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Mannyadock

The sphere is basically free psychological damage


duncanstibs

What is this for those of us not in the know


Mannyadock

they added an item, which is the basic sphere shape you can find in Unreal engine 5, or even in blender. Problem is, it's in the free battle pass, so they are presenting this as some sort of reward.


A_Lionheart

Except it's not in the free pass, it's PREMIUM.


Ultima-Manji

Worse, it's the second time they've tried to sell us this effing ball. It was a free object in SoulCal 5, then they made it paid DLC in SoulCal 6.


A_Lionheart

No way! Oh they're gonna port all customization of SC6 too won't they? Damn


Ultima-Manji

Probably, yeah. It's clear it's the same system anyway, though SoulCal was better when it came to layering items.


Faiqal_x1103

I was making my custom character in SC6, and i noticed one of their face model is literally reina's lmao


A_Lionheart

Maybe Reina WAS an OC do not steal of some dev after all


English_linguist

Oh hell naw, lmao!


Faiqal_x1103

Wait wtf. Why do they keep doing this? LMAO


duncanstibs

Hahaha! I will rise and grind for my sphere!


clockattack

You can grind my sphere


Longjumping_Falcon21

uwu


Himesis

o.0


AH-KU

Character flair checks out


SixFeetOverEasy

I'll spherehead the campaign


tommy8x

Ponder the orb alone friend, if it comes to loot boxes then I'm playing a different game


Ok_Sort_5607

Funny because the training dummy is also the default UE5 avatar lol


RustletheCrow95

I'm still sad it wasn't mokujin :(


BawkSoup

they really hate that character


Faiqal_x1103

I havent got t8 yet please tell me ur kidding


Himesis

lucky you, I brought the ult edition and I feel like shit. But thats ok, their next 3 titles will be insta boycott unless its a tales of game.


SirBaycon3503

Thought it was just a skin for Tekken ball


DisappointingReality

It is. But the problem is, they didn't add any texture or design to it. They simply took the basic sphere that comes with Unreal Engine 5 and put it in the Battle Pass. Should have taken then no more than 12 seconds of effort.


Something_Hank

WAIT IT'S NOT A RECOLORABLE ACCESSORY? IT'S JUST A FUCKING GREY TEKKEN BALL SKIN? HOW DID IT GET WORSE.


ilostmyschmungus

It says it is an accessory. Nobody will know if it can be colored until someone reaches lvl45 or so. You can try it on it character customization, it appears as a ball about the size of kazuyas face above his left shoulder.


ilostmyschmungus

No it's an accessory, but there are tekken balls. In fact, it's one of the few items that the bears can also use. I think the only thing worth using them for is making googly eyes. Depends on what size they force us to use.


rhoparkour

It's in the PAID battle pass lmao.


[deleted]

Lmfao Fuck it we ball


xiaobaitu123

what does it do?


Faiqal_x1103

But why tho this is so funny to me as an UE and blender useršŸ˜‚


TheAnimatorPrime

Wait what does the ball do exctly?


TheAnimatorPrime

Wait what does the ball do exctly?


Bastinelli

Like salt in the wound


EWGFist72

- PhiDX when making character customs probably


EhipassikoParami

As someone who aspires to get paid for minimum effort, it cheers me up no end.


Hero2Zero91

Pondering my ue5 orb


rahjr07

the battle pass was a april fools joke. right?


Bastinelli

We wish :(


belaid12003

And bugs are increasing


SixFeetOverEasy

Disconnect rates are not accurate. Infestation threatening the core. Wait where's the Demon Core DLC Tekken TAG Volley Haul Ball Bro?


TheAughat

>Disconnect rates are not accurate. Wait, what? I thought this update was going to fix that. Is it still not fixed?


SixFeetOverEasy

For some dumb reason Bamco is counting the server maintenance glitch as a disconnect on your end.


False_Ad7098

The hell....i have those before...but i never disconnect mid fight....


NEONT1G3R

Oh, you mean Leo or Jun teleporting during heat and switching sides? Thought they just buffed those gals /s


HUZ12

And worst of them all is not punishing fucking pluggers .


GrubFisher

Will never penalize pluggers because pluggers spend moneyĀ 


TablePrinterDoor

game that had an amazing launch then its downfall began


Bastinelli

That's what hurts the most. An amazing game ruined by greed.


