Tekken 8 Official Thread

PS5 demo is live, four characters, a bit of Story, Arcade Quest + Ghost Battle.

Hard to get too excited about it since I've already been through 30+h of Ranked across three network tests but I might jump in later to faff about with wavedashing and electrics:P

I don't play Mishimas but I plan to play Reina as she's the first Tekken char to use Taido but she still retains a lot of the Mishima kit so shaking some rust off might be worth it for those broken +5 on block electrics:D

Super-interesting moveset and her preset 3 outfit is just so good.
 
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Wow. I don't even think I ahev 30 hours of Tekken 7 under my belt :cry:
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1600h for me as of last year, haven't played since then:cry: Though a couple of hundred of those was probably idling/waiting for matches/whatever:D 0h for story mode, this time I'll at least try to play it:P

That's according to Steam counter though, not sure how accurate it is.

Anyways, new players are going to have a time of their lives among all the sweatlords mashing Heat 24/7:cry:
 
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Picked up the base edition on CDKeys a couple of days ago and will probably grab a PS5 copy.

Game supports ultrawide and HDR natively and looks amazing on OLED. If the modders manage to kill the lighmaps and incorporate Lumen, it's going to look nuts. They're already at it:P

Lumen was disabled to provide stable 60fps on all platforms but I've already seen the comparison between the reveal trailer's supposed story mode sequence and the intro between Kaz and Jin on the same stage and it's damn close considering, bar the ridiculous post processing and animations that aren't there anymore. The models look super good, it's the baked lighting vs Lumen and particles that make the difference but performance and clarity take priority in a fighting game so I get the change. We'll see how it looks in story mode.

 
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Would've forgotten but the flexing and veins popping out happens in real time as well, look at Kazuya's arm:D It's just too fast to notice normally and tested on a different move but it's actually pretty insane seeing as no one will ever pay attention to it during gameplay:p

 
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And Devil Jin concludes all the 32 character trailers with his insane moveset.



Review embargo has also been lifted and the game is getting universal acclaim with 9s and 10s everywhere. Good times for the FGC:)
 
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Excellent. Should hopefully have my steam key from cdkeys tomorrow :D
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Same here hopefully:) Bamco also shipped out my PS5 copy with the steelbook and bonuses yesterday so should have both versions on release, I can double-dip on this occasion:D
 
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Very quiet in here given it's release day... The huge ~100GB download taking a while? :cry:
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Wouldn't expect too much discussion, FGs aren't too popular around here and those who are interested are probably either playing or busy with work.

All of my Steam friends waited till midnight to have a go and players overloaded the servers:p

I don't have much to say myself since I'm overwhelmed with the content and the changes on my characters, and even if I wanted to discuss those, 95% of people here won't understand wtf I'm on about so... There's so much to go through that I haven't even touched any of the modes, story etc. since I'm just sitting in practice having fun with the new options.

Plenty of traffic in dedicated communities and on other forums, though.
 
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Had one match online and won both times against the same guy. Though was close on the second match. Hopefully the ranking system is good as it is fun when you are matched with players of similar skill. I don't mind losing when I was close to winning. That's a fun game. But playing against someone I could never beat is just boring.
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Keep at it, there are many pretty ridiculous players in ranked now since everyone is starting from scratch but it should even out once they climb, a week or two tops and you should get more even matches.

I'm pretty rusty myself after the long-**** break and even back then I wasn't that good.
Played ranked on PS5 for a bit and got into yellows but too tired now, will probably play on PC tomorrow. Should be better once I start using my characters but I'm playing the coffee lady for now:P
 
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Almost in orange ranks on PC but had to call it quits, will be alternating between PC and PS5 ranked as I can disable crossplay and won't have to deal with potato PCs ruining my matches.

The competition is still pretty fierce as ranks haven't sorted themselves out yet but it's getting better, I ran into plenty of new players on Steam as the game decided I'm absolute **** at Tekken on the basis of the test match, unlike on PS5:p

For some reason, my reflexes have shot up after the break, I even managed a 13 win streak:p
I'm also pulling punishes I've never done before out of my ****, like Azucena's f1+2 against Paul's Deathfist just because I've seen it somewhere:D

Some things never change though, I still have no idea wtf Yoshimitsu is doing 80% of the time.
 
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Found this today, you can't really appreciate how insanely detailed this game is when in the middle of a fight but:

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Also some in ultrawide:



If they mod in Lumen and disable upscalers, oh boy.
 
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