The Weekly Grind - Jan 6, 2026
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? Whew! 2025 is in the books. As the team starts returning from their holiday breaks, we’re going through the data we’ve been gathering and will have an updated Known Issues list in next week’s The Weekly Grind. It’s the last week of Winter Roll-stice, so make sure to check out the Winter Roll-stice mini-blog for details, jump into the game, and collect your Snowflakes to get some Winter Roll-stice gear. Close out the event and get that event gift for completing all 4 weeks of Winter Roll-stice! We’re reaching out to the winners of the Winter 2025 Snowglobe Sweeps and should be shipping the snowglobes soon. Weekly Calendar The Weekly Grind returns (that’s today) Winter Roll-stice Week 4 starts! (that’s also today!) Sequence with the 2 180 Flip Tricks in Market Mile Compensation Gift Login now until Feb 10 to claim your 310 Rip Chips and 80 Tix (for the Daily Task and Daily Completion rewards bug from Dec 24, 2025). Coming Up skate. T-shirt contest finalists/winners announcement skate. Community video and screenshot contests Update 0.29.6 Spring Pop-Off Details Reminder: Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute to these skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally - and get some in-game gear as a special thank you from the organizations. More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. l Loop on a loop. Credit: IchorousIcarus Thanks for a rockin’ 2025 in San Van. Let’s go 2026!The Weekly Grind - Dec 23, 2025 Holiday Edition
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? This is a Winter break Weekly Grind, so we’re going to focus on the in-game event, Winter Roll-stice and community content. Don’t forget to check out the Winter Roll-stice mini-blog for details, jump into the game, and collect your Snowflakes to get some Winter Roll-stice gear. Weekly Calendar A special holiday/community Weekly Grind! (that’s today) Winter Roll-stice Week 2 starts! (that’s also today!) Winter Snowglobe Sweeps (started on Friday, Dec 19, 2025 in the official skate. Discord, running until Jan 4, 2026) ???? - Did you find all the collectible Quick Drop items? Get blasted by an activated fire hydrant? Teleport through the sewers via manhole covers marked with a turtle? Hit an air conditioner unit and go flying high? Pop up a grate and make a DIY-style kicker? Don’t forget to check the in-game store on Dec 25 and Dec 30! Winter break The team will be spending time with family and friends during the winter holiday season and recharging to get ready for 2026. We wish you all happy holidays, a safe and happy New Year, and the steeziest of lines when in San Van. We’ll be back the week of Jan 5, 2026. Once we've gathered the data, we'll work on an updated Known Issues as we look towards the next client update. Reminder: Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute to these skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally - and get some in-game gear. More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. Stay safe, stay hydrated, and we’ll see you in 2026!
skate. - Community-Raised Issues [Last Update: December 31]
What's this post all about? This post will be used to inform you on issues that the skate team are actively investigating or working on that have been raised by members of the skate community. By keeping an eye on this thread, you'll be able to see some of what the team is working on before a patch/update is made available to download. You may see a ❗Workaround or ❗Note from Dev below certain issues that give additional context to those listed. Wherever relevant, pages that add more context to a particular issue will be linked. How do I report a bug or issue? Here's a how-to guide on how to effectively report a bug on the EA Forums: skate. | How to report a bug Even if you're familiar with bug reporting, please consider checking the linked post. For account-related issues, please reach out to us via EA Help 🚧 INVESTIGATING 🚧 A significant number of people have reported this issue. The development team is currently investigating how it can be resolved. Please, provide as much information as possible. Players stuck | Multiple reports on players getting stuck/softlocked | Softlock MEGA THREAD | EA Forums - 12581740 ❗ Update: Last week the team pushed out some back-end fixes to prevent further softlock occurrences, and are working to address those that are softlocked currently. We've recently unlocked 200K folks from various progression issues, and the work continues, and as we continue to make progress, we’ll keep you updated on our official skate_status account on X. Players stuck | Players are stuck when completing tutorial missions | Stuck in a tutorial voice tip loop. Cannot play the game or exit the tip | EA Forums - 12988822 ❗Workaround: On the Press Start screen, open Accessibility settings, change subtitles from off to on. 🆕Replay Editor | Can't export videos in MP4 | Can’t export MP4 videos from replay editor. (PC) | EA Forums - 12986132 Settings | Screen resolution set to low when launching the game | Graphics Settings Fail to Save (NOT Duplicate) | EA Forums - 13027437 Social | Random players can join when the party is set to Nobody Can Join | Party set to invite only, randoms are still joining | EA Forums - 13025193 🆕Visual | Stickers are invisible when placed on the board | Stickers now invisible | EA Forums - 1298379 ⏳ AWAITING UPDATE ⏳ A fix/adjustment has been made and will be issued in a future patch/update. Items marked as 🆕 in here may have previously been in the Investigating section. 