Players will be rewarded faction-specific rewards if their chosen group is at the top of the global weekly ranking, but we haven't experienced those rewards ourselves or seen what material benefit they'll have. Virtually everything a player does in Mortal Kombat X contributes to their faction in some way, adding experience points to the overall pool.

With Faction Wars, players can join one of five groups, and simply by playing the game both in single-player and online multiplayer, contribute to that group's global standing. We'll be keeping an eye on the game's online performance at launch.Īn online component of the game we haven't spent much time with is Faction Wars, the persistent meta-game. But recently, the game's online performance has seemed solid I've experienced a few fights that felt almost indistinguishable from offline fights. Some early matches felt a bit sluggish, while others had a handful of full-second delays in action as the networking code caught up. In the dozens of matches of Mortal Kombat X that I've played online (via a wi-fi connection), I've experienced a wide variety of technical performance.

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