Mortal Kombat 1 Has An XP Problem

Mortal Kombat 1 Has An XP Problem
I absolutely LOVE Mortal Kombat 1 and I love all the gear and customizing my characters. Because of that, I feel like I need to point out the uneven balance when it comes to unlocking mastery levels for each character. I have maxed out the shrine, bought all of the Seasonal Gear and now have over 200k of all three coins on top of maxing out my seasonal level of 30 and account level of 100, but I only have five Kameo and three character masteries completed.
Something is wrong there. They can't have intended it taking 500-700 matches of straight up gameplay for each character to unlock the mastery. We're talking about over 12,000 matches to unlock everything?
Early access via the Premium and Kollector's Edition begins September 14 and the full release of Mortal Kombat 1 is September 19. Thank you to WB Games and Neather Realm for the review copy, Kollector's Edition and Early Access to Mortal Kombat 1.
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[@unrooolie]

Great video i agree a 100% ill have to speak up myself

[@JayShockblast]

I ❤Unroolie you all probably know him anyway but make sure you sub!

[@boneman524]

@@JayShockblastok I sub

[@trioblacks4413]

Higher level enemies should give more xps, also I think that towers daily weekly and seasonal tower especially need better rewards and not just in-game currency and talismans

[@adamlisiewicz1777]

In game currency becomes useless when you unlock everything from event shop and shrine

[@JayShockblast]

100% agree with this. At level 30 doing level 1 node should NOT give the same XP as higher levels.

[@Ace_noVentura]

I love & miss mk11 towers cause you’d earn different type of rewards & then the customization was a good touch to it

[@spacemanju7]

​@@adamlisiewicz1777wait till next season to use seasonal credits if you bought everything

[@derekwhite4312]

@@Ace_noVenturai hated the fact that you could miss out on towers and it gave massive fomo… at this point I’m pretty sure I have over 90% of them done but so annoying that I missed out on some very specific 12hr towers. So I do prefer the mk1 way but yeah I wish there was more gear and customization.. seems like a step backwards

[@ReenDuk]

The icing on top of all this is when you eventually unlock everything, the player 2 in your local multiplayer will NOT share the cosmetics you grinded for. Which is just insane😶

[@KnightlyBrosGaming]

It is awful that NRS continues to do this.

[@kylejordan1841]

Yeah that’s also a MASSIVE FLAW. The unlocks in this game are just too time consuming. Why put in all this content and then make it just not realistically obtainable. People got jobs and other hobbies. Can’t be just uppercutting all day long trying to get flawless victories. It’s crazy

[@destroyermcw626]

Yep it’s irritating actually and then I have to grind Player 2s profile which is stupid since Injustice 2

[@c4onmylip]

​@kylejordan1841 the season is 45 days for that reason, you can knock out all the seasonal stuff in a week if you no life the game like these folks have been doing or you can take your time by playing for an hour or two every day or every other day like most normal adults have the time for. The game has at least a couple years of support, you can grind all these characters to level 35 at your own pace while you knock the seasons out.

[@FlaccidSnake22]

I think it's wild that the fatalities are locked behind mastery levels, I miss the old way where we can just do the input and it's permanently unlocked

[@g59dillonmeh]

you can still do them, it just doesnt tell you how to till then, i dont have liu kang's 2nd one unlocked but i can still do it

[@FlaccidSnake22]

@@g59dillonmeh yeah I know it would just be nice for it to show up in your movelist afterwards

[@g59dillonmeh]

@@FlaccidSnake22 yea i agree lol, all it does is just make me look them up instead

[@ReisSns]

dude, but you can....dont need mastery for them

[@FlaccidSnake22]

@@ReisSns they will not show up in movelist though. It's not really a big deal but it would be nice.

[@billyfinn8324]

Definitely agree if it wasn't for the levelling and titan battle this would be my fastest platinum ever 😂

[@johncastillo2194]

What’s titan battle

[@pwndkake3980]

@@johncastillo2194we don’t know yet its not in the game yet its just an achievement for an event that hasn’t happened yet

[@johncastillo2194]

@@pwndkake3980 oh okay. I hope they don’t make it ridiculously difficult. I’m not a big fan of the modifiers in ToT or invasions

[@OnlyUseMyCrossbow]

I platinum'd Tekken 7 in like half a day lol. Not even a Tekken player either.

[@StinkySlinky1218]

I have everything except for 5000000 gateway score, titan battle, and 5 kameo mastery completions. The game's only a week and a half old.

[@DonnyG19]

Finally, someone w/ a platform speaking up!!! I’ve been trying to speak about this on Twitter but it kept falling on deaf ears.

[@MiaaDavis]

*deaf ears

[@DonnyG19]

@@MiaaDavis just edited 😭😭😭 was typing out of passion & forgot to proof read. Thank you!!!

[@tekkadawn6685]

It's really bad

[@projectsanti7570]

It’s really tiring. NRS need to watch your video and take notes

[@Kurni_On_yt]

Yeah Grinding gets extremely draining(for me) and doing the same fight gets boring.

[@Pr1nc3X]

Same

[@user-cy1jz7vl3t]

why everyone want to complete the game in a day 😂

[@W.M.O.]

​@@user-cy1jz7vl3texactly! This grind is meant to take months so u can enjoy the god damn game. Plus u get the juicy stuff of the character in early levels

[@Quiron1985]

I'm havin a blast online though... I'll unlock via ranked matches. Playing ranked give u purpose, at least for me.

[@maximilianoo21]

Same

[@MiaaDavis]

I agree…also I think they should have kept the krypt.I’m so burned out grinding invasions that I don’t even wanna play the game anymore.I love the gameplay,but fighting basically the same opponents over and over with bs powers is exhausting and boring asl.

[@iRemBash]

Do u not remember fatality heads

[@sasoriakasuna9050]

​@bashirremali7280 those were not so much of a grinding, it was more of an achievement. It was a side thing that would only unlock one room. It was great getting there. Invasion is forced and boring

[@SOSO_CREPITUS]

@@iRemBash pffft ogs bypassed that bullshit lol

[@sophisticatedluna6503]

​@@sasoriakasuna9050once you finished the krypt theres wasnt anything to do anyways

[@sasoriakasuna9050]

@sophisticatedluna6503 i know but it took so long to do it all and unlocking new areas was so fun, so i still loved it a lot more than invasions

[@mekk96]

Like i literally prepare podcasts to listen to because i know ima be bored out of my mind playing the same match & uppercutting my life away.

[@dthendrick1]

I've been doing this same "exploit", I've only maxed out one Sereena and Reiko, and that was a grind. I'm a fairly good player, do really good in the combat league, but the XP I get doing actual challenging fights is comical compared to the exploit. At the rate you earn XP it would take 10000s of rounds to max out just a few characters. I hope they fix it, it should be a grind to hit character mastery, but currently without the exploit it seems impossible, unless you play consistently and never swap characters.

[@JayShockblast]

Exactly how I feel except for being a fairly good player you got me on that :-P

[@ereisfireboi]

I thought we were going to reiko's mk4 outfit when we maxed him out...unfortunately we did not 😢

[@RemyMa88]

I’d be willing to bet that the reason the premium shop hasn’t refreshed yet is because they were going to sell XP boosts for real money like Ubisoft does for their games now. That’d make sense why the shop hasn’t updated since launch randomly. But because everyone is calling out the xp and grind of the game, they about-faced and delayed the xp tokens to save face.

[@jasonsekiguchi458]

I completely agree, the inchworm XP gain for Mastery has been my main gripe. I've been doing the "Triple Threat" node to help that, but there are diminishing returns as you reach higher ranks of Mastery. Rank 14 for second fatalities, Rank 18 for the Union of Light skin in the character's proper color scheme. I haven't tried the Tarkatan Colony "Squad Up" node yet. Other than not having anyone at Rank 35 yet and a different three kameos at 15, I'm pretty much in the same situation as you. Level 100 Account, Shrine is complete, and I've purchased EVERYTHING in the store. And there's still a month left in the season or so. Also agree about the currency issue. Definitely would be neat to at least be able to purchase ranks with unused currency that's still being earned, if the xp gain is gonna be so miniscule.

[@Chris.tian_]

They have a lot of work to do, even the towers are useless, low xp, no rewards. In mk11 there was a motivation playing towers, special towers with special rewards like skins or brutalities and so on.

[@SolidPain6624]

Agreed. Not a huge fan of the board game mode.. such a disappointment to me. I hated on the MK11 towers sometimes but honestly that would be way better than this

[@dthendrick1]

The tower rewards suck, and the fact you can't preview the rewards before hand is ridiculous, also the test your might challenges that make you loose an entire 18 level tower has got to be a troll, then when I completed the seasonal tower i got a meager amount of currency. Supposedly there are several skims you're supposed to earn for its completion, but I don't have them.

