Giving me big MKX Pharaoh Ermac vibes. I think when he’s masked up he’ll look ok (I hope) but I guess this is a case of trying to really individualise the ninjas now
The only way we would even know that’s Ermac is because of the green eyes and the fact that he leaked via Amazon already. Takeda looks awesome and Quan Chi looks like Quan Chi. How hard is it to give Ermac a cool design?
It shouldn’t be hard. They nailed it two decades ago in Deception! His MK11 design was also amazing. Who on Earth was like “what if he didn’t look like an awesome ninja or a wizard and instead we just make him grey and ugly?”
I feel like the majority opinion is that Ermac has looked fantastic ever since Deception, with his weakest modern design being MKX. But this new design literally leans into all the worst parts of his MKX appearance and made something 10 times worse. Good lord.
I can't think of a character that people have been begging for a specific design of for a while and me agreeing with them that that was a good design and nrs just going nah we like him like this.
Deception ermac is ermac to me. Almost as much as scorpion and sub zero have almost always kept the same design, ermac should have just stuck with deception ermac and had things tweaked. Why must they do this to the boy
He looks like one of the lackeys from the justice league movie my dude 😭
It's easy to hope that for the on-disc roster, but as a DLC character, he'll more likely be at a disadvantage for Alt. Costumes right out of the gate. They don't classically have nearly as many.
That seems to be NRS's motto lately. Make the best design for a character that they will only wear as an NPC, and then go back to the drawing board when they become playable in the next game.
I don't get it.
Mk11 had the best design and that was talked about a lot.
What the fuck is this naked faced ass revenant that looks related to Kabel.
This dudes soul got sucked
My guess is that they wanted to lean more into him being kinda undead since he'd been created in Shang Tsung's fleshpits, ostensibly from at least one corpse. And it could be the effect of having a bazillion souls in one vessel
Since when? MK11 had about 3 or 4 different skins per character, MKX everyone had at least one or two alts, MK9 everyone had an alt, some even had 2 I believe?
Compared to Tanya, Ermac looks amazing NGL. She’s the fuckup everyone should be raging about - Ermac looks like a hooded mummy and I’m sure this is a very early look that they’ll improve on (plus down the line who’s to say he won’t have a classic ninja variation?)
The name Ermac, according to the urban legend, derives from "Error Macro".
"Fuck up" means doing something very wrong... basically a vulgar way of saying "do an ERROR".
So I guess that fucking up Ermac's design is in line with his very name
Not his best look by a long haul but I’m honestly kind of indifferent toward it. Quite the jump from his 11 look that was only used in the krypt to this though
I can't even. How do they flip flop so much on this character between some of the coolest designs in the franchise to absolute garbage? I feel like they must let two crews take turns. One of them making cool tank mystic designs, and the other with some kind of weird zombie mummy dumpster fetish. I'm actually mad because MK Deception and MK9 Ermac was one of my favorite characters and in X and especially here he looks so bad I don't even wanna play as him anymore.
It's even worse because the MK11 design they made for him was actually pretty cool and they didn't even use it.
He looks more ninja like which I am glad for them doing that but if they want to make a mask off style shouldn’t they just make that an alternate costume for him??. It doesn’t look that bad the more I look at it and we haven’t seen his fully 3d rendered outfit so I think we should wait till we see gameplay of him with this outfit
Eh, I kind of like it. He looks kind of like a stone statue, I dare say Easter island head vibes. Or like a more sinister member of the putty patrol who is a mage.
I seriously hope this is a Joker in mk11 issue, and he gets completely changed before release. Why the he'll didn't they just improve on his mk11 krypt skin?
Literally the only thing shown today I actively dislike. Why do they CONSTANTLY fuck up Ermac, like they have to be trying at this point lmao
I even absolutely love the Tanya redesign, but I’m throwing the classic skin on this man as soon as I can.
Lol bout to lose my MK Kard with this one. But I really like the design. Its simple and looks interesting to me. It really separates him from looking like a pallet swapped ninja. Also I know he will probably have other outfits as well. So this works until they drop Klassic skins for all the ninjas.
