I really didn't know where to put the thread. The old forums had an area for this stuff, but that's not the case now. Anyway, Mortal Kombat has always been my al time favorite fighting game, and with the release of tekken, it got me thinking bout what mortal combat would look like in this game. So I took a look at Armagedon, the last game for MK, and this is what I cam up with. I hope you all like it. And if Steve and James ever want to add another game, maybe to even cycle out an older one, I personally think Samurai Showdown has run it's course and the character basis wouldn't really fit the way the game is now. but anyway, here we go.

Sub Zero
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 27
Order / Water / Void

R: After your opponent plays a foundation, you may commit a foundation. If you do, when your opponent moves that foundation to their staging area, it is added commited and does not ready during your opponent's next ready phase. If this ability has been used more than twice this turn, your foundations do not ready during your next ready phase.

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Scorpion
Hand size - 7
Vit - 20
Fire / Death / Chaos

All cards in your hand that do not have a block modifier may be played as though they have a +2 mid block.

All cards in your hand that do hanve block modifier get +1 difficulty.

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Raiden
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 29
Life / Air / Earth

R; commit 2 foundations: After your attack deals 5 or more damage, it does not count toward progressive difficulty for the rest of the turn.

Attacks in your cardpool that do not count toward progressive difficulty can not be added to your momentum.

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Liu Kang
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 22
Order / Earth / Fire

E; Commit: Your attack gets +X damage. X equals your momentum. Only Playable if you have 6 or less momentum. Discard a momentum if your attack deals damage.

F; Commit X foundations; Discard X card: Add x cards from the top of your deck to your momentum. Your combat phase ends.

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Shang Tsung
Hand Size - 7
Vit - 19
Void / Chaos / Evil

Your opponent only removes 5 cards from the game when they cycle their deck.

R; Commit; Remove the top card of your deck from the game: After this attack deals damage, your opponent discards X cards from the top of their deck. X equal half the damage dealt.(Rounded Down)

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Goro
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 30
Earth / Evil / Death

E; commit a foundation: Your attack gets +X damage. X equals the number of attacks you've played this turn.

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Mileena
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 26
Water / Evil / Chaos

E; commit a foundation: Your attacks gets COMBO(Action)-Combo E: If this attack deal damage, search your discard pile for an action card and add it to your hand.

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Kitana
Hand Size - 6
Vit - 26
Water / Good / Order

E; Commit a foundation: Your attack gets COMBO(foundation)-Combo E: Your attacks get +2 damage and +2 Speed. If your attack is blocked, add the foundation preceeding the attack to your staging area commited.

Let me know what you think, thanks. And I'm also working on a whole set for these characters, just for fun and I have a lot of spare time due to the loss of hours at work. **** the government.

We need more Samurai showdown. It has not run it's course at all. In fact it is the only liscense to not get it's own full set.

Sol Badguy said:

I'm not sure this adds anything to the OP's discussion point or request...

I like Mortal Kombat, but the question re: whether it belongs in the UFS universe is an age-old one. i.e. I know a lot of people that shun Mortal Kombat as a fighter and wouldn't put it in the same boat as some of the other fighters we have here.

I love your character card abilities btw, very well thought out. In particular, I like Mileena.

- dut

I never truly liked mortal kombat, though I would like to see another license but I think blazblue would be better because of its popularity. though if it was in the game they would have to replace every c with a K and not add in Noobsaibot!

Luthon said:

Blazblue is just regurgitated Guilty gear character rejects. Just get Guilty Gear. Much better story and cooler character designs. I want a Sol Badguy CARD!

As a fan creator, let me say that most of your characters would actually fit pretty well into NEWFS.

That aside

The thing I keep telling people is that it doesn't matter WHAT franchise UFS gets, but rather, that it is different from already-existing franchises.

While SF and KOF are immensely different, as are SC and SSV, the two have similarities that, to me, limit the scope a tad.

Mortal Kombat may be a horrible fighting game, but it would do one of two things:

-Give us a vastly different genre (the very dark, murderous side of fighters)
-Probably the most famous fighting game in the US (if not, second only to SF)
-Somewhat new mechanics (Fatality for an instant-win?)

I'd be OK with it, because while MK is a **** fighter, it'd give us a whole host of fun and interesting characters, especially if they use that one MK where it has EVERY fighter from EVERY game.

i want sub zero. he might actually be a little unfair in newfs.

After what we've seen with Program Malfunction, Chinese Boxing, and Experienced Combatant.

