Anna Williams is scheduled to become available to purchase for everyone in Tekken 8 starting on April 2, 2025. However, those that purchase the Season 2 character pass will get early access to Anna starting today.
As such, the Season 2 patch to make Anna compatible for everyone is set to be downloadable later today. Over on X, the Tekken development team has revealed the server maintenance schedule for the big update.
Servers are set to go down later today at 23:30 CEST / 14:30 PDT / April 1st 06:30 JST. In other words, 2:30 p.m. PDT and 5:30 p.m. EDT.
Bandai Namco has also revealed that the patch notes for the Season 2 update will also be released around that time. This should tide players over while online features will be temporarily disabled.
This update will provide balance adjustments and introduce new items for the shop. Of course, this will all come at the cost of replays as they’ll become obsolete and unviewable due to the changes.
Although we’ve yet to get a compiled list of changes for the Season 2 patch, the Tekken 8 developers has already revealed some of the more impactful adjustments being made to the game. One of these adjustments will make it so that players will receive a small amount of chip damage upon successfully teching a throw attempt by the opponent.
Needless to say, this change caused a lot of controversy within the Tekken community. Shortly afterwards, the developers revealed that they plan to backtrack this change in a future update, but we should still expect the change among the rest of notes for the patch that’s dropping later today.
PATCH 2.00 – Server Maintenance
Maintenance for #TEKKEN8 Patch 2.00 will take place on March 31st 23:30 CEST | 14:30 PDT | April 1st 06:30 JST and last for a few hours.
Patch notes will be released at that timing.
Online features will not be available during this time.— TEKKEN (@TEKKEN) March 31, 2025
Main features of Patch 2.00:
New Character – Anna Williams
New #TEKKEN Shop items
New & improved features
New & adjusted character moves— TEKKEN (@TEKKEN) March 31, 2025
The following data will be affected by this patch:
DOWNLOADED REPLAYS
MY REPLAY & TIPS
ONLINE REPLAY
Replays from previous patches will not be available after the update. Make sure to save your favorite replays beforehand!— TEKKEN (@TEKKEN) March 31, 2025
SUPER GHOST BATTLE
GHOST MATCH
GHOST vs GHOSTGhost data will reflect the behavior and performance changes after the update.
Ghost moves will be affected, but data won’t be lost.— TEKKEN (@TEKKEN) March 31, 2025
Source: Event Hubs