[@TheXzaclee16]

I honestly think the programmers fucked up and switched the profile xp and character xp up. I like your suggestion about the excess money tho. The gold we keep and will carry over to the next shrine. But yeah the invasion currency is completely useless. The seasonal one is useful until you buy everything then its nothing

[@JayShockblast]

Thank you. This is how I know someone listened to what I said because you broke it down so nicely. I agree something might have got crossed in the lines. I don't think profile XP should be so huge. I should NOT be level 100.

[@tattoodude8946]

I'm just grinding to level 15 with the characters to get that last brutality unlock right now and have completed sixteen to that point and mastered five Kameos. And I also have a ton of currency and bought everything I could (short of the Dragon Crystal items in the store). It does seem like a tremendous balance issue that I am confused how they missed in play testing but then again, it really feels like this game was not play tested at all in many ways. There are a lot of bugs and the stage modifiers are extremely broken - the smoke cloud that has the fighters cough happens with such frequency, you can't even fight! How did they not notice that? I noticed it on day one!

[@judge_rekt]

I am in the same situation as you are, but I also played MK1 for 12hrs a day every day since early access launch. Casual gamers, or people who only have 1-2hrs an evening to game a bit for them it is propably just fine, they will need the full season to unlock everything and NRS propably thought players earn mastery naturally over multiple seasons with multiple characters, so they don't run out of stuff to unlock.

[@dragons_red]

This. The seasonal ranks quicker because of time. They don't want people mastering ALL characters in less than a month, since that level progress exists over the entire game. People get too Pokemon when it comes to these games.

[@DoctorMantisTob0ggan]

​@dragons_red NRS created this mentality with the eternal klash pack from 11. Something most mk fans would throw money at to have is now forever unavailable if you didn't get it with aftermath preorder or at a specific time in the premium shop. So people have the scarcity perspective now regarding MK & want to make sure they don't miss out on anything. The only problem now is that it doesn't feel rewarding to have to spam a single node in invasions to boost your character xp up & the best you can hope to get is a single interchangeable piece of gear per character (which you'll hardly ever see since invasions doesn't change the characters appearance at all). Been looking at the exact same looks for everyone even though I have randomized all on everyone. Most color pallets look awful on most characters too.

[@lukelmaooooo]

i think they should give us mastery levels faster, and make the 2nd fatal part of the 5th tier instead of the 14th. or better yet just put it on the move list after we perform it for the first time in a match. that system worked just fine in 11.

[@wrathoftheflyingspaghettim850]

I understand what some people have been saying about "it's meant to last you a while you aren't supposed to be grinding a one shot triple fight to max out a character in like a day" and that's a very good point, but the problem is mk11 and mk1 put you in an awkward addicting position of unlocks and this game runs dry on unlocks pretty quick (along with alot of it not being anything worth getting anyway) for example I have maxed out the shrine, Ive bought every possible seasonal item in the store even though 98% of it isnt even anything i want, I havs nothing LEFT to unlock in this gams except through mastery. And it's the games own fault that we feel the need to grind that out so hard, and it's the games own fault that it runs so dry on unlocks that the only thing LEFT to do is work on character mastery, and it's the games own fault that it's so slow that we want to spam a one shot fight to get any sort of decent amount of XP. This games progression is god awful. I would say much worse than mk11 cause that game knew how to keep you feeling like your earning and having fun by constantly giving you skins and gear with enough high quality drops to satisfy you. But the drops in this game are significantly lower quality and significantly less. We got spoiled in mk11 with how addicting the grind was in that, but in this game I'm bored of any grind after like 5 days.

[@justawhiteguy4706]

Yo do you have the Pyramid and Wu Shi Academy music and art packs? I've done everything except top 2 tiers of Kombat League and I'm still missing those two in the kollection.

[@JayShockblast]

I wouldn't say I am bored BUT you are right, MK11 seemed to have it down well and there is something mixed up in the transmission here and I just wanted to bring it up and hope they could consider a balance.

[@wrathoftheflyingspaghettim850]

@@justawhiteguy4706 I'm not sure how you get those I'm assuming they are probably tied to the overall account level since I've gotten quite a bit of those extras bundle things from that. But I'm like level 95 for the account level and still don't have the pyramid stuff either.

[@justawhiteguy4706]

@@wrathoftheflyingspaghettim850 Thats what I assumed but I cracked acc lvl 100 last night and those two are still missing, maybe its a bug at the moment

[@wrathoftheflyingspaghettim850]

@@justawhiteguy4706 it's possible that it could be part of a different season? I'm not sure why they would leave just a couple bundles for that though. Or some sort of secret unlock cause there's apparently supposed to be titan bosses that I haven't even found yet I'm pretty sure there's an achievement for beating one that I don't have so idk there could even be other secrets we don't know about. It's probably in the game somewhere just gotta keep looking. I also haven't beaten the challenge tower it had I think 18 fights or something I got halfway through it and lost and lost all motivation to even try it again for now cause it's so damn long and it's easy to lose to some bs with those modifiers and everything. So I'm not sure what you even get for beating that im honestly assuming nothing good knowing how crap tower rewards are in this right now.

[@mrvlcmcs]

That "not junk" relic is nothing but a defuff after you hit Invasion level 30. It doesn't affect character xp

[@thenightwolf1997]

Does it actually not? So it's basically nothing once you hit invasion lvl 30.

[@mrvlcmcs]

@@thenightwolf1997 I tested character xp yield with it equipped and with it unequipped to confirm, and yep, it's actually junk after that. Haha

[@Kibcreeper123]

I think the grinding would be fine if I could also grind the towers, they give like 0 xp and theres no real reason to do them at the moment, other than unlocking all the character endings which takes no time at all.

[@loganweaver8251]

I’m just leveling up my fighters to LV 15 & Kameos to LV 10 Once they’re good, I’ll wait until the next season I’ll probably LV up the fighter to 20 or 25 & level up half of the Kameos Idk, the XP issue seriously needs to be fixed

[@PicklerEntertainment]

I think the other issue is the drop rate / percentages used for the normal gold koins, which you can use in the Shrine. For example, I have over 30K in Invasion Koin, which I couldn't even spend it all if I wanted to. Then I have a ridiculous amount of Season Koins which I'm spending on all the Seasonal Event items. But long before the Season is over and all Season items are purchased I'll have everything, which will leave me with a lot of unused Seasonal Koins. However, I'm constantly low on basic gold koins and I have very little unlocked using those Koins. So like the XP system, I think their Koin system needs to be adjusted as well.

[@chriscain8515]

Seasonal koins should carry over to the next seasons as well though.

[@leadrewishoward2210]

Is there anyway to earn seasonal koins without money

[@1bwash]

They did it on purpose to slow you down and make you grind because the game doesn't actually have a lot of content in it. The only reason the character profile levels up so quickly is because that's how you unlock stages and they don't want that kind of thing being locked so long. The rest they're just making you grind for recolor garbage.

[@TSCgaming0]

Yeah it does suck since the Kameos also level up relatively slow in comparison to the fighters, but even then at some point the fighters beging to slug in pace for level up. Really hope they find a way to work it better

[@mythiccmouse6214]

Are we not gonna talk about how the shang and quan chi tower boss doesnt give ANY EXPERIENCE when you beat it. Every other fight i get XP from but after the final tower boss is done no exp is gained. Rediculous.

[@darkcamo77]

They should have implemented a percentage bar for the other fighters; as you level up, they level up incrementally.

[@ggEddiee]

I honestly feel like they teased a “build your fighter” feature with story mode. And the items you unlocked with mastery will be the only items you can use for your build your fighter. Maybe that’s why it’s such a grind?

[@l4l253]

I also think that shrine is a little scummy, let’s just say you want that sindel skin that’s on the seasonal shop but to get that skin or more accessories for your other characters but instead you keep getting art pieces that have little to no value at all. you’d have to summon at least 260 times to avoid getting art pieces and getting the coins can be a long and tedious grind

[@justdrew312]

I have an issue with xp gain as well. I think it's far to easy to level up your profile while individual character mastery grinds are slow af. Being at profile level 90 and only having 1 character at full mastery is ridiculous. I definitely feel like my profile level should NOT be as high as it is.

[@maximilianoo21]

It would be more fun if we could get xp or mastery our fav character/kameo by playing on regular towers (and a fun way to practice for ppl who don't want kl)

[@projectsanti7570]

I just hope they can do the towers grind in the future. Invasions grind is tiring. I remember Injustice 2 and MK11 grind won’t give you a hard time.

[@maximilianoo21]

@@projectsanti7570 but at least in mk11 you could use the AI to fight for you now in mk1 you have to do it all by yourself.. (boring af😮‍💨😮‍💨)

[@projectsanti7570]

@@maximilianoo21 boring and tiring. NRS really need to make alot of changes. We don’t want another 50 fatal blows, brutalities and fatalities grind 🫠

[@derekwhite4312]

Yoo this is what I was thinking while watching the video. The towers could give the same xp as invasion exploit and I would rather do towers still because at least you can practice whole matches and actually learn how to play!

[@ajtame]

Agree completely, as i started playing MK, the main, nearly only issue I found with it was how sucky and slow the xp was.

