When comparing Strife vs Mortal Kombat X, the Slant community recommends Mortal Kombat X for most people. In the question“What are the best PvP games on Steam?” Mortal Kombat X is ranked 18th while Strife is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose Mortal Kombat X is:
Mortal Kombat X has included online multiplayer modes where players can fight against online friends or strangers in ranked and unranked matches. there is also a team mode as well as king of the hill.
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Pros
Pro Designed with being less "toxic" in mind
The developer of Strife purposefully set out to create a MOBA that is less toxic than what is currently on offer, they have implemented blocked chat across teams as well as limited chat on ones own team, making for less communication between people who at times will be having heated moments.
Pro Good for beginners and profesionals
Strife has simplified a lot of aspects of the MOBA genre to make their game more accessible to any skill level.
Pro More than a clone
By utilizing a smaller hero pool, less items and no lane specific heroes, Strife is more than a LoL or Dota2 clone as these are original aspects that separates it from others.
Pro Online PvP and team PvP multiplayer
Mortal Kombat X has included online multiplayer modes where players can fight against online friends or strangers in ranked and unranked matches. there is also a team mode as well as king of the hill.
Pro Allows interacting with the environment
Mortal Kombat X features interactive environments in its stages, allowing for players to interact with their surroundings meaning every player will need to learn the stages in order to know what parts are usable against them.
Pro Each character has 3 versions that change the fighting style
For every character in the game there are three variations for each, essentially tripling the roster in game.
Cons
Con The game is dead
No more active player base. You won't find members to play with, even on waiting for hours.
Con Community just as toxic as other MOBAs
Even as an entry level MOBA, the community is just as rough.
Con In game currency purposely made more difficult to earn post release
Mortal Kombat X's difficulty for obtaining in game currency has been day one patched to be more difficult to receive in order to push players into spending more money on the game, despite just paying full price upon it's release. On top of this, most reviews for the game were done before the patch, which of course conveniently falsely represents the actual patched release version in the developers and publishers favor.
Con Steam does not properly install the full game
There is an issue when downloading and installing Mortal Kombat X on Steam where the game only installs partially and when launched never install the rest of the needed components, which are listed in the DLC section of the title. Users will have to manually go to the DLC section of the game in their Steam library install all the needed packs to get the game fully installed and working.
Con Same day release DLC
For $59.99 one would expect to get the full game, but of course in this day and age that is not the case. Those looking to have the actual full amount of release day content are looking at a $122.95 USD price tag.
Con Microtransactions to make the game easier
There are microtransactions in the game that allow for users to pay for easier to pull off fatalities. Essentially making the game now unbalanced for those that choose to pay to those that don't after already spending $59.99 on the title.