Feedback - General Comments on gameplay (XBox Series X)
First off, I just want to say THANK YOU for making another Skate game. I have waited 12+ years and getting to play a new skate game last night was awesome. I am aware this is still an early state game so I am not going to be overly critical of missing features or things like that.
1.) Flick-It/Flip Trick timing - The overall feel of flip tricks feels like they flip way too fast and the success to failure rate is extremely high. I am able to do 360 hard flips on flat with zero pop, and overall it seems extremely difficult to actually bail a flip trick on flat. This feels extremely different from previous skates where it felt like there was a much higher likelihood of bailing if you did not time your pop or flick right.
I would like to see a higher "difficulty" function where you can actually bail flip tricks and we aren't getting a 100% success rate every time we go for a 360 inward heel on flat with zero pop.
I would also like to see the speed of the trick animations slow down as they are WAY TOO FAST and doing a tre flip on flat is barely visible. Trick animations are just SOOO fast it's crazy and to me that is the least realistic part of the game.
Overall the success rate of trying tricks feels way too high and if we want more realism, you need to increase the rate of trick incompletion to make it more challenging.
Right now the game feels like easy mode ala skate 3.
2.) STORY MODE - I know this one is probably in the cooker, but right now the tutorial challenges feel like they are just filler. Please integrate a story mode with Pro content into the game. It feels like we are stuck in an endless tutorial mode.
3.) Pushing - it bothers me that X and A do not directly correspond to pushing with the right and left foot. I end up pushing mongo a lot when hitting X which bothers me. Please make X and A correspond to which leg you want to push with. I don't want to be pushing mongo accidentally as it just looks bad and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of reasoning behind why that happens. As a long time skate player, this just feels way off.
4.) Speed - I don't think there is really a good sense conveyed of how fast you are going in this game. Skate 2 specifically gave you a really good feeling of going fast by introducing camera shake and motion blur when you pick up speed. Maybe I haven't explored it enough, but right now the speed of skating just feels slow. Right now it just feels like something is off in terms of how speed is conveyed in this game.
5.) Difficulty Slider - Please introduce a difficulty slider. The game feels too easy. I don't like being able to do every flip trick on flat just because i executed it on the controller. There needs to be a timing element involved.
6.) More trick variety - Please let us do things like cancel flips and one foot grabs - PLEASE.
7.) more character customization - The character creator is a good start but please let us modify facial features. The facial presets just feel way too Fortnight-y and I would like more customization.
8.) Voice Over//Announcers - please let us mute the voice overs/narration. It's way too often and they are annoying
Not going to knock the art style or MTX shop. Ya'll gotta make a buck and the game is F2P, I get it.
These are just some things that stick out to me on the initial playthrough. The flip trick success rate is the biggest thing. PLEASE FIX IT.
