I found an easy way to blow through character mastery's. In Invasion mode go to Shang Tsungs tower. At the top of the tower there is a Test Your Might. This Test your Might is by far the easiest one in the game. It should only take about 5 seconds per go at it. You can easily max out a character in an hour or two

I miss when buying the game gave me access to the game I had bought.

Something interesting if you’re dabbling with invasions merchants If any item says sold out, just go back to the main menu and repeat purchase You can stack the same items by 10% increments You can do the same thing with the experience trinkets on the top right training map

Basically invasions are not your main source for cosmetics. Each character has 2 skins with 6 pallettes and you unlock all those only in their mastery. You get an additional 2 pallettes for each of those skins in invasions with some characters having an additional 3rd tattoo pallette. If you want to unlock story skins such as the dark version of characters or Suit Kenshi and Indiana Jones Johnny you get those in the shrine. Koins only get spent in the shrine so spend to your hearts desire. Your main source of cosmetics though is character mastery unless you want story items then you want the shrine.

The weekly quest for connecting 50 uppercuts keeps going up and down instead of up even though I’m doing them 💀

Sitting here grinding, wishing I could do this faster, and the scholarly twins bless us again. TEACH ME!!!!😂

Well done video. Informative, straightforward, and very easy to digest even for someone who isn’t a competitive player. Love to see it

Really appreciate this video. I want to unlock everything as soon as possible and this is a huge help. Just hope I am good enough as a player to do so. I really hope they bring out the unlock all brutalities and fatalities option in the future like they did for Mortal Kombat X.

I love Shang Tsung! finally a game here where you can morph into your opponent and do their Brutalities and Fatalities! I miss that change in the old days of MK3!

Havik was automatically on my roster once I finished the story I didn’t have to do anything else

Thanks a lot for the vid guys, very much appriciated!

I was very surprised after getting halfway through the story to find out that it doesn’t count towards Weekly Quest or Character Experience. I get they want people to play the Invasion modes, but even that is quite a slog.

Careful with the quick XP grinds and remember there are several different types of XP: Profile level, Invasion level, Character level, and Kameo level. Many times videos (not saying this one) will claim that you can get XP easy when they are only talking about one type and Invasion and Profile XP really does not need to be grinded out. Also, that Not Junk Relic does not give XP bonus to anything other than your Invasion level so take it off once you reach 30 - it's other power (zero damage to super-armor) is only hindering you. A few things on note: 1) There is really no reason to grind profile XP with the Test Your Might trick - just play Invasions and you will get there quickly enough. And you want to play through all of Invasions to get the unlocks that come with it along the way. Also, by just playing through with a character first and hitting level 30 in your Invasion profile, every character has the full 145 points to add to their stats. I usually do my stats at 45/80/80/45/45 (or there abouts) so there is a little balance for playing towers and stuff - you will never survive later Invasions fights without upping your other stats a little. Also, I think there is diminishing returns on the "put all your points in attack" strategy that is circling the internet. 2) Finish with a Brutality if you can, but if it goes wrong, still do the Fatality as it does net you a good chunk of points. 3) As others have said, the easier endurance matches in the Fengjian Village mesa net the fastest results to grind character and Kameo XP- either Triple Threat or (the one I use because the AI just seem dumber somehow) Team Work. 4) The point breakdown is thus (press "Y" to see points after the fight): EACH Flawless nets you 150/235/65 (thus not getting hit in all three give a whopping 450/705/195 XP! 😲) Fatality gives: 60/95/25 A Brutality gives: 120/90/55 (twice that of a fatality with a little extra to the Kameo for some reason) Victory bonus is: 75/235/130 5) Doing this I have eight Kameos maxed and all characters at least to level fifteen - to get that last Brutality in their profile. It takes me about an hour to get to fifteen, but some say they can do it much faster. Reptile was one-hitting all three for me (since they are weak against his acid) and it took an hour so not sure how those people are claiming they are doing it quicker, but I'd love to see it. That's all I have - good luck out there and enjoy the grind! 😂😂😂😂😂

I went ahead and watched the almost 4 hours worth of cutscenes a few days ago. Kinda tradition for me. That way I get to experience and watch it(which was really great btw) and just jump right into the game when I get it

This helped so much!!! Keep up the great work

They should put your video as learning tutorial for getting quickly into the content + useful tips. Really well done.

9:52 the shrine takes years for the next turn omg !

Thanks for the guide K&M ❤️

All those skins and gear pieces and no loadouts, a common thing in prior NRS games. Hope that gets patched at launch cos it's annoying to have to go to kustomize and switch out every attire.

