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IGN has a crappy app that lets you watch their videos.
Lol! I have a crappy phone that can’t even run that app.
#ifyouknowwhatimean
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Keits said you’d expect to eat 75-80% off a Tusk lockout if he has two bars. Holy ■■■■.
And they nerfed Thunders damage -_-
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He said 82 - 84%. HE’S A MONSTER!
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Maybe Tusk can’t die until he loses a fight, like how red sonja did not sleep with any man who did not defeat her.
I like how there’s viking ships shooting fire arrows at the end of the tusk vs arbiter fight. Who are these? spirits? Aren’t we in present times? Why is there people roaming around in flaming viking ships?
I have noticed in the fight against Arbiter this:
When Tusk activates his instinct and use special moves, his instinct gets a bit depleted, making it’s duration extremely short
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Didn’t notice that…
Yeah, pretty much this. Maybe don’t nerf Tusk, but Sabrewulf clearly has to work a lot harder to get anywhere near this type of damage.
Tusk being immortal does make sense. I do have to wonder how exactly he became immortal, but I guess that’s what S3 story mode is for, eh?
I suspect he’ll probably be neutral with some past connection to the Night Guard at one point in his life, though.
I think Tusk will have some connection with “the warlords” of old, like he did in KI2.
Kiets said in his IGN Tusk break down, that “this is Tusk,” hinting at the same tusk from 2000 years ago. Tusk’s story back then…
“A barbarian killing machine from the cold wastelands to the north, Tusk is the last of a warrior caste decimated by the bitter rivalry of the Warlords and finally reduced to a sole survivor during their costly banishment to Limbo. He now lives in wealth and glory as Champion of the old world’s Gladiatorial Arena; but when the demonic shadow of Gargos rises again, Tusk sets his jaw, takes up his blade and casts aside all other responsibilities to settle this blood feud once and for all.”
We still don’t know if Gargos was banished from Earth in the past, but if he was, or if some of his servants were, Tusk could have a connection with them/him, and that could be the cause of his immortality.
So on the training stream today, @GoogleMyName said something along the lines of “Tusk is immortal, and only he can kill himself.”
It may have been a throw away line, but I think that’s an awesome way to incorporate immortality.
He’s alive only as long as he feels it’s worth living.
That is cool. I don’t think I’ve ever run across a something like that in any other story I’ve read. Pretty cool if you as me.
Any other bits of info from that stream? I haven’t watched it.
So, what if maybe Tusk have earned immortality as a gift by the gods for defeating Gargos in the past? (Just like Liu Kang after winning the Mortal Kombat Tournament and earned immortality by Raiden)
Tusk talk about gods in his trailer:
“Let evil come, for I am, the watchmen of the gods!”
That is a possiblitly, at the same time though he says that his memory were taken from him, “scattered, like the snow of a storm.” I’m thinking that this is Kan-ra’s doing. There is an outstanding player in Kan-ra’s story that has yet to be filled in, the General who helped him in his ploy against the Babylonian King. I don’t know if Tusk will fit this, but he could have some ties there.
Yeah, there was 2 more characters… The general and the wealth man…
Maybe Kan-Ra manipulated Tusk to help him and then Kan-Ra take his memory so Tusk can’t remember anything about?
Maybe Tusk was a wealth man, then Kan-Ra manipulated his mind, make him have amnesia, and take all his money so Kan-Ra could study magic and dark powers?
If Tusk is the Wealth Man (“He now lives in wealth and glory as Champion of the old world’s Gladiatorial Arena”), then he was cursed with “a unique curse” by the King, maybe amnesia was his curse?
I think that the General is the same vampire in Maya’s Backstory that probably transformed Mira into a vampire too
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