Tekken 8 Dev to Release 'Emergency Patch' in Response to Hundreds of Complaints and Negative Steam Reviews Following Season 3 Release

Tekken 8's improvement squad has released a connection promising to code the "strong assemblage response" arising aft hundreds of fans near antagonistic Steam reviews, bringing the warring game's caller reviews standing down to "Mostly Negative" connected Valve's platform.

With hundreds of Tekken fans sharing their unhappiness via Steam reviews and the feedback portal implicit the past week oregon so, the Tekken squad has responded to the "large measurement of feedback," revealing it has received "over 700 submissions" and is reviewing each one.

The problem, it seems, is that contempt assuring the fanbase that it's listening to feedback and would beryllium going "back to basics," immoderate players felt that Season 3 "tripled down connected everything the players had issues with," citing "balance changes that made nary sense, claiming to beryllium focusing connected making the crippled play a definite mode portion actively updating the crippled to beryllium the opposite," "effectively ending up with what was 1 of the worst-feeling warring games successful a agelong while."

"Season 3 was the last straw," said 1 subordinate connected Steam, encapsulating the views of hundreds of different players. "It’s wide the equilibrium doctrine is nary longer astir competitory integrity oregon subordinate satisfaction. Every large spot feels similar it does the other of what the players want. There are amended warring games retired determination that really respect the player's clip and feedback."

Now, successful a connection posted contiguous (March 25), the squad said it is "reviewing each study connected a regular ground portion proceeding with the indispensable responses and adjustments."

"In Ver.3.00.00, we implemented adjustments aimed astatine maintaining each character’s individuality portion reducing excessive rewards — peculiarly those stemming from the Heat strategy and character-specific enhanced states — successful bid to amended wide balance," the connection began. "However, we admit that the conflict acquisition we intended to present has not afloat met your expectations.

"Moving forward, we volition proceed to prosecute a conflict acquisition wherever discourtesy and defence are balanced astir the Heat system, allowing players to prosecute successful meaningful caput games and decision-making against their opponents. While maintaining the absorption of the Ver.3.00.00 adjustments, we volition proceed addressing elements that inactive effect successful excessive rewards oregon one-sided gameplay. These issues volition beryllium improved measurement by measurement done idiosyncratic behaviour fixes and show adjustments."

Consequently, from contiguous and moving into tomorrow, March 26, steadfast Bandai Namco volition merchandise "an exigency patch," focused connected "fixing captious bugs and unintended behaviors" and the "highest priorities that originate from feedback submitted via the Tekken Dev Feedback Portal, with the highest precedence placed connected the aboriginal recognition of bugs and unintended behaviors".

"The precedence of responses is determined with notation to the level of assemblage absorption (engagement) wrong the authoritative Discord server," the connection added.

Adjustments to the conflict strategy and quality show volition beryllium made based connected a "comprehensive evaluation, including submissions to the portal," and the squad has made it easier for players to place and study the conflict and strategy courtesy of a caller feedback class called… well, "requests related to conflict and system."

"We are presently reviewing priorities portion considering fixes for bugs, adjustments to behaviors that effect successful excessive rewards, and show tuning centered connected the Heat system," the squad added. "Fixes that tin beryllium addressed successful the abbreviated word volition beryllium implemented sequentially, portion changes with important interaction volition beryllium introduced measurement by measurement done each update aft capable verification."

There are besides plans to present caller Discord channels successful which players tin sermon requests with each different (presumably due to the fact that that's preferable to having these discussions connected the precise nationalist Steam reappraisal page), and the squad did counsel that portion immoderate players person requested a reply, for present it volition alternatively absorption connected gameplay fixes.

Ver.3.00.02 volition driblet sometime successful mid-April, focused connected "other issues and behaviors individually reviewed and addressed successful sequence," with 3.01 scheduled for precocious outpouring (Q2). 3.00.1

Last December, Katsuhiro Harada announced his departure from Bandai Namco, having worked connected the Tekken bid for 30 years. The 55-year-old Japanese video crippled developer legend, who worked connected each the Tekken games close up until past year’s Tekken 8, said successful a connection that the nonaccomplishment of adjacent friends successful his idiosyncratic beingness and the status oregon decease of elder colleagues had caused him to bespeak connected the clip helium has near arsenic a creator.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.