🆕Players stuck | Players are getting stuck in replay after mission is completed | Stuck in replay after mission completed | EA Forums - 12981412 ✅ RESOLVED ✅ This issue has been resolved in the game version listed beside the issue. Please ensure you have updated your game to the latest version. Achievements | Achievements aren't being unlocked despite meeting the criteria. | [MEGATHREAD] Achievements not completing Players stuck | Extravert Store mission cannot be completed resulting in progression softlock | Go to extravert to level up bug Visual | Hedgemont community park is fused with the Skate-o-Ween park. | You forgot something Challenges | Skate-o-Ween challenges don't show on the map | Skate-o-Ween Challenges don't show on the map | EA Forums - 1284724 Challenges | "Holly Huck" challenge reappears after completing it | 'Holy Huck' Challenge is reappearing... Challenges | Cumulative total challenge goal completion is not updating or tracking properly to unlock neighbourhoods. | Challenges not logging Challenges | The coop challenge goal often does not register as completed. | Co op challenges not completing Challenges| Unable to make progress against daily/weekly/seasonal tasks | Daily and weekly task not counting progress AGAIN | EA Forums - 12765908 Daily Tasks | Task progress stops after two completions due to lack of additional daily slam challenges | Daily Task and Daily Challenges Don't Match Sometimes. Loading Issues | Multiple reports on players encountering an infinite loading screen. | MEGATHREAD - Loading.... Error Visual | The bottom of the soles of the vans sk8 hi are white instead of brown | Wrong Sole Color on Vans Sk8 Hi Trick of the Day | Spread Eagle doesn't count progress towards the Task for Trick of the Day | Trick of the Day - Spread Eagle not counting Skate-O-Ween Tasks | The Skate-O-Ween Tasks event task progress does not update properly | Skate-o-ween task bugged?! Patch v0.29.5 Challenges | Elements disappear when starting a challenge, and the user is unable to enter any menus | Starting Challenge Nothing Happens In-Game | Grind assist reset to 100 when launching the game | Grind Assist setting broken after S2 update | EA Forums - 12982138 Players stuck | Stuck on the initial loading screen | Stuck on black screen with game mouse pointer | EA Forums - 12982688 Visual | Character skin tone changed | Character skin tones messed up since update | EA Forums - 12981571 Visual | Settings socks to none/off and restarting the game will revert to the previous settings | Someone keeps putting socks on my character! | EA Forums - 12986018 Visual | Pants clipping on the front leg | Punk Pants - consistent clipping on the front leg | EA Forums - 12985930 Patch v0.29.1 In-Game | Friend's skater appeared invisible after joining a friend's party. | Invisible Friends in Online Co-op Level Up | Market mile fails to level up after achieving the required neighborhood rep | Market Mile not leveling up Players Stuck | Stuck in a canal if they fall in after collecting the final bearing in the Salmon Run line challenge. | Stuck in canal, can’t respawn, can’t play game now SVB Charge | Getting charged SVB for Rip Chip or Tix Items | MEGA THREAD - Getting Charged SVB for Rip Chip or Tix Items ❗ Update: If you experienced the issue, please post your details on the linked thread. Visual | Rip score award screen shows twice | Repeated rip score award screen Visual | Claim button appearing when there is no completion award | Can’t claim season 1 challenges after completion. Visual | Stunt target showing up/staying on when not in a Stunt Challenge. | Stunt target showing up/staying on when not in a Stunt Challenge. | EA Forums - 12634173 Patch v0.28.0 In-Game | When starting a challenge solo or without a party, a "Waiting for player" pop-up appears on the screen. The challenge eventually starts after a minute. | Waiting for players on non co-op chalenges Players stuck | Unable to progress even after rebooting the game and getting stuck on the mission Tour 1 - Skater Eyes: Stunting 101 | [MEGATHREAD] Stunting 101 Tour 1 Stuck at 3/3 completion Patch v0.27.7 In-Game | Rarely, a queue notification showing "err" will appear when a party starts a Co-op challenge queue. | [MEGATHREAD] ERR notification every few seconds Players stuck | When booting the title with a fresh account, the user will get stuck in the splash screen at the "Configuring" stage. | Stuck on "Configuring" MEGA THREAD Players stuck | Players spawn way out of bounds every time they log in. | [MEGATHREAD] Stuck beneath map. Skatebord in a void. 🔧 PATCH NOTES 🔧 The following information includes details of the patches that have been released for skate. For itemised patch information, please check the attached link. Dec 15, 2025: Patch v0.29.5 Dec 2, 2025: Patch v0.29.1 Oct 7, 2025: Patch v0.28.0 Sept 16, 2025: Patch v0.27.7 Please consider the following: This is not an exhaustive list of everything the development team are working on. Just because an issue is not listed above does not necessarily mean it's been ignored. If an issue is added to ⏳ AWAITING UPDATE⏳, this does not mean it will be addressed in the next patch/update, but it will be included in an upcoming patch/update. Items marked 🆕 have been recently updated/moved when this post was last edited. See you in San Vansterdam!Winter Roll-stice
