{"id":57106,"date":"2019-04-26T11:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=57106"},"modified":"2019-12-27T06:47:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:47:12","slug":"mortal-kombat-11-update-details-balancing-rewards-and-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/mortal-kombat-11-update-details-balancing-rewards-and-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Kombat 11 Update Details: Balancing, Rewards, and Performance Issues Addressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/tag\/mortal-kombat-11\/\">Mortal Kombat 11<\/a> has been hit with a lot of recent controversy regarding balancing issues and microtransactions. Players have noted that the Towers of Time are downright unfair and it has been a very frustrating launch week for players. NetherRealm Studios have responded to it and announced that they&#8217;ll be patching it out soon. Here&#8217;s everything coming in the upcoming Mortal Kombat 11 Update.<\/p>\n<h2>Mortal Kombat 11 Update<\/h2>\n<p>The update will affect each platform differently but all players that have bought the game will be given the following rewards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>500,000 Koins<\/li>\n<li>500 Hearts<\/li>\n<li>1,000 Soul Fragments<\/li>\n<li>1,000 Time Krystals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PS4\/Xbox:<\/h3>\n<p>The patch is headed to both consoles early next week and will have the following changes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce AI difficulty<\/li>\n<li>Increased Kurrency rewards in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Thank you gift (500,000 Koins, 500 Hearts, 1,000 Soul Fragments and 1,000 Time Krystals)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Switch<\/h3>\n<p>For the Nintendo Switch, there are two patches in progress. These will be releasing in a day or two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character tuning to reduce difficulty in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Reduce AI health to reduce difficulty in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Reduce effects and frequency of most difficult modifiers in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Overall improvements to stability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second patch is in progress and we\u2019ll let you know as soon as we have a release date. This update will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce AI difficulty<\/li>\n<li>Increased Kurrency rewards in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Thank you gift (500,000 Koins, 500 Hearts, 1,000 Soul Fragments, and 1,000 Time Krystals)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PC<\/h3>\n<p>For PC, there are two patches in progress. These will be releasing in a day or two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Character tuning to reduce difficulty in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Reduce AI health to reduce difficulty in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Reduce effects and frequency of most difficult modifiers in Towers of Time<\/li>\n<li>Updates to character move values<\/li>\n<li>Overall improvements to stability, including crash fixes in menus and navigating UI<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem where the game would not load using certain keyboard configurations<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem where the game would not load due to non-English characters in the Windows user name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We\u2019re aiming to release the next patch in the series early next week. This patch will include:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Reduce AI difficulty \u00b7 Increased Kurrency rewards in Towers of Time<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Thank you gift (500,000 Koins, 500 Hearts, 1,000 Soul Fragments and 1,000 Time Krystals)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about this <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MortalKombat\/comments\/bhh961\/official_mortal_kombat_11_update\/\">official Mortal Kombat 11 Update<\/a>? Let us know in the comments below and share your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mortal Kombat 11 has been hit with a lot of recent controversy regarding balancing issues and microtransactions. Players have noted that the Towers of Time are downright unfair and it has been a very frustrating launch week for players. NetherRealm Studios have responded to it and announced that they&#8217;ll be patching it out soon. Here&#8217;s everything coming in the upcoming Mortal Kombat 11 Update. Mortal Kombat 11 Update The update will affect each platform differently but all players that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":57108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[750,6241,7639,2789,3084,301,280,1632],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mortal Kombat 11 Update Details: Balancing, Rewards, and Performance Issues<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Upcoming Mortal Kombat 11 Update will address balancing of Towers of Time, give players rewards and other issues for PC and consoles.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/mortal-kombat-11-update-details-balancing-rewards-and-performance\/\" 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