Uncertainty swirls about Mortal Kombat 1’s future this week as an alleged leak claim that NetherRealm Studios has put the kibosh on plans for the game’s next big bundle of DLC content.
Additional alleged details of said leak have been put forward by FateUnknown, the “verified insider” with a track record that inclines many in the MK community to offer their trust. Namely, the names of five of the six planned characters for Kombat Pack 3.
After rocking the realms on Tuesday with the aforementioned initial claims, FateUnknown followed up early Wednesday morning with another Reddit post listing Jade, Cassie Cage, Kung Jin, Sonya, Kano, and an unknown guest as the planned characters of Kombat Pack 3.
“Hello, you may have seen recently I gave the news that MK1 DLC has been canceled,” begins the statement pinned to the top of r/Mortalkombatleaks, “This has spread further than the MK community and I do not want the attention so I am stepping away from leaking. I was going to stay around until Conan and T1000 were done, but I am going to end it now. I will not have info on future NRS games,” continues FateUknown.
“For my final post, here is further info about the cancelled DLC. First, Khaos Reigns sales were not the only reason. There were multiple reasons the team was pushed to move on but the sales were just the big reason. The NRS team really wanted to do the DLC and are not happy about it but they have no choice.”
“Second, I do not know what the story stuff would have been. It did not make it far enough for me to learn anything about details. Sorry.”
“Third, the final Kombat Pack was meant to be 6 characters, 5 MK and 1 guest. Less guests due to a lot of reasons but mostly as a thank you to MK fans for sticking with the game. The MK characters were Jade, Cassie, Kung Jin, Sonya, and Kano. I do not know the guest but I am told they wanted to get a highly requested character. That is all. Good bye everyone,” finishes Fate.
For those wondering, both Sonya and Kano are currently available as Kameo characters in MK1, but neither of the commonplace characters are yet represented on the main roster.
NetherRealm Studios has made no official comment on any of this and so we take it all with a grain of salt, of course. We will point out that Mortal Kombat 1 has had a notably turbulent first year, and the fact that its recently-released Khaos Reigns expansion is already on sale does bode poorly for the game’s health.