Akelaphobia
12 hours agoSeasoned Scout
My top 20 frustrations/complaints/suggestions for skate.
I was filling out the Season 1 survey and going to include all of this, but halfway through doing it they apparently ended it and are "not accepting additional responses at this time" so... I guess I'll just paste my whole thing here instead.
idk if any dev is actually going to bother reading all this, but if so then thanks and sorry for it being so much. I tried to order it from most to least important (in my opinion, of course).
- The grind for Rip Chips and Tix is miserable now. It's so slow! Please, fans are more likely to return to the game and buy the battle pass when it's easier to finish, not harder and grindier!
- I hate that the game is online-only and there's no way to play offline or host a P2P/LAN server. I don't like spending money on online-only games knowing that one day they'll be shut down. Please plan for the future and make sure all the work you guys have put into this game will be preserved.
- I wish battle passes were permanent. Please look at Helldivers 2 and Halo Infinite for how much better a consumer-friendly permanent battle pass system can be. It leads to more sales in the long term than FOMO does!
- Bailing is so finicky in this game, it feels like the detection for it is slightly broken. I often just get thrown off a grind for no reason.
- There's no way to disable the vert magnitization or tone down that assist. I'll often be trying to grind a rail or just ollie over something but instead magnetize to some far away ramp and my whole character goes sideways.
- There's no text chat! For an MMO-like experience this is so disappointing, I have no way to talk to randoms and meet up on the map or anything!
- The "low camera" setting isn't accurate to the original skate's low camera view. I want it to be a bit lower and closer to the board. Please either replicate that camera view from the original, or just let me manually adjust the camera position and angle in settings?
- There's no setting to disable the chromatic aberration effect that gives me a headache.
- The object dropper having a limit of a measly FIVE objects is so limiting, you can't do much with that. Please increase it quite a bit and also let us save the objects we've placed so they load back in the next time we launch the game.
- Disabling Vee under audio settings doesn't remove her annoying, repetitive voicelines that play at the start and end of every challenge.
- Almost every time I launch the game it tries to run at some lower resolution rather than my desktop resolution, and it screws up the position and sizes of all my open windows. Drives me nuts.
- Frequently when playing my mouse cursor will appear for a bit in the middle of my screen, usually after challenges.
- The lack of any indoor locations is disappointing. I'd love to see an indoor mall to skate around, for example.
- Clothes are way, way too baggy and massive. It makes my character look like they gained 100 pounds! Where's the nice form-fitting jeans and shirts?
- There's no way to block songs, or have only songs I've favorited show up in the open world/during challenges. There are certain songs I hate hearing so much, please!
- There's no way to skip forward a song in the music player.
- When doing a line challenge if you complete one goal it'll cross it out, even though you need to do the whole thing in one attempt. After it crosses a goal out you can no longer tell your current progress on that goal in your next attempt.
- This is really low on the scale of importance (hence me putting it near the bottom), but I'm not a fan of how every costume so far either looks like it was made of paper mache or cardboard. I was really hopeful that Isaac Clarke would return to this game, he was my favorite character to use in skate 3! I kept asking if he'd return on skate's social media leading up to release lol. I was very disappointed that what we instead got was an unappealing cardboard box costume version of him. I would gladly have given you guys some money if you had just ported over the skate 3 model (aka the OG Dead Space model).
- Quite a few emotes can't be done while you're on your board. I really love the ones that let you do that, can we get that for all of them? Like "Running Man," for example.
- Currently when doing emotes it'll mute the music whether it be from your music player or the open world, I'd rather it not do that.