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The game's story reveals that Kazuya has been revived following his death 20 years prior and enters the King of Iron First Tournament 4 to take back the Mishima Zaibatsu. There are up to twenty-three characters to choose from, including six newcomers. The game also harbored many gameplay revisions, such as the series-unique ability for the player to move about before the round begins and the introduction of walled stages. Placing distinction on the plot in the console version, the tone of Tekken 4 was noticeably darker than other installments of the series. It was released as an arcade game in 2001 and on the PlayStation 2 in 2002. "I remember one of the players sending me an email that simply had the word 'Amazing!' exclaimed Harada.Tekken 4 ( 鉄拳4) is a 2001 fighting video game developed and published by Namco as the fourth main and fifth installment in the Tekken series, following the release of the non-canon crossover titled Tekken Tag Tournament for the arcades, during the summer of 1999. Notably, MarkMan and |RBAnakin recently reported that testing Season 4's online felt similar to playing offline. "So far the feedback among the test players has been very positive." "Mind you, we work with a lot of players, gaming communities, and event organizers so we have players from the U.S., including top players you may already know who are helping us test the thing out now with the West and East Coast connections," stated Harada. In particular, Harada seems interested in addressing the issues that typically arise when players from the east and west coasts play one another. top players to test out the Season 4 changes to the online experience. It was mentioned that the Tekken 7 development team have been enlisting the aid of U.S. As a result, Harada isn't able to travel around and test connections from long distances like he used to. Supposedly, the team can't push the prediction rollback settings too high or else the animation will appear too janky.īecause of the COVID-19 pandemic, travelling is very difficult right now. Some say that the game looks like it’s using delay-based netcode, but it’s variable rollback so more important is the frames setting," said Harada.Īccording to Harada, it's more difficult for a 3D fighting game like Tekken 7 to use rollback netcode compared to 2D fighters. "I know many players still have their doubts, but Tekken does incorporate rollback netcode. While there are those that doubt Harada on this subject, he remains adamant that Tekken 7 does use rollback netcode. Hopefully that answers one of the requests from the fans." "Well, it is a feature that's being added to a lot of games nowadays. In particular, Michael's Twitter account was filled with comments about adding Wi-Fi display," said Harada. "In regards to the Wi-Fi display, it's been three years now and the hardcore user base has increased so I guess their voices are getting stronger. "I remember one of the players sending me an email that simply had the word 'Amazing!' That person is usually very critical of what we have, and yet the only comment sent was 'Amazing!' - Harada Then people asked, 'only the Wi-Fi display function?' I guess everyone forgot about the 'making the online play better' part." "In the last announcement, we announced how we'd make online play better. "With plans to make a huge update, we have two main elements," continued Harada. In particular, a push for rollback has been especially prominent. This transition has prompted requests from different communities to improve the performance of online gameplay for various different fighting games. For Tekken 7 and other games, world tours have transitioned into online programs.
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The requests kept coming and gained momentum from around spring."įor safety reasons, numerous offline tournaments have been cancelled throughout 2020. "Holding offline events is pretty much out of the question with COVID-19, so the requests from the community have changed, and features in line with the times started to appear. But a lot of requests from players have changed," responded Harada. "There were a lot of updates made that we did not initially plan for. "With players naturally migrating to online play, we basically made improvements to enhance players' gameplay experience, especially considering the difficulty of holding offline events," said Murray.
