My top frustrations/complaints/suggestions for skate.
idk if any dev is actually going to bother reading all this, but if so then thanks and sorry for it being so much. I tried to order each list from most to least important for each category (in my opinion, of course) (EDIT: Added categories and moved everything I listed later in the comments up to Dec. 11th into the OP instead) I'm going to first start with my #1 complaint that I didn't know which category to put it under, so instead I'll just leave it under no category at the top: The game is online-only and there's no way to play offline or preferably host a P2P/LAN server. I don't like spending money on online-only games knowing that inevitably one day they'll be shut down. Please plan for the future and make sure all the work you guys have put into this game will be preserved. Visuals: Because the game uses Lumen lighting, a lot of the dynamic lighting is very splotchy and looks poor. 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 to the stage in Hedgemont where all the TV screens are and run around against those screens, you'll immediately see major ghosting all around your character. 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 damage, or disable the feature entirely since I'm sure some people out there will complain otherwise. 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 two or maybe three in the new game? Audio/Music Player: Disabling the "Vee's comments" audio setting doesn't affect her repetitive dialogue at the start/end of every challenge. Please Vee, I know what a "pig challenge" is already! The only current workaround is to turn VO volume all the way to zero, but then I can't hear my own character, nor Shingo, Slappy, and Lizzy, who I like the voices of. Please let us disable how the music player automatically starts playing a song every time you begin a challenge. I like the in-world music, I don't want to get blasted by a song for 45 seconds until the challenge ends and it cuts off. Currently I have to open up the music player and pause it every time I start a challenge, which sucks. I'd like a way to block/dislike songs so they stop playing in the open world and during challenges. Alternatively only play songs that I've favorited. There are certain songs I hate hearing so much, please! Could we get a "skip" button on the music player to skip forward to the next song? Settings: There's no gameplay assist setting to disable/tone down the vert magnitization. I'll often be trying to grind a rail or just ollie over something but instead magnetize to some far away ramp and my whole character goes sideways. Please add DLAA. This would also help with the Lumen ghosting issue I mentioned under Visuals. Please add a graphic setting to disable the chromatic aberration effect. The "low camera" setting isn't quite accurate to the original skate's low camera view. I want it to be a bit lower and closer to the board. Please either replicate that camera view from the original, or just let me manually adjust the camera position and angle in settings? UI: 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. Please let me hide the "2/4 players in party" HUD element that's always on the right side of my screen. It's very unnecessary imo, why would I need to constantly see that? It's one of the only HUD elements I currently can't remove, and I want as little HUD as possible in skate. When a party member is in the pause menu or using the replay feature their little triangle icon above them should change to either a paused icon or camcorder to represent either of those, that way you know they're busy and don't try to start a challenge while they're in there (which annoyingly just starts it by yourself). I can understand why the social menu was moved to its own tab with the S2 update, 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, and easier to access. Object Dropper: The object dropper only allowing a measly FIVE objects is so limiting, you can't do much with that. Please increase it quite a bit so we can create cool stuff! Please let us save the objects we've placed so they load back into the map the next time we launch the game. This would be so cool with a drastically increased limit as well. I'd love to build cool skate spots and shortcuts all over the whole map. Before Season 2 we could remove objects holding others up and it'd let them float. This was necessary for some builds because of the limit of only 5 objects. After the S2 update if you delete the object that's holding something up, the entire thing just disappears instantly with no way to revert. Please either let objects float once more, or, better yet, just increase the object dropper limit! Then I can afford to leave objects holding others up for "structural support." Controls/Tricks: Bailing is so finicky in this game, it feels like the detection for it is a bit broken. I very often get thrown off a grind for seemingly no reason. Bring back grind grabs (grabbing the board while in a grind). Similarly, bring back the ability to grab the board while powersliding! Currently 360 hardflips and inward flips are the only ones we can't hold. Are those planned to be added in the future? Does the setting to enable sideways ollies not currently work? My friend and I can't figure out how you're supposed to do them once you've enabled it. I expected them to work the same way directional pops do in Session (example of that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-e1e0bdugg). Map/World: Add some interiors! The lack of any indoor locations (except the S2 tunnel) is disappointing. For example, I'd absolutely love if there was an indoor mall to skate around. 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 nice spots to find all around the neighborhoods and alleyways. Missions: When doing a line challenge if you complete an attempt but only finish half of the goals it'll cross them out even though you need to do the whole thing in one attempt. After it crosses a goal out you can no longer tell your current progress on that goal in your next attempt. 