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Welcome to Future Radical! That’s right, San Vanners, it’s skate.’s Season 2, live and ready to shred.

We released the Season 2 blog last week, with all the details coming in Future Radical, but if you need a refresher, check it out here. 

We’re keeping this week’s grind short because today is our Season 2 release. We’ll have a list of new Known Issues (based on your feedback and shared bugs/issues) next week. 

• Update 0.29.1 Patch Notes (that was yesterday)

• The Weekly Grind! (that’s today)

• Season 2 Launches

• Charitable Giving 2025 Blog

Coming Up: 

• Winter Roll-stice

• Winter Snowglobe Sweeps

• ??

• Update 0.29.5

Since 2020, we’ve worked with 25 different skateboarding charitable organizations to help support and continue growing skateboarding globally. Check out the blog for more details and how you can contribute - and get some in-game gear.


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 https://www.ea.com/games/skate/skate-reel.




M-Corp building sesh with Stzy and friends, Credit: Stzy
When everyone hits the pier, it’s a party, Credit: beefparcel
Hippy flip from SoulReaper, Credit: SoulReaper5844
The Sequence, Credit: Aldonist
Livingston’s mind is blown, Credit: Flote
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.

Since we just dropped the Patch Notes and Known Issues for Update 0.29.1, we’ve linked them here for you to review, and make sure if you experience any bugs, issues, or have some feedback on Season 2, drop it in our forums (bugs & issues) or hit up the official Discord.

Welcome to the 0.29.1 patch notes!

The maintenance period for this patch begins on December 2, 8:55 a.m. PST, and includes bug fixes, new features, gameplay improvements, and more. Originally, this patch was going to release as 0.29.0, but we had the ability to add a few more bug fixes to address crashing issues and stuttering for the Replay Editor, so it will now be released as the new and improved patch 0.29.1.

Building skate. with the community means listening, learning, and being transparent about how we balance fixing issues and testing our systems with improving the game and adding new content. Thank you for joining us on this journey. If you haven’t yet, take a look at our Season 2 article to discover the new skateable locations, brands, soundtrack additions, and skate.Pass coming to skate. this season.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed various stability and performance issues.

• Fixed an issue where the Extravert Shop menu malfunctioned after purchasing Tix.

• Fixed an issue where the Crew Challenges and You mission would sometimes not be marked as completed.

• Fixed an issue where co-op challenges failed to start for some party members.

• Fixed an issue where party members were unable to leave a co-op Challenge after it began.

• Fixed an issue where the level-up icon failed to display when expected. 

• Fixed an issue where the Replay Editor captured stuttering when exporting. 

• Fixed issue where exported replays on console were in slow motion.

• Fixed two visual bugs that occurred after purchasing Product Boxes with Rip Chips.

• Fixed an issue where the Rip Score level-up animation would accidentally repeat when buying Product boxes or unlocking skate.Pass. 

• Fixed an issue where a goal in the Single Bridge Gap challenge would reset upon completion. 

• Fixed an issue where some of the Challenge requirements were missing from the Challenge’s description. 

• Fixed an issue where exiting out of a Replay Editor draft after trimming a video would reset the trim. 

• Fixed an issue where the Rip Score was missing from the info panel in skate.Pass. 

• Fixed an issue where your skater would be invisible after joining a friend’s party on another server. 

• Fixed an issue where cumulative challenge goals would sometimes not increase as intended.

• Fixed an issue where the HUD disappeared after starting a challenge, requiring a client restart.

• Fixed an issue where, after purchasing Tix, there was no redemption page and skate.Pass only displayed your skater.

• Fixed an issue where purchasing items that increased Rip Score would display an incorrect score on the redeeming screen.

• Fixed an issue where the skater could become soft-locked after switching to the Party tab from a not in-game or offline friend.

• Fixed inconsistent anchor threading and torpedo duration behavior in the Thread the Anchor challenge.

• Fixed an issue where the game would crash during mission progression and after completing the tutorial.

• Fixed an issue where the San Van Bucks amount was not displayed on the item preview page after accessing a Market Miles product box.

• Fixed an issue where challenge completion would not register after taking a long time to finish the challenge.

• Fixed an issue where in-game settings would revert to default between gaming sessions.

