Tekken 8 | S2 Tekken Talk Summary

[Moonface]

I saw a post by Murray saying the poll they made to see how many want the DLC to be revealed all at once or in parts, was only for them to make a multiyear strategy rather than actually revealing all the names in a presentation. Perhaps they will do something like that in the future but wonder if it is as soon as the Tekken Talk in two weeks.

Pretty misleading to run a poll that makes it sound like people are voting for how the remaining DLC characters get revealed and instead having it be for formulating a future strategy which sounds like a "We'll take that into consideration" rather than the outcome of the poll definitively changing anything.


So this got announced this morning and I can't say I would have expected this of all things.

[Mr EliteL]

Yeah I have no idea what that could mean, will someone from the Atelier games become the next guest character in T8, or is it a collaboration with the Atelier game instead? Tekken characters have appeared in other games somewhat recently, Project X Zone, Kazuya in Smash, a bunch in a I think mobile fighter game, possibly other things I'm forgetting though Tekken didn't get a character from them, so it might not necessarily mean a character for the current main Tekken game. I'll be surprised if it is though, Atelier series is nowhere near the top potential choices for guests could come from. Then again Negan wasn't either. Perhaps just some customisation if anything for Tekken 8 if not a character, or maybe if the guest is this early in the line up for DLC makes sense if they were trying to hold back announcing the full DLC 2 pack if it was this close to the release of Atelier Yumia. I suppose there'll be something soon about what this collab will entail.

[Moonface]

I found a blog post about the collaboration, which clarifies this is for Tekken 8 content to appear in Atelier Yumia: https://atelier.games/yumia/us/topics/20250320.html
It'll add costumes, special skills and accessories to that game as a free DLC patch at a later date.

Doesn't look like Tekken 8 will receive anything in return, which seems like a missed opportunity to at least add a couple of costumes or something into the game.

[Mr EliteL]

Yeah costumes would be fitting as that's what Atelier Yumia is getting, among the other things but Tekken shouldn't need those. Unless it might happen later, though would make more sense to have it release alongside Yumia. As long as it's not something you have to pay for DLC if something does get added to Tekken. Oh! Or an artist from the Atelier series creates art for the fighters as a character panel in Tekken, that could use happen. I'm obviously not bothered either way.

[Moonface]

I forgot art panels exist in Tekken games but that's because the only game I've played that had them was TTT2. Another area that could be open to additional content is items for your Tekken Mii thing themed around Atelier Yumia, although I don't know if anyone really cares for that mode much nowadays outside of using it to access other things (if it gives access to modes that aren't available via another menu).

[Moonface]

Here's some of the notable parts from the Tekken Talk that happened today:

• New Character Panel Artwork for Versus screens will be added in Patch 2.01, with 16 of them being revealed previously and 9 new ones being shown for Eddy, King, Leroy, Steve, Azucena, Claudio, Heihachi, Jin, and Lili.
  
  
• Customization options will be getting added to Tekken 8 based on the recently announced Atelier Yumia collab. These will be added some time after Season 2 launches.
  
  
• There will be a new character select screen song for Season 2. Players can switch back to the old song using the Jukebox feature.
  
  
• The Season 2 DLC characters for Summer and Autumn will be returning characters, whilst the final character coming in Winter will be a newcomer. Colors were also given to their respective preview backgrounds, which are Dark Blue (Summer), Purple (Autumn), and Teal (Winter).
  
  
• The first of the two DLC stages for Season 2 will be dedicated to Pac-Man's 45th anniversary.
  

The rest of the details can be read here for anyone wanting a full breakdown of absolutely everything: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comments...s_edition/

[Mr EliteL]

Man I tried watching the Tekken Talk it was just putting me to sleep, I did get up for work as I went in for a few hours, but geez 2+ hours was too long. I did skip about eventually as the main content was showing Anna stuff, then the changes to come characters but it seemed to take so long because of translations. They even acknowledged people will be on a lunch break during the live stream, I don't think they'd have 2 hours for it though.

They went halfway with the reveal everything or not which I prefer, as we get to know it's two returning character and a newcomer, so no guest it seems. Plus the extra Pac-Man stage so it's related to a character in Tekken. The colours for the characters, I was trying to think of who they could be well the two returning ones anyway, but it might not really hint much as the colour could be down to a new colour theme for them or something. I'm going to guess the Dark Blue for Armor King though.

There's quite a lot of people complaining about what was shown with the changes, namely taking chip damage if you break a throw (understandable, why?!), King getting back homing throws but exclusive to him when they removed it for everyone beforehand, not enough nerfs. I don't know, I suppose glad I'm playing currently even though I'm slightly interested in Anna and hoping for AK so I might continue to wait before I return to playing Tekken 8.

[Moonface]

Chip damage on throws should be the person who tried initiating the throw and got thwarted takes the damage; if it's the person who broke the throw taking damage that's stupid.

At first I wasn't sure why but purple made me think of Marduk. Looking him up I realized it's because his outfit has always had a degree of purple to it that really stands out against the green he also has on his outfits. It would be fitting for him to be that character if Armor King is the other, as they are both connected and could maybe do a small story thing with them for that.