Welcome back to The Weekly Grind, San Vanners! Let’s roll!
What’s going on? Welcome to the San Van Open! Season 4 kicks off today, so if you missed the details, check out the Season 4 blog here. Fingerflips, The Stadium, new songs in the soundtrack, updated skate.Pass, Dem Bones is back (with 2 packs), and more. That’s not even counting the mid-season update that will bring X Games, X Games Spot Battles and more. The summer is just getting started in San Van!
We had some folks jump into the build last week, so keep an eye out for some new videos coming from skate. Player Council members and other creators.
Don’t forget: Keep sharing your bug/issues so we can squash ‘em flat.
Let’s dive right into the calendar.
Weekly Calendar
The Weekly Grind returns (that’s today)
Season 4 Starts (also today!)
Coming Up
Fingerflips Interview
Stadium Interview
Go Skate Event Weekend Details
Fingerflips Contest
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.
And the three winners of the Nike SB UGC Contest!
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.
Fixed in Update 0.31.0/1
Duplicate Product Boxes appearing for all three neighborhoods in the store with an “Insufficient Funds” error if opened.
Workaround: Traveling from San Van to Isle of Grom or vice versa resolves this.
Some Trophies/Achievements are not registering progress if the requirement is done on Isle of Grom.
Workaround: Trophies will progress when actions are taken on San Vansterdam instead.
Adjusting your video settings on PC can cause other settings to change.
Character texture flickers when the Pipe Dream challenge starts.
Players cannot grind on the rails of the Stadium parking entrance.
Sometimes when editing in the Replay Editor, players are unable to exit.
Workaround: Press the L stick in to hide the UI, then again to show it. This should unstick the Replay Editor.
Speedline challenges can end prematurely while in a sequence due to final bearing placement
The notification denoting when a friend comes online can randomly trigger multiple times.
After purchasing multiple SVB packs in succession, an error appears during checkout.
Skater seems to pass through the board when having specific heights.
The game sometimes crashes when a fourth player joins your Party.
After accepting a skate. party invite via Xbox Live or PlayStation Network, the invite reappears after the player is already in the party they were invited to.
Spin degrees in the trick feed are sometimes inaccurate.
Graphical glitches are present in the UI on PCs using AMD GPUs.
Workaround - AMD:
Go to AMD's driver site and find your graphics card from the "Search or Browse Drivers" section.
Click on "Previous Versions" and download the one labeled "Adrenalin 26.
5.2."
Download and Run the AMD Cleanup Utility.
Reboot, and then run the Adrenalin 26.5.2 installer.
Reboot again and launch the game.
Neighborhood Progress appears reset and previously opened product boxes appear locked.
Workaround: Press Windows + R on your keyboard > Type: %localappdata% > Press Enter > Find the skate folder %localappdata%\\skate\\ > Delete or rename the folder. (Rename the folder if you have saved replays or screenshots).
Activity count on Isle of Grom zone entrance menu shows incorrect total amount of completed challenges.
Flags on Isle of Grom unintentionally can cause your skater to bail.
Coffin Air 540 in the Waterworks OTL Challenge often fails to register the goal as completed.
Players often don't receive notifications for completing and progressing tasks.
Workaround: Visit the Task Menu and restart the game.
Quick Ollie has incorrect height and forward boost when performed during grind.
Players can hear pedestrians after turning the setting off.
Returning to the session marker while 'getting unstuck' can get the player stuck on a black loading screen.
Workaround: Restart the game.
HUD disappears after starting a Challenge.
Workaround: Restart the game.
Performing a Dark Catch, followed by a grind, and ending with a Dark Flip, doesn’t meet the "flip trick to grind to flip trick" requirement for the "Street Dreams" Challenge, even though it should.
Scorp tattoo has incorrect thumbnail.
Trophy progress stuck despite meeting requirements for "Without Footy It's Fiction".
Players sometimes get stuck in a loading screen when Fast Traveling.
Party members are not able to start challenges after they cancel a travel queue.
Reverts sometimes cause the skater to look in the wrong direction.
Automatic Reverts sometimes over rotate beyond 180 degrees.
Grinds sometimes fail to lock in.
Roll Ins activate unintentionally.
Roll Ins take priority over grinding on a lip.
Drop ins sometimes cause the back truck to get stuck, causing a slam.
Skater’s animation stutter or bail when landing a Hippy Jump while in air.
Known Issues Still Being Investigated
Some Players are unable to export in MP4 Format.
Workaround PC ONLY: Using WebM format when exporting works.
Players can get softlocked when using the Replay Editor.
Skater loses momentum during a Hippy Jump if you tuck into a ball.
After turning the World Traffic setting off and on, some of the cars will become invisible but can still interact with other objects and Skaters.
After finishing a Co-op Challenge, party member's names will swap with random ones during the celebration screen.
Players cannot change who they spectate after using RT/R2 or LT/L2 commands.
Workaround: Players will only see the first and last person on the list. To spectate other people, they need to select them one by one in the menu list
Player model glitches while in Switch/Fakie stance.
Rarely, a black screen appears when starting a challenge or throwdown on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Workaround: Rebooting skate. may resolve this issue.
Pinned tasks do not remain pinned when the game reconnects after inactivity.
The News button fails to redirect to the appropriate offer.
Changing the graphics preset doesn’t update the settings shown at the bottom of the Graphics screen as it should.
The first step of the Help Wanted mission, Coping Inspector, gets crossed out and doesn't progress when arriving at the target area.
Rebooting skate. results in the Mission progressing to the next step.
The option to select between 16:9 centered HUD and full-width and height UI is present but non-functional while in Windowed mode.
If the player has any kind of Mission outside of Scavenger ones tracked, once they log in and track the Scavenger Hunt missions, the mission cannot be progressed.
Workaround: Rebooting skate. may resolve this issue.
Fingerflips are missing the Switch and Fakie tags in Chapter 1.
After turning the World Traffic setting off and on, some of the cars will become invisible but can still interact with other objects and Skaters.
Workaround: Only change this setting once in a session
After finishing a Co-op Challenge, party member's names will swap with random ones during the celebration screen.
Players cannot change who they spectate after using RT/R2 or LT/L2 commands.
Workaround:Players will only see the first and last person on the list. To spectate other people, they need to select them one by one in the menu list
Memory leak crashes related to UI.
skate. sometimes crashes when accessing the Tattoos category of the Store.
Sometimes, UI elements break after a short period of play.
Often, players can't climb the scaffolding of M-Corp Tower.