• Fixed an issue where users lost San Van Bucks while redeeming skate.Pass content and received unwanted items.

• Fixed an issue where users who did not claim rewards for completing all Tasks before the rollover were not granted Rip Chips

• Compass on HUD:  You can now hide the Compass (How to find it: Settings > General > Interface). 

• Hold Fakie Push: Allows you to hold fakie even after pushing (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Controls).  

• Grind Lean Exit:  You can now turn this setting off  to make getting deep and stylish grind leans easier without accidentally leaving the grind (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Trick Toggles).  

• Maximum Pump Strength:  Lets you control the maximum speed gained from pumping (How to find it: Settings > Gameplay > Assists).

• Expanded Drop-In Functionality

  • Drop-Ins now work in more situations, even on tall vertical walls.

  • Transitions from Drop-In to air now look and feel better.

• Visual Improvements to the World and your skater’s eye shape and skin complexion have been made.

• 50 new pedestrian types now roam San Van.

• 3D Audio Support for the PlayStation 5 has been added.

• Access to the Social Menu has been moved from a tile in the main hub to the main hub’s top navigation bar.

• Hold timing and its animation are now consistent on all D-Pad actions.

• The player's Audio Volume settings will be reset to default values at the beginning of this season.

  • Developer’s Note: This reset allows for easier boosting of music volume through the Toolbar.

• Additional accessibility features have been added to support Party Voice Chat.

  • Menu Narration now instructs players on how to activate Party Voice Chat.

  • Communication Wheels statements are read aloud to party members while Text-To-Speech (TTS) is activated. 

  • Voice chat is translated into text on screen while Speech-To-Text (STTT) is activated.

Co-op Mode: Own the Lot

Own the Lot pushes up to four players to complete as many reqs as possible while racing against the clock. Team up with friends to take on shared challenges of scaling difficulty and own the streets of San Van together, earning Tix in the process.

Own the Lot also includes special season-long Tasks that grant rewards. For more information about Own the Lot, visit our Season 2 article.

Developer Note: Own the Lot is tuned for party play. We don’t recommend trying to complete these challenges on your own, and in fact, it will be quite difficult to do as a solo player.

Flip Tricks

• Impossible Flips

• Front Foot Impossible Flips

• Nollie Impossible Flips

• Nollie Back Foot Impossible Flips

• All Impossible Flips can also be performed as Held, Late, and from Grinds and Manuals

Handplant Tricks

• 14 New Handplant Variants have been added, making for 16 total.

• Handplants, including One-Foot, No-Foot, and Tweaked Handplants can also be performed in Fakie stance.

• Handplants can now be held for different durations based on how long you hold the input.

• Multiple Handplant variants can now be chained back-to-back within the same plant.

Developer’s Note: When it comes to Flip Tricks, proper Impossibles have been a common request. So, we've not only added new gestures and animations for base Impossible Flips, but also, new variations like Nollies and Front-Foots to give you more options. On the vert skating side, we've also revamped Handplants to feel better, give more control, and fill out all the missing trick variants we didn't get to at Early Access launch. We’re looking forward to seeing these new additions show up in clips, expand your options for lines, and provide more variation for challenges. We are always looking for ways to enhance the experience and give as much control over your skater and experience as possible. Darkslides and more will be coming in future seasons, but until then, we hope you enjoy these updates and look forward to your feedback so we can keep improving the skating experience.

Challenges

A bevy of Challenges spread across the Casper Hotel Rooftop, Road Tunnel, Building Roof Patio, and Canal Buildings, and the rest of San Van are powersliding into Season 2. We’ve made big improvements to how we deliver and refresh Seasonal Challenges based on community feedback—Seasonal Challenges will still drop each week, but we’ll also reset them twice over the season, giving you more opportunities to earn Tix. 

Each individual challenge won’t give quite as many Tix, but over the season you’ll be able to earn more than twice the Tix from Seasonal Challenges, not including the Tix you can also earn from the new Own the Lots. Plus, the amount of challenges dropping per week in Season 2 has been increased.  For a full breakdown of these changes, including how many more Tix you’ll earn each season, visit our Season 2 article.

Missions

Point of Impossibility will bring you underground on a hunt for the place where the Impossible was first landed in San Van. The Mission is unlocked after completion of Shingo's Secret Scoring Tips mission in Tour 2. Completing Point of Impossibility rewards you with 500 Tix and three new Props.

