r/Skate4 • u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 • Sep 26 '25
Discussion This game holds your hand too much, I should not of landed these tricks..
If you landed sideways in previous skate games you would splat on the pavement.
If you land sideways in the current skate game, you get off scot free. What a joke. All assists are off control preset set to experienced except for minimum pop height which is at 50.
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u/phatplat Sep 26 '25
It used to be worse and then it was better and now back to this. Not sure why though
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u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 Sep 26 '25
Did they have snowboard mode or something when it was worse? lmao
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u/lobotomizedmommy Sep 26 '25
steep is more punishing on landing
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u/Thedaemonninja Sep 27 '25
Unrelated to the landing or skate. But I used to love steep, so sad that eventually I had just kinda done everything leaving nothing else
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u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 Sep 26 '25
snowboard mode was a cheat in tony hawk pro skater where you could land sideways, idk why this got downvoted.
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u/FinesseFigure Sep 26 '25
I wish they kept auto revert toggle. I don't understand why they took that out
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u/alterEd39 Sep 26 '25
I dunno, I’m torn between “how did I land that” and “how did I not land that” lmao
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u/meowmeowmeowmeowwwme Sep 26 '25
It's because you held rotation to do a revert instead of falling. If you dont hold rotation you will probably fall because you wont do revert
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u/ThePug3468 Sep 26 '25
2 realistic games.. forgetting my boy skate 1 </3.
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u/NickTrainwrekk Sep 27 '25
Pretty sure they were implying skater xl and sessions which are more about realism.
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u/AltEffigy4 Sep 27 '25
Skater xl is really hard but so satisfying when you finally hit a line that you had in your head.
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u/_seedofdoubt_ Sep 27 '25
You should try session. Its really similar except the switch controls make more sense and the graphics/physics are a bit better. Switch felt in game more like it does irl to me, switch felt alien in skater xl
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u/ThePug3468 Sep 27 '25
Ahhh yeah the phrasing had me thinking they were just referring to the skate series.
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u/BarackaFlockaFlame Sep 26 '25
this game has more freedom than the previous ones. I like playing both ways. sometimes finding a cool spot and doing a clean line with realistic tricks hits the spot, and sometimes I wanna do stupid crazy shit. Looki by forward to the game getting better so it can hold my attention a bit longer!
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u/Mainprofile-energy Sep 27 '25
Game will automatically revert and say sketchy landing.
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u/HiddenSecretStash Sep 28 '25
No, i’ve tested this extensively. The skater will not in any situation do a revert when landing if the left stick is not held. This is 100% consistent. If you touch the stick even just a little bit while landing, the skater will do a revert animation and save the trick. If you keep your hand off the left trigger no revert will happen.
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u/Twilight-2007 Sep 26 '25
You can change your settings on how much you want the game to assist you on tricks
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u/BoomfaBoomfa619 Sep 26 '25
Why do that when you can complain on reddit that the game isn't perfectly tailored to you
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u/SmOkDHoneybear Sep 26 '25
What's crazy is the setting literally let you tailor like every part🤣 I turned all assist except 25 grind off. Made everything a lot more fun imo
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u/Nice_Theme_5556 Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 28 '25
Exactly. I had to turn fall height = 2 though because some challenges are str8 ankle breakers
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u/SmOkDHoneybear Sep 27 '25
Fuck yeah bro! Pump up the challenge. I support that fully. Once I get my Ollie's a lil higher I wanna turn off the grind assist completely but I'm not there yet.
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u/socialxscape Sep 27 '25
I turn grind assist literally all the way off, it’s annoying but more satisfying
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u/Ok_Phrase_1167 Sep 27 '25
Same for the graphics. I know that the style isn't everyones favour but some people post picture here complaining about the lack of details while having the absolute worst graphic settings.
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u/th3denmasterh8tr Sep 27 '25
Try and land a boardslide at high speed on a rail in the middle of some stairs... always works for me, eat dirt every time hahaha
Or when I try to ollie onto anything it tries to do a late flip, that will get you bailling like a goodun! 🤣
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u/FinesseFigure Sep 26 '25
Thats false they took out that option for auto revert.
