Tekken 7

[Vitne Eveille]

oooooh, I was just thinking of how I want a new Tekken!!

[Xefi]

Originally Posted by Ryonea

Day 2 stream highlights:

@6:00, Lili's power! her moves look beautiful and fascinating like always. ^ ^
and @9:36...lol, did Paul's hair grew a foot longer?

[Frailty]

Rage arts are combo-able :v
They removed bound, but they added the property that only a few CH moves could previously do. What was the point of removing bound? lol

P.S. Claudio is a fucking Quincy

[kenjiharima]

Originally Posted by Ryonea

Asuka vs Paul:

Goddamn, that's literally a deathfist.

The nico-nico streaming will start at around 1 hour.

UPDATE:
it's on: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv195284776

WHAO! thanks for this.

Pretty much the same super of Paul in SFXT. Really hurts

[Ryonea]

Originally Posted by Xefi

@6:00, Lili's power! her moves look beautiful and fascinating like always. ^ ^
and @9:36...lol, did Paul's hair grew a foot longer?

Nah, it's just one of the silly customizations

Day 3 highlights and complete archive:

Originally Posted by Frailty

Rage arts are combo-able :v
They removed bound, but they added the property that only a few CH moves could previously do. What was the point of removing bound? lol

That concerns me as well. Sure the damage is scaled too, but still...
Has there been a history of Tekken development where a system got scrapped? if not, then at least they need to be balanced.

As for the kirimomi property, probably It'll be more difficult to continue the combo since we have to chase down the opponent. But that might only apply to open-area stages as it might be used as a wall-carry tool instead. Well, at least this feature isn't catering for beginners IMO

Hopefully there'll be many adjustments for the next tests. I see that there are many people who tweeted Harada requesting costume changes too.

[Ryonea]

Harada's talk session on the 3rd test day has been translated and here's the summary:

