My top frustrations/complaints/suggestions for skate.

I don't know how I didn't see this post earlier but I admire your attention to detail and critiques.

This is the type of criticism the Developers need in order to get the game to start feeling and playing like an actual Skate game. Most of the things you've listed is stuff I've encountered as well, it's super frustrating at times because I know the team is pushing the fastest cash grab methods instead of correcting the errors. I hope people will come together and put a spotlight on these issues like your post.

Anyone reading this should upvote/like this person's post so the Dev Team can see it. 🙂

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).

25. Add a customizable emote wheel, rather than the current system of only having four emote slots that use LB + one of the four directions on the D-Pad. It's so limited and there's a lot of emotes I want to be able to use more often!

26. Let us buy things from store bundles individually! The incentive to buying bundle instead should be that the combined price is discounted while individual items aren't, just like how Fortnite does it. I guarantee there's a lot of people out there who have zero interest in spending $20+ on a bundle but would drop a few bucks here and there for one or two items out of the bundles.

27. Already completed goals should still count toward daily/weekly/seasonal tasks, so we can replay completed missions instead of having to rely entirely on the daily rotations that get old very fast.

Couple more suggestions:

21. The map could really use some icon filters so we can hide/view specific mission types, or hide them all so we can just see fast travel locations and other players.

22. We should be able to freely place stickers on our board, including resizing them, rather than the current 3-sticker system that's very limited.

23. It'd be a nice detail if the bottom of our skateboards got scratched up when used enough, like in other games such as Session. I think even a few of the THPS' had this. Also include an option to reset the board or disable the feature entirely since I'm sure some people out there will complain otherwise.

24. Could we get the original green "Yeah Right!" deck? I saw the new 20th anniversary version was in the store a few weeks back, but the OG is a classic: 

I'd like to cosign 15, 16, & 17. We should definitely be able to block songs and skip songs. That should be a super easu fix. And with 17 I feel like there are two good options for solutions: there could be an option to "reset goals" while in the challenge, and not have to end the challenge and restart it. Or the other option would be to leave a goal marked as completed but still have it show the current amount or grind / air time / tricks completed etc during the current attempt.