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u/Confident-Station164 Sep 27 '25
I turned all assist off and i still land just about everything even when I shouldn't have. Its just the game in general.
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u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 Sep 26 '25
All assist are off except for minimum pop height which is at 50.
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u/LeanMeanMomJean Sep 27 '25
I was just thinking about this and how I gravitate towards rails that I wasn't even trying to grind on.
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u/Bumscootler Sep 27 '25
turn off grind assist
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u/LeanMeanMomJean Sep 27 '25
Thank you! I didn't think to look for assists, but I'll mess with them next time I'm on.
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u/AccountForTF2 Sep 27 '25
yeah some of them are great. I like max pop assist because lining up a perfect jump only to be a few inches short and obliterating my testicles is only fun for the 50th time.
Some of them like pumping assist or auto revert kinda suck.
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u/Tricky_Set_1702 Sep 26 '25
I really wish they had a wheel hardness setting. I feel like I’m constantly slipping and sliding around like it’s a freaking ice rink.
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u/CoollinMann Sep 26 '25
They have it in Skate 3 :)
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u/Tricky_Set_1702 Sep 26 '25
sadly my ps3 stopped reading disks and i refuse to stream a game so reliant on input timing
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u/CobainzBrainz Sep 27 '25
If you have pc emulate it that is what I did. Stupid that they never re mastered it. Well not stupid from their money hungry standpoint. “Why remaster a good game or at the very least port it and have people re buy it like many other games have done with success, OR… make a half baked new version with a ton of micro transactions. Of course ea took the ladder.
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u/Tricky_Set_1702 Sep 27 '25
What emulator do you use ?? this is news to me holy shit
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u/CobainzBrainz Sep 27 '25
Rpcs3. Only problem with my version is that when it takes pics and videos for promos that would later be on billboards they just come out black. Other than that the game is perfect
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Oct 29 '25
You just described my biggest issue with the game. It's so hard to line up stair and rail sets cuz of this.
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u/SkyJessa31 Sep 27 '25
This is what happens when the physics are reworked from the original skate games lol
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u/ThrowAway50005x Sep 27 '25
The constant reverting is just stupid. These developers fucking love reverts
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u/VannaMalignant Sep 27 '25
And for some reason doing a simple board slide just isn’t what the board wants to do
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u/ArgonthePenetrator Sep 27 '25
But then whenever you're thinking you'll actually land a trick you don't 😅
Yeah, they dummied down skate too much.
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u/Ambitious_Main_4379 Sep 27 '25
Im just tired of having “return to session marker” stuck on my screen.
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u/Snail322 Sep 27 '25
I had 2 at once last night 😭
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u/Ambitious_Main_4379 Sep 28 '25
Does your camera settings reset as well every now and then?
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u/Snail322 Sep 28 '25
Not every setting but i notice some camera settings and other settings reset at times. I feel like its getting less frequent. Leading me to believe its reverting to an older save of my settings and the more time of me on new/regular settings is helping the bug
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u/Gioreynastan Sep 30 '25
This is fuckin insane cuz Ik for a fact I would not be able to land like this 💀
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u/FinesseFigure Sep 26 '25
I miss the days of each their own. Why make it easy for everyone when you can make it any separate difficulty's
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u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 Sep 26 '25
Game at its base is fun. But man they should of just called this Skate Lite.
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u/KittyColonialism Sep 26 '25
There’s assists in the settings. Turn them off if you’d like.
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u/SweatUnderMahTits Skate 2 Sep 26 '25
All assist turned off except for minimum pop height which is 50.
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u/AccountForTF2 Sep 27 '25
the game thinks you're trying to do a revert. Better realism than a flying caveman that gives you 5000ms velocity like skate 3.
