*As of the season 2 patch (April 2025)*

They have not only made people more busted across the board instead of nerfing, the "defense patch" is just guess them side walking or not with your new BUSTED homing move, they have removed near enough all characters weaknesses for you or the opponent to work around and are focusing seemingly solely on the player being rewarded for pressing buttons. New combos are cool but not at the expense of tactical gameplay and now with all these big additions, if they want to make it a fighting game again and not a borderline party game then they will either have to roll back the balance patch (which they wont) or make mobility absolutely busted (which they wont) or work continuously though out the year (season) and keep working on it for the opening of season 3 which then means a 2 year wait on a full priced game to be "balanced" post release, I gave the devs slack for season 1 since it was the first Tekken game that didn't have its trial run in arcades first but this double down on their balance direction screams targeting new/casual players seemingly exclusively over any amount of fighting game fans, let alone legacy fans of the franchise.

To any new players thinking of getting this, at the state its in now, don't expect a fair fighting game but instead expect a game where you can just trade attack turns after guessing and hope the round lasts for longer than 20 seconds after a series of knockdowns and knowledge checks which are also guesses even when you do know them to then MAYBE play some traditional tekken with movement, spacing and "small tekken" (interactions on close/mid range) for a few seconds .


To Bamco. and Tekken Dev. Team, please make characters have weaknesses, weaknesses that you the pilot player and the opponent have to work around, not "what busted button" do I have to work around eg, if a character is meant to have a prime weakness to side stepping, do not give them a busted homing move, please.




(Below is from my time with the game back when it was released in Jan of 2024)

Good game (forgetting about balance patches atm), poor monetization quality (Tekken shop/mostly battle pass quality) and poor player base, most player matches are 1 & dones (like iirc, 75%+) be it them winning a match or just Instant leave when they lose a single match so forget about finding any players/new mates to mutually improve with and with that being the case, I don't even want to think about or touch ranked matches until both balance is addressed and match making/at least plugging gets penalized more but I guess with a more "aggressive" mission statement (from the devs) it makes Players npc's even more aggressive with either their cable, application or W/L record.

Fun Story, nice visuals and good performance options, extra games modes by default/more coming later (for free?). Hefty fighting game roster (balance is all over the place, its wack right now), good character customisation (one of the best for a fighting game), "Jukebox" option to redo any score or back ground music from any other score or bgm in the Tekken library and you can have multiple playlists, new "heat"system is nice, should be nerfed more in terms of counter play against it though or atleast more applications/utility for it.

Also I main Kazuya, if you are curious what character I experience this this matchmaking/ community interactions with. I'm still going to continue playing the game to keep learning/practising where I can and cause I find Tekken (in general) to be pretty hype but unless you have passion for Tekken/ have a pre-existing mate to play and learn with, then hold off on this for what would probably (unfortunately) be anywhere from 6 months to a year before the developers really put the work in to really settle down the match-making and the community*.


If you still want to play and have a wired connection that is good for my location (UK), then feel free to add me, would love some long training/learning sessions.