Bandai Namco has announced that the Season 2 patch notes for Tekken 8 will go live on April 1 (March 31 PDT). In the meantime, they’ve left some notes that provides an overview of what we can expect for Season 2.
Prior to this, Bandai Namco had revealed that throw breaks would cause the defender to receive a small amount of chip in Season 2. Fans almost universally hated this change and proved to be very vocal about it, prompting a response from Katsuhiro Harada.
Once the patch goes live, the throw break change that punishes the defender will still go through. However, Bandai Namco has already revealed their intention to revert this adjustment in a future update due to the fan feedback.
“After the initial announcement, the development team received feedback from players and reconsidered one of the proposed adjustments. It was concluded that imposing a disadvantage on the defender for executing a successful throw break would be excessive, as throw breaking is a high-skill mechanic that reflects a player’s practice and proficiency,” stated the patch overview.
“As such, the following spec will be scrapped in an upcoming patch: When a throw break is successfully performed, player that was grabbed will receive 5 points of recoverable health damage.”
Aside from that, the patch overview talks about how the developers are trying to dial back the offense of the game. Although the developers are trying to avoid making Tekken overly defensive like with previous titles, many felt offense was emphasized too much in Tekken 8 Season 1.
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Source: Event Hubs