[@projectsanti7570]

I just hope they can add a towers grind just like what they did with MK11. I like Invasions but, it’s tiring to grind.

[@fezudu]

yeah, i have a lot of fun playing, but i'm more offline player, doing the invasion, local matches with friends it's really bad that the story or local versus don't give any profile and mastery xp and arcade towers barely give it any. i got all characters to level 5 to play some versus with friends at our house and only player 1 having thing unlocked it really tonned down the fun for everyone. hope it they fix some of this stuff so we can have multiple ways to unlock stuff and keep playing and having fun.

[@southrnsmoke187]

I agree. The grind is not fun. I don't have a single character's mastery maxed out. I finished invasions, bought everything from the shrine and seasonal store and then I quit playing. With my limited play time I have, I just couldn't use it to grind out mastery. I felt I wasn't getting anywhere with maybe an hour a day of playtime.

[@madrugx]

If u use a shield talisman in the fight you will always get a flawless victory

[@dalion-asn]

yeah given you don't eat a projectile or two while trying to activate it. And that's what happens at least 4/10 fights with kung lao. Thank god you can at least recharge talisman in battle if your character is same element

[@brancast116]

Even then…my talisman wouldn’t activate when fighting against Kitana. It would go through the animation but wouldn’t give me a shield. All kinds of buggy stuff in this game.

[@ReleaseTheCanines]

@@dalion-asn Mine is upgraded to 14 charges and seems to be bugged as it never goes down past two used charges, so I get infinite use out of it. Also, the simple thing to do with Kung Lao in this fight is just to jump towards him straight away each time; if he walks backwards, jump kick him with a second jump then activate the talisman as he flies backwards. If he walks towards you, you'll jump over him, he'll go into his start animation to attack and you can activate the talisman from behind. It's flawless every single time.

[@madrugx]

Im using cyrax kameo to freeze kung lao as the fight start, then i activate the talisman (sorry for the bad english, im brazilian)

[@akiraqua3441]

I agree neather realm has to address this issue in the next update. Hopefully in the next patch they will adjust and improve the XP system.

[@alanguzman7880]

Somethiing I wanna add and I hope some people hear me out, in the kustomize tab, we have taunts and finishers, but like whats the point of them to be on our cuztomization when in mk11 you just had random taunts, they could have used that space more creatively and i feel like they did a lazy job on the customization aspect. They could have tried to fit in maybe different types of gear beside just one set for each character. They out taunts and finishers on the customization tab to fill in the empty space.

[@icec1628]

Yeah they need to cut that by 80 % 100 level account and not have every character finished makes no sense

[@BluntForeal]

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one with complaints about this. I don’t really publicly talk about things as I know they would be unheard by anyone important but this grind is ridiculous. I’ve known about the Squad Up method since day 1 and I only have a few characters mastered. The only other benefit i got from this was being able to purchase everything from the seasonal shop and shine. Which is roughly 150k koins for both.

[@SubZerolovesElsa]

The Endgame, when you dont play KL=Days with triple uppercut

[@evanmcmanus3671]

Thank you for making a quality video explaining these issues. Really hoping NRS makes some changes.

[@AwakenUniverse]

My exact thoughts too I just got it this week and while I've played a ton already. My XP increase has dwindled with Tanya/Stryker being my favorites and close to LV20 mastery for her and LV11 for him. I saw some suggest to use the "not junk" XP boost but that's 15% and still is low. On the other hand I'm kinda enjoying this slow burn as it means I won't master every character in one day...gives me a reason to continue playing Invasions but for sure in agreement XP needs to be boosted a bit higher. Especially if they keep adding levels in the future that's only going to make it a bigger grind.

[@LXRZ_2005]

Im in a similar situation, i have all shrine rewards and seasonal rewards, i have like 3 characters mastered, and the 5 Kameo's mastered too, but it would be nice to use my koins and such to level up my characters, i think it would be a good use of the currency, because the fact that its just going to sit there until next season and disappear is just stupid.

[@jsgbguardianyouarethefreak8253]

Completely agree, The grind that it takes tô unlock The mastery is so ridiculous compared tô The grind of The other stuff, This balance is so odd, Hope they can make it mastery Level up more faster in the future

[@DonYoGi8331]

Lol are u serious?? U must not know about the spot in Fengjian. Quite a few people are already at lvl 100 in overall game stats. The only things I have left to unlock that I care to have are the 3 remaining taunts for each character. It's hilarious how quickly I unlocked all the things I want for all 23 characters. This grind was nothing compared to what u had to do in MK11😮‍💨.

