Here's the full list:

General Gameplay Fixes/Tweaks

• Fixed a couple of crash scenarios.
• DLC billboards should now behave correctly on Xbox
• You should no longer see online desyncs on Xbox that are related to alternate costumes or classic costume DLC packs.
• MOTD handling and displaying code was tweaked.
• Fixed a bug that could have resulted in tweakvars getting corrupted.
• Fixed a crash in player select if you tried to exit out while the dlc box was open.
• With the exception of Human Cyrax and Human Sektor, everyone’s alternate costumes should behave the same as their primary costumes and have the exact same move properties.
• You can now block after a dash forward is completed if it was cancelled into from a special move. Canceling out of a dash into another dash was normalized for most of the characters. Dash Block canceling remains the same.
• Wakeup attacks should have better invulnerability on them if done in the first 4 frames of the wakeup window. (this was added as a hotfix tweakable value)
• You no longer get a completely free throw attempt after someone blocks your jump punch. The opponent has less block hit frames but chained combos from a jump punch will remain the same.
• There were several reactions that could freeze players just before they landed from attacks and reactions such as Kano’s Airball and Cyrax’s Net air reaction.
• Made many minor hitbox adjustments.
• Tweaked the negative edge window.
• Several low attacks were being parried incorrectly.
• Nightwolf and Kenshi can no longer still absorb a projectile if they get hit out of their enhanced reflects before the recovery frames start.

Baraka
• Baraka's Blade Spin move starts up faster and is safer when blocked.
• Baraka's Enhanced Blade Charge (Blade Rush) attack goes farther now.
• Baraka’s Chop Chop no longer auto corrects mid-move.
• Baraka’s has a new D1 low poke.

Cyber Sub-Zero
• Cyber Subzero can no longer handcuff certain characters by catching a wakeup attack with his enhanced Ice Parry.

Cyrax
• Cyrax's Buzzsaw is an overhead block and safer when blocked
• Cyrax's Bombs will no longer pop someone up who is in a 2nd Net reaction or in a Buzzsaw reaction.
• Cyrax's mk3 costume should behave the same as the primary costume now.

Ermac
• Ermac can no longer leave an invisible fireball collision around.
• Fixed damage scaling a few of his reactions.

Jade
• All of Jade's Enhanced Boomerangs (Reboomerang) will now return when the first hit is blocked.
• Jade’s Staff Grab is slightly safer when blocked.
• Jade’s U3 attack (Pole Vault) can be ducked.
• Jade’s 4,F3 kick (Polecat) is safer when blocked.

Jax
• The armor on Jax's Enhanced Dash Punch (Dash Fist) and X-Ray (Briggs Bash) now starts instantly.
• Added armor to the startup of Jax's Enhanced Elbow (Elite Smash).
• Jax's projectiles (Energy Wave) recover a tiny bit faster.
• Jax’s towards 3 attack (Big Leg) is now an overhead.
• Jax can no longer frame trap someone with his Gotcha Grab.

Johnny Cage
• Johnny Cage's F3,2 (Take Two) no longer true combos into 2in1’d special moves
• Johnny Cage's Nut Punch does slightly less damage.
• Johnny Cage's sweep kick has less advantage on block or hit.

Kabal
• Kabal can no longer leave an invisible fireball collision around.
• Removed a couple unavoidable block traps with Kabal. (with F2 and 4)

Kano
• If you don’t charge and hold the Enhanced Kano Ball it will now keep its armor.
• Kano’s Enhanced Knife Toss recovers faster.

Kitana
• Kitana's Fan reactions on an airborne opponent damage scale correctly now.
• Kitana's X-Ray (Fan-Tastic) can no longer be reflected.

Kung Lao
• Removed the pushback on Kunglao's spin when blocked.
• Ground Hat now leaves both players at neutral when hit close and leaves Kung Lao at a disadvantage when blocked up close.
• Kung Lao's overhead hat attack is slightly safer when blocked.

Liu Kang
• Lui Kang's Parry now can correctly give a first hit bonus!

Nightwolf
• Nightwolf's reflect should work better as a wakeup attack.

Noob Saibot
• Noob's Teleport Slam should connect better with some opponents.
• Noob should no longer be hit on the ground after he is up in the air for his teleport.
• Noob’s Shadow Charge hits overhead.

Quan Chi
• Fixed an isse where Quan Chi's Skull Projectile (Skull Ball) could sometimes become invisible.
• Added some armor to the Quan Chi’s Enhanced Sky Drop (Sky Stomp).

Raiden
• Raiden can no longer unavoidably frame trap someone with his Vicinity Blast.
• Raiden has 2 additional recovery frames on his normal Teleport.
• Raiden can’t be hit during his Enhanced Teleport (Sparkport).

