Reptile's fatality is awesome

You can interupt Ultra Combo's in SSFIV. For Example Gen's ultra where he trails across the screen can be broken up by a Hadouken. You can avoid Ryu's ultra by jumping over his super Hadouken. Sagat's Tiger Cannon. Akuma's Wrath of The Raging demon. ETC... There is way around these ultra combos. However, I think you're misinterpreting my concern here. So I will explain below.

I will be ok with this and it's damage scale if there is a way to avoid it. Agreed I don't want the actual x-ray to be broken up while in play. Which I should of stated more clear. But Avoiding it before someone try's and executes it. Failing to execute successfully should result in losing the x-ray option till their bar refills. That's all I'm Implying. Hope this clears things up.

I see what you mean then. I don't think you have to worry too much. All the X-rays will be different for each character. Sektor's and Sub-Zero's start off from a distance while Cage's is a parry. So on paper right now it looks like they'll be avoidable if timed correctly.

Totally agree you should lose your meter if you miss them.

That's what should happen, but so far it's looking like they know how cheap these can be.

Johnny Cage's hits hard but it's a Counter

Kung Lao's comes out almost too fast, but it looks weak as hell. He slapped Nightwolf around after he did it, and the total damage he did was 35%

Nightwolf's is the same way, except he doesn't even get a free combo after the fact.

Sektor and Reptile's need tweaking though. Both of them have quick start up AND hit hard. Sektor's seems invincible.

Reptile's has a downside though in that if he misses, he stumbles and leaves himself open. But the start up should be changed because doing an invisible dash is just too cheap

From what I'm seeing, it looks like there ARE dial-a-combos, but instead of long strings, it's short strings that can be chained with specials and normals.

at least I THINK so...

The promising news is they'll be able to patch the game regularly if something is broken like we're talking about. They haven't been able to do that since the arcade days.

X-ray's are currently block-able. And for some, I think you can avoid by jumping over or away at the right time. In johnny's case, dont touch him when he's doing his x-ray parry. So, you can avoid them.

Sounds good bro. Thanks for this.

did anybody notice during tag team when cage gets sektor or kung lao they fall in the pit when they die...i like that

So far, Im liking Sektors X Ray the most..the uppercut and especially the way he charges his final punch is wicked.

But I'm hearing the MK vs DC fatality tune..I hope they ditch it. Doesn't fit this game. Plus I wanna forget MK vs DC. This game should be all about MK 1, 2 and 3 and bringing those sentements back.

Thats why I liked when I heard the living forest tune from MK 2 during a fight on that stage. Anybody noticed that?

Nice spotting! Glad to see that back. Hopefully they will implent that sound fx from back in the day that made it feel like a really hard hit.

I don't think it's a new special, just a really cool finisher to one of her combo's

It looks to me like the masks will break/rip of during the fight. By the time the fatality is performed im sure their mouth is exposed.
YUMMY!!

I hate Mileena's butchy stance. They're using male mocaps for the females again. I never see this anywhere else.

Other than that the gameplay looks stunning.

I think her animations look feminine enough. Do you really think it was a guy that did the animations for her "sexy pose" after her fatality? If you're right....that would be darn right creepy.

Plus Nitara had that in MKDA as her throw. MK is recycling crap again. I hate that. How hard is it to create a new move? Other fighting games seem to do it with ease. Especially since this character has had the same moves for years and years. I hope they give Mileena more moves in the released game.

This is why I am a gamer

Remember Mileena's fatality in MKD? The MK Team said they were disturbed by it not because she bit the guy's head off...but the pose she did was mo-capped by a guy.

Yup.

Also Kira's fatality "walk" was talked about. I never see girls moving like men in games other than MK. It's ridiculous. Get a freakin' female mocap already. I'm sure WB can afford it.

I agree. Its stupid that they don't.

But to be fair, Mileena's new sexy pose was absolute perfection!