Welcome to Winter Roll-stice Event, San Van’s first Season 2 event, running from Dec 16th - Jan 13th. To ensure you can spend those Snowflakes before they melt, the in-game Winter Roll-stice store will be available until Jan 14, 2026. San Van might be known for its reliably warm and sunny climate, but Winter feels so much more festive with some icy spots and snow machines - and the SVCC’s got you covered. They’ve commissioned all new Community Parks, Challenges, and more to celebrate the snowy season - even if it’s not actually snowing. They’ve even revived an old folk tale with the construction of “The Grippler’s Castle” in Gullcrest Village’s Community Park. Winter Roll-stice runs for 4 weeks, and we’re updating all 3 ImpervaTek community parks with a frosty makeover. When you first log in, you’ll get some sweet wheels - no pun intended - to cruise around on. As you complete your Roll-stice Tasks and Winter Roll-stice Challenges, you’ll be earning Snowflakes - the winter-in-San Van-themed currency used to acquire Winter Roll-stice gear in the Extravert store. We’ve also got Daily login Snowflakes rewards, so make sure to log in daily to grab those Snowflakes. The Winter Roll-stice Challenges will reset midway through the event, after two weeks, giving you more chances to earn Snowflakes! New Tasks are sliding in, themed around the Winter Roll-stice and crafted to showcase special opportunities in each new Community Park! By completing all the Roll-stice Tasks, you'll unlock a special reward in the in-game shop at the end of the event. Remember to claim your well-deserved prize! Some of the cool cosmetics for Winter Roll-stice are comin’ in hot, take a peek. We’re also adding a new type of Build Kit item themed for Winter Roll-stice, the bouncy Christmas tree, that can be obtained with Snowflakes in the second week of Winter Roll-stice, starting Dec 23, 2025. We noticed everyone skating through the previous Event Challenges and Tasks right to the finish, and we don’t want to cut your time on the ice short! So, we’re extending the store an extra 24 hours after the Challenges and Tasks wrap up, giving you more time to glide in and spend your hard-earned Snowflakes. Get in, get your Snowflakes, watch out for the yeti, bundle up, and grab some Winter Roll-stice gear. See you in San Vansterdam, The skate. TeamThe Weekly Grind - Dec 16, 2025
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? Yesterday we dropped Update 0.29.5 (patch notes here), and today we’re kicking off Winter Roll-stice, our four-week winter event in San Vansterdam. Even in the unusually sunny city of San Van, it’s always cool to chill out in winter, so check out the Winter Roll-stice mini-blog for details, jump into the game, and collect your Snowflakes to get some Winter Roll-stice gear. On Tuesday, Dec 9, San Vanners saw two bundles in the in-game store: our new adidas bundle and the return of The Grim Reaper. You may have noticed that both bundles show a discounted price. The discounted value is based on the SVB cost of the individual items versus the bundled price/total value of the set. For the discounted adidas bundle, available for purchase last week in the in-game store, the bundled items will be rotating individually through the store. For The Grim Reaper, this means: yes, we've heard feedback about unbundling bundles to give you more choice, and that is coming in the future. As we approach the release of the next store update, we'll share more details with you. We recognize that this was confusing, and we'll continue to work on improving our proactive communications to prevent similar situations from occurring. Weekly Calendar Winter Roll-stice Details (Monday) The Weekly Grind! (that’s today) Winter Roll-stice starts! (that’s also today!) Winter Snowglobe Sweeps (kicking off Friday, Dec 19, 2025 in the official skate. Discord) Coming Up: Winter break The team will be spending time with family and friends during the winter holiday season and recharging to get ready for 2026. Therefore, The Weekly Grind will be paused until the week of January 5, 2026. We wish you all happy holidays, a safe and happy New Year, and the steeziest of lines when in San Van. Reminder: Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute to these skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally - and get some in-game gear. More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. Spread that buttah, Credit: Dylan Stairset too hard? Nah. Credit: Fitzy Recent Fixes: Full list of 0.29.5 patch notes. Fixed on December 15. Exported replay videos are sometimes stalled if navigating the menus while recording. The board stickers from the skate.pass don't appear on the board while the player is previewing them. Your skater stutters sometimes while performing tricks on a busy server. After spending time in the Settings menu or after changing the graphics lighting setting, shadows and lighting in San Van become inconsistent. Removing any socks or headwear and restarting skate. may cause previously equipped socks or headwear to be re-equipped. Multiple settings sometimes revert to incorrect states when skate. is restarted. Fakie slappies cannot be performed. Skate-o-Ween iconography is accidentally displayed for Own the Lot. Stuck in replay after completing a Mission. Players experienced a black screen with no loading icon during gameplay. Skater skin tone is desaturated for many colours/options. Skate. crashes when equipping and moving around with the Grim Reaper costume. Known Issues Still Being Investigated: Players are unable to progress through tutorial challenges while subtitles are turned off. Workaround: Use the Accessibility Settings via the title menu to turn subtitles on. The player loses SVB while purchasing TIX and receives an unwanted item. Completing standard Challenges incorrectly counts as though you completed a Winter Roll-Stice challenge. Rarely after teleporting to another player, the player will stop seeing traffic, pedestrians and other players. Players claiming missing Founders and Deluxe items. Players gradually become invisible after a certain period of gameplay. The score multiplier takes a lot longer to drain on a loaded game server than an empty one. During the Stop, Quick Drop, and Roll Mission, the fliptrick over cars criteria doesn't seem to track until after you complete all