[@imdikonps4396]

I mean their is positives and negatives with this new system is you know what you are unlock in the towers alot but f thinks we're random so why not both

[@priestwilliamson2135]

@@DonYoGi8331stop lying little homie.

[@gabrieltejada1697]

@@DonYoGi8331cope

[@deeznutscragmiar6968]

Absolutely no fucking way you are saying the truth i am level 30 i out everything in attack power doing Said feijang spot triple threat doing flawless brutalitys and im only still on 1 character kenshi at level 24

[@Case-DawgYT]

I agree! Also like doing the brutalities that never work. The notification for new items or Dot that never goes away. Is kinda like searching the old kryptz lol I go to practice and buy the "get all points your back you have used on fighters" use em on knew fighters. After they get 35, 15. I use or buy it again and add all points to the newer fighters ect ect. That being said it's awesome but weird in the sense in invasion.

[@gabrieltejada1697]

Maybe if enough people complain about this they’ll actually make it better or more fair (worse case scenario they’ll charge money to level up whatever you want faster)

[@daraenxd8360]

I'll agree with you. Making the same level only to get xp fast would became quickly repetitive and boring for me. It would be a bit easier to get XP by normaly playing all the normal modes

[@wizardcollector6297]

I'll say it's way to grindy😂 it needs an update now. Also all game modes should give xp. Anyone noticed how 1v1 local doesn't rank the characters up?

[@sic6664]

Spot on. I'm currently at level 30 with Invasion mode beaten, 1 kameo character mastered and a second on level 13 and I am so damn bored. You get so little xp it's ridiculous.

[@utpride347]

You're not wrong, but I can't understand how anyone is surprised by this. This is what WB and NRS do now. Have people really forgot about the grinding from MK 11? The character towers were nothing but boring, repetitive grinding.

[@mekk96]

Its ridiculous. The triple threat match is literally the only way to level up fast and even that isnt fast at all. If i have to put a podcast on just to keep from being completely bored, it's a problem.

[@KnucklesWTD]

It puts me to sleep literally

[@projectsanti7570]

@@KnucklesWTDI fell asleep last night while grinding

[@PeeGeeThirteen]

Thanks for the alternate tripple threat location! I agree with you on all points about the grindyness, I'm in the same situation as you but on different characters. After completing that specific achievement, I don't I will grind a 6th Kameo characte re until the XP gets patched I agree, we should use the excess currency and buy character XP 11:32

[@Merc-ws9zh]

Sub zero needs a hooded costume some of the costumes don't impress me.

[@bigb4159]

The grind is sooo exhausting, especially for the cameo characters. I hope Ed Boon & company fix this in the next patch.

[@ModernDefinition1]

Everything in the game outside the fighting (and lets be real, the fights as well) is broken. The store isn't refreshing, the challenges aren't keeping track accurately, the leaderboard shows me literal random information for my rank and stats. I made it to grand master and the weekly quest for uppercuts has bounced between 1 and 3 the entire time.

[@Slashingthrough]

Agreed, and still after 3 weeks after release nothing is being done here.

[@MisterSinister47]

Agreed. I was thinking this the other day. This is a fighting game. It shouldn't be a grind. Especially like this. Personally, I feel if I have all that currency. I should be able to keep it all. At least make the unlocks really worth it. Like maybe you unlock new endings for the characters. Maybe unlock a 3rd fatality. Not just a bunch of color swaps and banners.

[@chaser_allelujah3005]

The grind is REAL! Especially trying to get mastery with the fighters

[@ExcelHedge]

It has a Exp problem and coin problem. Also Let's not forget how the Shrine favors Concept art.

[@InfamousRelliK]

Is it just me or now Season 2 has come out, we get EVEN LESS xp? My kameo bar doesnt seem to move.

[@BlueJayy]

It’s insane. Played through the whole season of invasions with one character and only got around level 24

[@FreshMetal80]

The xp grind is definitely slow, but I'm willing to bet that's by design. I think NRS envisioned this game to work like a live service game, meaning their expectation was for people to play this game for years and continue leveling and unlocking as they went. They didn't intend for people to try to max out mastery for every character a week or two after release. The real problem the unlockable gear and skins. They're tied to mastery, and there needs to be a better way to acquire them that better respects the players' time.

[@LeeComedyCave]

Bring back towers of time. The idea is already there inside invasion weekly towards, just add rewards to them.

[@hashemhashem1983]

Currently I am leveling up each main character to level 10, and Kameos to level 5 just to unlock few things for each character and have a chance to experience each one of them. Afterwards I will continue on leveling up the rest to max

[@mrk4510]

Being able to just do a series of towers to get everything for your character was so much better.

