The primary weekend of the Tekken 8 Closed Community Check (not a beta, as famous by Bandai Namco quite a few instances) has come and gone. Roughly 40,000 gamers obtained to pattern the upcoming fighter throughout this PS5 unique part, with the dev workforce welcoming any and all suggestions.
However you know the way this stuff go. The check interval solely ran for 3 days, however that hasn’t stopped some gamers from leaping the gun, and expressing concern over new mechanics just like the Warmth system, chip injury, character motion, and nearly every thing else.
Fortunately, it feels like Bandai Namco’s on prime of it. Sometimes talkative Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has been replying to followers on Twitter, in an try to handle each constructive and adverse suggestions. His posts have really been fairly insightful, with Harada emphasising the truth that that is simply a community check, and that there is nonetheless plenty of work to be carried out.
“This check was devoted to community performance by the sport in its bare-bones state,” he writes. “As talked about in earlier tweets, injury, overly lengthy combos, chip injury can be closely tuned, and the sport system generally will endure varied modifications earlier than launch.”
In different phrases, gamers should not be taking the gameplay stability too significantly at this stage — however we will at the very least perceive why folks could be desirous to share their opinions. Having performed the check all weekend ourselves, we’re assured in saying that the check felt very polished. Maybe not when it comes to stability — as famous in our Tekken 8 preview — however when it comes to visuals and total really feel. There’s now plenty of hypothesis relating to the sport’s launch window, as a result of the standard of the check construct actually does recommend that it will possibly’t be that far off.