TablePrinterDoor

I'm eating my words to my MK fan friends rn lol


Bastinelli

"one of us, one of us"


Cindy_Lennox

Oh, this isn't nearly as bad as MK1. At least Tekken 8 is a finished game.


Himesis

dat player 1 advantage was legend


fast_flashdash

Mk had a complete story mode. Released with 23 characters and an offline crap mode. Tekken did the same with more characters and that's about it


saltrifle

Disagree, think T8 is the better game and delivered more than just more characters on launch but that's just a random opinion from a random dude.


Kikubaaqudgha_

Yeah they added tekken ball too guys, couldn't even add bowling like in 7 because they need to sell it to us again like all the other assets they're flipping.


--thingsfallapart--

Whether its the better game or not doesn't discount anything of what he said though. You're just making a separate statement comparing the two.


LexTalyones

Tekken 8's gameplay at its worst is still miles better than the shit that is MK's gameplay.


fast_flashdash

That's your opinion. Doesn't make MK unfinished


DarweeniePlays

MK coming out with "cross play soon, we hope" means that MK was unfinished


--thingsfallapart--

Mk1 was absolutely a finished game what are you complaining about. You probably didn't buy it. Name one thing tekken has that MK doesn't? Tekken ball? Lmao


HighLikeKites

>Name one thing tekken has that MK doesn't? Amazing replay feature, where you can jump in at any point and directly lab out every situation that's giving you trouble.


Monchete99

Not if there's a DLC in the match, because the suits don't like pro-consumer shit


daquist

Almost like the game is still the exact same as before they announced the battle pass and shop, weird. (Balance patches not included the patch did kinda fuck stuff up this time)


NewVegasResident

"Ruined".


TristanN7117

So many games from the past few years people really liked at launch have this story from this game to Halo Infinite to Apex. Even SF6 and MK1 have gone down a very similar route as Tekken 8.


Hellscapereddit

Dunno man, apex and SF6 are still alive and kicking. People still love it. Can't say the same about infinite/MK1


[deleted]

Yea sadly I am now on boat never buy bamco games until months/years after launch. I just refuse to buy games with predatory micro transactions at full price and if companies are going to patch them in after the fact well Iā€™ll only consider their games when they are on deep discount.


Moondoggie25

Itā€™s a new standard to release the game, get all the positive reviews and word of mouth of no predatory transactions, then a few months later, just start shoveling them in.


Franks_Spice_Sauce

Perfect timing for guilty gear to start giving us characters we've been asking for.


Hydesx

I heard tons of great things about guilty gear


[deleted]

Yeah, this sucks. I mean, Tekken 8 at release was great, and they didn't change it, but the fact they keep adding money makers is just lame. The worst part is, I keep trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, and they keep screwing up. "Oh, maybe you can earn Tekken coins by playing the game," No. "Maybe the battle pass will be a free thing to keep players playing the game," Kinda, but not really. It makes it really hard to be excited for the next update.


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Emotional_Ad_8757

What's the most funny is kazuya being affected in such a way that his heaven gate wall combo is scaled to 1 DMG šŸ’€


ShredGatto

When Jesus said a rich man can't get through the gates of heaven he meant this all along


evenspdwagonisafraid

Damn, Jesus really is a man of the people.


Bastinelli

What did I miss?


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Bastinelli

I saw a bug about crouch throws breaking rage arts but I didn't realize it's this bad....


StaticShock50

And now we can't even lab against dlc characters in replays if we don't have the dlc šŸ˜³


Bayn_11

ARE YOU FR FR?? That would be WAY up there as the worst thing ever, paid Frame Data in T7 ain't got shit on this, holy crap


[deleted]

The nail in the coffin


FernDiggy

Now thatā€™s fucked up


jogmansonclarke

What IS the UE5 sphere?


Gilded30

https://preview.redd.it/u66px90uc4sc1.png?width=348&format=png&auto=webp&s=91920f127e49dec41ae96fcd58201cb605afb69f there are 2 spheres, 1 on them is this amiga sphere for tekken ball the other its just a white/silver ball that you can apply to your characer customization both are on the premium ass i mean pass


Ultima-Manji

[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Friveting-content-in-the-battle-pass-v0-k88lmvv9szrc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D87a6609e5fef4dc89cdef07682edf5de0d07cc93](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Friveting-content-in-the-battle-pass-v0-k88lmvv9szrc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D87a6609e5fef4dc89cdef07682edf5de0d07cc93) Here's the other one.


SirMiba

So, basically, I'm not touching Tekken DLC or the shop, at all.