Reptile
• Reptile whiffed Elbow Dash now builds slightly less meter.
• Reptile is held slightly longer after knocking someone down with the Elbow Dash.
• A blocked Reptile Elbow Dash no longer pushes back.
• Reptile's Enhanced Slide (Slime Trail) now has armor on it.
• Reptile can no longer leave an invisible Forceball collision around.

Scorpion
• Scorpion's Leg Takedown is safer when blocked.
• Scorpion's Enhanced Leg Takedown (Takeout) now has armor on it.

Sektor
• Sektor can now 2in1 into the front and behind Up Missiles
• Sektor's mk3 outfit should behave the same as the primary costume
• Sektor's backjets will no longer get stuck firing, wasting precious fuel. (Yay!)
• Sektor’s X-Ray (Massive Missile) can no longer be reflected.

Shang Tsung
• The armor on Shang’s Enhanced Soul Steal now starts instantly
• Shang Tsung’s Enhanced Soul Steal (Soul Capture) activates faster.

Sheeva
• Sheeva's Fireball is a mid block now and the Enhanced Fireball (Fire Blast) is an overhead.
• Sheeva's Ground Pound can correctly give a first hit bonus!
• Sheeva's Enhanced Jump Stomp (Jump Crush) now has armor on it.
• Sheeva's Air Grab has better anti-air collision on it.

Sindel
• Sindel can no longer leave behind an invisible fireball collision around.
• Sindel’s B1 attack is a low block.
• Sindel's regular Scream is slightly faster nd the Enhanced Scream is a lot faster now.
• Sindel’s Scream (Yell) can no longer be parried.

Smoke
• It’s no longer possible to handcuff opponents with Smoke’s Vibration (Shake) Parry.

Sonya
• The armor on Sonya's cartwheel (Krazy Legs) lasts until the first collision and Archkick's (Arc Wave) armor lasts until her arch is almost over.
• Sonya's 1,1,4 (Fierce Assault) no longer true combos into 2in1’d special moves from it.
• Sonya's 3,1,4 (Beat Up) no longer true combos into 2in1’d special moves from it.

Stryker
• Stryker's Enhanced Baton (Baton Bash) Sweep’s 2nd hit is an overhead and is safer when blocked.
• Stryker's Grenades recover slightly faster.
• Stryker's Baton Roll starts up faster and the enhanced version has armor on it for a longer time.
• Stryker's Grenade Toss and Baton Sweep do slightly more damage.
• Stryker’s B1,2,2 (Beatdown) combo is safer when blocked.

Sub Zero
• Fixed some of the Ground Freeze reaction properties which were causing some other gameplay issues.
• Sub Zero's Enhanced Slide (Power Slide) now has armor.
• The opponent is frozen for 10 additional frames to allow him to at least get a slide in for some trade cases were he could get nothing before.

Freddy Krueger
• Freddy’s Nightmare Stance can’t be repeated instantly anymore.
• Fixed a bug where Freddy could get stuck being immune to projectiles.
• Freddy forward and backward Teleports (Hell Shift) build slightly less meter.
• Some of Freddy reactions were not damage scaling correctly.
• Tweaked the recovery on some of Freddy specials.

Kenshi
• Kenshi’s X-Ray (Soul Blade) can no longer be reflected.
• Kenshi is freed up sooner now when he absorbs a projectile with his (Blade Absorb)
• Kenshi’s F2,2,B1 (Absentminded) reaction no longer lets opponents be hit just as they hit the ground.

Skarlet
• Skarlet has an additional 10 frames before she can cancel out of her normal dagger toss.
• Skarlet can no longer 2in1 cancel out of her Slide attack from her Red Dash.
• Skarlet’s back throw now does normal damage.
• Skarlet can do her U3 (Lifting Leg) attack from a dash now.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES!!!

Superb. Jax got apparently a tad bit better, perhaps he will become someone who I'll main some time in the future.

Oh my.

I'm still pissed about Cage's "nerf." F+3,2. I didn't use it to unfairly block stun, but I guess the fact that it can be used like that warranted it's, uh, downgrade. So now we're stuck with another effectively useless combo (the other being 1,3,2). A sad day... a sad day, indeed.

Oh well, Cage is still a badass MF!

And now he's even MORE of a bastard to deal with online.

I'm actually not very savvy with these linguistic terms... are they trying to tell me I can no longer Kartwheel after those 3-hit basic combos?

As I stated earlier in the other thread, I'm glad they finally fixed the Freddy Krueger bug when he wasn't getting hit with projectiles. Now I can finally play as him. I had to set him aside because I knew he was not getting effected by any projectiles, so that was kind of no fun.

No, they are saying you cannot combo into special after those 3 hits, if you do a special after those 3 hits it can be blocked.

yay ! mileena got untouched!