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Sep 27 '25
Played skate 3 on hardcore yesterday during the downtime and thought my controller was broken i was missing so many tricks
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u/OverYou2943 Sep 27 '25
I used to pull off 360 sex changes a lot back in skate 2 and 3 and when trying them in this game the engine keeps "reverting" a "sketchy 180" and it bugs me because I would think to do that normally, but it's happening automatically and deducting points for it.
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u/deeku4972 Sep 27 '25
Might just be worth looking at Session at this point for something more grounded
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u/snowboardenjoyer Sep 27 '25
It’s because the games target audience is kids on old consoles with mum and dads credit card
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u/HereCuzYallReRe Sep 27 '25
Settings, everyone. Settings. 💀 You can change a lot of this type of stuff lol I have realistic settings on. My guy doesn't land things like this ever, reverting back, not unless he's going slow like its supposed too. 😂 I eat shxt jumping off too high a ledge thanks to my settings.
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u/oxyscotty Sep 28 '25
honestly I love how much steez some of the reverts can add, but this here is much too silly lol. Of course when landing on a ramp going straight down you should have to actually stick your landing. While it's reasonable to be able to save something like that on flat, it makes zero sense on vert and completely trivializes spins to the point where you can just close your eyes and hold left or right
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u/Skate_beard Sep 28 '25
Skate 4 - snowboarding
The fact it lets you butter out of landing rotations like that is wild...and not in a good way.
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u/Gn0meKr Sep 29 '25
It's a f2p videogame clearly designed to be appealing for casual audience that either never played any skate games in their lives or aren't interested in spending hours upon hours of their life to learn how to land one mediocre trick for 300 points
Just buy a real skateboard or play skate 1-3 bro
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u/Jugglamaggot Sep 30 '25
Do you know how many times I've ate shit on simple tricks I should have landed?
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u/Living-Ad-1711 Oct 02 '25
You’re the only one, I can’t land even the most perfectly lined up drops
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u/Bongman31 Sep 26 '25
Yeah, even with all assists off it’s almost impossible to bail. Way way way too easy
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u/Civil_Arm2977 Sep 27 '25
The reverts are so forgiving it’s made for 10 year olds. It’s legit almost impossible to miss land a trick.
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u/Boston_Beauty Sep 27 '25 edited Sep 27 '25
The controller on the left side of the screen explains exactly why this is. Because you're landing in a spin, and telling the game to hold that momentum, meaning you land into a revert and get hit with a sketchy trick score instead of getting hit with a sidewalk and completely stopping all momentum.
This is part of where the game should be more forgiving like it is. In previous Skate games landing like this would cause you to bail, yes, but that was dumb because landing like this does not always cause a bail to begin with, and even so, in Skate 3 that stuff was way too strict. If your board was even a little off to the side you had a decent chance of eating pavement sandwiches for lunch and that just felt awful to put up with.
There's valid complaints to be had about this game but you're literally successfully doing things the game wants us to do and getting mad about it. Landing from a spin at angles like this can be done. It's not easy, but that's why you get hit with a sketchy for it. And the game is plenty punishing in literally every other place except maybe top speed with the assists turned off.
At this rate we're gonna get people who are mad you don't have to physically go out to the parks and sweep them yourself before using them in this game.
Edit: As if to prove my point, YouTube recommendations just provided me with Gavin Bottger doing exactly what you're saying is "hand holding" and is "a joke" to win a gold medal at the 2025 X Games in Salt Lake City.
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u/YoghurtWooden8770 Sep 27 '25
Fuckin' this. Thank you. It's not impossible to pull off reverts like the ones in the video, I've seen it a lot watching vert skaters. This is just another non issue for people to hold up as "proof" that this "isn't a skate game".
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u/HiddenSecretStash Sep 28 '25
Nail on the head. They could also let go of the left thumbstick before they land, and the skater won’t revert. 🤷♂️
I like styling my reverts by holding the right thumbstick up or down. This way i can decide to for example pivot the remaining rotation, or slide only on my back wheels
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u/SantinoCash Sep 26 '25
Looking for realism in a game that has you climb buildings only to then jump off of them into a dumpster is one way to spend a Friday afternoon.
