Ghostface is slated to hit Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns later this month, but it looks like there’s a bit of work that needs to be done before the Scream icon can take the stage.
NetherRealm Studios announced that MK1 is going to be seeing some server maintenance tomorrow, November 6, and a lot of players are asking for one thing in particular.
According to their statement, Mortal Kombat servers are slated to go down on Wednesday at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET though it’s not listed how long they expect them to be offline.
While the maintenance period is underway, all online features including matchmaking, towers and invasion rewards will remain unavailable.
As to what the downtime is actually for, the developers haven’t said yet, but it’s usually indicative of a new update dropping.
Homelander post patch : pic.twitter.com/OJaeyJVVY9
— Sol (@slr_pwr) November 6, 2024
That’s leading a multitude of fans to hope for a new balance patch to address Homelander specifically.
The guest start from The Boys has already been hit a few times in previous updates to fix his infinite combos and invisibility glitches though it seems a vocal number of players feel like NRS didn’t nerf him nearly enough to his mixups and grabs.
Homelander running from his upcoming nerfs pic.twitter.com/CfT3uKlU0c
— Chloe (@Chloeee1000) November 6, 2024
It recently came to a head when tournament results for a Shirai Ryu Sundays MK1 online event showed Homelander taking all top four spots and another in the top 8 though it’s hard to know who is just jumping on the bandwagon to make jokes versus those with real gripes.
“We did it Paulo. We slightly nerfed command grab scaling, made low Ferra THEORETICALLY punishable if done point blank, and took away some health. We saved the meta!” pic.twitter.com/c4gD1AdweP
— Ludi (@LudiFGC) November 4, 2024
It seems we’ll be finding out soon.
Ghostface himself isn’t scheduled to release in early access for Khaos Reigns owners until November 19, and we still need to see his full trailer and Kombat Kast breakdown before then too.
Stay tuned for more information on Mortal Kombat 1’s updates as they become available.