close the thread now

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