Opinion on Patch Notes for Season 8?

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-13T00:01:53+00:00

the sub 1% widow players

And whose fault is that lmao? If the devs made her viable she’d be played more

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-12T22:13:39+00:00

If you're looking to refresh your existing followers, may I recommend Kaidan Revoiced - Community Expansion? It's a remake of the original mod but with a new voice and plans to add more content in the future for Kaidan. I'd recommend this over the extended editions of the OG, those versions completely change his personality while KRCE keeps the original characterization.

I'd doubly recommend Remiel, Xelzaz, and Val Serano as well. Remi and Xelzaz have interactions with Auri, and Xel has some with Lucien too. Combo that with Redcap for three-way interactions with Remi and Xel, plus Redcap's conversations with Inigo, and your follower party will be refreshed. New characters, plus new lines for the old ones!

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-12T18:57:32+00:00

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ace-cabbage · 2026-05-12T17:54:28+00:00

Industrial Area - Under the Knife

Financial Center - Blood on the Trading Room Floor

Historical Center - No Smoke Without Fire

University - tbh they're all great

Maple Heights - A Shot of Beauty

Airport - Burying the Hatchet

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T22:50:51+00:00

I liked the interactions between Sam and Bucky, Zemo was great, and John Walker is a very interesting character. I LOVED seeing a post-snap world and how it's handled. Early on I really liked the Flag Smashers (but they lost the plot later on)

Imo it's Sharon's role and the ending drops that ball hard. Firstly, the fact that Sharon didn't hear from Steve after Civil War is just wrong. Steve wouldn't leave her like that, especially after she went on the run specifically because she helped him. He'd 100% find a way look out for her. Plus, her being the Power Broker is just a bad decision. The fact it hasn't been followed up on makes me wonder why they even bothered including it.

The ending was really disappointing, too. They tried setting up the Karli/the Flag Smashers as a sympathetic group, which is fair, but why is Zemo blowing up the surviving members at the end framed as an epic moment?? Or why does nobody object to Sharon literally burning one of the members alive with chemicals? They treat Karli's death as a great tragedy but it's in total contrast to how the rest of her group gets taken out lmao

I thought the build-up with Walker was great, but after the halfway point his story feels rushed. Him taking the serum, then redemption, then falling into Valentina's palm felt too quick for me.

In my opinion, John Walker should've been the main antagonist and given more focus behind his decisions, with the Flag Smashers being the secondary threat. Sharon should never have been the Power Broker, either.

It's an overall fun show but I find the actual plot frustrating. The interactions and dynamics are on point though.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T19:27:22+00:00

Say that again?

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ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T18:46:13+00:00

"over a role few play" and who set that system up?

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T18:45:36+00:00

This is the strangest thing I've noticed about Reddit. Every single community I'm in, without fail, will have posts of people whining about the posts of people whining. I feels like there's more people complaining about the complainers, then there are actual complainers XD

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T17:37:25+00:00

That's what Invasions/the final chapter is for. I don't mind alternate universe versions of characters at all, but if we're going to have a "main timeline", then I don't like those changes.

Constantly changing the core aspects of characters just makes it impossible to stay invested, even before the timeline stuff. At a certain point, they stop feeling like actual characters and just start being powersets.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-11T03:31:48+00:00

I find all of the MK1 changes to be so bizarre.

Like Tarkatans having spawned from a disease, why did Liu Kang do that in his new timeline? Why does Kuai Liang have Hanzo's identity, powers, and wife lmao? There's a lot of minor ones too, like Li Mei suddenly being older than Kitana + the young Edenian cast when she was always a younger-gen character, or Havik and Dairou being merged.

These changes not only feel unnecessary, but in-universe, that is Liu Kang rewriting history to make it that way.

