The Weekly Grind - Aug 18, 2026

Skate Team

9 days ago

Welcome back to The Weekly Grind, San Vanners!

Let’s roll!

What’s going on?

We closed out our second Block Parties Weekend Playtest yesterday (Monday)! First, thanks from all of us for joining in. We’ve gathered the feedback, requests, bugs & issues, and the team is working on improvements for the full release of Block Parties in Season 5

On Friday, August 14th, we shared our Dev Update on Progression (check it here if you missed it). We’re excited for this to roll out in Season 5. Once you’ve jumped in on September 8th, let us know what you think, how it works - and of course let us know any bugs and issues you encounter so our teams can address them quickly. We’re stoked to hear what you have to think once you’ve tried it out.

With Season 5 dropping on Sept 8, we’re in week 5 of X Games San Van! Check out the mid-season blog for more details. That means you get two more weeks to complete the X Games Challenges, get your X Games gear, and throw down in the X Games San Van stadium.

We’ve also finalized our X Games Best Run/Video contest - and have selected our top winners. They’ll each be receiving a Year 6 skate. imited edition deck. Don’t fret! We’ve got more contests, sweepstakes, etc. for you to get your hands on this sick deck IRL.

And the winners are (in no particular order):

Deession

Sketchybone

bumpcontrol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMuCT-ZwGao

infernollie https://youtu.be/dE4Z_kzm_jw

DaddyOldGunz

TazorGang

Don’t forget: Keep sharing your bugs/issues so we can squash ‘em flat.

Let’s dive right into the calendar.

Weekly Calendar

The Weekly Grind returns (that’s today!)
New Weekly Tasks (also today!)
X Games San Van Week 5 with Open Access (July 21 - Sept 8)
New Trick: Underflips Coming in S5

Coming Up

Season 5 Blog & Details - Aug 25, 2026
The Weekly Grind Interviews

What other types of interviews would you want to see? Let us know - gameplay, tricks, world design, etc.

Known Issues Still Being Investigated:

Some Players are unable to export in MP4 Format.

Workaround PC ONLY: Using WebM format when exporting works.

Pinned tasks do not remain pinned when the game reconnects after inactivity.
Changing the graphics preset doesn’t update the settings shown at the bottom of the Graphics screen as it should.
The option to select between 16:9 centered HUD and full-width and height UI is present but non-functional while in Windowed mode.
Daily and Mastery Task sections sometimes display a blank screen.
Quick Drop radial menu resets temporarily after joining the server.
Tailslides and Noseslides are not correctly detected when approaching a ledge from its end.
Friends list sometimes displays multiple entries of the same friend or none at all.
Wallride detection often causes the skater to flip unnaturally.
The Smith-to-Tailslide task often fails to register when performed correctly.
Sometimes the wrong item spawns when you use the Quick Drop menu to place something.
X-Games Intro Video, Mission, Tasks, and Challenges are missing on first login after the 0.31.5 update.
Pinned tasks cycle when performing gestures.
Players cannot find non-friend accounts using Skater codes.
Quick Ollie/Nollie into No-Foot Grab causes leg clipping with board.
Performing footplants causes extra one-foot grabs to appear in trick scoring.
Some flip trick animations appear different in the Replay Editor when done by other skaters.
Some specific landing animations make the skater's upper body snap upright immediately.
Skateboard clips through a specific ledge in the Hedgemont area.
Game intermittently fails to enter Quick drop mode from the radial menu