With Eddy and Lidia already available, Heihachi Mishima is set to return as the third DLC fighter of the Playable Character Year 1 Pass. We recently learned that he’ll be released on September 30, 2024 for early access while everyone else will get him starting on October 3, 2024.
To commemorate Heihachi’s return, Katsuhiro Harada, Miachael Murray, Kohei “Nakatsu” Ikeda, and Yasuda Esports are getting together again for a special episode of Tekken Talk. We’ll likely be getting a small taste of a few surprises coming to Tekken 8 in the near future..
Leading up to the character’s big reveal, Katsuhiro Harada kept emphasizing that Heihachi was completely dead. Now it seems that he’s transformed this phrase to say that “Heihachi is completely resurrected.”
During the trailer, we got a good glimpse at three alternate costumes that will be releasing alongside Heihachi. Additionally, the Genmaji Temple is being added as a brand new DLC stage.
Of course, the developers will also likely take some time to discuss the upcoming story expansion for Tekken 8, Unforgotten Echoes. It will be interesting to see what’s been happening in the world of Tekken since the conclusion of the main story.
The latest update for Tekken 8, patch 1.07, it was mentioned that the next update, patch 1.08, would place emphasis on “small-scale balance adjustments.” It’s entirely possible that the Tekken team will briefly discuss that during the live stream.
Of course, we probably should curb our expectations in terms of the fourth and final DLC character of the Playable Character Year 1 Pass getting revealed during this streamed event as the developers have never done that sort of thing before.
Check out the live stream below: