Tekken 8 Season 2 certainly got off on the wrong foot when it released at the start of the month, and the developers are working quickly to try and improve the game to a spot where players are happier with it.
Bandai Namco just released a large emergency update for Tekken 8 last night, but there’s a lot of changes to make sense of.
Player and content creator PhiDX released a really good breakdown of the new patch shortly after its release that fans should check out.
PhiDX goes over all of the universal and character adjustments in a straightforward way to offer up his insight on what’s most important and impactful.
After that, he provides a summary of the update as well as his pros and cons of what Bamco did this time around.
For the good, he notes the lessened frame advantage on a lot of moves allows for more counterplay as well as the toned down chip damage.
PhiDX also likes the change that makes Heat Engagers +9 instead of +17, but he still has quite a few issues with where the game is at currently.
For cons, he lists how a lot of the homing attacks were left intact to check side stepping while much of the cast is still stance and mixup focused.
And though the damage nerfs and increased health leads to more interactions, those are still less deep than he’d like to see.
So it seems the developers still have their work cut out for them, and hopefully more can be fixed in the next patch set for mid-May.
We recommend checking out PhiDX’s full video below to get a better sense of what these emergency update changes mean for Tekken 8 moving forward.
Source: Event Hubs