The director of Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls issued a press release apologizing for the sport’s tough launch on PC and outlined upcoming stability changes primarily based on the dev workforce’s findings.
Kazuto Sekine, director of Marvel Tokon: Combating Souls, revealed this assertion on Monday, September 14, each in a brief put up on social media in addition to an extended, in-depth weblog put up on the sport’s Steam page.
To begin, Sekine apologized for Tokon’s evident points on PC when it first launched, which have been so tough that even large preventing recreation streamer Maximilian Dood uninstalled the game throughout a reside broadcast.
“Seeing the sport’s content material so positively obtained, with gamers having fun with the expertise and feeling impressed to maintain enjoying, has been an incredible supply of pleasure for all the growth workforce,” Sekine started.
“Nevertheless, we additionally acknowledge that the launch interval was impacted by stability points on PC, and we sincerely apologize for the frustration this has induced our gamers. It was by no means our intention for gamers to be unable to benefit from the recreation as we envisioned, and we’re presently making progress on enhancements to the PC model so that everybody can benefit from the recreation to the fullest.”
He went on to stipulate a few areas the event workforce believes “should be addressed,” which included reassessing enter responses and issues of overly-frequent assists and tags.
“Now we have noticed that exact inputs, resembling assaults from aerial dashes or Free Flight, would typically not register accurately and even in any respect,” he defined. “To handle these points, we intend to regulate the present enter home windows to make sure a smoother and extra responsive gameplay expertise.
“Within the present state, there’s a 6-frame enter buffer when holding a button. Nevertheless, we intend to regulate the best way inputs are dealt with in order that, in sure circumstances, the motion will likely be carried out even when the button just isn’t held.”
In terms of frequent assists and tags, Sekine admitted that the sport was initially balanced with the objective of gamers continually tagging their characters out and in of battle. In reality, he revealed that the present state of the sport has exceeded their expectations on this regard, although they acknowledged issues from the neighborhood that this is perhaps occurring too ceaselessly.
Particularly, this implies the workforce is engaged on rising the cooldown time for sure assists and switches to “enable us to take care of rushdown capabilities whereas additionally creating extra time for phases of impartial play.” Sekine mentioned the workforce is trying into implementing these modifications in updates “as quickly as doable.”
Modifications to total character stability, nonetheless, will likely be minimal. Sekine and the Tokon workforce consider that it’s too quickly to make sweeping modifications, as they’re presently in a “discovery section.” Sekine mentioned that it’s “nonetheless too early to start out modifying character traits,” particularly because the modifications to assists and tags may also impression gameplay.
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Sport Director Kazuto “Pachi” Sekine has a message to share with you about our future battle stability replace plans for #MARVELTokon: Combating Souls, and extra.Learn the complete message right here: https://t.co/aJsOiguYNj
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— MARVEL Tōkon: Combating Souls (@MARVELTokon) September 14, 2026
That is the newest assertion from the Tokon workforce after producer Takeshi Yamanaka apologized for the sport’s tough PC launch and admitted that it will be “extraordinarily difficult” to regain players’ trust.
“Sadly, within the PC model of the sport, there have been in-game points skilled by many gamers, which we actually apologise to the participant base for all of those issues,” he mentioned in an August interview with VGC.
Regardless of these difficulties, Tokon was well-received critically, with IGN scoring the sport a nine out of 10. After Steam reviews stumbled, Arc System Works was fast to push an replace that solved many issues for PC gamers, and has been recurrently speaking with the preventing recreation neighborhood within the weeks since then, as evidenced by this newest weblog put up.
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