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. There are so many missions that should be getting reused for the daily challenge rotations to add more variety. Currently there's only two days' worth of daily challenges that switch in and out. Add all those other missions that were one-and-done to it, I'd love to have a reason to replay them and earn XP/Rip Chips/Tix! I'd like to see more missions that actually require using the Object Dropper. Currently there's very, very few (less than 5 maybe?) that do, and they're very basic like, "place one ramp in this exact spot and you're done." I want some open-ended missions that are almost like puzzles, "find the right pieces to make it across this gap," that kind of thing. 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 the amount of time given based on number of players, or just bump up the time gained when completing goals a bit? Progression: The grind for Rip Chips and Tix is miserable ever since they were nerfed in Season 1. It's so slow! It took me just under 85 hours to reach level 10 across the current three districts, and I still need a ridiculous amount of Rip Chips to buy all the boxes. Please, fans are more likely to return to the game and buy the battle passes when they're easier to finish, not harder and grindier! I wish battle passes were permanent. Please look at games like Helldivers 2 for how much better a consumer-friendly permanent battle pass system can be. It leads to more sales in the long term than FOMO does! Multiplayer/Social: Get rid of the mission countdown timer entirely as it currently functions in co-op. As the host I would much rather choose a mission, then it shows up for other party members and requires them to hold a button to accept/vote to start it. That way it only starts when everyone is ready, rather than the current 10 second timer before yanking everyone away from what they were doing. There's no text chat! This is so disappointing for an MMO-like game with a big focus on the social aspect. Text chat would let me meet up with randoms, skate some lines, chat with them, etc. without needing to form a party and use voice chat. Emotes: It is baffling to me that emotes can't be heard by others. You just silently, awkwardly dance on everyone else's end. Please add it so everyone can hear each others' emotes, or at the very least other party members! 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 very limited and there's a TON of emotes I want to be able to use more often! Please gimme more than 4 emote slots! Quite a few emotes can't be done while you're on your board. I really love the ones that let you do that, can we get that for all of them? For example, the Running Man and Moonwalk emotes would be hilarious while on your board. Currently when doing emotes it'll mute the music whether it be from your music player or the open world, I'd rather it not do that, at least the open world music, and play them both at the same time. Cosmetics/Customization/Store: Clothes are way, way too baggy and massive, especially shirts. It makes my character look like they gained 100 pounds! I really hope you'll either revert the new Season 2 face complexions, or let us adjust them back to how they used to look. My character looks much worse now, the shading around the eyes and nose is so much darker than before! 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. Let us buy things from store bundles individually! The incentive to buying a bundle instead should be that the combined price is discounted while individual items aren't, just like how Fortnite or other successful live service games do 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. This is really low on the scale of importance (hence me putting it near the bottom), but I'm not a fan of how every costume so far either looks like it was made of paper mache or cardboard. I was really hopeful that Isaac Clarke would return to this game, he was my favorite character to use in skate 3! I kept asking if he'd return on skate's social media leading up to release lol. I was very disappointed that what we instead got was an unappealing cardboard box costume version of him. I would gladly have given you guys some money if you had just ported over the skate 3 model (aka the OG Dead Space model). 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.
Making transfers easier/work
Wanted to see about making transfers from vert to vert more possible… like when you have two halfpipes back to back but not next to one another. Been having some major difficulties trying to making a vert to vert transfer that’s forward and the two verts are on different heights… just making vert to vert transfers easier would be tight
Audio, Gameplay, Graphics, Level, Skater, & UI Feedback
This is a discussion I will consistently modify, crediting other users on the EA Forums for additional ideas. Audio Music Add new independent alternative and punk artists/bands to the soundtrack. Gameplay Physics Occasional board breaks and truck breaks from heights that would generally be difficult, yet also possible within the game’s physics, to land from. Knee slides on slightly more-than-sketchy transition landings that would typically result in an incredibly unnatural and unsatisfying landing animation. Hold onto cars (Credit: Len_Champ7 on EA Forums) Tricks Natas Spin. Freestyle tricks. Camera Camcorder style. Spray paint and grafitti. Quick Drop Skate 3 Park Editor style quick drop physics. (Credit: BlakeNLikeJake on EA Forums) Graphics Time of day Changing sun color temperature throughout the day and a night time. Levels Private Park Builder A private park builder that is functionally indifferent from previous EA Skate titles. Legacy Skate franchise locations. Port Carverton. San Vanelona. DLC maps like Danny Way’s Hawaiian Dream or Black Box Skatepark but renamed to “Full Circle Skatepark” for example. Community Parks Establish a mechanism for community parks to be genuinely built by the Skate. community, perhaps first adding a private park builder and