It takes about 150k to unlock everything in the seasonal shop excluding what you get from invasions. Also as a side note you do unlocks some things by doing the seasonal tower in the Gateway area. think the shrine was around the same at 150k.

Yep sweet video this helps. Havent watched you guys since MKX as i skipped MK 11 so glad to be back and watching

Thank you. Great Video. 👊😎

Thank you Ketchup, Mustard, and these comments. I'm a weirdo to most old school fans. Been playing MK since I was 4, but never really took that next step. I'm trying to rapidly learn the "execution." It's *hard.* I've watched *every single MK History,* I've watched the Metas, I know how the games work. *However,* nothing prepares you for actual execution timing. MK1's in particular. Nor unlocking things (never thought to see that again.) This game is truly a combination of MKX, MK:DA, MK:D, and MK:A. Fast paced like MKX. Konquest like DA and MK:D. Air combat for Armageddon. Oh and Armageddon. I'd love "The Science of MK1" Examples: -MK1's Kameo system needs some explaining, such as "Does Kameo trigger while using a special move?" (Which it does, it's used in Scorpion's tutorial.) -How to know what *is* and *is not* hit confirmable (if possible.) -Frame Data: I know the game's tutorials explain a lot, even *frame traps and jailing,* but I don't think the combo tutorials are practical damage. -Button Config: Release Check for example is what I'm most curious about. I enjoy it, but maybe it's "not viable to learn."

You are the goat for this. ty ty.

Great video cheers

As long as I don't HAVE to complete the combo challenges to unlock everything. I've never played a game where I successfully completed any one of those cursed things.

Seems like this is going to be a problem for tourney organizers. That’s quite a few unlocks needed that will take a few hours. Playing the game normally it took me about 10 hours or so to get all char/kameos.

Havik coming back is amazing, and comp. history for Shang Tsung please

i have grinded the invasions and can say the best way to level the invasions level, is to go to the training mesa, buy the xp consumables, and bam

Greatest channel on youtube for MK content. But it takes me so long to get to the channel because I keep forgetting the name of the channel T_T

Just play the endless tower or get a certain character up to a certain rank while doing an arcade mode i only have 2 more cameo fighters to unlock i bet there gonna add in more as dlc later in future updates going forward how you unlock costumes and certain moves too 😊😊

Big question: Moving forward is there a logic or philosophy pertaining to what Kameos i should pair with certain characters? Like for instance im playing Geras/Sektor (im a returning player since mkx) just because i like the two characters, but i also want to play a competitively viable pairing; i see players pairing with Sareena. Is that choice based on how good a Kameo is or are there perfect reasons why i can more so pick who i wanna play (perhaps for playstyle reasons and so forth)?

perfect. i couldn’t care less about the story mode and just want to have all the kameos unlocked as i spend two nights a week at fighting game locals where i sometimes bring my ps5 so i need to have all characters

Although invasions mode is a way to level up, I've found that rank matches are the quickest. It gives you the most xp.

9:57 for the Shrine, they contain unlocks for the current season, and It can be depleted.

It's a shame that NRS put single player unlockables like that. Costumes are fine, but at this point they know about the tournament scene and should have planned accordingly.

Are there costumes and palettes for beating on hardest difficulty?

Hello… thanks for all your videos I’ve followed you on here and twitch for a while. I have a request… could you possibly do a tutorial on all the features in practice mode and how to really utilise it please? I get so confused with all the options I don’t really understand all the jargon 🙈

Would it be possible to lower the volume of the opener in your vids? It's noticeably louder than the rest of the video so I usually have to selectively lower the volume then reset it when the talking starts

It sucks that you need to be online to unlock stuff... just means in years to come, most of the stuff will be locked away forever.

Are we able to unlock the different versions of stages? Day and night. Thanks

Hey, great video, just a little nitpick: Shang Tsung does come with the premium edition, you can only purchase him as a seperate dlc after having the game.

Is the skin that kung lao wears in the beginning of story mode available for unlock ? i cant seem to find any info on it anywhere

Would love to see a MK1 review.

Does anyone know how to unlock the evening version of Wu Shi Academy? I have my profile level at 100 and still didn’t unlock it. I have every other alternate stage in the game.

Does seasonal coins carry over to the next season?

I saw that you can unlock Kombat League skins in invasion mode's store? At least this is what several people have told me for those who don't want to be tortured in KL.

How do you unlock the dc characters i paid for the deluxe addition but i dont see the additional characters in the menu

Are the invasions levels gonna reset next season?

Need to make a video to find all Komponents to forge Talismam 👍

I used the soul amulet and whooped hellfire scorpion lol just wanted to get it done

Could you guys do a movement tutorial for MK1?

