![]() ![]() MORTAL KOMBAT 3 GAME PCMost controllers for PC had two buttons, making them inadequate for games like MK3 and Super Street Fighter II. Until then, PC controllers ran the gamut of size and quality, with none of them being a great fit for Mortal Kombat. Even our ubiquitous mouse and keyboard controls had yet to be set in stone at this time, and the xinput gamepads we take for granted today didn't come on the scene until the Xbox 360's release in 2005. Sculptured also ran into similar trouble designing PC controls for Mortal Kombat 3. There were so many processors, sound cards, graphics chips, display modes, and controllers that a developer's decision to support one or another meant you either got the best version of an arcade game, or one that was barely playable, if it ran at all. One of the biggest issues with PC gaming until the mid-2000s was the lack of standardization in hardware. "The more people who booted it up, the more noise and traffic you had on your network from these workstations saying, 'I'm here, let's play.'"Ĭraddock's excerpts also touch on another topic that may seem foreign to today's PC gamers: the variety and unreliability of PC hardware configurations in the '90s: "Anyone in your company who did the same thing, those games were sitting there, broadcasting on your network," Peters says. The problem was the game pinged-sent out a signal letting other computers know it was interested-constantly. ![]() Peli, who went on to write and direct the horror film Paranormal Activity, programmed MK3's multiplayer mode to search for players over a LAN. Peters credits Oren Peli with MK3's networking code. In addition, Raiden's protection only extends to the soul, not to the body, so his chosen warriors have to fight the extermination squads and repel Shao Kahn.Craddock also discusses Sculpture's work on MK3's early network multiplayer capabilities, the surprising developer behind them, as well as a quirk in its netcode that could bring an entire office's internet to its knees: Shao Kahn has unleashed extermination squads to roam throughout the Earthrealm and kill any survivors. He tells them that Shao Kahn must be stopped, but that he cannot interfere due to his status as protector of Earthrealm, he has no power in Outworld, and Earthrealm is now partially merged with Outworld. Only a few are spared, as Raiden protects their souls. As a consequence of this action, Earthrealm becomes a part of Outworld, instantly stripping billions of their souls. When Sindel is reincarnated in Earthrealm, Shao Kahn is able to reach across the dimensions to reclaim her. This would allow Shao Kahn to cross the boundary lines and reclaim his queen. She would be resurrected in the Earthrealm. However, she wouldn't be revived in the Outworld. He would have his Shadow Priests, led by Shang Tsung, revive his former Queen Sindel, who unexpectedly died at a young age. Shao Kahn, fed up with continuous losses in tournament battle, enacts a 10,000 year-old plan. ![]()
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