Right this moment chief producer Katsuhiro Harada had promising information to share with these questioning whether or not Tekken 8 will help crossplay and rollback netcode.
Requested on Twitter, Harada-san appeared to verify (sic) that sure, Tekken 8 will “in fact” have crossplay help. He additionally explained why it wasn’t applied in Tekken 7.
Crossplay? After all I’ll. BTW When the earlier technology consoles had been launched, I had already proposed crossplay between the 2 platformers. Nevertheless, at the moment, they had been at odds with one another over their mutual pursuits (and P2P safety challenge) & repeatedly refused.
Keep in mind after they introduced they had been open to crossplay just a few years in the past? However in actuality, they did not actively help third events on the time, and the hurdles had been truly fairly excessive. There are nonetheless some issues left, however it will likely be attainable.
On prime of that, Harada-san additionally appeared to confirm (sic) that sure, Rollback Netcode has already been applied. Sure. Harada-san doesn’t mince phrases.
“already put in it, and it already has what you need. The explanation WHY we do not make huge bulletins like cross-play is Cuz even when we make huge bulletins, folks like you’ll solely say issues like, “waaaa! That is regular at the moment.” So shut up & sit the hell down.”
He additionally supplied an interesting answer to a query on what number of characters we will anticipate from Tekken 8 at launch.
“I feel it is much more than Capcom-san. After all, character modeling, rigging, and costume design are all new belongings, so it is laborious work. That is why we’re making an attempt to extend the variety of launches.”
By the way, Harada-san also teased {that a} default costume has been commissioned to an artist from outdoors Japan whom he has met on social media. He didn’t point out which character wears stated costume.
Tekken 8 is coming for PC, Xbox Sequence X|S, and PS5 and would not have a launch date or window simply but.
Only in the near past, Bandai Namco hosted an intensive presentation on the Tekken World Tour 2022 finals, explaining how the gameplay will evolve from Tekken 7 because of a handful of latest mechanics.
If you would like to see some actually spiffy character trailers, we additionally not too long ago noticed these devoted to Asuka Kazama, Leroy Smith, Ling Xiaoyu, Jun Kazama, Jack-8, Lars Alexandersson, King, Marshall Legislation, Paul Phoenix, Jin Kazama, Kazuya Mishima, and Nina Williams.
