My top frustrations/complaints/suggestions for skate.
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 each list from most to least important for each category (in my opi...
Well, Season 3 is here so it's time I added to my ever-growing list of feedback..
Once again begging you guys to add an offline mode or some way to host our own server (P2P through Steam networking would be great) so the game can be future-proofed. The thought is always sitting in the back of my head that one day this game could get shut down and I'd never be able to play it again.
Visuals:
I like the new effects and filter stuff we can do with replays, but I'd like if we could also apply these during regular gameplay. Being able to change the saturation, exposure, add a vignette and barrel distortion, we should have some way of applying those to when we're not in the replay editor!
Why were so many eyes changed with S3? A lot of ones that had eyeliner before no longer do, and the ones I use on my character used to look really nice before, but now there's no shading around the eyes and it makes the eyes/eyeliner really stand out in a bad way now. A lot of shading on my character's face is gone, actually, like around the nose.
Comparison of my character's face from S2 to S3, note the lack of shading around the eyes in S3.
Audio/Music Player:
I am.. so incredibly disappointed that you guys removed so many songs with S3. Almost every fan-favorite song too. I think just about every S1 song is now gone. Why? Why would you remove 5 O'Clock by Deb Never, Supersad by Suki Waterhouse, High On My Lows by Sawyer Hill, goo lagoon by EKKSTACY, Come Find Me by Caribou, but then kept awful ones that no one seems to like, like the incredibly obnoxious Shinin' by BIG NO!SE and Breathe by Connie Diiamond. So disappointing.
If you're going to keep removing tons of songs with each update, how about letting us put our own personal music files somewhere in the game's install folder so they can then play in-game through the speakers/radios found around the map? Similar to the GTA series' custom radio station feature on PC. Or let us connect Spotify or something similar to the game, and then listen to its music through the in-world speakers/radios. I really like how it sounds to listen to the music coming out of the world around my character.
Settings:
I like the new "Party Collision" setting! But.. this really needs to be split up into two settings. I want to have party collision while in free roam, but have it disabled in missions. It's hilarious in free roam, but incredibly frustrating during missions.
UI:
Why was the radial menu changed from being able to just tap Down once on the D-Pad, to now needing to be held down for a second or two? Please revert this or bring it back as a setting. I'm also not a fan of the radial menu now using the right stick instead of the left stick to navigate, but at least I can change that back by switching the control style setting. But please let me just tap Down on the D-Pad again instead of needing to hold it.
Object Dropper:
I'm a bit disappointed to see that Object Dropper items are now purchasable in the store. I think these should always be earnable in-game since they directly affect gameplay, unlike cosmetics. I could give a pass if it was only some goofier stuff that's just a reskin of an existing earnable object, like the trampoline in the store behaving identically to the bouncy, but the rest should be earnable.
Controls/Tricks:
I've been screwing around with Quick Ollies a lot lately since I like the look of them, a bit more realistic-looking in clips, but I noticed an issue that maybe is a bug I should report, not sure, but if you quick ollie off of a grind it jumps quite high up in the air, same height as a regular full ollie. This only happens while grinding.
Map/World:
I don't really mind if Grom is available early to Premium Pass owners for a month as long as everyone can access it for free afterward, but I think requiring 500 Rip Chips a day to access it will be a bit odd, and it makes the game look worse for people who don't know how you can easily get 600-800 Rip Chips every day from daily tasks. You aren't earning money off Rip Chips, so why do that anyway? You'd gain some free good publicity by changing it to just make Grom always free and accessible to everyone after the early access period ends.
Missions:
Own The Lot still sucks for solo/2-player groups. Still extremely difficult with too little time for solo/2-players, and the new one in Brickswich is straight up miserable. All of the tasks are spread out too much in that big area with how little time you have, and some of the tasks seem broken like doing a double flip trick over the plaque, which is already very difficult to do but then even if you pull it off it doesn't complete. OTL could be such a good mode if it was more relaxed. I'd even like to see some sort of infinite version where there's no timer and you just keep doing tasks until you decide to stop.
Multiplayer/Social:
If the party leader owns the Premium Pass they should be able to bring their friends to the Isle of Grom. This is how many other co-op games handle DLC, if the host owns it then everyone playing with them can experience it. This would also lead to people finding out if they like Grom and possibly buying the Premium Pass to skate around there more when playing on their own.
Is it intentional that we can no longer teleport to players from the Social menu and have to use the map screen instead?
Emotes:
It is still completely baffling to me that no one else can hear your emote sound effects or music. Great, I can now emote during celebration screens with the rest of my party, except we're all just silently dancing or whatever emote we're doing. It's awkward-looking.
There are still so many emotes we can't do while on our board, including the previously mentioned Running Man and Moonwalk emotes, and now the new skate.Pass' "Soul Train" and "Weekend Evening Virus" emotes (C'mon, your feet don't even move with that last one, surely it can be done? Nice name for it btw).
Cosmetics/Store:
It's inexcusable that right now there's no confirmation when buying things in the store. Last night I was screwed out of 2,000 SVB because I wanted to view what the "Promo Pack" included with the more expensive version of the Premium Pass. Instead that instantly purchased it with no confirmation or warning. The UI was confusing and it made it look like holding A on it would open up a new menu to show me more info on that "Promo Pack" which turned out to not actually include anything extra other than the Tix.
It is equally inexcusable to me (and grossly predatory) that the "Promo Pack" included with the 2,000 SVB Premium Pass doesn't actually include anything special. It's just 4,000 Tix at the cost of an extra 1,000 SVB compared to buying the regular skate.Pass... Except you can already buy 4,000 Tix for exactly 1,000 SVB on its own. You get absolutely nothing extra for buying this version of the Pass and that's very scummy and misleading in my opinion.
Being able to refund/cancel a purchase would fix both of these issues. Take note from games like Fortnite where you can buy something and then cancel it if you haven't gone into a match yet. Instead here just let us refund/cancel as long as we haven't left the store screen or equipped the items. So many live service games want to copy Fortnite but not any of the QOL improvements that they have over there, yet that's why that game makes so much money.. because it's so consumer-friendly.
Why are there some cosmetics still missing in the new catalog store? I was hoping the Dead Space bundle items would be there so I could buy the deck artwork. I really don't like how the Isaac cardboard outfit looks (still want an actual Isaac Clarke model like we had in skate 3) so I don't want to buy that whole bundle, but I'd like the deck. Seems odd to me that this bundle hasn't even returned since it was first in the store, too.
