Board Thread:Mortal Kombat Wiki/@comment-25163804-20151204045728/@comment-25163804-20151205095810

Kimarous wrote: General Kaldon wrote: MarukoRedfox wrote: ACID BLOOD: HOW IT COULD WORK? this is the main problem for me... I said it before, I'll say it again: It is a video game. It is a fighting game. Fighting games make no sense. Especially Mortal Kombat. Why are people so adamant about the Xenomorphs blood? Who cares? It's Mortal Kombat. It's dumb, its fun and Alien and Predator are in a proper fighting game. Everyone stop complaining. We care BECAUSE it's silly. Even if people aren't being lore fanatics, people want to see if Kotal will burn his mouth drinking Xenomorph acid blood. Also, potential for moveset and/or visual effects. We aren't "complaining", per se - more just hoping that something will come of it. At least, that's my stance.

It's not that hard to make a mechanic revolving around acid blood. Just think of it as a combination of Reptile's Noxious gas and D'Vorah's Venom. Reptile's gas is always on and does about 0.2% damage per real second (I say real second because it takes 2-3 real seconds for a 'second' to pass in MKX), and can be augmented to 0.7% per second (0.5% plus the original cloud), then augmented further to 1.2% per second (I recall this also increasing the speed of the damage, but I digress) until the extra gas dissipates. D'Vorah's venom stacks with each strike of her hidden hand spikes or ovipositors (I've actually gotten a poison damage stack up to 9% damage, but it was only 1 hit as it was at the end of the timer). Unlike Reptile, as mentioned in the brackets, D'Vorah's venom only works for a short time before automatically resetting to prevent ludicrous damage output through venom.

Now, to take this to Alien; Let's say that Kotal Kahn lands a 3 hit combo on the Alien. He would then take 0.4% damage per second for about 10 or 12 seconds. As he applies more hits, the more damage is done to him over time thanks to the blood. This combines how long the Reptile gas lasts and the stacking of D'Vorah's venom.

This acid blood would be a Passive Ability, like Johnny's Red Shadow or Relentless Jason's Damned, and can be seen in the 'special moves' list.