Welcome back to The Weekly Grind.
Let’s get to it!
What’s going on?
Season 2 dropped last Tuesday, and the team is working through reports of bugs & issues (with 0.29.5 coming next week), as well as gearing up for the Winter Roll-stice event.
With Update 0.29.1, a Quick Drop glitch was patched that we’ve seen some feedback on - let’s be honest, some folks are upset it was addressed. To reiterate our stance on glitches, if they’re not game-breaking and don’t impact game performance, we’re not going after them. Trust us, we enjoy watching the videos of you having fun with some glitches. However, stability and game performance are critical, and if there’s a glitch that does impact those things, the team will work to remove it so a specific glitch doesn’t create issues that could negatively impact everyone else's in-game experience.
Two items we want to call out prior to the Update 0.29.5 Patch Notes coming on Friday are:
ImpervaTek parks (community parks) will be wood grain going forward. Note: during events like Winter Roll-stice, the parks will be themed for the event, but when the event ends, the parks will have the more natural wood grain. (We heard your feedback!)
After Update 0.29.1, we’ve seen a lot of feedback about significant skin tone changes in the character customization. This was not intended as part of the first character update and we’re fixing that with Update 0.29.5.
Weekly Calendar
The Weekly Grind! (that’s today)
Update 0.29.5 Patch Notes
Coming Up:
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Winter Roll-stice Details
Update 0.29.5
Winter Roll-stice Kick-Off (Dec 16 - Jan 13)
Winter Snowglobe Sweeps
Reminder: Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute to these skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally - and get some in-game gear.
We’ve also got new items on skate.Shop - Founder’s Pack and Founder’s Deluxe is gone, but we do have the Welcome Pack, Welcome Pack Deluxe, and the Season 2 Starter Pack. (don’t forget - the bonus is only on the skate.Shop, not in-game)
It’s $5 USD, and you get the following:
More content from the skate. community!
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.
If you build it, they will handplant, Credit: The Mosh Dude
View game pageSometimes you catch a bus, sometimes it catches you, Credit: Suprblk2
Digital Sunset in Future Radical, Credit: computerOK
View game pageImpossible Kickflip - NOT impossible! Credit: who.is.lycan
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.
Recent Fixes:
The "I'm Fine" gripe tape was updated in the Season 1 skate.Pass, causing it to look unowned for purchasers.
Fix: Implemented on December 2.
Fixed on December 1.
Infinite Loading Issues.
Co-Op challenges fail to start for some party members.
Invisible party members when joining friends from another server.
The replay editor often captures stuttering during export on console.
User loses SVB while redeeming Skate Pass content and receives unwanted item.
Softlock occurring after the Check Out the Extravert Skate Shop mission.
The claim button is available after completing all the Seasonal Tasks, when no reward is intended.
Unable to play Skate. due to a "connection to EA Servers" error.
Stunt target showing up/staying on when not in a Stunt Challenge.
To Be Fixed in Update 0.29.5 (Monday):
Stalled exported replay videos if going into the menus while recording.
The board stickers from the skate.pass don't appear on the board while the player is previewing them.
Character model stutters sometimes while performing tricks on a busy server.
After spending time in the Settings menu or after changing the graphics lighting setting, shadows and lighting in San Van becomes inconsistent.
Removing any socks or headwear and restarting skate. may cause previously equipped socks or headwear to be re-equipped.
Multiple settings sometimes revert to incorrect states when skate. is restarted.
Fakie slappies cannot be performed.
Skate-o-Ween iconography is accidentally displaying for Own the Lot.
Stuck in replay after mission completed.
Players experiencing a black screen with no loading icon during gameplay - unable to spawn correctly in San Van.
Skater skin tone is desaturated for many colours/options.
Known Issues Still Being Investigated:
Rarely after teleporting to another player, the player will stop seeing traffic, pedestrians and other players.
Party VO quality sometimes being poor.
Players claiming missing Founders and Deluxe items.
Players gradually become invisible after a certain period of gameplay.
The score multiplier takes a lot longer to drain on a loaded game server than an empty one.
During Stop, Quick Drop, and Roll Mission the fliptrick over cars criteria doesn't seem to track until after you complete all of the other criterias.
Often during the tutorial, if you wipeout during the Ollie Course, Vee's line about being off board will loop infinitely.
Workaround: Restarting skate. has been reported to fix this issue.
Exported videos are longer than their displayed in-game length.
There is an additional stuttering issue present when using the replay editor in-game, noticeable as skipped frames.
Sometimes, putting the game on fullscreen and leaving it minimized for three or four minutes will prevent the player from re-opening it until the game is restarted.
Often the Team Up, Throw Down mission does not end until the player untracks and retracks the mission.
The player needs to press the Back button two times for the missions menu to close.
The Throwdowns queue timer freezes after all other players leave the queue.
When logging out in a community park and logging again, the tasks won´t count.
Rarely, when interacting with a player and joining their party, you will accidentally join another player’s party.
The speech-to-text feature does not transpose the words correctly.
Rarely, the Back button has no functionality, and the player cannot exit the Replay Editor.
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.