The Tekken 8 group has reacted in anger after the Season 2 replace modified the recreation in a variety of controversial methods.
Patch notes revealed an across-the-board buff to character injury potential and offensive stress, which has prompted some inside the group to complain that Tekken 8 has strayed too removed from the traditional Tekken expertise.
Professional Tekken participant JoKa said the Season 2 replace means “this doesn’t really feel like Tekken AT ALL.”
“Characters getting buffed even in the slightest just isn’t the manner together with extra stance-based transitions the place 50/50 conditions are enhanced. A few of the new strikes added are insane with little to no counterplay. Characters getting their weaknesses patched and identities being eliminated by homogenisation is lazy balancing. Oki being gutted and warmth simply getting buffed is mindless. Combo injury is an excessive amount of throughout the entire roster. I positively assume the sidesteps are higher however does that basically matter when strikes exist with loopy monitoring/hitboxes? Chip injury continues to be extreme with most warmth smashes remaining the identical. Eradicating technique in favour of extra 50/50 conditions is not attention-grabbing gameplay and is transferring away from the basis of Tekken.
“The place are the defensive choices that have been talked about?”
As you’d anticipate, Tekken 8’s Steam web page has turn out to be the avenue by way of which gamers are expressing their frustration. The sport has seen a flood of damaging critiques (over 1,100 in the final two days), ensuing in an ‘principally damaging’ consumer overview ranking for latest critiques.
“Genuinely good recreation held again by schizophrenic insane builders despatched from hell,” reads the present ‘most useful’ overview.
“New season dropped they usually made each character right into a braindead straightforward combine up machine with no single buff to protection,” reads one other.
“After promising adjustments to open up defensive choices, the steadiness workforce has doubled down on extraordinarily highly effective offense that takes away all company from the defending participant,” one other damaging overview reads.
“Not each character wants to have the opportunity to drive 50/50 canned mixups continuously, but it surely looks like the steadiness workforce does not have another concepts for a way to construct characters at this level. It is only a disgrace to see one other legacy preventing recreation turn out to be totally outlined by character offense and conditions with little to no response from the defender.”
Some Tekken followers are so upset with what’s occurring that they’re ditching the game in favor of Capcom’s Street Fighter 6. Others are calling Season 2 (*2*) with some professional gamers threatening to stroll away from Tekken 8 totally.
I do not know if I am going to proceed enjoying Tekken if this patch stays.
I am sorry for doomposting, however I assumed it had an opportunity to be a greater recreation.
I am simply actually unhappy.
Like depressed.
I streamed 70 hours of Tekken this previous week to prep for s2 simply to have these hopes shattered.
Gn.— END | Jesandy (@Jesandy1572) April 1, 2025
The group is now hoping for some communication from the improvement workforce responding to the complaints. Some need the patch rolled again in its entirety. Others need an emergency follow-up patch to make key adjustments.
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