using that as a template. Skater Apparel Layered clothing. Variety of plain, generic clothing including color options. Accessories BLACK SOCKS. Compression garments. Sperate Knee pads and elbow pads. Helmets that don’t make skaters bald. If it exists in the real world add it; Painted fingernails, tattoos, etc; Suits, skinny/fat ties, golf shirts, collared shirts, oversized shirts, chinos, etc. Board Rails, copers, nose bones, and tailbones that allow for smoother long grinds and slides. Different bearing materials that provide a speed boost. Wheel sizes from 52mm to 64mm that slightly increase or decrease speed, especially on transition or flat. Wheel durometer (hardness) that affects power slides. Variety of old and new deck shapes that ay influence or decrease pop and increase or decrease trick difficulty. Appearance More diversity in skater faces. Throwdowns S.K.A.T.E. Custom Own the Spot mode where players pick the spot. Best Trick. Player customizable death races where players choose the checkpoint(s). Team Throwdowns 1-Up. Domination. Physical Shops Rename “Shops” to “Skate Shops.” Skate shop interiors should reflect the area of the map (Brickswitch etc.). Skater Apparel, Accessories, and Board modifications would be made at skate shops rather than the menu. Instead of the “Equip” option following purchasing or unlocking n item, the user will instead be prompted to skate to their nearest skate shop. Boards, clothing “The Shop” menu would now be in skate shops. Hall of Meat Add ‘Hall of Meat’ as a user changeable setting that replaces ‘Impervatech’ but with a parental warning. This change should add the ‘broken bones’ effect upon slams as well as Hall of Meat styled UI. Pro Teams Player-created pro teams with a clan tag and rank. User Interface (UI) Cutscenes Toggle to enable/disable cutscenes. Fast Travel Unlockable objective fast travels upon full completion–both co-op and solo–of an objective. Menus The ability to open the Menu during an objective, but with limited function. Legacy skate user interfaces, either in purchasable form or otherwise. The addition of a ‘Save’ option within the settings submenus of General, Gameplay, Audio and Accessibility. Drop namable pins on the map that can be both saved and deleted. Vee It’s a shot in the dark but: Replace Vee with Coach Frank.Dark catch
Whenever going for a grab pressing b on Xbox your character holds a dark catch and doesn’t let go. Yes you can manually flip it back over but it messes up your gaps. I’ve been maxed out since before season 1 so I mainly play to hit gaps but this is driving me away. We need a setting or something to completely turn them offSkate feedback
To start, as I was playing skate after the new update, I noticed that the “getting unstuck” feature is way more sensitive than the previous season and if my character just falls or fails, it will say getting unstuck and respawn my person in a random previous spot, I was wondering if there could be an option to turn off or change the sensitivity of the “getting unstuck” so I won’t reset so often. Also, it would be pretty fun if there was an option to turn on npc collision like the collision that got added for people In your party instead of just them dodging out of your way like they do. I hope you take these suggestions into consideration for the next update, thank you.Game desperately needs matchmaking system
I want to be able to do co-op challenges (especially the Own-the-Lots), but I can’t because my only option is to use the party invite system, which requires me to manually invite other players individually who oftentimes are not interested in doing the same things I want to do. PLEASE add a matchmaking system so I can quickly match up with other players who want to do the same co-op challenges. If this isn’t added soon, the game will only die faster. :(
Challenges status - Main topic
Update info : 2026-03-19 (For my fellow americans ISO 8601) Review done for rotational challenges, seasonal challenges and event challenges. I will do the static ones when I'll can. (There are not bugged so that's fine) Preamble So the goal here is to list every challenges so far (the static ones and the ones in rotation. The mission challenges aren't displayed here) and point out if there is an issue with it. The advantage is to list everything in one post and communicate on every challenge to seek help if needed. If there is workaround on bugged mission, a link will be provided into the arrays. Note : Done for 0.30.1 (See update info above) Don't be shy, I stated some challenge as "No issue" but i'm sure there is some. I reaplayed almost every challenge listed and so far I'm fine with what I wrote. If you do not agree, please share your feelings. Feel free to leave an upvote, so it can benefit more people. Issue type First thing first, I will explain below what I meant in the "Issue type" column as it cannot be fully understandable : Grind issue : It implies that the rail or grindable surface is bugged or the physics do not behave as intended. Some rail have the bad habits to make turn your character on itself and miss your line/trick. Boundary(ies) : It means that on the current challenge, when you do your tricks correctfully, the challenge doesn't validate the trick(s)/objective(s). But it does if you are in the said boundaries (aka the yellow-orange-ish area). Challenge design : The challenge works but some objective are way too long or miscalculated. Or the challenge tell you to perform some tricks but validates it only in certain order. Skill issue : The community has to be better. The challenge is not that hard. Hippy jump : Hippy jump is either bugged because it cannot pass under the obstacle or bugged due to boundary issue. Physics issue : Pretty straightforward, the physics is incoherent with how it should behave For other type, they are mostly self-explainatory. Neighbourhood As I've reached the maximum character cap for this post. I've created dedicated post for each neighbourhood. Here is the links : Hedgemont Gullcrest Village Marketmile Brickswich Isle of Grom
