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skatesk8skater_x
Seasoned Novice
19 hours ago

Regarding Spot Battles and Jams

I understand the modes are still experimental, but the control settings really need to be unified.

Battles are fun when players compete purely on skill.

When different control settings can drastically change scores, the competition loses its meaning.

For battles, every player should be forced to use the same settings.

I play on the hardest possible settings. Facing someone on Easy is not fair — and Easy even enables glitch techniques that shouldn’t exist in a competitive environment.

Please lock the settings to the most difficult options for all battles (for example: Min Pop = 0, Hard Pump Assist = 0, etc.).

This would make battles fair and skill-based, and it would also push everyone’s overall level higher.

I’ve mainly played Spot Battles since the original *Skate*. Versions 1 and 2 were good in this regard.

In *Skate 3* the split into Easy / Normal / Hard made competitive play much worse.

Please don’t repeat that mistake — give us fair, skill-focused battles this time.

Thank you.

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  • DigitalWolf333's avatar
    DigitalWolf333
    Seasoned Ace
    8 hours ago

    I dunno about locking the settings to the most difficult, but the settings should be an option that applies to all characters. 

    Like i shouldn't bail letting go of a grab in a flip while another player does a back flip quad kickflip.

    When the throwdown/spot battle is activated it should indicate some core settings that apply:

    • Fall Height
    • Hold grab while flipping
    • Land assistance
    • Preroll (since this can limit trick options)

    I think most other options are more control and feel preference, like I don't think grind assist needs to be global, nor things like toggled tricks and stuff like that. 

    The above don't change the feel of playing, they just allow you to do things that might be impossible otherwise. 

    Like the huge ramp spot battle can suck if you don't have your fall height set and someone else does. If it's set low for everyone, then it's a challenge and even fun to watch everyone fail, but if it's only low for you it's just unfair. 

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