Video games and secret features are inseparable, with hidden goodies giving fans even more reason to sink hours and hours into their favorite titles. Sometimes it takes years or even decades for some secrets to be discovered. Usually, this is because they're that well hidden. This wasn't the case with Mortal Kombat 11's Meteor secret.
What is the Meteor?
The Meteor secret took more than a year to solve because the solution was added in an update a year after the Meteor first appeared, which is cheating in our book.
Technically it only took a few hours to solve, but we digress... When playing the Towers of Time mode, occasionally a strange fireball would whiz past in the background of the tower selection screen. Players were perplexed and convinced it meant something.
Known Mortal Kombat modder and data miner TheThiny even found some snippets of code in the game files, suggesting something was going on and waiting to be uncovered, but there wasn't enough to formulate a solution. Many theorized it may be a remnant of cut content.
However, Ed Boon Tweeted a video showing off what the Meteor is actually for right before a game update in November 2020 proving that it does, indeed, have a purpose, and TheThiny soon cracked the case.