[@erics802]

Something interesting if you’re dabbling with invasions merchants If any item says sold out, just go back to the main menu and repeat purchase You can stack the same items by 10% increments You can do the same thing with the experience trinkets on the top right training map

[@ImThAtGuY90]

I agree with this the grind is absolutely ridiculous as and having brutalities and Fatalities locked behind mastery is so dumb to

[@juschlora7249]

i think its seasonal based, each season will have a new invasion. 1character mastery per invasion would make sense. grinding for the rest is up to the player, that said its a grind.

[@TinOfBoost]

Fuck doing the same shit, in my opinion that’s not fun. Since it’s taking so long to get xp I appreciate every unlock much more.

[@llyricaljuice]

I hope nrs makes changes quickly, we all don’t have a life, I work 6 days a week and I get really tired to grind shit out.

[@churchmeister3852]

The problem is if you use all that currency to buy character items, You're still gonna max out everything real fast. They just need to figure out balancing and adding more stuff, I can't really complain because they've managed to add everything in here for free. No season pass to pay for, which is incredible for a game these days, and im sure they will iron out the kinks.

[@aguynamedguabbah]

After completing invasions it’s hard to keep coming back to play to unlock stuff cuz of how Grindy the game is. And then they make it to where you get NO xp for doing regular towers and or playing with a friend…..make it make sense

[@oof2538]

The fact that beating a "boss" in invasions mode gives you the same or around the same amount of xp as a normal fight, really is upsetting.

[@alexeisengart1751]

100 matches is a little short i would say maybe around 300-400 matches sounds more fair because i think it’s meant to be somewhat difficult but with out the grinding method the 700 matches would take forever

[@trapwyman9822]

I have no patience for all that grinding bs thats wayy to much time and effort to just sit back and do all that work

[@FinalConsensus]

No… a problem with a Netherrealm game? Impossible 😂

[@SD-vl2ml]

This is the most natural progression has ever felt in an NRS game in recent years. Especially compared to MK11 or Injustice 2. Love the progression how it is. An expression of character loyalty. But if you're a completionist instead of someone who plays for fun, I can see why it's frustrating you can't find an exploit to have all the toys and dresses the other kids have

[@Aus.S7in]

I stopped leveling my character at lvl 31. There’s nothing of value past that. I’m at 8. I’m really sick of the grind. What you get from the endurance is what you should be getting all the time.

[@johnsea212]

completly agree,great game but i not pay full price for extreme grinding

[@PandemicPete]

But you did lol

[@adamlisiewicz1777]

I think character grind takes so long because players suppose to unlock it slowly during game life. It's not something that is time limited so you don't need to hurry. That being said I think I will be leaving this game when it's development will end ( with all the dlc updates and invasions seasons). And I still wouldn't have every character mastered.

[@bobibobbobino]

Yeah and then there's this dude. Using an exploit and complaining that he has too much currency lmao...

[@KnucklesWTD]

It’s the only decent colors

[@4lbert000]

I got so bored of grinding that I pulled this video to distract myself lmaoo

[@GengarSama94]

The 5 kameos and 5mill in towers are killing me right now

[@BD-Vs-The-World]

Grind is gonna be tough also random thing I’ve been playing this game mad on switch lmao idk why I got it first on ps5 and the game looked so dumb on switch I wanted to play it

[@Damir84100]

I totally agree with you. Did the whole invasions with smoke and still have a lot to open for smoke. Dont forget all the stupid medallions that you get after every fight and you have to discard tjen because there is no room for 3000 medallions.

[@anthonyaguilar8092]

If I had a Twitter I’d be letting NRS know. plus they need to fix Reptile’s brutalities. they’re glitched.

[@EpyttnelisYT]

I’m in the same boat rn. 5 characters and 5 kameos mastered, shrine complete (this season) shit ton of seasonal coins as I haven’t bought any of those skins. Shit ton of premium crystals as I unlocked Dark Sindel from the shrine and don’t care about Brazil Tanya or Bi Juan Sub Zero. At this point I’m doing Kombat League with my two mains and pocket characters (not earning xp because they’re mastered) and when i need a break I do the Village grind for other characters. All the characters I don’t play I’m just getting to 18-25 for the Titan skin and alt color. I’ve never really complained about the grind but I found it weird that there wasn’t more content in at least the shrine. I have so much currency that if there’s no update applied to available content “stock” I’ll be able to buy the entirety on next seasons shrine day one without even making a dent in my bank. It’s just weird.

[@pestilenceraid5364]

YES! Those extra seasonal coins should be usable in mastery tiers. Absoutely.