Harada's Location Test Chat Session Summary
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 The Tekken Development team is reading online message boards for feedback.
 He found 2 unexpected things from this Location test.
 First, in previous Tekken game's location testing, those games were considered 'unrefined' back in their time. For Tekken 7's Location test, he hasn't had that feedback yet.
 Players at the location test were mostly not worried about the online connection quality. There wasn't much of a negative reaction regarding the lag in the arcade-to-arcade matches.
 The second thing Harada was surprised about was how the players didn't really mind the current graphical quality of the game.
 Since the game is currently running at 60% of the graphical quality output, the lighting on all the characters are not yet finished. The background environment in the stages have no lighting at all for the location test also.
 Once they finish working on the character lighting, the female characters in the game will look more cuter then they do now.
 However completely realistic lighting aren't going to be incorporated as that doesn't always turn up with good looking results.
 The Unreal Engine is being rebuilt to add more costumes, arts/techniques, character poses etc into the game.
 The latest build of Tekken 7 is a lot more advanced then the one at the Location test. The build being used in this location test is from 2 months back.
 In order to achieve a higher level of perfection with Tekken 7, the team is working towards refining and making it a lot more better.
 The sparks and hit effects are currently set to max level in the location test build. Harada hasn't really received much negative feedback about the sparks bothering the players too much.
 We're experimenting with how effective the Power Crush moves should be as well as the damage the Rage Arts do in the location test.
 We were specific with the Power Crush moves at first to make them easy to understand but we may tweak their properties in the future.
 There are pros and cons to the removal of bound.
 Within the Tekken series there's always have been those that want us to remove bound from the games. Likewise, there are also people who appreciate the bound feature in the games to make the combos easier and to reduce the stress of performing them.
 Although gathering everyone's thoughts on certain game features and having a democratic style vote on them may sound like a good idea, it is not always a good idea to just go with what the larger majority of players suggest.
 There are 'core' Tekken players loved Tekken 4, their reasoning is not generally considered correct.
 Tekken 4's juggles were hated, the flat stages were hated 'x in Tekken 4 was hated' etc. That game ended up attracting a lot of negative feedback.
 The team likes to work on removing things in the games that people really hated. It's not really interesting for the development team to just hear all the 'good' feedback.
 There are 2 new Tekken characters in this Location Test with more new characters on the way.
 There is not much currently known about the new character Claudio. There will be more details and new information on him in the future.
 The team is working on creating a character in Tekken 7 to 'battle against Devil.'
 Currently within the development team, Claudio is really strong as a character.
 Katarina is a new character we've made with the concept of being easy to use for both beginners and advanced players.
 The Soul Calibur team which has a 'deep knowledge' on developing female characters were charmed by Katarina it seems.
 In Tekken 5 & 6, I was asked some times before about where Ling Xiaoyu's baggy white socks from her school uniform was. I think it's safe to say those things are out of fashion nowadays. This turned out to be an unexpectedly important topic that we now leave to the women and younger members of the staff.
 Kazuya's coat in Tekken 7 is really taxing on the processing side.
 Making more costumes and items really increases the production costs. During Tekken 5 the production costs was 1/4 of what it is now.
 Holding back on the stick during Paul's Rage Arts alters the ender part of it. You can choose to let the Rage Art play normally or hold back during it and Paul will not do the deathfist finisher. If you don't do that ender, you can replace it with your own combo.
 I wanted to see how many players at the location test would notice that ability but it looks like nobody did.
 We're maybe thinking of doing time release characters in Tekken 7.
 The throw breaking was made easier but the team is still not completely set on it and may adjust it.
 The background music in the final round of matches changes to a tune with a higher tempo.
 At this Location Test, advanced players will probably have noticed that we made side stepping weaker in this build.
 Changes were made to every character with also some added some new moves, they want to hear people's thoughts on them. The overall game system is still being worked on.
 The super slow motion effect was programmed to trigger when a character is one hit away from death. The slow motion too is taxing on the processing side of things but this effect was something they wanted in this game.
 There's consideration for putting in collaboration Idolmaster and Tales Of costumes into the game if there is enough demand for it.
 They're considering the 'stress' levels of beginner level players for Tekken 7. Harada doesn't want them to feel overwhelmed.
 Arcades aren't required to have the online modes on for Tekken 7 if they want. They know there's arcade with veteran players that wish to just play locally.
 The team is aiming towards making players who play online be matched up with players of their skill level.
 In regards to the game's online connection tests, Kyushu to Korea and Tokyo to Korea's connection test resulted with a low ping. We're doing testing with Taiwan and Tokyo to Osaka but more location testing in foreign countries to try the connection may be required.
 For the online connection of Tekken 7, Namco is not using a private internet line. Harada doesn't want to increase cost for arcades by making them get expensive private internet connections for this game.
 Harada doesn't want arcade cabinets to be outrageously expensive for arcades. The concept, design and planning for the Noir cabinets were all by Harada.
 The Noir cabinets has a really good reputation. China has been mass producing fake Noir cabinets.
 The option to pick which side (1P-2P) to play on is added to the game. When you're playing online in the arcades, the choice of which side will go to the new challenger.
 Noir cabinets display the games at 720p but there are now Noir cabinets that display at full HD.
 In Tekken Tag Tournament 2, corpse kicking (doing anything after KO'ing an opponent) was taken out because when we tested corpse kicking in that game out, they found that a lot of people found corpse kicking unpleasant. That and with the way replays worked and our memory limitations for the game, they finally opted to not put it in.
 Although not really used much overseas, there are items you can buy that do allow a form of corpse kicking.
 Adding some bar or gauge on the screen for players to see their ranks and how far away they're are from promotion/demotion isn't something Harada wants to add. He doesn't want players trying to calculate or worry about their rank 'points'.
 Harada's main character is Feng. He's doing the best he can to play Tekken so he can beat Holland's champion.
 Harada personally thinks adding signboards into games with the developer on it is pointless.
 'There's a character in Soul Calibur 5 that looks like me? I don't know what you're talking about.'
 Harada can add things to the game that some players may want, but there may also be other players that won't get excited for it.
 Europe and the middle-east make up a large number of the Tekken player base but those areas may not play the game at a high level. There's been players from those regions that come to Japan and go home much better.
 In the middle east, Harada is really surprised that there is a huge fan base for FPS and Fighting games.
 Harada feels that Tekken players aren't really the 'devoted only to Tekken' types of players. There's not many people with deep emotional attachments to the characters.
 There's also not a lot of players that will be overly defensive of the Tekken series against 'anti-Tekken' opinions. Tekken isn't absolutely everything to the players.
 A lot of people rate Tekken Tag Tournament 2 pretty high giving it a high metascore. However the team doesn't hear a lot from the non-core players that don't rate Tag 2 as highly.
 He says that we can't continue going on by just dedicating the games to the 'core' level of Tekken players. 'It's pretty easy for us to appeal to the core players.'
 He's heard before from Ono-san at Capcom that they made Street Fighter Third Strike a really difficult game to get into that appeals to the 'maniac level' of dedicated players.
 Although you'll find that Third Strike is highly rated and you often hear about people praising it. But that's because you only hear from those who hold it in high regard.
 Tekken players will not consider Tekken games as 'good' solely because of the balancing.
 If the team only took in the good feedback from players in the Tekken series, we might have still been playing a Tekken 4-like game.
 The other week when Harada went to an American tournament (StrongStyle) which had different players from around the world, there was a Tekken 4 tournament being ran with some players pointing to it and saying 'MY BEST GAME!' He considered it a weird scene to see.
 There's a lot of player that consider Tekken Tag 2 the best Tekken game. The feedback from these players is something to be wary of.
 Harada finds that the players that consider either Tekken 3, 5 or 6 the best Tekken game have the best reasoning.
 Harada heavily considers the opinions of those who create twitter accounts and sends him tweets with feedback very important.
 Harada wants to hear from all sort of people on their thoughts about playing Tekken games, not just the people that are already fans of the series.
 During the time of Tekken 4, there was a huge amount of players that dropped off from the series.
 Harada finds Street Fighter Third Strike players interesting since that game made a lot of the fanbase stop playing but kept a small 'core' group of people that loved it.
 After hearing a lot of feedback, they're getting rid of the rage system that was used before. It had too much of a terrible reputation in Japan and overseas. It's an appeal to the 'silent majority.' During the time of Tekken 6, a lot of the younger generation of players like high school students and college students got into the game. The comeback mechanics for allowing these new players to pull off great comebacks was thought to be necessary for these players at the time. After 2 years of operation the surveys for the game turned up with good approval ratings from people.
 Harada doesn't want people to come up to him and complain about rumors that they hear on the internet regarding the games. He wants a lot of streams and videos of Tekken 7 for people to see for themselves.
 You can participate in the closed Location Test by registering for a Tekken net account. The team wants feedback from a wide range of players (not just Tekken 6/ TAG2 players).
 Tekken is Harada's life's work.