I still haven't gotten it.

meh. jades buffs dont really change much. i just wished they didnt make her pole vault ducked......oh well.. i'll still be one of the best jade players out there.

Patch is now out on PS3.

I was wondering when PSN was getting it but then...



Ooo awesome, cannot wait to try out these new buffs and see if KL's spin is now reasonable.


Jade, Stryker, and Sheeva buffs, YEAH!

Cool beans!

It's finally out on ps3 sweet

nomnomnomnomnomnom

I just tested out Sindel and shes amazing, I can easily do a 41% combo now. And her EX Scream is super fast, Finally they buffed her up a bit Im sooo happy :P

Just reporting in, I can do combos with Sheeva I couldn't before thanks to her anti-air grab actually being fast now and that armor on her tele-stomp is pure golden, I'm so delighted with her improvements.

Stryker's roll is amazing as are his grenades and he's even more killer than he was before thanks to the higher damage on some combos thanks to the grenades and baton sweep and I unfortunately couldn't try his baton sweep on a live opponent because I fought too many Kung Laos and Raidens to test its low and overhead mix up abilties, but it looks promising.

Reptile's elbow dash isn't stupid anymore and I actually punished Kung Lao's incessant punch, punch low hat combo effectively now. His spin is much more reasonable now too.

Baraka's new poke is great, I love it.


Jade's buffs despite people being displeased are actually quite effective, the pushback from her staff grab is now much safer and less risky, her boomerang is now a truly effective mind games tool. I'm pleased with her improvements.


I haven't tried out anybody else really, but I'm happy with the current buffs+nerfs and hope we'll be seeing further balance updates in the future.

Armor for Cyber Sub-Zero's slide and a cancelable ground pound for Sheeva to name a few, good show NRS, good show

Glad it's finally reached the PS3.

Although Kenshi's Blade Absorb/Reflect still has atrocious recovery (if no projectile hits), it seems to have way quicker recovery now and you can block much faster (when projectile connects.)
I wish the move, in general, didn't have such crap recovery. That's the reason why I barely use it in the first place. Too risky.

Whatever. Many nice tweaks here.
Jade's got some pretty good ones. I'm diggin' the returning blocked re-boomerang. The new pushback is pretty helpful, too. (Don't like that her pole vault can be ducked, though. )

I think Mileena could have used a little less bounce on her roll when blocked. She's extremely vulnerable when that happens. And till this day I still don't get why her roll is blocked standing up... what's the logic behind that is what I want to know.

Which is awesome!

So, now, why the fuck is Sonya's kiss still so slow and why does the victim recover so fucking quickly? The stun effect lasts goes as fast as Flash's dash in MKvsDC....and her mist is not even as impressive as it was in all her past games.

RAAAAWWWWR!!!!!!

It's a fast popup special, if you notice there isn't a single special like that and Mileena's shouldn't be the exception. Also she is only punishable when bouncing in the air, whenever she touches the ground, she can block, unlike many other characters.

Kung Lao is still a broken peice of shit and whenever anyone sees my 25,000 respect points they ALWAYS pick kung lao and it is getting old.

Why the hell does kung lao have Shao khan hyper Armor on his ex tele? Its bas enough he has 4 different teles, 1 which is 100% safe, the other which is an overhead and cannot be blocked low, and 1 that can knock-back, and one that is unblockable throw standing up. Why does he have armor at all, let alone hyper armor (more then 1 hit of armor). They need to remove his armor altogether. He teles twice on his ex so it is still good for confusing people.

His low-hat should have the same frames as scorpions spear when blocked or the recovery from nightwolfs lightning bolt. Why did they give him a low-hat in mk9 anyway when he was already broken with a million moves. People rarely use his regular hat in this game now.

Then you got his broken spin that has priority over EVERYTHING in the game even xrays and sheeva's ex hyper armor grabs. Why the hell is he allowed to SPIN TWICE IN A ROW. This alone makes it almost impossible to combo kung lao. Cyrax cannot net 2 times in a row, he will shoot a blank, kabal cannot ground saw 2 times in a row, why the hell can he spin twice?

I want you to tell me the next time you play kung lao, how many combos you got off on him NOT including blocked dive kicks. That seems to be the only time you can combo him unless he misses a spin in the corner. You cant pressure him or combo him but he can move up on you and throw you, block stun you, or chip damage the hell outta you but when you try to counter you get eaten alive unless you got CSZ parry move.


Kung lao just makes me wanna quit the game altogether.... And people pick him 99% of the time against me even when I pick a damn baraka or shang tsung or crappy skarlett, they will still pick kung lao. They even pick kung lao against a sheeva.... Hes 5 times more powerful than any character online.