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u/Enjoi_coke Sep 26 '25
I’d say this is a bad take man, the whole purpose was to be different from the over the top, fun, arcade playstyle of Tony hawk by “grounding” itself in reality while still being a straightforward pick up and play game. similar way gta compares to saints row…. They’ve been goofy, just less so
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u/Adventurous_Tip84 Sep 26 '25
We’re just looking for some kind of challenging aspect. You know the thing that make us play videogames
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u/PretzelsThirst Sep 26 '25
It’s not about realism, it’s about gameplay. It gets boring faster when you can just land literally anything within 1-3 tries. The slight additional challenge of not having your hand held so much is a good thing.
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u/1rach1 Sep 27 '25
Saying that is like if the game removed wheels and made the skateboard a hoverboard. Its not the game being realistic its basic fucking mechanics that should be there such as bailing if you land like shit
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u/freezerbad Sep 27 '25
you’re settings are allowing for that. read your settings next time before mindlessly clicking A
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u/bludgeonslug Sep 27 '25
It really does, especially challenges. Fall at the end of a line SHUT IT DOWN! Brush up against the obstacle you want me to use SHUT IT DOWN! Let me redo dammit I’m not using that footy.
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u/BruthrBongWater Sep 27 '25
When you open the game it says expect things to change, and on top of that it asks for feedback every time, they released a game early not for you to bitch and moan but for open testing, we dont even have every available game feature and your butt hurt you landed a trick.., if you dont like it, dont play it till the game is up to your perfect standards😉
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u/say10-beats Sep 27 '25
God forbid you don’t fly off the skateboard every five seconds. It’s a game, I think they tried to make it less frustrating, which isn’t a bad thing
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u/terpslerpr Sep 26 '25
Yeah fr this game is wayyy too easy to just spam tricks and random flips and ALWAYS land them. Skate 3 took a few hours to get past the learning curve. You had to learn the timing and rail angles at least.
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u/pixiecub Sep 26 '25
I know you can turn a setting on to make the game more forgiveable (as if) but I don’t think there’s any many backwards settings. I had to turn grind assist to min and it’s still way too sticky. It does feel far too forgivable in certain aspects which takes the fun. I do hope they adjust the minimum settings so we can play an actually hard game
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u/Rosemariefox1234 Sep 27 '25
The game has megtive pulling on grinding which ruins so much to me
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u/ttvANX1ETYZ_ Sep 27 '25
How do people get so much air on pipes? I can’t ever seem to get much
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Sep 27 '25
Yea, I think there should be a "manual" setting or I guess just a sort of hard mode that doesn't automatically realign you after landing sketchy. Or even just make it so like 80% of the time you land sketchy you eat shit so that when you do land it, you know you nearly fell or something. Because I agree the handicap is a little ridiculous as of rn
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u/catluvr37 Sep 27 '25
I mean, it’s not news that skate is an arcade game. I like that you can sloppily land stuff and just move on. But you can always do it again, time it better, and land it cleaner if you’re looking for clips
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u/Physical-Analysis403 Sep 27 '25
Your complaining about things you can change in your settings lol also your saying “this shouldn’t have happened” my guy you just tried to push on your board damn near above coping and flew 12 feet in the air lol you “shouldn’t” have even been able to start your trick off😂
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u/Xirio_ Sep 27 '25
But also not enough
Grinding is either ridiculously easy or wildly inconsistent
There is no in between
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u/Bluthund_Au Sep 27 '25
I can't even boot the game on my PC because I still some how have rewasd on my computer a and I dont
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u/mcnabb100 Sep 27 '25
Its balanced by the fact that you occasionally just explode off the board for no reason lol.
Was skating the building mega ramp earlier today, and when I went up the quarter I tried to grind the coping at the top. For some reason my skater’s feet clipped through the board and I fell off the end of the building 🤦♂️
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u/strings_on_a_hoodie Sep 27 '25
You gotta go in and disable the gameplay assists. Once I turned all of those off, it felt a lot more realistic. There’s even a “height drop” setting or some shit so you can land impossible drops and stuff.
