Yeah in DA, when you froze somebody the turned blue and stood still for a moment, but now cold steam comes off them and they don't turn Blue...more of an icy color.

I agree! Everything looks a lot better now, well done Mk Team!

Hotaru has somekind of a handstand cartwheel attack. Wonder what it does and where it hits?

That's not new, or a special. He had that in MKD, it's part of the Naginata Moveset.

yeah it would but beak and bob actually play differently though.
the problem is that when they made MKDA and MKD alot of styles were transfered over and some characters that were in MKDA lost their styles.
kira is the perfect example of this, gameplay wise she is totally and completely unoriginal. she had two other characters style and special moves so when those two characters came back she lost them(though with her kenpo this obviously isn't the case)
until we see kira actually using her new style, you shouldn't judge it, like i said as long as it's not a bad style she should be fine.
also i think it's easier for tekken because their characters only have one style and their fighting style is usually tied to their story or their character background.
beak and bob being good examples here cause their both from korea it makes sense for them to have tae kwon do, in mortal kombat the fighting styles are totally impersonal and anyone could get anything except for maybe big characters like motaro and characters like drahmin who had made up styles.
outside of those almost everyone is free game to get any style because their so impersonal.
but yeah MKA seems to have undergone a graphical update also, i noticed that capes and cloth and things like that seem to flow smoothly now.
and the i guess elemental effects look good too.
but i don't think hotaru got any new special moves, i don't anyone in MKD did.

Actually, Smoke got three new moves from being separated from Noob Saibot, and I imagine Noob himself will get some new special moves. But otherwise, I agree.

Where did you see this?

Yeah link please...

Another where did you see this?

http://rapidshare.de/files/31423540/SmokeCyraxb.mpg.html
For some reason the guy removed the movie from youtube, so this is the only existing link as far as I know.

I just saw the Jade video and I'm beyond angry that she has Fan Zi and Bojutsu. She needs Kuo Shou back in the place of Fan Zi or something else completely. Fan Zi is rubbish and I pray that they've made 3 a fast and safe mid if she's keeping the stance for definite!
I like that they have sped up her teleport and Nitro Kick as she's going to need them juiced up a bit if she's stuck with Fan Zi.
Bojutsu needs vast improvements too.

yep. smoke's new specials are:
stinky fingers
play dead
robo-punch
he doesn't use them you only see the name in the movelist
he also has smokey-cut and stinky cloud from deception

is the smoke vid on youtuube? sorry im fallin a lil behind lol EDIT: nevermind, got it on rapidshare

Chrome: That handstand thing was his Branch combo, Changing from Pi Gua to His weapon.
But having a cartwheel kick style thing does sound good for him.
Hopefull he will get new moves as from that video it didnt look like he got any....

alot of the MKD characters aren't getting updated move lists.

Sareena looks really good.

Nick can you please update with all the movies we have so far or is it too great of a task?

All of the Non Movelist Showing ones are up now!

quan chi vs. sindel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk5auvFnPcg

Meat Video is now up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMhkJa9XVDs

That sucks. He didn't even show the special moves.

Yeah, Sigh. He says the next meat vid will show his moves though.
I wonder what arena that is?? It seems HUGE!! loads of the different (All be it the same) areas and a deathtrap! Cool!

see, thats the exact reason why i love the video's that show us characters movelists.
but anyway wrestling seems like a good style for him.

Meat was kicking ass and taking names
All I can say is they climbed a lot of stairs to get up there to fight...

that might be sindel's throne room.
it's supposed to have alot of death traps but maybe they meant tiered areas.