I don't really want to see commit ever again, ESPECIALLY if it tags foundations down even during the opponent's ready phase.

Such commit needs to be best reserved for Combo, character-specific abilities, etc, things with understandable costs.

Thankfully, NEWFS has less and less important foundations, especially ones that work on the opponent's turn, but while Stun is a tad more balanced, I'm already a bit irritated with that as well.

I would sell my collection and never look back

dutpotd said:

Nor did the OP's own unwarranted dig at one of the better licenses in UFS.

Tagrineth said:

neither THIS post... hm?

Admiral Ren said:

And to further derail the thread... in order to possibly just send it right back where it came from...

QUOTE PYRAMID.

I think now, FFG would have a hard time working out a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. to get the MK license. I'd rather not see it in UFS to be honest, I think it is a garbage fighting game and would bring the whole game down.

Just a quick question...

since when did getting more licenses bring the game down?

IIRC, the game started with SF and SC as its fighting games, and they heard our pleas, and gave us not just King of Fighters, but Samurai Showdown, as well. Then, a year later, they heard our pleas, and got Darkstalkers. Then, almost two years later, they heard our pleas and got Tekken.

We want licenses, and so far, so good.

I realize MK is a love-or-hate kind of thing, but once again, when was getting another license bad? All this talk about "fighting games blah blah", remember, it started with Penny Arcade, and MOST people feel it was an interesting thing to include in UFS.

MarcoPulleaux said:

the chance of getting MK vs DC is obvious enough as to why we shouldnt get a MK license

MK needs to find a home first the franchise is in license limbo right now with no one looking at it last time I heard.

Luthon said:

joe10lo said:

Actually, Warner Bros. bought them a few weeks back. The MK team is already working on another MK game.

As far as bringing the game down, I have always seen MK as the "joke" of the fighting game franchises. You don't really need much skill to win at the game, the game has lacked flavor since MK2, the fatalities are quaint but make the game less interesting for me and they haven't really added anything to the game in the past 6 years, in fact, they removed stuff from the game. When MK Armageddon came out they got rid of the one unique thing MK had, and the was the fatalities. Everyone just had to press a few directions and a button or two to do some random arm ripping head bashing useless custom fatality. Again, I usually just beat them and let them stand there until they collapsed, because they fatalities were just kinda "meh" for me, but they got rid of them. And not only were the fatalities a joke in MK vs. DC but, the whole game was a joke. They lost so much money after the project that they had to sell the franchise. This is one dead franchise that needs to stay dead... FATALITY.

Very cool designs. I like style of your combo using characters a lot.

I for one wold love to see MK in UFS... people can go on and on about it being a crap fighter... and they are entitled to their own oppinion... however I think KotF and SSV both suck balls as far as video games go, but that dose not stip me from buying the cards. More options are more options plain and simple. If UFS got MK I'd buy alot of it.

MarcoPulleaux said:

You have to think about the quality and feasability of the licenses as well. MK would be a nightmare to get as Warner is probably going to charge a ton for it, at the possible risk of alienating a portion of the playerbase. You saw the backlash Tekken got?

Imagine that ten times worse with MK. I'd say even more but I don't want to overstate it.

Dark_Side_Of_Life said:

Seconded. I would love if UFS got MK. I never really had any problems with it, I didnt really care for the last few games that came out, but for me MK will always be the fun game I grew up with on the SNES. Its the only 2D fighter I could ever stand to play. I never saw what was so great about Street Fighter and NEVER really cared for Tekken, but Im still glad they are in the game and have bought every set for each (yes I know tekken just hit, but I still bought 4 boxes).

New licences are always better for the game, More and different character options and a title like MK would be a familiar name that could get more people into the game... WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING

Dark_Side_Of_Life said:

What is KotF? Closest i can think is King of Fighters (which IMO is garbage) but maybe i am missing something...

For me personally, Capcom fighters are where it is at. Street Fighter series is amazing of course. And to this day CvS2 is one of my favorite fighters.

I really haven't seriously played a SNK game since like SS2 and World Heroes.

I remember how broken the first rev of MK1 was...100% combos with both ninjas, lots of freeze glitches, double jump kicks, etc.

I remember Steve telling us the story of when he tried to get Mortal Kombat.

Chubbs&Shane: "Yo Steve, a lot of ppl have been talking about Mortal Kom-"
Steve: "-Those guys told me, We'll give you the license but we get your game . I said screw that!"

At least I'm sure it was Steve who we talked to about it. It could have been Jonathan... **** that was so long ago...