of the other criterias. Often during the tutorial, if you wipeout during the Ollie Course, Vee's line about being off board will loop infinitely. Workaround: Restarting skate. has been reported to fix this issue. Exported videos are longer than their displayed in-game length. There is an additional stuttering issue present when using the replay editor in-game, noticeable as skipped frames. Sometimes, putting the game on fullscreen and leaving it minimized for three or four minutes will prevent the player from re-opening it until the game is restarted. Often the Team Up, Throw Down mission does not end until the player untracks and retracks the mission. The player needs to press the Back button two times for the missions menu to close. The Throwdowns queue timer freezes after all other players leave the queue. When logging out in a community park and logging again, the tasks won´t count. Rarely, when interacting with a player and joining their party, you will accidentally join another player’s party. The speech-to-text feature does not transpose the words correctly. Rarely, the Back button has no functionality, and the player cannot exit the Replay Editor. Stuck on Isle of Grom We’ve previously pushed out a fix so that new players won’t run into this issue, and have continued to help skaters that are stuck so they can enter San Vansterdam. If you still can’t take the ferry, please report it in our mega thread.Update 0.29.5 Patch Notes
Welcome to the 0.29.5 patch notes! This patch goes live on December 15, and includes bug fixes for issues discovered after Season 2’s launch, and some gameplay improvements. If you haven’t yet, take a look at our Season 2 article to discover the new skateable locations, brands, soundtrack additions, and skate.Pass that arrived on December 2. General Improvements Replaced the Peach Puree Cargoes cosmetic with the Brown Tie-Dye Jeans in the Down Low Product Box. Gameplay Improvements Routine maintenance of San Van’s infrastructure has had some unexpected results. Liability details can be found on page seven of your ‘Welcome to the Rip Initiative’ introductory booklet. Community Parks will now consist of natural wood tones to be more visually appealing. Developer’s Note: The aesthetic of Community Parks will change to natural wood tones on December 15. From December 16–January 14, the aesthetic will change again for Winter Rollstice, our holiday event. After the event concludes, Community Parks will revert back to their new default wood tones. UI Improvements We’ve made an update to the UI of the Quick Drop menu, adding a new category called Interactive. This category is where items like the bouncy Quick Drop umbrella (previously located under the Props category) will be moving forward. Bug Fixes Fixed various stability and performance issues. Fixed skin rendering issues that could cause complexion and skin tone issues on certain graphics quality settings. Fixed an issue where Fakie Slappies could not be performed. Fixed an issue where the Grind Assist setting would set itself to 100 after skate. was restarted. Fixed multiple issues with incorrect or missing thumbnails. Fixed an issue where using the Low Preset setting would cause visual flickering on the screen. Fixed an issue where the Rip Card would have missing buttons depending on your settings. Fixed multiple issues with visual effects for gestures. Fixed an issue where exported videos were laggy or in slow motion. Fixed an issue where your skater’s socks could be reset to the default cosmetic option. Fixed multiple issues where timers in Challenges were not working as expected. Fixed an issue where other players could go invisible until you restarted the game. Fixed multiple instances where your chosen game settings would revert back to their default after restarting the game. Fixed an issue where you could get a black screen after finishing a Challenge or returning to a session marker, then when teleported by a friend, you would end up under the map.The Weekly Grind - Dec 9, 2025
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? Season 2 dropped last Tuesday, and the team is working through reports of bugs & issues (with 0.29.5 coming next week), as well as gearing up for the Winter Roll-stice event. With Update 0.29.1, a Quick Drop glitch was patched that we’ve seen some feedback on - let’s be honest, some folks are upset it was addressed. To reiterate our stance on glitches, if they’re not game-breaking and don’t impact game performance, we’re not going after them. Trust us, we enjoy watching the videos of you having fun with some glitches. However, stability and game performance are critical, and if there’s a glitch that does impact those things, the team will work to remove it so a specific glitch doesn’t create issues that could negatively impact everyone else's in-game experience. Two items we want to call out prior to the Update 0.29.5 Patch Notes coming on Friday are: ImpervaTek parks (community parks) will be wood grain going forward. Note: during events like Winter Roll-stice, the parks will be themed for the event, but when the event ends, the parks will have the more natural wood grain. (We heard your feedback!) After Update 0.29.1, we’ve seen a lot of feedback about significant skin tone changes in the character customization. This was not intended as part of the first character update and we’re fixing that with Update 0.29.5. Weekly Calendar The Weekly Grind! (that’s today) Update 0.29.5 Patch Notes Coming Up: ?? Winter Roll-stice Details Update 0.29.5 Winter Roll-stice Kick-Off (Dec 16 - Jan 13) Winter Snowglobe Sweeps Reminder: Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute to these skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally - and get some in-game gear. We’ve