Tekken 8 (PC/PS5/XSX)

[Deejay]

i want to play a get in that ass character. so far, my research is saying that kazuya fits the mold. im still very inconsistent with the ewgf tho. are there any other characters who have good oki/pressure? i basically just wanna play something like dudley from street fighter and clap cheeks

[Krandor]

Paul, Law, and Steve are constant in your face pressure characters.

Paul is especially notable for having the best df+2 launcher in the entire game. Safe on block (-8 so you lose your turn, but not punishable) and beats jabs outright because of the slight backwards sway he does at the start of the animation.

[Deejay]

paul looks too goofy for me but i'll run through the trials for steve and law and see how they feel, thanks mane

[Lucavi]

Play Paul if you love ungabunga 50/50s and punishes that deal a 3rd of the enemy's health, but still have actual fundamentals and setups in reserve for when you actually want to use your brain.

Another crazy rushdown is that anime bastard Lars. All of his moves end in stances that lead into even more pressure; he's a scary dude in your face, but you've gotta love the anime aesthetics with him, because he is maximum shounen future-protag.

[Krandor]

This is for tekken 7 but for the returning characters the same logic applies.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...KWfexbj3g/edit

Slot in Victor for Noctis and Reina for Lidia (she plays closer to Lidia than she does Heihachi despite having access to Mishima wavedash moves, which also means needing to be able to do EWGF consistently). I'd guess Josie is the closest comp to Azucena

[Krandor]

Man the online is so much better once you reach yellow ranks. Filters out the smurfers and the special mode spammers so you actually get quality matches.

[Xno Kappa]

Finally installed the game and completed Monsieur Noctis’ combo challenges. No idea what the fuck I’m doing or how heat even works, but he seems fun so far. Also figured I’d take this chance to might as well re-introduce and relearn Tekken on a pad.

Too lazy to plug in a stick right now and see if it works with the PS5.

[Krandor]

While a hitbox is obviously the ideal, I think Tekken is better with a controller vs a conventional stick.

Korean backdash is easier on a d-pad, and movement and spacing is far and away the most important part of Tekken

Edit : actually that's not 100% true, a Korean lever is the best for KBD for mechanical reasons, but a d-pad is superior to a Japanese one

[Krandor]

So is it just my computer going stupid or did the game get really stuttering today?

[Mrbeansman]

I remember trying to do KBD on a JLF and I legit was getting wrist pain.

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[Krandor]

The entire top of the leaderboard just clearly being people who cheated to get there is very amusing. Harada keeps saying they're gonna get banned, but iirc in Tekken 7 you could unban yourself by editing a text file saved to your own storage since the game stored the "banned" key locally

[Krandor]

Chip damage was a huge huge mistake on the part of the devs

[Obsidian]

I can take or leave it. It does feel like they wanted to pull some of the juice out of Killer Instinct though, between the heat initiators being pseudo combo breakers and needing to use Heat to cash out and nuke the extra health.

[Krandor]

I think certain moves having chip damage is fine, but everything doing massive amounts of it while in heat is just too much.

If a character is designed to end a block/pressure string into a heat dash they can do 20-30% health in chip damage and then end on +18 or so for the easiest 50/50 in the world.

[Obsidian]

Me, a Steve main: backs away slowly.

In my defense, most of Steve's brutal mix-up potential comes from his new stance, but it's very oppressive lol.

[Krandor]

God bless people who ride their character to red ranks and still don't know how to block low, free rank points

Edit : fuck yeah, Garyu with Paul, movin on up



For real cheat sheets (so far only Kazuya/Jin/Paul)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...lcpGeHwEbqR6d4

Oh also this person has done Reina

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comm...na_cheatsheet/

[Krandor]

First patch later today, for bug fixes and whatnot.

Online discussion about what might get fixed has notified me that Victor has a smaller window to tech his throws than the rest of the cast, which now explains so much to me.

[Mrbeansman]

God bless people who ride their character to red ranks and still don't know how to block low, free rank points

Edit : fuck yeah, Garyu with Paul, movin on up



For real cheat sheets (so far only Kazuya/Jin/Paul)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...lcpGeHwEbqR6d4

Oh also this person has done Reina

https://old.reddit.com/r/Tekken/comm...na_cheatsheet/

People are so mad about that Reina one and I have no idea why.

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[Krandor]

There are a fuckton of typos and mistakes on it, I noticed it after making that post last night.

Also listing every move for every stance is just wildly unnecessary and kinda defeats the point of the cheat sheets only listing essential knowledge

[Xno Kappa]

First patch later today, for bug fixes and whatnot.

Online discussion about what might get fixed has notified me that Victor has a smaller window to tech his throws than the rest of the cast, which now explains so much to me.

I knew I freaking teched that!