It's simple. There is a high chance one of the characters will be a female. It's very odd if there is not. The only recognizable female left is sindel and the other popular ones that have a chance are li mei frost and sareena. That's not really much to choose from.

I don't want to sound like a "hater" or like I am implying they are lazy or cheap as I love MK and NRS but I expect those three because it seems like it would be the easiest way to go, they already have models and a base move set, and while they still have a lot work to be done to be finished by this games standards, a little less work would have to be done to finish them to make 3 all new ones from scratch lol

Part of me thinks they might do that, and the other part thinks they might throw us for a loop and create 4 new ones from scratch, I just don't know lol

Because when given the chance, when doesn't NRS take the easy lazy way out?

Despite the game being awesome they sort of killed a lot of peoples spirit making unplayable NPC's that people want to play as. That stirs up a lot of fights and other nonsense. They may never make all of the NPC's as DLC but we still want to play as them. That is why. The fighting and whining must stop though it is just a game by the way. Just enjoy it as it is.

Giving Rain and Baraka all new costumes was also pretty damn odd when no one else(other than characters who are playable) received new looks and designs. Fujin, Bo, and Li Mei did as well but they all might be KP2 for all we know. So the question still stands, why give Rain and Baraka new outfits when they could've kept it simple and let them remain in their MK9 outfits?

But who knows, at this point I frankly don't even care.

Because they're partially done. Baraka, Rain & Sindel are as finished as Tanya was at launch. Why would they just waste that development time to a underdevelop a character?

I agree with every post so far. Then add Fujin to the equation. We couldn't fight him, but they gave him the most badass cutscenes, purposefully creating fan-demand. So then NRS would look like heroes when they reveal a DLC 4pack of Fujin, Baraka, Sindel, and Rain.

All recurring characters that appear in the story mode were hoped to be completed for the launch (by the developers.) But they knew most wouldn't be finished in time. With the exception of outside-franchise guest characters, all DLC will be one of those characters.

Most likely: (playable builds)
Baraka
Sindel
Rain

High priority: (Design updated & Voices recorded)
Sareena
Frost
Li Mei
Smoke
Bo Rai Cho

Unlikely: (No recorded voices)
Nightwolf
Striker
Kabal
Sektor
Jade

Very Unlikely: (Comic characters)
Skarlet
Reiko
Havik

...you're not even trying anymore.

I'm sure we'll get Rain, Sindel & Baraka. However, I doubt any of them will be in this new 2016 KP2.

Honestly, I'd expect to see them BEFORE this newly announced DLC. Oh, and I have a hard time believing NRS does not like Sindel considering they brought her back for MKX and in MK9 she killed everyone.

Oh someone at NRS has a hard on for Sindel, big time. The fact that she had such a huge presence in story mode in comparison to the other unplayable revenants (Stryker, Nightwolf, Kabal ect) says a shit load.

I'm hoping we do get another pack featuring Rain, Baraka, and Sindel sometime in like October/November to help tide us over to Kombat Pack 2 in 2016. But I doubt it...Surely that would've been announced already too.

Boon is a big Sindel fan.

Ideally we'd get the story pack and kp2 but they announced 4 characters total and one of those shadows is Baraka so now I dunno.

That's still debatable. I still think it's Fujin.

It could be, but the weird forearms really nudge it over to Baraka for me. I hope you're right because if we get Baraka and NOT Sindel I'm gonna be mad.

I really hope you're right! If they make us wait until 2016 and it's just these three I'll be majorly disappointed.
If they don't give us all 3 before KP2 they should at least give us Rain. Boon said they wouldn't charge for him twice, so a free gift might cheer fans up over the recent disappointment. One can hope...

Oh, come on, 4 months of waiting just to have those NPCs playable? NRS are not fools.

I agree, I think that the hype over the NPC's is way over done. I get fan demand is high for them but lets get some variety rather than cookie cutter revamps from MK9 DLC. I'm not talking guest because I think the hype over some of the ridiculous requests for guests is over done too. Maybe NRS will take the hype over the horror characters and do an entire different game rather than adding more guests to MKX. Nothing wrong with the ones now but I think its the right amount.

If anything, with the announcement of a KP2, I would think those characters have an even higher chance of being free DLC. They could easily do the mocap for these characters while working on the 4 new ones, and release them all one at a time to tide over the fans for the remainder of the year to ease the pain of the wait for KP2. The mocap team at NRS isn't just Carlos Pesina anymore. They have a full mocap team. If the team is going to be compensated for their work on the new characters, it would be a small effort for the team to work on the existing Rain, Sindel and Baraka movesets along side the new ones. All they need to do is fatality animations and a handful of new moves...Sindel, Rain and Baraka already have a base moveset to use. They would only need to do animations for the variations.

I would guess there is maybe, JUST maybe a small chance that if Rain doesn't make it in KP2 since he is the most requested of the three we might get him for free at the end of the pack as a farewell to content for MKX.

This is my reasoning (albeit not very good reasoning but reasoning none-the-less); If we're getting only one arena (The Pit) there is only one place that arena can go; replacing the random select box. It'll look weird if the character select screen still has one so I'm betting due to that snide comment from the last KombatKast, we might get an extra, final character for that slot.

I wouldn't say it's likely but it's definitely in the realm of possibility.

Just because KP2 is coming out in 2016, does not mean that these characters necessarily need a lot more time. It's smart marketing wise and to give it new life and compete with other fighting games.

NPCs have a high chance, because it makes sense to stick with characters that are in the game. I could see a real surprise like Shao Kahn, Cyrax or someone like that because they are tied to the story. However, I wouldn't get my hopes up for some crazy characters not already in some way in MKX.

Rain has no chance, Boon already said that he wouldn't have the same characters as DLC again. Baraka and Sindel, because of silhouette and Boon's fandom of the latter. Bo Rai Cho and Fujin are the other two silhouettes so that's why people are expecting these.

A guest is highly likely though, so I expect Sindel and Fujin maybe. Baraka and Bo Rai Cho, small chance. Rain, zero chance.

He said we wouldn't have to pay for characters twice in a row. If they give him away for free, that wouldn't be going against what he said.

It's not very likely but hey, it's possible.

Rain will probably for sure be in the next game. Baraka may be dlc because after story it seems it will be a while before we see him again. Bo will probably be dlc and in the next game so will fujin. Sindel idk shes up in the air possible dlc but i dont see it.

He also said MKX is coming out for PS3 and XB360. If we have to pay for Rain again, he'll just say something like "Hey, we werent going to make him, but everybody kept asking for him. We gave in to the fan demand"

What if there is a pre-order for KP2? Maybe we could get Rain "free" from that, much like Goro was free with the original pre-order.

One last thing. Was the words "Kombat Pack 2" and "four characters" ever officially used? The press release that Boon twitted just said "more dlc characters in early 2016"... I could be mistaken tho. I rarely come on the site, since I still play mkx religiously in my free time. lol

There's a teaser picture with 4 silhouettes.