Once this had finished, I restarted the game…to now be greeted by ‘Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate Edition’ at boot-up. The MK11 PS5 update had started to download more content in the background, as well as an update (1.25 patch at the time of writing this). Once I loaded the character select screen, all paid character preview boxes had been completely removed. Yup, the game had been moved back to Standard Edition. Once the downloading has completed, I launched MK11 again to find all boot-up and in-game logos had changed to ‘Mortal Kombat’ (and no sign of the ‘Ultimate’ branding). I now used the DLC codes I received with my retail purchase (Kold War Skarlet and Shao Kahn). Heading to the character select screen, I could see the full character line-up, but most of the paid content was still downloading. Once the game had downloaded enough to play, you could clearly see the game branded as the Ultimate Edition on start-up and at the bottom right in the games front-end: Once the download started, I could see that it was downloading Mortal Kombat Ultimate Edition. Once selected, it advised the full PS5 version of Mortal Kombat 11 would be downloaded, and that I’d need to keep using the PS4 disc in order to play (as expected, really). Once the MK 11 disc was loaded into my PS5, you can see the free PS5 upgrade option appear. (This may be a Special Edition but with the two free bits of DLC not having anything to do with the paid Kombat Pack content, this will be classed as a Standard Edition). Now with Mortal Kombat 11 Standard Edition in hand, it’s time to see just what the free PS5 upgrade will offer…

The confusion stemmed from NeverRealm stating that the PS5 upgrade would update the PS4 Mortal Kombat 11 to an ‘Ultimate Edition’.ĭ4G are finally going to solve this mystery.

What does it get you? This has been a question that has gone unanswered since the initial announcement of the free PS5 upgrade. Upgrading a PS4 Mortal Kombat 11 to the PS5 version.

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