I think it'll either be Liu Kang and Kitana (hopefully as a tag match) or Raiden as you said. I doubt they're going to redo the Deception or Armageddon stories so Onaga and Blaze will probably be out. Unless throwing Blaze in the background of the Pit was a hint? Anyway, I expect at least one more expansion upon the framework laid by MK9. I think by now it's 99.9 % likely that Fujin will be in, and he'll actually have a big role to play finally. I expect at least one new gameplay feature to be included as well.

I would love the team to do Motaro some justice but I just don't see it working.I mean they can make it happen but will Motaro's gameplay feel right? Will he be too stiff and clunky? Then again,Motaro was broken and annoying back in the day anyways.Motaro is an awesome concept but....doesn't really work out.

The System of Variations has been a huge success for both competitive and casual gamers. You do not have to limit it. The trend is to explore this technology in the next game with specific modes.

Here are my predictions;

- The story will involve (not necessarily revolve around) a new pairing of the Deadly Alliance. Whether it be Shang & Liu, Dark Raiden & Liu, Dark Raiden & Shao Kahn, Liu & Kitana, or whomever, I think it'll factor in at some point whether big or small in the overarching narrative.

- Dark Raiden invading other realms will also factor into the story and be one of the driving narratives of the plot.

- Not all of the Kombat Kids will return. One or more may sit out and be relegated to cameo status in Story Mode.

- Brutalities will return along with Friendships.

- Faction Wars will be heavily retooled and redone from the ground up, if not axed completely.

- Due to Injustice, I think we are looking at at least a 30 character base roster, potentially 40 with DLC included. Given how NRS continuously love to one-up themselves, I think it's highly probable especially now that they have a grasp on their engine, its capabilities and how far they can push it in the time frame of their development cycles.

- Only a handful of 3D era characters will see a return to the roster. My guess is between 3-4.

- Due to Dark Raiden invading realms, this will put Scorpion and Sub-Zero at odds yet again, re-fueling their feud (despite the fact it is overly played out).

- One of the Kombat parents will die in Story Mode, potentially getting the "shock Liu Kang death" treatment.

I said it before, Reiko will be key to Kotal Kahn's takeover. Kahn disregarded the pledge, so Reiko may rise once more and be revengeful in MK11. Havik is a subordinate in this situation as well.

I figured one prediction would be Raiden going on the warpath to other realms with Fujin leading Earthrealm to stop him.

Perhaps Raiden knows Blaze will bring Armaggedon and kill him along with preventing Onaga's resurrection.

We may see more of Outworld's fighters having a chapter.

Some 3D era characters will be in, but not many.

- The System of Variations will not only return, but also have more implements (characters will change of variation when they lose round in classic towers, story mode and we will have a type of vs that this exchange will happen).
- The same Towers that existed in the MKX will return in the next one and others will be added.
- The Tag Team will return, just like Test your Sight.
- We will have Fatalies, Brutalies and Hara Kiri.
- We will have Tag Fatalities (each character will have an initiation and a finalization of fatality tag).
- We'll see feedback as a kind of interaction with the scene: MKDA Traps, Trap Scenarios on MK4, and MKD Death Traps as a type of Brutality.
- So is Brutality. Hara Kiri will be made during the fight.
- Final Boss will be Raiden and the story will deal with his invasion of Outworld.
- The Boss / Manipulator System (Shao Kahn / Quan Chi, Shinnok / DVorah) will be maintained with Raiden / Shang Tsung.
- At least one slot will have a double, two characters (with goals, alignment and similar gameplays - plus not too distant appearance).
- We have a maximum of 2 new characters.
"Motaro will not be in the game.
"I think Fera is in the game but not Torr (she must be in the middle age between being a mount or tamer).
Kang Lao, Jax, Sonya, Johnny Cage, Kenshi will not be back, along with Mileena, Quan Chi and Shinnok (and potentially Scorpion and Sub Zero will only be in the DLCs).
- The 3D Characters that appeared in the MKX but did not enter the game will all be in the following, which says: Frost, Sareena, Li Mei and Fujin.
- We will have enough 3D characters (at least 6).
- Noob Saibot and Smoke will be in the game.
- Outwolrd will be the good side at first, despite having some bad ones and Earthrealm will be evil despite having some good ones.
- We'll have more bad Earthrealm characters than good.
- The factions of the Game will be Earthrealm and Outworld. The Kills Faction System will be completely changed.
- We will again have the MK3 Tournument and winning it will lead to a fight with Shao Kahn on the Celestial Portal (where you face your biggest fear). - Shao Kahn will not be playable (and will be the same as MK9). - We will have at least 30 playable characters without the DLCs. - We'll have some kind of Corrupt Raiden. - We will have more Arenas and Stage Fatalities and Stage Brutalities, besides the Death Traps.