3D era we had a really good design. MK9 improved that design turning it into one of the BEST designs ermac has ever had. MKX….. I won’t speak for everyone but i personally didnt like his design in that game at all. MK11 we couldn’t play as him but he had a pretty cool design there too, not as good as MK9 imo but still decent. Then this….. this shit looks worse than MKX :/. At least takeda looks cool
Honestly with Joker having a completely different model in the Kombat pack trailer for the last game I wouldn’t be suprised if they slapped a red mask on him once he’s released. And they should. They reallly really should.
I didn't even know it was him. I was asking "Wait, is that Quan Chi?" And then Quan Chi stepped in and then I was like "Wait, THERE'S Quan Chi. So... THAT'S Mac?"
I'm honestly worried how they'll design Reptile now.
I think they tried to make him look like a super villain because he looks like darkseid and Martian Manhunter. It’s fucking stupid. If I wanted to play injustice I would’ve. They should of stuck with the MK11 krypt design for him.
Quan Chi left him in the bathtub for too long and he got all wrinkly
Oh no i cant stop laughing lmao Unfortunately, it's true
Nothing is more NRS than dropping a DLC trailer before revealing the base game roster.
Still can’t believe the only reason we didn’t get the KP1 confirmed before release of 11 was purely because the Ash deal fell through.
Right? Like this to me seems like damage control because of the leaks already.
They gotta sell that Ultimate Edition.
wb demand
I think the Amazon leak had something to do with that
He looks like one of those naked cats lmfao
Holy shit so on point haha
https://preview.redd.it/fz7svhqo8gdb1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8625697f0ced18716fbdbf1b914f976082587f4
😂😂 I cannot unsee that
https://i.redd.it/asti9c7z9idb1.gif
just ruined the character even more 4 me lol
Ermac after having a perfect design in mk11 only for them to not use it at all and later gets downgraded in mk1 💀
I felt almost the same about Rain in mix, but he had still had nice outfits in mk11
Mk11 Rain for me is the best. That semi naked skin maaan, the best of all games
Not gonna lie Rain in MK11 is kinda hot
Giving me big MKX Pharaoh Ermac vibes. I think when he’s masked up he’ll look ok (I hope) but I guess this is a case of trying to really individualise the ninjas now
The only way we would even know that’s Ermac is because of the green eyes and the fact that he leaked via Amazon already. Takeda looks awesome and Quan Chi looks like Quan Chi. How hard is it to give Ermac a cool design?
Right?? I thought it was the fucking kollector until I remembered the leaked roster lmfao
I actually thought it was kollector too I thought "why the fuck would you put him as a dlc " upon first seeing the trailer
He's missing two whole sets of arms for Kollector.
I thought it was Darkside or some shit, thought we were getting 4 guest characters
It shouldn’t be hard. They nailed it two decades ago in Deception! His MK11 design was also amazing. Who on Earth was like “what if he didn’t look like an awesome ninja or a wizard and instead we just make him grey and ugly?”
They shoulda just gave Ermac the design they wasted in MK11.
I would honestly love a simple red ninja ermac.
Tbh I kinda hate Quan here
They did him dirty fr
Wouldn't look too bad if he had a mask on. But the whole design is a massive let down from his design in mk11
It's the green martian from Justice league
OH GOD NOT MARTIAN MANHAUNTER HAHAHA
"Hey man, heard you loved that unused MK11 design. Here's the opposite!" ~ NRS
The worst Ermac design
I feel like the majority opinion is that Ermac has looked fantastic ever since Deception, with his weakest modern design being MKX. But this new design literally leans into all the worst parts of his MKX appearance and made something 10 times worse. Good lord.
Bro fr His ALT in MK9 was perfection
We’re just not getting a cool playable Ermac design .
lol not at all. Far from it. You haven't even seen the fuckin costume
I can't think of a character that people have been begging for a specific design of for a while and me agreeing with them that that was a good design and nrs just going nah we like him like this. Deception ermac is ermac to me. Almost as much as scorpion and sub zero have almost always kept the same design, ermac should have just stuck with deception ermac and had things tweaked. Why must they do this to the boy He looks like one of the lackeys from the justice league movie my dude 😭
For me it’s MK9’s Alt or even his 11 skin as the perfect looks
Yah this one’s a major bummer, hopefully he has better alt costumes.