also got new items on skate.Shop - Founder’s Pack and Founder’s Deluxe is gone, but we do have the Welcome Pack, Welcome Pack Deluxe, and the Season 2 Starter Pack. (don’t forget - the bonus is only on the skate.Shop, not in-game) It’s $5 USD, and you get the following: More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. Part of The Weekly Grind will be dedicated to sharing current Known Issues the team is tracking for bugs & issues, any active deployments/fixes, and next steps. Recent Fixes: The "I'm Fine" gripe tape was updated in the Season 1 skate.Pass, causing it to look unowned for purchasers. Fix: Implemented on December 2. Fixed on December 1. Infinite Loading Issues. Co-Op challenges fail to start for some party members. Invisible party members when joining friends from another server. The replay editor often captures stuttering during export on console. User loses SVB while redeeming Skate Pass content and receives unwanted item. Softlock occurring after the Check Out the Extravert Skate Shop mission. The claim button is available after completing all the Seasonal Tasks, when no reward is intended. Unable to play Skate. due to a "connection to EA Servers" error. Stunt target showing up/staying on when not in a Stunt Challenge. To Be Fixed in Update 0.29.5 (Monday): Stalled exported replay videos if going into the menus while recording. The board stickers from the skate.pass don't appear on the board while the player is previewing them. Character model stutters sometimes while performing tricks on a busy server. After spending time in the Settings menu or after changing the graphics lighting setting, shadows and lighting in San Van becomes inconsistent. Removing any socks or headwear and restarting skate. may cause previously equipped socks or headwear to be re-equipped. Multiple settings sometimes revert to incorrect states when skate. is restarted. Fakie slappies cannot be performed. Skate-o-Ween iconography is accidentally displaying for Own the Lot. Stuck in replay after mission completed. Players experiencing a black screen with no loading icon during gameplay - unable to spawn correctly in San Van. Skater skin tone is desaturated for many colours/options. Known Issues Still Being Investigated: Rarely after teleporting to another player, the player will stop seeing traffic, pedestrians and other players. Party VO quality sometimes being poor. Players claiming missing Founders and Deluxe items. Players gradually become invisible after a certain period of gameplay. The score multiplier takes a lot longer to drain on a loaded game server than an empty one. During Stop, Quick Drop, and Roll Mission the fliptrick over cars criteria doesn't seem to track until after you complete all of the other criterias. Often during the tutorial, if you wipeout during the Ollie Course, Vee's line about being off board will loop infinitely. Workaround: Restarting skate. has been reported to fix this issue. Exported videos are longer than their displayed in-game length. There is an additional stuttering issue present when using the replay editor in-game, noticeable as skipped frames. Sometimes, putting the game on fullscreen and leaving it minimized for three or four minutes will prevent the player from re-opening it until the game is restarted. Often the Team Up, Throw Down mission does not end until the player untracks and retracks the mission. The player needs to press the Back button two times for the missions menu to close. The Throwdowns queue timer freezes after all other players leave the queue. When logging out in a community park and logging again, the tasks won´t count. Rarely, when interacting with a player and joining their party, you will accidentally join another player’s party. The speech-to-text feature does not transpose the words correctly. Rarely, the Back button has no functionality, and the player cannot exit the Replay Editor. Stuck on Isle of Grom We’ve previously pushed out a fix so that new players won’t run into this issue, and have continued to help skaters that are stuck so they can enter San Vansterdam. If you still can’t take the ferry, please report it in our mega thread.The Weekly Grind - Dec 2, 2025
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? Welcome to Future Radical! That’s right, San Vanners, it’s skate.’s Season 2, live and ready to shred. We released the Season 2 blog last week, with all the details coming in Future Radical, but if you need a refresher, check it out here. We’re keeping this week’s grind short because today is our Season 2 release. We’ll have a list of new Known Issues (based on your feedback and shared bugs/issues) next week. Weekly Calendar Update 0.29.1 Patch Notes (that was yesterday) The Weekly Grind! (that’s today) Season 2 Launches Charitable Giving 2025 Blog Coming Up: Winter Roll-stice Winter Snowglobe Sweeps ?? Update 0.29.5 Since 2020, we’ve worked with 25 different skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally. Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute - and get some in-game gear. More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. Part of The Weekly Grind will be dedicated to sharing current Known Issues the team is tracking for bugs & issues, any active deployments/fixes, and next steps. Since we just dropped the Patch Notes and Known Issues for Update 0.29.1, we’ve linked them here for you to review, and make sure if you experience any bugs, issues, or have some feedback on Season 2, drop it in our forums (bugs & issues) or hit up the official Discord.Update 0.29.1 Patch Notes
