Issues // Ideas

Issues: 

1. Black Screen on login if I'm not using another application. If I open the game and then tab into my browser it opens successfully. If not it goes to black screen and can hear a vinyl crackle loop over and over until I hard reset my PC.

2. Game opening in extremely low res if I'm using a second monitor. It does not take the resolution from my main monitor it takes it from my secondary lower res screen. Why? It needs to prioritise the first screen. 

3. Already well known but the searching for players when starting a challenge and skipping vee is infuriating . 

4. When completing a task for a challenge but not the whole task, the UI becomes confusing and I can't see what parts I've completed on the new run as it crosses it out from the last run. Needs to be clearer. 

5. Footplants / Boneless are really janky, can sometimes send me flying, I used to be able to hold down the footplant button in skate 3 and it would hold out your leg till you released. 

Ideas:

Cosmetics: 

• Sling / Crossbody Bags and Backpacks. I don't know many skaters that leave the house without one of these.
• A cool additional customisation would be lanyards hanging out of pockets, this would look cool while skating and jumping as would be a dynamic piece of clothing that would move around with the skater. 
• Skate trainers, there's too many canvas shoes like converse looking trainers, pretty sure these were designed for baseball? Where are the actual skate trainers

Other: 

• Night mode, with lights around the map and maybe even the ability to use your phone (that you use when opening menu's to use as a torch? (I dunno, could be cool) Sunsets could look cool as hell too. 
• More fluid animations for parkour / on foot gameplay, they're far too stiff. 
• Hill Bombs? Where are they? This map is very flat, the feeling of whizzing through the map is gone, and that used to be really fun to get into a flow state with. 
• 'Muy Manual' (Challenge) needs a rework, the amount of times my manual doesn't register even though I've landed in manual (resets score) is genuinely enraging. 
• Throwdowns mean nothing, no reward for engaging with one, almost pointless if it wasn't baked into the story / tutorial.
• Ability to traverse back to tutorial island. 
• Waiting for challenges to reset isn't a gameplay mechanic, waiting isn't gameplay, I should be able to reset a challenge myself (Maybe add other ways to earn rip chips that don't involve challenges so I can use those points to re-roll / re-activate an area) 
• Skitching? Come on.
• Part of the fun of skating with other players is seeing what they can do, at the moment even when doing co-op challenges it still feels like I'm skating alone. Why not have a mode where we can take turns and watch each other, or at the very least, show each other replays from the other party. 

I'm enjoying the game so far, I have 50hrs roughly but there are a lot of gripes I have that I feel can be implemented. I feel the game needs to really look at skate culture and not try to appeal to 10 year olds as they're not the target demographic for skating, give it some edge again.