Game Modes and Character Customization

[Kuromiya]

Currently debating whether to get this on sale or not. Been playing Tekken off and on since the first one, but I'm not liking the look of this DLC policy (six bucks for Lei?! ) so I'm very hesitant to buy it. Before I decide whether my fondness for the franchise is stronger than my distaste for the pricing strategy, I had a couple of questions:

1. Are there any "beat em up" game modes like Tekken Force/ Scenario Campaign?

2. How's the character customization? What grindy stuff do you have to do in order to unlock new gear, and how many options do you have compared with previous Tekken titles?

[Kuriishi]

No, they stripped the Single Player bare. There's only a main linear story with some unique gameplay sections that don't last long.

Only single player modes (outside of practice) are arcade: which is shorter and has no endings (these were moved to Character stories, you get them after 1 battle) and Treasure mode, an endless string of battles that unlocks chests with customisation items randomly. With some randomly placed bosses and modifiers like "double damage", "double speed" or "juggle damage".

Technically, there are more options than TTT2 but the hair options are much fewer. Also, a lot of the options are T-shirts and there aren't any decals like in TTT2. There are some paid customisation part of the season passes which are nice though. If you want, you could look at this Spreadsheet [drive.google.com] I made comparing the options for Asuka in TTT2 and T7 lol

There's no unique mode in the base game but if you get season pass 1 you get Tekken Bowl. Also, the DLC characters don't have their own character story endings.

In terms of unlocking Customisation, once you reach 2000 battles you unlock it all (except for DLC characters, you still have to play treasure battle for that

Overall this is a very competitive multiplayer centric Tekken. It doesn't even have Mokujin (or Ganryu)

[SEATEK The_LEFTY]

1. There is currently no Tekken force mode.

2. Character cusomization is limited. Some new Content was released for character customization a few months ago-But most of it is behind the DLC (not all). The character customization is worse than tekken 6. Many "numbered articles" are simply counted for each character (examples like glasses and shirts) when in reality nobody uses them. Which takes the hundreds of items for a character down to like 8 outfits lol.

[Kuromiya]

Ah well, that's a shame. Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. My priorities are local offline mutliplayer/coop (have my friends over for drinks and Tekken) and SP content, in that order, with competitive online multiplayer being more of an afterthought, so I think I'll hold off on this one for now. I'll leave it on my list, though; check updates from time to time, see if they add more content at a later date.

[Kuriishi]

Oh I forgot to mention, Tekken 7 does still have the offline VS. Player mode.

Also of note, with the Season Pass model they're employing, they are doing periodic free updates to supplement the paid content. For example, they've added little bits of free customisation, like a few new hairstyles or free character panels. They also redesigned the Main Menu and gave it new music. As well as adding "basic combos" for beginners among other things.

So I would say there is a slight possibility they could actually add some proper content to the game. SF V did so after its launch, I'm surprised this one hasn't copied that yet. O_o

For now their focus seems purely MP centric though >_<

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1. No
2. Lackluster, ttt2 or t6 has better hair option, t7 has better set costumes + mods (automatically unlocks all base chars accessories after 2000 matches)