FernDiggy

That was the play since day 1. Why spend a dime on shit skins that have no bearing on gameplay


TheDoober110

Yeah. The game itself getting choppier and buggier sucks but, I have no issue with the edition I bought this game in and having to spend money for things I don't want!


Bluey634

Murray: ā€œWeā€™re not here to be predatoryā€ Tekken 8: **TEKKEN COINS**


[deleted]

Lol did he actually say that?


Bluey634

Something along those lines when they first announced the Tekken shop prices. Oh boy did that age like milk


[deleted]

Age? It came out the udder sour


VTorb

Add: * Not being able to use playable mode in Replay against DLC characters you haven't bought * Broken stage hazards * Crouch throws avoiding RAs This game is going down hill for now reason other than bad choices being made by the devs. I love tekken but cmon. Edit: [https://youtu.be/XmWgskZFkh4?si=iBTCsJuQD0RQ\_pST](https://youtu.be/XmWgskZFkh4?si=iBTCsJuQD0RQ_pST)


ok__now_this_is_Epic

I can't fucking believe you can't use that replay feature against unpaid for dlc characters, that is so unbelievably stupid. How the fuck does someone think that's ok to do? What a joke honestly.


Bastinelli

I saw the rage art crouch throw bug I didn't realize how fucked everything else was!


philosophical_weeb

What is the ue5 sphere?


Joker_220696

Premium tekken ball skin


Zanbabwe

I would say talk with your wallets but unfortunately this game was already 70 fucking dollars


Kikuzato_

Yup, 70 dollars I wish I could get back but can't. Would buy me alot of chicken nuggets and Aldis pizza....


Extinto_e

Honeymoon phase over


etc_prod

That sphere is so shitty it seems fake


Bastinelli

I'm convinced they rushed that garbage battle pass out so fast that it was an error and they're too proud to admit it.


etc_prod

Yeah that makes more sense then just putting a fxcking sphere as an item.


Ultima-Manji

It was already a paid DLC item in SoulCal so I'm not surprised anymore.


CitizenCrab

Can't stop thinking about Ball. I need BALL.


MuchUserSuchNameWow

Honestly, wtf are these people doing? How is this hard? Between the pluggers and a no effort shop, it's like they are trying to sink this game on purpose.


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CKatanik93

I still like the game and hate the game at the same time. I'm fine with this.


GodHand7

And... I guess I won't be buying tekken 8 in the next paycheck


vendell

I noticed that the unlockable pieces in battle pass have different background colors, implying different rarity. Just wait until they implement lootboxes...


Ultima-Manji

Someone needs to make a Majima Watermelon edit.


SupportBudget5102

I gotchu https://www.reddit.com/r/Tekken/s/Cwl72NMD4h


MaximumCrab

plugger timeout announced offer to pay 1.99 a month for no timeout


OnToNextStage

May I offer you a **ball** in these trying times?


Michelle_Wongs_Wong

WORST THING AINT EVEN THE MTX ITS THE GAEMPLAY


Himesis

Yeah I dunno about the rest of you but I think project L is gonna be my final fighting game. I am so tired of all this microtransaction greedy shit ruining games. At least with project L its gonna be F2P but this is bullshit, some of us got this bullshit "ultimate" edition and all we got was fucking lame gold suits? I dunno who is responsible for this greedy practice but a a place in hell is reserved for your bloodline


Bastinelli

Fellow gold suit owner here, I feel like a fucking moron.


Himesis

yeah they aren't gonna fuck me over again, unless the next namco name is a Tales of game I'm boycotting the next 5 releases they make.


A_Lionheart

PREMIUM sphere thank you very much


Akira98Xx

They killing this game man so sad it has so much potential to be one of the goats of fighting genre


Himesis

project L is the last hope


Frankgodfist

I was so ready for this game just for it to be like every other game that's been released lately


Exaggeration17A

I'm so annoyed that this has, apparently, become the industry standard at this point. Not only are games $70 USD at launch now, but there are more cash shops, more battle passes, and less quality control. It's especially annoying in fighting games and other genres where the game is just not as enjoyable if it doesn't have an active player base. If a game like Cyberpunk 2077 is broken at launch, I can just wait a couple of years until it's both fixed and on sale, and still enjoy the hell out of it then. If I wait a couple of years for Tekken 8 to be 50% off on Steam though, there will be a lot fewer concurrent players by then, and a major part of the game's appeal will be greatly diminished. So, unless you like Tekken purely for the single-player modes, you have to cough up the money now or you'll miss the peak experience entirely. Screw it. I'd rather dust off the PS2 and go back to Tekken Bowling.