Does anyone know when you’ll be able to play with the kombat pack 1 characters

can you farm invasion missions to get kurrency?

Shang is already up to buy for EIGHT FUCKING DOLLARS. A character, already on the disc, for $8US.

Hey so is vs mode the only way to hear character interactions???? Y not towers?

I'm already account level 80, and this was mostly thanks to Invasion Mode...

I have 2 packets of concept art/music missing. The Pyramid and Wu Shi Academy. I've beaten story mode, invasion, and reached level 100. Currently working on character mastery. Does anyone know how to unlock these last 2 environmental art packs?

I wonder if seasonal coins are reset after each season or if I can save them

It's so nice to see MK1 going back to Mortal Kombat's roots. Even unlocks feel so much better than they did in MK11, where so much was just a paid DLC skin.

I completed the story mode but they didn't give me ANY of the rewards and there aren't any notifications. Does anyone know what I should do?

How do i unlock the chibi characters for my kombat kard?

Reiko is so cool looking

How do you unlock night and day for Arenas??

Do you know how to completely unlock "Music" and "Environment Art" in KOLLECTIONS? I find out that by leveling account level you get some music and environment art sets, but I just cannot unlock sets like the "Wu Shi Academy" and "The Pyramid". Thoughts?

Do you get different/more rewards for completing Story mode on higher difficulty? I played the entire thing on Medium but will I get different rewards if I play it again on higher difficulty?

I wish we could change how the characters attack look how you can on tekken… how u can make the moves blue, orange, red etc

Can you only enter the store if youre a psn member? Cause im not. So when i try enter the mk1 store it just takes me straight to the menu. Also with the weekly/daily challenges. Theres a challenge that says win 3 fights. Is that 3 online fights or off line fights?

How do you get more invasions areas on switch?

can we use actual Right codes of second fatality found on web without leveling up and unlocking them on move list??

how do i get all character movie endings? i noticed i got raiden when i finished the story and picked him at the end, decided to start at the last chapter with shang tsung finished it and didnt have his?

PND did you get any Maskless characters skin, during your grind? In MK11 you can get all the characters Maskless, so you can see their faces

What about stages? I'm really confused about how I can get them.

I bought MK1 at Walmart and it had the code for ol shangy boy 😂 I bought the Kombat pack too cause I had to have Homelander, Omni Man, and peacemaker.

how do i unlock day/night scenery in maps?

after playing the story mode i connected my game to my WB account, all of the cosmetics are now gone forever, and the story mode is still completed so i cant get them back

Interesting

Does anyone know how to unlock alternate looks for stages? For example the Sun Do firework level? Im level 25 and still dont have it 😫

Please do a guide to Shang Tsung. He is difficult to learn.

How to level up on the switch? Invasion mode is not complete and I can’t get more than 6 as of now.. towers isn’t giving me XP either

So I pre ordered mk1 and Shang Tsung’s not unlocked for me and I have to buy him

What about the 2nd version of stages how to unlock them? nobody is talking about it....

I don the Sombrero Subzero customs. its prob his best yet. cant wait to see what else they pull out over time with the seasonal options/bundles

Wish I could pay 10 bucks and unlock it all like the krypt 😂

How to unlock Sun Do stage at night?

I bought the game 2 days ago but didn’t get shang tsung, bought the ultimate version

I think I am lucky I ordered mk1 5 months after release and the game came I opened it and saw a pre order code turns out they accidentally put a pre order version of the game and I got shang shung for free. Sooo that's something

Ah yes

I pre ordered the game and never got that pre-order character, sad times

I just noticed that PS5/Xbox has 7 kombos per character but on Switch characters only have 1 or 6 kombo tutorials. I understand the graphical issues on the Switch but how much other content is missing?! In invasion mode I can't go past Cage Mansion without getting "To Be Kontinued", is Invasion mode fully unlocked on PS5/Xbox?!

I unlocked brutalities and cosmetics only to find out when friends came over to play some matches against each other they cant use any of the things i unlocked....

what is the + icon on the selection screen ?

What is the name of the intro song

haha my uppercuts are LETHAL now

Do Daily missions for extra silver currency

how to get stages??

I've reached level 100 yet the second "Wu Shi Academy" stage is still locked

This is for those like me that got ripped off in buying the switch version, if you haven't done invasion mode yet you only get access to the cage mansion tutorial it's very useless and while you could do it still the online mode is a better way

What about Nintendo switch beat story mode no notification it’s definitively 100% done it still says pay 7.99

Building into Max offense either physical or special is about 176 and the highest is 199 Talisman that have armor in the name gives you 100% invincibility until a certain damage is reached Easy way to get flawless victories and brutalities