Welcome to the 0.29.1 patch notes! The maintenance period for this patch begins on December 2, 8:55 a.m. PST, and includes bug fixes, new features, gameplay improvements, and more. Originally, this patch was going to release as 0.29.0, but we had the ability to add a few more bug fixes to address crashing issues and stuttering for the Replay Editor, so it will now be released as the new and improved patch 0.29.1. Building skate. with the community means listening, learning, and being transparent about how we balance fixing issues and testing our systems with improving the game and adding new content. Thank you for joining us on this journey. If you haven’t yet, take a look at our Season 2 article to discover the new skateable locations, brands, soundtrack additions, and skate.Pass coming to skate. this season. Hub Bug Fixes New Settings Gameplay Improvements New Accessibility Features New Features Season 2 Known Issues BUG FIXES Fixed various stability and performance issues. Fixed an issue where the Extravert Shop menu malfunctioned after purchasing Tix. Fixed an issue where the Crew Challenges and You mission would sometimes not be marked as completed. Fixed an issue where co-op challenges failed to start for some party members. Fixed an issue where party members were unable to leave a co-op Challenge after it began. Fixed an issue where the level-up icon failed to display when expected. Fixed an issue where the Replay Editor captured stuttering when exporting. Fixed issue where exported replays on console were in slow motion. Fixed two visual bugs that occurred after purchasing Product Boxes with Rip Chips. Fixed an issue where the Rip Score level-up animation would accidentally repeat when buying Product boxes or unlocking skate.Pass. Fixed an issue where a goal in the Single Bridge Gap challenge would reset upon completion. Fixed an issue where some of the Challenge requirements were missing from the Challenge’s description. Fixed an issue where exiting out of a Replay Editor draft after trimming a video would reset the trim. Fixed an issue where the Rip Score was missing from the info panel in skate.Pass. Fixed an issue where your skater would be invisible after joining a friend’s party on another server. Fixed an issue where cumulative challenge goals would sometimes not increase as intended. Fixed an issue where the HUD disappeared after starting a challenge, requiring a client restart. Fixed an issue where, after purchasing Tix, there was no redemption page and skate.Pass only displayed your skater. Fixed an issue where purchasing items that increased Rip Score would display an incorrect score on the redeeming screen. Fixed an issue where the skater could become soft-locked after switching to the Party tab from a not in-game or offline friend. Fixed inconsistent anchor threading and torpedo duration behavior in the Thread the Anchor challenge. Fixed an issue where the game would crash during mission progression and after completing the tutorial. Fixed an issue where the San Van Bucks amount was not displayed on the item preview page after accessing a Market Miles product box. Fixed an issue where challenge completion would not register after taking a long time to finish the challenge. Fixed an issue where in-game settings would revert to default between gaming sessions. Fixed an issue where users lost San Van Bucks while redeeming skate.Pass content and received unwanted items. Fixed an issue where users who did not claim rewards for completing all Tasks before the rollover were not granted Rip Chips NEW SETTINGS Compass on HUD: You can now hide the Compass (How to find it: Settings > General > Interface). Hold Fakie Push: Allows you to hold fakie even after pushing (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Controls). Grind Lean Exit: You can now turn this setting off to make getting deep and stylish grind leans easier without accidentally leaving the grind (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Trick Toggles). Maximum Pump Strength: Lets you control the maximum speed gained from pumping (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Assists). GAMEPLAY IMPROVEMENTS Expanded Drop-In Functionality Drop-Ins now work in more situations, even on tall vertical walls. Transitions from Drop-In to air now look and feel better. Visual Improvements to the World and your skater’s eye shape and skin complexion have been made. 50 new pedestrian types now roam San Van. 3D Audio Support for the PlayStation 5 has been added. Access to the Social Menu has been moved from a tile in the main hub to the main hub’s top navigation bar. Hold timing and its animation are now consistent on all D-Pad actions. The player's Audio Volume settings will be reset to default values at the beginning of this season. Developer’s Note: This reset allows for easier boosting of music volume through the Toolbar. NEW ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES Additional accessibility features have been added to support Party Voice Chat. Menu Narration now instructs players on how to activate Party Voice Chat. Communication Wheels statements are read aloud to party members while Text-To-Speech (TTS) is activated. Voice chat is translated into text on screen while Speech-To-Text (STTT) is activated. NEW FEATURES Co-op Mode: Own the Lot Own the Lot pushes up to four players to complete as many reqs as possible while racing against the clock. Team up with friends to take on shared challenges of scaling difficulty and own the streets of San Van together, earning Tix in the process. Own the Lot also includes special season-long Tasks that grant rewards. For more information about Own the Lot, visit our Season 2 article. Developer Note: Own the Lot is tuned for party play. We don’t recommend trying to complete these challenges on your own, and in fact, it will be quite difficult to do as a solo player. Flip Tricks Impossible Flips Front Foot Impossible Flips Nollie Impossible Flips