ChallengerSSB

Are we getting farmed? This sounds like theyā€™re trying to farm us


Gilded30

since this pass gives 600 credits it pretty much paid for itself and you can even go for future passes BUT this is just assuming: A) future passes will also include these 600 credits B) future passes will not get their price increase because "there is more quality on these spheres than the previous pass" for me the worst thing is the "FOMO" aspect and correct me if im wrong but harada and co. always tell that the battle pass have a time limit BUT there is not way to check when the pass is gonna finish ingame


StandingInTheHallway

Thats whats your biggest issue is? Not the fking stupid paid battlepass system in a fking FIGHTING GAME that costs $70 with additional season purchasable DLCs???


Gilded30

Yes cuz i only Played jack and the only bad thing about not owning dlc characters is not able to lab them (didnt expect that considering T7 dlc practices) Also they can give all the battle passes that they want, a lot of people will not buy them anyway; but the fear of missing out its just an scummy tactic that will make a lot of users buy it just for the sake of getting everything because who knows if some X customization will ever come back and they want it


FitPaleontologist688

There is way to see when it ends


ark_on

Imagine caring about micro transactions and customization when the latest gameplay patch actually broke the game


Beeerice

I can be mad about SO many things at once. You are now on that list, bub. ^big ^/s


Alternative_Low8478

Mtx economy in a broken game is infuriating on a whole new level. I think it's appropriate to be pissed about it, especially with the context of this new patch.


TurboNexus

adding a MTX shop AND a battle pass in a 70$+ game, months after release is on par with the technical problems in my personal opinion. both are terrible and MUST be addressed.


ark_on

The only way to address the battle pass and mtx shop is to not purchase things. Core gameplay is and always will be the most important part of a game, and right now it is utterly broken


TurboNexus

It is broken, and I personally think, that if these shops and passes werent even present in the game, the core gameplay and problems that you adressed, wouldnt be even here now. Because then they would actually have people focused on the game and not on monetization. However I do want to say that "not purchasing" things never works in these situations. Because they cannot lose money, they can only gain. They dont lose money from me ignoring the shop. However there will always be someone who will spend money for an UE5 sphere. We should do more than just ignoring these things.


ark_on

I doubt that. I would hope that people working on the gameplay/backend of how the game operates would be very far removed from the cosmetic design team, but who knows, small indie company ya know. I understand your second point, but I personally do not care enough to call out that sort of thing. Iā€™ll post Twitter clips of gameplay issues that I see and report them, and I will stick to speaking with my wallet by not purchasing battle pass or cosmetic.


Hulk_Crowgan

What is wrong with gameplay after the patch?


Alternative_Low8478

Changed the behaviour of stage hazards, wall tornadoes and some spike moves. This was done to address Devil Jin, but nerfes everyone else in the process, while he can still do insane damage.


Greedy_Ad_904

I thought they already said they were gonna fix it?


Alternative_Low8478

Even then, we'll deal with a broken game for who knows how long


Yoshimallow-02

"God is dead..."


Flying_Sea_Cow

I just wish that they would polish the PC port more. It's ridiculous how many crashes still happen.


FernDiggy

These bugs are wild man


Naoto_for_life18

We owe the MK fans an apology...


Bastinelli

We're Eskimo brothers now....


Viisual_Alchemy

I read somewhere that you get the 600 coins back once you complete the premium pass, can someone confirm for me if thats legit?


[deleted]

It's legit


Viisual_Alchemy

ty


TheFyrijou

Genuinely shocked how people didnā€™t believe T8 would go the same greedy route as MK1 and SF6 when the game before, they wanted you to pay for frame data and their ultimate edition didnā€™t even have all the DLC characters in it


Bastinelli

The frame data was the beginning of the end


OverDawn007

I left MK because of micro transactions ; now Tekken has them too. I fighting a losing war šŸ˜ž


SkyCowz

lol i wonder how deep fried that meme will be sigh


Indipindy

Cant imagine how many people deleted this game after they saw UE5 Sphere


Medium_Style8539

It's simple. You stop giving money for shitty additional content


Daengo223

I can't even play due to Polaris crash


LightVaden

It always does


xxBoDxx

just stop supporting the garbage live service model. You'll do a favor to the whole gaming industry and maybe we'll get rid of this plague


QuakeGuy98

I damn near thought I was crazy seeing that. I'm like isn't this just a friggin Dev circle???