Raiden will be the villain, with Liu Kang/Kitana as the midgame boss. He has been corrupted as has Liu Kang and we will see the extent of this take its toll on Cage and Sonya.

Sonya or Johnny will die at the hands of Liu Kang, maybe Liutana will kill Johnny Blade

The scorpion/sub fued will be rehashed (again) initially starting as a friendship until one sides with dark Raiden while the other feels his aggresive nature will be the downfall of earth realm.

The forces of light will fracture after the defeat of Liu Kang and Kitana. Kung Jin will side against Raiden after he refuses to try and bring back the damned souls from mk9.

Red Dragon will enter the fray

Seido and Chaosrealm will at least be mentioned in story. Stretch guess Havik and Hotaru make the roster.

Bi han will return

Roster of 28, 10 DLC 38 characters total. 5 guests: Midnighter will be one
18 from mkx, 8 returning mk characters, 2 brand new
(Hoping Havik, Hotaru, Noob, Ashrah, Jade, Shang Tsung, Fujin, Kai as base roster returns)

Brutalities will return

If variations return:
Team mode instead of a tag team mode, there will be an option to select 2 v 2 or 3 v 3, only characters cannot switch out, the order you choose will be order they come out,

If variations are scrapped:

Tag tem mode

Brutalities will return but will miss the point of why people loved them and will become longer and slower and more torture porn-y.

1)I wouldn't be so sure. I can see Raiden have an antagonistic role, but Liu and Kitana as the new Deadly Alliance are a safer bet. And a return of Onaga is not to be ruled out yet.

2)i I see a cameo role for Kano behind bars. However, after watching his MKX ending, I'd expect his son to debut.

3)Nahh, Scorpion is the wild card of the good guys, a lá Wolverine. No matter how much he screw things up, he'll always be accepted as an ally,especially now that he is human and free of Quan Chi's control.

4)Too hard to predict, too early to judge. I hope to see Triborg back soon, as I liked all three cyborgs for gameplay, but not storyline.

5)After injustice 2 I wouldn't be surprised if NRS will allow us to chose one of two characters in certain chapters.

6) No, I doubt. It would be too much of a ballsy decision. Cassie is the former main hero. Jacqui, Kung Jin and Takeda have a huge fan base who likes them for their ethnicity. How you dare to kill a japanese/african American couple? NRS is full of racists...
Seriously, the Kombat kids deserves a second chance to shine.

7)except for x-ray and the fighting styles of the deadly alliance/Deception era, no Major gameplay mechanic has been repeated. Armageddon reduced fighting styles from three to two per character due to the large roster. Mk11 will have pretty much the same amount of characters of MKX or slightly more.

8)I love Motaro, as he is my favourite sub boss, even more than Goro, but NRS is not interested in him because he requires extra work, when instead they could recycle a huge human body with extra arms and give you your Goro pre-order DLC.

I have ONE major prediction about the cast:

Comprised entirely of Trilogy characters, some returning characters from MKX and New Characters. There will be a ton of "what about x, y, z 3d-era character??" but we'll be lucky to get one updated 3d-era character as DLC (alongside at least 2 guest characters per DLC pack - be prepared for it).

Fujin will not be core cast or DLC. Sadly I expect them pull the same shit, they seemed totally in denial at the disappointment when Fujin was cut last game ("it's just a small group of vocal fans" etc).

Definitely gonna have Multiple character chapters in MKXI. Finally we will get the long awaited jobber characters chapter. Reptile X Erron Black 4 life.

I like the Kombat Kids, but one will die. Then resurrected in the ending cutscene. Onaga Lives.

Scorpion always does things that makes the situation much worse. Its his gimmick.

Totally can see customisable characters in this game. I just hope you can buy things and shaders and gear moves with in game money.

-Adventure Game / Shaolin Monks sequel
-4 main kids are main characters. Think about their move sets. It's almost on purpose.
-Scorp, Sub, Raiden, D'Vorah are additional characters along with more.
-Raiden is the big bad
-Canon story involving many realms.
-Tons of side quests and expansion for MK char/story development. Think MKSM meets MKD Konquest.
-Local 1-4p single/co-op/vs
-Online 1-4p co-op/vs
-Noob saibot fight will finally make the cut.

For some reason, I'm ridiculously confident in these predictions.

Either Raiden is the big Bad or Liu Kang and Kitana launch an invasion.

Noob is back(I hope) :)

* Raiden is not the big bad. He might be more merciless and bad-ass, but ultimately he is the Defender of the Earthrealm and is best suited as an iconic playable character; not an end game boss.

* If I had to predict a villain, I think it might even be someone new. Liu Kang and Kitana will also be bad guys, but they also won't be the bad guys. They'll likely defer to a higher power.