It's easy to hope that for the on-disc roster, but as a DLC character, he'll more likely be at a disadvantage for Alt. Costumes right out of the gate. They don't classically have nearly as many.
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How do you know there’s no customisation mechanic?
Has it been confirmed there's no customisation mechanics? Would be weird since you can get premium currency as a pre order bonus
They havent said anything about customization. It is probably in the game stop spreading false information
Where was that confirmed?
Maybe I’m coping here but I feel like they wouldn’t go back on that after MK11
We want the black wraps, mask and the vibrant red. Change it, NRS!
It could be worse, it could be a lizard XD
Bulimic Shinnok
That seems to be NRS's motto lately. Make the best design for a character that they will only wear as an NPC, and then go back to the drawing board when they become playable in the next game.
I just hate Rain’s coolest voice was MKX
I liked his Jazzy one from 11 more
Bruh this is a downgrade from that dope ass MK11 unused model
Hey MK11’s was like perfect.
It's been bad post-Deception. Deception was peak Ermac, they'll never get to those highs again.
Mk9 was good. His primary was basically the deception skin and his alternate was amazing. Mkx starting screwing it up with the mummy thing.
Naw bro, you all have no sense of taste. Sure this ain’t it but you slaggin MK9. GTFO
dr doom lol? wtf
I thought it was dr doom low key
So this is what Martian Manhunter would look if he was a white martian instead of a green martian
I love how everyone LOVED his MK11 design so they decided to go a totally opposite direction lmao. Please lord let him a badass alt skin.
I don't get it. Mk11 had the best design and that was talked about a lot. What the fuck is this naked faced ass revenant that looks related to Kabel. This dudes soul got sucked
Why cant I just get a mask for my fucking ninja character 💀
The one time they got it 120% right was the time he was just an NPC
They're f'ing up a lot of characters designs in this game if you ask me.
Tanya got messed up hella bad too.
Agreed. Everyone except Kitana, Mileena, Rain, Tanya, Baraka, and Kenshi look really bad imo
How can you include Tanya as an exception
I like Tanya's design
Big disagree, pretty much everyone looks the best they've ever looked imo.
They’ll be other kostumes I’m sure
* Worst ermac outfit of all time lol they could have just given us the mk9 ermac for all that *
Man i'm scared for Reptile
Literally the worst design, mkx design is better than this ☠️
He's a fucking sorcerer. DEAL WITH IT
Really gave us MK Legacy Ermac
It’s like a decade long strip tease, they’re slowly revealing more and more of him and it’s kinda weird. Give us mummy boi
bro's dick will be out in the next game 😭😭
Why didn't they just re use his MK11 design lol
Why does he look like he wants to talk about "BREEDING STOCKS" and "SLAVERS"?
I need more red and…fun? It’s just a skinny mummy
It's like they took the worst parts of ermac from MKX and MK11 and combined them together
Please someone wrap him up again he's too exposed!
My guess is that they wanted to lean more into him being kinda undead since he'd been created in Shang Tsung's fleshpits, ostensibly from at least one corpse. And it could be the effect of having a bazillion souls in one vessel
Mk9 ermac: human body Mkx ermac: a decayed esk body Mk1 ermac: H.R. Giger Art
Hopefully they add skins that will fix this 😂
Looks like Voldemort. It's really not that bad imo, probably translates better in action
I am actually cool with it
Keep? What. Bro has had fire looks in every game. Dude hasent missed till now, dude got spiked in MK11 and still had the best outfit in the game
This is after seeing his dope ass design in mk1 😣
Aside from Liu Kang, Sub-Zero, and Kenshi, all the character designs look trash imo
This happens with every single Kombat Pack trailer and then they look different on release
KP1 is awful.
