Incompetence
Being a skate.insider playtester, I can say without a shadow of a doubt, not a single bug was fixed/smoothed out before "release" into early access. I am also strongly convinced not a single dev on the team working this game other than "community manager" ACTUALLY plays the game or has even touched Skate 1-3. I am experiencing these bugs STILL on both PS5 and PC. E.g. 1. If its a zone that requires a transfer or jumping from one rail to the other, 90% of the time it will NOT register. Almost as if there is constant desync and the game is registering your character a whole board length behind you when doing a trick in a zone. 2. When returning to session marker, the tv static sound will get stuck on even though you try to respawn again. 3. When coming into a grind, no matter the "grind assistance" amount and depending on the landscape, a lot of times you'll follow the terrain near the rail/ledge, instead of the OBVIOUS spot you are already grinding, forcing your skater flat out like a plank and slamming. 4. Almost EVERY SINGLE "spot" you people set up for us to complete, is bugged. On top of that, when in a grind on a simple rail with 0 obstructions for your board, doing a mere ollie will send you flying off your board like a rocket ship. 5. Speaking of grinding, the ENTIRE map is plagued with ledges/rails that are just pure cancer. Their physical properties and geometry are waaay off. Causing wheels to catch. 50-50's and board slides will come to a halt even though the wheels aren't obstructing. And to top it off, you'll try to transition from 5-0 to tail slide and your broken game just assumes I'm done with the grind and throws me off. Best part of all is the game is called Skate. but you can't even play S.K.A.T.E.... This game is an abysmal pile of dog crap that is a clear cash grab for EA. NOT A SINGLE PERSON WHO PLAYED SKATE 1-3 WANTED AN ALWAYS ONLINE EXPERIENCE EITHER. We want multiplayer at our own discretion, i.e. inviting friends to a SINGLE PLAYER WORLD FOR CO-OP. I can't speak for all people. But no joke, if you would've made a Skate 4 that was NOT always online, $40 and guarantee you'd make 10x the amount you think you could make from all these lame MTX's. I can however speak for everyone when I say, cut the quirk chungus voice acting and get rid of that stupid bot Vee. Just pure troonslop at this point.
Physics
Hey team. There are some parts that are super super well done, but some infuriating things. One is feeling like my wheels are wayy too soft when I'm trying to ride in bowls and slows me down. Should be able to adjust this depending on the terrain. I can hardly ever get past the coping to do any vert tricks, and can't do spine transfers, its hard to cover gaps on quarter pipes as well. It steals all my speed and pop, trying to hit kickers does it too at times, like im push backwards when ollieing. Whenever i lay down a piece of plywood as well, its sticky. Another thing that is sucking the fun out of it is how 80% of my flip trick throws are just performing Impossibles. I used to throw inward heel, hardflips, and nollie laserflips with ease on skate 3. I ride goofy, but when riding switch/regular these problems arent nearly as prevalent - which means its not me. Goofy has had issues since launch, and theres a clear bias in the system for regular stance. The skater should also have the ability to run/walk off minor falls / failed attempts. The slightest mishap and they just fall like a limp noodle. Its so annoying. In general the physics are not consistent. We didnt wait over a decade for skate4 just for it to reverse the trajectory and start aiming at THPS mechanics. Its super exaggerated half the time and then consistently falls short when you try realistic things. If people want to play tony hawk style games, theyll do that. Skate has always been about seeking realism. I would have happily bought the game on 3 systems, but I wont pay overpriced upgrades for digital accessories. I cant even solve missions or anything to gain credits, just stuck looking like a base model npc labeled as a tourist. I could make a list of things that are definitely improvements from skate3, but these core functions flopping makes me rarely want to play. With each little update im noticing some improvement, so I really hope all of this lands home with the team, bec ive been playing these since the first one and ik I'm not alone.
Failed to connect to EA services.
I am not able to launch the new skate game after recreating my EA account. I was a member of EA since 2012 and despite how old my previous account was, I was reluctant to delete it due to my recent anonymous forum post about the music getting in the way with the new skate game's originality. If there is anything that can be fixed about this bug going on I would very much appreciate it. Error code: 1478078408 [Y48D-3edc4e50-991b-40c5-8d66-2334f2583468 - 1769825349]
SKATE - Constant SlowMo & other issues
For a good month or so now I have been stuck in this constant slowmo loop. Making Skate unplayable. The issue began at the second week of Winter Rollstice. My PC will read the game at 75fps consistently, but the game will be running in slow motion. This happen no matter what graphical settings (low, medium or high) By default I usually run on medium for the slight fps boost. *vs high settings at 50-65 fps. Also when I turn on the game it launches in 640x480 resolution 72Hz. To fix that issue I have to switch the window mode from fullscreen to borderless. However, the next time I launch the game in order to fix it I have to switch it back from borderless to fullscreen. All my drivers are updated consistently. Below is my specs (I can get a better read out if I need to.) As well as a short youtube video via link showing these issues. NOTE - Prior to Winter Rollstice week 2 the game ran perfectly since it released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WAowdKmQBg&time_continue=31&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.com%2F
Videos of bugs...
Trucks going into the ground, tricks just throwing the board, rubber banding, to many bugs to count this game isnt fun to play anymore someone like me just gets angry. Games supposed to be fun but this one just leaves me heated. Community parks have no legit flow cant find a good groove. Idk im over it atp games dead I tried... Board hops on even ground making it hard to start ticks do anything cuz bouncing. Also whats up with these challenges at least give us a 4 push start where we have room to get up to speed cuz that first clip is **bleep** near impossible to do with that limited space. Atp devs and ppl who created this game gotta be ytrolling 5 ticks is unbearable. Like idk game is garbonzo wall rides bounce you off the wall at times. 😬😬😬 idk anymore MannFIXED: Sync and Latency Issue
UPDATE: I'm very glad to see the latency issue described in this post has been fixed since the launch of Season 2. Great job devs! (I like to think I had a key role in getting this issue fixed.) I've been playing Skate (Early Access) on PC with a friend of mine and we noticed there is a latency/sync issue while attempting to do vert doubles. My screen shows us going up and down the halfpipe at the same time but on his screen one of us will be way ahead of behind the other. So much so that sometimes we'll be on opposite sides of the halfpipe on his screen but on the same side on my screen. 🔎 Here's video of what I'm talking about. I should also mention that we are in the same room and have very similar laptops. My laptop: Lenovo LOQ - CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS (3.10 GHz) - GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 - RAM: 16.0 GB His laptop: Lenovo LOQ - CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS (3.80 GHz) - GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 - RAM: 40.0 GB
