Season 2 Feedback (bug list and feature requests)
(Played on PC)
Hello,
Been skating since 8 years old, played all skate games on launch, I play for the love of skating, not points or crazy **bleep**, I'm your demographic for who likes to collect clothing and fashion items to have variety and to express myself. I also film and record in-game. (THANK YOU FOR KEYFRAMES!)
Here's the glitch list first, in no particular order.
- Vert camera glitch still prevalent. Camera gets stuck facing down after going down vert or ramps and never comes back up (Tested with all vertical follow strengths and settings) Makes vert UNPLAYABLE. THIS IS NUMBER 1 PRIORITY PLEASE. [Fixable by resetting camera angle with pressing start and quickly closing menu] (See wishlist below)
- Boneless' still don't give any vertical height, it's like we're stuck to the ground (ever so slightly better than season 1, but still not close enough)
- On-board camera angle defaults to non-chosen angle after teleporting (see wishlist below)
- When pointing the camera straight up or down while climbing, you are unable to move straight up or down, only horizontal movement works. (only when at extreme angles, but I find that the more you tilt, the smaller the angle needed to lock out vertical climbing, eventually making it 0 as you reach both extremes)
- Starting a challenge always resets my stance to default. Makes it annoying to set up a line in switch, especially when accidentally collecting a bearing makes you reset once dismounting, before I can reset the start point. (Keeping the current stance going into and out of challenges will make the game feel more seamless and streamlined)
- Clothing sizes and fits looks wonky on at least body #2, but in general clothes look frumpy and unfitting on feminine bodies. (See jean jacket from season 2 for worst example) Shirts in general flare out way too much and also are slightly too long, even the more feminine fit versions of shirts are like this (barring the shortest shirts like the white and blue baseball top which shows the player's belly)
- After season 2 update, starting a challenge requires us to touch the left stick before we gain control. (Used to start every challenge by jumping off-board to set up for better speed, now I have to take the extra step every single time)
- Several challenges still don't let up skip the intro video, even some season 2 ones. (Good job letting us skip the new ones, but not all of them allow it and all the old ones still lack this feature)
- Can't mount board when prompt to interact with other players' dropped object is on screen (Holding L stick) Terrible when people place object in starting positions. Easy to troll others.
Now for the wishlist. Some of these requests would fix some of the bugs listed above.
- Let us set a default camera pitch for on-board. We have the setting for off-board already, why not on-board? As it stands, whatever angle the camera is at when mounting will stick until the vert glitch kicks in or I press start to reset the angle to default. I would set this and never have it change, the on-board camera is so close to being perfect. (THIS IS MY HIGHEST PRIORITY REQUEST)
- Please let us carry out skateboards the correct way! We hold it right in the start menu (graphic out) but not in-world. (Griptape-out is super uncomfortable and no one I know IRL EVER carried like this. It's usually newbies who carry like this) Let us show off our board graphics and stickers! (SECOND HIGHEST PRIORITY REQUEST!)
- Let us bone every flip trick please (maybe bind boning to a button like L1/LB, when held will tuck and catch close to the body, allowing for more clearance)
- In general, more movement options are wanted, like boning bluntslides, and grabbing out of stalls and grinds (I wanna skate like Zion in his new part!)
- Let us save board loadouts. Meaning, I choose my graphic, tape, cutout, trucks, wheels, and stickers and save it, then I can customize a whole other selection for loadout 2 etc. (Not super necessary, but I change my board and clothing look all the time for filming shots, would be nice QOL)
- Give us the option to completely hide dropped object by other players. This would fix being unable to mount when L stick prompt is on screen that I mentioned above in the glitch list. It's ugly AF having semi-transparent giant ramps and pipes all over the place, not to mention unrealistic.
- If it's not already in the game, a "Pro" title.
- Speaking of which, it would be nice to have a comprehensive list of ALL unlockable items in the game. (Clothing and board customizations, but also card customization items.) That way I would already know if a "Pro" title existed and how to get it, giving me more to do and strive for in-game. (You want us addicted to this game... don't you?)
- More skating styles would be nice, but I know how much of an ask this is. You can always tell a skater by their posture, but in skate 4, barring details like flip speed, trick height, body rotation vs right stick tweaking to spin ratio, there is no way to tell players apart. It would be awesome to skate wildly like Greyson Fletcher or tight and technical like Mike-Mo (Don't hate on me cause I'm old)
Thanks for reading. I'll keep playing and compiling lists as the days and events go by. Devs, please let me know if this is the best place and way to get these reports to you. I love this game and want to help you guys out as much as I can but I don't want to be pointlessly shouting into a faceless abyss.
Keep it up and thanks again!