Coping Inspector will take you to the rooftops for some Handplant practice at a handful of the newly added rooftop spots, and unlocks after completion of The Gift of Grab mission in Tour 3. Completing Coping Inspector rewards you with 500 Tix, the Coping Inspector title, and a Rooftop Fast Travel Point.

Tasks

• Rotation Changes:

  • Weekly Tasks will last three weeks, giving you time to catch up on any missed Tasks.

  • Seasonal Tasks are now Monthly Tasks.

  • Developer’s Note: This change was made to Seasonal Tasks to inject more variety and rewards into your experience.

• Auto-claim Task rewards

  • Now, if you forget to manually claim your Task rewards, they will automatically appear within 24 hours of when the Task ended as a login message.

New Character Customization Options

• 5 hair, 2 facial hair, and 3 eye shape customization options have been added to the character creator.

Advanced Edit Mode For Replay Editor

• An Advanced Edit Mode has been added to the Replay Editor with these additional options:

  • Trim replay

  • Add, edit, and navigate keyframes, interpolating between camera types and camera targets.

  • Adjust camera type, target, field of view, tilt, roll, and framing for each keyframe.

  • Export settings have been moved to the Advanced Edit Mode.

Party Voice Chat

• You can now activate Party Voice Chat from the Party Settings, and converse with their party members using a microphone.

• Whomever is currently speaking will have their name displayed on screen with the appropriate mic status icons.

• You can choose to mute individual party members and not hear their voice audio. This only affects you, not the rest of the party.

Party Beacons

• Party Up? is now available as a statement in the Communications Wheel. Using this statement drops a beacon in the world that other players can interact with to join your party.

• Your beacon is automatically cleared when the party is full or if you join another party.

skate.Pass

Developer’s Note: Community conversations have made it clear that you want more ways to play, earn Tix, and express yourself through cosmetics. In Season 1 the skate.pass was designed to help you earn the items you wanted most. But we learned that many of you enjoy the feeling of completing the skate.Pass from start to finish.

For Season 2, we’re aiming to support both approaches. We’ve tuned the amount of Tix required to unlock rewards pages on the skate.Pass. You will also find we added a bit more SVB for you to collect this time around. We’re also actively considering additional places where Tix can be exchanged outside the skate.Pass, such as at Extravert. All in all, the Season 2 skate.Pass will have tighter scaling to promote quicker progression through the earlier pages of the skate.Pass.

Legacy skate.Pass

• Legacy skate.Pass lets you keep progressing and claiming rewards from the premium pass you bought last season while the new season is live. Only your most recent previous premium skate.pass is eligible. Any progress you make from earning Tix will be applied to both your Season 1 Legacy skate.Pass and your Season 2 skate.Pass.

News

• Read up on what’s new in skate. News will display when you enter the game, or can be accessed at any time from the main menu. 

Vee

• Reduced frequency and adjusted triggers for Gameplay Vee dialogue.

Developer’s Note: We heard your feedback that Vee was commenting a bit too often during free skate. We’ve adjusted both the frequency and timing of Vee’s lines to create a quieter experience. And if you prefer to do your tricks in total silence, the option to fully mute Vee while free skating is still available.

• There is an additional stuttering issue present when using the replay editor in-game, noticeable as skipped frames. This is separate from the exported video issue fixed in the 0.29.1 Patch Notes. 

• Stalled exported replay videos if going into the menus while recording.

• 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 Throwdowns queue timer freezes after all other players leave the queue.

• When the player accepts an invitation, the invitation pop-up appears again and an error modal shows up.

• 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: Closing and re-launching the game.

• The player needs to press the Back button two times for the missions menu to close.

• Rarely after teleporting to another player, the player will stop seeing traffic, pedestrians and other players.

• Rarely, the Back button has no functionality, and the player cannot exit the Replay Editor.

• The board stickers from the skate.pass don't appear on the board while the player is previewing them.

• The speech-to-text feature does not transpose the words correctly.

• Rarely, when interacting with a player and joining their party, you will accidentally join another player’s party.

• Title crashes when/if the players spam the changing tabs buttons in the SKATER menu.

• Exported videos are longer than their displayed in-game length.

• 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.