Gameplay some things are too easy: Grinding without balance, Flips too easy
Hey guys, its my first Feedback for the Skate Early Access.
Its been a nice ride though, i like the physics and everything around it. I will just go into two things, technically, i would like to talk about:
First: Grinding needs some balance to hold them.
The grinding is too easy. once you jump on something, you will grind endlessly. This should be tweaked a bit, atleast with giving the option to 0 / 1 an option, where you have to keep the balance of the grind. It is way too easy and you have nothing to do once you are on a grind.
Second: Fliptricks are too easy to land.
The fliptricks are always getting catched. I already disabled the assist, but still.. i m landing every trick, whenever i do it. I remember in skate 3, if your pop was bad, you would never make a 360 flip.
So it would be great to adress that too. I need the feeling of actually think when to do a big trick and not just spam it and land it.
Third: High speed / racing is not there and its way too easy + Manuals are too easy
As you all maybe remember of the last skates: Once you reached a certain amount of speed, or while being in a manual with alot of speed, the camera started to shake and it became quite hard to keep control over your board. Just like in reallife. Try bombinb a hill, you will start having a super shaky board - something that was greatly done in skate 3. I would love to have that feeling back. Especially now with the great powerslides, where you can control your speed really well.
The same goes with manuals: i remember that once you became too fast on a manual, especially a nose manual, it became more and more impossible to keep the "high speed" manual going.
Fourth and last: Pumping is weird.
Pumping is kinda useless. Pumping in bowls / pools is useless. If you hold pushing, you will reach better / more constant speed instead of using to pump. This would be nice if it can also get a rework, kinda like "pushing is 4 speed cap, if you pump right, you can achieve a higher speed of that. Especially in pools and bowls, where nobody would push at the peak of the ramp.
I hope we can upvote this, to show the devs that some "harder" settings are desireable. It is great that there are so many assists you can turn on/off, so we should focus on that and get some more great stuff activated / deactivated!
The game itself is on a great technical way. The artstyle.. well i guess we have to deal with it now.
Lots of love, your skatebuddy