Tekken 8 community livid Fahkumram included in Season 2 DLC
Ahead of Knee winning his fourth title at Evo Japan on Sunday, May 11, Bandai Namco was busy mending a broken Tekken 8 — a game on the fritz since the now-infamous patch v2.00.02 rolled out in April. Naturally, the team at Bandai did the only thing that could return them to good graces with […]
Ahead of Knee winning his fourth title at Evo Japan on Sunday, May 11, Bandai Namco was busy mending a broken Tekken 8 — a game on the fritz since the now-infamous patch v2.00.02 rolled out in April. Naturally, the team at Bandai did the only thing that could return them to good graces with its devoted community: announce the most disliked character in recent Tekken history as the next DLC character. And trust, the Evo crowd went absolutely silent for the return of Fahkumram.
Additional content was also shown, with patch version 2.01 kicking things off on Monday, May 12, “with balance adjustments.” Patch version 2.02 is scheduled for a June 3 release and aims to incorporate Karate Kid content, and what was detailed as a “vision takeover” for an unnamed stage. Finally, patch 2.03 arrives later in the summer to celebrate Pac-Man’s birthday with a slew of exclusive cosmetics, the aforementioned stage, hit sparks, and more.
Under normal circumstances, this information would all sound super dope, but Tekken 8 isn’t in a great place, and the community didn’t take well to the new DLC announcement.
Fans and pillars of the community spoke their minds on X (formerly Twitter) over the weekend. Players have been practically begging Katsuhiro Harada and co. to bring back legacy characters like Lei, Marduk, Bruce, Julia, Armor King, and Christie, so they felt like this DLC character announcement was a slap in the face.
“Bro this is all so uninteresting as fuck,” one comment read. “Yeah its over,” another post declared, seemingly picking out casket designs for Tekken 8. It even got to the point where fans began mentioning Harada directly to voice their frustrations, with one player writing, “@Harada_TEKKEN You guys released Fahk 2020 and even after 4 years he was never balanced… either broken or unplayable. Now when balacing [sic] is the biggest issue in the game you bring HIM back? Fahk over Lei? Wang? Julia? AK? Marduk? Ogre? Dr. B? Mokujin? Roger? Miguel? Kuni? BRUCE?”
