Tekken 8 Post-Release Discussion Thread

[TarkatanPeriodontik]

The best defense is a great (and mindless) offense.

In the most recent Heat Speak streams, Spag quotes Knee saying he started doing better in Tekken 8 when he stoped thinking as much!

 

[SaltShaker]

I have returned just to state this game is absolute garbage now. Tekken is dead, game is uninstalled, and I won't be touching this dumpster fire again. SF, MK, whatever I'm open, but this game went from the best to the worst in one game cycle is some SF4-SF5 level of regression.

Worst patch I may have seen in over a decade in a game that didn't involve bug breaking stuff and made all the bad things worse and did the exact opposite they said it would, I'm out permanently.

 

[LiangHuBBB]

I am not sure if Namco has tested the season 2 patch before releasing it lol. Adding the Hugo clap into Tekken 8 making it a mid, hella plus on block, can't be side stepped (?) and getting mixed up afterwards seems kinda broken.

Daddyking's day 1 Anna

 

[MuMuGuy]

In the most recent Heat Speak streams, Spag quotes Knee saying he started doing better in Tekken 8 when he stoped thinking as much!

I’m a Zafina player, so I was seething when I saw and tested her in this build. She went from being an evasive poking character to yet another 50/50 stance character. If I wanted to 50/50 people to oblivion with stances, I’d just fucking play Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu does the stance mix-ups much better and easier than Zafina.

BN want people to drop Zafina so that they can bench her from Tekken 9, since her and her friend-with- benefits (Claudio) got bodied in the story.

 

[Rathalos]

This is a wild fucking patch lol.

 

[kabelfritz]

is there an official list of the character changes by namco? i can only find the 2 lists with the general changes

 

[Eddy Wang]

 

[MuMuGuy]

is there an official list of the character changes by namco? i can only find the 2 lists with the general changes

https://www.tekken-official.jp/tekken_news/?p=942

 

[Amplified$hotz]

is there an official list of the character changes by namco? i can only find the 2 lists with the general changes

Tekken 8 Season 2 patch notes

TEKKEN 8 Patch Notes 2.00 | Official Site

TEKKEN 8 Patch Notes 2.00 - Character move behavior fixes and balance adjustments have been made. Check here for more details.

www.bandainamcoent.com

 

[kabelfritz]

i hope they adjust the in-game movelists soon. some stuff is already in there, other isnt.

 

[M2Dave]

This is a wild fucking patch lol.

As every fighting game patch should be.

People love the buffs for their characters...

Namco did make some peculiar changes, though.

Ignore the sensationalism on YouTube and Twitter.

Just play the game, use your favorite character, and find out whether you like what you see.

 

[TarkatanPeriodontik]

Arslan Ash has a great video on the patch, it’s in Urdu (which can be understood by Hindi speakers) but it has subtitles as well just turn the captions on.

really fun to hear him, I know Urdu, but still the way he pronounced panda is really awesome in a Lahoree Punjabi way. I didnt expect to enjoy that so much.

His thoughts are far from sensationalized. Though he seems to imply in Japan culturally, people think life is full of 50/50s LOL

most importantly he says he is going to be traveling to tournaments until Dec/jan

 

[kabelfritz]

its quite a ripoff to sell a season 2 edition with all dlc, but no upgrade to that edition from the base game.

 

[SaltShaker]

As every fighting game patch should be.

People love the buffs for their characters...

Namco did make some peculiar changes, though.

Ignore the sensationalism on YouTube and Twitter.

Just play the game, use your favorite character, and find out whether you like what you see.

This patch is the best example of how silly "just buff don't nerf" logic is lol. This might be the one time in human history that the button mashing casuals, intermediate players, and the super duper pro players have all united in protest about just how terrible a game's update is. They have been review bombed to Mostly Negative, casuals bombing Twitter, almost all pros are openly protesting, it's an utter disaster to the point Harada broke his silence today and backtracked about the dev team is now looking to make adjustments to the game due to the overwhelming feedback.

This utter destruction of the game is a laundry list of mega plus on hit wall splatting lows, homing plus on block mids, extra stance transition 50/50s, giving pretty much everyone braindead 50/50s, 60-70% midscreen combos for the majority of the cast, removing almost everyone's weaknesses, literally broken strings like Jack, simplifying everything from moves to combos to be super easy, and tons of other nonsense no one asked for that they themselves said they were toning down. No hyperbole, this is actually what has happened in this massive doodoo patch.

This is easily, blatantly, the single most indefensible event that has occurred since the SFV original launch. I have never been an "uninstall the game" type of person after a change, but this is one time I legitimately uninstalled with no incentive to touch this dumpster fire again until proven they are trying to make a Tekken game again.