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.You’re removing the good stuff
I logged on today and 8 of my favorited songs were just gone, including my favorite one by Royel Otis. Not sure if it’s a bug or intentional but i don’t see a point in removing music. I think there should be a choice for where your music plays, and STAYS there. For example I would start my liked playlist and I’d get a couple songs in before it just starts playing on a in-game speaker nearby. I’d then have to go back and play a song from the playlist again to listen to my music. I will hear a song in the shop and want to go out of the shop to add it to my favorites, and the song will stop playing. There should also be more accessibility with the playlists. Shuffle, repeat, etc. As of now, the playlist seems to shuffle no matter what. A lot of glitches have been found in early access and some of them are annoying and some of them are great. I understand that a developer doesn’t want their game to have glitches but a glitch like the flying and speed ones are a reason I had so much fun playing sometimes. I enjoy skating with friends of course but flying at high speeds and slamming into things is unbeatable. When I was a low level player, something I found annoying was the inability to activate fast travel points. The climbing is a cool feature but 1. it takes way too long and is too janky to climb anything and 2. I don’t want to have to do it again later when I unlock the fast travel. Since skate is a very casual game at times, a weather and time-of-day feature would be cool. Something where I can change the specific aesthetic I’m feeling but doesn’t affect the way the game plays. I’m sure it’s been mentioned before, but sometimes the camera height will change to low on its own, usually in a challenge. My friend and I have both experienced this. You also can’t go in the menu during a challenge so you have to finish it or quit to change it back to high. I understand everyone has different preferences when it comes to style, aesthetics, and art. But to me it seems like most things in the shop and progression boxes are not skater inspired. It’s very bright and saturated. So many peach colored things.. The skate pass has some better stuff though. I’m fine with a cartoony style game but it can have some character to it still. The game is meant to include younger audiences which is great. But the game as of now is very Cocomelon-like in its rewards and items. I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t be fortnite just cause it has a “pass” and give us some skating grime as well as the goofiness of skate 3, like the slab of meat. Which didn’t have to be a costume. (P.s. things don’t need to make sense. ImpervaTEK was so unnecessary) Love. Please and thank you, LeonVoltz
Skate needs an serious change
Let me start by saying I want the old Skate back like the skate 3 we all know along with Skate 4 or now known as just Skate. The graphics look like they're from out of a Disney wannabe video game and its annoying to hear that A.I. speak even the soundtrack doesn't fit add new different more popular Skateboarding music if I knew the Skate. Developers were gonna do a fortnite collab you should've just told them or water down my Skateboard mug with a more sensitive kid friendly saints row I wouldn't have downloaded this godforsaken reboot of a whole game no one cares or wants skins you gotta put money into to get certain clothes I'd rather have the skate 3 style where I get a whole completely different style by changing the size of my jeans, T-Shirt, hat, and Hoodie wheres that at instead what do I get a loot crate rewards from doing missions to buy more mystery boxes that's a dumb idea you guys watered down Skate 4 next you think about doing a reboot of something just do a remaster like everyone else and improve graphics and gameplay with no DLC here and there just make 2 or 3 DLCS like dead Island 2 and Skate 3 then you'll make more money until then do betterMusic
I love the idea of putting new music in for each season, BUT I dont think it should come at the cost of the music that's already in the game. If anything take the "universal music" out for the season only songs. I know this is personal, but the song Facts by Amyl and the Sniffers is my favorite song on the soundtrack and it got booted for the seasonal tracks. Does anyone else feel this way?Day+night and/or cycle control to the player like on Steep + weather
So on Steep it has a day and night cycle even though it’s online you can choose between if it’s day or night for each individual player. I think this could be a sick add on for skate as who doesn’t like a night skate also. Plus a weather could be also cool as skate through a stormy or light rain again would be cool and could effect the sliding distance of your board.
Played Skate 1, Skate 2, Skate 3 - My Feedback
Hello, Here is a simple list of my feedback. The gameplay tutorial funnel is extremely annoying, the AI/AR stuff is weird, Vee is extremely annoying. I do not want this annoying AI in my ear telling me what to do the entire game. Character customization feels barebones, character design feels too cartooney. Lack of brands in game, lack of ability to buy/freemium crate model is disappointing. Lack of humanity in the game, no personality at all. Does not feel like a skateboarding game, feels baby-ified. Co-op is too easy for veteran players. Co-op cant see my friends videos only mine, not fun- Skateboarding is about the videos. Izzy is extremely annoying as well. Why am I being taught by AI modules, and not just actual skateboarding NPCs/characters? Mission Bonski Sesh - Objective - Listen to Izzy, worst part of the game so far. Could not handle Vee anymore, stopped playing. No hall of meat, best part of the old games. Game lacking spice, lacking character, lacking flavour, lacking the skateboard culture. WHERE IS THE HALL OF MEAT?????????????
the soundtrack and music.
talking from experience, none of the songs in the new ea skate. are actually bangers, if anyone in the developer team is reading, please add music that skate boarders actually listen too, you could watch a bunch of video parts, get the song, license it, and put it in the game, a great place you can start is john shanahans parts, honestly peak music taste, or yuto horigome parts, especially his nike sb “yuto in tokyo”, thats pretty much all i want to say. and here —> https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QP0oXRYFeXl700M0XMW9m?si=n4SaZ1M4SzqwcF98BC9KCw&pi=yJVP2hTKRHidw
List of music playlists you can grab
Note : The list may be not complete. Feel free to share more playlist you can grab. Hi ! Here is the list of music playlists you can grab available all around the San Van map. I will not share the location. You want it ? Skate to it. (Maybe I can give you an hint if needed, like La Dolce Vita and Musique Magnifique are on the same spot) 80's Glam Acoustica Ballroom 237 Cafe Disco Chill Vibes Classic Americana EDM Connexion Fresh Hip Hop Home on the Range La Dolce Vita Laid Back House Lofi Beats To Skate To Lobby Bops Musique Magnifique New Riddims Old Jazz Standards Old School Beats Opera Buffo Punk Pit RnB Jams Reggae Heat San Van Top Pop Sidewalk Surfables Son Mexicano Tavern Tunes Turkish Delights
