Tekken 8 Community in Uproar Over Season 2 Balance Changes, Pros Threaten to Ditch the Game, Steam Reviews on Fire

The Tekken 8 assemblage has reacted successful choler aft the Season 2 update changed the crippled successful a fig of arguable ways.

Patch notes revealed an across-the-board buff to quality harm imaginable and violative pressure, which has caused immoderate wrong the assemblage to kick that Tekken 8 has strayed excessively acold from the classical Tekken experience.

Pro Tekken subordinate JoKa said the Season 2 update means “this does not consciousness similar Tekken AT ALL.”

“Characters getting buffed adjacent successful the slightest is not the mode on with much stance-based transitions wherever 50/50 situations are enhanced. Some of the caller moves added are insane with small to nary counterplay. Characters getting their weaknesses patched and identities being removed by homogenisation is lazy balancing. Oki being gutted and vigor conscionable getting buffed makes nary sense. Combo harm is excessively overmuch crossed the full roster. I decidedly deliberation the sidesteps are amended but does that truly substance erstwhile moves beryllium with brainsick tracking/hitboxes? Chip harm is inactive excessive with astir vigor smashes remaining the same. Removing strategy successful favour of much 50/50 situations isn't absorbing gameplay and is moving distant from the instauration of Tekken.

“Where are the antiaircraft options that were mentioned?”

As you’d expect, Tekken 8’s Steam leafage has go the avenue done which players are expressing their frustration. The crippled has seen a flood of antagonistic reviews (over 1,100 successful the past 2 days), resulting successful an ‘mostly negative’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing for caller reviews.

“Genuinely bully crippled held backmost by schizophrenic insane developers sent from hell,” reads the existent ‘most helpful’ review.

“New play dropped and they made each quality into a braindead casual premix up instrumentality without a azygous buff to defense,” reads another.

“After promising changes to unfastened up antiaircraft options, the equilibrium squad has doubled down connected highly almighty discourtesy that takes distant each bureau from the defending player,” different antagonistic reappraisal reads.

“Not each quality needs to beryllium capable to unit 50/50 canned mixups constantly, but it seems similar the equilibrium squad doesn't person immoderate different ideas for however to physique characters astatine this point. It's conscionable a shame to spot different bequest warring crippled go wholly defined by quality discourtesy and situations with small to nary effect from the defender.”

Some Tekken fans are truthful upset with what’s happening that they’re ditching the crippled successful favour of Capcom’s Street Fighter 6. Others are calling Season 2 the “worst spot successful Tekken history,” with immoderate pro players threatening to locomotion distant from Tekken 8 entirely.

I don't cognize if I'll proceed playing Tekken if this spot stays.
I'm atrocious for doomposting, but I thought it had a accidental to beryllium a amended game.
I'm conscionable truly sad.
Like depressed.
I streamed 70 hours of Tekken this past week to prep for s2 conscionable to person those hopes shattered.
Gn.

The assemblage is present hoping for immoderate connection from the improvement squad responding to the complaints. Some privation the spot rolled backmost successful its entirety. Others privation an exigency follow-up spot to marque cardinal changes.

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