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Well, I guess now is as good of a time as ever to announce that I do paid coaching lessons! Anything from beginners figuring out the game to higher level players looking to close holes in their play. One session ever or weekly scheduled sessions, up to you :)

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@Speedkicks Racism and tacos

@battery706 Not my GOAT Faraz getting smoked like that 😔

There's an uprising forming at my job... It may be time to seize the means of production or w/e

You can tell Season 1 was just a transition phase into what Namco actually wanted Tekken 8 to be. It was way more neutral-heavy compared to what we got in Season 2 and 3. That wasn’t the end goal. They wanted the game to appeal to non-Tekken players, because that’s the bigger market. Appealing to the average consumer makes more money. But Tekken has never had mass appeal like that. So instead of leaning into what makes Tekken work, they shifted the game away from neutral and footsies into cutscenes, long combos, and stance-heavy mixups, because that stuff looks better to someone who doesn’t play the game. The problem is that Tekken players don’t like uninteractive gameplay. They didn’t like it in Tekken 7, and they don’t like it now. People who play Tekken want to actually play Tekken. And that only works if you stick to the core idea of what Tekken is. At its simplest, Tekken is built on this basic ass formula: Incentive to attack + incentive to move Movement reduces risk and creates interaction. You can use it to escape, to create openings, or to punish bad offense. Attacking matters because pokes and punishment are rewarding. That balance is what makes neutral work. In older games, tracking and homing moves were limited, so movement still had value. The system wasn’t perfect, but it held together. Over time, they kept chipping away at that. More tracking. More homing. Less reason to move. At the same time, they increased total HP, which makes pokes weaker relative to combos. So now you’re less rewarded for small interactions and more rewarded for big, forced situations. The issue with Tekken 8 isn’t aggression itself. It’s how they want aggression to work. You’re not supposed to sidestep stance pressure. You’re supposed to hold that situation or use a power crush. That goes against everything Tekken used to reward. I remember when they made Kazuya’s hellsweep track in T7 Season 3, and electrics track more in T7 Season 2. That’s when it was obvious they were accelerating the process of moving away from Tekken’s core identity. And it didn’t stop there. They wanted to shed the legacy playerbase because they genuinely believed that the game's financial future was being held back by archaic traditional ideas about Tekken's core design. They want you to leave and are willing to do anything to make that happen. Frame data as paid DLC. Leroy and Fahkumram broken on purpose. Tekken Shop added after reviews. Calling Season 2 a “defense patch.” “Back to basics,” while doing the opposite. After all of this, there are people that still believe that there's a magical patch that will come and fix the game and I'm not making fun of anyone because I don't blame you guys. There's no competition to the game because other 3D fighters don't play like Tekken. But all I'm saying is that false hope is more painful than no hope. The devs know what they’re doing. They just don’t care.

Can we start a tag 2 resurgence again?

Somebody nerdy enough needs to make a rollback version I know there at least one nigga in the FGC that can do it

@EnragedHowl Essentially a neutral skip, combo extender, or combo starter depending on your characters size. Very strong and polarizing tool

Can someone explain the guilty gear wild assault mechanic but in Tekken terms

@AaronAardvarkTK Let me live in my fantasy world where tekken is good again

Guilty Gear got rid of Wild Assault?? So you're saying there is a chance Tekken removes Heat Burst??

Guessslop

@AaronAardvarkTK It was VERY rare for this specific situation to happen (both 1 hp, using an item move at the same time they attack). But lie and tell me regular slo-mo were hype as fuck

@iEnglishBetter bro this shit is ass 🤣

This is what T8 took from us... We never see slow-mos anymore, too much healing or getting 1 shot. Truly a tragedy

I feel like it's been proven pretty extensively throughout video game history that taking a game with profound competitive success and stripping the competition away ultimately does more harm than good. Brawl, SF5, CoD, the list is vast. How did T8 not learn?

Namco: We noticed there was a King player with a sub 70% winrate, so we buffed King to ensure they get boosted properly. Also Namco: Shoot Steve in the head. Twice. And strip what little of his identity he has left.

Here's my yearly statement that any and all T8 refugees are welcome to join us on Tag 2! It has fully functioning online with decent net code and there's usually always someone hosting a lobby :) Lemme know if you need help setting it up, and I'll gladly show you the ropes

@TruBelian Another dedicated tracking move. Kinda weird that db2 is a tracking move, considering how strangely linear the character is general. I want like a Hei b4 or Fahk 3+4 type "quit fucking stepping idiot" button

@iEnglishBetter What would you even give Leo..?

Everyone is complaining that their characters new move is a reused animation Bruh Leo didn't even GET a new move!

"Incompetent" 8 month work for "back to basic" Result is this They dont know what is basic Because incompetent they are Congratulations for wasting 8months!! Lets go casino season3 👍👍👍 P.s honestly i feel like Just me make a plan and fix game might be better_