By the time Mortal Kombat 12 is released it will have had a three year development cycle (one year conceptualization, two years full development) but the team have been working on utilizing an engine upgrade since the middle of development on Mortal Kombat 11 around 2018. This will be a heavily modified Unreal 4.
Conceptualizing Mortal Kombat 12 started while making Mortal Kombat 11. They were always thought to be back-to-back games in terms of story, especially as it ties directly into it's ending as well as it's story dlc.
The Krypt 4.0 as they are calling it internally is everything that made 11 great and more. Fully explorable environments with portals that connect them. Think of different aesthetic levels in an old school video game. There are three main locations: The Living Forest in Outworld, The Wu Shi Academy in Earthrealm and Shinnok's Castle in the Netherrealm. You can customize your nameless Krypt character in this mode, lots of items for weapon customization too as this Krypt actually has some combat. Killing enemies (and certain numbers of enemies) can reward you. There are also, of course, things to loot that cost in-game currency from chests, tree trunks, graves and corpses.
Story involves Liu Kang having successfully restarted time using Kronika’s hourglass and the two new Titans showing up for revenge for not just Kronika’s death but the erasure of the Elder Gods as well. Liu Kang has seated himself as an Elder God alongside a lot of his friends; Kitana is now Goddess of Life, Kung Lao is the God of Compulsion, Raiden is still the God of Thunder and Lightning, Fujin is still the God of Wind, Sindel is the Goddess of Wisdom, Bo’ Rai Cho is the God of Intoxication (yes, this is a real thing), Kenshi is the God of Knowledge and Nightwolf is the God of the Hunt.
Game features 6 new characters, including the Great Kung Lao. The other five are a new Lin Kuei member under Sub-Zero (a black male), a new cyborg that is green and a subordinate to Sektor that utilizes poisonous gas, a new Outworld creature that slightly resembles that Star Wars Jedi that looks kind of like a humanoid Squid and the new Titans who are the Boss and Sub-boss of this game; The Titan of Immortality and the Titan of Strength. These 5 new characters (not including GKL) are still using beta names and their actual names have yet to be chosen. Those 5 beta names are Frozone, Bulkhead, Gill-Man, Delta and Omega.
Release in early 2024.
Jordan Garcia
Where's Reptile?
Thomas Roberts
Launch character
Cooper Perez
I should probably also mention that, aside from Liu Kang, his other fellow Elder God characters are not in the launch roster. Some, like Raiden and Kitana, may end up as dlc.
John Jenkins
What about the Kombat Kids? Any of them coming back?
Carson Evans
Any news in gameplay systems/changes?
Brody Long
No Kombat Kids in launch.
Jaxson Morgan
Will we have human cyrax? He is the green cyborg
Isaac Moore
Game needs to become a 3rd person action adventure game. Sony please buy them. Get naughty dog to make one game. It would be god tier.
Dominic Jackson
Run feature is back due to so many complaints of slow gameplay. Krushing Blows and Fatal Blows return though Krushing Blows are now more difficult to pull off as they take meter.
krushing blows are kind of dumb and honestly would forget the requirements for a lot of them outside of the basic uppercut one everyone had
Camden Green
>raiden >dlc Dropped
Hudson Turner
I wish I would believe you but they scrapped a lot of good Ideas like KP3 for MK11, Red Dragon story expansion. And iirc someone said that MK12 was going to be announced on GOTY awards 2021.
Sebastian Torres
What does dropping content during a pandemic have to do with the next game in their cycle? And yeah, good luck with that in December.
Ian Green
Bullshit confirmed. Raiden will always be a launch character.
Gavin Lopez
Did you *not* pay attention during the end of 11? They literally set it up for that exact scenario. Even if I didn't have this information, it's incredibly obvious.
Plus, why make those characters like Raiden and Kitana base when you can pull a Mileena and hold them back for easy cash.
Lincoln Watson
It's just that many leaks have been talking about this and that, but it's kinda hard to believe when nothing happens, anyways do you guys have a tentative announcement date? Yes, let's go back to the original trilogy for the 3rd time again.