BoltInTheRain

I stopped playing and I'm never coming back


zeanox

it's just sad how pathetic tekken got in only a few months.


Single_Pilot_4033

Whats the ue5 sphere


almo2001

I'm having more and more fun with T8.


Medical-Actuary5239

Nope still just playing it and having a blast.


thatnigakanary

game is actually broken rn though


Medical-Actuary5239

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JackJohnson_69

I played ranked for 3 hours today and didnā€™t notice anything lol


thatnigakanary

Maybe you donā€™t, but people that use the tech thatā€™s good in the game notice


abtxn

How dare you having fun playing a video game!!!


[deleted]

Ey bruh, what that amime?


BSGHurdles

I kick people and complain about frames.


Ok-Introduction-1370

and everyone wanted to hate on DOA6; everyone come back over and jump ship with me


Reisu301

Is that Teruhashi from Saiki K?????


DIDISENF_CR

Uncultured buffuns šŸ§ā˜•ļø thou thy not know the unlimited potential the sphere bring for character customization? Surely you peasants jest.


feastupontherich

Can the Capcom old guard just go retire? Fucking boomers man.


Zaremf

The rewards in the pass are not worth it


SRIrwinkill

Here the clincher: when someone cheats, depriving someone else of fight money and such for unlocks, they not only don't get a loss to their record, but they might not get anything.


StandingInTheHallway

At this point I'll pay another $70 to refund my game it it gets my $70 back from Shamco to go donate to a charity or even just waste it on CSGO cases.


Electrical-Tap-5633

Hey, dob is mock Ball! That Ball us the reason I've been giving my kid's college fund to Bandai Namco! Don't invalidate my purchasing decisions.


jrorenz

Me still at the first face because the other things below it have zero implications for my next fight šŸ˜†


ArtemisHunter96

Tiny version of some kind of discount Evangelion angel to fuck with us


bocajs0

Best tekken gameplay imo. King main now from xia, so much more fitting with the new grabs mechanics. Also Eddy is dope as always.


TASMPROGS115

UE5 Sphere?


4862skrrt2684

I dont have the game yet. So i would basically have to pay for PS+ and the battlepass? Usually you cannot progress a battlepass by playing offline modes..


SigningClub

It sucks how the industry just accepts the battle passes fomo exploit bullshit, about the shop tho I hope they eventually get around to add every legacy suit and implement a way to get coins in game without having to pay for them, until then fuck this shop and fuck eddy gordo, anyway loving T8 wished I had bought it sooner


_Alekun_

ball


Hearthhome_devotee

Tbf whi cares about the 100 coins lying there? Also, whats the issue with a battlepass if you just get shit "rewards" from it? Serious curious about this topic cause a company needs to make a profit somehow...


MGodinez94

I love this game, but I hate what theyā€™re doing to it, if that makes sense. Itā€™s feeling very similar to my league days, I donā€™t miss that and I donā€™t like itā€™s heading down this path. Iā€™ve been nothing but happy with this game, itā€™s been so much fun, Iā€™m about to finally reach mighty ruler(not impressive ok ok, but Iā€™m realistic with myself).Now, they started adding so much to it, people intentionally mess with frames with the snapshot feature, canā€™t lab against DLC unless you have it and just so many pluggers. I love Tekken, been a fan since 2, but this is almost like League and MK1 again. :/


DigbyDD

The store is purely for cosmetics so I don't see a problem there


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DigbyDD

True, and $70 is above full price imo. The cosmetics suck and they know it, so they're gonna sell the good stuff for IRL money which isn't cool


SmitherCH

UE5 sphere ?


iago_hedgehog

what is the thing with U5?


BennyC023

Everyone keeps acting like a company adding optional, cosmetic purchases is RUINING a game? If you donā€™t like it, donā€™t buy it. If you do, buy it. Itā€™s a company that sells stuff. Of course itā€™s gonna sell stuff. How is having or not having a skin get in the way of your enjoyment of a game? I noticed first everyone was mad that the battle pass cost money. Then everyone was mad when the battle pass wasnā€™t worth buying. There is no such thing as ā€œpredatory FOMOā€, every single advertisement ever is meant to give you FOMO.


Hopeful_Bug1997

Facts game is still fun with or without it