During a Double Elix livestream announced that Spinal — the next character who will join the roster of Killer Instinct, has undergone a shift in output than expected in January. The team however assured that Spinal is free to owners of Combo Breaker Edition and Ultra Edition, but the latter will be able to download a preview than the others, also added 15 goals for a total of 150 G points.

Double Elix has specified that it will be a character from Spinal style completely different from other wrestlers, and who will play against us when we have to be very careful with our energy bars, by suggesting that Spinal might have the skills to "leech" by absorbing our parameters.

During the livestream has also talked of introducing online lobbies, but they will be implemented in March, the same month that among other things the team had predicted that it would come out the character Brightness and waiting for Arcade mode, but considered the new slips this date might not be secure.Microsoft Game Studios and Double Elix have reported to be working on the screenplay of the story, and that players will find several references to the original Killer Instinct .

Finally there was talk of turning the free character can be used in free-to-play, and it seems that this will become weekly instead of every two months, always every week and will receive a pack of accessories for customization.