Tekken 8 Post-Release Discussion Thread

[LEGEND]

It could make sense that you'd want to save bigger guests for later in the games life to keep the hype going. Tekken 8 is still going strong right now.
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I was just in Japan for a few weeks, and FF stuff is everywhere, convenience store isles, billboards etc so idk I'm guessing they're more stoked about this. Like if they added a C tier Marvel/DC character to the roster people in Japan and Korea would be left scratching their heads (like us with Clive) but people here would probably be pretty hype. They're just playing to the audience that they are more familiar with, and that may well be larger.

 

[SaltShaker]

It could make sense that you'd want to save bigger guests for later in the games life to keep the hype going. Tekken 8 is still going strong right now.
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I was just in Japan for a few weeks, and FF stuff is everywhere, convenience store isles, billboards etc so idk I'm guessing they're more stoked about this. Like if they added a C tier Marvel/DC character to the roster people in Japan and Korea would be left scratching their heads (like us with Clive) but people here would probably be pretty hype. They're just playing to the audience that they are more familiar with, and that may well be larger.

Or next DLC character is Lightning from FF13.

 

[Trustful_Whale]

Like if they added a C tier Marvel/DC character to the roster people in Japan and Korea would be left scratching their heads (like us with Clive)

What's wrong with Clive?
Also, didn't they basically do this with Negan?

 

[LEGEND]

Punishment training has been heavily improved eh?

Don't remember the hard mode existing

 

[LEGEND]

Clive looks fairly braindead. Can't imagine this character surviving a couple patches.

Damage and wall carry HAVE to go. His kit also seems over tuned but we'll see.

 

[SaltShaker]

Clive looks fairly braindead. Can't imagine this character surviving a couple patches.

Damage and wall carry HAVE to go. His kit also seems over tuned but we'll see.

Yea tbh after this weekend I might have to take a bit of a break until the Clive usage dies down and/or he gets nerfed. But even if he is nerfed I just don't want to play against this character. Not fun to play against even if you win. His design is pretty much everything I feared it would be combined and it's legitimately making me lose interest.

 

[Eddy Wang]

Yea tbh after this weekend I might have to take a bit of a break until the Clive usage dies down and/or he gets nerfed. But even if he is nerfed I just don't want to play against this character. Not fun to play against even if you win. His design is pretty much everything I feared it would be combined and it's legitimately making me lose interest.

He's a zoner for sure lmao

 

[PrinceGoro]

Yea tbh after this weekend I might have to take a bit of a break until the Clive usage dies down and/or he gets nerfed. But even if he is nerfed I just don't want to play against this character. Not fun to play against even if you win. His design is pretty much everything I feared it would be combined and it's legitimately making me lose interest.

Dont have the charcater, how broken is he?
Akuma t7 levles or?

 

[Eddy Wang]

Dont have the charcater, how broken is he?
Akuma t7 levles or?

imagine putting mk11 skarlet reach in a tekken game

 

[LEGEND]

Yea tbh after this weekend I might have to take a bit of a break until the Clive usage dies down and/or he gets nerfed. But even if he is nerfed I just don't want to play against this character. Not fun to play against even if you win. His design is pretty much everything I feared it would be combined and it's legitimately making me lose interest.

Its about to be alot worse now that he's released for non pass holders. I've just been doing quick match for the past couple of days so i've only ran into a handful, can't imagine what ranked looked like, and will look like for the coming weeks.

Dont have the charcater, how broken is he?
Akuma t7 levles or?

remains to be seen. He's at very least annoying/difficult to fight against, and gets way too much damage and wall carry off his hits.

 

[PrinceGoro]

imagine putting mk11 skarlet reach in a tekken game

Damn that sounds very annoying

Its about to be alot worse now that he's released for non pass holders. I've just been doing quick match for the past couple of days so i've only ran into a handful, can't imagine what ranked looked like, and will look like for the coming weeks.



remains to be seen. He's at very least annoying/difficult to fight against, and gets way too much damage and wall carry off his hits.

Yeah will see how things play put but yeah, not suprising that a guest chracter in tekken turns out busted as fuck, its their MO.

 

[SaltShaker]

Dont have the charcater, how broken is he?
Akuma t7 levles or?

There's a few things he has that are just stupid, like for example on the Coliseum stage this guy can literally wall Carry from start position to the wall. Utterly ridiculous. From range 3 he has moves that can hit you, and of course safe mid long range homing moves. Lots of stupidity. How "good" he'll be the jury is still out, but he obviously won't be bad, and is just an annoying unenjoyable experience to fight against. Almost feels intentionally stupid to double down on their decision to include him.

 

[PrinceGoro]

Yeah thats worst case scenarion, when you dislike the charscter itself and then on top of that the character is a nightmare to deal with lol. The wall carry sounds absolutely absurd like wtf.

 

[Amplified$hotz]

Funny enough I use both pad and stick depending on the character I'm playing. Like Xiaoyu or Lidia I use pad, but Steve or Leo I prefer stick. I use a Victrix Pro PS5 pad when I use pad, it's really good. I'm not too crazy about the PS5 system controller but like anything else I'm sure it works fine after using it enough.



This i think will come the more you practice/play. Law's Slide or Lee Slide types of moves are a good example of something that feels easier when you're in practice mode but when you're in the full match speed you'll probably bobble it a few dozen games before it starts to become easy enough to do in your sleep lol. With MK/Inj there aren't moves in that pattern so it'll just be building the muscle memory then you'll never drop it again.

There are some amazing movement practice drills on YouTube. Tekken 8 has simplified movement a lot to make it easier for newer players to enter. Now the KBD isn't really required like it used to be, you can be solid pretty much by having a really fast backdash/Sidestep game now. Like double backdash (or forward) with sidestep-block movement is all you need, KBD is just extra to flex now.

And I knew you would like it haha I called it. When it starts to all click together and you start reacting to things fast paced with punishes and hitting tech traps you set up it's like euphoria.



Nice, I can run some with you midweek, I've got a few characters I can run. Mainly skip Monday and Friday but I'm on the other days. AoN_SaltShaker if you're on PSN. If you're on Steam we can meet in a lobby and play while we get watched by some randoms in there lol. Lee is always a good character to get experience against.



And an added bonus is that we are probably the only two people alive who still play the character (I don't as much as I used to lol).

I’ve been busy but I’ll add you soon.