It's really difficult to keep a positive mindset for Tekken 8, you spend many hours studying to understand what options you have that can work in specific situations yet the game doesn't reward correct study most of the time Genuinely feels like we're just gambling 24/7 😖💔

There's too many issues that exist, beyond balance changes, there's too many system issues that hinder both offline and online competitive play like same side situations, walls being buggy, etc The deeper you study, the more things make less sense, the more RNG everything feels

I really do love Tekken, I try my hardest to study it as much as I can as so I can improve, but there's just too many existing problems that Bandai seems to never address and rather focus most of their stuff in other areas and it gets depressing as a competitor... 🥹

We are all improving at our own pace in the new game and developing new skills. For a positive mindset, just shift your perspective. If that happened to me I'd say "Woah! I haven't seen anyone properly use Kumas ff2 to go under jabs in a long time. I got outplayed there"

I'm somewhat newish to Tekken, so correct me if I'm wrong. People coming from T7, hating on T8, just want the entire game to revolve around knowledge checks? The whole reason I got into Tekken 8 is because it finally fixed that issue... It's a proper fighting game now. (Imo)

Honestly, the focus on meta seems to have been a damaging influence on players for a long time now. Sounds like the pace is too fast for how methodically you want to play the game. It isn't a math equation, it's a fight.

I don't like the "VF is superior" guys, but I do think this is the main aspect that VF does really overtake Tekken in. VF5 is a super aggressive game but since all of its systems are hard coded, you pretty much never review a situation stumped as to why it happened

If you want to recreate the situation in that match, I would suggest picking kuma and having the cpu do ff2 > SEN 3, then you, as the Kuma, should try to do ff2 as fast as possible, buffering the first forward and all. Kuma's ff2 has some evasion so that's my two cents.

This is just an online issue, I’m afraid. Rollback literally robbed you 💀

He ducked your high and whiff punished… or am I trippin?

There’s so many things in this game where you can tell they remade their longstanding engine in T8, so many random things that were never issues that just now are