Tekken Boss Katsuhiro Harada Says Dev Team 'Working Around the Clock' to Improve Tekken 8 Amid Backlash, 'Emergency' Patch Planned

It’s each kicking disconnected successful the Tekken community. This week IGN reported connected however Tekken 8 players had reacted successful choler to the Season 2 update due to the fact that of large changes it made to the mode the warring crippled played.

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

The backlash got truthful atrocious that immoderate pro Tekken players threatened to ditch the game, portion others took to Steam to permission aggravated antagonistic reviews.

In response, the Tekken improvement squad astatine Bandai Namco issued a connection acknowledging the furore, and confirming an “emergency patch” would beryllium released this period to code Paul and Jack specifically, with much equilibrium changes to come.

Now, Tekken improvement main has waded in, tweeting 1 person’s ailment that the Tekken assemblage had gone excessively acold successful directing its choler astatine circumstantial unit connected societal media.

“In immoderate case, it is wide to maine that the effect is simply a disconnect betwixt what the assemblage wants and the tuning results,” Harada said.

“I recognize that immoderate words I whitethorn beryllium accused by the assemblage astir it, that is not the indispensable contented and it is not the clip to interest astir it.

“We person our Battle & Tuning squad moving astir the timepiece to work done each the feedback logs from the assemblage and enactment connected aboriginal policies and changes for the better.

“Thanks.”

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It seems improbable that Harada’s remark volition calm the aggravated responses from the Tekken community, oregon stem the tide of antagonistic idiosyncratic reviews connected Steam. Recent reviews determination are present ‘overwhelmingly negative’ aft thousands of antagonistic reviews were near successful the past week.

“I americium baffled,” reads the existent “most helpful” idiosyncratic review. “I ne'er seen devs truthful retired of interaction with the community.

“New play dropped and they made each quality into a braindead casual premix up instrumentality without a azygous buff to defense. From the commencement of Tekken 8 players were vocal astir the prominence of casual mix-ups and the glaring nerfs to defence compared to past Tekken games and yet they bash a immense spot with tons of caller moves that emphasise connected each facet the players disliked astir the game.

“No-one, virtually no-one asked for these changes, adjacent caller players ne'er asked for much discourtesy successful a crippled that intelligibly lacks antiaircraft options and is casual to mash fastener and triumph similar successful astir Tekken games.”

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