Long list of feedback
Here is a varied list of feedback and wishes for the game that I have created over time from my own ideas, as well as copy and pasted/re-worded some other people's ideas that I agree with. I'll st...
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That's one hell of a list 😅 but there are genuinely a lot of good ideas in there.
I especially agree with giving us more freedom with character customization. More body/face options, better hair customization, improved tattoos and more clothing variations would go a long way toward making everyone's skater actually feel unique.
The preset system also definitely needs more work. Having separate presets for outfits, character appearance, emotes and boards would make much more sense than having everything tied together. More slots, copy/paste and being able to reorder or name presets would be great QoL improvements too.
A few other things that really stand out to me are:
- Better Object Dropper controls, especially vertical rotation and snapping.
- Saving Replay Editor projects so you can come back and edit them later.
- More camera settings and undo/redo in Replay Editor.
- Favorites for clothing, emotes and Quick Drop objects.
- Better collision hitboxes and more options for who you have collisions enabled with.
- A manual deadzone slider.
- More control over clothing, like hood up/down, shirts open/closed, etc.
- Being able to purchase individual items from bundles instead of being forced to buy the entire bundle.
- Making gameplay related Quick Drop objects earnable rather than locking them behind paid shop bundles.
I'm also completely with you on the "Getting Unstuck" system. There have been plenty of situations where the game decides I'm stuck when I'm exactly where I want to be. At minimum, there should be an option to disable it.
Some of the bigger ideas like private servers with thousands of objects, properties, swimming, moving ships, mod support and extremely advanced character/tattoo customization are obviously much larger features, but I still think they're good ideas to put out there. Even if we only get a smaller version of some of them eventually, they could add a lot to the game.
Overall, there's a ton here, but I think the biggest thing I take away from the list is more player freedom. More freedom to customize your skater, your board, your world, your controls and how you interact with other players. That's something I'd definitely like to see SKATE. continue pushing toward as the game evolves.
i didn't get through half of that. a couple of decent ideas with sliders, but a lot of customization you want has nothing do do with "skate".
you should try inZOI.
Well, my logic in asking for maybe mostly customization options and other random QOL features (although i did say a fair bit about skating in there...) is that the skating is rough around the edges, sure, but that's obviously something the devs plan on ironing out i would hope... haha In my list alot of what im asking for may not be on their radar as much as the core gameplay is all, but you may be right i could do better at criticizing the flaws with the skating to help improve the core gameplay potentially, it just feels slightly pointless because my complaints are on a place holder system in a sense, alot can change and is more than likely already planned to or in the works as we speak.
My main issues i have found with the skating:
-Feet clip the board 90% of the time no matter what trick you are doing it seems like...
-The momentum of the player slows down to fast and unrealistically, also, tiny hills or slants in the sidewalk should give us more speed too, we should not need to spam push all the time to keep a flow going...
-Carving/turning was just recently updated and it feels better to turn but the game still feels inanely stiff to carve compared to skate 3!
-Animations for upper body seem very stiff in general as well.
-As for new tricks, i probably mentioned some, but the rest of the community surely has me covered on asking for the same tricks over and over again hahaha (Some good ones though: grab grinds, more no complies, tons of freestyle manual style tricks, such as handstands and handstand manuals even, let me land a super dude upside down even then the hands transition to the nose and tail after a second of landing haha)I have some faith that they will make the skating better than it has been in any game in the series, as it stands now, there are clear pros and cons to the new skate and the older games overall, but im mostly speaking in terms of the core gameplay. seeing as the game is not finished i cant be too harsh on it yet and most of the actual new features make it hard to go back to the older games, but yeah, lots of work and polish is still to be done!
You say alot of the customization options im asking for have nothing to do with "skate", but skateboarding culture is all about self-expression so i dont really see that as a valid response.
MY FAVS OF YOURS:
- QDO's
- Replay Editor projects
- Camera stuff
- Deadzone slider for manual
- Favorites tab
All I want is more Control, more trick selection, more variation, more style and more traversal options.
I would love it if they would fix footplants so they aren't so gosh darn momentum based. They were literally perfect minus a lil clipping a few weeks ago and now these new footplants are driving me nuts.
