The skate. team has just dropped The Grind: Vol. 6, celebrating the launch of Early Access and the incredible skaters who have dropped into San Vansterdam. This volume offers a look ahead with what’s coming in Season 1 including a new lighting pass, dives into the new skate. Pass system, highlights the fun stats from the Insider Early Access Preview and answers more of the top community questions.
The Grind: Vol. 6, will dive into the new visual update, skate.Pass, Founder Pack and much more.
Here’s what you can expect:
- Lighting Update: The first step in evolving the game’s visuals, with lighting adjustments aimed to create a more grounded and less high-contrast look. This is just the beginning - player feedback will help shape future improvements.
- Season 1: Regular updates will bring fresh content and seasonal events, featuring new skateable areas, events such as Skate-o-ween and Maple Harvest, challenges, new brand partners like Santa Cruz, Independent and Creature, more cosmetics, new tracks to the soundtrack from artists such as Operation Ivy and Jurassic 5, plus bug fixes, quality of life improvements and more.
- Introducing the skate.Pass: Alongside Season 1, Players can begin earning in-game Seasonal currency (Tix) by playing to unlock pages filled with rewards. Over 80 rewards are split in Free and Premium tracks, with free rewards available to all players without the Premium pass. Each skate.Pass page requires a certain amount of Tix to unlock items over 80 rewards such as customization options, decks, stickers, outfits and more.
- Founders Packs: Available in both Standard and Deluxe editions (with upgrade options) via the in-game store and skate. shop. These optional packs offer strong value, including SVB equal to the purchase price, cosmetics, the skate.Pass Season 1 and more.
- Fun In-game stats: Here are the fun highlights from the Insider Preview period from Aug 26 to Sept 15:
- +181 million Kickflips
- +134 Million Ollies
- +20 Million Laserflips
- +300K Rocket Airs
- +81k Japan Airs
- +175K Fake Steez Gesture used
- Answers to Community’s Questions: The team has also shared a handful of answers toe latest community’s questions. Hot topics include:
- You said there are tricks coming in Season 3. Besides Darkslides and Impossibles, what other tricks from Skate 3 are coming and when?
- With skate, we resurrected Flick-It in the Frostbite engine and are bringing tricks from the Legacy titles to skate. Impossibles and Expanded Handplants coming in Season 2, with Darkslides and Improved Footplants/Boneless coming in Season 3. Ensuring solid gameplay is very important to us, so you can expect more past Season 3, but that’s all we’re talking about for now. Rest assured, there’s more to come.
- What legacy modes are coming to skate.?
- Our plan is to continue adding more to do in San Van, including looking at how we can bring legacy game modes to the city. We’ll keep you posted on the progress and when you can expect them through our Seasonal patches. (Remember: our Seasonal updates will also bring Quality of Life fixes, bug fixes, and more features.)
- You said there are tricks coming in Season 3. Besides Darkslides and Impossibles, what other tricks from Skate 3 are coming and when?
And there’s so much more! Stay tuned for more details on Season 1 and the kickoff of The Weekly Grind.
You can check out The Grind: Vol. 6 here.