Welcome back to The Weekly Grind.
Let’s get to it!
What’s going on?
One week into Skate-o-Ween, and the team is working on more fixes. Mid-season Update 0.28.5 dropped on Oct 23, 2025, and we’re hearing your feedback.
What have we heard? We’ve heard your feedback regarding Seasonal and Event progression being too low without enough challenges and the rewards tied to the Seasonal and Event task completion not being that significant. We also hear you about skate.Pass and not being able to earn enough SVB for the next season and we’re looking at adjusting the amount of SVB rewarded in the skate.Pass. The team is taking all the feedback and learning from it, working on some tuning for Season 2 that we’ll be sharing in the coming weeks.
Beyond Season 1, we’ve also heard you loud and clear regarding the issues impacting gameplay overall - softlock issues, progression issues, connectivity and stability issues, and how the cosmetic and rewards system works in general. It’s crucial that you know we see and hear your feedback. We’ll have more information to share soon on the next steps, but it’s crucial for us to ensure you know that you’re being heard.
Free Gift
If you didn’t notice, in the skate.Pass images we had an asset that included a white Haru shirt that was not actually available to unlock/earn. We fixed the asset, but wanted to do more. So on Friday, October 31, we’re granting everyone the Lightrunner set that includes the white long-sleeved Haru shirt, the striped baseball cap, and the white high-top shoes. For free, for everyone with skate.Pass Premium. You’ll just have to log in to get them.
Skate-o-Ween Weekly Task Progression Fix
On Monday, we pushed a fix that allows you to run any of the previously completed challenges again: "Witch's Brew", "Spider Bait", and "Heathen Flip". This update enables you to complete the challenge goals and receive all the Week 1 rewards.
Additionally, we're disabling the "Basinator" Challenge due to the objective "Perform a single flip trick and 360 into the Fountain" not consistently tracking.
Softlocks/Stuck Progression- ONGOING
As shared last week, the team continues to push fixes for softlock issues, but more details are needed if you’re still experiencing a stuck progression issue. If you haven’t yet, make sure to share your details on the Mega Thread as we need to fix these individually for the time being.
We appreciate your dedication and sticking with us in Early Access as we work through these issues. Make sure to check our official skate_status account on X to keep up-to-date with news and info as it comes out.
Keep that content coming!
REMINDER! On October 20th, we launched our first skate. UGC contest where you can design a shirt to be in-game. This is the last week to share your design for it to be considered to come into the game. Check the official rules for details and hit up the #skate-tshirt-contest channel in the official Discord to drop your submission. Check here for details, rules, and the legal stuff.
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.
The No-Comply Cartel, Credit: COOKIES
On your marks, get set, skate!, Credit: COOKIES and Nahzrn
Is this a Hippy Grind? Credit: Taylor
Ready for Skate-o-Ween week 2, Credit: The Mosh Dude
Weekly Calendar
skate. October 2025 UGC T-Shirt Contest week 2 (Ends Nov 3)
The Weekly Grind! (that’s today)
Skate-o-Ween Week 2
skatebounty #4
2x Halloween sweepstakes in Discord for skate. Year 5
Coming Up:
skate. October 2025 UGC T-Shirt Contest Ends & Winners Chosen
skatebounty #5
Skate-o-Ween Week #3
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
Fixed Oct 23, 2025 with Update 0.28.5
Co-op Tasks aren’t being marked complete
Body flips often fail to register during the Double Trouble Season 1 Challenge
Input for one-foot ollies can be inconsistent
Some PC users experiencing very long loading screens after logging in
The Replay Editor (PC) often captures stuttering during export.
skate.Pass UI Bug preventing highlighting of preferred items from previous pages
Slam target showing up/staying on when not in a Slam Challenge
Criteria for unlocking the Financial neighborhood is not showing up, causing the "Manual Extension" mission to not appear
Fix: Implemented on October 6.
Ongoing Fixes
skate.Insider Rewards not showing up
Fix: The team continues to run scripts to grant Insiders the skate.Insider Rewards.
Various progression issues
Fix: Fixes are ongoing, with more rolling out between 0.28 and 0.29.
Skaters getting kicked from online play
Fix: Some fixes implemented October 10 and 12, more rolling out between 0.28 and 0.29.
To Be Fixed in the Coming Weeks:
Xbox X|S players may notice the update is much larger on their console than for PC and PS players
Double Congratulations bug when opening items
Fix: Fixed in 0.29
Unable to play Skate. due to a "connection to EA Servers" error.
Troubleshooting: Ensure that the VPN is disabled and check that the EA App is not in offline mode. For more troubleshooting help, refer to our Connectivity FAQ.
Known Issues Still Being Investigated:
User loses SVB while redeeming skate.Pass content and receives unwanted item
Next Steps: A fix for this issue is currently in the works. In the meantime, if you are running into this issue, please send us a photo of the faulty purchase in our forums and we’ll assist you.
Co-Op challenges fail to start for some party members
We’re working on a solution and will keep you updated on our progress.
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.
Infinite Loading Issues
We’re tracking an issue with players getting stuck in loading into San Vansterdam.
Workaround: Make sure the game is updated (repair install, if possible). We’ve seen reports from players that loading will complete after a few minutes.
EA App: Click … on game tile, select Repair
Steam: Steam Library, right click game, Properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity.
Invisible party members when joining friend from another server
Workaround (not 100%): After the transition, any of the 2 party members would have to teleport to the other party member so they could see one another.
Fix: Team is currently investigating a full fix.
The replay editor often captures stuttering during export on console
Fix: Will be fixed with 0.29.
Various Crashing Issues
The team continues to investigate and work on various crashing issues. If you’re experiencing a crashing issue, please share any details you can on this Mega Thread.
ADDENDUM,
Hey skate. community,
When we launched Season 1, a skate.Pass Premium item – the Lightrunner -- was shown that wasn’t actually available in the game. We heard your feedback, and we planned to make it right by awarding the Lightrunner to all skate.Pass Premium members as of Oct 31, 2025.
Unfortunately, the message shared this week in The Weekly Grind incorrectly promised this to ALL players rather than just those directly impacted.
That’s on us. We know how important it is to be accurate to avoid confusion, and we're owning this one.
So, on Oct 31, 2025, EVERYONE (yes, really everyone) will be able to login to skate. and receive the Lightrunner set for free. All you need to do is login before Dec 2, 2025 at 9AM PT to grab your Lightrunner set.
Mistakes happen. Owning them and correcting them is critical to building trust with you, the skate. community.
Please accept our apologies -- and enjoy the extra reward!
The skate. Team