Mortal Kombat 1 might be overshadowed by the likes of Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and now Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero, but developer NetherRealm Studios has been chugging along regardless. It's been releasing DLC and new characters for the title while making sure updates go out on a regular basis for balancing, but if the updates for PC continue to be as rough as the game's latest, NetherRealm might not have an audience on the platform for much longer.
According to several fans on social media, Mortal Kombat 1 has been suffering from pretty rough performance issues ever since the release of the game's latest update, which added the recently announced Khaos Reigns DLC. A Twitter user called Syribral was one of the first to start calling out NetherRealm for the shocking performance sharing a video of a match dropping to as low as 10fps.
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To make matters worse, Syribral claims that they're running the game with a rig that's over the recommended specs, making this a problem with the game itself rather than a hardware issue. Another Twitter user...
