mjpplus

3w

They have microtransitions in a f***ing playtest

Never change EA

Cherrywine1

3w

Classic EA

flootures

3w

Game feels great to play but the "artstyle" sucks. Bring back the realistic ppl....why would they change that. I also don't like this "talking camera" at all. Just follows skate 3 again in removing all of the actual skating aesthetics that made it cool in the first place, just to add more snarky "comedy" s***. Ugh

Bring back lensflare and a more varied soundtrack and less quips !!

I get that it's pre alpha but these are the design philosophies they chose to follow! This doesn't ring positive for the future because they are for sure in too deep to go back to the drawing board!

Everest

3w

What’s the talking camera thing? sounds bad

Scatt

3w

are the servers still down

flootures

3w

No, they were only down for maybe an hour or 2 due to congestion last night. Been up since then

Scatt

3w

ive been trying all night

flootures

3w

I just got in and played some like an hour or 2 ago, no beef

Scatt

3w

might need to redownload it tbh ended up just playing skate 3 last night instead

jave

2w

Sooo finally sat down and played for an hour. Seems to be shaping up in terms of being ready for an early access release. There's still quite a lot of bugs, unfinished texturing and missing portions of the map, but the skating itself is pretty clean. Although if I have to highlight one disappointment with the gameplay, its that the current roster of tricks feels a bit meagre, no treflips and darkslides, both of which they had in Skate 3. Also I'd like to see fingerflips, dolphin flips and things like that. In comparison to the last time I played, most of the new additions are in the area of UI and map changes.

The microtransaction element as it currently stands f***ing sucks. You have two currencies - orange and purple. Orange is for lootboxes, which are filled up with straight up trash - avatars, profile titles, emotes, object (ramps, quarterpipes) skins and a few blank tshirts/socks or whatever thrown in. The big prize is usually some type of goofy looking mask or clothing item.

The purple is for buying things directly from the store. My problem is that the store is not set up in the way of the previous games, in terms of having the whole catalogue open to you, so you can pick and buy whatever u want. Instead there's a rotation of 10 or so elements coming and going every 12 hours, I think. So lets say if you wanna pick up a specific Baker board, u gotta be on the lookout for it to come up in the rotation, which blows. And that goes for everything - clothes, trucks, wheels, grip tape... The distribution of these purple credits is pretty conservative too, only specific challenges give it out as a reward. And in true live service fashion there's bundle sets, usually ranging from 5 to 7 items, which you cannot but separately, like a Nike bundle and so on. Also there is straight up fortnite skins, like a glowing devil mask with wings and s*** like that, so the already sidelined core skater aesthetic is completely thrown out the window.

jave

2w

Sooo finally sat down and played for an hour. Seems to be shaping up in terms of being ready for an early access release. There's still quite a lot of bugs, unfinished texturing and missing portions of the map, but the skating itself is pretty clean. Although if I have to highlight one disappointment with the gameplay, its that the current roster of tricks feels a bit meagre, no treflips and darkslides, both of which they had in Skate 3. Also I'd like to see fingerflips, dolphin flips and things like that. In comparison to the last time I played, most of the new additions are in the area of UI and map changes.

The microtransaction element as it currently stands f***ing sucks. You have two currencies - orange and purple. Orange is for lootboxes, which are filled up with straight up trash - avatars, profile titles, emotes, object (ramps, quarterpipes) skins and a few blank tshirts/socks or whatever thrown in. The big prize is usually some type of goofy looking mask or clothing item.

The purple is for buying things directly from the store. My problem is that the store is not set up in the way of the previous games, in terms of having the whole catalogue open to you, so you can pick and buy whatever u want. Instead there's a rotation of 10 or so elements coming and going every 12 hours, I think. So lets say if you wanna pick up a specific Baker board, u gotta be on the lookout for it to come up in the rotation, which blows. And that goes for everything - clothes, trucks, wheels, grip tape... The distribution of these purple credits is pretty conservative too, only specific challenges give it out as a reward. And in true live service fashion there's bundle sets, usually ranging from 5 to 7 items, which you cannot but separately, like a Nike bundle and so on. Also there is straight up fortnite skins, like a glowing devil mask with wings and s*** like that, so the already sidelined core skater aesthetic is completely thrown out the window.