About Spot Battles
Please add random matchmaking for Spot Battles, similar to the previous skate games. I also strongly recommend standardizing the control settings in Spot Battles to the highest difficulty. Competiti...
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I’ve played every game in the Skate series. In Skate 2, my highest achievement was reaching 12th place in the world in Spot Battle rankings. I was consistently near the top of the weekly rankings and took 1st place many times. In the current Skate, I’ve also taught my techniques to more than 20 other players — and of course, I’ve always done so using the hardest settings.
In Skate 1 and Skate 2, the control settings for Spot Battles were standardized, so everyone competed under the same conditions. That created a fair and competitive environment.
However, as you said, the current Spot Battle system has very little competitive integrity. But isn’t a “Battle” supposed to be a competition? 😂 And there’s a “Daily Rank,” right? Isn’t that also a form of competition? 😂
I do recommend playing on the hardest settings in the current Skate. But that’s because, even on the hardest settings, the controls feel fairly close to Skate 2 to me. I don’t find them particularly difficult. Of course, that’s partly because I’ve been playing these games for a very long time.
I’ve put a lot of time and effort into practicing and improving my skills in this Skate as well. But I still can’t compete with players using the Easy settings. 😂 The reason is simple: assists can make many of the techniques I spent so much time practicing much easier to perform, while certain glitches or exploits specific to the easier settings can produce even higher scores with very little effort.
Sure, you could say, “Just play however you want and have fun.” But is that really satisfying in a competitive mode?
I want more people to discover the depth of this game and continue playing it. Every sport and every competitive game has rules and limitations for a reason. Those rules create the challenge, and that challenge is what makes competition exciting.
I genuinely want this game to become more popular and have a stronger community. We’ve waited 16 years for this. 😂
That’s why I want Spot Battles to feel like a real battle again — something that is exciting not only for the players competing, but also for the people watching.
Please give us a competitive environment where skill, practice, and creativity actually matter.
Sure, it created a fair and competitive environment but it didn't actually create an environment for creativity. And yes, if your sole concern is with getting the most points, a spot 'battle' is a competition then. But you don't actually get anything from it, the daily rankings are fleeting and should just be something done for fun.
When a thing is a competition, winning is the ultimate goal. If winning can only be accomplished through cheese (which it absolutely always will be the case in this game) nobody's going to enjoy it. The competitive integrity on a sliding scale can either be a zero, in which people just do what they want and the focus is on how the time is used. Or, it can be a ten, where the best point-scorer is the winner and everyone else is below the winner.
I'm not sure what kind of spot battles you've gone through but every player I've played against on the assisted settings (Hesitate to call them easier, IMO assists just make the game simpler not easier) has not been very good at the game, and because they don't know they're relying on assists, there's layers to the game they just can't break through. They're trivial to beat and easy to spot.
Sure, you could say, “Just play however you want and have fun.” But is that really satisfying in a competitive mode?
Doesn't it kind of highlight the issue when the mode itself has essentially no competitive integrity, makes you watch each skater's run to completion or til' bail, and you're still viewing it as a competition? Like you're still thinking about the time you got 12th on a leaderboard 15+ years ago, it doesn't sound like there's any room inside you for something new and enjoyable.
tl;dr All the best skaters I know from the community don't play spot battles, they go out and innovate the game on their own terms. Spot battles are just a bit of fun. If winning was all that mattered, everyone would do their run at the same time for three rounds. But you're forced to sit and watch someone else play because the whole idea is to watch and be watched.