We might see Tekken 7 again around November or December according to Harada.

Images of Claudio and Katarina's concept arts:

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Claudio

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Katarina

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Additionally, a collaboration of Tekken and Idolm@ster for Tekken's 20th anniversary was also announced. So far it's only in a form of special cards featuring Im@s characters wearing Tekken attires:

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Im@s Tekken cards

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[playmaker2k]

Harada would make Iori cosplay as Lili.

[digitalworkshed]

OMG Can't wait for this game to come out!!!! So excited and hyped!

[kenjiharima]

those idolmaster cards....xD

I saw some comments on gamefaqs and youtube that T7 is just T6 with supers with new special effects. Somewhat I agree, but what do you expect it's a fighting game with a good engine. Dunno about character balance in T7 though.

[playmaker2k]

^From what I've seen, Feng looks so broken right now.

I'm so glad this is still in the Location Testing Phase.

[Vitne Eveille]

The more I think about it, the more I am getting excited about Tekken 7...I haven't really played one since Tekken 4. I've played 5...but not like I did with 1-4!

[Ryonea]

Originally Posted by playmaker2k

Harada would make Iori cosplay as Lili.

You're spot on! *look at the bottom right corner*

Originally Posted by kenjiharima

those idolmaster cards....xD

I saw some comments on gamefaqs and youtube that T7 is just T6 with supers with new special effects. Somewhat I agree, but what do you expect it's a fighting game with a good engine. Dunno about character balance in T7 though.

I agree with that too but as a mere first impression only. People tend to be too quick to judge IMO. They said the same thing with TAG2 as being just a "Tekken 6.5" from the pro players who tested the game it seems there's not much complaint compared to the tests of previous games, based on Harada's talk session translation.

Originally Posted by Vitne Eveille

The more I think about it, the more I am getting excited about Tekken 7...I haven't really played one since Tekken 4. I've played 5...but not like I did with 1-4!

You might want to try either Tekken 6 or TAG2 then

[Ryonea]

Tekken 7 will be released in Japanese arcades on February 2015.

We have several customization screenshots as well:

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We do want more customization, but those examples aren't good IMO... hopefully they're only the silly and generic ones since they feel really off with the game.

[Kyero Fox]

Katarina looks awesome to play as. Too bad theres gonna be a lot of shit about her.

[KleenexGhost]

Originally Posted by Ryonea

Tekken 7 will be released in Japanese arcades on February 2015.

We have several customization screenshots as well:

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We do want more customization, but those examples aren't good IMO... hopefully they're only the silly and generic ones since they feel really off with the game.

Pirate Leo isn't that bad lol. Xiaoyu's face looks pretty good. Noticing the longer bangs.

[Ryonea]

Originally Posted by KleenexGhost

Pirate Leo isn't that bad lol. Xiaoyu's face looks pretty good. Noticing the longer bangs.

Well, it's not that bad surely. It's just that I was expecting a character-specific costumes to be shown first I also noticed that Asuka and Xiaoyu's face look more realistic, which is good to me.

Anyway, someone made a cheat to add the "Kirimomi" (Tekken 7 bound replacement(?) system) property in Tekken 6 PSP version. Here's a combo video showing them in action:

Pretty neat work.

[Ryonea]

Arcade introduction trailer:

Nothing new except for the direct-feed graphic quality and also how some of the previously posted customizations look in-game. Xiaoyu's looking really cute.

Next location test will be held on the 22nd and 23rd this month. No word about streaming, though.

[KleenexGhost]

The faces are coming along quite nicely. I know I said that before, but it's a detail that I really like.

[Ryonea]

Yeah. it's also the first time I see them clearly since we got only LQ footages from the location test streaming

anyways, Harada said that the upcoming location test is primarily to test the network capability and the roster is said to be the same as the previous one. Looks like there won't be anything new at all until February.

[kenjiharima]

The faces now look more "shinny" and animeish to me. Either way they took the focus attack and supers from SF and SFxTekken