Nollie Back Foot Impossible Flips All Impossible Flips can also be performed as Held, Late, and from Grinds and Manuals Handplant Tricks 14 New Handplant Variants have been added, making for 16 total. Handplants, including One-Foot, No-Foot, and Tweaked Handplants can also be performed in Fakie stance. Handplants can now be held for different durations based on how long you hold the input. Multiple Handplant variants can now be chained back-to-back within the same plant. Developer’s Note: When it comes to Flip Tricks, proper Impossibles have been a common request. So, we've not only added new gestures and animations for base Impossible Flips, but also, new variations like Nollies and Front-Foots to give you more options. On the vert skating side, we've also revamped Handplants to feel better, give more control, and fill out all the missing trick variants we didn't get to at Early Access launch. We’re looking forward to seeing these new additions show up in clips, expand your options for lines, and provide more variation for challenges. We are always looking for ways to enhance the experience and give as much control over your skater and experience as possible. Darkslides and more will be coming in future seasons, but until then, we hope you enjoy these updates and look forward to your feedback so we can keep improving the skating experience. Challenges A bevy of Challenges spread across the Casper Hotel Rooftop, Road Tunnel, Building Roof Patio, and Canal Buildings, and the rest of San Van are powersliding into Season 2. We’ve made big improvements to how we deliver and refresh Seasonal Challenges based on community feedback—Seasonal Challenges will still drop each week, but we’ll also reset them twice over the season, giving you more opportunities to earn Tix. Each individual challenge won’t give quite as many Tix, but over the season you’ll be able to earn more than twice the Tix from Seasonal Challenges, not including the Tix you can also earn from the new Own the Lots. Plus, the amount of challenges dropping per week in Season 2 has been increased. For a full breakdown of these changes, including how many more Tix you’ll earn each season, visit our Season 2 article. Missions Point of Impossibility will bring you underground on a hunt for the place where the Impossible was first landed in San Van. The Mission is unlocked after completion of Shingo's Secret Scoring Tips mission in Tour 2. Completing Point of Impossibility rewards you with 500 Tix and three new Props. Coping Inspector will take you to the rooftops for some Handplant practice at a handful of the newly added rooftop spots, and unlocks after completion of The Gift of Grab mission in Tour 3. Completing Coping Inspector rewards you with 500 Tix, the Coping Inspector title, and a Rooftop Fast Travel Point. Tasks Rotation Changes: Weekly Tasks will last three weeks, giving you time to catch up on any missed Tasks. Seasonal Tasks are now Monthly Tasks. Developer’s Note: This change was made to Seasonal Tasks to inject more variety and rewards into your experience. Auto-claim Task rewards Now, if you forget to manually claim your Task rewards, they will automatically appear within 24 hours of when the Task ended as a login message. New Character Customization Options 5 hair, 2 facial hair, and 3 eye shape customization options have been added to the character creator. Advanced Edit Mode For Replay Editor An Advanced Edit Mode has been added to the Replay Editor with these additional options: Trim replay Add, edit, and navigate keyframes, interpolating between camera types and camera targets. Adjust camera type, target, field of view, tilt, roll, and framing for each keyframe. Export settings have been moved to the Advanced Edit Mode. Party Voice Chat You can now activate Party Voice Chat from the Party Settings, and converse with their party members using a microphone. Whomever is currently speaking will have their name displayed on screen with the appropriate mic status icons. You can choose to mute individual party members and not hear their voice audio. This only affects you, not the rest of the party. Party Beacons Party Up? is now available as a statement in the Communications Wheel. Using this statement drops a beacon in the world that other players can interact with to join your party. Your beacon is automatically cleared when the party is full or if you join another party. skate.Pass Developer’s Note: Community conversations have made it clear that you want more ways to play, earn Tix, and express yourself through cosmetics. In Season 1 the skate.pass was designed to help you earn the items you wanted most. But we learned that many of you enjoy the feeling of completing the skate.Pass from start to finish. For Season 2, we’re aiming to support both approaches. We’ve tuned the amount of Tix required to unlock rewards pages on the skate.Pass. You will also find we added a bit more SVB for you to collect this time around. We’re also actively considering additional places where Tix can be exchanged outside the skate.Pass, such as at Extravert. All in all, the Season 2 skate.Pass will have tighter scaling to promote quicker progression through the earlier pages of the skate.Pass. Legacy skate.Pass Legacy skate.Pass lets you keep progressing and claiming rewards from the premium pass you bought last season while the new season is live. Only your most recent previous premium skate.pass is eligible. Any progress you make from earning Tix will be applied to both your Season 1 Legacy skate.Pass and your Season 2 skate.Pass. News Read up on what’s new in skate. News will display when you enter the game, or can be accessed at any time from the main menu. Vee Reduced frequency and adjusted triggers for Gameplay Vee dialogue. Developer’s