Right now 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 era consoles had been launched, I had already proposed crossplay between the 2 platformers. Nonetheless, at the moment, they had been at odds with one another over their mutual pursuits (and P2P safety concern) & repeatedly refused.
Keep in mind after they introduced they had been open to crossplay a couple of years in the past? However in actuality, they did not actively help third events on the time, and the hurdles had been really fairly excessive. There are nonetheless some issues left, however it will likely be potential.
On high 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 rationale 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 these days.” So shut up & sit the hell down.”
He additionally offered an interesting answer to a query on what number of characters we are able to anticipate from Tekken 8 at launch.
“I believe it is much more than Capcom-san. After all, character modeling, rigging, and costume design are all new property, so it is arduous work. That is why we’re attempting to extend the variety of launches.”
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 mentioned 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 intensive presentation on the Tekken World Tour 2022 finals, explaining how the gameplay will evolve from Tekken 7 because of a handful of recent mechanics.
If you would like to see some actually spiffy character trailers, we additionally 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.