When joining a battle, it presents each player with the opportunity to back out based on the estimated connection quality. I wouldn't worry about it.
Well, yeah. To differentiate the games. It seems like playing PS1 tekken but with nicer visuals. Just look at Mortal Kombat. You csn easily differentiate every entry from the other, animations, character designs, etc. While put Tekken 3, Tekken 6 and Tekken 8 next to each other and they look like the same game but with different levels of visuals.
These characters have an average 100+ moves on their move lists with plenty of them being new on a 32 roster game at launch. New rage arts, heat mechanics, etc. You can't really ask for more other than Tekken Tag item moves.
That move of Liu Kang from the first MK to 11 has almost the same animation, the different maybe some has different camera angle or add 1 more kick in the end. Only in new Mk 1 they changed it completely.
I'm using 3060Ti at 1440p pretty much maxed out and it looks and runs great. Shouldn't be a problem for you, given the million upscaling techniques the game comes with. You can play online just fine.
Right, those are fine since you sacrifice all your heat to do so.
On one hand, these people only have four moves to defend against. On the other hand, it is annoying as hell. For a game where learning the timing of juggles is basically the entire game, having your opponent be able to do it perfectly with a single button if they happen to land a hit is infuriating.
I like this idea.
I just punish any player using special style pretty hard. And when they revert back, I give them breathing space again. All about that conditioning. If you're having trouble, just stay away and wait for the potential whiff punishes to come for free. Special Style is so limited and crippled.
The problem for me is not what happens on block, but the ramifications it creates in some rounds where a fairly unpredictable player can make a whole game seem like a coin toss. The attack is instantly triggered by one button, it has armor and deals heavy long-winded damage. If your RA opponent is really low, you can hope that your fairly powerful albeit riskier attack will lead to instant KO upon Rage activation. I just dislike the weird dynamic RA creates. In most games it's not a problem though, almost like players themselves are informally ignoring the mechanic.
While you are right in that some animations are very old, they make new animations for many old moves every game. Tekken 8 I think has the most new animations ever.
It's the perfect entry point. It even has a mode (Arcade Quest) that teaches you how to play. Jump in!
They're overall buffed compared to T7 for whatever reason, and are now universally mids. They're also only -15 on block, so now not every character gets a free launch either. In early builds they were only -13.
Everyone has 15f launch move though? Maybe some are hard to execute like Kazuya.
That's always a drawback to online fighting games at launch. Everyone starts off at a beginner rank in game and some gifted players just slaughter others. I usually wait a couple of weeks before going into ranked matches against randos because I want the hardcore folks to move up the ranks and leave the average players behind. I haven't tried Tekken 8 matchmaking yet but hopefully it matches evenly as the rankings normalize.
Nah it's the start of a new game, this is pretty much status quo for every fighting game, the veterans have start at the bottom too, don't take it too harshly.
Yup. I love getting exposed for a bad habit I picked up prior. Beginners don't really punish you the same way. This is also why I think fighting games matchmaking should include players of different skills. 90% are going to be beginners anyways in a popular crossplay game.
Many (most?) counter-hit launchers are safe though.
Raven doesn't (unless changed in final release). Unsure on anyone else. I just mash out Lili's hopkick personally.
When I first went online, the game offered me a placement match against the AI to calculate my starting rank. I did it and was rightfully placed as beginner. Do most people just skip this?
I'm talking about straight launchers like hop kick, df 2 etc etc : D. Not counting Ewgf, Bryan jet upper cut,.. and most of them is high.
No. Roll or choose low/mid attack or stand right up or stay still. Tekken never has and I don't think it ever need a combo breaker mechanic.
You can roll forward or backward, roll left or right, some characters can kick themselves forward or you can roll forward and leap at them. Learn how to block, block low, parry, parry low, or reversal. You can also kick high or kick low from being downed. There's a Punishment tutorial in Practice mode that teaches you what moves punish on block. I see a lot of super arts thrown on wake up or during a potential KO attack animation. Which honestly takes away a lot of life. I'd recommend playing each character's combo trials and learning how they control. That gets you a better idea of matchups. lol I remember reading that in the Tekken 3 strategy guide years ago. I've been picking a random character and performing their combo trials.