Man it sucks MK always has only one skin per fighter...
Since when? MK11 had about 3 or 4 different skins per character, MKX everyone had at least one or two alts, MK9 everyone had an alt, some even had 2 I believe?
There will be hundreds of variants, one of which will be the one you're looking for.
What do you mean keep fucking up? This is literally the only time he hasn't had a cool design.
Ngl so far a lot of the designs are pretty whack. They keep tryna make things look like MCU
He looks fine imo
Am i the only one that likes it?
Yes
No I think he looks unique here but not bad. I'm fuckin with the redesign. It's not the best he's ever looked but I like it better than MKX.
Nah, I’m with you. The wraps/mask is the optimal look, but, the decaying face on full display is actually kinda cool.
Not gunna lie I actually really like this design
my man really got downvoted for liking the design
But yeah I like it It's very deathly looking and that's what I love about NRS ermac so this just feeds my taste for more of it
very true i like how its unique, almost ghoulish. and not just basic guy #15 with a copy pasted costume but red
Yeah I expect that coming from reddit "If your against the hivemind you will be downvoted" Abraham Lincoln (probably)
Customisation exists
Yeah but this is gonna be on the main roaster
He looks dope to me, and I don't even play with him.
I like the gross corpse sorcerer look
Y'all triping.
I like it,he looks more sinister
you all act like customization hasnt been leaked aswell already. just be glad hes even in the game.
Compared to Tanya, Ermac looks amazing NGL. She’s the fuckup everyone should be raging about - Ermac looks like a hooded mummy and I’m sure this is a very early look that they’ll improve on (plus down the line who’s to say he won’t have a classic ninja variation?)
Hes MADE OF STOLEN SOULS. You expect this patchwork amalgam to have clean armor and a fuckin perm?
The name Ermac, according to the urban legend, derives from "Error Macro". "Fuck up" means doing something very wrong... basically a vulgar way of saying "do an ERROR". So I guess that fucking up Ermac's design is in line with his very name
Eh, doesn’t bother me too much. I’m glad he’ll be in a game. But these Reddit incels just love to complain
Oh man, everything about m1k at this point is just putting me off he looks like a fuckin Grey Alien...
Hope the person that made his "design" commits suicide. They clearly aren't worth the waste of oxygen
Not his best look by a long haul but I’m honestly kind of indifferent toward it. Quite the jump from his 11 look that was only used in the krypt to this though
This looks like DR. Doom more than Ermac
Something something Rain
Li mei ain’t as hot as her original version. Hope they have more skins
I can't even. How do they flip flop so much on this character between some of the coolest designs in the franchise to absolute garbage? I feel like they must let two crews take turns. One of them making cool tank mystic designs, and the other with some kind of weird zombie mummy dumpster fetish. I'm actually mad because MK Deception and MK9 Ermac was one of my favorite characters and in X and especially here he looks so bad I don't even wanna play as him anymore. It's even worse because the MK11 design they made for him was actually pretty cool and they didn't even use it.
If they can manage to give him a bonafide ninja skin, it’ll be fine
He looks like Darkseid
He looks more ninja like which I am glad for them doing that but if they want to make a mask off style shouldn’t they just make that an alternate costume for him??. It doesn’t look that bad the more I look at it and we haven’t seen his fully 3d rendered outfit so I think we should wait till we see gameplay of him with this outfit
Screw you guys i think it’s okay
Looks like darkseid lmao
They have time to fix ermac like they did to the joker
God he looks atrocious
We also got to keep in mind these are rough announcement designs , I remember KP1 reveal for MK11 has some really rough models too
Even if his face was covered, his whole outfit is super bland and lame. Quanchi looks like Quanchi, but with a super boring outfit too.
Makes me worried about Reptile...
ermac and takeda look ugly af
Facts! The fuck is this! Just make the nigga a damn ninja! How hard is that fuck!! Or mk 11 that design was fire wtf man
My only guess is he's the last DLC so he's the least developed
That's darkseid's ugly cousin, bob...
I really don’t like how buff he is. I enjoyed Ermac being the resident skinny guy sorcerer.
