Online Warriors, What's your Warmup Routine?

For those brave souls who love MKX but cannot travel because of funds, or time, or for other reasons, we generally spend more time waging the war in and against our "oh so good" netcode.

With that said, how do you generally prepare yourself for the ginormous shit storm of laggy combos, high execution pressure, and spacing?

Generally I go into training mode for 15-20 minutes and just work my combos, try new combos, and practice my pressure. Assuring that my game will be top notch once I walk into that online colosseum.

What about y'all?

Training mode to try my bnbs off line then i play a quick tower and jump to rank or room and cross my fingers the connection is good.

Like 5 beers

Depends how I'm feeling. Some days I like a nice 5 minutes of training mode to warm up and refresh my bnbs. Sometimes I'll jump into online ranked completely cold. Typically in the later instance I'm paired up with someone I don't have to be at 100% for and I can get ready for some real matches in a bit....but every once in a while I get paired up with someone godlike in my first round and I shake my head wishing I'd gone to training mode instead.

I just go right into ranked. I guess it's because I don't care about my record.

Yeah I pretty much just jump right in see what happens lol

Join "Beginners Only" and clean house.

I go straight to ranked play a "3" bar and then i realise the games online is a failed abortion then come on here and ask for better netcode and sub zero buffs

roll a couple of spliffs, get some energydrink, go in the lab for 30min and then inv anyone in my FL that is on to play for some long ass sets

I listen to "Jump, Jump" by Kriss Kross about 100 times in a row to remind me that that's all I'm gonna see while playing online.

Warm up??? No!

Jump in and body fools.

Lt. Box said:

Crack a tall boy, clear the Hourly/Daily Towers, then i jump in.

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What is the point of those towers? I've never played one.

I smoke a bowl and then play friends or Randys. The weed is to help me forget how bad the netcoding is and slows down time so I can land combos.

Start up the game and while it's connecting to online I like to eat breakfast, watch some shows, do a few pressups/situps, crack my knuckles and then wait another 10-15 minutes while it's connecting to the Chat Server.

If i haven't played in a few days I just go into training mode to refresh my muscle memory otherwise I'll jump right in

Go into a lobby or ranked and back out before I find a match and ask myself "Do I really want to do this to myself?"

Eldriken said:

I listen to "Jump, Jump" by Kriss Kross about 100 times in a row to remind me that that's all I'm gonna see while playing online.

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LMFAOOOOOO

I train. I would rather, if able train online with someone though because it's so hard to get used to the input/frame delay.

Training, 3-5 matches on hard or very hard, player, ranked.

>Practice yelling at the television
>Go outside, place industrial strength glue on bottom of shoes, and attempt to walk around to emulate lag
>Practice watching grass grow in the event that online won't connect
>Drink all the alcohol in the house
>Load up MKX and 'connect' to online
>Turn that shit off almost immediately because what a nightmare this garbage is
>Drink more alcohol and ponder why you're such a self-loathing miserable bastard that's wasting your life subjecting yourself to this bullshit

That's how you prepare to play an NRS game online. That 7 step process will work every time.

ZATA said:

i watch pornhub before play mkx

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Yeah, you gotta practice beating up the purple headed yogurt slinging snot nazi before heading online to fight other dudes who just blasted some knuckle children to paper towel/crusty sock oblivion too. TMI, bro. Nobody wants to know that.

i watch pornhub before play mkx

I hop on training mode with my Quan and practice NJP 10 times and then work on some unblockable situations and then get on ranked and destroy people with lag.

PetulantWaste said:

Training, 3-5 matches on hard or very hard, player, ranked.

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I have zero chance of doing anything vs the computer on very hard....bodies me free. Then I go online and body everyone. Dat computer is nasty.