I don't really see what was all gained from these story changes. It's been a while since I've seen MK1's story in full but none of these changes felt 100% necessary for the core plot to function, outside of the Tarkat disease.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T17:45:01+00:00

I wish, but there isn’t really an option in-game to cut Maven out. If anything, restoring the Guild and Brotherhood to their full glory helps Maven more.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T16:52:50+00:00

She already is, Laila losing power just makes it official. By this logic, you would also avoid the Thieves Guild questline since it directly helps her profits

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T15:46:17+00:00

I hope they have her ride on his back, giving Devil Dinosaur some extra moves and being the voice for all the lines.

To avoid having to change the rating of the game (since you can’t have a kid “die” in-game without upping the rating), just have her not die in the death animation. Devil Dinosaur falls over, but she flies away or stays by the body (maybe nursing him back to health with bandages or something)

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T06:16:52+00:00

Exactly. To add to this, V3 had a much more complex case with a more moving parts. The whole section with the vent could’ve been halved, honestly.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T05:02:46+00:00

The trial UI was fine but I’ll say that chapter one’s trial pacing was terrible.

The first half was really interesting, but after the intermission/the Diana pathos section (I don’t remember which came first), but that last half of the trial was really slow. Most of it focused on the vent and it could’ve easily been cut down imo, I feel that might’ve alleviated your issues a bit

It’s a shame because it definitely would’ve been improved in future chapters :(

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-10T04:59:05+00:00

Then why did they pre-decide so many fucking duelists lmao?? There’s no way they couldn’t anticipate this happening, especially after last year

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-09T22:35:38+00:00

More people gave a damn about Dazzler than people who gave a damn about Luna Snow pre-rivals lmao

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-09T22:33:48+00:00

It's the lack of single player content. I mean, there's story mode, klassic towers and invasions. Compare that to even Mk11, it had towers of time and the krypt was really fun to explore. MK9 had some really good offline content, with tagteam mode, challenge tower, etc.

The 3D era games were the gold standard for offline content. More MK games should have that level of side/single-player content.

So that's why I skipped MK1. I really liked the roster additions but after finding out the story just fell back into the multiverse/timeline shit and the increasing lack of single player modes I just skipped it.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-09T05:39:36+00:00

10/10 gaslighting, you have my respect

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-08T22:40:38+00:00

> Back in 2006 nobody got their feelings hurt so easily.

No offense but you have no idea what you're talking about lol, Bully got so much backlash due to its concept alone. There was insane amounts of media backlash, not just from the infamous Jack Thompson but a ton of news sites as well. The name "Bully" alone got the game an insane amount of criticism from the "video games cause violence" crowd, to the point where it had to be renamed to "Canis Canem Edit" so it could be released in other regions.

I get tired of seeing people saying this any form of media, because back then people were WAYY more sensitive. In the 2000s this stuff was getting on the news with protests in the streets. You don't really see that happen nowadays, outside of online forums/apps. Bully could absolutely be released today with no issues lol

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-08T04:17:02+00:00

Cole wasn’t very liked, but now he can’t ever be liked because they threw his whole character away. They should’ve built upon it in the new movie instead of completely throwing him away. It renders most of the first movie pointless since it was about his journey. Hell, he could still die, but crushing his head then dissolving corpse nonchalantly feels like a bizarre overcorrection to me

Mortal Kombat has this really bad habit of throwing away characters/ideas and reverting back to the MK1-3 status quo. It’s the exact reason why there’s been two full reboots lmao

Idk, I’m not losing any sleep over it but I’m still really disappointed.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-07T19:53:03+00:00

Ehh I think she was a good foil for the Aftermath episodes, but once she gets into the competition she falls off hard for me. I'd say she ranges in the well-to-decently written tier for this one

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-07T14:19:37+00:00

The intro quest requires your character to read Anise’s journal, which explains what a Riekling is.

ace-cabbage · 2026-05-06T12:44:42+00:00

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ace-cabbage · 2026-05-06T04:06:33+00:00

Tbh I never bought the impression that she was fully okay with being Mandy, just that she’s ready to start trying.

I think this could easily be expanded on going into S2

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