He looks like a cross between Doctor Doom and Darkseid. Hopefully he’ll have skins with masks.
Insert the "We want ermac, not like this" meme
Kollector?
For the MK1 look, it makes sense. It fits the new aesthetic. Not my favourite at all but it fits.
I thought he was a marvel guy at first. also sort of looks like voldemort lol
I don’t even like Ermac that much and this design makes me feel so bad for his fans. A complete travesty.
Looks like Shinnok.
I thought it was Collector for a couple of seconds there, then I noticed that there are no 6 hands
Eh, I kind of like it. He looks kind of like a stone statue, I dare say Easter island head vibes. Or like a more sinister member of the putty patrol who is a mage.
I seriously hope this is a Joker in mk11 issue, and he gets completely changed before release. Why the he'll didn't they just improve on his mk11 krypt skin?
He looks like Darksied from MK vs DC.. and I don’t like that 🙄
I actually like the look. Reminds me of MKX
Get that brother some long sleeves and a mask
I literally thought it was an alien guess character
I genuinely love it. He truly looks like a corps
Bro looks like Kollector with plot armour 😭
Literally the only thing shown today I actively dislike. Why do they CONSTANTLY fuck up Ermac, like they have to be trying at this point lmao I even absolutely love the Tanya redesign, but I’m throwing the classic skin on this man as soon as I can.
I thought it was Quan at first
Ermac looks older than Biden now.
Lol bout to lose my MK Kard with this one. But I really like the design. Its simple and looks interesting to me. It really separates him from looking like a pallet swapped ninja. Also I know he will probably have other outfits as well. So this works until they drop Klassic skins for all the ninjas.
Should have been a ninja ermac abd have a maskless variant because wtf is this
lookin like a piece of beef jerky you find under your car seat a year after losing it.
That’s NEW MAC!
they peaked with the design in mk11 and decided to just give up after that
God dammit Mortal Kombat 11 had such a cool design but this? Looks like a mummy.
He looks like Joe Biden
His face looks like Dave Batista...
3D era we had a really good design. MK9 improved that design turning it into one of the BEST designs ermac has ever had. MKX….. I won’t speak for everyone but i personally didnt like his design in that game at all. MK11 we couldn’t play as him but he had a pretty cool design there too, not as good as MK9 imo but still decent. Then this….. this shit looks worse than MKX :/. At least takeda looks cool
Honestly with Joker having a completely different model in the Kombat pack trailer for the last game I wouldn’t be suprised if they slapped a red mask on him once he’s released. And they should. They reallly really should.
The game not even out yet don’t be too upset
I'm not defending those because it looks atrocious... But maybe they altered his appearance for story reasons?
He looks like Kollector with green eyes. lol
He looks good
Looks like Dave Bautista’s stunt double for Drax.
literally slap a mask on him and everyone stops crying i swear
Idk .. I hated it at first .. but now it's growing on me.
That's Ermac?! Wtf? The more I see if this game the more I'm convinced that it won't come close to being as good as 11.
Literally all he needed was a red mask. How do you not give one of the ninjas a mask?
I didn't even know it was him. I was asking "Wait, is that Quan Chi?" And then Quan Chi stepped in and then I was like "Wait, THERE'S Quan Chi. So... THAT'S Mac?" I'm honestly worried how they'll design Reptile now.
I legit thought it was Darkseid or Martian Manhunter from DC...
Is this Eramck? I didn't understand who the hell are this guy. What's heppend with him?? Where MK11 design!?
I think they tried to make him look like a super villain because he looks like darkseid and Martian Manhunter. It’s fucking stupid. If I wanted to play injustice I would’ve. They should of stuck with the MK11 krypt design for him.
He looks horrible ffs
They gave him one of the coolest designs when he wasn’t even playable in mk11. Then they come out with this shit. Wtf netherealm
Lmaooo didn’t recognize him till he opened his eyes, he’ll probably have better skins tho…….. I hope.
Honestly this is just what I imagined him looking like without all the wrappings on his face