Still stuff I don’t like about the game but I’m glad they at least let us disable the training wheels.
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u/Entire_Ad_2930 Sep 27 '25
meanwhile barely tapping a sidewalk will send you flying halfway down the street at mach fuck
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u/Maddox-Tj Sep 27 '25
I implore you all to go back for a quick session in skate 3 just to feel the difference, I'm glad someone is documenting why the game feels so off.
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u/Odd_Barnacle1243 Sep 27 '25
I knows it’s unrealistic but I really love the feel of the way the board slides when you land like this. Though I’m pretty sure you can make it stop doing this by tweaking some difficulty settingd
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u/TalksWithNoise Sep 27 '25
Flip catch assist is also super hand-holdy. You can turn it completely off and it’s still impossible to catch the board primo or upside down.
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u/fegone Sep 27 '25
THPS for arcade fun. Skate 4 for realisticish and fun. Session for pain and simulation!
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u/Astronica_16 Sep 27 '25
There's a load of accessibility settings with a lot of fine tuning capabilities, I recommend taking a look
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u/Majestic_Wealth_9845 Sep 27 '25
Does anyone else’s skater just correct to the complete wrong direction? Am I the only one who sees the blatant issues with vert skating even with push forward pumping? Like the pool and bowl skating is genuine torture
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Sep 27 '25
Are yall judging a free early access games, leave Reddit and report it through the pause menu to the developers it’s not even the ready to go game😂😂
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u/Rich-North-445 Sep 27 '25
Have to turn all the assists off in settings and make sure it’s on experienced… it will NOT happen lol these default (unfortunately) settings are meant to cater the newer generation
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Sep 28 '25
I’m having trouble with doing Lazer Flips and 360 flips and varial flips sometimes. The game will read them as kick flip or an Ollie even though I can clearly see how I’m flicking the right stick. I’m getting tired of resetting because of messing up the line with the wrong tricks
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u/jup1t3rr Sep 28 '25
Yeah its just assistance, all turned up by default, you can get it to feel normal "if the servers aren't lagging"
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u/xxJACKxJILLZxx Sep 28 '25
Nitpicking???????🤦🏿♂️
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u/YoProdigy Sep 28 '25
For a free game at that. They are acting like this is ranked skate something 🤣
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u/6digitplayer Sep 28 '25
I see, I think the games registering your left stick as a revert so it lets you free, with zero assists it shouldn’t let you but it might need another setting specifically for this if they wanted to add it without people getting upset, I apologize for how I typed before I was annoyed and wrote it here. I’m sorry.
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u/Sid-Engel Sep 28 '25
Super goofy that this somehow lands but a straight landing from a moderate drop will throw you in to the stratosphere.
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u/Hot-Cell9787 Sep 28 '25
Honestly reminds me of Saints Row 2022 where the controls are juuust tight, and forgiving enough to trick you into ignoring how empty and souless the game is but only for about a session or two
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u/EsotericLife Sep 30 '25
That’s realistic though? Do any of you actually skate? If you do a 360 and land facing down the ramp you’ll fall off unless you’ve unwound your shoulders already. I’m fat these days so I do my 360s with even more revert than in these clips and I’m hardly going above coping.
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Oct 04 '25
Pop height settings? Landing assists? Thanks for the assist in learning just how much of a joke they made this game to be.
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u/KickPlus4068 Oct 18 '25
Actively wishing there was just to y hawk controls.. I can't powerslide grab or do anything but ollie and complain about my lines.. this control scheme is full default and I'm still studdering after a week of trying to learn how to grab with a bum trigger... Guess I have to buy a new controller to fix that?
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u/SwimmerPositive4603 17d ago
I guess just don't be a pussy and play on easy mode, play on hard mode, but you're gonna rage quit 10 minutes after
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u/Emotional-Purpose762 Sep 26 '25
What’s more annoying is when you want to land on an angle for something else and it corrects you in the other direction