Note: We heard your feedback that Vee was commenting a bit too often during free skate. We’ve adjusted both the frequency and timing of Vee’s lines to create a quieter experience. And if you prefer to do your tricks in total silence, the option to fully mute Vee while free skating is still available. SEASON 2 KNOWN ISSUES There is an additional stuttering issue present when using the replay editor in-game, noticeable as skipped frames. This is separate from the exported video issue fixed in the 0.29.1 Patch Notes. Stalled exported replay videos if going into the menus while recording. Sometimes, putting the game on fullscreen and leaving it minimized for three or four minutes will prevent the player from re-opening it until the game is restarted. Often the Team Up, Throw Down mission does not end until the player untracks and retracks the mission. The Throwdowns queue timer freezes after all other players leave the queue. When the player accepts an invitation, the invitation pop-up appears again and an error modal shows up. During Stop, Quick Drop, and Roll Mission the fliptrick over cars criteria doesn't seem to track until after you complete all of the other criterias. Often during the tutorial, if you wipeout during the Ollie Course, Vee's line about being off board will loop infinitely. Workaround: Closing and re-launching the game. The player needs to press the Back button two times for the missions menu to close. Rarely after teleporting to another player, the player will stop seeing traffic, pedestrians and other players. Rarely, the Back button has no functionality, and the player cannot exit the Replay Editor. The board stickers from the skate.pass don't appear on the board while the player is previewing them. The speech-to-text feature does not transpose the words correctly. Rarely, when interacting with a player and joining their party, you will accidentally join another player’s party. Title crashes when/if the players spam the changing tabs buttons in the SKATER menu. Exported videos are longer than their displayed in-game length. Character model stutters sometimes while performing tricks on a busy server. After spending time in the Settings menu or after changing the graphics lighting setting, shadows and lighting in San Van becomes inconsistent. Removing any socks or headwear and restarting skate. may cause previously equipped socks or headwear to be re-equipped. Multiple settings sometimes revert to incorrect states when skate. is restarted.The Weekly Grind - Nov 25, 2025
Welcome back to The Weekly Grind. Let’s get to it! What’s going on? The final week for the 7-Ply Maple Harvest Event. Check the blog if you missed any details - and don’t forget, the event Tasks run for the full event. So if you need to catch up, you have until next Tuesday! Did you check out the sneak peek of Impossibles on Monday? If you missed it, check it out. We’re keeping this week’s grind short because today is our Season 2 reveal. Check out the Season 2 blog (spoiler alert it’s a beast!) and trailer. REMINDER: Free Gift and Dev Blog Make sure you login before December 2 to claim the 2000 Tix and 500 SVB we’ve granted to everyone. For details on the blog, check here. Make sure to spend those Tix before the end of Season 1 in the skate.Pass. Softlocks/Stuck Progression- ONGOING Back-end fixes, 200K folks fixed last week, but the work continues, and as we make progress, we’ll keep you updated on our official skate_status account on X. Weekly Calendar The Weekly Grind! (that’s today) Season 2 Reveal (also today!) 7-Ply Maple Harvest Sweeps (multiple - we’re giving out 100 IRL Year 5 decks during 7-Ply Maple Harvest Event) Sneak Peek at a new skateable area coming in S2 (Eelside Tunnels) Coming Up: Update 0.29.1 Patch Notes Season 2 / Update 0.29.1 After locking 0.29, the team was able to get a few more fixes in, resulting in a new patch number - 0.29.1 (this includes all fixes and new content from 0.29.) More content from the skate. community! As usual, we wanted to share a few pieces of content that caught our eye. Remember: if you want to possibly be featured in The Weekly Grind, make sure to share yours (screenshots, videos, clips) via skate.reel. Some people build sand castles in the sky, Burryaga and NDY and SK8N crews party on a floating coffin ring; Credit: Burryaga Part of The Weekly Grind will be dedicated to sharing current Known Issues the team is tracking for bugs & issues, any active deployments/fixes, and next steps. (This is not an exhaustive list of all tracked issues.) Recent Fixes Daily and Weekly Tasks not counting after reset. Additional fixes incoming. If you still experience issues after the Daily or Weekly Task reset, restart your game or wait 15 minutes Fix: Implemented on November 14 To Be Fixed in 0.29.1, Dec 2, 2025: Infinite Loading Issues Co-Op challenges fail to start for some party members Invisible party members when joining friends from another server The replay editor often captures stuttering during export on console User loses SVB while redeeming Skate Pass content and receives unwanted item Softlock occurring after the Check Out the Extravert Skate Shop mission The claim button is available after completing all the Seasonal Tasks, when no reward is intended Unable to play Skate. due to a "connection to EA Servers" error Stunt target showing up/staying on when not in a Stunt Challenge Known Issues Still Being Investigated: We’ll be sharing updated Known Issues next week with the 0.29.1 Patch Notes & Known Issues Stuck on Isle of Grom We’ve previously pushed out a fix so that new players won’t run into this issue, and have continued to help skaters that are stuck so they can enter San Vansterdam. If you still can’t take the ferry, please report it in our mega thread.