[@nathanielrojas4297]

Well said. I noticed that the grind was to heavy. I enjoy dabbling with all characters. I’m maining Tanya right now in online and even that is taking awhile. Either using currency to buy levels, double xp weekends or a patch. Something

[@Duncanlinc]

Li Mei turned into my main pretty fast. She's sick

[@Latino_Burrito]

Dude I hate invasions so much, it’s the #1 cause for burnout and after finishing it I don’t even wanna play the game anymore. The XP is NON EXISTENT. Not to mention invasions is Soooooo BORINGGGGG. The enemies just walk away, and then hit you with that BS super armor. It drags out the fights so much longer than they need to be, and when you’re done with that, you get a secret fight which drags it out even LONGER, then even after you finish the secret fight, you get a FUCKING AMBUSH, like Jesus Christ this isn’t pokemon just let me progress. On top of all of that, the rewards really aren’t worth it imo. The scorpion skin is cool sure, but so many of the skins suck ass. The worst part is you run into opponents in invasions that DO have cool palettes and skins all the time, ESPECIALLY during secret fights, and it makes you think “oh man am I gonna unlock that cool color/skin if I beat this guy?” Then you beat them… and get jack shit. They also give you SO MANY talismans! Like holy shit if they put in as much effort into giving us actual cool stuff as they did with talismans it’d actually be worth while. Your reward for completing secret fights, ambushes, etc. are 2xp and 25 coins. It’s so ass.

[@sowsow6677]

Why does it say that I have more time played in season than all-time? Also the weekly and daily quests don't work

[@lefishe129]

Man no hate at all, but its like MK community is discorvering what Battle Passes games and Soulsborne community have known always, farming only ruins the game content, don't complain for little content is you're going to farm for it day 1. Plus, mastery is that of a grind because its intended to last for all game lifespan, which will probably will be 1-2 years if not more, whereas the season lifespan is only one and a half months. Even though I think using invasions currency as a way to level up or exchange it for dragon crystal is a good idea (I really freaking hate that now it's 100 percent premium and not achievable anywhere) I still believe that you wouldn't be that level of have all than currency if your didn't farm xp, and no, it's not like if the mastery is going anywhere, ppl could just be patient and not farm for masteries since day one. Yet I have to agree that the insavions mode is repetitive as hell, they sould at least add more modes like test your sight, test your luck or idk even those crazy 3d era minigames like kombat racing, kombat chess or kombat tetris. Hell, they could've even add the kript as a mesa, just like towers of time is now the gateway mesa kind of.

[@cruzmetallic2458]

I’ve played mkx for 8 years and only reached lvl 85. Lol. Although I do think the character progression is at a good pace considering there are 23 characters at launch. Imagine having everything for all the character unlocked before the end of the for month lol.

[@cruzmetallic2458]

You get a lot of xp for playing online as well.

[@rg3ibanez]

Netherrealm hear you. Great thoughts. Except 20,000 koins is high, I would say 2,000 koins. There 20+ characters with 35 levels.

[@Sithbanks87]

I've played almost 10 hrs and haven't fully leveled up one Kameo yet. Almost level 15 with Stryker and he's the only Kameo I've used.

[@Unrealenting]

Unlocking everything should be a grind, look how long it takes to release the majority of mk sequels, what’s the rush? Why not reward a persistence use of a fighter? It’s called mastery for a reason, you do not master a character by playing a couple hours. It creates a greater level of individualism by indicating to others that you’ve put the time in with a specific fighter. Not just f around and unlocked everything.

[@expensivecomet9867]

You get 600-1000 xp for beating up lvl 1 enemies, but only 400 xp fighting bosses

[@GomerJ]

What I’d like to know is why Kameos take so much longer to level up than fighters. I’ve been running the same fighter & kameo for everything I’ve done and my fighter is at Level 16 mastery and the kameo is only at lv 6. I know kameos have fewer ranks but that doesn’t mean the grind should be slower.

[@liveleakhollow]

Really sucks learning and practicing a character for hours just to get beat by spammers in ranked and even worse they genuinely think they’re good at the game or pulling off something phenomenal when they’re doing the same combos that are all over tiktok

[@Awsari]

I really hope they bring back the tower system they had back in MKX and MK11. Allowing you to do a tower and unlocking a certain cosmetic from that tower seemed like a good fundamental system and allowing more reward and fun instead of the mastery grind. I'm not saying it's a issue but having basic cosmetics locked behind a grind tree is a bit lazy...

[@serballista]

They should really consolidate all the currency into one single currency.