If you’ve been white-knuckling your way through Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls on PC, director Kazuto Sekine just handed the community something more useful than another patch note: an actual roadmap. Sekine published a statement on September 14, 2026, both on social media and in a longer post on the game’s Steam page, apologizing for the game’s rocky PC launch and detailing upcoming changes to inputs, assist frequency, and character switching, according to IGN.
Why This Statement Matters
Sekine’s message doesn’t pretend the launch went smoothly. He acknowledged that PC stability problems got in the way of players enjoying Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls the way the team envisioned, and said improvements to the PC version are already in progress. It’s a continuation of the kind of direct communication the development team has kept up with the fighting game community since players first got hands-on time with the game’s open beta.
What’s Actually Changing
The specifics, laid out on the game’s Steam page, focus on two areas rather than a full systems overhaul:
Inputs: Sekine noted that certain attacks from aerial dashes or Free Flight sometimes fail to register at all. The current system runs a six-frame input buffer when a button is held, and the team plans to adjust those windows so that, in certain cases, an action still fires even when the button isn’t held.
Assists and tags: Tōkon was built around constant character switching, and Sekine admitted the current frequency has actually exceeded the dev team’s own expectations, feeding community complaints about the game feeling like nonstop tag chaos. The plan is longer cooldowns on certain assists and switches to preserve rushdown pressure while carving out more room for neutral play. Sekine said the team wants these changes implemented as soon as possible.
Character balance is the one area getting the brakes applied. Sekine described the team as still being in a discovery phase, arguing it’s too early to touch individual character traits – especially with assist and tag adjustments still to land and likely to reshape matchups on their own.
What Players Should Actually Expect
The near-term takeaway is simple: expect responsiveness fixes and tag-pacing tweaks before you expect any roster shakeup. Longer cooldowns on assists and switches could meaningfully change how neutral plays out in a game currently defined by relentless tagging, which matters for anyone tracking Tōkon’s place among the wider fighting game scene heading into its next competitive test.
Don’t expect a tier-list-flipping balance patch anytime soon, though. Sekine was clear that character-trait changes are on hold until the team sees how the assist and input adjustments actually play out – a patient, if unglamorous, approach for a game still trying to win back trust after a launch that had even veteran streamers walking away mid-broadcast.
