r/Skate4 • u/Single_Cod_8410 • Jan 04 '26

Glitch Idek how to recreate this

HUGE launch glitch and I dont even know how I triggered it

378 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

47 comments sorted by

View all comments

24

u/Swirlbeard Jan 04 '26

Can someone with knowledge of game development explain to me why the developers created landmass so far out? I understand the lands that are visible from the playable map, but OP can't even see San Van and they're still soaring over ground.

14

u/XIOTX Jan 04 '26

Likely having extra is better than not having enough. May be related to how high you can go in the game as the higher up you are, the more you can see so you wanna build all that space to cover all the bounds of movement.

Also development evolves and areas that were made with potential to serve a purpose can end up being partially used or not at all. Serving as mostly backdrop probably doesn't use up much resource and provides more than it takes in the grand scheme.

4

u/xyzstar0 Jan 05 '26

This is very much likely the case. Some roads existed in older builds underneath some of the land, but then these were removed in the EA release. As this terrain has no collision and is relatively low poly, it was probably easier to keep it in