* Liu Kang and Kitana have some sort of hellspawn child that grows at an advanced rate or something. Hell, this could possibly be the final boss, but I think they probably introduce them as a "fighter." Hopefully they make them quite unique. Even if this character is playable, I imagine that they will canonically be very powerful. Is it too Star Warsy for me to suggest male/female twins. MK hasn't done that dynamic yet.

* Kano's son is a playable character and finds a way to begin a rivalry with Cassie Cage -- likely by killing someone very close to her -- mommy seems like a safe bet. Given that he wouldn't have been born without cybernetics, but he needs a gimmick as a fighter, I see his tragic origins being that Kano gave the okay for him to be experimented on. He's a "tortured soul" with a heavy background.

Oh, and Scorpion will somehow end up being a spectre again. White-eyed hellspawn Scorpion is just too much of an aesthetic comfort for him to remain alive and well for too long. If I had to predict a killer, I'll go with a Soulnado-upgraded Noob Saibot.

If Raiden is to be the final big bad, rest assured Fujin will be the "hero" in MK11.

Bo Rai Cho and Li Mei return to main roster.

All kids return from MKX.

All parents are only used in Storymode.

Shang revives his army.

Drop the variation system, Brutalities and background interactions.



People loved the Brutalities because they were more interesting than the Fatalities.

I'd like to see Ninja_Arts' thoughts on this

In terms of predictions? I'm going to go with the fact that they release the base game with 30 characters, along with one non-story based pre-order DLC (Their recent trend)

So, base roster of 31. Have to also figure either Sonya or Johnny sits this one out to see Cassie progress. Maybe Jax, too.

I do think that Raiden will have a key role, but I think you're going to have various degrees of "evil" here in terms of "chaotic evil" "lawful evil" "neutral evil" etc...So we might see that.

I also think we'll see at least 2 of the previous revenants come back - my bets are on Kung Lao and Kabal. I think if Smoke comes back he looks completely different and goes full Enenra, which is overdue.

I also foresee Scorpion returning to his previous nature, but not because of death - because of necessity. I think they'll need someone on the side of good who knows all too well the power that lies within the Netherrealm and knows how to harness it and how to use it against its new rulers.

When Kung Lao becomes human once again, I guess that his mind will still be terribly clouded. If he takes an amazing turn in his recovery, then I foresee revenant Liu Kang severely wiping the floor with Kung Lao.

Well, yeah, agree with all of this. But in terms of story, how do you think it's going to play out?
An invasion of Outworld by Earthrealm and a tournament? The Netherrealm rulers doing what exactly? Daegon reviving Onaga to ensure Armageddon happens? (per comic ending)

I predict a lot of loot boxes and cashgrab shit.

1. There's a lot of Violence, that's a general prediction.

2. Kotal Kahn will be an asshole anti-hero against Raiden, dies by the end, because he's a stubborn ass.

3. Either Raiden will turn good by the end and fight Demon Liu Kang, or Liu Kang will turn good and fight Raiden. One of those....or one will be Sub-Boss.

4. Shujinko makes a return, because Ed Boon realized on Twitter how much people liked Deception....sounds dumb, but 'less we forget, Shujinko IS Deception ;)

5. More stages (or we will riot).

6. 38-40 Characters when all DLC is released.

7. Tag-Battle returns.

8. Return of Challenge Tower (I prefer MK9's style, as MKX's was boring and gimmicky).

9. Mileena doesn't make a return 'cause she's dead, thank god too, hate that bitch with her "rolling on the ground" attack.

10. 7-8 new characters as always, but they won't be as boring as the Kombat Kids with their military gear, and whiny attitudes.

11. Ferra/Torr won't come back, as hardly anyone played as them online.

12. Bi-Han makes a return somehow, his moves combine with Noob. Shadow/Ice combo.

13. The Revenants return to their former selves.

14. Orderrealm makes a return ... or cameo (Hotaru, Darrius/Darriou).

15. It hasn't been confirmed that Kobra/Kira/Jarek had died ... yet. ... Ok, NRS will think of a way to kill them off like in the comics.

16. There will be less "Metal" background OST's, as cool as it is, it would be nice to here Mystical music in more stages. MKD's music was TOP NOTCH!

17. I don't think the Story will be AS linear, I think they might experiment around with it a bit more, and make it pan out longer.

18. New Minigame.

19. Konquest mode combines w/ Krypt.

20. My last General Statement, is that there will DEFINITELY be an options menu...I think that might make it in there. Looking forward to that feature. Also Hsu Hao's corpse will be the True Hero. That's also a thing that will happen. My Final FINAL FINAL prediction is that people will stop begging for Armageddon 2.0 with all characters in the world +MArio+ Tekken characters, where we get 500 characters and its not a half-assed, incomplete fighter with terrible kata endings and gimmicky fatalities and then Ed BOon wonders wtf happened, goes bankrupt, MKX gets re-re-booted. KOMBAT PARTY MODE! WHOOOOOO!!!

Eventually, Raiden or Fujin will become an Elder God.