As we speak chief producer Katsuhiro Harada had promising information to share with these questioning whether or not Tekken 8 will assist crossplay and rollback netcode.
Requested on Twitter, Harada-san appeared to verify (sic) that sure, Tekken 8 will “after all” have crossplay assist. He additionally explained why it wasn’t carried out in Tekken 7.
Crossplay? In fact 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.
Bear in mind once they introduced they had been open to crossplay just a few years in the past? However in actuality, they did not actively assist third events on the time, and the hurdles had been truly fairly excessive. There are nonetheless some issues left, however will probably be potential.
On prime of that, Harada-san additionally appeared to confirm (sic) that sure, Rollback Netcode has already been carried out. Sure. Harada-san doesn’t mince phrases.
“already put in it, and it already has what you need. The rationale WHY we do not make massive bulletins like cross-play is Cuz even when we make massive bulletins, individuals like you’ll solely say issues like, “waaaa! That is regular these days.” So shut up & sit the hell down.”
By the way, Harada-san also teased {that a} default costume has been commissioned to an artist from exterior 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 does not have a launch date or window simply but.
Only recently, Bandai Namco hosted an in depth 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 just lately 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.
