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g1qcnfvfua66
Seasoned Scout
4 months ago

Persistent State Where No Other Players Appear Even When Connected

After launching SKATE, the field I am connected to almost always has only around 5 to 20 players. Since there is no point in playing in such deserted instances, I log out and reconnect repeatedly for over an hour, dozens of times, yet the game keeps cycling me through what seems to be the same three or four low-population locations.

I know for a fact that there are fields with more than a hundred players, but every time I return to the title screen I am greeted with error codes, and I am sent to an almost empty field again.

On very rare occasions, I connect to a field with around 30 to 50 players, but the person who talks to me disappears, and the surrounding players vanish soon after. In other cases, players appear on the map but do not appear in the field at all, forcing me to attempt reconnection yet again.

While writing this, I have already spent ninety minutes repeating the same ridiculous process.
Is this abnormal, or is this considered normal behavior?
I would like an explanation of the cause and a method to resolve it.

3 Replies

  • buck123123's avatar
    buck123123
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 months ago

    wish u the best to get a reply

     

    invinsible players happens to me alot tho, i quit and go in again

    servers for me usually too crowded so i dont know how the system works…

    lets just hope it gets better

  • MeBrick's avatar
    MeBrick
    Rising Hotshot
    4 months ago

    people arent playing my guy unfortunate to say that EA keeps doing stuff to push away the community that loved the game. the easy answer to this is top player count in the last 24 hours is around 4-8k players on steam. 

    EA keeps ignoring the community and putting out nothing for content except for content to sell in shop.  its taken 3-4 months to get a single physics change while theyve added 4 currencies since launch. 

    the games dead because EA is flogging it to death publically

  • This is sometimes a bug where the environment is entirely empty even if you see tons of people on the map.

    There's even a youtube video of it. 

    https://youtu.be/XmCaNBzp9gY?t=332

    That said sometimes in the middle of the night it's empty and there really needs to be a host migration button or something that doesn't force you to login and logout repeatedly.