I'm enjoying a lot of the Season 2 update, it's a step in the right direction, I like the new look in many areas (The Vault looks fantastic), and the new cosmetics and emotes in the skate.Pass are really good, much better than Season 1.
I do however have a few minor gripes with it, and some other unrelated suggestions to add to my ever-growing list here:
28. It is baffling to me that emotes can't be heard by others. You just silently, awkwardly dance and stuff on everyone else's end. Please add it so everyone can hear each others' emotes, or at the very least other party members!
29. The setting to disable Vee's commentary still doesn't affect her dialogue at the start/end of every challenge. Please, I want to disable her repetitive lines, I know what a pig challenge is! The only workaround atm is to turn VO volume all the way to zero, but that means I can't hear my own character, nor Shingo, Slappy, and Lizzy, who I like the voices of! I want to keep all of that, I just want to disable Vee. Her voice is unpleasant and she repeats the same 10 or so lines every single time I start and finish a challenge!
30. I'd like to see more of the lighter bail animations where you don't completely fall to the ground but instead stumble off your board and barely regain composure. There were a lot of really good ones in skate 3, while so far I think there's only 2 or maybe 3 in the new game?
31. Bring back grind grabs (grabbing the board while in a grind).
32. Similarly, bring back the ability to grab the board while powersliding! This was a thing in all three previous games!
33. I really hope you'll either revert the new faces/complexions, or let us adjust them back to how they used to look. My character looks so much worse with the Season 2 update, the shading around the eyes and nose is so much darker than before!
34. Parked cars should set off their alarm when we smack into them, just like they used to in the old games!
35. I hope suburban areas are planned for a future map expansion. Those have always been my favorite areas in the series, the first game especially had a phenomenal suburban area with plenty of neighborhoods and alleyways to skate around.
36. Unfortunately the launch resolution bug wasn't fixed with the big Season 2 update. Every time I launch the game it tries to first launch in something that isn't my desktop resolution and it screws with all my desktop icons and open windows in other programs.
37. I can understand why the social menu was moved to its own tab, but it feels weird that its the only tab that uses RT/LT to navigate. I think the social menu being under the main home menu tab previously was perfectly fine.
38. Because the game uses Lumen lighting, a lot of the dynamic lighting is very splotchy and not great-looking. But even more annoying is the ghosting around any moving object/character when Lumen lighting is behind said object/character. A great example of this is if you go onto the stage in Hedgemont where all the TV screens are and run around it, you'll immediately see major ghosting all around your character.
39. I really like the new Own the Lot challenges, I love how many different objectives you've made for each area and that they're randomly chosen for replayability (not that there's a reason to replay them once you earn the tix...), but the balance for solo or two players needs looked at. It is extremely difficult to reach the highest reward with two players, and practically impossible if you're solo. I don't think you should be forcing people to play in full parties just to be able to complete them. Please either have it dynamically adjust balance based on number of players, or just bump up the time gained when completing goals a bit?
40. Lastly, do sideways ollies not currently work? My friend and I can't figure out how you're supposed to do them once you've enabled them. I expected them to work the same way directional pops do in Session (example of that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-e1e0bdugg).
