Skate 2 Impressions

[Ruffy]

Fairly new to the series...

Kept the demo for Skate on my PS3 for a pretty long time....enjoyed the 2nd demo and picked this puppy up. I'm still learning but online is dam fun....played with aukevin last night and we had some laughs doing some gap challenges.

Online is a bit like burnouts online.

Played a few hours of the career....It will be very hard for me to beat the game my stick skills aren't there yet!

Enjoying it a ton though...a great time waster.

Grinding is so dam satisfying!!

[Blzer]

Question with playing S.K.A.T.E. versus the pros. Can you do grinds, grabs, and manuals this time and make them count? In the first Skate, they didn't register as tricks. It made it harder to come up with fresh moves to do (though this time it may not be as hard with some of the new things you can do).

[Corey]

No, grinds and manuals, whatever don't count (at least in the Pro challenge).

I have heard (but didn't test) that you can pull cheap 540s with foot plants - initial 360 and 180 after the plant - and it will be scored as a 540. Someone should give that a try. I quit the pro challenge in disgust when it seemed like half the time on my turn the game would randomly start with a half kick and I couldn't even clear the stupid rail.

Question: I completed the first 2 SBM shoots and haven't seen another in a long time. Any idea what triggers the 3rd shoot? I've already got the Thrasher cover, and have been working on the contests and occasional race.

[goh]

In the only S.K.A.T.E challenge I tried the AI did a 540 with some sort of flip when they were setting the trick.

The whole thing is rigged anyway. In one of the best trick things I kept restarting because I kept getting interfered with and one of the AI guys kept doing the same trick for the same score on the first trick every single time,it varied between 3 of them,one for 675,one for 477 and I forget how much the other was but I think it was 350.

[ChubbyBanana]

My skate friend, who's not registered here. Says to attempt to pull off a triple kick-flip or heel-flip to beat Koston/Carroll. Be careful, as you can't repeat it too much.

[calcutta]

I've read that for the Throwdowns you can simply choose the Library location and then "just drag the bench where they land, and do whatever (trick you want)" for quick and easy wins lol. Haven't tried it yet, but i wonder if something similar would work for the Koston/Carroll challenge...?

[ChubbyBanana]

Quote: Originally Posted by calcutta

I've read that for the Throwdowns you can simply choose the Library location and then "just drag the bench where they land, and do whatever (trick you want)" for quick and easy wins lol. Haven't tried it yet, but i wonder if something similar would work for the Koston/Carroll challenge...?

My buddy said that Koston/Carroll can't do a triple kickflip. It's like it's not programmed into their trick library.

I haven't tried it. I just got the game, and I royally suck at it. I can't complete the Big Air over the Water Fountain

Spoiler

when you first meet Big Black.

[LP]

Quote: Originally Posted by ChubbyBanana

My buddy said that Koston/Carroll can't do a triple kickflip. It's like it's not programmed into their trick library. I haven't tried it. I just got the game, and I royally suck at it. I can't complete the Big Air over the Water Fountain .

I beat that by dragging a ramp up the stairs and using it to get enough air. Don't forget to attach it to your marker, sometimes security will push it out of position.