Since Tekken 8 acquired its main Season 2 replace, the sport has seen fairly a little bit of criticism from its participant base. Points with the sport have gotten extreme sufficient that, only a few days after releasing the two.00.02 patch for the sport, recreation director Kohei Ikeda has taken to social media platform X to apologise for the present state of the sport.
For context, with the Season 2 replace, Tekken 8‘s total gameplay was modified up fairly a bit. This was seemingly accomplished in an effort to discourage gamers from going all-out on offense, and Bandai Namco wished gamers to undertake a slower, extra defensive play model. This transfer has been broadly criticised by Tekken 8 gamers, who’ve since taken to posting unfavorable evaluations in regards to the recreation on Steam.
On the time of publishing, Steam scores for Tekken 8 are at the moment sitting at an mixture of Overwhelmingly Unfavorable for its current evaluations, with 5,412 unfavorable evaluations. This has introduced the sport’s total score all the way down to Combined for all evaluations, with a complete of greater than 35,000 evaluations.
“To all Tekken followers world wide, thanks, as at all times, on your continued assist,” posted Ikeda on X. “I want to supply my heartfelt apologies because the Recreation Director for the truth that the lately launched Season 2 didn’t meet your expectations and triggered inconvenience attributable to important points.”
Ikeda closed off the publish by speaking in regards to the staff constantly engaged on the sport after taking participant suggestions into consideration. In response to him, there are plans to maintain releasing extra updates to convey significant enhancements to Tekken 8 one after the other.
“We take your whole suggestions and feedback very severely,” wrote Ikeda. “Your complete staff is working along with full dedication to resolve these issues and ship a greater gameplay expertise.”
“We’ll proceed to make regular, significant enhancements one after the other, and do our utmost to regain your belief.”
A significant criticism of the Season 2 replace has been that almost each character within the roster has gotten talents to show a number of situations into 50-50 ones. This has additionally prompted gamers to criticise the dearth of defensive choices that gamers have entry to.
Replace 2.00.02 was introduced earlier this month. Its main objective was to resolve points surrounding unblockable assaults by characters Paul and Jack-8. The replace has additionally modified throw breaks in order that they now not trigger chip harm.
The staff behind Tekken 8 has additionally talked about beforehand that it’s engaged on extra updates for the sport, and is keeping track of the group suggestions to determine what it might do subsequent.
Tekken 8 is offered on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. The sport’s final main replace, kicking off its second season, introduced alongside returning character Anna Williams as a brand new addition to its roster. Regardless of its more moderen points, the combating recreation has confirmed to be fairly widespread. As of February, greater than 3 million copies of Tekken 8 had been bought.
For extra particulars, take a look at our evaluate of Tekken 8.
